page_title: 1903
section_title: March
hierarchical_section_title: 1903 / Births / March
caption_attribution_description: Adolf Friedrich Johann Butenandt (* 24. März 1903 in Lehe; † 18. Januar 1995 in München)
context_page_description: 1903 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1903rd year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 903rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 3rd year of the 20th century, and the 4th year of the 1900s decade. As of the start of 1903, the Gregorian calendar was 13 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
context_section_description: March 4
  William C. Boyd, American immunochemist (d. 1983)
  Dorothy Mackaill, British-born American actress (d. 1990)
  John Scarne, American magician, card expert (d. 1985)
  March 6 – Empress Kōjun, empress consort of Japan (d. 2000)
  March 10
  Bix Beiderbecke, American jazz musician (d. 1931)
  Clare Boothe Luce, American publisher, writer (d. 1987)
  March 11
  Ronald Syme, New Zealand-born classicist, historian (d. 1989)
  Lawrence Welk, American television musician, bandleader (d. 1992)
  March 14 – Mustafa Barzani, Kurdish politician (d. 1979)
  March 18 – Gian Galeazzo Ciano, 2nd Count of Cortellazzo and Buccari, Italian aristocrat and diplomat (d. 1944)
  March 20
  Edgar Buchanan, American actor (d. 1979)
  Maria Giuseppa Robucci, Italian supercentenarian (d. 2019)
  March 21 – Frank Sargeson, New Zealand writer (d. 1982)
  March 24
  Adolf Butenandt, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995)
  Malcolm Muggeridge, English journalist (d. 1990)
  March 25 – Nahum Norbert Glatzer, Jewish-American scholar (d. 1990)
  March 27 – Betty Balfour, English screen actress (d. 1977)
  March 28 – Rudolf Serkin, Austrian pianist (d. 1991)
  March 31 – H. J. Blackham, British humanist, author (d. 2009)
caption: Adolf Butenandt
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