1903 Explained
Year 1903 (MCMIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Wednesdayof the 13-day slower Julian calendar.The year 1903 also had the latest occurring solstices and equinoxes for 400 years, because the Gregorian calendar has not had a leap year for seven years or a century leap year since 1600. See: 1696.
Events of 1903
January-February
March-April
May-June
July-August
September-October
November-December
Undated
- The Lincoln-Lee Legion is established to promote the temperance movement and signing of alcohol abstinence pledges by children.
- The first box of Crayola crayons was made and sold for 5 cents. It contained 8 colors; brown, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet and black.
Ongoing
Births
January
February
- February 2 - Bartel Leendert van der Waerden, Dutch mathematician (d. 1996)
- February 6 - Claudio Arrau, Chilean-born pianist (d. 1991)
- February 8 - Greta Keller, Vienna-born cabaret singer and actress (d. 1977)
- February 8 - Tunku Abdul Rahman, first Prime Minister of Malaysia (d. 1990)
- February 10 - Matthias Sindelar, Austrian footballer (d. 1939)
- February 11
- February 13 - Georges Simenon, French writer (d. 1989)
- February 16 - Edgar Bergen, American ventriloquist (d. 1978)
- February 21
- February 22 - Morley Callaghan, Canadian writer and media personality (d. 1990)
- February 22 - Ain-Ervin Mere, Estonian Nazi (d. 1969)
- February 22 - Frank P. Ramsey, English mathematician (d. 1930)
- February 26 - Giulio Natta, Italian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1979)
- February 27 - Grethe Weiser, German actress (d. 1970)
- February 28 - Vincente Minnelli, American director (d. 1986)
March
- March 4 - Luis Carrero Blanco, Spanish statesman (d. 1973)
- March 4 - William C. Boyd, American immunochemist (d. 1983)
- March 4 - Dorothy Mackaill, British-born American actress (d. 1990)
- March 4 - John Scarne, American magician and card expert (d. 1985)
- March 6 - Empress Kōjun, Empress consort of Japan (d. 2000)
- March 10 - Bix Beiderbecke, American jazz musician (d. 1931)
- March 11
- March 14 - Mustafa Barzani, Kurdish politician (d. 1979)
- March 20 - Edgar Buchanan, American actor (d. 1979)
- March 24 - Adolf Butenandt, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995)
- March 25 - Nahum Norbert Glatzer, Jewish-American scholar (d. 1990)
- March 28 - Rudolf Serkin, Austrian pianist (d. 1991)
- March 31 - H. J. Blackham, British humanist and author (d. 2009)
April
May
- May 2 - Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician (d. 1998)
- May 3 - Bing Crosby, American singer and actor (d. 1977)
- May 4 - Luther Adler, American actor (d. 1984)
- May 6 - Toots Shor, New York restaurateur (d. 1977)
- May 8 - Fernandel, French actor (d. 1971)
- May 10 - Hans Jonas, German-born philosopher(d. 1993)
- May 11 - Charlie Gehringer, baseball player (d. 1993)
- May 20 - Barbara Hepworth, English sculptor (d. 1975)
- May 21 - Frank Sargeson, New Zealand writer (d. 1982)
- May 29 - Bob Hope, English-born American comedian and actor (d. 2003)
June
July
August
September
October
November
- November 1 - Max Adrian, Northern Irish actor (d. 1973)
- November 2 - Edgard Potier, Belgian spy (d. 1944)
- November 3 - Walker Evans, American photographer (d. 1975)
- November 6 - Carl Rakosi, German-born poet (d. 2004)
- November 7 - Konrad Lorenz, Austrian zoologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1989)
- November 19 - Nancy Carroll, American actress (d. 1965)
- November 27 - Lars Onsager, Norwegian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1976)
- November 29 - E. Harold Munn, American temperance movement leader and presidential candidate (d. 1992)
December
Deaths
January - June
- January 3 - Alois Hitler, Austrian civil servant, father of Adolf Hitler (b. 1837)
- January 17 - Quintin Hogg, British philanthropist (b. 1845)
- January 28
- February 1 - Sir George Gabriel Stokes, Irish mathematician and physicist (b. 1819)
- February 7 - James Glaisher, English meteorologist and aeronaut (b. 1809)
- February 14 - Archduchess Elisabeth Franziska of Austria (b. 1831)
- February 22 - Hugo Wolf, Austrian composer (b. 1860)
- February 26 - Richard Jordan Gatling, American inventor (b. 1818)
- March 4 - Joseph Henry Shorthouse, English novelist (b. 1834)
- March 6 - Bruno Paulin Gaston Paris, French scholar (b. 1839)
- March 13 - George Granville Bradley, English vicar and scholar (b. 1821)
- March 16 - Roy Bean, American pioneer (b. 1825)
- March 28 - Emile Baudot, French telegraph engineer (b. 1845)
- April 19 - Oliver Mowat, Canadian politician (b. 1820)
- April 28 - Willard Gibbs, American physical chemist (b. 1839)
- May 4 - Gotse Delchev, Bulgarian revolutionary (b. 1872)
- May 8 - Paul Gauguin, French painter (b. 1848)
- May 13 - Apolinario Mabini, Filipino political theoretician and Prime Minister (b. 1864)
- June 11
- June 19 - Herbert Vaughan, English Catholic cardinal and archbishop (b. 1832)
July - December
- July 2 - Ed Delahanty, American baseball player (b. 1867)
- July 11 - William Ernest Henley, English poet, critic, and editor (b. 1849)
- July 13 - Béni Kállay, Austro-Hungarian statesman (b. 1839)
- July 17 - James McNeill Whistler, American painter (b. 1834)
- July 20 - Pope Leo XIII, Italian Roman Catholic Pope (b. 1810)
- August 1 - Calamity Jane, American frontierswoman (b. 1852)
- August 5 - Phil May, English artist (b. 1864)
- August 17 - Hans Gude, Norwegian painter (b. 1825)
- August 22 - Lord Salisbury, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1830)
- September 18 - Alexander Bain, Scottish philosopher (b. 1818)
- October 4 - Otto Weininger, Austrian-Jewish author (b. 1880)
- October 20 - Thomas Vincent Welch, American politician (b. 1850)
- November 1 - Theodor Mommsen, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1817)
- November 13 - Camille Pissarro, French painter (b. 1830)
- December 8 - Herbert Spencer, English philosopher (b. 1820)
Nobel prizes
References
. Martin Gilbert. A History of the Twentieth Century, Volume One: 1900-1933. 1997. HarperCollins. New York. 1903. 0-688-10064-3.
