Events from the year 1803 in the United States.
Incumbents
State governments
Events
Ongoing
Births
- January 19 – Sarah Helen Whitman, poet, essayist, transcendentalist, spiritualist and a romantic interest of Edgar Allan Poe (died 1878)
- February 2 – Albert Sidney Johnston, Confederate general (died 1862)
- April 30 – Jeremiah E. Cary, politician (died 1888)
- May 25 – Ralph Waldo Emerson, essayist and poet (died 1882)
- June 4 – Gabriel J. Rains, Confederate brigadier general (died 1881)
- June 25 – Sumner Lincoln Fairfield, poet and teacher (died 1844)
- July 10 – William Todd, businessman, Canadian senate nominee (died 1873)
- July 16 – Sarah Yorke Jackson, Acting First Lady of the United States (died 1887)
- July 24 – Alexander Jackson Davis, Gothic architect (died 1892)
- August 12 – John C. Young, educator and pastor (died 1857)
- August 18 – Nathan Clifford, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (died 1881)
- August 27 – Edward Beecher, theologian (died 1895)
- September 3 – Prudence Crandall, educationist (died 1890)
- September 4 – Sarah Childress Polk, First Lady of the U.S. (died 1891)
- September 27 – Samuel Francis Du Pont, rear admiral (died 1865)
- September 29 – Mercator Cooper, sea captain (died 1872)
- October 3 – John Gorrie, physician and inventor of mechanical cooling (died 1855)
- October 21 - Solon Robinson, founder of Crown Point, Indiana (died 1880)
- October 24 – Albert Smith White, U.S. Senator from Indiana from 1839 to 1845 (died 1864)
- November 14 – Jacob Abbott, children's writer (died 1879)
- December 18 or 27 – William Allen, U.S. Senator from Ohio from 1837 to 1849 (died 1879)
Deaths
- February 22 – Jacques-Donatien Le Ray de Chaumont, "Father of the American Revolution" (born 1726 in France; died in France)
- May 14 – William Smith, Episcopalian priest, educator, theologian, poet and historian (born 1727)
- June 24 – Matthew Thornton, signatory of the Declaration of Independence (born 1714 in Ireland)
- September 13 – John Barry, first commissioned U.S. naval officer (born 1745 in Ireland)
- September 27 – Frances Brett Hodgkinson, actress (born 1771 in Great Britain)
- October 2 – Samuel Adams, a Founding Father of the U.S. (born 1722)
- December 30 – Francis Lewis, signatory of the Declaration of Independence (born 1713 in Wales)
- William Verstille, portrait artist (born c. 1757)
See also
Further reading
- Lewis Leary. Leigh Hunt in Philadelphia. An American Literary Incident of 1803. The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 70, No. 3 (July, 1946), pp. 270âÂÂ280
- Robert Mills, Hennig Cohen. An Unpublished Diary by Robert Mills, 1803. The South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine, Vol. 51, No. 4 (October, 1950), pp. 187âÂÂ194
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