* 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 )

* 1909 – Hans Hotter, German bass-baritone ( d. 2003 )

* Holzer, Hans ( 2003 ).

During the lead-up to war in March 2003, United Nations weapons inspector Hans Blix had found no stockpiles of WMD and had made significant progress toward resolving open issues of disarmament noting " proactive " but not always the " immediate " Iraqi cooperation as called for by UN Security Council Resolution 1441.

Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates ; 2003 Dover edition.

UN Chief Inspector Hans Blix, on 14 February 2003, presented a report to the Security Council.

The most important French speech during the crisis was made by De Villepin at the Security Council on the 14 February 2003, after Hans Blix presented his detailed report ( see below ).

Political preparation for war began in earnest during the period of weapons inspections in Iraq over the winter of 2002 – 2003, carried out by a team led by Hans Blix with the authority of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1441.

Developed by five US Army soldiers, 2LT Hans Mumm, SSG Shawn Mahoney, SGT Andrei Salter, SGT Scott Boehmler, and SPC Joseph Barrios, who were assigned to the Defense Intelligence Agency, the deck of cards was first announced publicly in Iraq on 11 April 2003, in a press conference by Army Brig.

* Baer, Hans, Singer, Merrill, & Susser, Ida ( 2003 ) Medical Anthropology and the World System.

* Hans Hermes ( 1912 – 2003 ), German mathematician

In 2003, the Bavarian Minister of Culture, Hans Zehetmair, declared that the reform was a mistake, in his opinion.

* Hans Christian Andersen, a musical theatre adaptation of the 1952 film with Frank Loesser's music ( 2003, Maine State Theatre and 2004, London ; musical arrangements and book by Yeston )

However, this exercise had been in the planning stage since September 2003, and it took place around Pangnirtung, Baffin Island, south of Hans Island.

* Klaus Malling Olsen & Hans Larsson ( 2003 ) Gulls of North America, Europe, and Asia, Princeton University Press.

* Tears of the Sun ( 2003 ) with Hans Zimmer

* In a BBC interview, Dr. Hans Blix accuses the U. S. and British governments of dramatising the threat of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq in order to strengthen the case for the 2003 invasion.

" An interview with Professor Hans Jonas ," Social Research Summer 2003.

" Hans Jonas and the Concept of God after the Holocaust ," Conservative Judaism ( Volume 55: 4, Summer 2003 )

He was the second Chairman of the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission ( UNMOVIC ), succeeding Dr. Hans Blix in June 2003, and serving until UNMOVIC's dissolution in 2007.

In addition to acting in films, Kapoor has played the leading role in the television series, Karishma-The Miracles of Destiny ( 2003 ) and has also featured as a talent judge for the reality shows, Nach Baliye and Hans Baliye.

* Tart Cards, Caroline Archer, Baseline 40, edited by Mike Daines & Hans Dieter Reichert, Bradbourne Publishing, 2003.

In a petition initiated by Hans Henning Hahn, Eva Hahn, Alexandra Kurth, Samuel Salzborn and Tobias Weger in 2003, signed by several hundred people, primarily German, Czech, and Polish historians, opponents of the proposed form of Centre expressed concerns the centre would " establish and popularize a one-sided image of the past, without historical context ", and see the dangers of " de-contexualizing the past " and " ethnification of social conflicts ".

* Mommsen, Hans Alternatives to Hitler German Resistance Under the Third Reich, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003, ISBN 0-691-11693-8.

At the 2003 Salzburg Festival, he created the role of ‘ Der Daemon ’ in the world premiere of Hans Werner Henze's L ' Upupa und der Triumph der Sohnesliebe, which he later reprised at the Teatro Real in Madrid.