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* 1903 – Vernon Duke, American composer and songwriter ( d. 1969 )
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* 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.
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.
* Adrian ( costume designer ) ( 1903 – 1959 ), born Adrian Adolph Greenberg, costume designer for over 250 films
* 1903 – German engineer Karl Jatho allegedly flies his self-made, motored gliding airplane four months before the first flight of the Wright brothers.
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
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An area of of land was incorporated as the village of Mount Vernon in 1853 by a group of New York businessmen ; the village of Bronxville was incorporated in 1898 ; and the village of Tuckahoe in 1903.
* Geoffrey Emett Blackman ( 1903 – 1980 ), British botanist ( son of Vernon Herbert Blackman ; nephew of Frederick Blackman )
Prior to 1972, Washington's central library was a 1903 Andrew Carnegie-funded building located in Mount Vernon Square.
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A trading post / roadhouse was constructed by Jim Duke in 1903 to supply river travelers and trade with Indians.
King William had no sons, nor had his only Protestant kinsman, Duke Nicholas ( 1833 – 1903 ); consequently the succession would ultimately pass to a Roman Catholic branch of the family, and this prospect raised up certain difficulties about the relations between church and state.
* Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, 14th Duke of Hamilton ( 1903 – 1973 ), aviator, politician and landowner
* September – October 1903 – Lord Londonderry succeeds the Duke of Devonshire as Lord President, while remaining also President of the Board of Education.
* Spencer Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire ( 1833-1908 ): Leader of the Liberal Party, 1875 – 1880 ; of the Liberal Unionist Party, 1886 – 1903 ; and of the Unionists ( 1902-1903 )
* Ian Campbell, 11th Duke of Argyll ( 1903 – 1973 ) ( grandson of Lord Walter Campbell, third son of the 8th Duke )
A similar durbar was held on 1 January 1903 to celebrate the accession of Edward VII, who was represented by his brother the Duke of Connaught.
Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox, 6th Duke of Richmond, 6th Duke of Lennox, and 1st Duke of Gordon KG PC ( 27 February 1818 – 27 September 1903 ), styled Lord Settrington until 1819 and Earl of March between 1819 and 1860, was a British Conservative politician.
* Charles Gordon-Lennox, 6th Duke of Richmond, 6th Duke of Lennox, 1st Duke of Gordon ( 1818 – 1903 ), eldest son of the 5th Duke
* Charles Gordon-Lennox, 6th Duke of Richmond, 6th Duke of Lennox, 1st Duke of Gordon ( 1818 – 1903 ), eldest son of the 5th Duke of Richmond, himself nephew of the above 5th Duke of Gordon
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