Explore 2322 historical events from 1900–1909.
Air Commodore Sir Frank Whittle was an English engineer, inventor and Royal Air Force (RAF) air officer. He is credited with co-creating the turbojet engine. A patent was submitted…
Frank Whittle, English airman and engineer, developed the jet engine (died 1996)
Dorothy West was an American novelist, short-story writer, and magazine editor associated with the Harlem Renaissance, a cultural movement in the 1920s and 1930s that celebrated bl…
Dorothy West, American journalist and author (died 1998)
Rudolf John Frederick Lehmann was an English publisher, poet and man of letters. He founded the periodicals New Writing and The London Magazine, and the publishing house of John Le…
John Lehmann, English poet and publisher (died 1987)
Paul Rotha was an English documentary film-maker, film historian and critic.
Paul Rotha, English director and producer (died 1984)
Jacques Roumain Encarnación was a Haitian writer, politician, and Marxist. He is considered one of the most prominent figures in Haitian literature. Langston Hughes translated some…
Jacques Roumain, Haitian journalist and politician (died 1944)
Catherine Rosalind Russell was an American actress, model, comedian, screenwriter, and singer, known for her role as fast-talking newspaper reporter Hildy Johnson in the Howard Haw…
Rosalind Russell, American actress (died 1976)
Winifred Emma May was a poet from the United Kingdom, best known for her work under the pen name Patience Strong. Her poems were usually short, simple and imbued with sentimentali…
Patience Strong, English poet and journalist (died 1990)
William Malcolm Dickey was an American professional baseball catcher and manager. He played in Major League Baseball with the New York Yankees for 17 seasons. Dickey managed the Ya…
Bill Dickey, American baseball player and manager who played in eight World Series, winning seven (died 1993)
Sigvard Oscar Fredrik, Prince Bernadotte, Count of Wisborg born as, and until 1934 known as, Prince Sigvard of Sweden, Duke of Uppland, was a member of the Swedish Royal Family and…
Sigvard Bernadotte, Count of Wisborg (died 2002)
Fairfield Porter was an American painter and art critic. He was the fourth of five children of James Porter, an architect, and Ruth Furness Porter, a poet from a literary family. H…
Fairfield Porter, American painter and critic (died 1975)
William Wells, known professionally as Dicky Wells, was an American jazz trombonist.
Dicky Wells, American jazz trombonist (died 1985)[n 1]
Nicolas Clerihew Bentley was a British writer and illustrator, best known for his humorous cartoon drawings in books and magazines in the 1930s and 1940s. The son of Edmund Clerihe…
Nicolas Bentley, English author and illustrator (died 1978)
René Émile Char was a French poet and member of the French Resistance in World War II.
René Char, French poet and author (died 1988)
James Robertson Justice was a British actor. He often portrayed pompous authority figures in comedies, including each of the seven films in the Doctor series. He also co-starred wi…
James Robertson Justice, English actor and educator (died 1975)
Harold "Jack" Albertson was an American actor, comedian, dancer and singer who also performed in vaudeville. Albertson was a Tony, Oscar, and Emmy winning actor, which ranks him am…
Jack Albertson, American actor (died 1981)
Maurice Cloche was a French film director, screenwriter, photographer and film producer. Best known for his Oscar-winning film Monsieur Vincent (1947) he won a 1948 Special Academy…
Maurice Cloche, French director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1990)
Frithjof Schuon was a Swiss philosopher and spiritual leader, belonging to the Traditionalist School of Perennialism. He was the author of more than twenty works in French on metap…
Frithjof Schuon, Swiss-American metaphysicist, philosopher, and author (died 1998)
Clarence Dexter Wiseman, was the tenth General of The Salvation Army from 1974 to 1977.
Clarence Wiseman, Canadian 10th General of the Salvation Army (died 1985)
James Corbitt Morris, known professionally as Jimmy Driftwood or Jimmie Driftwood, was an American folk-style songwriter and musician, most famous for his songs "The Battle of New …
Jimmy Driftwood, American singer-songwriter and banjo player (died 1998)
Eriks Ādamsons was a Latvian writer, poet and novelist.
Eriks Ādamsons, Latvian writer, poet, and novelist (died 1946)
Dolores Gonçalves Costa, known by her stage name Dercy Gonçalves, was a Brazilian actress, comedian and singer. In her 86-year-long career, she worked in the theater, revues, film,…
Dercy Gonçalves, Brazilian actress and singer (died 2008)
James Edward Meade FBA was a British economist who made major contributions to the theory of international trade and welfare economics. Along with Richard Kahn, James Meade helped …
James Meade, English economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1995)
Arseny Aleksandrovich Tarkovsky was a Soviet and Russian poet and translator. He was predeceased by his son, film director and screenwriter Andrei Tarkovsky.
Arseny Tarkovsky, Russian poet and translator (died 1989)
Johannes Hans Daniel Jensen was a German theoretical physicist. During World War II, Jensen worked on the German nuclear energy project, known as the Uranium Club, where he contrib…
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