* Andrew Ainslie Common ( 1841 – 1903 ), built his own very large reflecting telescopes and demonstrated that photography could record astronomical features invisible to the human eye.

* 1903 – The Kishinev pogrom in Kishinev ( Bessarabia ) begins, forcing tens of thousands of Jews to later seek refuge in Israel and the Western world.

* 1903 – Mickey Cochrane, American baseball player ( d. 1962 )

* 1903 – Harold Edgerton, American electrical engineer ( d. 1990 )

* 1903 – Jan Tinbergen, Dutch economist, recipient of the Bank of Sweden Prize ( d. 1994 )

* 1903 – Ferenc Keserű, Hungarian water polo player ( d. 1968 )

* 1819 – Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet, Irish-English mathematician and physicist ( d. 1903 )

After what the MCC saw as the problems of the earlier professional and amateur series they decided to take control of organising tours themselves, and this led to the first MCC tour of Australia in 1903 – 04.

* 1903 – Fall of the Ottoman Empire: an unsuccessful uprising led by the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization against Ottoman Turkey, also known as the Ilinden – Preobrazhenie Uprising, takes place.

In Serbia Nikola Pašić ( 1845 – 1926 ) and his Radical Party dominated Serbian politics after 1903 ; they also monopolized power in Yugoslavia from 1918 to 1929 ; during the dictatorship of the 1930s, it furnished the prime minister.

* 1903 – Macedonian rebels in Kruševo proclaim the Kruševo Republic, which exists only for 10 days before Ottoman Turks lay waste to the town.

* 1903 – Habib Bourguiba, Tunisian politician ( d. 2000 )

* 1903 – Louis Leakey, Kenyan-English archaeologist ( d. 1972 )

* 1903 – A 30 million cubic-metre landslide kills 70 in Frank, Alberta, Canada.

* 1876 – Alexander I of Serbia ( d. 1903 )

* Adrian ( costume designer ) ( 1903 – 1959 ), born Adrian Adolph Greenberg, costume designer for over 250 films

* Adrian Rollini ( 1903 – 1956 ), American multi-instrumentalist best known for his jazz music

* 1903 – German engineer Karl Jatho allegedly flies his self-made, motored gliding airplane four months before the first flight of the Wright brothers.

* 1903 – James Gould Cozzens, American novelist ( d. 1978 )

* 1903 – Lewis Sargent, American actor ( d. 1970 )

* 1826 – Karl Gegenbaur, German anatomist ( d. 1903 )

* 1903 – Arpad Elo, American chess player, created the Elo rating system ( d. 1992 )

Alexander I or Aleksandar Obrenović ( Cyrillic: Александар Обреновић ; 14 August 1876 – 11 June 1903 ) was king of Serbia from 1889 to 1903 when he and his wife, Queen Draga, were assassinated by a group of Army officers, led by Colonel Dragutin Dimitrijević

In addition to Triumphant Democracy ( 1886 ), and The Gospel of Wealth ( 1889 ), he also wrote An American Four-in-hand in Britain ( 1883 ), Round the World ( 1884 ), The Empire of Business ( 1902 ), The Secret of Business is the Management of Men ( 1903 ), James Watt ( 1905 ) in the Famous Scots Series, Problems of Today ( 1907 ), and his posthumously published autobiography Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie ( 1920 ).

The factory at Somerset West was in operation in 1903 and by 1907 it was already producing 340, 000 cases kilograms ( 50 pounds ) each annually.

In 1903 he received his BA degree in mathematics at Cambridge, converted by payment to MA in 1907.

As part of the so-called Banana Wars all around the Caribbean, Honduras saw the insertion of American troops in 1903, 1907, 1911, 1912, 1919, 1924 and 1925.

The Hoovers had two sons, Herbert Clark Hoover Jr. ( 1903 – 69 ) and Allan Henry Hoover ( 1907 – 93 ).

By now, Hoover was no longer living in Australia, instead he visited the country in 1902, 1903, 1905 and 1907 as an overseas investor.

He erected The Lincoln House hotel in 1903, although a 1907 fire would nearly raze the community.

Translated as The North-West Passage: Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the ship " Gjøa " 1903 – 1907, 1908.

José Batlle y Ordóñez, president from 1903 to 1907 and again from 1911 to 1915, set the pattern for Uruguay's modern political development.

John Herbert Dillinger, Jr. was born on June 22, 1903, in the Oak Hill section of Indianapolis, Indiana, the younger of two children born to John Wilson Dillinger ( July 2, 1864 – November 3, 1943 ) and Mary Ellen " Mollie " Lancaster ( 1860 – 1907 ).

* Pirenne, H. Histoire de Belgique vol2 ( 1903 ) online ; full text of vol 3 ( 1907 ) online ; vol 5 ( 1920 ) online

** 1896, First report of the station on adulterated food products ; 1897 ; 1898 ; 1899 ; 1900 ; 1901 ; 1902 ; 1903 ; 1904 ; 1905 ; 1906 ; 1907: Food, Food, Drugs ; 1908: Not located ; 1909: Not located ; 1910: Not located ; 1911: Food, Drugs

* from 1903 to 1907: Professor Georges Jaubert, invents Oxylithe, which is a form of sodium peroxide ( Na < sub > 2 </ sub > O < sub > 2 </ sub >) or sodium dioxide ( NaO < sub > 2 </ sub >).

Henry Head and W. H. R Rivers experimenting in Rivers's rooms ( 1903 – 1907 )

Portions of the township were taken to form Garwood ( March 19, 1903 ) and Kenilworth ( March 13, 1907 ).

Fearful of his power, the French sentenced Bamba to exile in Gabon ( 1895 – 1902 ) and later Mauritania ( 1903 – 1907 ).

Simmel's most famous works today are The Problems of the Philosophy of History ( 1892 ), The Philosophy of Money ( 1907 ), The Metropolis and Mental Life ( 1903 ), Soziologie ( 1908, inc.

Oxnard was incorporated as a California city on June 30, 1903, and the public library was opened in 1907.

He represented New Jersey's 8th congressional district from 1903 to 1907 and from 1909 to 1911, and was a co-founder and former president of the publishing company John Wiley & Sons.

Even with two devastating fires ( one on October 28, 1903, which destroyed over a dozen businesses, and the other in March 1906 which burned 16 businesses to the ground ), Elk City continued to grow into a major transportation and commercial hub, and by statehood in 1907, the population had more than tripled to 3, 000 people.

* ( 1903 – 1907 ; 1956 – 1957 ; 1963 – 1971 ; 1972 – 1982 )

In 1903 – 1904 Jacob Ellehammer used his experience constructing motorcycles to build the world's first air-cooled radial engine, a three-cylinder engine which he used as the basis for a more powerful five-cylinder model in 1907.

In 1903 he transferred to the Königliche Wilhelms-Gymnasium, but he left there in 1907 to prepare for his Abitur with a private tutor.

He had earlier played for Brunswick between 1903 and 1907.