* 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 )

* 2005 – Space Shuttle program: STS-114 Mission – Launch of Discovery, NASA's first scheduled flight mission after the Columbia Disaster in 2003.

President Olusegun Obasanjo in August 2003 committed Nigerian troops once again into Liberia, at the urging of the United States, to provide an interim presence until the United Nations Mission in Liberia ( UNMIL ) arrived.

More recently, following the passage of a constitutional amendment allowing the stationing of the PNGDF on foreign soil, 80 personnel joined the Australia-led Regional Assistance Mission to the Solomon Islands ( RAMSI ) in July 2003.

In August 2003, an international peacekeeping force, known as the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands ( RAMSI ) and Operation Helpem Fren, entered the islands.

The Mission Bay campus, opened in 2003 with construction still ongoing, contains additional research space and facilities to foster biotechnology and life sciences companies.

Horizons closed permanently on January 9, 1999 and was demolished in the summer of 2000 to make room for the opening of Mission: SPACE on October 9, 2003.

* October 9, 2003: Mission: Space opens

" Mission Dolores Links San Francisco with its 18th Century Roots-Founded as La Mission San Francisco De Asis by Franciscans, it survived earthquake and fire ", Catholic San Francisco, January 31, 2003.

* Kaplan, Lawrence and William Kristol The War over Iraq: Saddam's Tyranny and America's Mission, San Francisco, Encounter Books, 2003.

A huge water-bottling facility was established by Arrowhead Mountain Springwater ( in partnership with the Morongo Band of Mission Indians ) on the eastern edge on Cabazon in 2003.

The San Simeon Earthquake of December 22, 2003 caused severe damage to the sanctuary at Mission San Miguel.

In 2003, Mission absorbed the neighboring city of Countryside.

The Mission Bell Museum was added to the NRHP in 2003 and is owned and operated by the city of Coweta.

On 1 May 2003, President George W. Bush flew in the co-pilot seat of a Sea Control Squadron THIRTY-FIVE ( VS-35 ) S-3B Viking from Naval Air Station North Island, California to the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln off the California coast, where Bush delivered his " Mission Accomplished " speech.

* UN Mission in Liberia ( UNMIL ), 2003 – present

* Carrington, Michael Officers Gentlemen and Thieves: The Looting of Monasteries during the 1903 / 4 Younghusband Mission to Tibet, Modern Asian Studies 37, 1 ( 2003 ), PP 81 – 109.

* For an academic article relating to the Tibet Mission read: Carrington, Michael: " Officers Gentlemen and Thieves: The Looting of Monasteries during the 1903 / 4 Younghusband Mission to Tibet ", Modern Asian Studies 37, 1 ( 2003 ), PP 81 – 109.

In 2003, Kristol and Lawrence F. Kaplan wrote, " The War Over Iraq: America's Mission and Saddam's Tyranny ", in which the authors analyzed the Bush Doctrine and the history of US-Iraq relations.

* War Over Iraq: Saddam ’ s Tyranny And America ’ s Mission ( Co-author Lawrence Kaplan ) ( Encounter Books, 2003 ).

On 4 May 2003, President Bush declared the " end of major combat operations " in Iraq, while aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln with a large " Mission Accomplished " banner displayed behind him.

Since the end of Liberia's civil war in 2003, the United States has contributed over $ 750 million toward Liberia's reconstruction and development and more than $ 750 million to support the UN Mission in Liberia ( UNMIL ).

In a United Nations UNODC Fact Finding Mission Report dated May 18, 2003, Kerik was cited as leading a small " International Policing Team ", to restructure and rebuild the Iraqi Police and Ministry of Interior.