Notable Deaths - 1903
1903 Deaths
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 3 |
Alois Hitler, father of Adolf Hitler (b. 1837) |
Jan 4 |
Geo[rge J H] Poggenbeek, Dutch surrealist painter, dies at 49 |
Jan 4 |
W H M "Dicky" Richards, cricketer (score 4 & 0 in Test for S Af), dies |
Jan 4 |
Gulstan Ropert, Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1839) |
Jan 4 |
Topsy the elephant (b. circa 1875) |
Jan 9 |
Daniel H. Hastings, Governor Hastings and Mounted Police |
Jan 17 |
Ignaz Wechselmann, Hungarian architect and philanthropist (b. 1828) |
Jan 21 |
Hermanus J A M Schaepman, Dutch clergyman/politician, dies at 58 |
Jan 28 |
Augusta Mary Anne Holmes, composer, dies at 55 |
Jan 28 |
Jean Robert Planquette, composer, dies at 54 |
Jan 28 |
Robert Planquette, Maytime |
Feb 1 |
George G Stokes, British physicist/pres Royal Society, dies at 83 |
Feb 3 |
Frederick E Kitziger, composer, dies at 59 |
Feb 11 |
Henryk Szulc, composer, dies at 67 |
Feb 12 |
Gaspar Núñez de Arce, Spanish dramatist and statesman (b. 1834) |
Feb 15 |
Julie Verstraete-Lacquet, Flemish actress, dies at 69 |
Feb 17 |
Joseph Parry, composer, dies at 61 |
Feb 22 |
Frederick William Farrar, writer/dean (Canterbury 1895-1903), dies |
Feb 22 |
Hugo Filipp Jakob Wolf, Austrian composer (Corregidor), dies at 42 |
Feb 22 |
Hugo Wolf, The Music Teacher |
Feb 23 |
Albert Cahen, composer, dies at 57 |
Feb 23 |
Friedrich Grutzmacher, composer, dies at 70 |
Feb 26 |
Richard J Gatling, US inventor (Gatling Gun), dies at 84 |
Feb 28 |
Girolamo/Jeromin de Rada, Albanian poet, dies at 88 |
Mar 4 |
Joseph H Shorthouse, English writer (John Inglesant), dies at 68 |
Mar 5 |
George Francis Robert Henderson, British soldier (b. 1854) |
Mar 6 |
Gaston Paulin, Pauvre Pierrot |
Mar 13 |
Nicolas Beets [Hildebrand], Dutch writer (Camera Obscura), dies at 88 |
Mar 14 |
Johannes H Weissenbruch, Dutch landscape painter, dies at 88 |
Mar 14 |
Ernest Legouve, Adriana Lecouvreur |
Mar 16 |
Roy Bean, American jurist |
Mar 17 |
Lõrinc Tóth, Hunyadi László |
Apr 11 |
Gemma Galgani, Italian saint, dies at 25 |
Apr 13 |
Derk J A Haspels, Dutch actor, dies at 65 |
Apr 29 |
Paul du Chaillu, French explorer (b. 1835) |
Apr 30 |
Emily Stowe, Canadian physician and suffragist (b.1831) |
May 1 |
Arthur Haygarth, cricketer (compiler of "Scores & Biographies"), dies |
May 1 |
Luigi Arditi, violist/composer, dies at 80 |
May 1 |
Luigi Arditi, Every Sunday |
May 4 |
Goce Delchev, a revolutionary from the Balkans - leader of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (b. 1872) |
May 8 |
Eugene-Henri-Paul Gauguin, French painter (Tahiti), dies |
May 8 |
Paul Gauguin, Gauguin |
May 16 |
Eduard Rappoldi, composer, dies at 72 |
May 19 |
Arthur Shrewsbury, cricketer (1277 runs at 35 47 in 23 Tests), dies |
May 29 |
Bruce Price, American architect (b. 1845) |
Jun 10 |
Alexander I, King of Serbia are assassinated |
Jun 10 |
Dragia, Queen of Serbia, assassinated |
Jun 10 |
Luigi Cremona, Italian mathematician (grafostatica), dies |
Jun 11 |
Draga Masin, wife of Serbian king Aleksandar I, murdered at 35 |
Jun 11 |
Nikolai Bugaev, Russian mathematician (b. 1837) |
Jun 22 |
George White, black resident of Delaware, lynched |
Jun 29 |
Rentaro Taki, composer, dies at 23 |
Jul 2 |
Ed Delahanty, American Hall of Fame baseball player (b. 1867) |
Jul 7 |
Ferreira Veiga, Viscount d' Arneiro, composer, dies at 64 |
Jul 7 |
Jose Augusto da Ferreira Veiga, composer, dies at 64 |
Jul 9 |
Alphonse François Renard, Belgian geologist (b. 1842) |
Jul 11 |
William Ernest Henley, The Captain |
Jul 13 |
August Reissmann, composer, dies at 77 |
Jul 17 |
James A McNeill Whistler, US/Brit writer (Bride Tomorrow), dies at 69 |
Jul 20 |
Leo XIII, [Vincenzo G Pecci], Pope (1878-1903), dies at 93 |
Jul 20 |
Leo XIII, M.H. Pope Leo in a Chair |
Jul 22 |
Cassius Marcellus Clay, American emancipationist (b. 1810) |
Jul 23 |
B.L. Farjeon, Miriam Rozella |
Jul 30 |
Servas Daems, [Peeter Klein], Flem writer (Wheelbarrows), dies at 65 |
Aug 1 |
Calamity Jane [Martha Jane Canary], American frontierswoman, dies at 51 |
Aug 2 |
Edmond Nocard, French veterinarian (b. 1850) |
Aug 11 |
Eugenio Maria de Hostos, Puerto Rican educator and nationalist (b. 1839) |
Aug 22 |
Robert A T G C Salisbury, British premier (1885..1902), dies at 73 |
Aug 22 |
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, |
Aug 23 |
Paul J C Gabriel, Dutch water colors painter/etcher, dies at 75 |
Aug 28 |
August Labitzky, composer, dies at 70 |
Aug 28 |
Frederick Law Olmsted, American writer and landscape architect (designed Central Park) dies aged 81 |
Aug 30 |
Vincente F Lopez, historian (Historia the Chile), dies at 87 |
Sep 1 |
Charles Renouvier, French philosopher (neo criticism), dies |
Sep 3 |
Joseph Skipsey, British poet (b. 1832) |
Sep 4 |
Herman Zumpe, composer, dies at 53 |
Sep 6 |
Charles Ammi Cutter, US bibliographer, dies at 66 |
Sep 18 |
Isidor Vorobchievici, composer, dies at 67 |
Sep 18 |
Theodore Furchtegott Kirchner, German composer, dies at 79 |
Sep 21 |
Frederick S. Gibbs, F.S. Gibbs and Family |
Sep 28 |
Jesus Monasterio, composer, dies at 67 |
Sep 28 |
Samuel A. Ward, The Sandlot |
Oct 3 |
Benedetto Junck, composer, dies at 51 |
Oct 4 |
Otto Weininger, Austrian philosopher (b. 1880) |
Oct 7 |
Rudolf Lipschitz, German mathematician (b. 1832) |
Oct 9 |
Camille du Locle, Aida |
Oct 11 |
Richard Henry Savage, My Official Wife |
Oct 23 |
Francis Ellingwood Abbot, theologian (Scientific Theism), dies at 66 |
Oct 26 |
Herbert Stanley Oakeley, composer, dies at 73 |
Oct 26 |
Victorin de Joncieres, composer, dies at 64 |
Oct 30 |
Koyo Ozaki, Konjiki yasha |
Nov 1 |
[Christian M] Theodor Mommsen, German historian (Nobel 1902), dies |
Nov 13 |
Wilhelm von Polenz, German author (Country of Zukunft), dies |
Nov 13 |
Camille Pissarro, French Impressionist painter (b. 1830) |
Nov 20 |
Tom Horn, American gunfighter and outlaw, hanged to death at 42 |
Nov 20 |
H.P. Danks, Barfly |
Nov 24 |
Charles Dupee Blake, composer, dies at 56 |
Dec 2 |
Victor Roger, composer, dies at 50 |
Dec 6 |
Frederick Grant Gleason, composer, dies at 54 |
Dec 8 |
Herbert Spencer, British engineer/philosopher, dies at 83 |
Dec 11 |
Patrick McShane, cricket player/ump (1884-85 Ashes series), dies |
Dec 14 |
William Ennis, 1st cop to die in electric chair |
Dec 20 |
Gavriil Musicescu, composer, dies at 56 |
Dec 28 |
George [Robert] Gissing, English novelist, dies at 46 |
Dec 28 |
George Gissing, The Turning Point |
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