Explore 705 historical events from 1900–1909.
Jan Hendrik Oort was a Dutch astronomer who made significant contributions to the understanding of the Milky Way and who was a pioneer in the field of radio astronomy. The New York…
Jan Oort, Dutch astronomer and academic (died 1992)
Secondino Tranquilli, best known by the pseudonym Ignazio Silone, was an Italian politician and writer. He became famous during World War II for his anti-fascist novels. Considered…
Ignazio Silone, Italian journalist and politician (died 1978)
Aleksander Wat was the pen name of Aleksander Chwat, a Polish poet, writer, art theoretician, and memoirist. He was one of the precursors of the Polish futurism movement in the ear…
Aleksander Wat, Polish poet and writer (died 1967)
Helen Redfield, was an American geneticist. Redfield graduated from Rice University in 1920, followed by earning her Ph.D. in zoology from the University of California, Berkeley in…
Helen Redfield, American geneticist (died 1988)
Maria Malicka was a Polish stage and film actress. She appeared in ten films between 1927 and 1966.
Maria Malicka, Polish stage and film actress (died 1992)
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin was a British-born American astronomer and astrophysicist. Her work on the cosmic makeup of the universe and the nature of variable stars was foundational …
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, English-American astronomer and astrophysicist (died 1979)
Helene Weigel was an Austrian actress and artistic director. She was the second and last wife of Bertolt Brecht until his death in 1956; together they had two children.
Helene Weigel, Austrian-German actress (died 1971)
Harold Glen Borland was an American writer, journalist and naturalist. In addition to writing many non-fiction and fiction books about the outdoors, he was a staff writer and edito…
Hal Borland, American journalist and author (died 1978)
Walter Rehberg was a Swiss concert pianist, composer and writer on musical subjects who was particularly active from the 1920s to 1950s.
Walter Rehberg, Swiss pianist and composer (died 1957)
Cai Chang was a Chinese politician and women's rights activist who was the first chair of the All-China Women's Federation, a Chinese women's rights organization.
Cai Chang, Chinese first leader of All-China Women's Federation (died 1990)
Leopold "Leo" Smit was a Dutch composer, murdered during The Holocaust at the Sobibor extermination camp.
Leo Smit, Dutch pianist and composer (died 1943)
Edgar Wind was a British interdisciplinary art historian, specializing in iconology in the Renaissance era. He was a member of the school of art historians associated with Aby Warb…
Edgar Wind, German-English historian, author, and academic (died 1971)
Ida Rhodes was an American mathematician who became a member of the clique of influential women at the heart of early computer development in the United States.
Ida Rhodes, American mathematician, pioneer in computer programming (died 1986)
Sumitranandan Pant was an Indian poet. He was one of the most celebrated 20th century poets of the Hindi language and was known for romanticism in his poems which were inspired by …
Sumitranandan Pant, Indian poet and author (died 1977)
Juan Nepomuceno Arvizu Santelices, was an acclaimed lyric tenor in Mexico and a noted interpreter of the Latin American bolero and tango on the international concert stage, on the …
Juan Arvizu, Mexican lyric opera tenor and bolero vocalist (died 1985)
Hans Michael Frank was a German Nazi politician, lawyer and convicted war criminal who served as the head of the General Government, an entity created by Germany on part of the Ger…
Hans Frank, German lawyer and politician (died 1946)
Franz Leopold Neumann was a German political activist, Western Marxist theorist, and labor lawyer who became a political scientist in exile and is best known for his theoretical an…
Franz Leopold Neumann, German lawyer and theorist (died 1954)
Eduardo De Filippo OMRI, also known mononymously as Eduardo, was an Italian actor, director, screenwriter, and playwright, best known for his Neapolitan works Filumena Marturano an…
Eduardo De Filippo, Italian actor and screenwriter (died 1984)
Alain Grandbois, was a Canadian Quebecer poet, considered the first great modern one.
Alain Grandbois, Canadian poet and author (died 1975)
George Lennon was an Irish Republican Army leader during the Irish War of Independence and the Irish Civil War.
George Lennon, Irish Republican Army leader during the Irish War of Independence and the Irish Civil War (died 1991)
Karin Juel was a Swedish singer, actor and writer, born in Kungsholmen, Stockholm. She originally wrote novels under the pseudonym Katherind van Goeben. She died in Stockholm.
Karin Juel, Swedish singer, actress, and writer (died 1976)
Lotte Toberentz, born Maria Charlotte Toberentz was a German concentration camp overseer in Nazi Germany. She was tried in the Third Ravensbrück Trials but was acquitted of crimes …
Lotte Toberentz, German overseer of the Nazi Uckermark concentration camp (died 1964)
Uladzimir Zhylka was a Belarusian poet.
Uładzimir Žyłka, Belarusian poet and translator (died 1933)
Thomas James Ladnier was an American jazz trumpeter. Hugues Panassié – an influential French critic, jazz historian, and renowned exponent of New Orleans jazz – rated Ladnier, some…
Tommy Ladnier, American trumpet player (died 1939)