* 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 – The Human Genome Project comes to an end two and a half years earlier than expected.

Chile assumed a two-year non-permanent position on the UN Security Council in January 2003 and is an active member of the UN family of agencies, serving as a member of the Commission on Human Rights and participating in UN peacekeeping activities.

Included are: VISTA ( Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories, 1987 ), Discovery II ( NASA / GRC, 2002 ), Human Outer Planet Exploration ( NASA / MSFC, 2003 ), ICAN-II ( The Pennsylvania State University )

After some pressure, an office of the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission opened an office in Mazar in April 2003.

In 2003, Human Rights Watch reported that FARC-EP shows no leniency to children because of their age, assigning minors the same duties as adults and sometimes requiring them to participate in executions or witness torture.

* The Complexity of Religion and the Definition of “ Religion ” in International Law Harvard Human Rights Journal article from the President and Fellows of Harvard College ( 2003 )

* 2003: Nevada Department of Human Resources v. Hibbs

The Human Web: A Bird's-Eye View of World History ( 2003 ) excerpt and text search

* The Human Genome Project was completed in 2003, with 99 % of the human genome sequenced to 99. 99 % accuracy.

* The Complexity of Religion and the Definition of “ Religion ” in International Law Harvard Human Rights Journal article from the President and Fellows of Harvard College ( 2003 )

A Paris court found in February 2005 that his verbal criticisms, such as remarks disparaging Muslims in a 2003 Le Monde interview, were " inciting racial hatred ", and he was fined 10, 000 euros and ordered to pay an additional 5, 000 euros in damages to the Ligue des droits de l ' homme ( League for Human Rights ).

Proceedings of ACM CHI 2003 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 193 – 200.

In 2003, decided to move the Pride March from June to the December Human Rights Week to coincide with related human rights activities such as World AIDS Day ( December 1 ), Philippine National Lesbian Day ( December 8 ), and International Human Rights Day ( December 10 ).

* Westermarck, Edward ( 2003 ) History of Human Marriage Part 1 Kessinger Publishing ISBN 0-7661-4618-9

In 2003, the party declared the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to be a cornerstone of its policies.

Bausch & Lomb received a 100 % rating on the Corporate Equality Index released by the Human Rights Campaign starting in 2003, the second year of the report.

In 2004 the Director of Military Personnel Policy for the US Army acknowledged in a letter to Human Rights Watch that nearly 60 17-year old US soldiers had been deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan in 2003 and 2004.

Between March 2003 and October 2004, Claudia Roth had been the Federal Government Commissioner for Human Rights Policy and Humanitarian Aid at the Federal Foreign Office.

* Lefkowitz, Mary R., Greek Gods, Human Lives, Yale University Press ( 2003 ).

On June 12 2003, European Court of Human Rights ruled in favor of Van Kück, a German transsexual woman whose insurance company denied her reimbursement for gender reassignment surgery as well as hormone replacement therapy.

It was established in 2003, it is an inter-university The institute focus on Estuarine Ecology and Human Health, Coastal Processes and Engineering, Public Policy and Coastal Sustainability, and Maritime Heritage.

* Cal Ludeman ( born 1951 ) former Minnesota State Representative ( 1977 – 1985 ), commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Employee Relations ( 2003 – 2006 ), commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Human Services ( 2006 – 2011 ).

In its 2003 and 2002 world reports, Human Rights Watch reported the existence of death squads in several Venezuelan states, involving members of the local police, the DISIP and the National Guard.