About the day » Monday May 18, 1903Calender converter

• Aaltje Venema, Oostwold († 1992)
• Keikes († 1903)
• André Ernest Joseph LEGAY, Divion,62460,Pas-de-Calais,Hauts-de-France,FRANCE († 1997)
• Alida Bol, Zandvoort, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1972)
• de Bruin, Sliedrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Albert Kiewiet, Smilde, Drenthe, Nederland († 1995)
• Albert Willem van der Meij, Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Krol, Drunen († 1903)
• Walsma, Michigan, VS († 1903)
• Alberdena Brink, Bemis, Deuel County, South Dakota, Verenigde Staten († 1972)

• de Jong (0), Leeuwarden, Friesland, Netherlands
• Adrianus FORTUIN (14), Strijen
• Augustinus Antonius Nootebos (1), Purmerend
• Adriaantje de Quartel (82), Hazerswoude, Nederland
• Antonie Johannes van Rijswijk (85), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Arentje FIRET (69), Maassluis (Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands)
• Arendje Firet (69), Maassluis
• Aris Cornelisz Rab (83)
• Aris Rab (83), Den Hoorn
• Anna Cornelia Pulskens (36), Tilburg, Gemeente Tilburg, North Brabant, Netherlands

• 1897 » Frank Capra, Italian-American director, producer, and screenwriter († 1991)
• 1898 » Faruk Nafiz Çamlıbel, Turkish poet, author, and playwright († 1973)
• 1901 » Henri Sauguet, French composer († 1989)
• 1901 » Vincent du Vigneaud, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1978)
• 1902 » Meredith Willson, American playwright and composer († 1984)
• 1904 » Jacob K. Javits, American colonel and politician, 58th New York Attorney General († 1986)
• 1904 » Shunryū Suzuki, Japanese-American monk and educator († 1971)
• 1905 » Hedley Verity, English cricketer and soldier († 1943)
• 1905 » Ruth Alexander, pioneering American pilot († 1930)
• 1907 » Irene Hunt, American author and educator († 2001)

• 1867 » Clarkson Stanfield, English painter (b. 1793)
• 1889 » Isabella Glyn, Scottish-English actress (b. 1823)
• 1900 » Félix Ravaisson-Mollien, French archaeologist and philosopher (b. 1813)
• 1908 » Louis-Napoléon Casault, Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician (b. 1823)
• 1909 » George Meredith, English novelist and poet (b. 1828)
• 1909 » Isaac Albéniz, Spanish pianist and composer (b. 1860)
• 1910 » Eliza Orzeszkowa, Polish author and publisher (b. 1841)
• 1910 » Pauline Viardot, French soprano and composer (b. 1821)
• 1911 » Gustav Mahler, Austrian composer and conductor (b. 1860)
• 1922 » Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, French physician and parasitologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1845)

• 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.
• July 19 » Maurice Garin wins the first Tour de France.
• July 23 » The Ford Motor Company sells its first car.
• August 2 » The Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising against the Ottoman Empire begins.
• August 18 » German engineer Karl Jatho allegedly flies his self-made, motored gliding airplane four months before the first flight of the Wright brothers.
• November 17 » The Russian Social Democratic Labour Party splits into two groups: The Bolsheviks (Russian for "majority") and Mensheviks (Russian for "minority").
• 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 May 18, 1903 was between 4.1 °C and 11.9 °C and averaged 7.5 °C. There was 3.9 hours of sunshine (25%).