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: 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 - 1908 - 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913
Births
- February 11 - Sutan Takdir Alishahbana, Indonesian linguistic/author/novelist.
- February 11 - Vivian Ernest Fuchs, geologist/explorer.
- February 11 - Josh White, musician
- May 20: Jimmy Stewart, American actor
- August 27 - Don Bradman, cricketer
- August 27 - Lyndon Johnson, 36th president of the United States
- Claude Levi-Strauss
Deaths
Events
- February 11 - Australia regain the Ashes with a 308 run cricket victory over England.
- The third Summer Olympic Games are held in London, England.
- September 23 - Baseball/History: the "Merkle incident"
- Physics - Gabriel Lippmann
- Chemistry - Ernest Rutherford
- Medicine - Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov, Paul Ehrlich
- Literature - Rudolf Christoph Eucken
- Peace - Klas Pontus Arnoldson Fredrik Bajer