Year 1903 (MCMIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Wednesday of 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. [edit] Events of 1903 [edit] January–February [edit] March–April [edit] May–June [edit] July–August [edit] September–October - September 11 – The first stock car event is held at the Milwaukee Mile.
- September 14 – Joseph Chamberlain resigns as British Colonial Secretary, in order to campaign publicly for "Imperial Preference".
- September 15 – Grêmio Foot-Ball Porto-Alegrense is founded in Porto Alegre, Brazil
- September 24 – Edmund Barton steps down as Prime Minister of Australia and is succeeded by Alfred Deakin.
- September 27 – The Wreck of the Old 97 engine at Stillhouse Trestle near Danville, Virginia, which kills 9 people, inspires a ballad and song.
- October – Frank Nelson Cole proves that 267-1 is composite by factoring it as 193,707,721 * 761,838,257,287 after trying every Sunday for 3 years.
- October 1 – The first modern World Series pits the National League's Pittsburgh against Boston of the American League.
- October 6 – The High Court of Australia sits for the first time.
- October 10 – The Women's Social and Political Union is founded.
[edit] November–December [edit] Undated [edit] Ongoing [edit] Births [edit] January [edit] 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 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 19 – Sir Handel
- 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)
- 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)
[edit] August [edit] September [edit] October - October 1 – Vladimir Horowitz, Russian pianist (d. 1989)
- October 4 – John Vincent Atanasoff, American computer engineer (d. 1995)
- October 5 – M. King Hubbert, American geophysicist (d. 1989)
- October 6 – Ernest Walton, Irish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995)
- October 9 – Walter O'Malley, American baseball executive (d. 1979)
- October 10 – Bei Shizhang, Chinese biologist and educator (d. 2009)
- October 16 – Cecile de Brunhoff, French storyteller (d. 2003)
- October 18 – Lina Radke, German athlete (d. 1983)
- October 22
- October 25
- October 28 – Evelyn Waugh, English writer (d. 1966)
[edit] 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)
[edit] December [edit] Deaths [edit] 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)
[edit] 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)
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