Explore 830 historical events from 1900–1909.
Lena Baker was an African American maid in Cuthbert, Georgia, United States, who was convicted of capital murder of a white man, Ernest Knight. She was executed by the state of Geo…
Lena Baker, African-American maid executed for capital murder, later pardoned posthumously (died 1945)
Fredrick Malcolm Waring Sr. was an American musician, bandleader, choral director, and radio and television personality, sometimes referred to as "America's Singing Master" and "Th…
Fred Waring, American singer, bandleader, and television host (died 1984)
Frederick Emmons Terman was an American professor and academic administrator. He was the dean of the school of engineering from 1944 to 1958 and provost from 1955 to 1965 at Stanfo…
Frederick Terman, American engineering professor and academic administrator, nicknamed "the father of Silicon Valley
Ian Hunter was a South African-born British actor of stage, film and television.
Ian Hunter, British Cape Colony actor of stage and film (died 1975)
Ruth Nanda Anshen was an American philosopher, author and editor. She was the author of several books including The Anatomy of Evil, Biography of An Idea, Morals Equals Manners and…
Ruth Nanda Anshen, American writer, editor, and philosopher (died 2003)
June Walker was an American stage and film actress.
June Walker, American stage and film actress (died 1966)
Gotthard Günther was a German (Prussian) philosopher.
Gotthard Günther, German philosopher and academic (died 1984)
Otto Clarence Luening was a German-American composer and conductor, and flutist. He was an early pioneer of tape music and electronic music.
Otto Luening, German-American composer and conductor (died 1996)
Martin Ludwig Bormann was a German Nazi Party official, head of the Nazi Party Chancellery, private secretary to Adolf Hitler and a war criminal. Bormann gained immense power by us…
Martin Bormann, German politician (died 1945)
Evelyn Graham Irons was a Scottish journalist, the first female war correspondent to be decorated with the French Croix de Guerre.
Evelyn Irons, Scottish journalist and war correspondent (died 2000)
Vlasta Adele Vraz was a Czech American relief worker, editor, and fundraiser. She was director of American Relief for Czechoslovakia, and president of the Czechoslovak National Cou…
Vlasta Vraz, Czech-American relief worker, editor, and fundraiser (died 1989)
Georges-Henri Bousquet was a 20th-century French jurist, economist and Islamologist. He was a professor of law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Algiers where he was a spe…
Georges-Henri Bousquet, French economist and Islamologist (died 1978)
Blanche Noyes was an American pioneering female aviator who was among the first ten women to receive a transport pilot's license. In 1929, she became Ohio's first licensed female p…
Blanche Noyes, American aviator, winner of the 1936 Bendix Trophy Race (died 1981)
Marta Abba was an Italian actress, considered as the muse of the playwright Luigi Pirandello.
Marta Abba, Italian actress (died 1988)
Zinaïda Mikolaïevna Aksentieva was a Ukrainian/Soviet astronomer and geophysicist.
Zinaida Aksentyeva, Ukrainian/Soviet astronomer (died 1969)
Georgia Theodora Hale was an actress of the silent movie era.
Georgia Hale, American silent film actress and real estate investor (died 1985)
Anthony George Charles was a boxer, commonly known as Dixie Brown.
Dixie Brown, British boxer (died 1957)
Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger, vicomte de Saint-Exupéry, known simply as Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, was a French writer, poet, journalist and aviator.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, French poet and pilot (died 1944)
Oskar Wilhelm Fischinger was a German-American abstract animator, filmmaker, and painter, notable for creating abstract musical animation many decades before the appearance of comp…
Oskar Fischinger, German-American abstract artist, filmmaker, and painter (died 1967)
Wilhelm Cauer was a German mathematician and scientist. He is most noted for his work on the analysis and synthesis of electrical filters and his work marked the beginning of the f…
Wilhelm Cauer, German mathematician and engineer (died 1945)
Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, commonly known as Lord Mountbatten, was a British statesman, naval officer, and member of the Briti…
Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, English admiral and politician, 44th Governor-General of India (died 1
Maharaja RanaShri Vikramatji Khimojiraj Sahib was the ruler of Princely State of Porbandar belonging to Jethwa Rajput dynasty.
Vikramatji Khimojiraj, Indian ruler (born 1819)
John Luther "Casey" Jones was an American railroader who was killed when his passenger train collided with a stalled freight train in Vaughan, Mississippi.
Casey Jones, American railroad engineer (born 1864)
Lars Svendsen Oftedal was a Norwegian priest, social reformer, politician, and newspaper editor. He was the founding editor of Stavanger Aftenblad and served as a member of the Sto…
Lars Oftedal, Norwegian priest, social reformer, politician, and newspaper editor (born 1838)