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Who Was Alive in 1903

116 of 492 historical figures were alive in 1903

Susan B. Anthony
Susan B. AnthonyAge 83
1820–1906 · Activism & Social Change
Women's suffrage pioneer
Florence Nightingale
Florence NightingaleAge 83
1820–1910 · Activism & Social Change
Founder of modern nursing
Harriet Tubman
Harriet TubmanAge about 81
1822–1913 · Activism & Social Change
Underground Railroad conductor
Jules Verne
Jules VerneAge 75
1828–1905 · Literature
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Leo Tolstoy
Leo TolstoyAge 75
1828–1910 · Literature
War and Peace, Anna Karenina
Henrik Ibsen
Henrik IbsenAge 75
1828–1906 · Literature
Norwegian playwright of A Doll's House
Dmitri Mendeleev
Dmitri MendeleevAge 69
1834–1907 · Science & Invention
Created the periodic table of elements
Mark Twain
Mark TwainAge 68
1835–1910 · Literature
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Andrew Carnegie
Andrew CarnegieAge 68
1835–1919 · Business & Industry
Steel magnate, philanthropist
John D. Rockefeller
John D. RockefellerAge 64
1839–1937 · Business & Industry
Standard Oil tycoon, among the richest Americans in history
Claude Monet
Claude MonetAge 63
1840–1926 · Art
Water Lilies, father of Impressionism
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Pierre-Auguste RenoirAge 62
1841–1919 · Art
Impressionist painter of joyful scenes
Sarah Bernhardt
Sarah BernhardtAge 59
1844–1923 · Film & Entertainment
French stage actress of worldwide fame
Thomas Edison
Thomas EdisonAge 56
1847–1931 · Science & Invention
Light bulb, phonograph, 1000+ patents
Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Graham BellAge 56
1847–1922 · Science & Invention
Invented the telephone
Paul Gauguin
Paul GauguinAge 55
1848–1903 · Art
Post-Impressionist painter of Tahiti
Antoni Gaudí
Antoni GaudíAge 51
1852–1926 · Art
Sagrada Família architect
Sigmund Freud
Sigmund FreudAge 47
1856–1939 · Philosophy & Thought
Father of psychoanalysis
Nikola Tesla
Nikola TeslaAge 47
1856–1943 · Science & Invention
AC electricity, visionary inventor
Woodrow Wilson
Woodrow WilsonAge 47
1856–1924 · Politics & Leadership
28th US President, League of Nations
George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard ShawAge 47
1856–1950 · Literature
Irish playwright of Pygmalion
Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore RooseveltAge 45
1858–1919 · Politics & Leadership
26th US President, Rough Rider
Emmeline Pankhurst
Emmeline PankhurstAge 45
1858–1928 · Activism & Social Change
British suffragette leader
Max Planck
Max PlanckAge 45
1858–1947 · Science & Invention
Father of quantum theory
Arthur Conan Doyle
Arthur Conan DoyleAge 44
1859–1930 · Literature
Creator of Sherlock Holmes
Anton Chekhov
Anton ChekhovAge 43
1860–1904 · Literature
Russian playwright and short-story master
Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath TagoreAge 42
1861–1941 · Literature
First non-European Nobel laureate in Literature
Gustav Klimt
Gustav KlimtAge 41
1862–1918 · Art
The Kiss, Art Nouveau master
Claude Debussy
Claude DebussyAge 41
1862–1918 · Music
Clair de Lune, Impressionist music
David Hilbert
David HilbertAge 41
1862–1943 · Science & Invention
German mathematician of Hilbert's problems
Henry Ford
Henry FordAge 40
1863–1947 · Business & Industry
Assembly line, Model T automobile
Edvard Munch
Edvard MunchAge 40
1863–1944 · Art
The Scream
Max Weber
Max WeberAge 39
1864–1920 · Philosophy & Thought
A founder of modern sociology
Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard KiplingAge 38
1865–1936 · Literature
Author of The Jungle Book, Nobel laureate
H.G. Wells
H.G. WellsAge 37
1866–1946 · Literature
The War of the Worlds, science fiction pioneer
Sun Yat-sen
Sun Yat-senAge 37
1866–1925 · Politics & Leadership
Father of the Republic of China
Marie Curie
Marie CurieAge 36
1867–1934 · Science & Invention
Radioactivity, first woman Nobel laureate
Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Lloyd WrightAge 36
1867–1959 · Art
American architect of Fallingwater
Scott Joplin
Scott JoplinAge 35
1868–1917 · Music
King of Ragtime
Maxim Gorky
Maxim GorkyAge 35
1868–1936 · Literature
Russian writer of The Lower Depths
Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma GandhiAge 34
1869–1948 · Politics & Leadership
Nonviolent independence leader of India
Grigori Rasputin
Grigori RasputinAge 34
1869–1916 · Politics & Leadership
Mystic who influenced the Russian royal family
Henri Matisse
Henri MatisseAge 34
1869–1954 · Art
Leader of Fauvism, master of color and cut-outs
Vladimir Lenin
Vladimir LeninAge 33
1870–1924 · Politics & Leadership
Bolshevik leader of the October Revolution
Marcel Proust
Marcel ProustAge 32
1871–1922 · Literature
In Search of Lost Time
Orville Wright
Orville WrightAge 32
1871–1948 · Science & Invention
Co-inventor of the airplane
Rosa Luxemburg
Rosa LuxemburgAge 32
1871–1919 · Activism & Social Change
Marxist theorist and revolutionary
Ernest Rutherford
Ernest RutherfordAge 32
1871–1937 · Science & Invention
Father of nuclear physics
Roald Amundsen
Roald AmundsenAge 31
1872–1928 · Exploration
First to reach the South Pole
Bertrand Russell
Bertrand RussellAge 31
1872–1970 · Philosophy & Thought
Logician, philosopher and Nobel laureate
Ernest Shackleton
Ernest ShackletonAge 29
1874–1922 · Exploration
Heroic Antarctic explorer, Endurance expedition
Guglielmo Marconi
Guglielmo MarconiAge 29
1874–1937 · Science & Invention
Pioneer of long-distance radio
Winston Churchill
Winston ChurchillAge 29
1874–1965 · Politics & Leadership
British PM who led WWII effort
Harry Houdini
Harry HoudiniAge 29
1874–1926 · Film & Entertainment
Legendary escape artist & illusionist
Carl Jung
Carl JungAge 28
1875–1961 · Philosophy & Thought
Analytical psychology, archetypes
Albert Schweitzer
Albert SchweitzerAge 28
1875–1965 · Philosophy & Thought
Nobel Peace Prize physician, theologian and organist
Thomas Mann
Thomas MannAge 28
1875–1955 · Literature
German novelist of The Magic Mountain
Pancho Villa
Pancho VillaAge 25
1878–1923 · Politics & Leadership
Mexican revolutionary general
Lise Meitner
Lise MeitnerAge 25
1878–1968 · Science & Invention
Discovered nuclear fission, overlooked for Nobel
Joseph Stalin
Joseph StalinAge 25
1878–1953 · Politics & Leadership
Leader of the Soviet Union 1924–1953
Albert Einstein
Albert EinsteinAge 24
1879–1955 · Science & Invention
Theory of relativity, E=mc²
Leon Trotsky
Leon TrotskyAge 24
1879–1940 · Politics & Leadership
Russian revolutionary, founder of the Red Army
Helen Keller
Helen KellerAge 23
1880–1968 · Activism & Social Change
Deafblind author and activist, The Story of My Life
Pablo Picasso
Pablo PicassoAge 22
1881–1973 · Art
Cubism, Guernica, most prolific artist
Alexander Fleming
Alexander FlemingAge 22
1881–1955 · Science & Invention
Discovered penicillin
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
Mustafa Kemal AtatürkAge 22
1881–1938 · Politics & Leadership
Founder and first president of modern Turkey
Virginia Woolf
Virginia WoolfAge 21
1882–1941 · Literature
Mrs Dalloway, modernist pioneer
James Joyce
James JoyceAge 21
1882–1941 · Literature
Ulysses, literary revolutionary
Igor Stravinsky
Igor StravinskyAge 21
1882–1971 · Music
The Rite of Spring, modern classical
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin D. RooseveltAge 21
1882–1945 · Politics & Leadership
32nd US President, New Deal, WWII leader
Coco Chanel
Coco ChanelAge 20
1883–1971 · Business & Industry
Fashion icon, Chanel No. 5
Franz Kafka
Franz KafkaAge 20
1883–1924 · Literature
The Metamorphosis, surreal fiction
Benito Mussolini
Benito MussoliniAge 20
1883–1945 · Politics & Leadership
Fascist dictator of Italy 1922–1943
John Maynard Keynes
John Maynard KeynesAge 20
1883–1946 · Philosophy & Thought
Economist who founded Keynesian economics
Eleanor Roosevelt
Eleanor RooseveltAge 19
1884–1962 · Activism & Social Change
First Lady, UN delegate, human rights champion
Harry S. Truman
Harry S. TrumanAge 19
1884–1972 · Politics & Leadership
33rd US president at the end of World War II
Niels Bohr
Niels BohrAge 18
1885–1962 · Science & Invention
Atomic model, quantum mechanics pioneer
Diego Rivera
Diego RiveraAge 17
1886–1957 · Art
Mexican muralist, political artist
Erwin Schrödinger
Erwin SchrödingerAge 16
1887–1961 · Science & Invention
Schrödinger's cat, wave equation
Georgia O'Keeffe
Georgia O'KeeffeAge 16
1887–1986 · Art
Mother of American modernism
Chiang Kai-shek
Chiang Kai-shekAge 16
1887–1975 · Politics & Leadership
Nationalist leader of the Republic of China
Le Corbusier
Le CorbusierAge 16
1887–1965 · Art
Pioneer of modern architecture
T. S. Eliot
T. S. EliotAge 15
1888–1965 · Literature
The Waste Land, Nobel-winning modernist poet
Charlie Chaplin
Charlie ChaplinAge 14
1889–1977 · Film & Entertainment
The Tramp, silent film legend
Jawaharlal Nehru
Jawaharlal NehruAge 14
1889–1964 · Politics & Leadership
First Prime Minister of independent India
Adolf Hitler
Adolf HitlerAge 14
1889–1945 · Politics & Leadership
Nazi dictator of Germany 1933–1945
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig WittgensteinAge 14
1889–1951 · Philosophy & Thought
Philosopher of logic and language
Ho Chi Minh
Ho Chi MinhAge 13
1890–1969 · Politics & Leadership
Revolutionary leader of Vietnam
Agatha Christie
Agatha ChristieAge 13
1890–1976 · Literature
Best-selling mystery novelist ever
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight D. EisenhowerAge 13
1890–1969 · Politics & Leadership
WWII Supreme Commander, 34th US President
Charles de Gaulle
Charles de GaulleAge 13
1890–1970 · Politics & Leadership
Leader of Free France, French President
Haile Selassie
Haile SelassieAge 11
1892–1975 · Politics & Leadership
Emperor of Ethiopia, Rastafari symbol
J.R.R. Tolkien
J.R.R. TolkienAge 11
1892–1973 · Literature
The Lord of the Rings, Middle-earth
Mao Zedong
Mao ZedongAge 10
1893–1976 · Politics & Leadership
Founder of the People's Republic of China
Aldous Huxley
Aldous HuxleyAge 9
1894–1963 · Literature
Author of the dystopian novel Brave New World
Nikita Khrushchev
Nikita KhrushchevAge 9
1894–1971 · Politics & Leadership
Soviet leader during the Cuban Missile Crisis
Babe Ruth
Babe RuthAge 8
1895–1948 · Sports
Baseball's Sultan of Swat
Buster Keaton
Buster KeatonAge 8
1895–1966 · Film & Entertainment
Silent film comedian, The General
F. Scott Fitzgerald
F. Scott FitzgeraldAge 7
1896–1940 · Literature
The Great Gatsby
Amelia Earhart
Amelia EarhartAge 6
1897–1937 · Exploration
First woman to fly solo across the Atlantic
Golda Meir
Golda MeirAge 5
1898–1978 · Politics & Leadership
Fourth Prime Minister of Israel
C. S. Lewis
C. S. LewisAge 5
1898–1963 · Literature
Author of The Chronicles of Narnia
Duke Ellington
Duke EllingtonAge 4
1899–1974 · Music
Jazz legend, big band pioneer
Ernest Hemingway
Ernest HemingwayAge 4
1899–1961 · Literature
The Old Man and the Sea, Nobel laureate
Jorge Luis Borges
Jorge Luis BorgesAge 4
1899–1986 · Literature
Labyrinths, Ficciones, master of the short story
Alfred Hitchcock
Alfred HitchcockAge 4
1899–1980 · Film & Entertainment
Master of Suspense — Psycho, Vertigo
Humphrey Bogart
Humphrey BogartAge 4
1899–1957 · Film & Entertainment
Casablanca, Hollywood icon
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Antoine de Saint-ExupéryAge 3
1900–1944 · Literature
Aviator and author of The Little Prince
Werner Heisenberg
Werner HeisenbergAge 2
1901–1976 · Science & Invention
Uncertainty principle, quantum mechanics pioneer
Louis Armstrong
Louis ArmstrongAge 2
1901–1971 · Music
What a Wonderful World, jazz trumpet
Walt Disney
Walt DisneyAge 2
1901–1966 · Film & Entertainment
Created Mickey Mouse, Disney empire
Enrico Fermi
Enrico FermiAge 2
1901–1954 · Science & Invention
Father of the nuclear age, first nuclear reactor
Hirohito
HirohitoAge 2
1901–1989 · Politics & Leadership
Emperor of Japan during WWII
Marlene Dietrich
Marlene DietrichAge 2
1901–1992 · Film & Entertainment
German-American film star and singer
George Orwell
George OrwellAge 0
1903–1950 · Literature
1984, Animal Farm
Bob Hope
Bob HopeAge 0
1903–2003 · Film & Entertainment
Comedian and entertainer for nearly 80 years

Born in 1903

George Orwell
George Orwell
1903–1950 · Literature
1984, Animal Farm
Bob Hope
Bob Hope
1903–2003 · Film & Entertainment
Comedian and entertainer for nearly 80 years

Also Born in 1903

1903–1977 · born May 3
American singer and actor (1903–1977)
1903–1957 · born December 28
Hungarian and American mathematician and physicist (1903–1957)
1903–1991 · born November 21
Jewish American author (1903–1991)
1903–1989 · born November 7
Austrian zoologist (1903–1989)
1903–1987 · born June 8
French novelist and essayist (1903–1987)
1903–1977 · born February 21
French-born American author (1903–1977)
1903–1989 · born February 13
Belgian writer (1903–1989)
1903–1996 · born September 13
French and American actress (1903–1996)
1903–1995 · born October 6
Irish physicist (1903–1995)
1903–1978 · born June 6
Soviet Armenian composer (1903–1978)
1903–2000 · born August 3
President of Tunisia from 1957 to 1987
1903–1987 · born April 25
Soviet mathematician (1903–1987)

Died in 1903

Paul Gauguin
Paul Gauguin
1848–1903 · Art
Post-Impressionist painter of Tahiti

Also Died in 1903

1848–1903 · died May 8
French artist (1848–1903)
1817–1903 · died November 1
German classical scholar and historian (1817–1903)
1820–1903 · died December 8
English philosopher and political theorist (1820–1903)
1830–1903 · died November 13
Danish-French painter (1830–1903)
1839–1903 · died April 28
American scientist (1839–1903)
1830–1903 · died August 22
British statesman (1830–1903)
1837–1903 · died January 3
Father of Adolf Hitler (1837–1903)
1880–1903 · died October 4
Austrian philosopher (1880–1903)
1876–1903 · died June 11
King of Serbia from 1889 to 1903
1860–1903 · died February 22
Austrian composer (1860–1903)
1864–1903 · died May 13
Prime Minister of the Philippines in 1898
1822–1903 · died August 28
American landscape architect (1822–1903)

Notable World Events in 1903

Sources

  1. 1903 — Wikipedia. Births, deaths and events of the year
  2. Susan B. Anthony — Wikipedia
  3. Florence Nightingale — Wikipedia
  4. Harriet Tubman — Wikipedia
  5. Jules Verne — Wikipedia
  6. Leo Tolstoy — Wikipedia
  7. Henrik Ibsen — Wikipedia
  8. Dmitri Mendeleev — Wikipedia
  9. Mark Twain — Wikipedia
  10. Andrew Carnegie — Wikipedia
  11. John D. Rockefeller — Wikipedia
  12. Claude Monet — Wikipedia
  13. Pierre-Auguste Renoir — Wikipedia
  14. Sarah Bernhardt — Wikipedia
  15. Thomas Edison — Wikipedia
  16. Alexander Graham Bell — Wikipedia
  17. Paul Gauguin — Wikipedia
  18. Antoni Gaudí — Wikipedia
  19. Sigmund Freud — Wikipedia
  20. Nikola Tesla — Wikipedia
  21. Woodrow Wilson — Wikipedia
  22. George Bernard Shaw — Wikipedia
  23. Theodore Roosevelt — Wikipedia
  24. Emmeline Pankhurst — Wikipedia
  25. Max Planck — Wikipedia
  26. Arthur Conan Doyle — Wikipedia
  27. Anton Chekhov — Wikipedia
  28. Rabindranath Tagore — Wikipedia
  29. Gustav Klimt — Wikipedia
  30. Claude Debussy — Wikipedia
  31. David Hilbert — Wikipedia
  32. Henry Ford — Wikipedia
  33. Edvard Munch — Wikipedia
  34. Max Weber — Wikipedia
  35. Rudyard Kipling — Wikipedia
  36. H. G. Wells — Wikipedia
  37. Sun Yat-sen — Wikipedia
  38. Marie Curie — Wikipedia
  39. Frank Lloyd Wright — Wikipedia
  40. Scott Joplin — Wikipedia
  41. Maxim Gorky — Wikipedia
  42. Mahatma Gandhi — Wikipedia
  43. Grigori Rasputin — Wikipedia
  44. Henri Matisse — Wikipedia
  45. Vladimir Lenin — Wikipedia
  46. Marcel Proust — Wikipedia
  47. Wright brothers — Wikipedia
  48. Rosa Luxemburg — Wikipedia
  49. Ernest Rutherford — Wikipedia
  50. Roald Amundsen — Wikipedia
  51. Bertrand Russell — Wikipedia
  52. Ernest Shackleton — Wikipedia
  53. Guglielmo Marconi — Wikipedia
  54. Winston Churchill — Wikipedia
  55. Harry Houdini — Wikipedia
  56. Carl Jung — Wikipedia
  57. Albert Schweitzer — Wikipedia
  58. Thomas Mann — Wikipedia
  59. Pancho Villa — Wikipedia
  60. Lise Meitner — Wikipedia
  61. Joseph Stalin — Wikipedia
  62. Albert Einstein — Wikipedia
  63. Leon Trotsky — Wikipedia
  64. Helen Keller — Wikipedia
  65. Pablo Picasso — Wikipedia
  66. Alexander Fleming — Wikipedia
  67. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk — Wikipedia
  68. Virginia Woolf — Wikipedia
  69. James Joyce — Wikipedia
  70. Igor Stravinsky — Wikipedia
  71. Franklin D. Roosevelt — Wikipedia
  72. Coco Chanel — Wikipedia
  73. Franz Kafka — Wikipedia
  74. Benito Mussolini — Wikipedia
  75. John Maynard Keynes — Wikipedia
  76. Eleanor Roosevelt — Wikipedia
  77. Harry S. Truman — Wikipedia
  78. Niels Bohr — Wikipedia
  79. Diego Rivera — Wikipedia
  80. Erwin Schrödinger — Wikipedia
  81. Georgia O'Keeffe — Wikipedia
  82. Chiang Kai-shek — Wikipedia
  83. Le Corbusier — Wikipedia
  84. T. S. Eliot — Wikipedia
  85. Charlie Chaplin — Wikipedia
  86. Jawaharlal Nehru — Wikipedia
  87. Adolf Hitler — Wikipedia
  88. Ludwig Wittgenstein — Wikipedia
  89. Ho Chi Minh — Wikipedia
  90. Agatha Christie — Wikipedia
  91. Dwight D. Eisenhower — Wikipedia
  92. Charles de Gaulle — Wikipedia
  93. Haile Selassie — Wikipedia
  94. J. R. R. Tolkien — Wikipedia
  95. Mao Zedong — Wikipedia
  96. Aldous Huxley — Wikipedia
  97. Nikita Khrushchev — Wikipedia
  98. Babe Ruth — Wikipedia
  99. Buster Keaton — Wikipedia
  100. F. Scott Fitzgerald — Wikipedia
  101. Amelia Earhart — Wikipedia
  102. Golda Meir — Wikipedia
  103. C. S. Lewis — Wikipedia
  104. Duke Ellington — Wikipedia
  105. Ernest Hemingway — Wikipedia
  106. Jorge Luis Borges — Wikipedia
  107. Alfred Hitchcock — Wikipedia
  108. Humphrey Bogart — Wikipedia
  109. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry — Wikipedia
  110. Werner Heisenberg — Wikipedia
  111. Louis Armstrong — Wikipedia
  112. Walt Disney — Wikipedia
  113. Enrico Fermi — Wikipedia
  114. Hirohito — Wikipedia
  115. Marlene Dietrich — Wikipedia
  116. George Orwell — Wikipedia
  117. Bob Hope — Wikipedia
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