Famous people born in 1903

The best-known people born in 1903, ranked by how many languages Wikipedia covers them in.

Best known

George Orwell
British writer and journalist (1903–1950)
June 25 · d. 1950
Photo: Cassowary Colorizations, CC BY 2.0
Bing Crosby
American singer and actor (1903–1977)
May 3 · d. 1977
Photo: Anonymous Unknown author, Public domain
John von Neumann
Hungarian and American mathematician and physicist (1903–1957)
December 28 · d. 1957
Photo: Wikimedia Commons, Attribution
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Polish-American writer (1904–1991)
November 21 · d. 1991
Photo: Israel Press and Photo Agency (I.P.P.A.) photographer, CC BY 4.0
Theodor W. Adorno
German philosopher, sociologist and theorist (1903–1969)
September 11 · d. 1969
Photo: Jeremy J. Shapiro, CC BY-SA 3.0
Konrad Lorenz
Austrian zoologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1973 (1903–1989)
November 7 · d. 1989
Photo: Max Planck Gesellschaft ( Eurobas ), CC BY-SA 3.0
Marguerite Yourcenar
French novelist and essayist (1903-1987)
June 8 · d. 1987
Photo: Winoksbergen Bernhard De Grendel, CC BY-SA 4.0
Anaïs Nin
French-born American author (1903–1977)
February 21 · d. 1977
Photo: Elsa Dorfman, CC BY 2.5
Georges Simenon
Belgian writer (1903–1986)
February 13 · d. 1989
Photo: Studio Harcourt., Public domain
Claudette Colbert
American actress (1903–1996)
September 13 · d. 1996
Photo: Whitey Schafer, Public domain
Bob Hope
American entertainer (1903–2003)
May 29 · d. 2003
Photo: NBC Television, Public domain
Ernest Walton
Irish physicist and Nobel laureate (1903-1995)
October 6 · d. 1995
Photo: Nobel foundation, Public domain
Aram Khachaturian
Soviet Armenian composer (1903–1978)
June 6 · d. 1978
Photo: Roger Pic, Public domain
Habib Bourguiba
Tunisian politician (1903–2000)
August 3 · d. 2000
Photo: Habib Osman, Public domain
Andrey Kolmogorov
Russian mathematician (1903–1987)
April 25 · d. 1987
Photo: Konrad Jacobs, CC BY-SA 2.0 de
Fernandel
French actor and singer (1903-1971)
May 8 · d. 1971
Photo: André Cros, CC BY-SA 4.0
Alec Douglas-Home
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1963 to 1964
July 2 · d. 1995
Photo: Unknown photographer for Anefo, CC0
Cecil Frank Powell
British physicist
December 5 · d. 1969
Photo: Nobel foundation, Public domain
Adolf Butenandt
German biochemist (1903-1995)
March 24 · d. 1995
Photo: Willy Pragher, CC BY 3.0 de
Evelyn Waugh
British writer and journalist (1903–1966)
October 28 · d. 1966
Photo: Carl Van Vechten (1880–1964), Public domain
Mark Rothko
American painter of Latvian-Jewish descent (1903–1970)
September 25 · d. 1970
Photo: Consuelo Kanaga, No restrictions
Jan Tinbergen
Dutch economist (1903–1994)
April 12 · d. 1994
Photo: Anefo / Croes, R.C., CC0
Lars Onsager
American physical chemist and theoretical physicist (1903-1976)
November 27 · d. 1976
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Olav V of Norway
king of Norway (1957–1991)
July 2 · d. 1991
Giulio Natta
Italian chemist
February 26 · d. 1979
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Tunku Abdul Rahman
first Prime Minister of Malaysia (1903-1990)
February 8 · d. 1990
Photo: Wikimedia Commons, Public domain
Fahri Korutürk
6th President of the Republic of Turkey (1903–1987)
August 3 · d. 1987
Vladimir Horowitz
Russian/Ukrainian and American pianist (1903-1989)
October 1 · d. 1989
Photo: President (1981-1989 : Reagan). White House Photographic Office. 1981-1989 (Most Recent), Public domain
George Wells Beadle
American geneticist (1903-1989)
October 22 · d. 1989
Photo: Danny Lyon (b. 1942), Public domain
Raymond Queneau
French novelist and poet (1903–1976)
February 21 · d. 1976

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January

January 2 · Kane Tanaka, Japanese supercentenarian
January 4 · Georg Elser, German opponent of Nazism, planned and carried out an assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler on 8 November 1939 (1903–1945)
January 10 · Barbara Hepworth, English sculptor (1903–1975)
January 11 · Alan Paton, South African writer and activist (1903-1988)
January 23 · Grigori Aleksandrov, Soviet film director (1903-1983)
January 27 · John Carew Eccles, Australian neurophysiologist (1903–1997)

February

February 17 · Sadegh Hedayat, Iranian writer
February 18 · Mykola Pidhornyi, Soviet politician (1903-1983)
February 22 · Frank P. Ramsey, British mathematician, philosopher, and economist (1903–1930)
February 23 · Julius Fučík, Czech journalist and revolutionary (1903–1943)
February 24 · Irène Némirovsky, French novelist (1903–1942)
February 28 · Vincente Minnelli, American stage and film director (1903-1986)

March

March 6 · Kōjun, Japanese empress
March 10 · Bix Beiderbecke, American jazz musician (1903-1931)
March 14 · Mustafa Barzani, Kurdish nationalist (1903–1979)
March 18 · Galeazzo Ciano, Italian noble, diplomat and politician (1903-1944)
March 24 · Malcolm Muggeridge, English journalist, author, media personality, and satirist (1903-1990)
March 28 · Rudolf Serkin, Bohemian-born American pianist

April

April 9 · Ward Bond, American actor (1903–1960)
April 9 · Gregory Goodwin Pincus, American biochemist (1903–1967)
April 19 · Eliot Ness, American Prohibition agent (1903-1957)
April 21 · Hans Hedtoft, Prime Minister of Denmark (1903–1955)
April 24 · José Antonio Primo de Rivera, Spanish politician and founder of Falange Española (1903–1936)
April 29 · Nikolay Ivanovich Krylov, Soviet military commander (1903-1972)

May

May 2 · Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician and author of Baby and Child Care (1903-1998)
May 7 · Nikolay Zabolotsky, Russian poet, children's writer and translator (1903-1958)
May 10 · Hans Jonas, German philosopher (1903–1993)
May 10 · Nikos Zachariadis, Greek politician (1903-1973)
May 15 · Maria Reiche, Peruvian archaeologist, mathematician and technical translator
May 24 · Fernando Paternoster, Argentine footballer (1903-1967)

June

June 4 · Yevgeny Mravinsky, Soviet Russian conductor, pianist, and music pedagogue (1903–1988)
June 14 · Alonzo Church, American mathematician and logician (1903–1995)
June 18 · Raymond Radiguet, French writer (1903–1923)
June 18 · Jeanette MacDonald, American singer and actress (1903-1965)
June 19 · Lou Gehrig, American baseball player (1903–1941)
June 25 · Anne Revere, American actress (1903-1990)

July

July 1 · Amy Johnson, pioneering English aviator (1903–1941)
July 6 · Hugo Theorell, biochemist (1903-1982)
July 10 · John Wyndham, English science fiction author (1903–1969)
July 11 · Rudolf Abel, Soviet intelligence officer (1903–1971)
July 14 · Irving Stone, American writer (1903–1989)
July 28 · Silvina Ocampo, Argentine writer (1903–1993)

August

August 7 · Louis Leakey, kenyan-British archaeologist and naturalist
August 9 · Michael Stasinopoulos, Greek politician, former president of the Hellenic Republic (1903–2002)
August 24 · Graham Sutherland, English artist (1903–1980)
August 24 · Karl Hanke, German general and last Reichsführer-SS (1903-1945)
August 25 · Arpad Elo, Hungarian American physicists, developer of the Elo rating
August 28 · Bruno Bettelheim, Austrian-American child psychologist and writer (1903–1990)

September

September 1 · Florence Owens Thompson, Native-American farm worker, subject of Dorothea Lange's famous photo Migrant Mother (1903-1983)
September 10 · Cyril Connolly, British author (1903–1974)
September 15 · Yisrael Kristal, Holocaust survivor, oldest living man
September 17 · Dolores Costello, American actress (1903–1979)
September 20 · Natallia Arsiennieva, Belarusian poet (1903-1997)
September 25 · Syed Abul Ala Maududi, South Asian Islamic scholar, Founder of Jamaat-e-Islami (1903–1979)

October

October 4 · John Vincent Atanasoff, American computer pioneer (1903-1995)
October 10 · Prince Charles, Count of Flanders, prince, painter (1903-1983)
October 13 · Takiji Kobayashi, Japanese writer (1903–1933)
October 17 · Andrei Grechko, Soviet marshal
October 17 · Nathanael West, American writer and screenwriter (1903–1940)
October 31 · Joan Robinson, English economist (1903–1983)

November

November 3 · Walker Evans, American photographer and photojournalist (1903-1975)
November 7 · Dean Jagger, American actor (1903-1991)
November 8 · Luigi Allemandi, Italian footballer (1903-1978)
November 9 · Josefina Plá, Paraguayan sculptor, ceramist, dramatist, poet, and historian (1903–1999)
November 19 · Nancy Carroll, American actress (1903–1965)
November 26 · Alice Herz-Sommer, British Jewish pianist and music teacher from Bohemia

December

December 5 · Johannes Heesters, Dutch actor, singer and entertainer (1903–2011)
December 12 · Yasujirō Ozu, Japanese film director, screenwriter (1903–1963)
December 17 · Erskine Caldwell, American novelist, short story writer, travel writer, essayist (1903–1987)
December 19 · George Davis Snell, American geneticist
December 22 · Haldan Keffer Hartline, American neuroscientist
December 28 · Mikhail Kalatozov, Soviet film director and screenwriter (1903-1973)

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