Explore 2322 historical events from 1900–1909.
Mehmet Tekin Arıburun was a Turkish military officer and statesman. He was born in Ishtib, Kosovo Vilayet, Ottoman Empire. He was the last acting president to be born outside the t…
Tekin Arıburun, Turkish soldier and politician, President of Turkey (died 1993)
John Hoyt was an American actor. He began his acting career on Broadway, later appearing in numerous films and television series.
John Hoyt, American actor (died 1991)
Harriet Elizabeth MacGibbon was an American film, stage and television actress best known for her role as the insufferably snobbish, "blue-blooded Bostonian" Mrs. Margaret Drysdale…
Harriet E. MacGibbon, American actress (died 1987)
Helen Newington Wills, also known by her married names Helen Wills Moody and Helen Wills Roark, was an American tennis player. She won 31 Grand Slam tournament titles during her ca…
Helen Wills, American tennis player and painter (died 1998)
Andrew Vabre Devine was an American character actor known for his distinctive raspy, crackly voice and roles in Western films, including his role as Cookie, the sidekick of Roy Rog…
Andy Devine, American actor (died 1977)
Aksella Luts was an Estonian actress, screenwriter, dancer, choreographer, film editor and photojournalist.
Aksella Luts, Estonian actress, screenwriter, dancer, and choreographer (died 2005)
Frederick Christ Trump was an American real estate developer and businessman. He was the father of Donald Trump, the 45th and 47th president of the United States, along with four o…
Fred Trump, American real estate entrepreneur (died 1999)
Richard Benjamin Ferrell was an American professional baseball player, coach, scout, and executive. He played for 18 seasons as a catcher in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1929 t…
Rick Ferrell, American baseball player (died 1995)
Yves Allégret was a French film director, often working in the film noir genre. He was born in Asnières-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine and died in Paris.
Yves Allégret, French director and screenwriter (died 1987)
John Rinehart Blue was an American military officer, educator, businessperson, and politician in the U.S. state of West Virginia. Blue was a Democratic member of the West Virginia …
John Rinehart Blue, American military officer, educator, businessperson, and politician (died 1965)
Coloman Braun-Bogdan was a Romanian football midfielder and football manager.
Coloman Braun-Bogdan, Romanian footballer and manager (died 1983)
Charles Percy Snow, Baron Snow was an English novelist and physical chemist who also served in several important positions in the British Civil Service and briefly in the UK govern…
C. P. Snow, English chemist and author (died 1980)
Ernst Kuzorra was a German footballer of the pre-war era. During his entire career, he played for Schalke 04, whom he led to six national championships and one national cup. He is …
Ernst Kuzorra, German footballer and manager (died 1990)
Leopoldo Benites was an Ecuadorian diplomat who served as the 28th President of the United Nations General Assembly in 1973. He had been the permanent representative of Ecuador sin…
Leopoldo Benites, Ecuadorian diplomat 28th president of the United Nations General Assembly (died 1996)
Jan Augustus Gies was a member of the Dutch Resistance who, with his wife, Miep, helped hide Anne Frank, her sister Margot, their parents Otto and Edith, the van Pels family, and F…
Jan Gies, Dutch activist (died 1993)
Félix Houphouët-Boigny, affectionately called Papa Houphouët or Le Vieux, was an Ivorian politician and physician who served as the first president of Ivory Coast, from 1960 until …
Félix Houphouët-Boigny, Ivorian union leader and politician, 1st President of Côte d'Ivoire (died 1993)
Joseph Kosma was a Hungarian composer who immigrated to France. His most famous composition is the standard Autumn Leaves.
Joseph Kosma, Hungarian-French pianist and composer (died 1969)
Felix Bloch was a Swiss–American theoretical physicist who shared the 1952 Nobel Prize in Physics with Edward Mills Purcell "for their development of new methods for nuclear magnet…
Felix Bloch, Swiss physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1983)
Yen Chia-kan, also known as C. K. Yen, was a Chinese politician, chemist, and economist who was the 2nd president of the Republic of China from 1975 to 1978. As a member of the Kuo…
Yen Chia-kan, Chinese lawyer and politician, President of the Republic of China (died 1993)
Gertrude Caroline Ederle was an American competition swimmer, Olympic champion, and world record-holder in five events. On August 6, 1926, she became the first woman to swim across…
Gertrude Ederle, American swimmer (died 2003)
Fran Zwitter was a Slovenian historian. Together with Milko Kos, Bogo Grafenauer, and Vasilij Melik, he is considered the co-founder of the Ljubljana School of Historiography.
Fran Zwitter, Slovenian historian and academic (died 1988)
Robert Lowe McPhail was a Scottish footballer who played as an inside-left for Airdrieonians, Rangers and the Scotland national team.
Bob McPhail, Scottish footballer (died 2000)
George Bernard Flahiff, CC, C.S.B. was a Canadian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Winnipeg from 1961 to 1982, and was elevated to the cardinalate i…
George Bernard Flahiff, Canadian cardinal (died 1989)
Tatyana Pavlovna van Aardenne-Ehrenfest was a Dutch mathematician. She is known for her contributions to De Bruijn sequences, low-discrepancy sequences, and the BEST theorem.
Tatyana Ehrenfest, Dutch mathematician (died 1984)