Editing 1903 in music (section)

==Births==
*[[January 4]] – [[Carroll Gibbons]], bandleader and composer (d. 1954)
*[[January 6]] - [[Maurice Abravanel]] - Greek conductor (d. 1993)
*[[January 10]] - [[Jean Paul Morel]] - French conductor (d. 1975)
*[[January 19]]
**[[Boris Blacher]] - Chinese conductor (d. 1975)
**[[Ervin Nyiregyházi]] - Jungarian pianist (d. 1987)
*[[January 22]] – [[Robin Milford]], English composer and educator (d. 1959)
*[[February 6]] – [[Claudio Arrau]], Chilean pianist (d. 1991)
*[[February 10]] – [[Abel Meeropol]] ('Lewis Allan'), American lyricist (d. 1986)
*[[February 11]] – [[Hans Redlich]], Austrian composer and musicologist (d. 1968)
*[[February 12]] – [[Todd Duncan]], American baritone, first Porgy in ''[[Porgy and Bess]]'' (d. 1998)
*[[February 15]] – [[Marie-Thérèse Gauley]], French opera singer prominent at the [[Opéra-Comique]] (d. 1992)
*[[March 10]] – [[Bix Beiderbecke]], jazz musician (d. 1931)
*[[March 28]] – [[Rudolf Serkin]], Czech pianist of Russian parents (d. 1991)
*[[April 3]] – [[Bubber Miley]], jazz trumpeter (d. 1932)
*[[April 5]] – [[Jimmy Campbell and Reg Connelly|Jimmy Campbell]], songwriter (died 1967)
*[[April 10]] – [[Herbert Graf]], Austrian opera producer (d. 1958)
*[[April 17]]
**[[Nicolas Nabokov]], Russian composer (d. 1978)
**[[Gregor Piatigorsky]], Russian cellist (d. 1976)
*[[April 21]] – [[Issy Bonn]], singer and actor (d. 1977)
*[[May 3]] – [[Bing Crosby]], US singer and actor (d. 1977)
*[[May 12]] 
**[[Lennox Berkeley]], composer (d. 1989)
**[[Verna Osborne]], soprano (d. 2006)<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Verna-Osborne-opera-singer-vocal-coach-102-2519526.php|title=Verna Osborne -- opera singer, vocal coach, 102|work=[[San Francisco Chronicle]]|author=Marianne Costantinou|date=April 30, 2006}}</ref>
*[[May 20]] – [[Jerzy Fitelberg]], composer (d. 1951)
*[[May 26]] – [[Bob Hope]], English-born US actor, comedian and singer (d. 2003)
*[[May 28]] – [[Walter Goehr]], German composer (d. 1960)
*[[June 4]] – [[Yevgeny Mravinsky]], Russian conductor and pianist (d. 1988)
*[[June 6]] – [[Aram Khachaturian]], Armenian composer and conductor (d. 1978)
*[[June 15]] – [[Huldreich Georg Früh]], Swiss composer (d. 1945)
*[[June 18]] – [[Jeanette MacDonald]], US singer and actress (d. 1965)
*[[June 26]] – [[St. Louis Jimmy Oden]], blues singer (d. 1977)
*[[July 3]]
**[[Dick Robertson (singer)|Dick Robertson]], US singer (d. 1944?)
**[[David Webster (opera manager)|Daid Webster]], Scottish opera administrator (d.1971)
*[[July 4]] – [[Flor|Peeters]], Belgian composer and organist (d. 1986)
*[[July 10]] – Helen Pickens of the [[Pickens Sisters]] US singing group
*[[July 16]] – [[Carmen Lombardo]], Canadian singer, composer and saxophonist (d. 1971)
*[[August 4]] – [[Helen Kane]], US singer (d. 1966)
*[[August 17]] – [[Abram Chasins]], American composer and pianist (d. 1987)
*[[August 20]] – [[António Fortunato de Figueiredo]], conductor (d. 1981)
*[[August 23]] – [[William Primrose]], Scottish violinist (d. 1982)
*[[September 6]] – [[Pál Kadosa]], Hungarian composer and pianist (d. 1983)
*[[September 11]] – [[Theodor Adorno]], German musician and philosopher (d. 1969)
*[[September 15]] – [[Roy Acuff]], Country and Western singer (d. 1992)
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*[[October 1]] (probable) – [[Vladimir Horowitz]], pianist (d. 1989)
*[[October 10]] – Vladimir Dukelsky aka [[Vernon Duke]], composer (d. 1969)
*[[October 16]]
**[[Lena Machado]], singer (d. 1974)
**[[Big Joe Williams]], blues guitarist (d. 1982)
*[[October 19]] – [[Vittorio Giannini]], neoromantic American composer (d. 1966)
*[[October 29]] – [[Yvonne Georgi]], ballet dancer and choreographer (d. 1975)
*[[November 6]] – [[Asaf Messerer]], Soviet dancer and ballet master (d. 1992)
*[[December 5]] – [[Johannes Heesters]], all-round entertainer (d. 2011)
*[[December 12]] – Francisco Curt Lange, German musicologist
*[[December 17]] – [[Ray Noble (musician)|Ray Noble]], bandleader, composer and arranger (d. 1978)
*''date unknown'' – [[Caterina Jarboro]], operatic soprano (d. 1986)