Events from the year 1903 in Sweden

• Monarch – Oscar II
• Prime Minister – Erik Gustaf Boström

• The National Association for Women's Suffrage is founded.
• Agnes Arvidsson becomes the first woman to graduate in pharmacology.
• Public medical offices open to women.^[1]
• Forming of the Central Employers' Association (SAF)^[2]
  • The SAF game rather late in the labor union movement of Sweden
  • Counterpart of the labor union, LO
  • Acted as open cartel

• 31 January – Ivar Johansson, wrestler (died 1979).^[3]
• 21 June – Alf Sjöberg, theatre and film director (died 1980)

• 19 May – Carl Snoilsky, poet (born 1841)
• 27 July – Lina Sandell, hymn writer (born 1832).
• 14 September – Johanna Berglind, sign language teacher and principal (born 1816).
• March – Josefina Wettergrund, writer (born 1830)