About the day » Sunday May 24, 1903Calender converter

• Alida Geertruida de Brabander, Monster, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• van Hoof, Geldrop
• Aaltje Angst, Uithuizermeeden
• Adrianus Alderlieste, Amsterdam
• Adrianus Cornelis der Kinderen, Woensel († 1980)
• Adolf Hirsch, Wreschen, Poznan, Wlkp., Poland
• Albert Bouwe Stephanusen van der Meulen, Doelensteeg, Vollenhove
• Aart van Klei, Ouderkerk aan den IJssel
• Angus Wallace Muirden, Wayville, South Australia, Australia († 1969)
• Verbunt, Tilburg

• Aukjen Sietzes Haarsma (83), Smallingerland
• Antje Schaap (86), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Odilia Hoeben (43), Holtum, Born, Limburg, Nederland
• Antje Hendriks Roosma (84), Oenkerk, gem. Tietjerksteradeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Antonia Boere (30), Rotterdam
• Abraham Rijksman (39), Bloemendaal, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aloys Decuyper (0), Klerken
• Adriana Maria Kin (81), Baarle-Nassau
• Anna Maria Bosman (70), Haarlem, NH, Nederland
• Carl Ferdinand Späther (62), Halle an der Saale, Halle, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

• 1899 » Henri Michaux, Belgian-French poet and painter († 1984)
• 1899 » Suzanne Lenglen, French tennis player († 1938)
• 1900 » Eduardo De Filippo, Italian actor and screenwriter († 1984)
• 1901 » José Nasazzi, Uruguayan footballer and manager († 1968)
• 1902 » Lionel Conacher, Canadian football player and politician († 1954)
• 1902 » Sylvia Daoust, Canadian sculptor († 2004)
• 1905 » George Nakashima, American woodworker and architect († 1990)
• 1905 » Mikhail Sholokhov, Russian novelist and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate († 1984)
• 1909 » Wilbur Mills, American banker and politician († 1992)
• 1910 » Jimmy Demaret, American golfer († 1983)

• 1861 » Elmer E. Ellsworth, American colonel (b. 1837)
• 1872 » Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, German painter and illustrator (b. 1794)
• 1879 » William Lloyd Garrison, American journalist and activist (b. 1805)
• 1881 » Samuel Palmer, English painter and illustrator (b. 1805)
• 1901 » Louis-Zéphirin Moreau, Canadian bishop (b. 1824)
• 1908 » Old Tom Morris, Scottish golfer and architect (b. 1821)
• 1915 » John Condon, Irish-English soldier (b. 1896)
• 1919 » Amado Nervo, Mexican poet, journalist, and educator (b. 1870)
• 1929 » Nikolai von Meck, Russian engineer (b. 1863)
• 1941 » Lancelot Holland, English admiral (b. 1887)

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.
• January 9 » Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson, son of the poet Alfred Tennyson, becomes the second Governor-General of Australia.
• February 14 » The United States Department of Commerce and Labor is established (later split into the Department of Commerce and the Department of Labor).
• March 2 » In New York City the Martha Washington Hotel opens, becoming the first hotel exclusively for women.
• October 31 » The Purdue Wreck, a railroad train collision in Indianapolis, kills 17 people, including 14 players of the Purdue University football team.
• December 14 » The Wright brothers make their first attempt to fly with the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
• 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 24, 1903 was between 6.1 °C and 17.4 °C and averaged 12.3 °C. There was 16.0 hours of sunshine (99%).