1903 in the United Kingdom

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1903 in the United Kingdom:

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Events from the year 1903 in the United Kingdom.

Contents 1 Events 1.1 Unknown dates 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 References

[edit] Events

• 1 January - Edward VII is proclaimed Emperor of India.
• 19 January - First transatlantic radio broadcast between United States and Britain.
• 3 March - British admiralty announces plans to build naval base at Rosyth.
• 14 April - Aberdeen Football Club was formed.
• 7 July - British take over the Fulani empire.
• 14 September - Joseph Chamberlain resigns as Colonial Secretary.
• 10 October - Foundation of the Women's Social and Political Union.

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• William Randal Cremer wins the Nobel Peace Prize. ^[1]
• Bradford City Football Club is established.

[edit] Births

• 22 February - Frank P. Ramsey, mathematician (d. 1930)
• 4 March - Dorothy Mackaill, British-born American actress (d. 1990)
• 31 March - H. J. Blackham, humanist and author
• 15 April - John Williams, actor (d. 1983)
• 20 May - Barbara Hepworth, sculptor (d. 1975)
• 29 May - Bob Hope, British-born comedian (d. 2003)
• 19 June - Wally Hammond, cricketer (d. 1965)
• 25 June - George Orwell, author (d. 1950)
• 29 June - Alan Blumlein, electronics engineer (d. 1942)
• 1 July - Amy Johnson, aviator (d. 1941)
• 2 July - Alec Douglas-Home, Prime Minister (d. 1995)
• 10 July - John Wyndham, author (d. 1969)
• 13 July - Kenneth Clark, art historian (d. 1983)
• 7 August - Louis Leakey, archaeologist (d. 1972)
• 23 August - William Primrose, violist (d. 1982)
• 24 August - Graham Sutherland, artist (d. 1980)
• 9 September - Edward Upward, author
• 28 October - Evelyn Waugh, writer (d. 1966)
• 1 November - Max Adrian, actor (d. 1973)
• 5 December - Cecil Frank Powell, physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1969)
• 12 December - A. L. Rowse, historian (d. 1997)

[edit] Deaths

• 17 January - Quintin Hogg, philanthropist (b. 1845)
• 1 February - Sir George Gabriel Stokes, mathematician and physicist (b. 1819)
• 7 February - James Glaisher, meteorologist and aeronaut (b. 1809)
• 4 March - Joseph Henry Shorthouse, novelist (b. 1834)
• 13 March - George Granville Bradley, vicar and scholar (b. 1821)
• 19 June - Herbert Vaughan, Catholic cardinal and archbishop (b. 1832)
• 11 July - William Ernest Henley, poet, critic, and editor (b. 1849)
• 5 August - Phil May, artist (b. 1864)
• 22 August - Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1830)
• 18 September - Alexander Bain, philosopher (b. 1818)
• 8 December - Herbert Spencer, philosopher (b. 1820)

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