* 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

* Elisha Cook, Jr. ( 1903 – 1995 ), American actor

Elisha Vanslyck Cook, Jr. ( December 26, 1903 – May 18, 1995 ) was an American character actor who made a career out of playing cowardly villains and weedy neurotics in dozens of films.

* SA Cook, The Laws of Moses and the Code of Hammurabi ( London, 1903 )

The Cook & Douglas Building, 1903, Owners, L. M.

The town was named in honor of Wirth Cook, an owner of the railroad that was constructed through Cook in 1903 and 1904.

Around 1913, Carter was secretary of the H. C. Cook Company of Ansonia, Connecticut which was incorporated in 1903 as the H. T. Cook Machine Company by Henry C. Cook, Lewis I. Cook, and Chapel S. Carter.

Joseph Cook became deputy leader of the party on McMillan's retirement in 1903.

Aitutaki used the postage stamps of the Cook Islands from 1892 to 1903, when New Zealand overprinted its own stamps with " AITUTAKI.

* William Harrison Cook ( 1903 – 1998 ), Canadian chemist

Cook and Mitchell had a daughter, Marion Abigail Cook, in 1900, and a son, Will Mercer Cook, in 1903.

In London she premiered the principal role in the 1903 musical In Dahomey, produced by the team of George Walker and Bert Williams, with music composed by her husband Cook.

They had daughter, Marion Abigail Cook, in 1900, and a son, Will Mercer Cook, in 1903.

Early versions of the dish using both egg and flour can be found in the 1918 edition of Fannie Farmer's Boston Cooking School Cook Book and in the 1903 edition of Mary Harris Frazer's Kentucky Receipt Book.

William Cook in The Chess Players ' Compendium ( Fifth Edition 1910 ) called it " Ponziani's Game ", while Francis Joseph Lee and Gossip in The Complete Chess – Guide ( 1903 ) called it " Ponziani's Knight's Game ".

The text was first described by Stanley A. Cook in 1903.

Fred Cook ( 1858 – July 16, 1943 ) was mayor of Ottawa, Canada, from 1902 to 1903.

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

Roosevelt appointed three Justices to the Supreme Court of the United States: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. ( 1902 ), William Rufus Day ( 1903 ), William Henry Moody ( 1906 ).

Roosevelt Family in 1903 with Quentin Roosevelt | Quentin on the left, TR, Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. | Ted, Jr., Archibald Roosevelt | " Archie ", Alice Roosevelt Longworth | Alice, Kermit Roosevelt | Kermit, Edith Roosevelt | Edith, and Ethel Roosevelt Derby | Ethel

John Herbert Dillinger, Jr. ( June 22, 1903 – July 22, 1934 ) was an American bank robber in the Depression-era United States.

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 ).

Earl Williamson, a local politician in Shreveport who was a confidant of Louisiana Governors Huey Pierce Long, Jr., and Earl Kemp Long, was born in Carthage in 1903.

* Andrew Russell Barbee, Jr. ( December 9, 1827-August 5, 1903 ), brother of William Randolph Barbee, noted surgeon during the American Civil War.

Among the many notable graduates of Lower Merion High School in Ardmore are General Henry H. " Hap " Arnold ( 1903 ), Commanding General of the U. S. Army Air Forces in WWII ; General Alexander M. Haig, Jr. ( 1942 ), the 59th United States Secretary of State ; James H. Billington ( 1946 ), the Librarian of Congress, and ; Kobe Bryant ( 1996 ), a professional NBA basketball player.

His grandsons, Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. ( b. 1902 ) and John Davis Lodge ( b. 1903 ) also became politicians.

* Fred Niblo Jr. ( 1903 – 1973 ), screenwriter, son of Fred Niblo

Mills, Jr., Donald R. Rogers and Michael T. Propst, " Death on Denali: Fatalities Among Climbers in Mount McKinley National Park From 1903 to 1976 — Analysis of Injuries, Illnesses and Rescues in 1976 ," Western Journal of Medicine, 1978 June ; 128 ( 6 ): 471 – 476.

* Paul Hardin Jr. ( 1903 – 1996 ), bishop of The Methodist Church ( USA )

Phantly Roy Bean, Jr. ( c. 1825 – March 16, 1903 ) was an eccentric U. S. saloon-keeper and Justice of the Peace in Val Verde County, Texas, who called himself " The Law West of the Pecos ".

* Josiah Willard Gibbs, Jr. ( 1839 – 1903 )— scientist, " Father of Thermodynamics "

* Herbert Charles Hoover, Jr. ( 1903 – 1969 )-engineer, diplomat.

Before her death in 1871, she bore Remond four children: Amy Matilda ( 1859 – 72 ), Charles Lenox, Jr. ( 1860 – 82 ), Wendell Phillips ( 1863 – 66 ), and Albert Ernest ( 1866 – 1903 ).

Dr. Edwin M. Randall Jr. ( 1903 – 1904 )

Thomas Ludwig John D ' Alesandro, Jr. ( August 1, 1903 – August 23, 1987 ) was an American politician who was a U. S. Representative from Maryland's 3rd congressional district and subsequently the mayor of Baltimore, Maryland.

****** Ruth Forbes ( 1903 – 1998 ) m. 1st George Lyman Paine Jr, m. 3rd Arthur M. Young, inventor of the Bell Helicopter ; Ruth founded International Peace Academy and Forbes family fellows

* Preston, William, Jr. Aliens and Dissenters: Federal Suppression of Radicals, 1903 – 1933 2nd ed.

Roosevelt family in 1903 with Quentin Roosevelt | Quentin on the left, TR, Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. | Ted, Jr., Archibald Roosevelt | " Archie ", Alice, Kermit Roosevelt | Kermit, Edith Roosevelt | Edith, and Ethel Roosevelt Derby | Ethel.