1903

Centuries: Year in Review 20th Century

19th century - 20th century - 21st century

Decades: 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s - 1900s - 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s

Years: 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 - 1903 - 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908

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Births:

• February 11 - [Hans Redlich]?, composer.
• February 11 - [Rex Lease]?, American actor.
• June 19 - Lou Gehrig, (baseball player)
• July 2 - Olav V, (King of Norway)
• John von Neumann, Hungarian-American mathematician
• November 7 - Konrad Lorenz

Deaths:

• February 11 - [Henryk Szulc]?, composer

Events

• February 11 - [Anton Bruckner]?'s 9th Symphony premieres in Vienna.
• [Orville Wright]? flies the first aircraft with a petrol engine.

Nobel Prizes

• Physics - [Antoine Henri Becquerel]?, Pierre Curie, Marie Curie
• Chemistry - [Svante August Arrhenius]?

• Medicine - [Niels Ryberg Finsen]?
• Literature - [Bjørnstjerne Martinus Bjørnson]?
• Peace - [William Randal Cremer]?