* 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 )

Three regional electricity distribution systems were privatized in 1998 via sale of 50 % of shares to foreign operators ; the Mejía administration repurchased all foreign-owned shares in two of these systems in late 2003.

An 88-megawatt electricity plant funded by Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Abu Dhabi was completed just south of Massawa in 2003, its completion delayed nearly three years by the war with Ethiopia.

In 2003, Haiti produced 546 million kilowatt-hours of electricity while consuming 508 million kilowatt-hours.

In January 2003, the Zambian Government informed the International Monetary Fund and World Bank that it wished to renegotiate some of the agreed performance criteria calling for privatization of the Zambia National Commercial Bank and the national telephone and electricity utilities.

On 1 July 2003 a lightning bolt struck the electricity pole beside The Crown public house on the village green which has stood there for at least 300 years and probably much longer.

In the 2003 election, the party emphasized their " Public Power Campaign ", which had two key issues, primarily publicly-owned electricity generation and distribution, and publicly-run auto insurance.

Landes ( 2003 ) stresses the importance of new technologies, especially electricity, the internal combustion engine, new materials and substances, including alloys and chemicals, and communication technologies such as the telegraph and radio.

It provides this surplus electricity to other utilities, selling 23 million megawatt-hours in 2003.

In the event of a power failure, such as the August 2003 blackout that hobbled the northeast United States and Canada, two banks of 194 batteries automatically switch on and provide electricity to the complex while an electrical generator is readied to take the load.

In 2003, it produced 22 % of the European Union's electricity, primarily from nuclear power:

In 2003, the roofs of the market were equipped with 1, 328 solar photovoltaic panels, covering 2000 square metres and generating 252, 000 kilowatt-hours of electricity each year, the largest such renewable energy installation in the City of Melbourne.

* The Agency for International Development states they aim to boost the availability of electricity throughout Iraq to 18 hours a day by the end of next year from 11 to 15 hours now, estimably higher than before the 2003 U. S. invasion.

Unit Two generated 8. 911261 TW-h of electricity in 2003, achieving a capacity factor of 94. 1 %.

ZEGG ’ s first measure to convert its electricity supply came in 2003 with the installation of the first photovoltaic plant ( 24 kWp ).

In 2003, nuclear electricity generated over one half of the electricity in the State.

In 2003, nuclear electricity generated over one half of the electricity in the state.

In 2003, nuclear power generated over one half of the electricity in the state.

New York City was affected by the 2003 North America blackout on August 14, 2003, at 4: 11 PM, leaving the city without electricity for over a day.

The EPA noted these improvements in 2003, citing waste-to-energy as a power source “ with less environmental impact than almost any other source of electricity .”

In a separate matter, Mountain Spa Inc., a McAfee-based spa company that rented space at Legends, sued the resort for $ 1 million in May 2006, alleging that the hotel frequently failed to provide heat and electricity when the spa rented space there starting in 2003.

Called the La Esperanza Hydro Project after the city, the dam began producing electricity for the surrounding communities in 2003, but its phase two expansion was not completed until 2006.