* 1903 – Theodor Adorno, German philosopher and sociologist ( d. 1969 )

Theodor W. Adorno (; ; born Theodor Ludwig Wiesengrund ; September 11, 1903 – August 6, 1969 ) was a German sociologist, philosopher and musicologist known for his critical theory of society.

Theodor Ludwig Adorno-Wiesengrund was born in Frankfurt am Main on September 11, 1903, the only child of Oscar Alexander Wiesengrund ( 1870 – 1946 ) and Maria Calvelli-Adorno della Piana ( 1865 – 1952 ).

* August 6 – Theodor W. Adorno, German sociologist and philosopher ( b. 1903 )

* November 30 – Theodor Mommsen, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1903 )

One of his daughters, Princess Irene Pavlovna Paley ( 1903 – 1990 ), married in exile in 1923 her cousin, Prince Theodor Aleksandrovich of Russia, ( 1898-1968.

He had ten children, including five sons, Henry ( 1818 – 1855 ), Ernest ( 1819 – 1903 ), Karl ( 1821 – 1887 ), Georg ( 1824 – 1896 ) and Theodor ( 1832 – 1892 ).

Axel Hugo Theodor Theorell ForMemRS ( 6 July 1903 – 15 August 1982 ) was a Swedish scientist and Nobel Prize laureate in medicine.

Later recipients included Thomas Babington Macaulay ( 1853 ), John C. Frémont ( 1860 ), Theodor Mommsen ( 1868 ), Charles Darwin ( 1868 ), Thomas Carlyle ( 1874 ) ( who never accepted any other honor ), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ( 1875 ), William Thomson, Lord Kelvin ( 1884 ), Heinrich von Treitschke ( 1887 ), Johannes Brahms ( 1887 ), Giuseppe Verdi ( 1887 ), William Henry Flower ( 1899 ), Camille Saint-Saëns ( 1901 ), Luigi Cremona ( 1903 ), John Singer Sargent ( 1908 ), Ferdinand von Zeppelin ( 1910 ), Otto Lessing ( sculptor ) ( 1911 ), Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen ( 1911 ), Sir William Ramsay ( 1911 ), Max Planck ( 1915 ), and Rudolph Sohm ( 1916 ).

* Wilhelm Theodor von Kraemer 1891 – 1903

* Theodor Hjalmar Lang 1903 – 1905

* Theodor Knipovitsch 1903 – 1906

* Theodor Mommsen ( 1817 – 1903 ), historian, Nobel Prize for literature in 1902

* Theodor Knipovitsch 1903 – 1906

* Wilhelm Theodor von Kraemer 1891 – 1903

* Theodor Hjalmar Lang 1903 – 1905

Individual contributions have been made by epigraphers such as Georg Fabricius ( 1516 – 1571 ); August Wilhelm Zumpt ( 1815 – 1877 ); Theodor Mommsen ( 1817 – 1903 ); Emil Hübner ( 1834 – 1901 ); Franz Cumont ( 1868 – 1947 ); Louis Robert ( 1904 – 1985 ).

The term culture industry was coined by the critical theorists Theodor Adorno ( 1903 – 1969 ) and Max Horkheimer ( 1895 – 1973 ), and was presented as critical vocabulary in the chapter “ The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception ”, of the book Dialectic of Enlightenment ( 1944 ), wherein they proposed that popular culture is akin to a factory producing standardized cultural goods — films, radio programmes, magazines, etc.

* Theodor W. Adorno ( 1903 – 1969 ), double Ordinarius of philosophy and sociology and member of the Frankfurt School

In August 1903 he met with Theodor Herzl in Saint Petersburg, discussing the establishment of Zionist societies in Russia and proposed a Russian government request to the Turks to obtain a charter for Jewish colonisation of Palestine.

The History of Rome () is a multi-volume history of ancient Rome written by Theodor Mommsen ( 1817 – 1903 ).

Theodor Adorno ( 1903 – 1969 ) also investigated authoritarian individuals and anti-Semitism.

During the same period members of the Frankfurt school, such as Theodor W. Adorno ( 1903 – 1969 ) and Max Horkheimer ( 1895 – 1973 ), developed critical theory, integrating the historical materialistic elements of Marxism with the insights of Weber, Freud and Gramsci — in theory, if not always in name — often characterizing capitalist modernity as a move away from the central tenets of enlightenment.

When it became evident that these efforts were coming to naught, Chamberlain, on 24 April 1903, offered Herzl a territory in East Africa.

In 1903, Joseph Chamberlain, the British colonial secretary, agreed to consider Arish, and Herzl commissioned the lawyer David Lloyd George a charter draft, but his application was turned down.

But, by 1903, he understood that an antigen induces the production of immune bodies ( antibodies ) and wrote that the word antigen is a contraction of " Antisomatogen

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 ).

In February 1903, two followers of Muhammad ` Alí, including Badi ' u ' llah and Siyyid ` Aliy-i-Afnan, broke with Muhammad ` Ali and wrote books and letters giving details of Muhammad ` Ali's plots and noting that what was circulating about ` Abdu ' l-Bahá was fabrication.

In 1903, Bartók wrote his first major orchestral work, Kossuth, a symphonic poem which honored Lajos Kossuth, hero of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848.

* Arthur Conan Doyle made reference to ' Princetown Prison ' in four stories that he wrote between 1890 and 1903.

Upon moving to become Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at the University of Munich in 1903, Kraepelin increasingly wrote on social policy issues.

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.

Lenin, who was trying to establish a permanent majority against Plekhanov within Iskra, expected Trotsky, then 23, to side with the new guard and wrote in March 1903:

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

In 1903, he wrote the book The Arctic Home in the Vedas.

Stein wrote the bulk of the novel between 1903 and 1911, and evidence from her manuscripts suggests three major periods of revision during that time.

During his exile in the United States, Liang Qichao, a Guangdong ( Canton ) native, wrote in 1903 that there existed in the United States a food item called chop suey which was popularly served by Chinese restaurateurs, but which local Chinese people did not eat.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote a short story about his celebrated sleuth Sherlock Holmes which features a fingerprint: The Norwood Builder is a 1903 Sherlock Holmes short story set in 1894 and involves the discovery of a bloody fingerprint which helps Holmes to expose the real criminal and free his client.

In 1903 she wrote one of her most critically acclaimed books, The Home: Its Work and Influence, which expanded upon Women and Economics, proposing that women are oppressed in their home and that the environment in which they live needs to be modified in order to be healthy for their mental states.

Maarten Maartens, a Dutch writer who wrote in English, had a small castle built in Doorn: Zonheuvel (" Sun Hill ", finished in 1903 ).

When Harper's refused to publish " Christian Science " in 1903, Twain interpreted the rejection as suppression caused by pressure from Christian Science and wrote, " The situation is not barren of humour.

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 ).

Then there is Geraint Goodwin ( 1903 – 41 ) from Newtown in mid-Wales, who, in such works as the novel The Heyday in the Blood ( 1936 ), wrote about declining rural communities in the border region.

Many of the works he wrote in the period from 1903 to 1916 can be seen as musical counterparts to the Irish Literary Revival.

de la langue française ( 1905 ), with biographical and critical introduction by Leon Séché, who also wrote Joachim du Bellay -- documents nouveaux et inédits ( 1880 ), and published in 1903 the first volume of a new edition of the Œuvres

Her literary output included popular books for adults ; with her sister, Nora A. Smith, she published scholarly work on the educational principles of Friedrich Froebel: Froebel's Gifts ( 1895 ), Froebel's Occupations ( 1896 ), and Kindergarten Principles and Practice ( 1896 ); and she wrote the classic children's novel Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm ( 1903 ), as well as the 1905 best-seller Rose o ' the River.

* 1903, 10 May, Hans Jonas, died 5 Feb. 1993, Jewish-German philosopher and scholar, wrote extensively on ethics among other topics

He taught at Euphrates College, Turkey ( 1897 – 1901 ); accompanied the Pumpelly ( 1903 ) and Barrett ( 1905 – 1906 ) expeditions to central Asia ; and wrote of his Asian experiences in Explorations in Turkestan ( 1905 ) and The Pulse of Asia ( 1907 ).

His wife, the American Mary Alsop King, wrote her recollections of their diplomatic experiences – Letters of a Diplomat's Wife, 1883 – 1900 ( New York, 1903 ), and Italian Letters of a Diplomat's Wife ( 1904 ).

He also edited the Clarke Papers ( 1891 – 1901 ), and Mrs Hutchinson's Memoirs of Colonel Hutchinson ( 1885 ), and wrote an introduction to the Stuart Tracts, 1603 – 1693 ( 1903 ), besides contributions to the Dictionary of National Biography.