Birthdays In History 1903

1903 Kane Tanaka Japanese Supercentenarian Oldest Japanese person ever Second oldest verified person in world history (d. 2022)

1903 Harold Gatty Australian pilot and navigator (d. 1957)

1903 Maurice Abravanel Greek-American pianist and conductor (d. 1993)

1903 Barbara Hepworth English sculptor (d. 1975)

1903 Voldemar Väli Estonian wrestler (d. 1997)

1903 Igor Kurchatov Russian physicist and academic (d. 1960)

1903 Andrew J. Transue American politician and attorney (Morissette v. United States) (d. 1995)

1903 Paul A. Dever American lieutenant and politician 58th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1958)

1903 William Grover-Williams English-French racing driver (d. 1945)

1903 Berthold Goldschmidt German pianist and composer (d. 1996)

1903 Boris Blacher German composer and playwright (d. 1975)

1903 William Lyon American film editor (d. 1974)

1903 Raymond Suvigny French weightlifter (d. 1945)

1903 Fritz Houtermans Polish-German physicist and academic (d. 1966)

1903 Jorge Eliécer Gaitán Colombian lawyer and politician 16th Minister of National Education of Colombia (d. 1948)

1903 Douglas Douglas-Hamilton 14th Duke of Hamilton Scottish soldier pilot and politician (d. 1973)

1903 Alexander Imich Polish-American chemist parapsychologist and academic (d. 2014)

1903 Koto Matsudaira Japanese diplomat ambassador to the United Nations (d. 1994)

1903 Joan Whitney Payson American businesswoman and philanthropist (d. 1975)

1903 Greta Keller Austrian-American singer and actress (d. 1977)

1903 Waldemar Hoven German physician (d. 1948)

1903 Matthias Sindelar Austrian footballer and manager (d. 1939)

1903 Georgy Beriev Georgian-Russian engineer founded the Beriev Aircraft Company (d. 1979)

1903 Georges Simenon Belgian-Swiss author (d. 1989)

1903 Stuart Erwin American actor (d. 1967)

1903 Edgar Bergen American ventriloquist and actor (d. 1978)

1903 Sadegh Hedayat Iranian-French author and translator (d. 1951)

1903 Nikolai Podgorny Ukrainian engineer and politician (d. 1983)

1903 Anaïs Nin French-American essayist and memoirist (d. 1977)

1903 Raymond Queneau French poet and author (d. 1976)

1903 Morley Callaghan Canadian author and playwright (d. 1990)

1903 Frank P. Ramsey English economist mathematician and philosopher (d. 1930)

1903 Vladimir Bartol Italian-Slovene author and playwright (d. 1967)

1903 King Clancy Canadian ice hockey player referee and coach; rated one of the 100 greatest NHL players (d. 1986)

1903 Reginald Gardiner English-American actor and singer (d. 1980)

1903 Hans Rohrbach German mathematician (d. 1993)

1903 Joseph B. Soloveitchik Belorussian-American rabbi and philosopher (d. 1993)

1903 Vasily Kozlov Belarusian general and politician (d. 1967)

1903 William C. Boyd American immunologist and chemist (d. 1983)

1903 Malcolm Dole American chemist and academic (d. 1990)

1903 Dorothy Mackaill English-American actress and singer (d. 1990)

1903 John Scarne American magician and author (d. 1985)

1903 Maud Lewis Canadian folk artist (d. 1970)

1903 Bix Beiderbecke American cornet player pianist and composer (d. 1931)

1903 Edward Bawden British artist and illustrator (d. 1989)

1903 Clare Boothe Luce American playwright journalist and diplomat United States Ambassador to Italy (d. 1987)

1903 Ronald Syme New Zealand historian and scholar (d. 1989)

1903 Lawrence Welk American accordion player and bandleader (d. 1992)

1903 Adolph Gottlieb American painter and sculptor (d. 1974)

1903 Mike Mansfield American politician and diplomat 22nd United States Ambassador to Japan (d. 2001)

1903 Galeazzo Ciano Italian journalist and politician Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs (d. 1944)

1903 E. O. Plauen German cartoonist (d. 1944)

1903 Edgar Buchanan American actor (d. 1979)

1903 Bill Holman American cartoonist (d. 1987)

1903 Frank Sargeson New Zealand author (d. 1982)

1903 Binnie Barnes English-American actress (d. 1998)

1903 Frankie Carle American pianist and bandleader (d. 2001)

1903 Nahum Norbert Glatzer Ukrainian-American theologian and scholar (d. 1990)

1903 Leif Tronstad Norwegian chemist and military leader (d. 1945)

1903 Xavier Villaurrutia Mexican poet and playwright (d. 1950)

1903 Rudolf Serkin Czech-American pianist and educator (d. 1991)

1903 Douglas Harkness Canadian colonel and politician Canadian Minister of National Defence (d. 1999)

1903 Joy Ridderhof American missionary (d. 1984)

1903 Lionel Chevrier Canadian lawyer and politician 27th Canadian Minister of Justice (d. 1987)

1903 Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay Indian social reformer and freedom fighter (d. 1988)

1903 Marion Aye American actress (d. 1951)

1903 Harold Eugene Edgerton American engineer and academic (d. 1990)

1903 M. Balasundaram Sri Lankan lawyer and politician (d. 1965)

1903 Edwin T. Layton American admiral (d. 1984)

1903 Ward Bond American actor (d. 1960)

1903 Misuzu Kaneko Japanese poet (d. 1930)

1903 Jan Tinbergen Dutch economist and academic Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1994)

1903 Paul Waner American baseball player and manager (d. 1965)

1903 Eliot Ness American law enforcement agent (d. 1957)

1903 Luis Saslavsky Argentinian director producer and screenwriter (d. 1995)

1903 Guy Simonds English-Canadian general (d. 1974)

1903 José Antonio Primo de Rivera Spanish lawyer and politician founded the Falange (d. 1936)

1903 Andrey Kolmogorov Russian mathematician and academic (d. 1987)

1903 Luther Adler American actor (d. 1984)

1903 Paul Demel Czech actor (d. 1951)

1903 James Beard American chef and author (d. 1985)

1903 Toots Shor American businessman founded Toots Shor's Restaurant (d. 1977)

1903 Jimmy Ball Canadian sprinter (d. 1988)

1903 Nikolay Zabolotsky Russian-Soviet poet and translator (d. 1958)

1903 Fernandel French actor and singer (d. 1971)

1903 Mary Stewart Baroness Stewart of Alvechurch British politician and educator (d. 1984)

1903 Otto Bradfisch German economist jurist and SS officer (d. 1994)

1903 Charlie Gehringer American baseball player and manager (d. 1993)

1903 Faith Bennett British actress and ATA pilot during WWII (d. 1969)

1903 Wilfrid Hyde-White English actor (d. 1991)

1903 Billie Dove American actress (d. 1997)

1903 Maria Reiche German mathematician and archaeologist (d. 1998)

1903 Charles F. Brannock American inventor and manufacturer (d. 1992)

1903 Ruth Ella Moore American scientist (d. 1994)

1903 Manly Wade Wellman American author (d. 1986)

1903 S. L. Kirloskar Indian businessman founded Kirloskar Group (d. 1994)

1903 Countee Cullen American poet and author (d. 1946)

1903 Eddie Acuff American actor (d. 1956)

1903 Yevgeny Mravinsky Russian conductor (d. 1988)

1903 Aram Khachaturian Armenian composer and conductor (d. 1978)

1903 Ralph Yarborough American lawyer and politician (d. 1996)

1903 Marguerite Yourcenar Belgian-French author and poet (d. 1987)

1903 Felice Bonetto Italian race car driver (d. 1953)

1903 Marcia Davenport American author and critic (d. 1996)

1903 Ernie Nevers American football player and coach (d. 1976)

1903 Willard Harrison Bennett American physicist and chemist (d. 1987)

1903 Alonzo Church American mathematician and logician (d. 1995)

1903 Rose Rand Austrian-American logician and philosopher from the Vienna Circle (d. 1980)

1903 Ruth Graves Wakefield American chef created the chocolate chip cookie (d. 1977)

1903 Jeanette MacDonald American actress and singer (d. 1965)

1903 Raymond Radiguet French author and poet (d. 1923)

1903 Mary Callery American-French sculptor and academic (d. 1977)

1903 Wally Hammond English cricketer and coach (d. 1965)

1903 Hans Litten German lawyer (d. 1938)

1903 Sam Rabin English wrestler sculptor and singer (d. 1991)

1903 Hermann Engelhard German runner and coach (d. 1984)

1903 Al Hirschfeld American caricaturist painter and illustrator (d. 2003)

1903 Paul Martin Sr. Canadian lawyer and politician (d. 1992)

1903 Anne Revere American actress (d. 1990)

1903 Big Bill Broonzy American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1958)

1903 Alan Blumlein English engineer developed the H2S radar (d. 1942)

1903 Beatrix Lehmann English actress (d. 1979)

1903 Olav V of Norway (d. 1991)

1903 Ace Bailey Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1992)

1903 Flor Peeters Belgian organist composer and educator (d. 1986)

1903 Hugo Theorell Swedish biochemist and academic Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1982)

1903 Werner Best German SS officer and jurist (d. 1989)

1903 John Wyndham English author (d. 1969)

1903 Rudolf Abel English-Russian colonel (d. 1971)

1903 Sidney Franklin American bullfighter (d. 1976)

1903 Kenneth Clark English historian and author (d. 1983)

1903 Irving Stone American author and educator (d. 1989)

1903 Walter D. Edmonds American journalist and author (d. 1998)

1903 K. Kamaraj Indian journalist and politician (d. 1975)

1903 Russell Lee American photographer and journalist (d. 1986)

1903 Roy Neuberger American businessman and financier co-founded Neuberger Berman (d. 2010)

1903 Estes Kefauver American lawyer and politician (d. 1963)

1903 Nikolay Cherkasov Russian actor (d. 1966)

1903 Michail Stasinopoulos Greek jurist and politician President of Greece (d. 2002)

1903 Mārtiņš Zīverts Latvian playwright (d. 1990)

1903 Paul Horgan American historian author and academic (d. 1995)

1903 Habib Bourguiba Tunisian journalist and politician 1st President of the Republic of Tunisia (d. 2000)

1903 Virginia Foster Durr American civil rights activist (d. 1999)

1903 Ward Moore American author (d. 1978)

1903 Lucienne Boyer French singer (d. 1983)

1903 James Gould Cozzens American novelist and short story writer (d. 1978)

1903 Kostas Giannidis Greek pianist composer and conductor (d. 1984)

1903 Jerry Iger American cartoonist co-founded Eisner & Iger (d. 1990)

1903 Karl Hanke German businessman and politician (d. 1945)

1903 Arpad Elo Hungarian-American chess player created the Elo rating system (d. 1992)

1903 Caroline Pafford Miller American author (d. 1992)

1903 Bruno Bettelheim Austrian-American psychologist and author (d. 1990)

1903 Bhagwati Charan Verma Indian author (d. 1981)

1903 Vladimir Jankélévitch French musicologist and philosopher (d. 1985)

1903 Margaret Landon American missionary and author (d. 1993)

1903 Dorothy Marie Donnelly American poet and author (d. 1994)

1903 Jane Arbor English author (d. 1994)

1903 Lev Shankovsky Ukrainian military historian (d. 1995)

1903 Edward Upward English author (d. 2009)

1903 Phyllis A. Whitney American author (d. 2008)

1903 Cyril Connolly English author and critic (d. 1974)

1903 Theodor Adorno German sociologist and philosopher (d. 1969)

1903 Stephen Etnier American lieutenant and painter (d. 1984)

1903 Mart Raud Estonian poet and author (d. 1980)

1903 Roy Acuff American singer-songwriter and fiddler (d. 1992)

1903 Karel Miljon Dutch boxer (d. 1984)

1903 Frank O'Connor Irish short story writer novelist and poet (d. 1966)

1903 Minanogawa Tōzō Japanese sumo wrestler the 34th Yokozuna (d. 1971)

1903 Preston Tucker American engineer and businessman designed the Tucker Sedan (d. 1956)

1903 Cec Fifield Australian rugby league player and coach (d. 1957)

1903 Mark Rothko Latvian-American painter and educator (d. 1970)

1903 Haywood S. Hansell American general (d. 1988)

1903 Miguel Alemán Valdés Mexican lawyer and civilian politician 46th President of Mexico (d. 1983)

1903 Diana Vreeland American journalist (d. 1989)

1903 Vladimir Horowitz Russian-born American pianist and composer (d. 1989)

1903 Pierre Veyron French race car driver (d. 1970)

1903 Bona Arsenault Canadian genealogist historian and politician (d. 1993)

1903 John Vincent Atanasoff American physicist and academic invented the Atanasoff–Berry computer (d. 1995)

1903 Pierre Garbay French general (d. 1980)

1903 Ernst Kaltenbrunner Austrian-German lawyer and general (d. 1946)

1903 M. King Hubbert American geophysicist and academic (d. 1989)

1903 Ernest Walton Irish physicist and academic Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995)

1903 Georgy Geshev Bulgarian chess player (d. 1937)

1903 Walter O'Malley American lawyer and businessman (d. 1979)

1903 Prince Charles Count of Flanders (d. 1983)

1903 Vernon Duke Russian-American composer and songwriter (d. 1969)

1903 Bei Shizhang Chinese biologist and academic (d. 2009)

1903 Josephine Hutchinson American actress (d. 1998)

1903 Cecile de Brunhoff French author and pianist (d. 2003)

1903 Big Joe Williams American Delta blues singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1982)

1903 Andrei Grechko Soviet general (d. 1976)

1903 Nathanael West American author and screenwriter (d. 1940)

1903 Lina Radke German runner and coach (d. 1983)

1903 Tor Johnson Swedish wrestler and actor (d. 1971)

1903 George Wells Beadle American geneticist and academic Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1989)

1903 Curly Howard American comedian and vaudevillian (d. 1952)

1903 Mahn Ba Khaing Burmese politician (d. 1947)

1903 John Chamberlain American historian journalist and critic (d. 1995)

1903 Evelyn Waugh English journalist author and critic (d. 1966)

1903 Max Adrian Irish-born British actor (d. 1973)

1903 Edward Greeves Jr. Australian footballer (d. 1963)

1903 Travis Jackson American baseball player coach and manager (d. 1987)

1903 Walker Evans American photographer and journalist (d. 1975)

1903 Ary Barroso Brazilian pianist and composer (d. 1964)

1903 Dean Jagger American actor (d. 1991)

1903 Konrad Lorenz Austrian zoologist ethologist and ornithologist Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1989)

1903 Jack Oakie American actor (d. 1978)

1903 Stewie Dempster New Zealand cricketer and coach (d. 1974)

1903 Alexandra Danilova Russian-American ballerina and choreographer (d. 1997)

1903 Ishtiaq Hussain Qureshi Pakistani historian and educator (d. 1981)

1903 Isaac Bashevis Singer Polish-American novelist and short story writer Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1991)

1903 Joe Nibloe Scottish footballer (d. 1976)

1903 Alice Herz-Sommer Czech-English pianist and educator (d. 2014)

1903 Lars Onsager Norwegian-American chemist and physicist Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1976)

1903 Gladys O'Connor English-Canadian actress (d. 2012)

1903 Nikolai Voznesensky Soviet economic planner member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (d. 1950)

1903 Cornell Woolrich American author (d. 1968)

1903 Johannes Heesters Dutch-German actor and singer (d. 2011)

1903 C. F. Powell English-Italian physicist and academic Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1969)

1903 Danilo Blanuša Croatian mathematician physicist and academic (d. 1987)

1903 Zelma Watson George Black American opera singer (d. 1994)

1903 Una Merkel American actress (d. 1986)

1903 Ella Baker American activist (d. 1986)

1903 Carlos Montoya Spanish guitarist and composer (d. 1993)

1903 Walter Rangeley English sprinter (d. 1982)

1903 Tamanishiki San'emon Japanese sumo wrestler the 32nd Yokozuna (d. 1938)

1903 Hardie Albright American actor (d. 1975)

1903 Harold Whitlock English race walker and coach (d. 1985)

1903 Erskine Caldwell American novelist and short story writer (d. 1987)

1903 Ray Noble English bandleader composer and actor (d. 1978)

1903 George Davis Snell American geneticist and immunologist Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1996)

1903 Joseph Cornell American sculptor and director (d. 1972)

1903 Ernst Krenkel Polish-Russian geographer and explorer (d. 1971)

1903 Ava Helen Pauling American humanitarian and activist (d. 1981)

1903 Antiochos Evangelatos Greek composer and conductor (d. 1981)

1903 Elisha Cook Jr. American actor (d. 1995)

1903 Earl Hines American pianist and bandleader (d. 1983)

1903 John von Neumann Hungarian-American mathematician and physicist (d. 1957)

1903 Candido Portinari Brazilian painter (d. 1962)

1903 William Heynes English engineer (d. 1989)

1903 John Eccles Australian-Swiss neurophysiologist and academic Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1997)

1903 Aleksander Kamiński Polish author and educator (d. 1978)

1903 Kathleen Lonsdale Irish crystallographer and 1st female FRS (d. 1971)

1903 Claudio Arrau Chilean pianist and composer (d. 1991)

1903 Jorge Basadre Peruvian historian (d. 1980)

1903 Chick Hafey American baseball player and manager (d. 1973)

1903 Giulio Natta Italian chemist and academic Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1979)

1903 Orde Wingate English general (d. 1944)

1903 Empress Kōjun of Japan (d. 2000)

1903 Adolf Butenandt German biochemist and academic Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995)

1903 Malcolm Muggeridge English journalist author and scholar (d. 1990)

1903 Patroklos Karantinos Greek architect (d. 1976)

1903 Clare Turlay Newberry American author and illustrator (d. 1970)

1903 Fritz Bauer German lawyer and judge (d. 1968)

1903 Carmen Lombardo Canadian singer-songwriter (d. 1971)

1903 Irmgard Flügge-Lotz German mathematician and engineer (d. 1974)

1903 Vasyl Velychkovsky Ukrainian-Canadian bishop and martyr (d. 1973)

1903 Hans Vogt Norwegian linguist and academic (d. 1986)

1903 John Williams English-American actor (d. 1983)

1903 Henry Corbin French philosopher and academic (d. 1978)

1903 Ruth Svedberg Swedish discus thrower and triathlete (d. 2002)

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