Editing 1903 (section)

===January===
[[File:Alan Paton.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Alan Paton]]]]
* [[January 1]] – [[Jasimuddin]], Bangladeshi poet, lyricist, composer and writer (d. [[1976]])
* [[January 2]] &ndash; [[Kane Tanaka]], Japanese supercentenarian, oldest Japanese person ever, last surviving person born in 1903 (d. [[2022]])
* [[January 4]] &ndash; [[Georg Elser]], German carpenter and attempted assassin of Adolf Hitler (d. [[1945]])<ref>{{Cite web |title=Georg Elser |url=https://www.gdw-berlin.de/en/recess/biographies/index_of_persons/biographie/view-bio/georg-elser/ |access-date=4 January 2025 |website=www.gdw-berlin.de}}</ref>
* [[January 6]] &ndash; [[Maurice Abravanel]], Greek-born American conductor (d. [[1993]])
* [[January 10]] &ndash; [[Barbara Hepworth]], English sculptor (d. [[1975]])
* [[January 11]] &ndash; [[Alan Paton]], South African author, anti-apartheid activist (d. [[1988]])
* [[January 12]] &ndash; [[Igor Kurchatov]], Russian physicist (d. [[1960]])
* [[January 16]]
**[[Peter Brocco]], American actor (d. [[1992]])
**[[William Grover-Williams]], Anglo/French race car driver, war hero (d. [[1945]])
* [[January 22]] – [[Fritz Houtermans]], Polish physicist (d. [[1966]])
* [[January 23]] – [[Jorge Eliécer Gaitán]], Colombian politician (d. [[1948]])
* [[January 27]] – [[John Eccles (neurophysiologist)|John Eccles]], Australian neuropsychologist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (d. [[1997]])