* 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 – 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 ).

American consul James W. Davidson described in his 1903 book, The Island of Formosa, how the Chinese in Taiwan ate and traded in the flesh of Taiwanese aboriginals.

The one who did the most to help Peirce in these desperate times was his old friend William James, dedicating his Will to Believe ( 1897 ) to Peirce, and arranging for Peirce to be paid to give two series of lectures at or near Harvard ( 1898 and 1903 ).

* 1834 – James Abbott McNeill Whistler, American-English painter ( d. 1903 )

* 1903 – James Beard, American chef and author ( d. 1985 )

James wrote a lot of short stories himself, including " The Real Thing " ( 1892 ), " Maud-Evelyn " and The Beast in the Jungle ( 1903 ).

* July 11 – James McNeill Whistler, American painter and etcher ( d. 1903 )

By 1903 the allegiance of the state government had shifted, however, and Governor James Peabody sent the Colorado National Guard into Cripple Creek with the goal of destroying union power in the gold camps.

American consul James W. Davidson described in The Island of Formosa ( 1903 ) how the Han Chinese in Taiwan ate and traded in their aboriginal victims ' flesh, a practice also mentioned by Owen Rutter in Through Formosa ( 1923 ), whose account bears some similarities to Davidson's.

James Abbott McNeill Whistler ( July 11, 1834 – July 17, 1903 ) was an American-born, British-based artist.

James considered The Ambassadors ( 1903 ) his most " perfect " work of art.

* Ollie M. James ( July 27, 1871 – August 28, 1918 ), a Democrat, represented Kentucky in the United States House of Representatives from 1903 to 1913 and the United States Senate from 1913 to 1918.

In 1903, N. G. Gonzales was fatally shot by lieutenant governor James H. Tillman, who was later acquitted of murder charges.

In portraits of His Eminence Sebastiano Cardinal Martinelli ( 1902 ), Archbishop William Henry Elder ( 1903 ), and Monsignor James P. Turner ( ca.

Additionally, the Branch-Stuart Home ( 1903 ), Inge-Moon House ( 1834 ), St. James Episcopal Church ( 1840 ), and Voss-Pate House ( 1850 ) are all listed on the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage.

* James Abbott McNeill Whistler ( 1834 – 1903 ), a painter and printmaker, lived in the town.

* James Devereux ( 1903 – 1988 ), who attended the Tome School, was a Marine General during the defense of Wake Island in December 1941 and later served in the United States House of Representatives ( 1951 – 1959 ).

* James Gould Cozzens ( 1903 – 78 ), novelist and Pulitzer Prize winner.

Further works include editions with notes of Paley's Moral Philosophy ( 1852 ); Education as a Science ( 1879 ); Dissertations on leading philosophical topics ( 1903, mainly reprints of papers in Mind ); he collaborated with JS Mill and Grote in editing James Mill's Analysis of the Phenomena of the Human Mind ( 1869 ), and assisted in editing Grote's Aristotle and Minor Works ; he also wrote a memoir prefixed to G Croom Robertson's Philosophical Remains ( 1894 ).

* Anderson, Bernard: Arthur James Balfour ", Grant Richards, 1903

The Disney company continued to liaise with the Commission and its director, James Delargy, over the coming decade based on Disney's desire to use Irish folklore as the basis of a film but, to Delargy's disappointment, eventually decided to make an adaptation of Irish-American writer Herminone Templeton Kavanagh's 1903 collection of stories ' Darbie O ' Gill and the Good People.

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.

* " Hiawatha " w. James O ' Dea m. Neil Moret Words written 1903.

* James D. Richardson ( 1843 – 1914 ), Democrat from Tennessee, U. S. House Minority Leader, 1899 – 1903