Explore 1530 historical events from 1900–1909.
Fritz Bauer was a German Jewish judge and prosecutor. He played an instrumental role in the post-war capture of former Holocaust planner Adolf Eichmann, and in bringing about the F…
Fritz Bauer, German lawyer and judge (died 1968)
Carmen Lombardo was lead saxophonist and featured vocalist for his brother Guy Lombardo's orchestra. He was also a successful composer. In 1927, Carmen Lombardo was the vocalist of…
Carmen Lombardo, Canadian singer-songwriter (died 1971)
Irmgard Flügge-Lotz, née Lotz was a German-American mathematician and aerospace engineer. She was a pioneer in the development of the theory of discontinuous automatic control, whi…
Irmgard Flügge-Lotz, German mathematician and engineer (died 1974)
Russell Werner Lee was an American photographer and photojournalist, best known for his work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA) during the Great Depression. His images docu…
Russell Lee, American photographer and journalist (died 1986)
Roy Rothschild Neuberger was an American financier who contributed money to raise public awareness of modern art through his acquisition of pieces he deemed worthy. He was a co-fou…
Roy Neuberger, American businessman and financier, co-founded Neuberger Berman (died 2010)
Carey Estes Kefauver was an American politician from Tennessee. A member of the Democratic Party, he served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1939 to 1949 and in the U.S. S…
Estes Kefauver, American lawyer and politician (died 1963)
Nikolay Konstantinovich Cherkasov was a Soviet and Russian actor. He was named People's Artist of the USSR in 1947.
Nikolay Cherkasov, Russian actor (died 1966)
Michail Stasinopoulos was a Greek jurist and politician who served as the President of Greece from 18 December 1974 to 19 July 1975. A member of New Democracy, he was the first off…
Michail Stasinopoulos, Greek jurist and politician, President of Greece (died 2002)
Mārtiņš Zīverts was a Latvian playwright.
Mārtiņš Zīverts, Latvian playwright (died 1990)
Paul George Vincent O'Shaughnessy Horgan was an American writer of historical fiction and non-fiction who mainly wrote about the Southwestern United States. He was the recipient of…
Paul Horgan, American historian, author, and academic (died 1995)
Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey was a Kenyan-British palaeoanthropologist and archaeologist whose work was important in demonstrating that humans evolved in Africa, particularly throug…
Louis Leakey, Kenyan-English palaeontologist and archaeologist (died 1972)
Habib Bourguiba was a Tunisian politician and statesman who served as the prime minister of the Kingdom of Tunisia from 1956 to 1957, and then as the first president of Tunisia fro…
Habib Bourguiba, Tunisian journalist and politician, 1st President of the Republic of Tunisia (died 2000)
Virginia Foster Durr was an American civil rights activist and lobbyist. She was born in Birmingham, Alabama in 1903 to Dr. Sterling Foster, an Alabama Presbyterian minister, and A…
Virginia Foster Durr, American civil rights activist (died 1999)
Joseph Ward Moore was an American science fiction writer. According to The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, "he contributed only infrequently to the field, [but] each of his books …
Ward Moore, American author (died 1978)
Lucienne Boyer was a French entertainer and musician, best known for her song "Parlez-moi d'amour". Her impresario was Bruno Coquatrix. According to The New York Times, she "reigne…
Lucienne Boyer, French singer (died 1983)
James Gould Cozzens was a Pulitzer prize-winning American writer whose work enjoyed an unusual degree of popular success and critical acclaim for more than three decades. His 1949 …
James Gould Cozzens, American novelist and short story writer (died 1978)
Ioannis Constantinidis, also known by the pen name Kostas Giannidis, was a Greek composer, pianist and conductor.
Kostas Giannidis, Greek pianist, composer, and conductor (died 1984)
Samuel Maxwell "Jerry" Iger was an American cartoonist and art-studio entrepreneur. With business partner Will Eisner, he co-founded Eisner & Iger, a comic book packager that produ…
Jerry Iger, American cartoonist, co-founded Eisner & Iger (died 1990)
Karl August Hanke was a German Nazi official and politician who served as the fifth and final Reichsführer of the Schutzstaffel (SS). He also served as Gauleiter of Gau Lower Siles…
Karl Hanke, German businessman and politician (died 1945)
Arpad Emmerich Elo was a Hungarian-American physics professor who created the Elo rating system for two-player games such as chess.
Arpad Elo, Hungarian-American chess player, created the Elo rating system (died 1992)
Godfrey Downes Carter was an Australian businessman, politician and mayor of Melbourne from 1884 to 1885.
Godfrey Carter, Australian businessman and politician, 39th Mayor of Melbourne (born 1830)
Paul Belloni Du Chaillu was a French-American traveler, zoologist, and anthropologist. He became famous in the 1860s as the first modern European outsider to confirm the existence …
Paul Du Chaillu, French-American anthropologist and zoologist (born 1835)
Emily Howard Stowe was a Canadian physician who was the first female physician to practise in Canada, the second licensed female physician in Canada and an activist for women's rig…
Emily Stowe, Canadian physician and activist (born 1831)
Caroline Pafford Miller was an American novelist. She gathered the folktales, stories, and archaic dialects of the rural communities she visited in her home state of Georgia in the…
Caroline Pafford Miller, American author (died 1992)