* 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

** Ronald Syme, New Zealand-born classicist and historian ( b. 1903 )

Macmillan then attended Summer Fields School, Oxford ( 1903 – 6 ), but his time at Eton College ( 1906 – 10 ) was blighted by recurrent illness, starting with a near-fatal attack of pneumonia in his first half ; he missed his final year after being invalided out, and had to be taught at home by private tutors ( 1910 – 11 ), notably Ronald Knox, who did much to instil his High Church Anglicanism.

Sir Ronald Syme, OM, FBA ( 11 March 1903 – 4 September 1989 ) was a New Zealand-born historian and classicist.

* Ronald Syme, ( 1903 – 1989 ), a New Zealand-born historian and classicist.

* Ronald Syme-Historian / classicist ( 1903 – 1989 )

* Major-General Sir Ronald Lane, 1903 – 1904

* Sir Colin Syme ( 1903 – 1986 ), Australian medical administrator and innovator

* Albert ( electoral district ), a federal electoral district in New Brunswick, Canada from 1867 to 1903

In 1901, Baltimore and McGraw were awarded an expansion franchise in the growing American League, but again the team was sacrificed in favor of a New York City franchise, as the team was transferred to New York in 1903.

The family moved to New Zealand and eventually returned to South Africa in 1903, where they later on settled in Johannesburg.

New York: D. Appleton & Co, 1903.

: The letters of Lucien to Camille Pissarro 1883 – 1903, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, New York & Oakleigh, 1993 ISBN 0-521-39034-6

For a few years there were rumors of abandoning Detroit to compete for Cincinnati or Pittsburgh but the two leagues made peace in 1903 after similar moves into St. Louis and New York.

At first the movement grew most in the Russian empire and eastern Europe, but soon spread to western Europe and beyond: to Argentina in 1889 ; to Canada in 1901 ; to Algeria, Chile, Japan, Mexico, and Peru in 1903 ; to Tunisia in 1904 ; and to Australia, the United States, Guinea, Indochina, New Zealand, Tonkin, and Uruguay in 1905.

New Jersey muralist Michael Lenson ( 1903 – 72 ) likewise responded to Roosevelt ’ s speech in a pictorial way, painting a mural titled “ The Four Freedoms ” for the Fourteenth Street School in Newark, New Jersey.

In 1903, Letchworth became the world's first garden city and Stevenage became the first town to redevelop under the New Towns Act 1946.

* 1903 – Emmett Hardy, American musician ( New Orleans Rhythm Kings ) ( d. 1925 )

In 1903, he began teaching at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America ( JTS ) in New York City, where he taught until his death.

* 1903 – In New York City the Martha Washington Hotel opens, becoming the first hotel exclusively for women.

The ministry and Passion of Jesus, as portrayed in one or more of the New Testament Gospels, has also been a theme in film, almost since the inception of the medium ( e. g., " La Passion ", France, 1903 ).

In the end, the union between Panama and the Republic of New Granada ( under its various names United States of Colombia 1863 – 1886 and the Republic of Colombia since 1886 ) was made possible by the active participation of U. S. A. under the 1846 Bidlack Mallarino treaty until 1903.

They opened their first theater, the Cascade, in New Castle, Pennsylvania in 1903.

* January 23 – Toots Shor, New York restaurateur ( b. 1903 )

* October 1 – Thomas Vincent Welch, New York Assemblyman ( d. 1903 )

In 1902 and 1903, he toured in Canada and in the United States, ( in particular Montreal, New York City, Philadelphia, Boston and San Francisco ), where he conducted many of his and other composers ' works.

The Bayreuth Festival maintained a monopoly on Parsifal productions until 1903, when the opera was performed at the Metropolitan Opera in New York.

On 24 December 1903, after receiving a court ruling that performances in the United States could not be prevented by Bayreuth, the New York Metropolitan Opera staged the complete opera, using many Bayreuth-trained singers.

Image: Leonard Wood 1903. jpg | Major General Leonard Wood of New Hampshire