* 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 )

* 2003 – Turkish Airlines Flight 634 crashes near Diyarbakır Airport, Turkey, killing the entire crew and 70 of 75 passengers.

Following the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime in 2003, Gaddafi decided to abandon his weapons of mass destruction programs and pay almost 3 billion euros in compensation to the families of Pan Am Flight 103 and UTA Flight 772.

* 2003 – The United Nations lifts sanctions against Libya after that country agreed to accept responsibility and recompense the families of victims in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103.

Discovery had been twice chosen as the " Return To Flight " Orbiter, first in 1988 after the 1986 Challenger disaster, and then for the twin " Return To Flight " missions in July 2005 and July 2006 after the 2003 Columbia disaster.

Warcraft: The Board Game, a tabletop board game released in 2003 by Fantasy Flight Games, draws heavily on Warcraft III for plot and other elements of the game.

Earhart's Flight into Yesterday: The Facts Without the Fiction, McLean, Virginia: Paladwr Press, 2003.

* Taking Flight: Inventing the Aerial Age, from Antiquity through the First World War, by Dr. Richard P. Hallion, Oxford University Press, 2003

* To Conquer The Air — The Wright Brothers and the Great Race for Flight, by James Tobin, Free Press, division of Simon & Schuster, 2003

* Benjamin Thurman Hacker ( 1935 – 2003 ), U. S. Navy Officer, first Naval Flight Officer to achieve flag rank

There are several games that are patterned after the war: the Games Workshop 2005 Summer Online Campaign, for The Lord of the Rings Strategy Battle Game ; a board game developed by Nexus Editrice and published in the US by Fantasy Flight Games called War of the Ring ( board game ); a board and counter wargame called War of the Rings published by SPI in 1977 ; The Lord of the Rings: War of the Ring, a real-time strategy computer game published by Sierra Entertainment in 2003 ; and the Battle for Middle-earth series of real-time strategy games published by Electronic Arts in 2004 and 2006.

* Timothy Tackett, When the King Took Flight ( Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003 )

Masters of Reality covered " Cretin Hop " for their 2003 live album, Flak ' n ' Flight

* " Green Hornet ", a jazz version of Rimsky-Korsakov's " Flight of the Bumblebee ", recorded by Al Hirt and used as the theme song on The Green Hornet TV series ( later used in the 2003 film Kill Bill ); the actual title of the piece is " Green Bee ".

The last regular passenger flights landed at Heathrow Airport on Friday, October 24, 2003, just past 4 p. m. – Flight 002 from New York, one from Edinburgh, Scotland, and the third which had taken off from Heathrow on a loop flight over the Bay of Biscay.

Among the numerous works that have entered the collection through purchase are some outstanding ones acquired in recent years including two works by El Greco, The Fable and The Flight into Egypt acquired in 1993 and 2001, Goya's Countess of Chinchón bought in 2000, and Velázquez's portrait of The Pope's Barber acquired in 2003.

In 2003, Superman: Ultimate Flight was added.

* United Airlines flew Boeing 737s to San Francisco until January 6, 2003 ( United Flight 1423 was the last 737 flight out of Eugene ).

* On 29 May 2003, Qantas Flight 1737 from Melbourne to Launceston Airport was hijacked shortly after takeoff.

On January 8, 2003, Air Midwest had its first fatal accident when Air Midwest Flight 5481 operating as US Airways Express and departing out of Charlotte for Greenville-Spartanburg crashed 37 seconds after takeoff.

* Air Midwest Flight 5481-a Beechcraft 1900D operated by Air Midwest as US Airways Express under a franchise agreement, crashed into an airport hangar and burst into flames 37 seconds after leaving Charlotte / Douglas International Airport in Charlotte, North Carolina, for Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport near Greer, South Carolina, on January 8, 2003.

Prescott's Golden Eagles Flight Team has won the regional championship each year for the past 23 years and are the NIFA National Champions for the years 1993, 1997, 1999, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2008, and 2012.