* Neil Postman, ( 1931 – 2003 ) author, media theorist and cultural critic,

The first surviving edition ( bilingual Swedish – Esperanto ) was published in Sweden in 2003.

* 1907 – Felix de Weldon, Austrian sculptor ( d. 2003 )

* 1924 – Peter Safar, Austrian physician ( d. 2003 )

* 2003 – Mars makes its closest approach to Earth in nearly 60, 000 years, passing distant.

* 2003 – The first six-party talks, involving South and North Korea, the United States, China, Japan and Russia, convene to find a peaceful resolution to the security concerns as a result of the North Korean nuclear weapons program.

* 1900 – Cecil Howard Green, English-American geophysicist ( d. 2003 )

* 1944 – Inday Badiday, Filipino journalist ( d. 2003 )

* 1955 – Rusty Magee, American composer ( d. 2003 )

* 1969 – Elliott Smith, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ( Heatmiser ( d. 2003 )

* 1972 – Yetunde Price, American murder victim ( d. 2003 )

* 1941 – Erin Fleming, Canadian actress ( d. 2003 )

Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka ( Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003 ), pp. 67 – 89

* 1930 – Vali Myers, Australian painter ( d. 2003 )

* 2003 – Leslie Cheung, Hong Kong actor and singer ( b. 1956 )

"--- what Jesus ’ immortal spirit did after His death and before His Resurrection is a mystery to all but the Latter-day Saints ---" ( Elder Spencer J. Condie, Liahona ,-Church magazine – July, 2003 ) "--- unto the wicked he did not go, and among the ungodly and the unrepentant-- his voice was not raised.

* 1910 – Walter Scharf, American composer ( d. 2003 )

* 1952 – Zoran Đinđić, Serbian politician, 6th Prime Minister of Serbia ( d. 2003 )

* 1924 – Leon Uris, American novelist ( d. 2003 )

* 2003 – Roger Voudouris, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ( b. 1954 )

" Everyday Life and the Challenge to History in Postwar France: Braudel, Lefebvre, Certeau ," Diacritics, Volume 33, Number 1, Spring 2003, pp. 23 – 40 in Project Muse

* 1925 – Felice Bryant, American songwriter ( d. 2003 )

* 1927 – Art Houtteman, American baseball player ( d. 2003 )

* 1907 – Benny Carter, American musician, composer, and bandleader ( d. 2003 )

* 1925 – Alija Izetbegović, Bosniak politician, 1st President of Bosnia and Herzegovina ( d. 2003 )

Halley was most recently observed in 2003 by three of the Very Large Telescopes at Paranal, Chile, when Halley's magnitude was 28. 2.

Since 2003, many of the most important organizations in famine relief, such as the World Food Programme and the U. S. Agency for International Development, have adopted a five-level scale measuring intensity and magnitude.

An earthquake of magnitude 8. 0 struck near the island on September 25, 2003, at 19: 50: 07 ( UTC ).

In April 2003, it was the town nearest the epicenter of a magnitude 4. 6 earthquake.

On May 1, 2003 the whole area suffered from a magnitude 6. 4 earthquake, leaving 177 dead and 520 injured.

In Southern California, USA, in early 2004, a group of scientists at the University of California, Los Angeles, led by Dr. Vladimir Keilis-Borok, predicted that a quake similar in strength to the 6. 5 magnitude San Simeon earthquake of 2003 would occur in a 12, 000 square mile ( 31, 100 km ) area of Southern California by September of that year.

On September 25, 2003 a magnitude 8. 3 earthquake occurred off the east coast of Hokkaidō which was strongly felt in Misawa and all of Aomori Prefecture.

In the months following the discovery, new variants appeared ( Lenstra 2002, Pomerance 2002, Berrizbeitia 2003, Cheng 2003, Bernstein 2003a / b, Lenstra and Pomerance 2003 ), which improved the speed of computation by orders of magnitude.

Only one stellar occultation by Alkeste has been observed, when the asteroid passed in front of the third magnitude star Beta Virginis on June 24, 2003.

In a 2009 interview with Fortune Magazine about signing the 2003 American Geophysical Union ( AGU ) statement, he said: " As far as the AGU, I thought that was a fine statement because it did not put forth a magnitude of the warming.

He asserts that the magnitude of inaccuracy discourages him from even considering Delisle's work as a basis for his own criticism of Groulx ( Les Deux Chanoines-Contradiction et ambivalence dans la pensée de Lionel Groulx, 2003 ).

In 2003, the town was hit by a very big earthquake of magnitude 8. 0.

* July 26, 2003: A magnitude 6. 2 earthquake derails a train locally.

The economy really took off between 2003 and 2008 and growth figures quickly shot up, fluctuating between figures as high as 6. 6 % ( 2004 ) and 5. 0 % ( 2003 ).

Chile unilaterally lowered its across-the-board import tariff for all countries with which it does not have a trade agreement to 6 % in 2003.

6. 7035 ( 2003 ),

President Uribe has vowed to pave more than 2, 500 kilometers of roads during his administration, and about 5, 000 kilometers of new secondary roads were being built in the 2003 – 6 period.

: 6, 200 ( 2003 est.

* Version 1. 6: September 9, 2003

Note: Version 1. 6 effectively coincided with the release of Valve Software's Steam content delivery system on September 12, 2003.

On January 6, 2004, Prime Minister Pierre Charles, who had been suffering from heart problems since 2003, died.

* DIN 4512: A definition of film speed, now superseded by ISO 5800: 1987, ISO 6: 1993 and ISO 2240: 2003.

The Cowboys became the surprise team of the 2003 season, posting a 10 – 6 record and a playoff berth by having the best overall defense in the NFL.

A GDP of $ 4 billion in fiscal year 2003 was recalculated by the IMF to $ 6. 1 billion, after adding proceeds from opium products.

432, 6 GWh ( 2003 )

* Dontrelle Willis ( 2003 – 2007 ) — The " D-Train " was named the National League Rookie of the Year in 2003 and showcased his remarkable ( for a pitcher ) hitting ability by going 3-for-3 with a triple while scoring a run during Game 4 of the 2003 National League Division Series, which the Marlins won 7 – 6 over the San Francisco Giants to advance to the NL Championship Series.

Since 1979, there have been concerted efforts by international bodies to end the practice, including sponsorship by the United Nations of an International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation, held each 6 February since 2003.

In Australia, 6 – 11 year olds IQ, as measured by the Colored Progressive Matrices, has shown no increase from 1975 – 2003.

* 2003 October 3: GDB 6. 0

Windows Server 2003 R2, an update of Windows Server 2003, was released to manufacturing on 6 December 2005.