List of Famous people who born in 1903
Lola Álvarez Bravo
Lola Álvarez Bravo was the first Mexican female photographer and a key figure in the post-revolution Mexican renaissance. Known for her high level of skill in composition, her works were seen by her peers as fine art. She was recognized in 1964 with the Premio José Clemente Orozco, by the State of Jalisco, for her contributions to photography and her efforts to preserve the culture of Mexico. Her works are included in the permanent collections of international museums, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
Erskine Caldwell
Erskine Preston Caldwell was an American novelist and short story writer. His writings about poverty, racism and social problems in his native Southern United States, in novels such as Tobacco Road (1932) and God's Little Acre (1933) won him critical acclaim, but his advocacy of eugenics and the sterilization of Georgia's poor whites became less popular following World War II.
Anaïs Nin
Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell, known professionally as Anaïs Nin, was a French-Cuban American diarist, essayist, novelist and writer of short stories and erotica. Born to Cuban parents in France, Nin was the daughter of composer Joaquín Nin and Rosa Culmell, a classically trained singer. Nin spent her early years in Spain and Cuba, about sixteen years in Paris (1924–1940), and the remaining half of her life in the United States, where she became an author.
Kalanag
Kalanag, born Helmut Ewald Schreiber, was a German film producer and magician in the German Reich and in the early Federal Republic of Germany.
Louis Seigner
Louis Seigner was a French actor.
Hilde Radusch
Hilde Radusch was a German political activist who became involved in anti-fascist resistance. As the twentieth century progressed she also became increasingly prominent as a Feminist and Lesbian activist.
Yves Rocard
Yves-André Rocard was a French physicist who helped develop the atomic bomb for France.
Oonah Keogh
Oonah Keogh was an Irish woman who became the first woman to join the Dublin Stock Exchange in 1925. She may also have been the first woman stockbroker anywhere in the world accredited on a national exchange.
Heinz Reinefarth
Heinz Reinefarth, 26 December 1903 – 7 May 1979) was a German SS commander during World War II and government official in West Germany after the war. During the Warsaw Uprising of August 1944 his troops committed numerous atrocities. After the war Reinefarth became the mayor of the town of Westerland, on the isle of Sylt, and member of the Schleswig-Holstein Landtag. Polish demands for extradition were never accepted, nor was Reinefarth ever convicted of any war crime.
Al Hirschfeld
Albert Hirschfeld was an American caricaturist best known for his black and white portraits of celebrities and Broadway stars.