* 1849 – William Ernest Henley, English poet, critic, and editor ( d. 1903 )

* 1977 – Issy Bonn, English actor, singer, and comedian ( b. 1903 )

* 1903 – Cecil Frank Powell, English physicist, Nobel laureate ( d. 1969 )

Eric Arthur Blair ( 25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950 ), known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist and journalist.

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.

* 1942 – Alan Blumlein, English electronics engineer ( b. 1903 )

* 1903 – John Wyndham, English author ( d. 1969 )

* 1903 – Amy Johnson, English pilot ( d. 1941 )

* 1903 – Francis L. Sullivan, English actor ( d. 1956 )

* 1903 – Alan Napier, English actor ( d. 1988 )

* 1903 – Barbara Hepworth, English sculptor ( d. 1975 )

* 1903 – Wilfrid Hyde-White, English actor ( d. 1991 )

* 1903 – Joseph Henry Shorthouse, English novelist ( b. 1834 )

* 1974 – Cyril Connolly, English intellectual ( b. 1903 )

* 1903 – Cyril Connolly, English critic ( d. 1974 )

* 1903 – Jane Arbor, English author ( d. 1994 )

His mature work was Die Dampfturbinen und ihre Aussichten als Wärmekraftmaschinen ( English: The Steam Turbine and its perspective as a Heat Energy Machine ) which was published in Berlin in 1903.

The 1903 J. M. Rigg English translation headings are used in many of these summaries.

* The Book of the Courtier ( 1903 ), English translation by Leonard Eckstein Opdycke.

He founded the English Bowling Association in 1903 and became its first president.

* June 7 – Alan Blumlein, English electronics engineer ( b. 1903 )

* January 5 – Amy Johnson, English aviator ( b. 1903 )

* July 27 – Binnie Barnes, English actress ( b. 1903 )

** Alan Napier, English actor ( b. 1903 )

* November 19 – Francis L. Sullivan, English actor ( b. 1903 )

This has been translated either as 4, 080, 000 stadia ( 1903 translation by Edwin Hamilton Gifford ), or as 804, 000, 000 stadia ( edition of Édouard des Places, dated 1974-1991 ).

Inspector Maigret, the creation of Georges Simenon ( 1903 – 89 ), won a wide following in translation.

having been designed in consultation with him, it is the last fruit of a partnership that began in 1903 with our translation of Lucian.

Geschlecht und Charakter: Eine prinzipielle Untersuchung, Vienna, Leipzig 1903, original German text, English translation

He wrote an excellent book on Poland ( 1888 ; English translation, 1903 ), and was one of the editors of the German version of Ibsen.

A collection of 300 poems ( 1903 – 53 ) in English translation by Eloise Roach was published in 1962.

** Gilbert Augustin-Thierry, Conspirateurs et gens de police ; le complot de libelles ( Paris, 1903 ) ( English translation, London, 1903 )

** Pierre Coquelle, Napoléon et l ' Angleterre ( Paris, 1903, English translation, London, 1904 )

It was first performed in Munich on 27 November 1903 in a German translation as Die neugierigen Frauen.

* Texts and Illustrated Monuments Relating to the Mysteries of Mithra ( 1894 – 1900, with an English translation in 1903 ) is the study that made his international reputation, by its originality and massive documentation.

* Archer Milton Huntington, Poem of the Cid, ( 1897 – 1903 ), reprinted from the unique manuscript at Madrid, with translation and notes.

The inscription reads ( in the translation given in the tablets erected by Pandit Banke Rai in 1903 ):

# ( 1903 ) Bourses de voyage ; English translation: Traveling Scholarships ( n / a )

Bel Ami is French author Guy de Maupassant's second novel, published in 1885 ; an English translation titled Bel Ami, or, The History of a Scoundrel: A Novel first appeared in 1903.

* Odes from the Divan of Hafiz ( 1903 ) translation

iii., Oxford, 1889 ); on Ecclesiastes i .- iii., by E. Günzig ( Cracow, 1898 ); on Ruth, by N. Schorstein ( Heidelberg, 1903 ); on Esther by Wechsler ( Leiden 2008 ); on Jeremiah: Commentary ) by Wendkos, unpublished phd thesis ( 1969 ) and A. Sabih, ( London 2013 forthcoming ), Judaeo-Arabic translation: ( J. A. Sabih )) ( London, 2009 ),

His translation, the " Doctrines of Meister Eckhart " ( Die mystischen Schriften des Meister Eckhart ) from Middle High German into High German is also published in 1903.

Play ( 1903 ), translation of Crawford.

* Elie Halevy, Thomas Hodgskin ( Paris 1903 ), English translation A J Taylor 1956

* Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution: His Life and Work ( 1901 ), French translation, 1903.

Jane's 1903 Temple Classics translation.