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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

What happened in 1903

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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Born in 1903

72 people in our data · most viewed first

Bing Crosby

Bing Crosby

1903–1977 · May 3

American singer and actor

Bob Hope

Bob Hope

1903–2003 · May 29

American entertainer

Anaïs Nin

Anaïs Nin

1903–1977 · February 21

French-born American author

Ernst Kaltenbrunner

Ernst Kaltenbrunner

1903–1946 · October 4

Austrian SS official

Alec Douglas-Home

Alec Douglas-Home

1903–1995 · July 2

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1963 to 1964

Olav V

Olav V

1903–1991 · July 2

King of Norway from 1957 to 1991

James Beard

James Beard

1903–1985 · May 5

American chef

Amy Johnson

Amy Johnson

1903–1941 · July 1

British aviator

Andrey Kolmogorov

Andrey Kolmogorov

1903–1987 · April 25

Soviet mathematician

Aram Khachaturian

Aram Khachaturian

1903–1978 · June 6

Soviet Armenian composer

Alan Napier

Alan Napier

1903–1988 · January 7

English actor

Clare Boothe Luce

Clare Boothe Luce

1903–1987 · March 10

American author and politician

Benjamin Spock

Benjamin Spock

1903–1998 · May 2

American pediatrician, political activist, and writer

Habib Bourguiba

Habib Bourguiba

1903–2000 · August 3

President of Tunisia from 1957 to 1987

Bix Beiderbecke

Bix Beiderbecke

1903–1931 · March 10

American jazz cornetist, pianist and composer

Anne Revere

Anne Revere

1903–1990 · June 25

American actress

Arthur Godfrey

Arthur Godfrey

1903–1983 · August 31

American radio personality and television entertainer

Barbara Hepworth

Barbara Hepworth

1903–1975 · January 10

English artist and sculptor

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Alonzo Church

1903–1995 · June 14

American mathematician and computer scientist

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Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, 14th Duke of Hamilton

1903–1973 · February 3

Scottish aviator and politician

Countee Cullen

Countee Cullen

1903–1946 · May 30

American author

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Arpad Elo

1903–1992 · August 25

American-Hungarian physicist

Binnie Barnes

Binnie Barnes

1903–1998 · March 25

English actress

Al Hirschfeld

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
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