About the day » Sunday February 22, 1903Calender converter

• Akke Westra, Dantumadeel
• Allegonda Petronella Catharina (Gonneke) Broeders, Oosterhout, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aafke Arendse, delft
• Aaltje Blokzijl, Hoogeveen, Nederland († 1930)
• Aaltje Jozina Boot, Hooge en Lage Zwaluwe, Noord-Brabant, The Netherlands († 1903)
• van Ham, Vessem
• Adrianus Johannes Schipperen, Raamsdonksveer († 1972)
• Aaltje Bos, Urk
• Alida Laan, Spanbroek († 1982)
• Aaltje Pruim, Emmer-Compascuum, Emmen († 1910)

• Ary Stolk (0), Rotterdam Z.H
• Arend Jan Kwast (0), Hengelo
• Auguste Else Faustmann (0), Mittel Driebitz
• Aart Blanken (51), Gameren
• Annie Lorine Todd (0), Wood, West Virginia, United States
• Arnoldus Johannes Hoonakker (70), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland Nederland
• Adriana Maria Koppers (76), Den Haag,-
• Alexander Hufford Ratliff (41), Kirkwood, Crawford, Kansas
• Agniesa Zwankhuizen (0), Weesp, NH, The Netherlands
• Adriana Eijkemans (71), Sint-Oedenrode, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1897 » Karol Świerczewski, Polish general († 1947)
• 1899 » George O'Hara, American actor and screenwriter († 1966)
• 1900 » Luis Buñuel, Spanish-Mexican director and producer († 1983)
• 1903 » Frank P. Ramsey, English economist, mathematician, and philosopher († 1930)
• 1903 » Morley Callaghan, Canadian author and playwright († 1990)
• 1906 » Constance Stokes, Australian painter († 1991)
• 1907 » Robert Young, American actor († 1998)
• 1907 » Sheldon Leonard, American actor, director, and producer († 1997)
• 1908 » John Mills, English soldier and actor († 2005)
• 1908 » Rómulo Betancourt, Venezuelan politician, 56th President of Venezuela († 1981)

• 1888 » Anna Kingsford, English physician and activist (b. 1846)
• 1890 » Carl Bloch, Danish painter and academic (b. 1834)
• 1890 » John Jacob Astor III, American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1822)
• 1897 » Charles Blondin, French tightrope walker and acrobat (b. 1824)
• 1898 » Heungseon Daewongun, Korean king (b. 1820)
• 1903 » Hugo Wolf, Austrian composer (b. 1860)
• 1904 » Leslie Stephen, English historian, author, and critic (b. 1832)
• 1913 » Ferdinand de Saussure, Swiss linguist and author (b. 1857)
• 1913 » Francisco I. Madero, Mexican president and author (b. 1873)
• 1923 » Théophile Delcassé, French politician, French Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1852)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Pieter
6. Willem
7. Gerrit
8. Adrianus
9. Petrus
10. Jacob
11. Jacobus
12. Arie
13. Dirk
14. Wilhelmus
15. Hendrikus
16. Gerardus

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Wilhelmina
6. Elisabeth
7. Adriana
8. Catharina
9. Hendrika
10. Jacoba
11. Petronella
12. Geertruida
13. Aaltje
14. Grietje
15. Neeltje
16. Trijntje

• 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".
• 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.
• April 26 » Atlético Madrid Association football club is founded
• September 11 » The first race at the Milwaukee Mile in West Allis, Wisconsin is held. It is the oldest major speedway in the world.
• October 1 » Baseball: The Boston Americans play the Pittsburgh Pirates in the first game of the modern World Series.
• December 17 » The Wright brothers make the first controlled powered, heavier-than-air flight in the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.

The temperature on February 22, 1903 was between 6.1 °C and 12.0 °C and averaged 8.8 °C.