1903

Year 1903 () was a (link will display calendar) of the  or a

of the 13-day slower.

The year 1903 also had the latest occurring s and es for 400 years, because the has not had a  for seven years or a century leap year since. See:.

January - February





 * - is proclaimed.
 * - marries.
 * - First transatlantic radio broadcast between United States and England.
 * - The represents the first time in U.S. history that a labor union is formed from members of different races.
 * - and his wife Rose introduce the first  in America.
 * - leases  to the  "in perpetuity".

March

 * -Beşiktaş JK is founded in, becoming the first sports club in the.
 * - In the  opens, becoming the first  exclusively for.
 * – announces plans to build naval base at.
 * – and  sign an agreement to build the.
 * - The, granting the the right to build the , is ratified by the . The Colombian Senate would later reject the treaty.
 * - The American side of the runs short of water.
 * - Possible first powered heavier-than-air flight,, (some date it to 1902)

April - June

 * - is formed.
 * - 30,000,000 cubic metre landslide kills 70 in.
 * - Opening of port of,.
 * - – Assassination of n King and Queen Draga.
 * - International Music Fraternity is founded at the.

July - August

 * - - First –  wins.
 * - Completion of the Pacific cable by the Commercial Pacific Cable Company.
 * - British take over the empire.
 * - Dr. Ernst Pfenning of becomes the first owner of a.
 * - The of the  in the  breaks out.
 * - succeeds  as the 257th.
 * - The takes place.
 * - is passed.

September - October

 * - Massacre of by Turkish troops at  is reported.
 * - The first stock car event is held at the.
 * - resigns as.
 * -, a Brazilian team is founded.
 * - steps down as  and is succeeded by.
 * - New officially opened by.
 * - proves that 267-1 is composite by factoring it as 193,707,721 * 761,838,257,287 after trying every Sunday for three years.
 * - The First modern World Series pits the 's Pittsburgh against Boston of the.
 * - The sits for the first time.
 * - Foundation of the [[Women's Social and Political Union]Hi].

November - December

 * - With the encouragement of the, proclaims itself independent from.
 * - USA recognizes independence of.
 * - The splits into two groups; the  ( for "majority") and  (Russian for "minority").
 * - The is signed by the  and, giving the Americans exclusive rights over the.
 * - Governor  sends the state militia into the town of  to break up a miners' strike.
 * - Opera tenor makes his American debut in  with the  in .
 * - flies an  with a  at,  in the first documented, successful, controlled, powered, heavier-than-air flight.
 * - A fire at the in  kills 600.

Undated

 * is established to promote and signing of alcohol abstinence pledges by children.
 * is established.
 * is established.

Ongoing

 * (none)

January

 * -, Greek-born conductor (d. )
 * -, American actor (d. )
 * -, Austrian composer (d. )
 * -, French race car driver and war hero (d. )
 * -, physicist (d. )
 * -, Australian neuropsychologist, recipient of the (d. )

February

 * -, Dutch mathematician (d. )
 * -, Chilean-born pianist (d. )
 * , Vienna-born cabaret singer and actress (d. )
 * , first of  (d. )
 * -, Austrian footballer (d. )
 * , American actor (d. )
 * , South African writer (d. )
 * -, French writer (d. )
 * -, American ventriloquist (d. )
 * , French writer (d. )
 * , French poet and novelist (d. )
 * , Canadian writer and media personality (d. )
 * , Estonian Nazi (d. )
 * , English mathematician (d. )
 * -, Italian chemist, laureate (d. )
 * -, German actress (d. )
 * -, American director (d. )
 * , English mathematician (d. )
 * -, Italian chemist, laureate (d. )
 * -, German actress (d. )
 * -, American director (d. )

March

 * , Spanish statesman (d. )
 * , American immunochemist (d. )
 * , British-born American actress (d. )
 * , American magician and card expert (d. )
 * -, Empress consort of Japan (d.
 * -, American jazz musician (d. )
 * , New Zealand-born classicist and historian (d. )
 * , American television musician (d. )
 * -, Kurdish politician (d. )
 * -, American actor (d. )
 * -, German chemist, laureate (d. )
 * -, Jewish-American scholar (d. )
 * -, Austrian pianist (d. )
 * -, British humanist and author
 * -, Austrian pianist (d. )
 * -, British humanist and author

April

 * , baseball player (d. )
 * , American electrical engineering (d. )
 * -, American publisher and writer (d. )
 * -, Dutch economist, laureate (d. )
 * -, English-born actor (d. )
 * , Russian cellist (d. )
 * , American athlete (d. )
 * -, American treasury agent (d. )
 * -, Spanish politician (d. )
 * -, Russian mathematician (d. )
 * -, Norwegian author (d. )
 * -, Russian mathematician (d. )
 * -, Norwegian author (d. )

May

 * -, American pediatrician (d. )
 * -, American singer and actor (d. )
 * -, American actor (d. )
 * -, New York restaurateur (d. )
 * -, French actor (d. )
 * -, German-born philosopher(d. )
 * -, baseball player (d. )
 * -, English sculptor (d. )
 * -, New Zealand writer (d. )
 * -, English-born comedian (d. )

June

 * -, Armenian composer (d. )
 * -, Belgian-French author (d. )
 * -, American musician (d. )
 * -, American soprano (d. )
 * , American singer, actress (d. )
 * , French author (d. )
 * , baseball player (d. )
 * , English cricketer (d. )
 * -, American caricaturist (d. )
 * -, American bank robber (d. )
 * -, French journalist and resistance fighter (d. )
 * -, English author (d. )
 * -, British electronics engineer (d. )
 * -, English author (d. )
 * -, British electronics engineer (d. )

July

 * -, English aviator (d. )
 * , American architect (d. )
 * , (d. )
 * King of Norway (d. )
 * -, Canadian hockey player (d. )
 * -, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. )
 * -, Swedish scientist, recipient of the (d. )
 * -, British author (d. )
 * -, English art historian (d. )
 * -, American financier and art collector
 * -, American financier and art collector

August

 * -, (d. )
 * -, American civil rights activist (d. )
 * -, British archaeologist (d. )
 * -, French singer (d. )
 * -, Scottish violist (d. )

September

 * -, Japanese author (d. )
 * , American mystery writer
 * , British author
 * -, German philosopher (d. )
 * -, American actress (d. )
 * -, Dutch boxer (d. )
 * -, American auto designer (d. )
 * -, Muslim Leader (d. )
 * -, Latvian-born painter (d. )
 * -, Latvian-born painter (d. )

October

 * -, Russian pianist (d. )
 * -, American computer engineer (d. )
 * -, American geophysicist (d. )
 * -, Irish physicist, laureate (d. )
 * -, Americanbaseball executive (d. )
 * -, French storyteller (d. )
 * -, German athlete (d. )
 * , American geneticist, recipient of the (d. )
 * , Bulgarian painter (d. )
 * , American comedian and actor (d. )
 * , U.S. Congresswoman (d. )
 * , American painter, serigrapher (d. )
 * -, English writer (d. )
 * , American painter, serigrapher (d. )
 * -, English writer (d. )

November

 * -, Northern Irish actor (d. )
 * -, Belgian spy (d. )
 * -, American photographer (d. )
 * -, German-born poet (d. )
 * -, Austrian zoologist, recipient of the (d. )
 * -, American actress (d. )
 * -, Norwegian chemist, laureate (d. )

December

 * , Dutch singer and actor
 * , British physicist, laureate (d. )
 * -, Soviet satirical and children's writer (d.)
 * , American composer, pianist, one of The (d. )
 * , Japanese film director (d. )
 * , English historian (d. )
 * -, American geneticist, recipient of the (d. )
 * -, American physiologist, laureate (d. )
 * -, American sculptor (d. )
 * -, American actor (d. )
 * , American jazz pianist (d. )
 * , Hungarian-born mathematician (d. )
 * , Ukrainian violinist (d. )
 * , American vaudevillian (d. )
 * , Hungarian-born mathematician (d. )
 * , Ukrainian violinist (d. )
 * , American vaudevillian (d. )
 * , American vaudevillian (d. )

Unknown dates

 * , American leader and  candidate for presidency three times (d. )

Deaths

 * (See 1903 list of deaths by name: .)

January - June

 * -, Austrian civil servant (b. )
 * -, British philanthropist (b. )
 * -, French composer (b. )
 * -, French musical composer (b. )
 * - Sir, Irish mathematician and physicist (b. )
 * -, English meteorologist and aeronaut (b. )
 * -, Austrian composer (b. )
 * -, American inventor (b. )
 * -, English novelist (b. )
 * -, French scholar (b. )
 * -, English vicar and scholar (b. )
 * - Judge, American pioneer
 * -, French telegraph engineer (b. )
 * -, Canadian politician (b. )
 * -, American physical chemist (b. )
 * -, Bulgarian revolutionary (b. )
 * -, oldest living man in New York (b. in , )
 * -, French painter (b. )
 * -, Serbian king
 * -, prominent Russian mathematician (b.)
 * -, English Catholic cardinal and archbishop (b. )

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 * -, American baseball player (b. )
 * -, English poet, critic, and editor (b. )
 * -, American painter (b. )
 * - (b. )
 * -, English artist (b. )
 * -, (b. )
 * -, Scottish philosopher (b. )
 * -, Austrian-Jewish author of Sex and Character (b. )
 * -, New York State Assemblyman and first Superintendent of the Niagara Falls State Park (b. )
 * -, the fourth child of and  (b. )
 * -, German writer, laureate (b. )
 * -, French painter (b. )
 * -, English philosopher (b. )