Explore 2322 historical events from 1900–1909.
Maurice Fernand Cary Wilks was an English automotive and aeronautical engineer, and by the time of his death in 1963, was the chairman of the Rover Company. He was the founder of t…
Maurice Wilks, English engineer and businessman (died 1963)
William James "Count" Basie was an American jazz pianist, organist, bandleader, and composer. In 1935, he formed the Count Basie Orchestra, and in 1936 took them to Chicago for a l…
Count Basie, American pianist, composer, and bandleader (died 1984)
Deng Xiaoping was a Chinese statesman, revolutionary, and political theorist who served as the paramount leader of the People's Republic of China (PRC) from 1978 to 1989. Emerging …
Deng Xiaoping, Chinese soldier and politician, paramount leader and 1st Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China…
William Primrose was a Scottish violist and teacher. He performed with the London String Quartet from 1930 to 1935. He then joined the NBC Symphony Orchestra where he formed the Pr…
William Primrose, Scottish viola player and educator (died 1982)
Ida Cook was a British campaigner for Jewish refugees and, as Mary Burchell, a romance novelist.
Ida Cook, English campaigner for Jewish refugees, and romantic novelist as Mary Burchell (died 1986)
Christopher Isherwood was an English and American novelist, playwright, screenwriter, autobiographer, and diarist. His best-known works include Goodbye to Berlin (1939), a semi-aut…
Christopher Isherwood, English-American author and academic (died 1986)
Joseph Harold Anthony Hulme was an English footballer and cricketer.
Joe Hulme, English footballer and cricketer (died 1991)
Alar Kotli was an Estonian architect. He studied sculpture at the art school Pallas in Tartu during 1922–1923 and mathematics at the University of Tartu. He graduated from the Univ…
Alar Kotli, Estonian architect (died 1963)
Norah Ethel Lofts was a 20th-century British writer. She also wrote under the pen names Peter Curtis and Juliet Astley. She wrote more than fifty books. Although specializing in hi…
Norah Lofts, English author (died 1983)
John Hay Whitney was an American venture capitalist, sportsman, philanthropist, newspaper publisher, film producer and diplomat who served as U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom,…
John Hay Whitney, American businessman, publisher, and diplomat, founded J.H. Whitney & Company (died 1982)
Secondo Campini was an Italian engineer and one of the pioneers of the jet engine.
Secondo Campini, Italian-American engineer (died 1980)
Leho Laurine was an Estonian chess master.
Leho Laurine, Estonian chess player (died 1998)
Werner Theodor Otto Forßmann was a German researcher and physician from Germany who shared the 1956 Nobel Prize in Medicine for developing a procedure that allowed cardiac catheter…
Werner Forssmann, German physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1979)
John Brown was an American college football player and film actor billed as John Mack Brown at the height of his screen career. He acted and starred mainly in Western films.
Johnny Mack Brown, American football player and actor (died 1974)
August Jakobson was an Estonian writer and politician. He was one of the few Estonian playwright among his contemporaries whose plays were untouched by Soviet censorship and reache…
August Jakobson, Estonian author and politician (died 1963)
Vera Florence Bradford was an Australian classical pianist and teacher, with a very long career. Her playing was admired for its depth and beauty of tone, classical unity and treme…
Vera Bradford, Australian pianist and educator (died 2004)
Carroll Burleigh Colby was an American writer, primarily of nonfiction children's books. He wrote more than 100 books that were widely circulated in public and school libraries in …
C. B. Colby, American author (died 1977)
Feroze Khan was a field hockey player who represented India at the Summer Olympic Games. At the time of his death, he was the world's oldest Olympic gold medal winner, following th…
Feroze Khan, Indian-Pakistani field hockey player and coach (died 2005)
Arthur Laing was a Canadian politician from British Columbia. Though actively involved with the BC Liberals, his primary achievements were federally as a Liberal Member of Parliame…
Arthur Laing, Canadian lawyer and politician, 9th Canadian Minister of Veterans Affairs (died 1975)
Clarence Leo "Honey" Craven, was an American equestrian, ringmaster and manager of the National Horse Show at Madison Square Garden in New York, the Devon Horse Show in Pennsylvani…
Honey Craven, American horse rider and manager (died 2003)
Max Shachtman was an American Marxist theorist. He went from being an associate of Leon Trotsky to a social democrat and mentor of senior assistants to AFL–CIO President George Mea…
Max Shachtman, American theorist and politician (died 1972)
Karl Plutus was an Estonian jurist and the oldest verified living man in Estonia from 2006 to 2010.
Karl Plutus, Estonian lawyer and jurist (died 2010)
Alberta Christine Williams King was an American civil rights organizer best known as the wife of Martin Luther King Sr.; and as the mother of Martin Luther King Jr., and also as th…
Alberta Williams King, American civil rights organizer, mother of Martin Luther King, Jr. (died 1974)
Gladys George was an American actress of stage and screen. Though nominated for an Academy Award for her leading role in Valiant Is the Word for Carrie (1936), she spent most of he…
Gladys George, American actress (died 1954)