- February - March - April - May - June - July - - September - October - November - December
- August 1, 2003 - Suicide Bomber rams truck filled with Explosives into a military hospital near Chechnya , killing 50 people, including Russia n troops wounded in Chechnya .
- August 2, 2003 - The United Nations authorizes an international Peacekeeping force for Liberia .
- has recorded a temperature over 100 degrees Fahrenheit .
- August 11, 2003 - NATO takes over command of the Peacekeeping Force in Afghanistan, marking its first major operation outside Europe in its 54-year-history.
- August 11, 2003 - Jemaah Islamiah leader Riduan Isamuddin, better known as Hambali , is arrested in Bangkok , Thailand .
- August 14, 2003 - Widespread Power Outage affects northeast United States and Canada.
- August 14, 2003 - 6.4 Richter Scale Earthquake near the Greek Ionian Island of Lefkada - 24 injured
- August 15, 2003 - The Cheetah Girls , a Disney Channel Original Movie premieres at 8:00pm.
- August 22, 2003 - 21 Killed at the Brazilian Rocket Complex in Alcântara due to a premature ignition of a Solid Rocket Booster .
- August 25, 2003 - 52 killed in Two Bomb Blasts in Mumbai , India .
- August 27, 2003 - Perihelion of Mars
- August 30, 2003 - Top fashion designer Stella McCartney , third daughter of former Beatle Sir Paul McCartney marries publisher Alasdhair Willis in a private Roman Catholic chapel at Mount Stuart House , the stately home of the Marquess Of Bute .
- August 1, 2003 - Marie Trintignant , French actress (b. 1962 )
- August 4, 2003 - Frederick Chapman Robbins , American pediatrician and virologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (b. 1916 )
- August 9, 2003 - Gregory Hines , American dancer and actor (cancer) (b. 1946 )
- August 11, 2003 - Armand Borel , Swiss mathematician (b. 1923 )
- August 11, 2003 - Herb Brooks , coach of 1980 Miracle on Ice US Hockey team
- August 14, 2003 - Helmut Rahn , German footballer (b. 1929 )
- August 16, 2003 - Idi Amin , Ugandan dictator
- August 19, 2003 - Sérgio Vieira De Mello , Brazilian diplomat (b. 1948 )
- August 19, 2003 - Carlos Roberto Reina , President Of Honduras (b. 1926 )
- August 23, 2003 - Bobby Bonds , baseball player and manager (b. 1946 )
- August 29, 2003 - Vladimir Vasicek , Czech painter (b. 1919 )
- August 30, 2003 - Charles Bronson , American actor (b. 1921 )
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