Centuries:
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
Events:
Art, Culture & Fashion
Births:
- January 9 - Simone de Beauvoir, feminist philosopher
- January 12 - Jean Delannoy[?], film director
- January 14 - Rus Columbo[?], singer, bandleader, composer
- January 15 - Edward Teller
- January 26 - Stéphane Grappelli, musician, composer (+ 1997)
- January 27 - Oran "Hot Lips" Page[?], jazz trumpet (+ 1954)
- February 1 - George Pal[?], director, producer (+ 1980)
- February 5 - Daisy and Violet Hilton[?], conjoined twins, actresses (+ 1969)
- February 7 - Buster Crabbe, Olympic Games swimming gold medalist, actor
- February 8 - Emil Staiger[?], scientist of literature (+ 1987)
- February 11 - Sutan Takdir Alishahbana[?], Indonesian linguistic/author/novelist.
- February 11 - Vivian Ernest Fuchs[?], geologist/explorer.
- February 11 - Josh White[?], musician
- February 15 - HAP Grieshaber[?], painter and graphic artist (+ 1981)
- February 17 - Red Barber[?], baseball announcer, sports journalist (+ 1992)
- February 22 - John Mills, actor
- February 26 - Tex Avery, cartoonist (+ 1980)
- February 26 - Jean-Pierre Wimille[?], race car driver (+ 1949)
- February 29 - Balthus[?], painter (+ 2001)
- February 29 - Dee Brown, writer, historian (+ 2002)
- March 2 - Walter Bruch[?], engineer (+ 1990)
- March 5 - Rex Harrison, actor (+ 1990)
- March 8 - Claire Trevor[?], actress
- March 7 - Anna Magnani, actress (+ 1973)
- March 13 - Walter Annenberg, publisher, philanthropist (+ 2002)
- March 17 - Brigitte Helm[?], actress (+ 1996)
- March 20 - Sir Michael Redgrave, actor (+ 1985)
- March 22 - Louis L'Amour[?], author (+ 1988)
- March 23 - Joan Crawford, actor (+ 1977)
- March 25 - Helmut Käutner[?], actor and film director (+ 1980)
- March 25 - David Lean, film director (+ 1991)
- March 29 - Arthur O'Connell[?], actor (+ 1981)
- April 2 - Buddy Ebsen, actor, dancer
- April 5 - Bette Davis, US-american actress (+ 1989)
- April 5 - Herbert von Karajan, Austrian conductor (+ 1989)
- April 7 - Percy Faith[?], composer, musician (+ 1976)
- April 25 - Edward R. Murrow, journalist (+ 1965)
- May 7 - Max Grundig[?], industrialist (+ 1989)
- May 19 - Percy Williams, Canadian athlete (+ 1982)
- May 20 - Jimmy Stewart, American actor
- May 23 - John Bardeen, physicist (+ 1991)
- May 25 - Theodore Roethke, American poet
- May 28 - Ian Fleming, author of James Bond books (+ 1964)
- May 30 - Mel Blanc, voice actor
- May 31 - Don Ameche[?] (actor)
- August 27 - Don Bradman, cricket player
- August 27 - Lyndon Johnson, 36th president of the United States
- November 28 - Claude Levi-Strauss
- December 10 - Olivier Messiaen, composer
Deaths:
Nobel Prizes: