* 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 )

* 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

HMS Arrogant from 3 November 1903 – 30 September 1904 and HMS Suffolk from October 1904 until 1 September 1905.

In 1903, the Army converted their M1900 guns in. 30 Army to fit the new. 30-03 cartridge ( standardized for the M1903 Springfield rifle ) as the M1903.

* August 30 – Harold Gatty, Australian aviator ( b. 1903 )

* December 30, 1903 — A fire at the Iroquois Theater in Chicago, USA kills 600.

* July 30 – Claudette Colbert, American actress ( b. 1903 )

* September 30 – Edgar Bergen, American actor and ventriloquist ( b. 1903 )

* November 30 – Theodor Mommsen, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1903 )

Claudette Colbert (; September 13, 1903 – July 30, 1996 ) was a French-born American actress of stage and film.

She died on January 30, 1903 in Florence.

References: For more information about the historical employment of vibrato by classical vocalists, see Michael Scott's two-volume survey The Record of Singing ( published by Duckworth, London, in 1977 and 1979 ); John Potter's Tenor: History of a Voice ( Yale University Press, New Haven & London, 2009 ); and Herman Klein's 30 Years of Music in London ( Century, New York, 1903 ).

The town's population was about 30, 000 people in 1903 and began to grow into nearby Boulder.

The problem first appeared in the 1890s, and in 1903, a Department of Agriculture report stated that over 30 % of the developed farmland in Emery County had been abandoned due to degradation.

* William J. Deboe ( June 30, 1849 – June 15, 1927 ), a Republican, was a U. S. Senator representing Kentucky from 1897 to 1903.

It was repaired and served until 1868 when a third courthouse was built at a cost of $ 30, 000 ; a west wing was added in 1903 at a cost of $ 28, 000.

Summers can be hot, with temperatures often approaching or exceeding 30 degrees Celsius ; winters, by contrast, are often bitterly cold-the township of Ranfurly in Central Otago holds the New Zealand record for lowest temperature with a reading of-25. 6 ° C on 18 July 1903.

The History of the Peninsular War ( 7 vols ), Oxford, 1903 – 30.

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

It was a station on the Mineral Range Railroad and a post office opened on June 30, 1903.

Morse became the first postmaster on January 3, 1836, and the office operated until September 30, 1903.

Morse became the first postmaster on January 3, 1836, and the office operated until September 30, 1903.

A post office named McDonough operated from August 8, 1892, until June 30, 1903.

The post office name changed to Lawndale on January 20, 1892, and closed on April 30, 1903.

A post office operated here from January 18, 1858 until June 30, 1903.

It was given a station on the Michigan Central Railroad and a post office operated from January 30, 1903, until October 31, 1936.