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Paul Gauguin
French painter and printmaker (1848–1903)
Theodor Mommsen
German classical scholar and historian (1817–1903)
Herbert Spencer
English philosopher and political theorist (1820–1903)
Leo XIII
Pope of the Catholic Church from 1878 to 1903 (1810–1903)
Camille Pissarro
Danish-French painter (1830-1903)
Josiah Willard Gibbs
American scientist (1839–1903)
James McNeill Whistler
American painter (1834-1903)
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury
British politician and prime minister (1830-1903)
Otto Weininger
Austrian philosopher and writer (1880-1903)
Alois Hitler
Austrian civil servant; father of Adolf Hitler (1837-1903)
Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet
Irish mathematician and physicist (1819–1903)
Alexander I of Serbia
king of Serbia 1889-1903
Hugo Wolf
Austrian composer (1860–1903)
Sabino Arana
Basque nationalist, writer and politician (1865–1903)
Harriet Lane
First Lady of the United States from 1857 to 1861
Vasili Dokuchayev
Russian soil scientist (1846-1903)
Apolinario Mabini
Prime Minister of the Philippines in 1899
Frederick Law Olmsted
American landscape designer, journalist, social critic, and public administrator (1822-1903)
George Gissing
English novelist (1857–1903)
Alexander Bain
Scottish philosopher and educationalist (1818–1903)
Giuseppe Zanardelli
Prime Minister of Italy (1826-1903)
Calamity Jane
American scout and frontierswoman
Gotse Delchev
Macedonian Bulgarian revolutionary (1872–1903)
Gemma Galgani
Italian saint (1878-1903)
Práxedes Mateo Sagasta
Spanish politician (1825–1903)
Richard Jordan Gatling
American firearm designer (1818–1903)
Draga Mašin
Queen of Serbia (1861-1903)
Nikolai Fyodorovich Fyodorov
Russian philosopher and life extensionist (1829-1903)
William Ernest Henley
English poet, critic and editor (1849–1903)
Sophie Gengembre Anderson
French-born British artist (1823-1903)
Gaston Paris
French medievalist and writer (1839-1903)
Hans Gude
Norwegian painter (1825–1903)
Émile Baudot
French engineer (1845-1903)
Luigi Cremona
Italian mathematician (1830-1903)
Charles Bernard Renouvier
French philosopher
Paul du Chaillu
French-American anthropologist, zoologist and traveler
Rudolf Lipschitz
German mathematician (1832-1903)
Emily Warren Roebling
US civil engineer, helped complete the Brooklyn Bridge (1843-1903)
Antonio Rotta
Italian painter (1828-1903)
Archduchess Elisabeth Franziska of Austria
Austrian noblewoman (1831 - 1903)
Marcel Renault
French racing driver (1872–1903)
Carl Gegenbaur
German scientist (1826–1903)
Kusumoto Ine
the first female doctor of Western medicine in Japan
James Glaisher
British meteorologist and aeronaut (1809-1903)
Nicolaas Beets
Dutch theologian, professor, writer and poet, also known as Hildebrand (1814-1903)
Ernest Legouvé
French dramatist (1807–1903)
Camillo Sitte
Austrian architect, painter and urbanist (1843-1903)
Robert Planquette
French composer of songs and operettas (1848–1903)
Girolamo de Rada
Italian writer of Arbëresh descent (1814–1903)
Konstantinos Paspatis
Greek tennis player (1878-1903)
Auguste Kerckhoffs
Dutch linguist and cryptographer (1835–1903)
Malwida Freiin von Meysenbug
German author (1816–1903)
Petko Karavelov
Bulgarian politician (1843-1903)
Augusta Holmès
French composer of British-Irish origin
Ozaki Kōyō
Japanese writer (1868-1903)
Lina Sandell
Swedish poet, author, hymnwriter (1832–1903)
Gustav Radde
German naturalist and explorer (1831–1903)
Miltiadis Gouskos
Track and field competitor, Greek champion, and Olympic medallist
Adrien Proust
Marcel Proust's father (1834–1903)
Henri Alexis Brialmont
Belgian military engineer and writer (1821-1903)