1903: On this day in history

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Famous birthdays, deaths and events of 1903

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Birthdays

January 5 - Harold Gatty, Australian aviator
January 6 - Francis L. Sullivan, English actor (d. 1956)
January 6 - Maurice Abravanel, Greek-born conductor (d. 1993)
January 7 - Warren Hull, American actor (d. 1974)
January 7 - Alan Napier, English actor (d. 1988)
January 8 - Igor Kurchatov, Russian physicist (d. 1960)
January 9 - Hem Vejakorn, Thai illustrator (d. 1969)
January 10 - Barbara Hepworth, English sculptor (d. 1975)
January 10 - Voldemar Väli, Estonian wrestler (d. 1997)
January 10 - Violet Wilkey, American actress (d. 1976)
January 11 - Alan Paton, South African writer (d. 1988)
January 12 - Igor_Kurchatov, Russian physicist
January 15 - Paul A. Dever, 58th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1958)
January 16 - William Grover-Williams, English-French racing driver and WWII resistance fighter (d. 1945
January 17 - Jyoti Prasad Agarwala, Assamese poet
January 22 - Fritz Houtermans, Polish physicist (d. 1966)
January 23 - Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, Colombian politician (d. 1948)
January 27 - John Carew Eccles, Australian neuropsychologist
January 27 - Otto P. Weyland, American military figure (d. 1979)
January 28 - Aleksander Kamiński, Polish writer (d. 1978)
February 5 - Joan Whitney Payson, American heiress (d. 1975)
February 6 - Claudio Arrau, Chilean-born pianist (d. 1991)
February 8 - Greta Keller, Austrian-born cabaret singer and actress (d. 1977)
February 10 - Waldemar Hoven, German physician (d. 1948)
February 10 - Matthias Sindelar, Austrian footballer (d. 1939)
February 11 - Hans Redlich, Austrian composer (d. 1968)
February 12 - Chick Hafey, baseball player (d. 1973)
February 12 - Joseph F. Biroc, American cinematographer (d. 1996)
February 13 - Georges Simenon, Belgian writer (d. 1989)
February 14 - Stu Erwin, American actor (d. 1967)
February 16 - Edgar Bergen, American ventriloquist (d. 1978)
February 16 - George-Henri Lévesque, Quebec priest and sociologist (d. 2000)
February 18 - Nikolai Podgorny, President of the Soviet Union (d. 1983)
February 21 - Fairfax M. Cone, American advertising executive (d. 1977)
February 21 - Anaïs Nin, French writer (d. 1977)
February 21 - Raymond Queneau, French poet and novelist (d. 1976)
February 22 - Morley Callaghan, Canadian writer (d. 1990)
February 22 - Ain-Ervin Mere, Estonian Nazi (d. 1969)
February 22 - Robert Weede, American baritone (d. 1972)
February 25 - King Clancy, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1986)
February 26 - Giulio Natta, Italian chemist
February 27 - Grethe Weiser, German actress (d. 1970)
February 28 - Vincente Minnelli, American film 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 actress (d. 1990)
March 4 - John Scarne, American magician (d. 1985)
March 6 - Empress Kōjun of Japan, (d. 2000)
March 10 - Bix Beiderbecke, American musician (d. 1931)
March 11 - Ronald Syme, New Zealand classicist and historian (d. 1989)
March 11 - Lawrence Welk, American musician (d. 1992)
March 14 - Mustafa Barzani, Kurdish politician (d. 1979)
March 14 - Adolph Gottlieb American painter, (d. 1974)
March 16 - Mike Mansfield, American politician
March 20 - Edgar Buchanan, American actor (d. 1979)
March 24 - Adolf Butenandt, German chemist
March 24 - Malcolm Muggeridge, British author and scholar (d. 1990)
March 25 - Nahum Norbert Glatzer, Jewish-American scholar (d. 1990)
March 25 - Frankie Carle, American pianist and bandleader (d. 2001)
March 28 - Rudolf Serkin, Austrian pianist (d. 1991)
March 28 - Charles Starrett, American actor (d. 1986)
March 30 - Countee Cullen, American poet (d. 1946)
March 30 - Joy Ridderhof, American missionary (d. 1984)
April 2 - Lionel Chevrier, Canadian politician (d. 1987)
April 6 - Mickey Cochrane, American baseball player (d. 1962)
April 6 - Harold Edgerton, American electrical engineer (d. 1990)
April 9 - Ward Bond, American actor (d. 1960)
April 10 - Claire Boothe Luce, American activist
April 12 - Jan Tinbergen, Dutch economist
April 17 - Gregor Piatigorsky, Russian cellist (d. 1976)
April 17 - Morgan Taylor, American athlete (d. 1975)
April 19 - Eliot Ness, American lawman (d. 1957)
April 23 - Guy Simonds, youngest general officer in the Canadian army (d 1974)
April 24 - José Antonio Primo de Rivera, founder of the Falange (d. 1936)
April 25 - Andrey Nikolayevich Kolmogorov, Russian mathematician (d. 1987)
April 27 - Horace Stoneham, American Major league baseball owner (d. 1990)
May 2 - Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician and author (d. 1998)
May 3 - Bing Crosby, American singer and actor (d. 1977)
May 4 - Luther Adler, American stage actor (d. 1984)
May 5 - James Beard, American chef and cookbook writer (d. 1985)
May 6 - Toots Shor, New York restaurateur (d. 1977)
May 8 - Fernandel, French actor (d. 1971)
May 10 - Otto Bradfisch, Nazi leader (d. 1994)
May 11 - Charlie Gehringer, American baseball player (d. 1993)
May 12 - Wilfrid Hyde-White, British actor (d. 1991)
May 14 - Billie Dove, American actress (d. 1997)
May 15 - Maria Reiche, German-born mathematician and archaeologist (d. 1998)
May 17 - Cool Papa Bell, baseball player (d. 1991)
May 21 - Manly Wade Wellman, American author (d. 1986)
May 22 - Yves Rocard, French physicist (d. 1992)
May 25 - Binnie Barnes, British actress (d. 1998)
May 29 - Bob Hope, British-born comedian and actor (d. 2003)
May 30 - Countee Cullen, American writer (d. 1946)
June 1 - Blessed Vasyl Velychkovsky C.Ss.R Bishop and Martyr, (d. 1973)
June 3 - Eddie Acuff, American actor (d. 1956)
June 6 - Aram Khachaturian, Armenian composer (d. 1978)
June 8 - Ralph Yarborough, U.S. Senator from Texas (d. 1996)
June 8 - Marguerite Yourcenar, French author (d. 1987)
June 11 - Ernie Nevers, American football player (d. 1976)
June 12 - Emmett Hardy, American musician (d. 1925)
June 13 - Harold 'Red' Grange, American football player (d. 1991)
June 14 - Alonzo Church, American mathematician and logician (d. 1995)
June 16 - Helen Traubel, American soprano (d. 1972)
June 16 - Huldreich Georg Früh, Swiss composer (d. 1945)
June 17 - Ruth Wakefield, inventor of the Toll House Cookie
June 18 - Jeanette MacDonald, American actress and singer (d. 1965)
June 18 - Raymond Radiguet, French author (d. 1923)
June 19 - Lou Gehrig, American baseball player (d. 1941)
June 19 - Wally Hammond, English cricketer (d. 1965)
June 19 - Hans Litten, German jurist (d. 1938)
June 21 - Al Hirschfeld, American cartoonist (d. 2003)
June 22 - Carl Hubbell, baseball player (d. 1988)
June 22 - John Dillinger, American bank robber (d. 1934)
June 23 - Paul Joseph James Martin, Canadian politician (d. 1992)
June 25 - George Orwell (pen name of Eric Arthur Blair), British writer (d. 1950)
June 25 - Anne Revere, American actress (d. 1990)
June 29 - Alan Blumlein, English electronics engineer (d. 1942)
July 1 - Amy Johnson, English pilot (d. 1941)
July 2 - Alec Douglas-Home, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1995)
July 2 - King Olav V of Norway, (d. 1991)
July 3 - Ace Bailey, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1992)
July 4 - Flor Peeters, Belgian composer
July 6 - Hugo Theorell, Nobel laureate (d. 1982)
July 10 - John Wyndham, British author (d. 1969)
July 10 - Werner Best, German jurist and nazi leader (d. 1989)
July 11 - Rudolf Abel, Soviet intelligence officer (d. 1971)
July 11 - Sidney Franklin, American bullfighter (d. 1976)
July 13 - Kenneth Clark, English art historian (d. 1983)
July 14 - Irving Stone, American writer (d. 1989)
July 15 - Kumaraswami Kamaraj, Indian politician (d. 1975)
July 16 - Carmen Lombardo, Canadian musician (d. 1971)
July 16 - Mary Philbin, American actress (d. 1993)
July 16 - Fritz Bauer, German judge (d. 1968)
July 18 - Chill Wills, American actor (d. 1978)
July 21 - Roy Neuberger, American financier
July 26 - Estes Kefauver, U.S. Senator from Tennessee (d. 1963)
July 27 - Nikolai Cherkasov, Russian actor (d. 1966)
July 27 - Michail Stasinopoulos, Greek politician (d. 2002)
August 3 - Habib Bourguiba, Tunisian politician (d. 2000)
August 7 - Louis Leakey, British archaeologist (d. 1972)
August 10 - Ward Moore, American author (d. 1978)
August 18 - Lucienne Boyer, French singer (d. 1983)
August 19 - James Gould Cozzens, American novelist (d. 1978)
August 23 - William Primrose, Scottish violist (d. 1982)
August 24 - Karl Hanke, Nazi official (d. 1945)
August 25 - Arpad Elo, American chess writer (d. 1992)
August 28 - Bruno Bettelheim, American psychologist (d. 1990)
August 31 - Arthur Godfrey, American television host (d. 1983)
August 31 - Vladimir Jankélévitch, French philosopher (d. 1985)
September 9 - Phyllis Whitney, American writer (d. 2008)
September 11 - Theodor Adorno, German philosopher and sociologist (d. 1969)
September 13 - Claudette Colbert, American actress (d. 1996)
September 15 - Roy Acuff, American country musician (d. 1992)
September 17 - Karel Miljon, Dutch boxer (d. 1984)
September 17 - Frank O'Connor, Irish-American short-story writer (d. 1966)
September 22 - Joseph Valachi, American gangster (d. 1971)
September 25 - Mark Rothko, Latvian-born American painter (d. 1970)
October 1 - Vladimir Horowitz, Ukrainian-American pianist (d. 1989)
October 4 - John Vincent Atanasoff, American computer pioneer (d. 1995)
October 4 - Pierre Garbay, French army general and military governor of Paris (d. 1980)
October 4 - Ernst Kaltenbrunner, German military officer and senior Nazi (d. 1946)
October 4 - Bona Arsenault, French Canadian politician
October 5 - M. King Hubbert, American geophysicist (d. 1989)
October 6 - Ernest Walton, Irish physicist
October 9 - Walter O'Malley, American baseball executive (d. 1979)
October 10 - Vernon Duke, American composer and songwriter (d. 1969)
October 10 - Prince Charles of Belgium, Prince Regent of Belgium (d. 1983)
October 16 - Cecile de Brunhoff, French storyteller (d. 2003)
October 17 - Nathanael West, American writer (d. 1940)
October 18 - Lina Radke, German athlete (d. 1983)
October 19 - Tor Johnson, Swedish wrestler and actor (d. 1971)
October 22 - George Wells Beadle, American geneticist
October 22 - Curly Howard, American actor and comedian
October 24 - Melvin Purvis, American FBI agent (d. 1960)
October 25 - Katharine Byron, U.S. Congresswoman (d. 1976)
October 25 - Harry Shoulberg, American painter (d. 1995)
October 28 - Evelyn Waugh, English writer (d. 1966)
November 1 - Max Adrian, Irish actor (d. 1973)
November 1 - Edward "Carji" Greeves, Australian rules footballer (d. 1963)
November 2 - Travis Jackson, American baseball player (d. 1987)
November 3 - Walker Evans, American photographer (d. 1975)
November 6 - June Marlowe, American actress (d. 1984)
November 7 - Dean Jagger, American actor (d. 1991)
November 7 - Konrad Lorenz, Austrian zoologist
November 7 - Grace Stafford, American actress (d. 1992)
November 12 - Jack Oakie, American actor (d. 1978)
November 15 - Stewie Dempster, New Zealand cricketer (d. 1974)
November 20 - Alexandra Danilova, Russian ballerina (d. 1997)
November 20 - Ishtiaq Hussain Qureshi, Pakistani historian and educationist (d. 1981)
November 27 - Lars Onsager, Norwegian chemist
December 4 - Cornell Woolrich, American writer (d. 1968)
December 5 - Johannes Heesters, Dutch singer and actor
December 5 - Cecil Frank Powell, English physicist
December 6 - Tony Lazzeri, American baseball player (d. 1946)
December 7 - Danilo Blanuša, Croatian mathematician (d. 1987)
December 10 - Una Merkel, American actress (d. 1986)
December 12 - Dagmar Nordstrom, American composer (d. 1976)
December 12 - Yasujirō Ozu, Japanese film director (d. 1963)
December 13 - Carlos Montoya, Spanish guitarist (d. 1993)
December 17 - Erskine Caldwell, American author (d. 1987)
December 17 - Ray Noble, English bandleader and actor (d. 1978)
December 19 - George Davis Snell, American geneticist
December 22 - Haldan Keffer Hartline, American physiologist
December 26 - Elisha Cook Jr., American actor (d. 1995)
December 28 - Earl Hines, American musician (d. 1983)
December 28 - John von Neumann, Hungarian-born mathematician (d. 1957)
December 31 - Nathan Milstein, Ukrainian violinist (d. 1992)

Deaths

January 3 - Alois Hitler, father of Adolf Hitler (b. 1837)
January 4 - Gulstan Ropert, Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1839)
January 4 - Topsy the elephant , (b. circa 1875)
January 17 - Ignaz Wechselmann, Hungarian architect and philanthropist (b. 1828)
January 28 - Augusta Holmès, French composer (b. 1847)
February 1 - George Gabriel Stokes, Irish physicist (b. 1819)
February 12 - Gaspar Núñez de Arce, Spanish dramatist and statesman (b. 1834)
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 5 - George Francis Robert Henderson, British soldier (b. 1854)
March 16 - Roy Bean, American jurist
April 29 - Paul du Chaillu, French explorer (b. 1835)
April 30 - Emily Stowe, Canadian physician and suffragist (b.1831)
May 4 - Goce Delchev, a revolutionary from the Balkans
May 8 - Paul Gauguin, French painter (b. 1848)
May 13 - Apolinario Mabini, Filipino political theoretician and Prime Minister (b. 1864)
May 29 - Draga Mašin, Queen of Serbia (b. 1864)
May 29 - Bruce Price, American architect (b. 1845)
June 11 - Nikolai Bugaev, Russian mathematician (b. 1837)
June 11 - Alexander Obrenovich, King of Serbia (b. 1876)
June 19 - Cardinal Herbert Vaughan, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster (b. 1832)
July 2 - Ed Delahanty, American Hall of Fame baseball player (b. 1867)
July 9 - Alphonse François Renard, Belgian geologist (b. 1842)
July 20 - Pope Leo XIII, (b. 1810)
July 22 - Cassius Marcellus Clay, American emancipationist (b. 1810)
August 1 - Calamity Jane, American frontierswoman (b. 1853)
August 2 - Edmond Nocard, French veterinarian (b. 1850)
August 11 - Eugenio Maria de Hostos, Puerto Rican educator and nationalist (b. 1839)
August 17 - Hans Gude, Norwegian landscape painter (b. 1825)
August 22 - Robert Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury
August 28 - Frederick Law Olmsted, American landscape architect (b. 1822)
September 3 - Joseph Skipsey, British poet (b. 1832)
October 4 - Otto Weininger, Austrian philosopher (b. 1880)
October 7 - Rudolf Lipschitz, German mathematician (b. 1832)
November 1 - Theodor Mommsen, German writer
November 13 - Camille Pissarro, French painter (b. 1830)

Events

January 4 - Topsy, an elephant, was electrocuted by Thomas Edison during the War of Currents campaign.
January 9 - Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson, son of the famous poet Alfred Tennyson, becomes the second Governor-General of Australia.
January 18 - President Theodore Roosevelt sends a radio message to King Edward VII: the first transatlantic radio transmission originating in the United States.
February 11 - Anton Bruckner's 9th Symphony receives its first performance in Vienna.
February 14 - The United States Department of Commerce and Labor is established (later split into Department of Commerce and Department of Labor).
February 23 - Cuba leases Guantanamo Bay to the United States "in perpetuity".
March 2 - In New York City the Martha Washington Hotel opens, becoming the first hotel exclusively for women.
March 14 - The Hay-Herran Treaty, granting the United States the right to build the Panama Canal, is ratified by the United States Senate. The Colombian Senate would later reject the treaty.
March 23 - The Wright Brothers apply for a patent on their invention of one of the first successful airplanes.
March 25 - Racing Club de Avellaneda, one of the big five of Argentina, is founded.
March 31 - Richard Pearse allegedly makes a powered flight in an early aircraft.
April 6 - The Kishinev pogrom in Kishinev (Bessarabia) begins, forcing tens of thousands of Jews to later seek refuge in Israel and the Western world.
April 29 - A 30 million cubic-metre landslide kills 70 in Frank, Alberta, Canada.
May 22 - Launch of the White Star Liner, SS Ionic.
May 29 - May coup d'etat: Alexander Obrenovich, King of Serbia, and Queen Draga, are assassinated in Belgrade by the Black Hand (Crna Ruka) organization.
June 12 - The Sigma Alpha Iota International Music Fraternity is founded at the University of Michigan School of Music.
June 16 - The Ford Motor Company is incorporated.
June 16 - Roald Amundsen commences the first east-west navigation of the Northwest Passage by leaving Oslo, Norway.
July 20 - Ford Motor Company shipped its first car.
July 23 - The Ford Motor Company sells its first car.
August 2 - Fall of the Ottoman Empire: Unsuccessful uprising led by the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization against Ottoman Turkey, also known as the Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising.
August 18 - German engineer Karl Jatho allegedly flies his self-made, motored gliding airplane four months before the first flight of the Wright Brothers.
September 11 - The first race at The Milwaukee Mile in West Allis, Wisconsin is held. It is the oldest major speedway in the world.
September 24 - Edmund Barton steps down as Prime Minister of Australia and is succeeded by Alfred Deakin.
September 27 - Wreck of the Old 97, a train crash made famous by the song of the same name.
September 30 - The new Gresham's School is officially opened by Field Marshal Sir Evelyn Wood.
October 1 - Baseball: The Boston Americans play the Pittsburgh Pirates in the first game of the modern World Series.
October 5 - Sir Samuel Griffith is appointed the first Chief Justice of Australia and Sir Edmund Barton and Richard O'Connor are appointed as foundation justices.
October 6 - The High Court of Australia sits for the first time.
November 3 - With the encouragement of the United States, Panama proclaims itself independent from Colombia. US President Theodore Roosevelt had wanted the United States to build the Panama Canal, but was not willing to pay what Colombia asked.
November 17 - The Russian Social Democratic Labor Party splits into two groups; the Bolsheviks (Russian for "majority") and Mensheviks (Russian for "minority").
November 17 - Dahomey (Benin) becomes a French protectorate.
November 18 - The Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty is signed by the United States and Panama, giving the Americans exclusive rights over the Panama Canal Zone.
November 23 - Colorado Governor James Peabody sends the state militia into the town of Cripple Creek to break up a miners' strike.
December 14 - The Wright Brothers make their first attempt to fly with the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
December 17 - The Wright Brothers make their first powered and heavier-than-air flight in the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
December 30 - A fire at the Iroquois Theater in Chicago, Illinois kills 600.

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