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What Happened In January 1903 In History

Historical Events for January, 1903

  • 9th » Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson, son of the poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson or Alfred Tennyson, becomes the second Governor-General of Australia.
  • 17th » El Yunque National Forest in Puerto Rico becomes part of the United States National Forest System as the Luquillo Forest Reserve.

Famous Birthdays on January in 1903

  • 5th » Harold Gatty, Australian navigator (d. 1957)
  • 6th » Maurice Abravanel, Greek-American conductor (d. 1993)
  • 6th » Francis L. Sullivan, English actor (d. 1956)
  • 7th » Ioannis Despotopoulos, Greek architect (d. 1992)
  • 7th » Alan Napier, English actor (d. 1988)
  • 10th » Barbara Hepworth, English sculptor (d. 1975)
  • 10th » Voldemar Väli, Estonian wrestler (d. 1997)
  • 10th » Violet Wilkey, American actress (d. 1976)
  • 11th » Alan Paton, South African author and activist (d. 1988)
  • 12th » Igor Kurchatov, Russian physicist (d. 1960)
  • 15th » Paul A. Dever, American politician, 58th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1958)
  • 16th » William Grover-Williams, English-French race car driver (d. 1945)
  • 17th » Warren Hull, American actor (d. 1974)
  • 22nd » Fritz Houtermans, Polish physicist (d. 1966)
  • 22nd » Robin Milford, English composer (d. 1959)
  • 23rd » Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, Colombian politician, Mayor of Bogotá (d. 1948)
  • 27th » John Carew Eccles, Australian neurophysiologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine named Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1997)
  • 27th » Otto P. Weyland, American general (d. 1979)
  • 28th » Aleksander Kamiński, Polish author and educator (d. 1978)

Famous Deaths for January 1903

  • 3rd » Alois Hitler, Austrian civil servant (b. 1837)
  • 4th » Topsy (elephant) named Topsy American elephant (b. 1875)
  • 4th » Gulstan Ropert, American missionary (b. 1839)
  • 17th » Ignaz Wechselmann, Hungarian architect and philanthropist (b. 1828)
  • 28th » Augusta Holmès, French composer (b. 1847)

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