Explore 705 historical events from 1900–1909.
Giuseppe Siri was an Italian cardinal of the Catholic Church who served as Archbishop of Genoa from 1946 to 1987, and was elevated to the rank of cardinal in 1953. A protégé of Pop…
Giuseppe Siri, Italian cardinal (died 1989)
Buddhadasa was a Thai Buddhist monk. Known as an innovative reinterpreter of Buddhist doctrine and Thai folk beliefs, he fostered a reformation in conventional religious perception…
Buddhadasa, Thai monk and philosopher (died 1993)
Henry Edward Hibbs was an English footballer who played as a goalkeeper for Birmingham and England in the 1920s and 1930s. His uncle Hubert Pearson and cousin Harold Pearson were a…
Harry Hibbs, English footballer (died 1984)
Antonio Rosario Mennonna was an Italian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. At the time of his death at the age of 103, he was the second-oldest bishop in the Church, behind Anto…
Antonio Rosario Mennonna, Italian bishop (died 2009)
Henry Wijeyakone Tambiah (1906–1997) was a Ceylonese academic, diplomat, lawyer and judge, born in Sri Lanka during British colonial rule. He was a Commissioner of Assize, High Com…
Henry Thambiah, Sri Lankan lawyer, judge, and diplomat, Sri Lankan High Commissioner to Canada (died 1997)
Terence Hanbury "Tim" White was an English writer. He is best known for his Arthurian novels, which were published together in 1958 as The Once and Future King. One of his best kno…
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Bruno Gröning was a German mystic who rose to fame in the late 1940s for performing faith healings.
Bruno Gröning, German mystic and author (died 1959)
Sir Roy George Douglas Allen, CBE, FBA was an English economist, mathematician and statistician, also member of the International Statistical Institute.
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Freda Josephine Baker, also spelled Joséphine Baker, was an American and French dancer, singer, and actress. Her career was centered primarily in Europe, mostly in France. She was …
Josephine Baker, French actress, singer, and dancer; French Resistance operative (died 1975)
Robert Walter Vivian Robins was an English cricketer and cricket administrator, who played for Cambridge University, Middlesex, and England. A right-handed batsman and right-arm le…
Walter Robins, English cricketer and footballer (died 1968)
Max August Zorn was a German mathematician. He was an algebraist, group theorist, and numerical analyst. He is best known for Zorn's lemma, a method used in set theory that is appl…
Max August Zorn, German mathematician and academic who is noted for Zorn's Lemma (died 1993)
Robert Klark Graham was an American eugenicist and businessman who made millions by developing shatterproof plastic eyeglass lenses and who later founded the Repository for Germina…
Robert Klark Graham, American eugenicist and businessman, founded Repository for Germinal Choice (died 1997)
Sandro Penna was an Italian poet.
Sandro Penna, Italian poet (died 1977)
Bruno de Finetti was an Italian probabilist statistician and actuary, noted for the "operational subjective" conception of probability. The classic exposition of his distinctive th…
Bruno de Finetti, Austrian-Italian mathematician and statistician (died 1985)
William Gordon Welchman was an English mathematician. During World War II, he worked at Britain's secret decryption centre at Bletchley Park, where he was one of the most important…
Gordon Welchman, English-American mathematician and author (died 1985)
Léon Joseph Marie Ignace Degrelle was a Belgian Walloon politician and Nazi collaborator. He rose to prominence in Belgium in the 1930s as the leader of the Rexist Party (Rex). Dur…
Léon Degrelle, Belgian SS officer (died 1994)
Alan Geoffrey Fairfax was an Australian cricketer who played in ten Test matches from 1929 to 1931. He was an all rounder.
Alan Fairfax, Australian cricketer (died 1955)
Sir Ernst Boris Chain was a German-born British biochemist. He shared the 1945 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Alexander Fleming and Howard Florey "for the discovery of…
Ernst Boris Chain, German-Irish biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1979)
Knut "Knutte" Kroon was a Swedish footballer who played as a striker.
Knut Kroon, Swedish footballer (died 1975)
Hermann Julius Walther Rauff, also Walther Rauff was a mid-ranking SS commander in Nazi Germany. From January 1938, he was an aide of Reinhard Heydrich firstly in the Security Serv…
Walter Rauff, German SS officer (died 1984)
Robert Wade King was an American athlete, who won a gold medal in the high jump at the 1928 Summer Olympics with a jump of 1.93 m. His personal best was 1.997 m, achieved earlier …
Bob King, American high jumper and obstetrician (died 1965)
Sir William Reid FRSE FIME DSc DCL was a 20th-century Scottish businessman and mining engineer. He served as President of the Mining Institute of Scotland 1951/2 and as President o…
William Reid, Scottish mining engineer (died 1985)
Luis Martín García was a Spanish Jesuit, elected the twenty-fourth Superior General of the Society of Jesus.
Luis Martín, Spanish religious leader, 24th Superior-General of the Society of Jesus (born 1846)
Pierre Curie was a French physicist and chemist, and a pioneer in crystallography and magnetism. He shared one half of the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics with his wife, Marie Curie, f…
Pierre Curie, French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1859)