Explore 1530 historical events from 1900–1909.
Irena Morzycka-Iłłakowicz was a Polish second lieutenant of the National Armed Forces and intelligence agent. The daughter of Bolesław Morzycki and Władysława Zakrzewska and the si…
Irena Iłłakowicz, German-Polish lieutenant (died 1943)
Clifford Odets was an American playwright, screenwriter, and actor. In the mid-1930s, he was widely seen as the potential successor to Nobel Prize–winning playwright Eugene O'Neill…
Clifford Odets, American director, playwright, and screenwriter (died 1963)
Chandra Shekhar Sitaram Tiwari, popularly known as Chandra Shekhar Azad, was an Indian revolutionary who reorganised the Hindustan Republican Association (HRA) under its new name o…
Chandra Shekhar Azad, Indian activist (died 1931)
Jerzy Władysław Giedroyć was a Polish writer, lawyer, publicist and political activist. For many years, he worked as editor of the highly influential Paris-based periodical, Kultur…
Jerzy Giedroyc, Polish author and activist (died 2000)
Herbert Henri Jasper was a Canadian psychologist, physiologist, neurologist, and epileptologist.
Herbert Jasper, Canadian psychologist and neurologist (died 1999)
Thelma Alice Todd was an American actress and businesswoman who carried the nicknames "the Ice Cream Blonde" and "Hot Toddy". Appearing in about 120 feature films and shorts betwee…
Thelma Todd, American actress and singer (died 1935)
Eugen Schuhmacher was a German zoologist and pioneer of animal documentaries. Besides Bernhard Grzimek and Heinz Sielmann he belonged to the German wildlife documentary filmmakers …
Eugen Schuhmacher, German zoologist, director, and producer (died 1973)
Joan Bogle Butler, known professionally as Joan Hickson, was an English actress of theatre, film and television. She was known for her role as Agatha Christie's Miss Marple in the …
Joan Hickson, English actress (died 1998)
John Marcellus Huston was an American and Irish filmmaker and actor. In a career spanning five decades, he wrote the screenplays for many of the 37 feature films he directed, many …
John Huston, American actor, director, and screenwriter (died 1987)
Victor Dickenson was an American jazz trombonist. His career began in the 1920s and continued through musical partnerships with Count Basie (1940–41), Sidney Bechet (1941), and Ear…
Vic Dickenson, American trombonist (died 1984)
Henry Christian Hopman CBE was an Australian tennis player and coach.
Harry Hopman, Australian tennis player and coach (died 1985)
Edward Stacey "Tedd" Pierce III was an American screenwriter and voice actor of animated cartoons, principally from the mid-1930s to the late 1950s.
Tedd Pierce, American animator, producer, and screenwriter (died 1972)
Charles Oliver Carroll was an American football player and attorney in the state of Washington. He was the King County Prosecuting Attorney between 1949 and 1971.
Chuck Carroll, American football player and lawyer (died 2003)
Charles Arthur Shires was an American professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball as a first baseman for the Chicago White Sox, Washington Senators and Boston …
Art Shires, American baseball player and boxer (died 1967)
Marcel Albert Carné was a French film director. A key figure in the poetic realism movement, Carné's best known films include Port of Shadows (1938), Le Jour Se Lève (1939), Les Vi…
Marcel Carné, French director and screenwriter (died 1996)
Curtis Jones was an American blues pianist.
Curtis Jones, American blues pianist and singer (died 1971)
Philo Taylor Farnsworth was an American inventor who was granted the first patent for the television by the United States government. He also invented a video camera tube and the i…
Philo Farnsworth, American inventor, invented the Fusor, key figure in the invention of television (died 1971)
Vidrik "Frits" Rootare was an Estonian chess player. His wife, Salme Rootare, was also an Estonian chess player, 15-time Estonian Champion and a Women's International Master (WIM).
Vidrik Rootare, Estonian chess player (died 1981)
Isadore "Friz" Freleng, credited as I. Freleng early in his career, was an American animator, cartoonist, director, producer, and composer known for his work at Warner Bros. Cartoo…
Friz Freleng, American animator, director, and producer (died 1995)
Zoltan Sarosy was a Hungarian-Canadian professional chess master and supercentenarian. He was born in Budapest and won numerous tournaments in his native country before immigrating…
Zoltan Sarosy, Hungarian-Canadian chess master (died 2017)
Cedric Ivan James Smith was an English cricketer who played in five Test matches for the England cricket team between 1935 and 1937.
Jim Smith, English cricketer (died 1979)
Henry Wilfred "Bunny" Austin was an English tennis player. For 74 years he was the last Briton to reach the final of the men's singles at the Wimbledon Championships, until Andy Mu…
Bunny Austin, English tennis player (died 2000)
Albert Bruce Sabin was a Polish-American medical researcher, best known for developing the oral polio vaccine, which has played a key role in nearly eradicating the disease. In 196…
Albert Sabin, Polish-American physician and virologist, developed the polio vaccine (died 1993)
Edmund Antoni Wojtyła was a Polish doctor who died of scarlet fever a few years after graduating. He was the elder brother of Karol Wojtyła, the future Pope John Paul II.
Edmund Wojtyła, Polish doctor (died 1932)