Famous Deaths for Year 1903
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Deaths 1 - 85 of 85
Jan 3rd - Alois Hitler, father of Adolf Hitler (b. 1837)
Jan 4th - Geo[rge J H] Poggenbeek, Dutch surrealist painter, dies at 49
Jan 4th - W H M "Dicky" Richards, cricketer (score 4 & 0 in Test for S Af), dies
Jan 4th - Gulstan Ropert, Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1839)
Jan 4th - Topsy the elephant (b. circa 1875)
Jan 17th - Ignaz Wechselmann, Hungarian architect and philanthropist (b. 1828)
Jan 21st - Hermanus J A M Schaepman, Dutch clergyman/politician, dies at 58
Jan 28th - Augusta Mary Anne Holmes, composer, dies at 55
Jan 28th - Jean Robert Planquette, composer, dies at 54
Feb 1st - George G Stokes, British physicist/pres Royal Society, dies at 83
Feb 3rd - Frederick E Kitziger, composer, dies at 59
Feb 11th - Henryk Szulc, composer, dies at 67
Feb 12th - Gaspar Núñez de Arce, Spanish dramatist and statesman (b. 1834)
Feb 15th - Julie Verstraete-Lacquet, Flemish actress, dies at 69
Feb 17th - Joseph Parry, composer, dies at 61
Feb 22nd - Frederick William Farrar, writer/dean (Canterbury 1895-1903), dies
Feb 22nd - Hugo Filipp Jakob Wolf, Austrian composer (Corregidor), dies at 42
Feb 23rd - Albert Cahen, composer, dies at 57
Feb 23rd - Friedrich Grutzmacher, composer, dies at 70
Feb 26th - Richard J Gatling, US inventor (Gatling Gun), dies at 84
Feb 28th - Girolamo/Jeromin de Rada, Albanian poet, dies at 88
Mar 4th - Joseph H Shorthouse, English writer (John Inglesant), dies at 68
Mar 5th - George Francis Robert Henderson, British soldier (b. 1854)
Mar 13th - Nicolas Beets [Hildebrand], Dutch writer (Camera Obscura), dies at 88
Mar 14th - Johannes H Weissenbruch, Dutch landscape painter, dies at 88
Mar 16th - Roy Bean, American jurist
Apr 11th - Gemma Galgani, Italian saint, dies at 25
Apr 13th - Derk J A Haspels, Dutch actor, dies at 65
Apr 29th - Paul du Chaillu, French explorer (b. 1835)
Apr 30th - Emily Stowe, Canadian physician and suffragist (b.1831)
May 1st - Arthur Haygarth, cricketer (compiler of "Scores & Biographies"), dies
May 1st - Luigi Arditi, violist/composer, dies at 80
May 4th - Goce Delchev, a revolutionary from the Balkans - leader of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (b. 1872)
May 8th - Eugene-Henri-Paul Gauguin, French painter (Tahiti), dies
May 16th - Eduard Rappoldi, composer, dies at 72
May 19th - Arthur Shrewsbury, cricketer (1277 runs at 35 47 in 23 Tests), dies
May 29th - Bruce Price, American architect (b. 1845)
Jun 10th - Alexander I, King of Serbia are assassinated
Jun 10th - Dragia, Queen of Serbia, assassinated
Jun 10th - Luigi Cremona, Italian mathematician (grafostatica), dies
Jun 11th - Draga Masin, wife of Serbian king Aleksandar I, murdered at 35
Jun 11th - Nikolai Bugaev, Russian mathematician (b. 1837)
Jun 22nd - George White, black resident of Delaware, lynched
Jun 29th - Rentaro Taki, composer, dies at 23
Jul 2nd - Ed Delahanty, American Hall of Fame baseball player (b. 1867)
Jul 7th - Ferreira Veiga, Viscount d' Arneiro, composer, dies at 64
Jul 7th - Jose Augusto da Ferreira Veiga, composer, dies at 64
Jul 9th - Alphonse François Renard, Belgian geologist (b. 1842)
Jul 13th - August Reissmann, composer, dies at 77
Jul 17th - James A McNeill Whistler, US/Brit writer (Bride Tomorrow), dies at 69
Jul 20th - Leo XIII, [Vincenzo G Pecci], Pope (1878-1903), dies at 93
Jul 22nd - Cassius Marcellus Clay, American emancipationist (b. 1810)
Jul 30th - Servas Daems, [Peeter Klein], Flem writer (Wheelbarrows), dies at 65
Aug 2nd - Martha Jane Cannary, [Calamity Jane], US desperado, dies
Aug 2nd - Edmond Nocard, French veterinarian (b. 1850)
Aug 11th - Eugenio Maria de Hostos, Puerto Rican educator and nationalist (b. 1839)
Aug 22nd - Robert A T G C Salisbury, British premier (1885..1902), dies at 73
Aug 23rd - Paul J C Gabriel, Dutch water colors painter/etcher, dies at 75
Aug 28th - August Labitzky, composer, dies at 70
Aug 28th - Frederick Law Olmsted, American landscape architect (b. 1822)
Aug 30th - Vincente F Lopez, historian (Historia the Chile), dies at 87
Sep 1st - Charles Renouvier, French philosopher (neo criticism), dies
Sep 3rd - Joseph Skipsey, British poet (b. 1832)
Sep 4th - Herman Zumpe, composer, dies at 53
Sep 6th - Charles Ammi Cutter, US bibliographer, dies at 66
Sep 18th - Isidor Vorobchievici, composer, dies at 67
Sep 18th - Theodore Furchtegott Kirchner, composer, dies at 79
Sep 28th - Jesus Monasterio, composer, dies at 67
Oct 3rd - Benedetto Junck, composer, dies at 51
Oct 4th - Otto Weininger, Austrian philosopher (b. 1880)
Oct 7th - Rudolf Lipschitz, German mathematician (b. 1832)
Oct 23rd - Francis Ellingwood Abbot, theologian (Scientific Theism), dies at 66
Oct 26th - Herbert Stanley Oakeley, composer, dies at 73
Oct 26th - Victorin de Joncieres, composer, dies at 64
Nov 1st - [Christian M] Theodor Mommsen, German historian (Nobel 1902), dies
Nov 13th - Wilhelm von Polenz, German author (Country of Zukunft), dies
Nov 13th - Camille Pissarro, French painter (b. 1830)
Nov 24th - Charles Dupee Blake, composer, dies at 56
Dec 2nd - Victor Roger, composer, dies at 50
Dec 6th - Frederick Grant Gleason, composer, dies at 54
Dec 8th - Herbert Spencer, British engineer/philosopher, dies at 83
Dec 11th - Patrick McShane, cricket player/ump (1884-85 Ashes series), dies
Dec 14th - William Ennis, 1st cop to die in electric chair
Dec 20th - Gavriil Musicescu, composer, dies at 56
Dec 28th - George [Robert] Gissing, English novelist, dies at 46
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