1903

1903 (MCMIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	19th century – 20th century – 21st century
Decades:	1870s  1880s  1890s  – 1900s –  1910s  1920s  1930s
Years:	1900 1901 1902 – 1903 – 1904 1905 1906

Aer, music, theatre, literature

• Edwin S. Porter's The Great Train Robbery is released.

Events

• December 17 – Orville Wright of the Wright brothers flies an airplane at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
• Abeerden Football Club founded in Scotland.

Births

February

Tunku Abdul Rahman

• February 8 – Tunku Abdul Rahman, Prime Minister of Malaysia (d. 1990)

March

Adolf Butenandt

• March 24 – Adolf Butenandt, German chemist (d. 1995)

May

Bing Crosby

• May 3 – Bing Crosby, American singer and actor (d. 1977)

June

George Orwell

• June 21 – Al Hirschfeld, American caricaturist (d. 2003)
• June 25 – George Orwell, English writer (d. 1950)

July

• July 2 – Alec Douglas-Home, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1995)

Deaths

• May 8 – Paul Gauguin, French painter