Timeline February 1903

Events in February 1903 4

• 1819 – 1903 George Gabriel Stokes (1819-1903) Died 1 February 1903, aged 83 George Gabriel Stokes was an Irish mathematician and physicist known for his work on fluid dynamics, optics, and mathematical physics, including the Navier-Stokes equations. He served as Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge for over 50 years. He died in Cambridge on 1 February 1903.
• 1903 – 1989 Georges Simenon (1903-1989) Died 4 September 1989, aged 86 Georges Simenon was a prolific Belgian author best known for creating the detective character Jules Maigret. He wrote several hundred novels over his career, among the most published authors of the twentieth century. His work was translated into dozens of languages.
• 1903 – 1978 Edgar Bergen (1903-1978) American ventriloquist whose dummy Charlie McCarthy made him a radio star, and father of Candice Bergen.
• 1903 Edgar Bergen born in Chicago Edgar Bergen is born in Chicago.