1903: The Year in People

The Greatest Generation · Year of the Rabbit 🐇 · Born in 1903 turn 123 in 2026

The year in numbers

US president

Theodore Roosevelt

In the news: Wright brothers achieve first powered flight

Born in 1903

72 people in our data · most viewed first

Bing Crosby

1903–1977 · May 3

American singer and actor

Bob Hope

1903–2003 · May 29

American entertainer

Anaïs Nin

1903–1977 · February 21

French-born American author

Ernst Kaltenbrunner

1903–1946 · October 4

Austrian SS official

Alec Douglas-Home

1903–1995 · July 2

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1963 to 1964

Olav V

1903–1991 · July 2

King of Norway from 1957 to 1991

James Beard

1903–1985 · May 5

American chef

Amy Johnson

1903–1941 · July 1

British aviator

Andrey Kolmogorov

1903–1987 · April 25

Soviet mathematician

Aram Khachaturian

1903–1978 · June 6

Soviet Armenian composer

Alan Napier

1903–1988 · January 7

English actor

Clare Boothe Luce

1903–1987 · March 10

American author and politician

Benjamin Spock

1903–1998 · May 2

American pediatrician, political activist, and writer

Habib Bourguiba

1903–2000 · August 3

President of Tunisia from 1957 to 1987

Bix Beiderbecke

1903–1931 · March 10

American jazz cornetist, pianist and composer

Anne Revere

1903–1990 · June 25

American actress

Arthur Godfrey

1903–1983 · August 31

American radio personality and television entertainer

Barbara Hepworth

1903–1975 · January 10

English artist and sculptor

Alonzo Church

1903–1995 · June 14

American mathematician and computer scientist

Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, 14th Duke of Hamilton

1903–1973 · February 3

Scottish aviator and politician

Countee Cullen

1903–1946 · May 30

American author

Arpad Elo

1903–1992 · August 25

American-Hungarian physicist

Binnie Barnes

1903–1998 · March 25

English actress

Al Hirschfeld

1903–2003 · June 21

American caricaturist

Died in 1903

Calamity Jane1852–1903 · American frontierswoman
Alois Hitler1837–1903 · Father of Adolf Hitler
Camille Pissarro1830–1903 · Danish-French painter
Frederick Law Olmsted1822–1903 · American landscape architect
Herbert Spencer1820–1903 · English philosopher and political theorist
Alexander I of Serbia1876–1903 · King of Serbia from 1889 to 1903
Otto Weininger1880–1903 · Austrian philosopher
Gotse Delchev1872–1903 · Macedonian Bulgarian revolutionary
Alexander Bain (philosopher)1818–1903 · Scottish philosopher and educationalist
Augusta Holmès1847–1903 · French composer
Charles Gavan Duffy1816–1903 · Irish poet, politician and journalist
Arthur Shrewsbury1856–1903 · English cricketer