1903
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| 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 |
1903 (MCMIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar.
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[change] Aer, music, theatre, literature
- Edwin S. Porter's The Great Train Robbery is released.
[change] Events
- December 17 – Orville Wright of the Wright brothers flies an airplane at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
- Abeerden Football Club founded in Scotland.
[change] Births
- Date unknown – Cigerxwîn, Kurdish polymath
- May 3 – Bing Crosby, American singer and actor (d. 1977)
- June 19 – Lou Gehrig, baseball player (d. 1941)
- June 21 – Al Hirschfeld, American caricaturist (d. 2003)
- June 25 – George Orwell, English author (d. 1950)
- July 2 – Alec Douglas-Home, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1995)
[change] Deaths
- May 8 – Paul Gauguin, French painter
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