* 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 )

Prior to his assassination in August 2003, SCIRI was led by Ayatollah Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim ; afterwards it was led by the ayatollah's brother, Abdul Aziz al-Hakim.

Its leader, Ayatollah al-Hakim, was killed in a car bomb attack in the Iraqi city of Najaf on August 29, 2003.

* Grand Ayatollah Hossein-Ali Montazeri was sentenced to house arrest from 1997 to 2003.

* April 10, 2003, Shia leader Sayed Abdul Majid al-Khoei, the son of Grand Ayatollah Abu al Qasim al-Khoei, was killed near the mosque.

In 2003 the Democratic People's Party of Iran of Babak Amirkhosravi ( a separated fraction of the communist Tudeh party ), the Iranian National Republicans of Hassan Shariatmadari, son of the late Grand Ayatollah Kazem Shariatmadari, and the Organization of Iranian People's Fedaian-Majority created the United Republicans of Iran ( URI ), a federation of three pro-republican parties.

Sayyid Abdul Majid al-Khoei ( السيد عبد المجيد الخوئي )( Arabic ), 16 August 1962 – 10 April 2003 ) was a Twelver Shia cleric and the son of Ayatollah Al-Udhma Sayyid Abul Qasim al-Khoei.

His reformist policies clashed with the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, eventually resulting in his arrest in early 2003.

On June 21, 2003 he announced the Supreme Court of Afghanistan would try Aftab editor Sayed Madawi and his deputy Ali Payam Sestani for " libelling Islam ".

Sayed Nabi Siddiqui is an Afghan police officer who alleges that in August 2003 he was stripped naked by U. S .- led coalition forces, and beaten and photographed at the U. S. base in Gardez.

* Ali H. Sayed, Fundamentals of Adaptive Filtering, Wiley, NJ, 2003, ISBN 0-471-46126-1.

One of the best known of these masts, known as Mohammed Mast, lived at Meher Baba's encampment at Meherabad until his death in 2003.

* Natirar is an estate spanning in Far Hills, Peapack-Gladstone and Bedminster that was sold in 2003 by Mohammed VI, King of Morocco, to the Somerset County Parks Commission.

Beginning with the imposition of strict sharia law in 1989, many of the country's most prominent musicians and poets, like poets Mahjoub Sharif, were imprisoned while others, like Mohammed el Amin and Mohammed Wardi ( Mohammed el amin returned to Sudan in 1991 and Mohammed Wardi returned to Sudan in 2003 ), fled to Cairo.

The other agent, Mohammed Reza Aghdam-Ahmadi ( محمدرضا اقدم احمدی ), was charged with " semi-intentional murder " and his trial opened in Tehran in October 2003.

In August 2003, Mohammed Bakr al-Hakim, a friend of al-Ulloum, was killed in a car bombing.

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was arrested in Rawalpindi, Pakistan in 2003.

he served as the third in command of Al Qaeda, from the 2003 capture of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to his own capture in 2005.

Brother of the Shia leader Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, he replaced him as leader of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq when Mohammed Baqir was assassinated in August 2003 in Najaf.

Shukri Mohammed Ghanem () ( 9 October 1942 – 29 April 2012 ) was a Libyan politician who was the General Secretary of the General People's Committee of Libya ( prime minister ) from June 2003 until March 2006 when, in the first major government re-shuffle in over a decade, he was replaced by his deputy, Baghdadi Mahmudi.

# http :// www. mincom. gov. ma / english / generalities / speech / 2003 / GreenMarch. htm Speech delivered by H. M. King Mohammed VI on the 28th anniversary of the Green March

On 18 May 2003, U. S. military forces mistakenly released Mohammed Jawad An-Neifus from the Camp Bucca.

Since the capture of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in March 2003 in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, by the Inter-Services Intelligence, he has stated he gave names of innocent people under torture to " please his captors ".

The CIA confirms using waterboarding on three Al-Qaeda suspects, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Abu Zubaydah, and Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, in 2002 and 2003.

On 6 February 2008, the CIA director General Michael Hayden stated that the CIA had used waterboarding on three prisoners during 2002 and 2003, namely Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, Abu Zubayda and Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri.

: The terror suspect, who is being held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, reportedly gave up information that indirectly led to the 2003 raid in Pakistan yielding the arrest of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, an alleged planner of the September 11, 2001, attacks, Kiriakou said.

On October 10, 2004, Dr. Mohammed J. Abbas of the Iraqi Ministry of Science and Technology wrote to the IAEA to say that the Qa ' qaa stockpile had been lost after April 9, 2003, because of the " theft and looting of the governmental installations due to lack of security.

The project was unveiled in May 2003 by Sheikh Mohammed and dredging began four months later in September 2003.

On September 26, 2003, he reportedly attended a meeting with Mohammed Deif, Ismail Haniya, one of Hamas ' political leaders, and the organisation's spiritual leader, Sheik Ahmed Yasin, when Israeli forces bombed the house where they gathered.