Just try to_pydatetime()
>>> import pandas as pd
>>> t = pd.tslib.Timestamp('2016-03-03 00:00:00')
>>> type(t)
pandas.tslib.Timestamp
>>> t.to_pydatetime()
datetime.datetime(2016, 3, 3, 0, 0)
Change to datetime.date type
>>> t.date()
datetime.date(2016, 3, 3)