Explore 1530 historical events from 1900–1909.
Mina Spiegel Rees was an American mathematician. She is known for her assistance to the US Government during WWII, as well as making several breakthroughs for women in science. Her…
Mina Rees, American mathematician (died 1997)
Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac was an English theoretical physicist who is considered to be one of the founders of quantum mechanics. Dirac laid the foundations for both quantum electro…
Paul Dirac, English-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1984)
Panteleimon Kondratyevich Ponomarenko was a Soviet statesman and politician and one of the leaders of Soviet partisan resistance in Belarus. He served as an administrator at variou…
Panteleimon Ponomarenko, Russian general and politician (died 1984)
Edith Norma Shearer was a Canadian-American actress who was active on film from 1919 through 1942. Shearer often played spunky, sexually liberated women. She appeared in adaptation…
Norma Shearer, Canadian-American actress (died 1983)
Curt Siodmak was a German-American novelist, screenwriter and director. He is known for his work in the horror and science fiction film genres, with such films as The Wolf Man and …
Curt Siodmak, German-English author and screenwriter (died 2000)
Arne Wilhelm Kaurin Tiselius was a Swedish biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1948 "for his research on electrophoresis and adsorption analysis, especially for his …
Arne Tiselius, Swedish biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1971)
Alfredo Binda was an Italian road cyclist of the 1920s and 1930s. He was the first to win five editions of the Giro d'Italia, and a three-time world champion. In addition he won Mi…
Alfredo Binda, Italian cyclist (died 1986)
Lloyd Benedict Nolan was an American stage, film and television actor who rose from a supporting player and B-movie lead early in his career to featured player status after creatin…
Lloyd Nolan, American actor (died 1985)
Christian Marie Ferdinand de la Croix de Castries was a French general and the commander of forces at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu in 1954.
Christian de Castries, French general (died 1991)
Felix Heinrich Wankel was a German mechanical engineer and inventor after whom the Wankel engine was named. Wankel joined various radical antisemitic organizations after World War …
Felix Wankel, German engineer (died 1988)
Jan Remco Theodoor Campert was a Dutch journalist, theater critic and writer who lived in Amsterdam. During the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II Campert was arr…
Jan Campert, Dutch journalist and critic (died 1943)
Wallace Henry Thurman was an American novelist and screenwriter active during the Harlem Renaissance. He also wrote essays, worked as an editor, and was a publisher of short-lived …
Wallace Thurman, American author and playwright (died 1934)
Mohammad Hatta was an Indonesian statesman, nationalist, and independence activist who served as the country's first vice president as well as the third prime minister. Known as "T…
Mohammad Hatta, Indonesian statesman, 1st Vice President of Indonesia (died 1980)
Georgette Heyer was an English novelist and short-story writer, in both the Regency romance and detective fiction genres. Her writing career began in 1921, when she turned a story …
Georgette Heyer, English author (died 1974)
Erich Carl Hugo Adamson was an Estonian artist who worked mainly within the medium of painting in applied art.
Adamson-Eric, Estonian painter (died 1968)
Margaret Elizabeth Thomas "Mardy" Murie was an American naturalist, writer, adventurer, and conservationist. Dubbed the "Grandmother of the Conservation Movement" by both the Sier…
Margaret Murie, American environmentalist and author (died 2003)
Frederic Ogden Nash was an American poet well known for his light verse, of which he wrote more than 500 pieces. With his unconventional rhyming schemes, he was declared by The New…
Ogden Nash, American poet (died 1971)
Angel Ivanov Karaliychev was a Bulgarian writer of children's literature.
Angel Karaliychev, Bulgarian author (died 1972)
Thomas Minor Pelly was an American politician. He served as a U.S. Representative from the state of Washington between 1953 and 1973.
Thomas Pelly, American lawyer and politician (died 1973)
Helene Bertha Amalie "Leni" Riefenstahl was a German filmmaker, photographer, and actress. She is considered one of the most controversial personalities in film history. Regarded b…
Leni Riefenstahl, German actress, film director and propagandist (died 2003)
Edward Rowe Snow was an American writer and historian.
Edward Rowe Snow, American historian and author (died 1982)
Fernand Paul Achille Braudel was a French historian. His scholarship focused on three main projects: The Mediterranean, Civilization and Capitalism (1955–79), and the unfinished Id…
Fernand Braudel, French historian and academic (died 1985)
Carlo Gambino was a Sicilian crime boss who was the leader and namesake of the Gambino crime family of New York City. Following the Apalachin Meeting in 1957, and the imprisonment …
Carlo Gambino, Italian-American mob boss (died 1976)
Joaquim de Sousa Andrade, better known by his pseudonym Sousândrade, was a Brazilian poet, adept of the "Condorist" movement. His poetry, exceedingly innovative for the time it was…
Joaquim de Sousa Andrade, Brazilian poet and educator (born 1833)