From October 1903 to June 1904, Chaplin toured with Saintsbury in Charles Frohman's production of Sherlock Holmes.

Charles Ammi Cutter ( 1837 – 1903 ), inspired by the decimal classification of his contemporary Melvil Dewey, and with Dewey's initial encouragement, developed his own classification scheme for the Winchester Town Library and then the Boston Athenaeum, at which he served as librarian for twenty-four years.

* 1903 – Orde Charles Wingate, British Major-General, prominent Zionist, eccentric ( d. 1944 )

His grandfather, an amateur naturalist by the name of Walter Drawbridge Crick ( 1857 – 1903 ), wrote a survey of local foraminifera ( single-celled protists with shells ), corresponded with Charles Darwin, and had two gastropods ( snails or slugs ) named after him.

* 1983 – Prince Charles, Count of Flanders ( b. 1903 )

Charles Marion Russell's The Custer Fight ( 1903 ).

* 1944 – Orde Charles Wingate, British Major-General, prominent Zionist, eccentric ( b. 1903 )

* 1986 – Charles Starrett, American actor ( b. 1903 )

Charles Welsford West ( architect ) designed the Romanesque chapel and annex ( 1903 – 05 ) at Mount St. Vincent Academy ( now University ).

* 1903 – Prince Charles of Belgium, Prince Regent of Belgium ( d. 1983 )

** Charles Starrett, American actor ( b. 1903 )

* Carlos, Duke of Madrid ( Charles XI ) ( 1887 – 1903 )

* Prince Charles, Count of Flanders ( 1903 – 1983 ), former Belgian regent, second son of Albert I, King of the Belgians and Duchess Elisabeth

In 1903 Arthur P. and Charles H. Warner, two brothers from Beloit, Wisconsin, introduced their patented Auto-meter.

* Charles Jones ( Victorian politician ) ( 1828 – 1903 ), Australian politician

* Charles G. Heckert ( 1903 – 1920 )

One of Newbern's oldest residents was Charles Adams, a black man born in 1903.

In 1903 the Macomb and Western Illinois Railway was built from Macomb to nearby Industry and Littleton by local financier Charles V. Chandler, though this railroad was abandoned in 1930.

The town was incorporated in 1903 ; at that time, the first mayor, Charles Mason, decided to improve the streets which had been " paved " with gold.

The City of Hurst was founded in 1903 by Thomas Philip Russell, named after his good friend and Union Pacific railroad engineer William Charles Hurst.

In April 1903, the ex-Conklin estate and historic Conklin family cemetery was sold to Bishop Charles Edward McDonnell of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn, who resumed the bottling of spring water from the Colonial Spring.

* Charles Henry Olive Daniel 1903 – 19

Washtucna was officially incorporated on October 27, 1903, with Charles T. Booth as the first mayor.

* 1901 – 1903: Charles d ' Ursel ( Catholic Party )

In 1903 they hired Sanford Alexander Moss, who, in time, started the development of turbosuperchargers at GE.

* 1903: Commonwealth Edison Fisk Street Station opens in Chicago, using 32 Babcock and Wilcox boilers driving several GE Curtis turbines, at 5000 and 9000 kilowatts each, the largest turbine-generators in the world at that time.

In 1903, Lima could claim that it had delivered the " heaviest locomotive on drivers in the world ", the first 4-truck ( class D ) Shay, weighing 140 tons.

* In 1903 a single 0-4-0ST locomotive, built by New Lowca Engineering, was delivered to the Port Elizabeth Harbour Board.

In March, 1903, she delivered an address before the Alliance Francaise on " La Sociabilite.

In 1903, then-president David MacLean Parry delivered a speech at its annual convention which argued that unions ' goals would result in " despotism, tyranny, and slavery.

He delivered the Lyman Beecher lectures at Yale in 1893 ; in 1898 he was chairman of the London Congregational Union ; and in 1903 of the Congregational Union of England and Wales.

The locomotive was the eighth of a batch of ten locomotives forming part of the GWR 3700 ( or ' City ') Class, and was delivered from Swindon Works in May 1903.

As construction workers went on strike in 1903, Ragaz delivered a sermon in the Münster which came to be known as the " bricklayers ' strike sermon " ( Maurerstreikpredigt ), in which he said that " if institutional Christendom were to be cold and incomprehending towards the becoming of a new world, which after all emerged from the heart of the gospel, then the salt of the earth would have become putrid ".

* 1903 – Macedonian rebels in Kruševo proclaim the Kruševo Republic, which exists only for 10 days before Ottoman Turks lay waste to the town.

Camille Pissarro () ( 10 July 1830 – 13 November 1903 ) was a French Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painter born on the island of St Thomas ( now in the US Virgin Islands, but then in the Danish West Indies ).

John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris ( 10 July 1903 – 11 March 1969 ) was an English science fiction writer who usually used the pen name John Wyndham, although he also used other combinations of his names, such as John Beynon and Lucas Parkes.

As with other painters, the reproduction rights for prints were often worth more than the canvas, and a painting with its rights still attached may have been sold to Gambart for £ 10, 000 in 1874 ; without rights it was sold again in 1903, when Alma-Tadema's prices were actually higher, for £ 2, 625.

* March 10 – June Marlowe, American actress ( b. 1903 )

* August 10, 1903 — Paris Métro train fire.

* April 10 – Evelyn Waugh, English author ( b. 1903 )

* November 10 – Theo Lingen, German actor ( b. 1903 )

* July 10 – Camille Pissarro, French painter ( d. 1903 )

The National Guard was established as a reserve component with the Militia Act of 1903 under Title 10 and Title 32 of the U. S. Code The National Defense Act of 1947 created the Air Force as a separate branch of the Armed Forces of the United States and concurrently created the Air National Guard as one of its reserve components, mirroring the Army's component structure.

Leon Bismark " Bix " Beiderbecke ( March 10, 1903 – August 6, 1931 ) was an American jazz cornetist, jazz pianist, and composer.

Bix Beiderbecke was born on March 10, 1903, in Davenport, Iowa, the son of Bismark Herman and Agatha Jane ( Hilton ) Beiderbecke.

Binney & Smith Company ( later to be named Crayola LLC ) developed their own famous line of wax crayons beginning on June 10, 1903.

On 10 December 1903, Charlotte, the daughter of Sir William Knollys, woke to find her bedroom full of smoke.

* Charles-Théodore Henri Antoine Meinrad, Count of Flanders, Prince of Belgium, Regent of Belgium ( born Brussels 10 October 1903, and died at Ostend on 1 June 1983 ).

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.

Carlos Prío Socarrás ( July 14, 1903 – April 5, 1977 ) was the President of Cuba from 1948 until he was deposed by a military coup led by Fulgencio Batista on March 10, 1952, three months before new elections were to be held.

Then Edwin Binney, working with his wife, Alice Stead Binney, developed his own famous product line of wax crayons beginning on 10 June 1903, which it sold under the brand name " Crayola.

* Forward was the name of a rural post office in the eastern part of Riverside Township at at the junction of Forward Road and Meyering Road and operated from October 10, 1903 until January 15, 1908.

Over the ensuing centuries, portions of the township were taken to create many new municipalities: Hamilton Township on February 5, 1813 ; Atlantic City on May 1, 1854 ; Absecon on May 1, 1854 ; South Atlantic City ( now Margate City ) on September 7, 1885 ; Pleasantville on January 10, 1889 ; Linwood on February 20, 1889 ; Somers Point on April 24, 1886 ; Longport on March 7, 1898 ; Ventnor City on March 17, 1903 ; and Northfield on March 21, 1905.

Because this caused confusion with the nearby resort town of Lake Toxaway ( 10 miles to the west ), in 1903 the name was changed to Eastatoe.

In June 1903, at 10: 30 AM, an underground explosion occurred in the Hanna No. 1 Colliery.

It was built in 1903 to a design by Leeds architect Edward J Dodgshun by the Rothwell, Methley and Hunslet Joint Isolation Hospital Committee which was formed under the Isolation Hospitals Act 1893 by an order of the West Riding County Council 10 January 1900.

Dame Barbara Hepworth DBE ( 10 January 1903 – 20 May 1975 ) was an English sculptor.