* 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 )

* 1932 – Johnny Cash, American country singer ( d. 2003 )

The 2003 film Grand Theft Parsons stars Johnny Knoxville as Phil Kaufman and chronicles a farcical version of the theft of Parsons ' corpse.

* 1916 – Johnny Hopp, American baseball player ( d. 2003 )

* February 26 – Johnny Cash, American country singer ( I Walk The Line ) ( d. 2003 )

* Johnny Bravo ( 1997 — 2002: co-production with Hanna-Barbera ; 2003 — 2004 )

A small reunion of YTT cast and crew members ( including Tina Arena, Dannii Minogue and Johnny Young ) was held in Melbourne in October 2003 to celebrate the release of an extended version of the " Young Talent Time Tells All " documentary on DVD ( through Universal Pictures ).

* Johnny Accot and Shumin Zhai ( 2003 ).

* DeMaria, Rusel & Wilson, Johnny L. ( 2003 ).

In golf, BYU alumni include two major championship winners: Johnny Miller (' 69 ) at the 1973 U. S. Open and 1976 British Open and Mike Weir (' 92 ) at the 2003 Masters.

* 2003 Songwriters Hall of Fame Johnny Mercer Award

Phillips died of respiratory failure at St. Francis Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee on July 30, 2003, only one day before the original Sun Studio was designated a National Historic Landmark, and just weeks before the death of his former colleague, Johnny Cash, on September 12, 2003.

* Johnny English ( 2003 )

Other performances have been: in What's Eating Gilbert Grape ( 1993 ), as a woman who is having an affair with the title character ( played by Johnny Depp ); the role of Hannah Nixon in the Oliver Stone biopic, Nixon ( 1995 ); and in the Will Ferrell 2003 comedy Elf, as a woman who discovers that her husband is the father of one of Santa's elves.

* Johnny Kelly – drums, percussion ( 2002 – 2003, 2005 – present )

In 2003, North Carolina Playwright Keith Smith wrote a one act musical play entitled " My Name is Johnny Appleseed ", which is presented to school children to show that the true story of John Chapman is just as interesting as the mythical figure, who is shrouded in legend.

He was ranked second in CMT's 40 Greatest Men of Country Music in 2003, behind only Johnny Cash.

* June 23 – June Carter Cash, singer and songwriter, wife of Johnny Cash ( d. 2003 )

* Johnny Paycheck ( 1938 – 2003 ), country singer

She co-starred in the 2003 film Johnny English and made her leading actress debut in the 2009 film Closed for Winter.

* Johnny Depp on the Freedom Fries incident, " U. S. is like a stupid puppy ", CNN. com, Sept 3, 2003

In late February 2003, Urbani was called in to The French Hospital of Hanoi to look at patient Johnny Chen, an American businessman who had fallen ill with what doctors thought was a bad case of influenza.

At the 2003 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Lee directed Johnny Vegas ' first DVD, Who's Ready For Ice Cream ?.

* Johnny Cash ( 1932 – 2003 ), American singer born born John R Cash