Explore 2322 historical events from 1900–1909.
Anita Farra was an Italian stage and film actress. She appeared in around forty films during her career, generally in small or supporting roles, such as that in The Siege of the Al…
Anita Farra, Italian actress (died 2008)
William Dennis Gargan was an American film, television and radio actor. He was the 5th recipient of the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 1967, and in 1941, was nominat…
William Gargan, American actor (died 1979)
Joseph Levis was an American foil fencer. He won nine national fencing championships, and participated in three Olympic Games representing the United States. The Roll of Honor at t…
Joseph Levis, American foil fencer (died 2005)
Leopold Engleitner was an Austrian conscientious objector, as one of Jehovah's Witnesses, and a concentration camp survivor who spoke publicly and with students about his experienc…
Leopold Engleitner, Austrian author and educator (died 2013)
Elias Canetti was a German-language writer, known as a modernist novelist, playwright, memoirist, and nonfiction writer.
Elias Canetti, Bulgarian-Swiss novelist, playwright, and memoirist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1994)
Auguste Georges Paul Grignard was a racing driver from France. He raced in Formula One from 1947 to 1953, participating in one World Championship Grand Prix on 28 October 1951. He …
Georges Grignard, French race car driver (died 1977)
Denys James Watkins-Pitchford MBE was an English naturalist, artist and author under the pen name 'BB'. He won the 1942 Carnegie Medal for The Little Grey Men.
Denys Watkins-Pitchford, English author and illustrator (died 1990)
Jack Morrison (1905−1994) was an Australian rugby league footballer who played in the 1930s for South Sydney and Canterbury-Bankstown. Morrison was a foundation player for Canterbu…
Jack Morrison, Australian rugby league player (died 1994)
Clara Gordon Bow was an American actress who rose to stardom during the silent film era of the 1920s and successfully made the transition to "talkies" in 1929. Her appearance as a …
Clara Bow, American actress (died 1965)
Leo Ernest Durocher, nicknamed "Leo the Lip" and "Lippy", was an American professional baseball player, manager, and coach. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) as an infielder…
Leo Durocher, American baseball player and manager (died 1991)
Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld was a Swedish economist and diplomat who served as the second Secretary-General of the United Nations from April 1953 until his death in a plane …
Dag Hammarskjöld, Swedish economist and diplomat, 2nd Secretary-General of the United Nations, Nobel Prize Laureate…
Stanley Jasspon Kunitz was an American poet. He was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress twice, first in 1974 and then again in 2000.
Stanley Kunitz, American poet and translator (died 2006)
Roger Maxwell "Doc" Cramer was an American center fielder and left-handed batter in Major League Baseball who played for four American League teams from 1929 to 1948.
Doc Cramer, American baseball player (died 1990)
Helen Battles Sawyer Hogg was an American-Canadian astronomer who pioneered research into globular clusters and variable stars. She was the first female president of several astron…
Helen Sawyer Hogg, American-Canadian astronomer and academic (died 1993)
Karl Amadeus Hartmann was a German composer. A major figure of the musical life of post-war Germany, he has been described as the greatest German symphonist of the 20th century.
Karl Amadeus Hartmann, German composer (died 1963)
Myrna Loy was an American film, television, and stage actress. As a performer, she was known for her ability to adapt to her screen partner's acting style.
Myrna Loy, American actress (died 1993)
Ruth Gloria Nelson was an American stage and film actress. She is known for her roles in films such as Wilson, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Humoresque, 3 Women, The Late Show and Awak…
Ruth Nelson, American actress (died 1992)
Franz König was an Austrian Cardinal of the Catholic Church. He served as archbishop of Vienna from 1956 to 1985, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1958. The last surviving ca…
Franz König, Austrian cardinal (died 2004)
Abeid Amani Karume was a Tanzanian politician and statesman who served as the first president of Zanzibar and vice-president of Tanzania from 1964 until his assassination in 1972.
Abeid Karume, 1st President of Zanzibar (died 1972)
Wassily Wassilyevich Leontief was a Russian-American economist known for his research on input–output analysis and how changes in one economic sector may affect other sectors.
Wassily Leontief, German-American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1999)
André Jolivet was a French composer. Known for his devotion to French culture and musical thought, Jolivet drew on his interest in acoustics and atonality, as well as both ancient…
André Jolivet, French composer (died 1974)
Leopold John Genn was an English actor and barrister. Distinguished by his relaxed charm and smooth, "black velvet" voice, he had a lengthy career in theatre, film, television and …
Leo Genn, British actor and barrister (died 1978)
Era Bell Thompson was an American writer and editor.
Era Bell Thompson, American journalist and author (died 1986)
Erwin Chargaff was an Austro-Hungarian-born American biochemist, writer, and professor of biochemistry at Columbia University medical school. A Bucovinian Jew who immigrated to the…
Erwin Chargaff, Austrian-American biochemist and academic (died 2002)