About the day » Sunday October 4, 1903Calender converter

• Adrianus Gerardus Roothans, Dommelen
• Aaltje Palsgraaf, Moordrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Afonso Rodolfo Kaesemodel, São Bento do Sul, Santa Catarina, Brasil († 1965)
• Alberdina Moorman, Barger-Oosterveen, Emmen
• Alidor BULCKE, Merkem, België († 1903)
• Alberdina Eleveld, Vledder, Drenthe, Nederland
• Alida Klazina Adriana van der Hoeven, Berkel en Rodenrijs
• Alie Palsgraaf, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1970)
• Alberdina Moorman-, Emmen, Nederland
• Alida BRONS, Amsterdam († 1986)

• Arie Dulk den (1), 's-Gravenhage
• Arnoldus Hubert Hendrix (80), Roermond (Roermond) (Limburg)
• Augustinus Verheyen (84), Herentals
• Amelberga Cordula DECLERCQ (67), Roeselare
• Benjamin Anderson Hunt Jr (87), College Hill, Hamilton County, Ohio, United States of America
• Catharina Henderika van Munster (53), Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
• Adriana Johanna Schipper (0), Naarden
• Anna Margaretha Langeveld (30), Hillegom
• Bouwe Onstwedder (59), Borger, Drenthe, NL
• Arnoldus Hubertus Hendrix (80), Roermond

• 1896 » Dorothy Lawrence, English reporter, who secretly posed as a man to become a soldier during World War I († 1964)
• 1900 » August Mälk, Estonian author and playwright († 1987)
• 1903 » Bona Arsenault, Canadian genealogist, historian, and politician († 1993)
• 1903 » Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Austrian-German lawyer and general († 1946)
• 1903 » John Vincent Atanasoff, American physicist and academic, invented the Atanasoff-Berry computer († 1995)
• 1903 » Pierre Garbay, French general († 1980)
• 1906 » Mary Celine Fasenmyer, American mathematician († 1996)
• 1907 » Alain Daniélou, French-Swiss historian and academic († 1994)
• 1910 » Cahit Sıtkı Tarancı, Turkish poet and author († 1956)
• 1910 » Frankie Crosetti, American baseball player and coach († 2002)

• 1864 » Joseph Montferrand, Canadian logger and strongman (b. 1802)
• 1867 » Francis Xavier Seelos, German-American priest and missionary (b. 1819)
• 1871 » Sarel Cilliers, South African spiritual leader and preacher (b. 1801)
• 1890 » Catherine Booth, English theologian and saint, co-founded The Salvation Army (b. 1829)
• 1903 » Otto Weininger, Austrian philosopher and author (b. 1880)
• 1904 » Carl Josef Bayer, Austrian chemist and academic (b. 1847)
• 1904 » Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, French sculptor, designed the Statue of Liberty (b. 1834)
• 1910 » Sergey Muromtsev, Russian lawyer and politician (b. 1850)
• 1935 » Jean Béraud, French painter and academic (b. 1849)
• 1935 » Marie Gutheil-Schoder, German soprano, actress, and director (b. 1874)

• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 5.3 million citizens.
• February 23 » Cuba leases Guantánamo Bay to the United States "in perpetuity".
• March 2 » In New York City the Martha Washington Hotel opens, becoming the first hotel exclusively for women.
• April 19 » The Kishinev pogrom in Kishinev (Bessarabia) begins, forcing tens of thousands of Jews to later seek refuge in Palestine and the Western world.
• May 29 » In the May Coup, Alexander I, King of Serbia, and Queen Draga, are assassinated in Belgrade by the Black Hand (Crna Ruka) organization.
• August 3 » Macedonian rebels in Kruševo proclaim the Kruševo Republic, which exists for only ten days before Ottoman Turks lay waste to the town.
• October 31 » The Purdue Wreck, a railroad train collision in Indianapolis, kills 17 people, including 14 players of the Purdue University football team.

The temperature on October 4, 1903 was between 11.4 °C and 15.0 °C and averaged 12.8 °C.