* Richard J. Coggins, 1 and 2 Chronicles in Dunn, James D. G., Rogerson, John William ( eds ), " Eerdmans Commentary on the Bible " ( Eerdmans, 2003 )

* Learn to Program 2D Games in Blitz Basic by John " Krylar " Logsdon, ( 2003 )

In 2003, U. S. Representative John Conyers paid tribute to Bo Diddley in the United States House of Representatives describing him as " one of the true pioneers of rock and roll, who has influenced generations ".

Contemporary systems of categories have been proposed by John G. Bennett ( The Dramatic Universe, 4 vols., 1956-65 ), Wilfrid Sellars ( 1974 ), Reinhardt Grossmann ( 1983, 1992 ), Johansson ( 1989 ), Hoffman and Rosenkrantz ( 1994 ), Roderick Chisholm ( 1996 ), Barry Smith ( ontologist ) ( 2003 ), and Jonathan Lowe ( 2006 ).

* John L. Rector, The History of Chile, Greenwood Press, 2003

* D. Rogers Computational Chemistry Using the PC, 3rd Edition, John Wiley & Sons ( 2003 ).

* Chimeras ( album ), a 2003 album by John Zorn

* Peter Hemingray, John Thomas, His Friends and His Faith ( Canton, Michigan: The Christadelphian Tidings, 2003 ISBN 81-7887-012-6 ).

* Saliba, John A., Understanding New Religious Movements, 2nd edition ( Alta Mira Press, Walnut Creek, Lanham, New York & Oxford, 2003 ).

* John R. Hale, et al., " Questioning the Delphic Oracle: When science meets religion at this ancient Greek site, the two turn out to be on better terms than scholars had originally thought ", in Scientific American August 2003

* 2003 – John Gregory Dunne, American writer ( b. 1932 )

In 2003, Morris won the Best Documentary Oscar at the Academy Awards, for his film The Fog of War, about the career of Robert S. McNamara, who was famous for having been the Secretary of Defense who had led the nation into the Vietnam War under Presidents John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, and who was also crucially involved in having helped President Kennedy avoid a Third World War over the issue of Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba.

* 1912 – John Edward Christopher Hill, English historian ( d. 2003 )

In 2003, on his television show John Safran Vs God, Australian comedian John Safran tricked Sheikh Omar Bakri into placing a fatwā on Safran's colleague Rove McManus by showing him falsified evidence seeming to indicate that McManus had been making fun of Islam.

* 1926 – John Schlesinger, English film director ( d. 2003 )

Jennifer Granholm became the first female Governor of Michigan on January 1, 2003, when she succeeded John Engler ; she served for 8 years, until January 1, 2011.

* Buchan, James, Capital of the Mind: How Edinburgh changed the world, John Murray, 2003 ISBN 0-7195-5446-2

* Provan, Iain William, Long, V. Philips, Longman, Tremper, " A Biblical History of Israel " ( Westminster John Knox Press, 2003 )

* Wilson, John F. Religion and the American Nation: Historiography and History ( 2003 ) 119pp

* Wilson, John F. et al., Informal Funds Transfer Systems: An Analysis of the Hawala System, International Monetary Fund, October, 2003

* Companion to Science in the Twentieth Century, John Krige ( Editor ), Dominique Pestre ( Editor ), Taylor & Francis 2003, 941pp

Garner was replaced in May 2003 by L. Paul Bremer, who was himself replaced by John Negroponte on April 19, 2004 who left Iraq in 2005.

In 2003, the book Masters of Doom chronicled the development of Id Software, concentrating on the personalities and interaction of John Carmack and John Romero.

* John Austin ( legal philosopher ) ( 1790 – 1859 ), English jurist

* John Arnold Austin ( 1905 – 1941 ), American sailor

* John M. Pierce ( 1886 – 1958 ) was one of the founders of the Springfield Telescope Makers.

Historian John Huddleston estimates the death toll at ten percent of all Northern males 20 – 45 years old, and 30 percent of all Southern white males aged 18 – 40.

He was the fourth child of Ondrej Varchola ( Americanized as Andrew Warhola, Sr., 1889 – 1942 ) and Júlia ( née Zavacká, 1892 – 1972 ), whose first child was born in their homeland and died before their move to the U. S. Andy had two older brothers, Paul, born about 1923, and John, born about 1925.

* 1385 – John, Master of the Order of Aviz, is made king John I of Portugal.

* 1808 – John Jacob Astor incorporates the American Fur Company, that would eventually make him America's first millionaire.

* 1849 – John William Waterhouse, British painter ( d. 1917 )

* 1871 – Prince Alexander John of Wales ( d. 1871 )

* 1947 – John Ratzenberger, American actor

* 1960 – John Pizzarelli, American jazz guitarist, songwriter, singer and bandleader

* 1792 – John Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham, English statesman ( d. 1840 )

* 1940 – John Hagee, American pastor and televangelist

* 1944 – John Kay, German-Canadian singer-songwriter and musician ( The Sparrows and Steppenwolf )

* 1865 – Abraham Lincoln dies after being shot the previous evening by actor John Wilkes Booth.

* 1971 – John Boyne, Irish novelist

* 1981 – John O ' Shea, Irish footballer

* 1665 – John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol, English politician ( d. 1751 )

* 1724 – John Joachim Zubly, Swiss-American pastor, planter, and statesman ( d. 1781 )

* 1904 – John Hay Whitney, American businessman, publisher, and diplomat, founded J. H.

* 1947 – John Morrison, New Zealand cricketer

* 1948 – John Mehler, American drummer ( Love Song )