* 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 – France and Belgium break the NATO procedure of silent approval concerning the timing of protective measures for Turkey in case of a possible war with Iraq.

The US and NATO militaries used DU penetrator rounds in the 1991 Gulf War, the Bosnia war, bombing of Serbia, and the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

In 2003, Estonia joined the NATO defense alliance.

In December 2003, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, De Hoop Scheffer, was appointed Secretary-General of the NATO.

He resigned as Minister of Foreign Affairs on December 3, 2003 when he was selected as the next Secretary General of NATO, he served as Secretary General from January 5, 2004 until August 1, 2009

Jaap de Hoop Scheffer and wife Jeannine visiting Laura Bush | Laura and George W. Bush at the Bush Ranch in Texas in 2007. He became the 11th NATO Secretary General on 5 January 2004, succeeding Lord Robertson, who held the post from 1999 until 2003.

Until June 2003, the operational structure of NATO was divided into " Europe " and " Atlantic ".

Between 2003 and 2006, a new category of forces, the NATO Force Structure, was created, principally to improve the flexibility and reach of land forces.

Formed from October 2003, the NATO Rapidly Deployable Corps are designated High Readiness Forces ( HRF ), designed to be able to react on short notice.

Rosato ( 2003 ) argues that most of the significant evidence for democratic peace has been observed after World War II ; and that it has happened within a broad alliance, which can be identified with NATO and its satellite nations, imposed and maintained by American dominance ( see Pax Americana ).

In March 2003 Slovenia held two referendums on joining the EU and NATO.

He then became Supreme Allied Commander for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) in Europe until January 2003.

A report which was published by the Committee on Foreign Affairs contained a statement by Bryan Ardouny, Executive Director of the Armenian Assembly of America, who stated that " The Azerbaijani government has also consistently failed to condemn Safarov, an Azeri military officer who in 2003 brutally murdered an Armenian participant at a NATO Partnership for Peace military training exercise in Budapest, Hungary.

In a 2003 column entitled " A Theory ," Ledeen outlined a possibility that France and Germany, both NATO allies of the United States, " struck a deal with radical Islam and with radical Arabs " to use " extremism and terrorism as the weapon of choice " to bring down a potential American Empire.

Not long before her death, she issued an open letter condemning both the 1999 NATO bombing of Yugoslavia and the 2003 Iraq War.

* On March 7, 2003 the constitution was changed again to allow Slovenia to enter the European Union and NATO, if that would be the will of the people, which was shown to be the case in the referendum on March 23, 2003.

Since 2003 NATO Day, a military show, takes place in the area of Ostrava airport.

* Photos of Marc Grossman's visit to NATO, February 27, 2003.

He helped organize protests against the 1999 Kosovo Conflict, the 2001 NATO invasion of Afghanistan and the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

Under the auspices of the NATO-Russia Council, a study was launched in 2003 to assess possible levels of interoperability among in-theater missile defense systems of NATO Allies and Russia.

In 2003 the Royal Rifle Volunteers took part in a major NATO exercise in the Eastern European country of Lithuania codenamed Exercise AMBER HOPE.

The HCWP heavily opposed NATO campaigns in Yugoslavia against Slobodan Milošević as well as opposing the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

In 2003, a minor upgrade and an extensive overhaul was performed in Romania, incorporating some of the elements of the Lancer standard, primarily to make them interoperable with NATO air forces.