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

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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

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
August
September
October
November
December
Deaths
- May 8 – Paul Gauguin, French painter
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