* 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 )

Under Mahathir bin Mohamad ’ s long Prime Ministership ( 1981 – 2003 ), Malaysia ’ s political culture became increasingly centralized and authoritarian, due to Mahathir's belief that the multiethnic Malaysia could only remain stable through controlled democracy.

In 2003 Dr Mahathir, Malaysia's longest serving prime minister, voluntarily retired in favour of his new deputy, Abdullah Ahmad Badawi.

* 1981 – Mahathir Mohamad becomes Malaysia's 4th Prime Minister ; his 22 years in office, ending with retirement on 31 October 2003, made him Asia's longest-serving political leader.

In 2003 Mahathir spoke to the Non-Aligned Movement in Kuala Lumpur, and as part of his speech, said: If innocent people who died in the attack on Afghanistan and those who have been dying from lack of food and medical care in Iraq are considered collaterals, are the 3, 000 who died in New York, and the 200 in Bali also just collaterals whose deaths are necessary for operations to succeed?

More recently, the 2003 Invasion of Iraq caused additional friction between the two countries ; Mahathir was highly critical of President George W. Bush for acting without a United Nations mandate.

A 2003 house subcommittee hearing ( Serial No. 108 – 21 ) on US policy towards South East Asia sums it up as " Despite sometimes blunt and intemperate public remarks by Prime Minister Mahathir, U. S .- Malaysian cooperation has a solid record in areas as diverse as education, trade, military relations, and counter-terrorism.

Abdullah went on to succeed Mahathir as Prime Minister in 2003.

After Mahathir stepped down as President of UMNO in 2003, he was replaced by his designated successor, Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, who by virtue of his new position also became Prime Minister of Malaysia.

* Somun, Hajrudin ; Somun-Krupalija, Lejla, Mahathir, the Secret of the Malaysian Success, published by Pelanduk Publications, 2003, ISBN 967-978-879-2

Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad commented on the achievement in a May 2003 Bernama News Agency article, claiming that " the PETRONAS LNG complex now serves as another shining example of a vision realized of a national aspiration, transformed into reality by the same belief among Malaysians that ' we can do it.

In 2003, she was conferred the highest honorary title of Tun along with her husband, Dr Mahathir, by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong ( King ) of Malaysia.

It was opened in October 2003 by the then Prime Minister of Malaysia, YAB Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir bin Mohamad.

Mahathir would serve for 22 years, retiring in 2003.

In 2003, Gaffney called on the United States military to " take out " Al Jazeera news network for inciting violence against the Western world by showcasing Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein's " calls-to-arms.

On May 5, 2003, The New Yorker ran an article revealing that the bin Laden family had passively invested several million dollars in The Fremont Group, a private equity fund owned by the Bechtel family.

Throughout 2003, just prior to the capture of Saddam Hussein, and persisting after his capture, WWN ran a series of articles on an alleged romance between him and Osama bin Laden.

As a protest against this piece, Aaron Barschak ( who later gate-crashed Prince William's 21st birthday party dressed as Osama bin Laden in a frock ) threw a pot of red paint over Jake Chapman during a talk he was giving in May 2003.

Robert H. Lochner ( October 20, 1918-September 21, 2003 ) was a journalist who helped to revive the free media in West Germany after World War II and who is most well known for assisting John F. Kennedy with his famous " Ich bin ein Berliner " speech in 1963.

Tun Abdullah bin Haji Ahmad Badawi ( born 26 November 1939 ) is a Malaysian politician who served as Prime Minister from 2003 to 2009.

" In 2003, Sharif Ali bin al-Hussein said, he pressed American officials to bring him in as soon as Saddam Hussein fell.

Originally known as Task Force 121, it was formed in the summer of 2003, when the military merged two existing Special Operations units, one hunting Osama bin Laden in and around Afghanistan, and the other tracking Sadaam Hussein in Iraq.

In October 2003, as-Sahab released the videotaped wills of the bombers Abu Umar al-Ta ' ifi ( also known as Hazem al-Kashmiri ), Muhammad bin Shazzaf al-Shahri ( also known as Abu Tareq al-Asswad ) and Muhammad bin Ad al-Wahhab al-Maqit, recorded two weeks before the attacks.

* 5-Saeed bin Suroor ( 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2006 )

On 19 September 2003, Joe Higgins and Clare Daly were sent to Mountjoy Prison for a month for refusing to abide by a High Court injunction relating to the blockading of bin lorries.

In 2003 they released the Rio Reiser cover Ich bin müde (" I Am Tired "), written by Reiser and Wolfgang Michels ( German ) for Michels ' 1983 album Keine Probleme (" No Problems "), which received heavy rotation on television.

* 2003 – Ich bin müde (" I'm tired ") ( Cover of Wolfgang Michels and Rio Reiser ) GER # 87

In particular, he feels the 2003 invasion of Iraq played right into Osama bin Laden's hands.

Ramzi bin al-Shibh was interrogated at an American black site in 2003 about his knowledge of Jdey, and confessed that Jdey had recruited by al-Qaeda.

* Saeed bin Suroor – Charnwood Forest ( 1996 ), Allied Forces ( 1997 ), Intikhab ( 1998 ), Cape Cross ( 1999 ), Dubai Destination ( 2003 ), Refuse to Bend ( 2004 ), Ramonti ( 2007 )

Furthermore, the entry for January 1, 2003 relates how Qahtani blames Osama bin Laden for deceiving the 19 9 / 11 hijackers (" his friends "):

Under the name Yazud bin Sufaat, his assets were frozen on 5 September 2003 by the US Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control.

An Egyptian-Canadian terrorist and patriarch of the Khadr family, Sheikh Ahmed Said Khadr ( Arabic: أحمد سعيد خضر ) ( March 1, 1948 – October 2, 2003 ) had close ties to a number of militant and Mujahideen leaders, including Osama bin Laden, which saw him accused of being a " senior associate " and financier of al-Qaeda, while his family insisted that he maintained the contacts to help his charity work.

* September 3, 2003: In his testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Terrorism, Clarke said: " It is true that members of the bin Laden family were among those who left.

Al-Qaeda: Casting a Shadow of Terror ( ISBN 1-85043-396-8 ) is a 2003 book by Jason Burke about the history and goals of Osama bin Laden's Al-Qaeda and a loose amalgam of related groups.

( Born: 7 March 2003 ), HH Prince Hashem bin Firas ( Born: 31 October 2010 ).