1903

1903 (MCMIII) was a common year starting on Thursday in the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Wednesday in the Julian calendar.

 Aer, music, theatre, literature 
 Edwin S. Porter's The Great Train Robbery is released.

 Events 
 July 1–19 – The first Tour de France is held. Maurice Garin wins it.
 December 17 – Orville Wright of the Wright brothers flies an airplane at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
 Abeerden Football Club founded in Scotland.

 Births 

 January 

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

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

 April 

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

 June 
 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)

 August 

 September 

 October 

 November 

 December 

 Deaths 
 May 8 – Paul Gauguin, French painter



nv:1901 – 1950