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{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2011}}{{Year dab|1903|the rifle|M1903 Springfield}}{{Events by month|1903}}{{Year nav|1903}}{{C20 year in topic}}{{Year article header|1903}}{{TOC limit|2}}EventsJanuary{{Main|January 1903}}- January 1 – Edward VII is proclaimed Emperor of India.
- January 17 – El Yunque National Forest in Puerto Rico becomes part of the United States National Forest System, as the Luquillo Forest Reserve.
- January 19 – The first west–east transatlantic radio broadcast is made from the United States to England (the first east–west broadcast having been made in 1901).
February{{Main|February 1903}}- February 11 – The Oxnard strike of 1903 becomes the first time in U.S. history, that a labor union is formed from members of different races.
- February 13 – Venezuelan crisis: After agreeing to arbitration in Washington, Britain, Germany and Italy reach a settlement with Venezuela, resulting in the Washington Protocols. The naval blockade that began in 1902 will end.
- February 23 – Cuba leases Guantánamo Bay to the United States "in perpetuity".
March{{Main|March 1903}}- March 2 – In New York City, the Martha Washington Hotel, the first hotel exclusively for women, opens.
- March 3 – The British Admiralty announces plans to build a naval base at Rosyth.
- March 4 – The Beşiktaş J.K. multi-sport club is founded in the Ottoman Empire.
- March 5 – The Ottoman Empire and the German Empire sign an agreement to build the Constantinople–Baghdad Railway.
- March 12 – The University of Puerto Rico is founded.
- March 13 – Having abolished the Sokoto Caliphate in West Africa, the new British administration accepts the concession of its last Vizier.[1]
- March 14 – The Hay–Herrán Treaty, granting the United States the right to build the Panama Canal, is ratified by the United States Senate. The Colombian Senate later rejects the treaty.
April{{Main|April 1903}}- April 26 – Atletico Madrid, a well known professional football club, is officially founded in Spain.[2]
- April 29
- A 30-million-m3 landslide kills 70-90 in Frank, Alberta.
- The 7.0 {{M|s}} Manzikert earthquake affects eastern Turkey, leaving 3,500 dead.
May- May 4 – Leading Macedonian Bulgarian revolutionary Gotse Delchev is killed in a skirmish, with the Turkish army.
- May 18 – The port of Burgas, Bulgaria opens.
- May 24 – The Paris–Madrid race for automobiles begins, during which at least 8 people are killed; the French government stops the event at Bordeaux, and impounds all the competitors' cars.[3]
June{{Main|June 1903}}- June 11 (May 29 O.S.) – Serbian King Alexander Obrenović and Queen Draga are assassinated in Belgrade, by the Black Hand (Crna Ruka) organization.
- June 14 – The town of Heppner, Oregon is nearly destroyed by a cloud burst, that results in a flash flood, that kills an estimated 238 people.
- June 27 – American socialite Aida de Acosta, 19, becomes the first woman to fly a powered aircraft solo, when she pilots Santos-Dumont's motorized dirigible, "No. 9", from Paris to Château de Bagatelle in France.[4]
July- July 1–19 – The first Tour de France bicycle race is held; Maurice Garin wins it.
- July 7 – The British take over the Fulani Empire.
- July 23 – Dr. Ernst Pfenning of Chicago becomes the first owner of a Ford Model A.
- July 29 – The explosion of a United States Cartridge Company magazine destroys 70 homes, killing 22 residents of Tewksbury, Massachusetts.[5]
- July 30–August 23 (July 17–August 10, O.S.) – The Second Congress of the All-Russian Social Democratic Labour Party is held in exile in Brussels, transferring to London.
August- August 2 – The Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising, organized by the Secret Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization, breaks out in the Ottoman provinces of Macedonia and Adrianople.
- August 3 – The Kruševo Republic is proclaimed in Ottoman Macedonia; it is crushed 10 days later.
- August 4 – Pope Pius X succeeds Pope Leo XIII, as the 257th pope.
- August 10 – The Paris Métro train fire, at Couronnes, results in 84 deaths.
- August 25 – The Judiciary Act is passed, in the Australian Parliament.
September- September – Texas State University in San Marcos, TX opens its doors, as Southwest Texas Normal School.
- September 11 – The first stock car event is held at the Milwaukee Mile.
- September 14 – Joseph Chamberlain resigns as British Colonial Secretary, in order to campaign publicly for Imperial Preference.
- September 15 – Grêmio Foot-Ball Porto Alegrense is founded in Porto Alegre, Brazil.
- September 24 – Edmund Barton steps down as Prime Minister of Australia, and is succeeded by Alfred Deakin.
- September 27 – The Wreck of the Old 97 Fast Mail train at Stillhouse Trestle, near Danville, Virginia, kills 11 people and inspires a ballad.[6]
- September 29 – Prussia becomes the first locality to require mandatory driver's licenses, for operators of motor vehicles.
October- October – Frank Nelson Cole proves that 267-1 is composite, by factoring it as 193,707,721 761,838,257,287, after trying every Sunday for 3 years.
- October 1-13 – First modern World Series: The Boston Red Sox defeat the Pittsburgh Pirates, in 8 games.
- October 6 – The High Court of Australia sits for the first time.
- October 10 – The Women's Social and Political Union is founded in the U.K.
November- November 3 – With the encouragement of the United States, Panama proclaims itself independent of Colombia.
- November 13 – The United States recognizes the independence of Panama.
- November 17 – The Russian Social Democratic Labour Party splits into two groups: the Bolsheviks (Russian for "majority") and Mensheviks (Russian for "minority").
- November 18 – The Hay–Bunau-Varilla Treaty is signed by the United States and Panama, giving the U.S. exclusive rights over the Panama Canal Zone.
- November 23 – Colorado Governor James Hamilton Peabody sends the state militia into the town of Cripple Creek, to break up a miners' strike.
December- December 16 – The Taj Mahal Palace Hotel in Bombay, India opens its doors to guests.
- December 17 – Orville Wright flies an aircraft with a petrol engine at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, in the first documented, successful, controlled, powered, heavier-than-air flight.
- December 30 – The Iroquois Theatre fire in Chicago kills 600.
- December 31 – The National Association for Women's Suffrage (Sweden) is founded.
Date unknown- The Lincoln–Lee Legion is established to promote the American temperance movement, and the signing of alcohol abstinence pledges by children.
- The first box of Crayola crayons is made and sold for 5 cents. It contains 8 colors; brown, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet and black.
- Osea Island off Maldon, Essex, England, is bought by Frederick Nicholas Charrington, to provide an addiction treatment centre.
BirthsJanuary- January 1 — Jasimuddin, Bangladeshi poet, lyricist, composer and writer (d.1976)
- January 2 — Kane Tanaka, Japanese supercentenarian and world's oldest living person
- January 6 – Maurice Abravanel, Greek-born conductor (d. 1993)
- January 10 – Barbara Hepworth, English sculptor (d. 1975)
- January 11 – Alan Paton, South African author, anti-apartheid activist (d. 1988)
- January 12
- Igor Kurchatov, Soviet physicist (d. 1960)
- Andrew J. Transue, American politician and attorney (Morissette v. United States) (d. 1995)
- January 16
- Peter Brocco, American actor (d. 1992)
- William Grover-Williams, French race car driver, war hero (d. 1945)
- January 17 – Warren Hull, American actor (d. 1974)
- January 18 – Gladys Hooper, British supercentenarian (d. 2016)
- January 22 – Fritz Houtermans, Polish physicist (d. 1966)
- January 23 – Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, Colombian politician (d. 1948)
- January 27 – John Eccles, Australian neuropsychologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1997)
February- February 2 – Bartel Leendert van der Waerden, Dutch mathematician (d. 1996)
- February 3 – Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, 14th Duke of Hamilton, Scottish nobleman, aviation pioneer (d. 1973)
- February 4 – Alexander Imich, American parapsychologist, chemist (d. 2014)
- February 6 – Claudio Arrau, Chilean-born pianist (d. 1991)
- February 8
- Greta Keller, Vienna-born cabaret singer, actress (d. 1977)
- Tunku Abdul Rahman, first Prime Minister of Malaysia (d. 1990)
- February 10
- Waldemar Hoven, German physician (d. 1948)
- Matthias Sindelar, Austrian footballer (d. 1939)
- February 11
- Rex Lease, American actor (d. 1966)
- Hans Redlich, Austrian composer (d. 1968)
- February 13 – Georges Simenon, French writer (d. 1989)
- February 14 – Stuart Erwin, American actor (d. 1967)
- February 16 – Edgar Bergen, American ventriloquist (d. 1978)
- February 21
- Anaïs Nin, French writer (d. 1977)
- Raymond Queneau, French poet, novelist (d. 1976)
- February 22
- Morley Callaghan, Canadian writer, media personality (d. 1990)
- Ain-Ervin Mere, Estonian Nazi (d. 1969)
- Frank P. Ramsey, English mathematician (d. 1930)
- February 24 – Vladimir Bartol, Slovenian author (d. 1967)
- February 26 – Giulio Natta, Italian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1979)
- February 27 – Grethe Weiser, German actress (d. 1970)
- February 28 – Vincente Minnelli, American director (d. 1986)
March- March 4
- William C. Boyd, American immunochemist (d. 1983)
- Dorothy Mackaill, British-born American actress (d. 1990)
- John Scarne, American magician, card expert (d. 1985)
- March 6 – Empress Kōjun, empress consort of Japan (d. 2000)
- March 10
- Bix Beiderbecke, American jazz musician (d. 1931)
- Clare Boothe Luce, American publisher, writer (d. 1987)
- March 11
- Ronald Syme, New Zealand-born classicist, historian (d. 1989)
- Lawrence Welk, American television musician, bandleader (d. 1992)
- March 14 – Mustafa Barzani, Kurdish politician (d. 1979)
- March 18 – Gian Galeazzo Ciano, 2nd Count of Cortellazzo and Buccari, Italian aristocrat and diplomat (d. 1944)
- March 20
- Edgar Buchanan, American actor (d. 1979)
- Maria Giuseppa Robucci, Italian supercentenarian
- March 21 – Frank Sargeson, New Zealand writer (d. 1982)
- March 24
- Adolf Butenandt, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995)
- Malcolm Muggeridge, English journalist (d. 1990)
- March 25 – Nahum Norbert Glatzer, Jewish-American scholar (d. 1990)
- March 27 – Betty Balfour, English screen actress (d. 1977)
- March 28 – Rudolf Serkin, Austrian pianist (d. 1991)
- March 31 – H. J. Blackham, British humanist, author (d. 2009)
April- April 3 – Lola Alvarez Bravo, Mexican photographer (d. 1993)
- April 5 – Hilda Bruce, British zoologist (d. 1974)
- April 6
- Mickey Cochrane, American baseball player (d. 1962)
- Doc Edgerton, American electrical engineer (d. 1990)
- April 9 – Gregory Goodwin Pincus, American biologist, researcher (d. 1967)
- April 12 – Jan Tinbergen, Dutch economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1994)
- April 15 – John Williams, English-born actor (d. 1983)
- April 17
- Gregor Piatigorsky, Russian cellist (d. 1976)
- Morgan Taylor, American athlete (d. 1975)
- April 19 – Eliot Ness, American treasury agent (d. 1957)
- April 24 – José Antonio Primo de Rivera, Spanish politician (d. 1936)
- April 25 – Andrey Kolmogorov, Russian mathematician (d. 1987)
May- May 2 – Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician (d. 1998)
- May 3 – Bing Crosby, American singer, actor (d. 1977)
- May 4
- Luther Adler, American actor (d. 1984)
- Paul Demel, Czech actor (d. 1951)
- May 6 – Toots Shor, New York restaurateur (d. 1977)
- May 8 – Fernandel, French actor (d. 1971)
- May 10 – Hans Jonas, German-born philosopher (d. 1993)
- May 11 – Charlie Gehringer, American baseball player (d. 1993)
- May 12 – Faith Bennett, British actress, WWII ATA pilot (d. 1969)[7]
- May 14 – Billie Dove, American actress (d. 1997)
- May 18 – Frits Warmolt Went, Dutch botanist (d. 1990)
- May 19 – Shimoe Akiyama, Japanese supercentenarian (d. 2019)
- May 24 – Lofton R. Henderson, American naval aviator (killed in the Battle of Midway) (d. 1942)
- May 25 – Binnie Barnes, English actress (d. 1998)
- May 29 – Bob Hope, English-born American comedian, actor (d. 2003)
June- June 1 – Vasyl Velychkovsky, Ukrainian bishop (d. 1973)
- June 6
- Aram Khachaturian, Soviet and Armenian composer (d. 1978)
- Bakht Singh, Indian evangelist, well-known Bible teacher, preacher (d. 2000)
- June 8 – Marguerite Yourcenar, Belgian-French author (d. 1987)
- June 10 – Theo Lingen, German actor (d. 1978)
- June 12 – Emmett Hardy, American musician (d. 1925)
- June 15 – Huldreich Georg Früh, Swiss composer (d. 1945)
- June 18
- Jeanette MacDonald, American singer, actress (d. 1965)
- Raymond Radiguet, French author (d. 1923)
- June 19
- Lou Gehrig, American baseball player (d. 1941)
- Wally Hammond, English cricketer (d. 1965)
- June 20 – Eddie Laughton, British-born American film actor (d. 1952)
- June 21 – Al Hirschfeld, American caricaturist (d. 2003)
- June 22
- John Dillinger, American bank robber (d. 1934)
- Jiro Horikoshi, Japanese aircraft designer (d. 1982)
- Carl Hubbell, American baseball player (d. 1988)
- Ben Pollack, American jazz drummer, bandleader (d. 1971)
- Ben Robertson, American novelist, journalist, and war correspondent (d. 1943)
- June 23
- Louis Seigner, French actor (d. 1991)
- Frances Dewey Wormser, American stage actress, entertainer and vaudeville performer (d. 2008)
- Paul Martin Sr., Canadian politician (d. 1992)
- June 25
- Pierre Brossolette, French journalist, resistance fighter (d. 1944)
- George Orwell, English author (d. 1950)
- Anne Revere, American actress (d. 1990)
- June 26
- Harry DeWolf, Canadian naval officer (d. 2000)
- Big Bill Broonzy, American blues singer, composer (d. 1958) (some sources give his year of birth as 1893)
- June 29
- Max Winter, American businessman, sport executive (d. 1996)
- Alan Blumlein, British electronics engineer (d. 1942)
July- July 1
- Don Beddoe, American character actor (d. 1991)
- Amy Johnson, English aviator (d. 1941)
- July 2
- Harwell Hamilton Harris, American architect (d. 1990)
- Charles Poletti, American lawyer and politician (d. 2002)
- Alec Douglas-Home, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1995)
- King Olav V of Norway (d. 1991)
- July 3 – Ace Bailey, Canadian hockey player (d. 1992)
- July 4
- Corrado Bafile, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 2005)
- Walter Trohan, American journalist (d. 2003)
- Howard Hobson, American basketball player and coach of football, basketball, and baseball (d. 1991)
- July 5
- Edward Woods, American actor (d. 1989)
- Willem Peters, Dutch athlete (d. 1995)
- July 6 – Hugo Theorell, Swedish scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1982)
- July 7
- Gustaf Jonsson, Swedish cross country skier (d. 1990)
- Steven Runciman, English historian (d. 2000)
- July 10 – Werner Best, German SS officer, jurist (d. 1989)
- July 12 – Judith Hare, Countess of Listowel, Hungarian-born journalist, writer (d. 2003)
- July 13
- Olle Hallberg, Swedish long jumper (d. 1996)
- Kenneth Clark, English art historian (d. 1983)
- July 14
- Thomas D. Clark, American historian (d. 2005)
- Henricus Cockuyt, Belgian sprinter (d. 1993)
- July 16 – Mary Philbin, American notable film actress of the silent film era (d. 1993)
- July 18 – Victor Gruen, Austrian-Jewish architect and inventor of the shopping mall (d. 1980)
- July 21 – Roy Neuberger, American financier, art collector (d. 2010)
- July 26 – Estes Kefauver, American politician (d. 1963)
- July 27 – Michail Stasinopoulos, 1st President of Greece (d. 2002)
August- August 3
- Habib Bourguiba, 1st President of Tunisia (d. 2000)
- Fahri Korutürk, 6th President of Turkey (d. 1987)
- August 5 – Prince Nicholas of Romania (d. 1978)
- August 6 – Virginia Foster Durr, American civil rights activist (d. 1999)
- August 7
- Rudolph Ising, American cartoon animator (d. 1992)
- Louis Leakey, British archaeologist (d. 1972)
- August 13 – Chubby Johnson, American actor (d. 1974)
- August 14 – Lodewijk Bruckman, Dutch painter (d. 1995)
- August 19 – James Gould Cozzens, American writer (d. 1978)
- August 24 – Graham Sutherland, English artist (d. 1980)
- August 26 – Ian Dalrymple, British screenwriter, film director and producer (d. 1989)
- August 31
- Arthur Godfrey, American radio, television host (d. 1983)
- Hugh Harman, American cartoon animator (d. 1982)
September- September 2 – Fred Pratt Green, British Methodist minister, hymn writer (d. 2000)
- September 7
- Dorothy Marie Donnelly, American poet (d. 1994)
- Shimaki Kensaku, Japanese author (d. 1945)
- John Kloza, Polish professional baseball player, manager (d. 1962)
- September 8 – Jane Arbor, British writer (d. 1994)
- September 9
- Lev Shankovsky, Ukrainian military historian (d. 1995)
- Edward Upward, English author (d. 2009)
- Phyllis Whitney, American mystery writer (d. 2008)
- September 10 – Cyril Connolly, English critic, writer (d. 1974)
- September 11 – Theodor W. Adorno, German philosopher (d. 1969)
- September 13 – Claudette Colbert, American actress (d. 1996)
- September 15
- Roy Acuff, American country musician (d. 1992)
- Yisrael Kristal, Polish-born Israeli supercentenarian, Holocaust survivor, and former world's oldest living man (d. 2017)
- September 17 – Karel Miljon, Dutch boxer (d. 1984)
- September 21 – Preston Tucker, American automobile designer (d. 1956)
- September 25
- Abul A'la Maududi, Pakistani journalist, theologian, and philosopher (d. 1979)
- Mark Rothko, Latvian-born painter (d. 1970)
- September 28 – Tateo Katō, Japanese fighter ace (d. 1942)
- September 30 – Lyle Goodhue, American chemist, inventor and entomologist (d. 1981)
October- October 1 – Vladimir Horowitz, Russian pianist (d. 1989)
- October 4 – John Vincent Atanasoff, American computer engineer (d. 1995)
- October 5 – M. King Hubbert, American geophysicist (d. 1989)
- October 6 – Ernest Walton, Irish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995)
- October 8 – Ferenc Nagy, 40th Prime Minister of Hungary (d. 1979)
- October 9 – Walter O'Malley, American baseball executive (d. 1979)
- October 10 – Bei Shizhang, Chinese biologist, educator (d. 2009)
- October 16
- Rex Bell, American actor and politician (d. 1962)
- Cecile de Brunhoff, French storyteller (d. 2003)
- October 18 – Lina Radke, German athlete (d. 1983)
- October 22
- George Beadle, American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1989)
- Zlatyu Boyadzhiev, Bulgarian painter (d. 1976)
- Jerome "Curly Howard" Horwitz, American comedian, actor (The Three Stooges) (d. 1952)
- October 23 – Thaddeus B. Hurd, American architect, historian (d. 1989)
- October 25
- Katharine Byron, American politician (d. 1976)
- Harry Shoulberg, American painter (d. 1995)
- October 26 – Bill Allington, American baseball player, manager (d. 1966)
- October 28 – Evelyn Waugh, English writer (d. 1966)
- October 29 – Vivian Ellis, English composer, lyricist (d. 1996)
November- November 1 – Max Adrian, Northern Irish actor (d. 1973)
- November 2 – Edgard Potier, Belgian spy (d. 1944)
- November 3
- Walker Evans, American photographer (d. 1975)
- Charles Rigoulot, French weightlifter (d. 1962)
- November 4 – Watchman Nee, Chinese Christian preacher, church leader (d. 1972)
- November 6 – Carl Rakosi, German-born poet (d. 2004)
- November 7
- Dean Jagger, American actor (d. 1991)
- Konrad Lorenz, Austrian zoologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1989)
- November 8 – Alfred Thambiayah, Ceylon Tamil businessman, politician (d.?)
- November 11 – Blessed Victoria Díez Bustos de Molina, Spanish teacher, religious woman (d. 1936)
- November 12 – Jack Oakie, American actor (d. 1978)
- November 19 – Nancy Carroll, American actress (d. 1965)
- November 25 – DeHart Hubbard, American Olympic athlete (d. 1976)
- November 26 – Alice Herz-Sommer, Czech-British supercentenarian and pianist and teacher (d. 2014)
- November 27 – Lars Onsager, Norwegian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1976)
- November 29 – E. Harold Munn, American temperance movement leader, presidential candidate (d. 1992)
December- December 4
- Lazar Lagin, Soviet writer (d. 1979)
- A. L. Rowse, English historian (d. 1997)
- December 5
- Johannes Heesters, Dutch singer, actor (d. 2011)
- Cecil Frank Powell, British physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1969)
- December 10 – Una Merkel, American actress (d. 1986)
- December 12
- Dagmar Nordstrom, American composer, pianist (d. 1976)
- Yasujirō Ozu, Japanese film director (d. 1963)
- December 13 – Ella Baker, American civil rights activist (d. 1986)
- December 16 – Harold Whitlock, British Olympic athlete (d. 1985)
- December 17 – Erskine Caldwell, American author (d. 1987)
- December 19 – George Davis Snell, American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1996)
- December 22 – Haldan Keffer Hartline, American physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1983)
- December 24 – Joseph Cornell, American sculptor (d. 1972)
- December 26 – Elisha Cook Jr., American actor (d. 1995)
- December 28
- Earl Hines, American jazz pianist (d. 1983)
- John von Neumann, Hungarian-born mathematician (d. 1957)
- December 31 – Nathan Milstein, Ukrainian violinist (d. 1992)
DeathsJanuary–June- January 3 – Alois Hitler, Austrian civil servant, father of Adolf Hitler (b. 1837)
- January 4 – Alexandr Aksakov, Russian writer (b. 1832)
- January 5 – Práxedes Mateo Sagasta, Spanish politician, former Prime Minister (b. 1825)
- January 17 – Quintin Hogg, British philanthropist (b. 1845)
- January 24 – Petko Karavelov, 4th Prime Minister of Bulgaria (b. 1843)
- January 28
- Augusta Holmès, French composer (b. 1847)
- Robert Planquette, French composer (b. 1850)
- February 1 – Sir George Gabriel Stokes, Irish mathematician, physicist (b. 1819)
- February 7 – James Glaisher, English meteorologist, aeronaut (b. 1809)
- February 9 – Sir Charles Duffy, Irish-born Australian politician, 8th Premier of Victoria (b. 1816)
- February 14 – Archduchess Elisabeth Franziska of Austria (b. 1831)
- February 17 – Joseph Parry, Welsh composer (b. 1841)
- February 22 – Hugo Wolf, Austrian composer (b. 1860)
- February 26 – Richard Jordan Gatling, American inventor (b. 1818)
- March 4 – Joseph Henry Shorthouse, English novelist (b. 1834)
- March 5 – Gaston Paris, French scholar (b. 1839)
- March 7 – István Bittó, 7th Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1822)
- March 13 – George Granville Bradley, English vicar, scholar (b. 1821)
- March 16 – Roy Bean, American pioneer (b. 1825)
- March 25 – Sir Hector MacDonald, British army general (b. 1853)
- March 28 – Émile Baudot, French telegraph engineer (b. 1845)
- April 4 – Margaret Ann Neve, English supercentenarian (b. 1792)
- April 11 – Gemma Galgani, Italian mystic, Catholic saint (b. 1878)
- April 13 – Moritz Lazarus, German philosopher (b. 1824)
- April 19 – Sir Oliver Mowat, Canadian politician (b. 1820)
- April 28
- Frances Augusta Hemingway Conant, American journalist (b. 1841)
- Josiah Willard Gibbs, American physical chemist (b. 1839)
- April 29 – Stuart Robson, American stage actor, comedian (b. 1836)
- May 4 – Gotse Delchev, Bulgarian revolutionary (b. 1872)
- May 8 – Paul Gauguin, French painter (b. 1848)
- May 13 – Apolinario Mabini, Filipino political theoretician, Prime Minister of the Philippines (b. 1864)
- June 9 – Gaspar Núñez de Arce, Spanish poet (b. 1834)
- June 11
- Nikolai Bugaev, Russian mathematician (b. 1837)
- Draga Mašin, Serbian queen consort (b. 1861)
- Alexander I, King of Serbia (b. 1876)
- June 19 – Herbert Vaughan, English Catholic cardinal, archbishop (b. 1832)
July–December- July 2 – Ed Delahanty, American baseball player, MLB Hall of Famer (b. 1867)
- July 3 – Harriet Lane, Acting First Lady of the United States (b. 1830)
- July 11 – William Ernest Henley, English poet, critic, and editor (b. 1849)
- July 13 – Béni Kállay, Austro-Hungarian statesman (b. 1839)
- July 17 – James McNeill Whistler, American painter (b. 1834)
- July 20 – Pope Leo XIII, Italian Roman Catholic Pope (b. 1810)
- August 1 – Calamity Jane, American frontierswoman (b. 1852)
- August 3 – Édouard Pottier, French admiral (b. 1839)
- August 5 – Phil May, English artist (b. 1864)
- August 8 – Adolf Schiel, German-born Boer army officer (b. 1858)
- August 11 – Eugenio María de Hostos, Puerto Rican philosopher, sociologist (b. 1839)
- August 17 – Hans Gude, Norwegian painter (b. 1825)
- August 22 – Lord Salisbury, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1830)
- August 23 – Fray Mocho, Argentine writer (b. 1858)
- September 2 – Julia McNair Wright, American author (b. 1840)
- September 13 – Carl Schuch, Austrian painter (b. 1846)
- September 18 – Alexander Bain, Scottish philosopher (b. 1818)
- October 4 – Otto Weininger, Austrian-Jewish author (b. 1880)
- October 20 – Thomas Vincent Welch, American politician (b. 1850)
- October 22 – William Edward Hartpole Lecky, Irish historian, member of the House of Commons (b. 1838)
- November 1 – Theodor Mommsen, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1817)
- November 11 – Lavilla Esther Allen, American author (b. 1834)
- November 13 – Camille Pissarro, French painter (b. 1830)
- November 25 – Sabino Arana, Spanish Basque writer, nationalist (b. 1865)
- December 8 – Herbert Spencer, English philosopher (b. 1820)
- December 27 – Lydia Hoyt Farmer, American author, women's rights activist (b. 1842)
- December 29 – Jerome Sykes, American actor (b. 1868)
Unknown datae- Mary Elizabeth Beauchamp, American educator and author (b. 1825)
- Margaret Frances Sullivan, Irish-born American author, journalist, and editor (b. 1847)
Nobel Prizes- Physics – Antoine Henri Becquerel, Pierre Curie, and Marie Curie
- Chemistry – Svante August Arrhenius
- Medicine – Niels Ryberg Finsen
- Literature – Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
- Peace – William Randal Cremer
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