* 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 – Prince Alfonso of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Spanish businessman ( b. 1924 )

Constitutional change in Liechtenstein in 2003 gave its head of state, the Prince, constitutional powers that included a veto over legislation and power to dismiss the cabinet.

* 1933 – Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan, French-born Pakistani diplomat ( UN High Commissioner for Refugees ) ( d. 2003 )

Other television roles include Pamela Flitton in A Dance to the Music of Time ( 1997 ), Miss Gilchrist in St. Ives ( 1998 ), Bettina the obsessive-compulsive interior decorator in Absolutely Fabulous, the sadistic Queen Elspeth in Hallmark's Snow White: The Fairest Of Them All ( 2001 ), and the emotionally repressed Queen Mary in The Lost Prince ( 2003 ).

* 2003 – Princess Kritika of Nepal, daughter of Crown Prince Paras

" The collaboration between Sondheim and Prince would largely end after Merrily – until the 2003 production of Bounce, another failure.

* Bounce ( 2003 ) ( book by John Weidman ; directed by Hal Prince ); retitled Road Show

In 2003, Zottola Publishing published three additional novels: Prince of Skulls, Lords of Tsámra, and A Death of Kings.

** Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan, French U. N. High Commissioner for Refugees ( d. 2003 )

In a referendum on March 16, 2003, Prince Hans-Adam, who had threatened to leave the country if he lost, won a large majority ( 64. 3 %) in favour of overhauling the constitution to effectively give him more powers than any other European monarch.

In the 2003 book Possessed: The Rise and Fall of Prince, author Alex Hahn says that Dickerson was reluctant to sign a three year contract and wanted to pursue other musical ventures.

At his request, his memoirs about Prince Charles ( which he wrote at Churchill's suggestion ) were only published after de Staercke's death in 2003, with the help of and a preface by Belgian historian Jean Stengers.

In 2003, the French journalist Dominique Paoli claimed to have found evidence that Weygand's father was indeed van der Smissen, but the mother was Mélanie Zichy-Metternich, lady-in-waiting to Carlota ( and daughter of Prince Metternich, Austrian Chancellor ).

There were believed to be five reasons for the firing: first, that Carlisle had appeared reluctant to play some of the team's younger players, such as Prince and Mehmet Okur, during the regular season, which had upset Dumars ; second, that some of the players ( notably Wallace ) had not gotten along with Carlisle ; third, that Carlisle employed an offensive system that was too conservative ; fourth, that Hall of Famer Larry Brown had become available ; and finally fifth, that Carlisle was rumored to be interested in the Pacers head coaching job during the Pistons ' 2003 playoff run.

This speculation was the topic of the book The Templar Revelation ( 1997 ) by Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince, and plays a central role in Dan Brown's fiction novel The Da Vinci Code ( 2003 ).

A Quebec Major Junior Hockey League team was also named after him, the Rocket de Montréal, playing out of the Maurice Richard Arena ( in 2003 this team moved to Prince Edward Island becoming the P. E. I.

The double-decker car ferries that serviced the two Western Scheldt crossings until 2003 were sold to Italian companies, where two of them, the Queen Beatrix ( renamed Tremestieri ) and Prince Johan Friso ( renamed Acciarello ) were adapted for the crossing between Messina and Villa San Giovanni on the Italian mainland.

One of her later television films, in 2003, was America's Prince: The John F. Kennedy Jr. Story, in which she portrayed Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis.

In 2003 the railway received a £ 682, 500 Heritage Lottery grant towards the £ 1, 170, 000 cost of redeveloping Wharf station, and the new station and museum were officially opened by Prince Charles and The Duchess of Cornwall on 13 July 2005.

The Prince of Liechtenstein has sweepingly broad powers ; a referendum to adopt Hans-Adam's revision of the constitution to expand his powers passed in 2003.

* Order of Saint Blessed Prince Vladimir, 2nd class ( 2003, Russian Orthodox Church )

The couple met during England's Rugby World Cup-winning campaign in Australia in 2003, being introduced by Zara's cousin, Prince Harry.

But the marriage of his younger brother Prince Friso to Mabel Wisse Smit in 2003 lacked government support and parliamentary approval.

The modern five-pound issues are not issued for circulation, but to mark events or commemorations of national or Royal significance, including the following: Queen Mother 90th birthday ( 1990 ); 40th anniversary of the Coronation ( 1993 ); 70th birthday of Queen Elizabeth II ( 1996 ); Golden Wedding of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip ( 1997 ); Prince of Wales ' 50th birthday ( 1998 ); Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial ( 1999 ); Millennium commemoration ( 1999 & 2000 ); Queen Mother Centenary ( 2000 ); Queen Victoria anniversary ( 2001 ); Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee ( 2002 ); Queen Mother Memorial ( 2002 ); Queen Elizabeth II Coronation 50th anniversary ( 2003 ); Centenary of the Entente Cordiale ( 2004 ); 200th anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar ( 2005 ); 200th anniversary of the death of Horatio Nelson ( 2005 ); 80th birthday of Queen Elizabeth II ( 2006 ); Diamond Wedding of Elizabeth II and Prince Philip ( 2007 ) 60th birthday of Prince of Wales ( 2008 ).