About the day » Saturday August 8, 1903Calender converter

• Albert Moesker, Stadskanaal gem. Onstwedde († 1903)
• Aderjan Dirk Badenhorst, Of, Standerton, Transvaal, South Africa (Rep.) († 1903)
• Andries WESTENDORP († 1972)
• Albert Alfred Flatow
• Adam Westdijk, Vlaardingen († 1976)
• Amy Rose Elizabeth Pryor, Hitchin, Hertfordshire, England (UK) († 1972)
• * Arnolda Harmina van Cutsem, Zutphen († 1981)
• Adriana Gille († 1979)
• Moesker, Stadskanaal (Onstwedde) († 1903)
• Adriana Maria Franken, Bergen op Zoom, N-Br, NL († 1977)

• Anna Maria Baijens (63), Goirle, NL
• Adriana Euphenia van Doorn (71), Utrecht
• (55), Antwerpen, België
• Moesker (0), Stadskanaal (Onstwedde)
• Anna Myrtle Dean (11), Rockport, Massachusetts, Verenigde Staten
• Aalbert Hoogeveen (54), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antje (Anna) Esseling (44), Alkmaar
• Alfred John (67), Leelanau, Michigan
• Alexander Willem Hendrik August van Oheimb Heer van Holzhausen (83), Gut Hudenbeck, Holzhausen, Nordrhein-Westfalen
• Andries van den Heuvel (0), Harderwijk

• 1898 » Marguerite Bise, French chef († 1965)
• 1901 » Ernest Lawrence, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1958)
• 1902 » Paul Dirac, English-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1984)
• 1904 » Achille Varzi, Italian racing driver († 1948)
• 1905 » André Jolivet, French composer († 1974)
• 1907 » Benny Carter, American saxophonist, trumpet player, and composer († 2003)
• 1908 » Arthur Goldberg, American jurist and politician, 6th United States Ambassador to the United Nations († 1990)
• 1909 » Bill Voce, England cricketer and coach († 1984)
• 1909 » Charles Lyttelton, 10th Viscount Cobham, English cricketer and politician, 9th Governor-General of New Zealand († 1977)
• 1909 » Jack Renshaw, Australian politician, 31st Premier of New South Wales († 1987)

• 1879 » Immanuel Hermann Fichte, German philosopher and academic (b. 1797)
• 1887 » Alexander William Doniphan, American colonel, lawyer, and politician (b. 1808)
• 1897 » Jacob Burckhardt, Swiss historian and academic (b. 1818)
• 1898 » Eugène Boudin, French painter (b. 1824)
• 1902 » James Tissot, French painter and illustrator (b. 1836)
• 1902 » John Henry Twachtman, American painter and academic (b. 1853)
• 1909 » Mary MacKillop, Australian nun and saint, co-founded the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart (b. 1842)
• 1911 » William P. Frye, American lawyer and politician (b. 1830)
• 1920 » Eduard Birnbaum, Polish-born German cantor (b. 1855)
• 1921 » Juhani Aho, Finnish journalist and author (b. 1861)

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 23 » Cuba leases Guantánamo Bay to the United States "in perpetuity".
• August 2 » The Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising against the Ottoman Empire begins.
• September 27 » The Wreck of the Old 97, an American rail disaster that became the subject of a popular ballad.
• December 16 » Taj Mahal Palace & Tower hotel in Bombay first opens its doors to guests.
• December 30 » A fire at the Iroquois Theater in Chicago, Illinois kills at least 605.

The temperature on August 8, 1903 was between 6.1 °C and 22.4 °C and averaged 15.9 °C. There was 15.1 hours of sunshine (100%).