Year (''' MCMIII ''') was a Common Year Starting On Thursday (link will display calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar or a Common Year Starting On Wednesday
of the 13-day slower Julian Calendar .
The year 1903 also had the latest occurring .
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- February 2 - Bartel Leendert Van Der Waerden , Dutch mathematician (d. 1996 )
- February 6 - Claudio Arrau , Chilean-born pianist (d. 1991 )
- February 8
- --- Greta Keller , Vienna-born cabaret singer and actress (d. 1977 )
- --- Tunku Abdul Rahman , first Prime Minister of Malaysia (d. 1990 )
- February 10 - Matthias Sindelar , Austrian footballer (d. 1939 )
- February 11
- --- Rex Lease , American actor (d. 1966 )
- --- Alan Paton , South African writer (d. 1988 )
- February 13 - Georges Simenon , French writer (d. 1989 )
- February 16 - Edgar Bergen , American ventriloquist (d. 1978 )
- February 21
- --- Anaïs Nin , French writer (d. 1977 )
- --- Raymond Queneau , French poet and novelist (d. 1976 )
- February 22
- --- Morley Callaghan , Canadian writer and media personality (d. 1990 )
- --- Ain-Ervin Mere , Estonian Nazi (d. 1969 )
- --- Frank P. Ramsey , English mathematician (d. 1930 )
- February 26 - Giulio Natta , Italian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1979 )
- February 27 - Grethe Weiser , German actress (d. 1970 )
- February 28 - Vincente Minnelli , American director (d. 1986 )
- March 4
- --- Luis Carrero Blanco , Spanish statesman (d. 1973 )
- --- William C. Boyd , American immunochemist (d. 1983 )
- --- Dorothy Mackaill , British-born American actress (d. 1990 )
- --- John Scarne , American magician and card expert (d. 1985 )
- March 6 - Empress Kōjun , Empress consort of Japan (d. 2000
- March 10 - Bix Beiderbecke , American jazz musician (d. 1931 )
- March 11
- --- Ronald Syme , New Zealand-born classicist and historian (d. 1989 )
- --- Lawrence Welk , American television musician (d. 1992 )
- March 14 - Mustafa Barzani , Kurdish politician (d. 1979 )
- March 20 - Edgar Buchanan , American actor (d. 1979 )
- March 24 - Adolf Butenandt , German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995 )
- March 25 - Nahum Norbert Glatzer , Jewish-American scholar (d. 1990 )
- March 28 - Rudolf Serkin , Austrian pianist (d. 1991 )
- March 31 - H. J. Blackham , British humanist and author
- April 6
- --- Mickey Cochrane , baseball player (d. 1962 )
- --- Doc Edgerton , American electrical engineering (d. 1990 )
- April 10 - Clare Boothe Luce , American publisher and writer (d. 1987 )
- April 12 - Jan Tinbergen , Dutch economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1994 )
- April 15 - John Williams , English-born actor (d. 1983 )
- April 17
- --- Gregor Piatigorsky , Russian cellist (d. 1976 )
- --- Morgan Taylor , American athlete (d. 1975 )
- April 19 - Eliot Ness , American treasury agent (d. 1957 )
- April 24 - José Antonio Primo De Rivera , Spanish politician (d. 1936 )
- April 25 - Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov , Russian mathematician (d. 1987 )
- April 28 - Johan Borgen , Norwegian author (d. 1979 )
- May 2 - Benjamin Spock , American pediatrician (d. 1998 )
- May 3 - Bing Crosby , American singer and actor (d. 1977 )
- May 4 - Luther Adler , American actor (d. 1984 )
- 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 , baseball player (d. 1993 )
- May 20 - Barbara Hepworth , English sculptor (d. 1975 )
- May 21 - Frank Sargeson , New Zealand writer (d. 1982 )
- May 29 - Bob Hope , English-born comedian (d. 2003 )
- June 6 - Aram Khachaturian , Armenian composer (d. 1978 )
- June 8 - Marguerite Yourcenar , Belgian-French author (d. 1987 )
- June 12 - Emmett Hardy , American musician (d. 1925 )
- June 16 - Helen Traubel , American soprano (d. 1972 )
- June 18
- --- Jeanette MacDonald , American singer, actress (d. 1965 )
- --- Raymond Radiguet , French author (d. 1923 )
- June 19
- --- Lou Gehrig , baseball player (d. 1941 )
- --- Wally Hammond , English cricketer (d. 1965 )
- June 21 - Al Hirschfeld , American caricaturist (d. 2003 )
- June 22 - John Dillinger , American bank robber (d. 1934 )
- June 25 - Pierre Brossolette , French journalist and resistance fighter (d. 1944 )
- June 25 - George Orwell , English author (d. 1950 )
- June 29 - Alan Blumlein , British electronics engineer (d. 1942 )
- July 1 - Amy Johnson , English aviator (d. 1941 )
- July 2
- --- Harwell Hamilton Harris , American architect (d. 1990 )
- --- Alec Douglas-Home , Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom (d. 1995 )
- ---King Olav V of Norway (d. 1991 )
- July 3 - Ace Bailey , Canadian hockey player (d. 1992 )
- July 4 - Corrado Cardinal Bafile , Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 2005 )
- July 6 - Hugo Theorell , Swedish scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (d. 1982 )
- July 10 - John Wyndham , British author (d. 1969 )
- July 13 - Kenneth Clark , English art historian (d. 1983 )
- July 21 - Roy Neuberger , American financier and art collector
- October 1 - Vladimir Horowitz , Russian 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 9 - Walter O'Malley , Americanbaseball executive (d. 1979 )
- October 16 - Cecile De Brunhoff , French storyteller (d. 2003 )
- October 18 - Lina Radke , German athlete (d. 1983 )
- October 22
- --- George Wells Beadle , American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (d. 1989 )
- --- Zlatyu Boyadzhiev , Bulgarian painter (d. 1976 )
- --- Jerome "Curly Howard" Horwitz , American comedian and actor (d. 1952 )
- October 25
- --- Katharine Byron , U.S. Congresswoman (d. 1976 )
- --- Harry Shoulberg , American painter, serigrapher (d. 1995 )
- October 28 - Evelyn Waugh , English writer (d. 1966 )
- December 5
- --- Johannes Heesters , Dutch singer and actor
- --- Cecil Frank Powell , British physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1969 )
- December 4 - Lazar Lagin , Soviet satirical and children's writer (d. 1979 )
- December 12
- --- Dagmar Nordstrom , American composer, pianist, one of The Nordstrom Sisters (d. 1976 )
- --- Yasujiro Ozu , Japanese film director (d. 1963 )
- --- A. L. Rowse , English historian (d. 1997 )
- 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
- --- Earl Hines , American jazz pianist (d. 1983 )
- --- John Von Neumann , Hungarian-born mathematician (d. 1957 )
- December 31
- --- Nathan Milstein , Ukrainian violinist (d. 1992 )
- --- Will Mastin , American vaudevillian (d. 1975 )
::''(See 1903 list of deaths by name: .)''
- January 3 - Alois Hitler , Austrian civil servant (b. 1837 )
- January 17 - Quintin Hogg , British philanthropist (b. 1845 )
- January 28 - Augusta Holmès , French composer (b. 1847 )
- January 28 - Robert Planquette , French musical composer (b. 1850 )
- February 1 - Sir George Gabriel Stokes , Irish mathematician and physicist (b. 1819 )
- February 7 - James Glaisher , English meteorologist and aeronaut (b. 1809 )
- 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 6 - Bruno Paulin Gaston Paris , French scholar (b. 1839 )
- March 13 - George Granville Bradley , English vicar and scholar (b. 1821 )
- March 16 - Judge Roy Bean , American pioneer
- March 28 - Emile Baudot , French telegraph engineer (b. 1845 )
- April 19 - Oliver Mowat , Canadian politician (b. 1820 )
- April 28 - Willard Gibbs , American physical chemist (b. 1839 )
- May 4 - Gotse Delchev , Bulgarian revolutionary (b. 1872 )
- May 5 - Timothy Burke , oldest living man in New York (b. in Cork , Ireland 1800 )
- May 9 - Paul Gauguin , French painter (b. 1848 )
- May 29 - Aleksandar Obrenović , Serbian king
- June 11 - Nikolai Bugaev , prominent Russian mathematician (b. 1837 )
- June 19 - Herbert Vaughan , English Catholic cardinal and archbishop (b. 1832 )
- July 2 - Ed Delahanty , American Hall Of Fame baseball player (b. 1867 )
- July 11 - William Ernest Henley , English poet, critic, and editor (b. 1849 )
- July 17 - James McNeill Whistler , American painter (b. 1834 )
- July 20 - Pope Leo XIII (b. 1810 )
- August 5 - Phil May , English artist (b. 1864 )
- August 22 - Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess Of Salisbury , Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom (b. 1830 )
- September 18 - Alexander Bain , Scottish philosopher (b. 1818 )
- October 4 - Otto Weininger , Austrian-Jewish author of Sex and Character (b. 1880 )
- October 20 - Thomas Vincent Welch , New York State Assemblyman and first Superintendent of the Niagara Falls State Park (b. 1850 )
- October 28 - Emma Booth , the fourth child of William and Catherine Booth (b. 1860 )
- November 1 - Theodor Mommsen , German writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1817 )
- November 13 - Camille Pissarro , French painter (b. 1830 )
- December 8 - Herbert Spencer , English philosopher (b. 1820 )
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