Explore 2322 historical events from 1900–1909.
Jacques Becker was a French film director and screenwriter. His films, made during the 1940s and 1950s, encompassed a wide variety of genres, and they were admired by some of the f…
Jacques Becker, French actor, director, and screenwriter (died 1960)
Walter Engle "Jack" Rollins was an American musician born in Scottdale, Pennsylvania and raised in Keyser, West Virginia.
Walter E. Rollins, American songwriter (died 1973)
John Malcolm Thorpe Fleming Churchill, was a British Army officer. Nicknamed "Fighting Jack Churchill" and "Mad Jack", he fought in the Second World War with a broadsword, longbow,…
Jack Churchill, Sri Lankan-British colonel (died 1996)
Junius Richard Jayewardene, commonly referred to by his initials JR, was a Sri Lankan lawyer, and statesman who served as prime minister of Sri Lanka from 1977 to 1978 and as the s…
J. R. Jayewardene, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician, 2nd President of Sri Lanka (died 1996)
Edgar Arthur Wayburn was an American environmentalist who served as the president of the Sierra Club five times in the 1960s. He has been recognized as one of the least-known yet m…
Edgar Wayburn, American physician and environmentalist (died 2010)
Kaka Hathrasi was a Hindi satirist and humorist poet from India.
Kaka Hathrasi, Indian poet and author (died 1995)
Maurice Maillot was a French film and theater actor. He was born in Rethel, Ardennes, and died in Paris.
Maurice Maillot, French actor (died 1968)
Julio Ras Rosales, was a Filipino cardinal of the Catholic Church. He was the second archbishop of Cebu, and a former bishop of Tagbilaran.
Julio Rosales, Filipino cardinal (died 1983)
Jean Dréville was a French film director. He directed more than 40 films between 1928 and 1969.
Jean Dréville, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1997)
Vera Faddeeva was a Soviet mathematician. Faddeeva published some of the earliest work in the field of numerical linear algebra. Her 1950 work, Computational methods of linear alge…
Vera Faddeeva, Russian mathematician (died 1983)
Henry Monroe "Hank" Beachell was an American plant breeder. His research led to the development of hybrid rice cultivars that saved millions of people around the world from starvat…
Henry Beachell, American biologist and botanist (died 2006)
Margarete Ilse Koch was a German war criminal who committed atrocities while her husband Karl-Otto Koch was the commandant at Buchenwald. Though Ilse Koch had no official position …
Ilse Koch, German war criminal (died 1967)
Charles Stewart Almon Ritchie, was a Canadian diplomat and diarist.
Charles Ritchie, Canadian diplomat, High Commission of Canada in the United Kingdom (died 1995)
Leonard Charles Marsh was a Canadian social scientist and professor.
Leonard Marsh, Canadian sociologist and academic (died 1982)
Józef Nawrot was a Polish footballer who played as a striker. He was one of the top scorers in the Polish top division with over 100 goals. During his career, he played for WKS 1 P…
Józef Nawrot, Polish footballer (died 1982)
Volfgangs Dārziņš was a Latvian composer, pianist and music critic.
Volfgangs Dārziņš, Latvian composer, pianist, and music critic (died 1962)
Phyllis Isobella Pearsall was a British painter, publisher, artist and writer who founded the Geographers' A–Z Map Company, for which she is regarded as one of the most successful …
Phyllis Pearsall, English painter, cartographer, and author (died 1996)
Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich was a Soviet-era Russian composer and pianist who became internationally known after the premiere of his First Symphony in 1926 and thereafter was …
Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian pianist and composer (died 1975)
Sir William Empson was an English literary critic and poet, widely influential for his practice of closely reading literary works, a practice fundamental to New Criticism. His best…
William Empson, English poet and critic (died 1984)
James Myers Thompson was an American novelist and screenwriter, known for his hardboiled crime fiction.
Jim Thompson, American author and screenwriter (died 1977)
Sergei Petrovich Varshavsky (Russian: Сергéй Пeтрóвич Варшáвский, was a Russian writer and art collector.
Sergei Varshavsky, Russian art collector and author (died 1980)
Henry Nash Smith was a scholar of American culture and literature. He is recognized as one of the founders of the academic discipline American studies. He was also a noted Mark Twa…
Henry Nash Smith, American academic (died 1986)
Mireille Hartuch was a French singer, composer, and actress. She was generally known by the stage name "Mireille," it being a common practice of the time to use a single name for t…
Mireille Hartuch, French singer-songwriter and actress (died 1996)
Sachin Dev Burman was an Indian music director and singer. He was a member of the Tripura royal family. He started his career with Bengali films in 1937. He later began composing f…
S. D. Burman, Indian composer and singer (died 1975)