Explore 705 historical events from 1900–1909.
Joseph Cheshire Cotten Jr. was an American film, stage, radio and television actor. Cotten achieved prominence on Broadway, starring in the original stage productions of The Philad…
Joseph Cotten, American actor (died 1994)
Albert Dubout was a French cartoonist, illustrator, painter, and sculptor.
Albert Dubout, French cartoonist, illustrator, painter, and sculptor (died 1976)
Abraham Zapruder was a Ukrainian-born American clothing manufacturer based in Dallas, Texas, who became known for his film work during the assassination of United States President …
Abraham Zapruder, American businessman and amateur photographer, filmed the Zapruder film (died 1970)
Ruth Blaney Alexander was an early American female pilot who set several records in altitude and distance in 1929 and 1930.
Ruth Alexander, pioneering American pilot (died 1930)
Hedley Verity was a professional cricketer who played for Yorkshire and England between 1930 and 1939. A slow left-arm orthodox bowler, he took 1,956 wickets in first-class cricket…
Hedley Verity, English cricketer and soldier (died 1943)
Henry Jaynes Fonda was an American actor whose career spanned five decades on Broadway and in Hollywood. Known for his work on screen and stage, he often portrayed characters who e…
Henry Fonda, American actor (died 1982)
Herbert Ernest Bates, better known as H. E. Bates, was an English writer of novels and short stories. His best-known works include Love for Lydia, The Darling Buds of May and My Un…
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Bodo von Borries in Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia) was a German physicist. He was the co-inventor of the electron microscope.
Bodo von Borries, German physicist and academic, co-invented the electron microscope (died 1956)
Thomas Edward Neil Driberg, Baron Bradwell was a British journalist, politician, High Anglican churchman and possible Soviet spy, who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 194…
Tom Driberg, British politician (died 1976)
George Katsutoshi Nakashima was an American woodworker and architect. In 1983, he accepted the Order of the Sacred Treasure, an honor bestowed by the Emperor of Japan and the Japan…
George Nakashima, American woodworker and architect (died 1990)
Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov was a Russian novelist and winner of the 1965 Nobel Prize in Literature. He is known for writing about life and fate of Don Cossacks during the Rus…
Mikhail Sholokhov, Russian novelist and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1984)
Sebastian Lewis Shaw was an English actor, theatre director, novelist, playwright and poet. During his seven-decade career, he appeared in dozens of stage performances and more tha…
Sebastian Shaw, English actor, director, and playwright (died 1994)
Robert Guy Newton was an English actor. Along with Errol Flynn, Newton was one of the more popular actors among the male juvenile audience of the 1940s and early 1950s, especially …
Robert Newton, English-American actor (died 1956)
Martin Gottfried Weiss, alternatively spelled Weiß, but best known as The Demon of Dachau was the commandant of the Dachau concentration camp in 1945 at the time of his arrest. He …
Martin Gottfried Weiss, German SS officer (died 1946)
James Walter Braddock was an American boxer who was the world heavyweight champion from 1935 to 1937.
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Raymond James Barbuti was an American football player and sprint runner who won two gold medals at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Barbuti traveled to Amsterdam…
Ray Barbuti, American sprinter and football player (died 1988)
James Thevathasan Rutnam (1905-1988) was a Sri Lankan historian, educationalist, writer, and politician.
James T
Samuel “Steve” Broidy was an American executive in the U.S. motion picture industry.
Steve Broidy, American businessman (died 1991)
Arthur Davis was an American animator and director known for his time at the Warner Bros. Cartoons studio. He was sometimes billed as Art Davis.
Arthur Davis, American animator and director (died 2000)
Eduard Tubin was an Estonian composer, conductor, and choreographer.
Eduard Tubin, Estonian composer and conductor (died 1982)
Mildred Natwick was an American actress. She won a Primetime Emmy Award and was nominated for an Academy Award and two Tony Awards.
Mildred Natwick, American actress (died 1994)
Gédéon Ouimet was a French-Canadian politician.
Gédéon Ouimet, Canadian politician, 2nd Premier of Quebec (born 1823)
Fitzhugh Lee was an American Confederate cavalry general in the American Civil War, the 40th Governor of Virginia, diplomat, and United States Army general in the Spanish–American …
Fitzhugh Lee, American general and politician, 40th Governor of Virginia (born 1835)
Lillian Florence Hellman was an American playwright, prose writer, memoirist, and screenwriter known for her success on Broadway as well as her communist views and political activi…
Lillian Hellman, American playwright and screenwriter (died 1984)