* 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 – Yuri Malenchenko becomes the first person to marry in space.

** Yuri Senkevich, Russian cosmonaut ( d. 2003 )

Chris Hadfield was the Director of Operations for NASA at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonauts Training Center ( GCTC ) in Star City, Russia from 2001 until 2003.

Two key members of the Kovalev Commission, Sergei Yushenkov and Yuri Shchekochikhin, both Duma members, have since died in apparent assassinations in April 2003 and July 2003, respectively.

Having been flight engineer on Soyuz TMA-2, Lu spent six months in space in 2003 as part of ISS Expedition 7, with cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko.

From Houston, ISS Spacecraft Communicator Mike Fossum informed Expedition 7 Commander Yuri Malenchenko and Science Officer Edward Lu on 15 October 2003 of the successful launch of the Long March rocket carrying the Shenzhou 5 spacecraft and Chinese astronaut Yáng Lìwěi.

From 2001 to 2003, Russian courts tried Colonel Yuri Budanov on the charges of March 27, 2000, kidnapping, rape ( an allegation later withdrawn by the prosecution ) and brutal murder of Elza Kungaeva, an 18-year-old Chechen girl whom Budanov alleged of being a sniper for Chechen rebels who were attacking his unit.

In The King of Fighters 2003, Yuri continues in the Art of Fighting Team, but only with Ryo and Robert as the tournament once again requires only 3 fighters per team.

Valentin Altanietz ( 1936 – 1995 ) Andrey Antoniuk, Alexander Anufriev, Valery Basanietz, Alexei Bokatov, Igor Bozhko, Nadia Haiduk, Valentin Khrushch ( 1943 – 2005 ), Michail Kowalski, Ruslan Makoev, Victor Mariniuk, Volodymyr Naumez, Nikolay Novikov, Victor Pavlov, Valery Parfenenko, Evgeni Rakhmanin, Viktor Risovich, Sergei Savchenko, Vitaly Sazonov, Valentin Shapavlenko, Yuri Shurevich ( 1937 – 1997 ), Oleg Sokolov, Nikolai Stepanov, ( sculptor ) ( 1937 – 2003 ), Alexander Stovbur, Vladimir Strelnikov, Stanislav Sytchov ( 1937 – 2003 ), Vladimir Tziupko, Alexander Voloshinov, Ludmilla Yastreb ( 1945 – 1980 ), Anna Zilberman ( 1935-2000 ).

* Yuri P. Kornev ( 2003 – 2010 )

Yuri Ershov is a Laureate of Malcev's Award of the Russian Academy of Sciences ( 1992 ), Russian State Award in the area of Science and Technics ( 2002, 2003 ), and Lavrentjev's Foundation Award ( 2007 ), is decorated with several Russian State Orders.

* Since 2003 Yuri Matiyasevich has been a co-director of annual German-Russian student school JASS.

* May 14 — Yuri Khukhrov, Russian painter ( d. 2003 )

Yuri Aleksandrovich Senkevich () ( March 4, 1937 in Choibalsan, Mongolia – September 25, 2003 in Moscow, Russia ) was a Soviet doctor, scientist.

* 2003 – While being towed across the Barents Sea, the de-commissioned Russian submarine K-159 sinks, taking 9 of her crew and 800 kg of spent nuclear fuel with her.

* 1950 – Gennadiy Nikonov, Russian engineer, designed the AN-94 rifle ( d. 2003 )

Since 2003, Chelsea have been owned by Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich.

In June 2003, Bates sold Chelsea to Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich for £ 140 million.

* 1920 – Ivan Ivanovich Petrov, Russian operatic bass ( d. 2003 )

However, in 2003, a joint group of Russian and American historians announced their view that Stalin had ingested flavorless warfarin, a powerful rat poison that inhibits coagulation of the blood and which predisposes the victim to hemorrhagic stroke ( cerebral hemorrhage ).

* 1987 – Vladimir Garin, Russian actor ( d. 2003 )

* 1917 – Ilya Prigogine, Russian scientist, Nobel laureate ( d. 2003 )

They were reintroduced in the Russian Federation in 1993, and extended to another 69 regions in 2003.

Latvia's state budget was balanced in 1997 but the 1998 Russian financial crisis resulted in large deficits, which were reduced from 4 % of GDP in 1999 to 1. 8 % in 2003.

The Russian government did not acknowledge Sarkisov's handwritten list of Beria's victims until 17 January 2003, and the names will not be released for another 25 years.

", Moscow, 2003 ( in Russian ), ISBN 5-89935-060-1

The Russian Federation has an embassy in Port Louis, and Mauritius has an embassy in Moscow, which was opened in July 2003.

* 1979 – Roman Lyashenko, Russian ice hockey player ( d. 2003 )

* 1922 – Yevgeny Matveyev, Russian actor and film director ( d. 2003 )

After the end of the Cold War, the United States and the Russian Federation concluded the Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty ( 2003 ) and the New START Treaty ( 2010 ).

*" Russian ", from the album Tubular Bells 2003, by Mike Oldfield

* Nguyễn Viết Thắng produced a Vietnamese translation of 487 rubaiyat, translated from English and Russian in 1995, published in Hanoi in 2003.

* 1923 – Rasul Gamzatov, Russian poet ( d. 2003 )

** Valeriy Brumel, Russian athlete ( d. 2003 )

** The Russian ironclad Rusalka disappears in a storm en route from Tallinn to Helsinki ; her hulk is eventually discovered in July 2003, off Helsinki.

** Oleg Makarov, Russian cosmonaut ( d. 2003 )

** Yevgeny Matveyev, Russian actor and film director ( d. 2003 )