1903 (MCMIII ) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar , the 1903rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 903rd year of the 2nd millennium , the 3rd year of the 20th century , and the 4th year of the 1900s decade. As of the start of 1903, the Gregorian calendar was 13 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
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February
February 13 – Venezuelan crisis : After agreeing to arbitration in Washington, the United Kingdom, Germany and Italy reach a settlement with Venezuela resulting in the Washington Protocols. The naval blockade that began in 1902 will end.
February 23 – Cuba leases Guantánamo Bay to the United States "in perpetuity".
January
Alan Paton
January 1 – Jasimuddin , Bangladeshi poet, lyricist, composer and writer (d. 1976 )
January 2 – Kane Tanaka , Japanese supercentenarian, oldest Japanese person ever, last surviving person born in 1903 (d. 2022 )
January 6 – Maurice Abravanel , Greek-born conductor (d. 1993 )
January 10 – Barbara Hepworth , English sculptor (d. 1975 )
January 11 – Alan Paton , South African author, anti-apartheid activist (d. 1988 )
January 12
January 16
January 17 – Warren Hull , American actor (d. 1974 )
January 18 – Gladys Hooper , British supercentenarian (d. 2016 )
January 22 – Fritz Houtermans , Polish physicist (d. 1966 )
January 23 – Jorge Eliécer Gaitán , Colombian politician (d. 1948 )
January 27 – John Eccles , Australian neuropsychologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1997 )
February
Tunku Abdul Rahman
Giulio Natta
February 2 – Bartel Leendert van der Waerden , Dutch mathematician (d. 1996 )
February 3 – Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, 14th Duke of Hamilton , Scottish nobleman, aviation pioneer (d. 1973 )
February 4 – Alexander Imich , American parapsychologist, chemist (d. 2014 )
February 6 – Claudio Arrau , Chilean-born pianist (d. 1991 )
February 8
February 10
February 11
February 12
February 13 – Georges Simenon , French writer (d. 1989 )
February 14 – Stuart Erwin , American actor (d. 1967 )
February 16 – Edgar Bergen , American ventriloquist (d. 1978 )
February 17 – Joaquín Rodríguez Ortega , known as "Cagancho", Spanish bullfighter (d. 1984 )
February 21
February 22
February 24 – Vladimir Bartol , Slovenian author (d. 1967 )
February 26 – Giulio Natta , Italian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1979 )[35]
February 27 – Grethe Weiser , German actress (d. 1970 )
February 28 – Vincente Minnelli , American director (d. 1986 )
March
Empress Nagako
Clare Boothe Luce
Lawrence Welk
Adolf Butenandt
March 4
March 6
March 10
March 11
March 14 – Mustafa Barzani , Kurdish politician (d. 1979 )
March 17 – Elli Stenberg , Finnish politician (d. 1987 )[36]
March 18 – Gian Galeazzo Ciano, 2nd Count of Cortellazzo and Buccari , Italian aristocrat and diplomat (d. 1944 )
March 19 – W.R. Supratman , Indonesian violinist (d. 1938 )
March 20
March 21 – Frank Sargeson , New Zealand writer (d. 1982 )
March 23 – Germán Busch , 36th President of Bolivia (d. 1939 )
March 24
March 25 – Nahum Norbert Glatzer , Jewish-American scholar (d. 1990 )
March 27 – Betty Balfour , English screen actress (d. 1977 )
March 28 – Rudolf Serkin , Austrian pianist (d. 1991 )
March 31 – H. J. Blackham , British humanist, author (d. 2009 )
April
Eliot Ness
April 3 – Lola Alvarez Bravo , Mexican photographer (d. 1993 )
April 5 – Hilda Bruce , British zoologist (d. 1974 )
April 6
April 9 – Gregory Goodwin Pincus , American biologist, researcher (d. 1967 )
April 12 – Jan Tinbergen , Dutch economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1994 )
April 15 – John Williams , English-born actor (d. 1983 )
April 17
April 19 – Eliot Ness , American Prohibition agent (d. 1957 )
April 24 – José Antonio Primo de Rivera , Spanish politician (d. 1936 )
April 25 – Andrey Kolmogorov , Soviet and Russian mathematician (d. 1987 )
May
Bing Crosby
Bob Hope
May 2 – Benjamin Spock , American pediatrician (d. 1998 )
May 3 – Bing Crosby , American singer, actor (d. 1977 )
May 4
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 , American baseball player (d. 1993 )
May 12 – Faith Bennett , British actress, WWII ATA pilot (d. 1969 )[37]
May 14 – Billie Dove , American actress (d. 1997 )
May 18 – Frits Warmolt Went , Dutch botanist (d. 1990 )
May 19 – Shimoe Akiyama , Japanese supercentenarian (d. 2019 )
May 23 – Shelah Richards , Irish actress, director, and producer (d. 1985 )
May 24 – Lofton R. Henderson , American naval aviator (killed in the Battle of Midway ) (d. 1942 )
May 25 – Binnie Barnes , English actress (d. 1998 )
May 29 – Bob Hope , English-born American comedian, actor (d. 2003 )
July
Alec Douglas-Home
Olav V of Norway
July 1
July 2
July 3 – Ace Bailey , Canadian hockey player (d. 1992 )
July 4
July 5
July 6 – Hugo Theorell , Swedish scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1982 )
July 7
July 10 – Werner Best , German SS officer, jurist (d. 1989 )
July 12 – Judith Hare, Countess of Listowel , Hungarian-born journalist, writer (d. 2003 )
July 13
July 14
July 16 – Mary Philbin , American notable film actress of the silent film era (d. 1993 )
July 18 – Victor Gruen , Austrian-Jewish architect and inventor of the shopping mall (d. 1980 )
July 21 – Roy Neuberger , American financier, art collector (d. 2010 )
July 26 – Estes Kefauver , American politician (d. 1963 )
July 27 – Michail Stasinopoulos , 1st president of Greece (d. 2002 )
September
Theodor W. Adorno
Claudette Colbert
September 2 – Fred Pratt Green , British Methodist minister, hymn writer (d. 2000 )
September 7
September 8 – Jane Arbor , British writer (d. 1994 )
September 9
September 10 – Cyril Connolly , English critic, writer (d. 1974 )
September 11 – Theodor W. Adorno , German philosopher (d. 1969 )[38]
September 13 – Claudette Colbert , American actress (d. 1996 )
September 15
Roy Acuff , American country musician (d. 1992 )
Yisrael Kristal , Polish-born Israeli supercentenarian, Holocaust survivor, and former world's oldest living man (d. 2017 )
September 17 – Karel Miljon , Dutch boxer (d. 1984 )
September 21 – Preston Tucker , American automobile designer (d. 1956 )
September 25
September 27 – Leonard Barr , American stand-up comic, actor, and dancer (d. 1980 )
September 28 – Tateo Katō , Japanese fighter ace (d. 1942 )
September 29 – Miguel Alemán Valdés , Mexican lawyer and civilian president (1946–1952) (d. 1983 )[39]
September 29 – Ted de Corsia , American actor (d.1973 )
September 30 – Lyle Goodhue , American chemist, inventor and entomologist (d. 1981 )
October
Prince Charles, Count of Flanders
John Davis Lodge
October 1 – Vladimir Horowitz , American 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 8 – Ferenc Nagy , 40th prime minister of Hungary (d. 1979 )
October 9 – Walter O'Malley , American baseball executive (d. 1979 )
October 10
October 11 – Kazimierz Kordylewski , Polish astronomer (d. 1981 )
October 16
October 18 – Lina Radke , German athlete (d. 1983 )
October 20 – John Davis Lodge , American actor and politician (d. 1985 )
October 22
October 23
October 24 – Melvin Purvis , American lawman and FBI agent (d. 1960 )
October 25
October 26 – Bill Allington , American baseball player, manager (d. 1966 )
October 28 – Evelyn Waugh , English novelist (d. 1966 )
October 29 – Vivian Ellis , English composer, lyricist (d. 1996 )
October 31 – Joan Robinson , English economist (d. 1983 )
November
Charles Rigoulot
Konrad Lorenz
November 1 – Max Adrian , Northern Irish actor (d. 1973 )
November 2 – Edgard Potier , Belgian spy (d. 1944 )
November 3
November 4
November 6 – Carl Rakosi , German-born poet (d. 2004 )
November 7
November 8 – Alfred Thambiayah , Ceylon Tamil businessman, politician (d.?)
November 11 – Blessed Victoria Díez Bustos de Molina , Spanish teacher, religious woman (d. 1936 )
November 12 – Jack Oakie , American actor (d. 1978 )
November 19 – Nancy Carroll , American actress (d. 1965 )
November 25 – DeHart Hubbard , American Olympic athlete (d. 1976 )
November 26 – Alice Herz-Sommer , Czech-British supercentenarian and pianist and teacher (d. 2014 )
November 27
November 29 – E. Harold Munn , American temperance movement leader, presidential candidate (d. 1992 )
December
Una Merkel
John von Neumann
December 4
December 5
December 10 – Una Merkel , American actress (d. 1986 )
December 12
December 13 – Ella Baker , American civil rights activist (d. 1986 )
December 16 – Harold Whitlock , British Olympic athlete (d. 1985 )[40]
December 17 – Erskine Caldwell , American author (d. 1987 )
December 19 – George Davis Snell , American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1996 )
December 22 – Haldan Keffer Hartline , American physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1983 )
December 24 – Joseph Cornell , American sculptor (d. 1972 )
December 26 – Elisha Cook Jr. , American actor (d. 1995 )
December 28
December 29 – Clyde McCoy , American jazz trumpeter (d. 1990 )
January–June
Saint Gemma Galgani
Josiah Willard Gibbs
Paul Gauguin
Apolinario Mabini
King Alexander I of Serbia
January 3 – Alois Hitler , Austrian civil servant, father of Adolf Hitler (b. 1837 )
January 4
January 5 – Práxedes Mateo Sagasta , Spanish politician, eight-time prime minister (b. 1825 )
January 7 – Robert Atkinson Davis , businessman, politician and 4th Premier of Manitoba (b. 1841 )
January 17 – Quintin Hogg , British philanthropist (b. 1845 )
January 24 – Petko Karavelov , 4th Prime Minister of Bulgaria (b. 1843 )
January 28
February 1 – Sir George Gabriel Stokes , Irish mathematician, physicist (b. 1819 )
February 3 – David George Ritchie , Scottish philosopher (b. 1853 )
February 4 – Zhang Peilun , Chinese naval commander and government official (b. 1848 )
February 7 – James Glaisher , English meteorologist, aeronaut (b. 1809 )
February 9 – Sir Charles Duffy , Irish-born Australian politician, 8th Premier of Victoria (b. 1816 )
February 14 – Archduchess Elisabeth Franziska of Austria (b. 1831 )
February 17 – Joseph Parry , Welsh composer (b. 1841 )
February 18
February 21 – Kate Vaughan , British dancer and actress (b. 1852 )
February 22
February 26 – Richard Jordan Gatling , American inventor (b. 1818 )
March 2 – Rafael Zaldívar , former President of El Salvador (b. 1834 )
March 3 – Robert Sanford Foster , Union Army general (b. 1834 )
March 4 – Joseph Henry Shorthouse , English novelist (b. 1834 )
March 5 – Gaston Paris , French scholar (b. 1839 )
March 7
March 11 – Lou Graham (Seattle madame) , American brothel owner (b. 1857 )
March 13 – George Granville Bradley , English vicar, scholar (b. 1821 )
March 16 – Roy Bean , American justice of the peace (b. 1825 )[41]
March 20 – Charles Godfrey Leland , humorist, folklorist and poet (b. 1824 )
March 25 – Sir Hector MacDonald , British army general (b. 1853 )
March 28 – Émile Baudot , French telegraph engineer (b. 1845 )
March 29 – Gustavus Franklin Swift , businessman (b. 1839 )
April 4 – Margaret Ann Neve , English supercentenarian (b. 1792 )
April 5 – Tom Allen , English boxer (b. 1839 )
April 11
April 13 – Moritz Lazarus , German philosopher (born 1824 )
April 19 – Sir Oliver Mowat , Canadian politician (b. 1820 )
April 22 – Alexander Ramsey , 2nd Governor of Minnesota from 1860 to 1863 and U.S. Senator from Minnesota from 1863 to 1875 (b. 1815 )
April 24 – Walter Osborne , Irish painter (b. 1859 )
April 27 – William Travers , lawyer, politician, explorer, and naturalist in New Zealand (b. 1819 )
April 28
April 29 – Stuart Robson , American stage actor, comedian (b. 1836 )
April 30 – Emily Stowe , first female doctor to practice in Canada and women's rights and suffrage activist (b. 1831 )
May 4 – Gotse Delchev , Macedonian revolutionary (b. 1872 )
May 8 – Paul Gauguin , French painter (b. 1848 )
May 11 – Vilhelm Kyhn , painter and educator (b. 1819 )
May 13 – Apolinario Mabini , Filipino political theoretician, Prime Minister of the Philippines (b. 1864 )
May 19 – Carl Snoilsky , poet (b. 1841 )
June 9 – Gaspar Núñez de Arce , Spanish poet (b. 1834 )
June 11
June 14 – Carl Gegenbaur , German anatomist (b. 1826 )[42]
June 15 – Joseph Abbott , Australian wool-broker and politician (b. 1843 )
June 19
Herbert Vaughan , English Catholic cardinal, archbishop (b. 1832 )
July–December
Pope Leo XIII
Lord Salisbury
Theodor Mommsen
Camille Pissarro
July 2 – Ed Delahanty , American baseball player, MLB Hall of Famer (b. 1867 )
July 3 – Harriet Lane , Acting First Lady of the United States (b. 1830 )
July 11 – William Ernest Henley , English poet, critic and editor (b. 1849 )
July 13 – Béni Kállay , Austro-Hungarian statesman (b. 1839 )
July 14
July 17 – James McNeill Whistler , American painter (b. 1834 )
July 20 – Pope Leo XIII , Italian Roman Catholic Pope (b. 1810 )
July 21 – Henri Alexis Brialmont , military architect (b. 1821 )
July 27 – Lina Sandell , hymn writer (b. 1832 ).
August 1 – Calamity Jane , American frontierswoman (b. 1852 )
August 3 – Édouard Pottier , French admiral (b. 1839 )
August 5 – Phil May , English artist (b. 1864 )
August 11 – Eugenio María de Hostos , Puerto Rican philosopher, sociologist (b. 1839 )
August 17 – Hans Gude , Norwegian painter (b. 1825 )
August 22 – Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury , Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1830 )
August 23 – Fray Mocho , Argentine writer (b. 1858 )
August 27 – Kusumoto Ine , physician, first female doctor of Western medicine in Japan (b. 1827 )
August 28 – Frederick Law Olmsted , American landscape architect (b. 1822 )
August 30 – Joe Warbrick , Māori rugby union player (b. 1862).
August 31 – William Hastie , clergyman and theologian (b. 1842 )
September 1 – Charles Renouvier , French philosopher (b. 1815 )
September 2 – Julia McNair Wright , American author (b. 1840 )
September 13 – Carl Schuch , Austrian painter (b. 1846 )
September 14 – Johanna Berglind , sign language teacher and principal (b. 1816 ).
September 18
September 19 – Washington Teasdale , English engineer (b. 1830 )
October 4 – Otto Weininger , Austrian-Jewish author (b. 1880 )
October 20 – Thomas Vincent Welch , American politician (b. 1850 )
October 22 – William Edward Hartpole Lecky , Irish historian, member of the House of Commons (b. 1838
October 27 – Erika Nissen , pianist (b. 1845 )
November 1 – Theodor Mommsen , German writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1817 )[43]
November 11 – Lavilla Esther Allen , American author (b. 1834 )
November 13 – Camille Pissarro , French painter (b. 1830 )
November 20 – Tom Horn , gunfighter and outlaw (born 1860 )
November 25 – Sabino Arana , Spanish Basque writer, nationalist (b. 1865 )
December 8 – Herbert Spencer , English philosopher (b. 1820 )
December 27 – Lydia Hoyt Farmer , American author, women's rights activist (b. 1842 )
December 28 – Margaret Frances Sullivan , Irish-born American author, journalist and editor (b. 1847 )
December 29
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Doohm, Stefan (2005). Adorno : a biography . Cambridge, UK Malden, MA: Polity Press. p. 479. ISBN 9780745631080 .
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