Explore 705 historical events from 1900–1909.
Jessie Alice Tandy, known professionally as Jessica Tandy, was an English and American actress. She appeared in over 100 stage productions and had more than 60 roles in film and TV…
Jessica Tandy, English-American actress (died 1994)
Langley Frederick George Hancock was an Australian iron ore magnate from Western Australia who maintained a high profile in the spheres of business and politics. Famous initially f…
Lang Hancock, Australian soldier and businessman (died 1992)
Natascha Artin Brunswick was a Russian-American mathematician and photographer.
Natascha Artin Brunswick, German-American mathematician and photographer (died 2003)
Elamkulam Manakkal Sankaran Namboodiripad was an Indian communist politician, theorist, author and statesman who served as the first Chief Minister of Kerala in 1957–1959 and then …
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Burl Icle Ivanhoe Ives was an American singer and actor with a career that spanned more than six decades.
Burl Ives, American actor and singer (died 1995)
Elena Nikolaidi was a Greek-American opera singer and teacher. She sang leading contralto and mezzosoprano roles with major opera companies worldwide and made numerous recordings.
Elena Nikolaidi, Greek-American soprano and educator (died 2002)
Archibald Fairly Carr Jr. was an American herpetologist, ecologist, and conservationist. He was a Professor of Zoology at the University of Florida and a writer on science and natu…
Archie Carr, American ecologist and zoologist (died 1987)
Elmer Lee Andersen was an American businessman, philanthropist, and politician who built a successful business career with the H. B. Fuller Company. Andersen was most notably the 3…
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Ralph Ethan Winters was a Canadian-born film editor who became one of the leading figures of this field in the American industry.
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Shūji Tsushima , known by his pen name Osamu Dazai , was a Japanese novelist and author. A number of his most popular works, such as The Setting Sun and No Longer Human, are consid…
Osamu Dazai, Japanese author (died 1948)
Rūdolfs Jurciņš was a Latvian basketball player. He played as a center.
Rūdolfs Jurciņš, Latvian basketball player (died 1948)
Errol Leslie Thomson Flynn was an Australian and American actor who achieved worldwide fame during the Golden Age of Hollywood. He was known for his romantic swashbuckler roles, fr…
Errol Flynn, Australian-American actor (died 1959)
Nathalie Sophia Nielsine Caroline Rink was a Danish writer and ethnologist. Together with her husband Hinrich, she founded Greenland's first newspaper, Atuagagdliutit, in 1861. She…
Signe Rink, Greenland-born Danish writer and ethnologist (born 1836)
Isaac Manuel Francisco Albéniz y Pascual was a Spanish virtuoso pianist, composer, and conductor. He is one of the foremost composers of the post-romantic era who also had a signif…
Isaac Albéniz, Spanish pianist and composer (born 1860)
George Meredith was an English novelist and poet of the Victorian era. At first, his focus was poetry, influenced by John Keats among others, but Meredith gradually established a r…
George Meredith, English novelist and poet (born 1828)
Ernest Hogan was the first Black American entertainer to produce and star in a Broadway show, The Oyster Man in 1907, and helped to popularize the musical genre of ragtime.
Ernest Hogan, American actor and composer (born 1859)
Thomas Price served as the South Australian United Labor Party's first Premier of South Australia. He formed a minority government at the 1905 election and was re-elected with incr…
Thomas Price, Welsh-Australian politician, 24th Premier of South Australia (born 1852)
Edward Everett Hale was an American author, historian, and Unitarian minister, best known for his writings such as "The Man Without a Country", published in Atlantic Monthly, in su…
Edward Everett Hale, American minister, historian, and author (born 1822)
Friedrich Fromhold Martens, or Friedrich Fromhold von Martens, was a diplomat and jurist in service of the Russian Empire who made important contributions to the science of interna…
Friedrich Martens, Estonian-Russian historian, lawyer, and diplomat (born 1845)
The 1909 Giro d'Italia was the 1st edition of the Giro d'Italia, organized and sponsored by the Italian major sport newspaper La Gazzetta dello Sport. The event began in Milan on 1…
The inaugural edition of the Giro d'Italia, a long-distance multiple-stage bicycle race, began in Milan; the Italian cy
Natural Bridges National Monument is a U.S. National Monument located about 50 miles (80 km) northwest of the Four Corners boundary of southeast Utah, in the western United States,…
Natural Bridges National Monument is established in Utah
The New South Wales Rugby League Ltd (NSWRL) is an Australian rugby league football competition operator in New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory and is a member of …
Opening day of competition in the New South Wales Rugby League
Masjed Soleyman is a city in the Central District of Masjed Soleyman County, Khuzestan province, Iran, serving as capital of both the county and the district.
The first major commercial oil strike in the Middle East is made at Masjed Soleyman in southwest Persia
Mother's Day is a celebration honoring the mother of the family or individual, as well as motherhood, maternal bonds, and the influence of mothers in society. It is celebrated on d…
Mother's Day is observed for the first time in the United States, in Grafton, West Virginia