Explore 705 historical events from 1900–1909.
Carl Mydans was an American photographer who worked for the Farm Security Administration and Life magazine.
Carl Mydans, American photographer and journalist (died 2004)
John C. Allen was a roller coaster designer who was responsible for the revival of wooden roller coasters which began in the 1960s. He attended Drexel University. He started workin…
John C
Georges Prosper Remi, known by the pen name Hergé, from the French pronunciation of his reversed initials RG, was a Belgian comic strip artist. He is best known for creating The Ad…
Hergé, Belgian author and illustrator (died 1983)
Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier was an English actor and director. He and his contemporaries John Gielgud, Michael Redgrave and Ralph Richardson made up a quartet of male acto…
Laurence Olivier, English actor, director, and producer (died 1989)
Nu, commonly known as U Nu and also by the honorific name Thakin Nu, was a prominent Burmese statesman and the first Prime Minister of Union of Burma. He was educated at Rangoon Un…
U Nu, Burmese politician, 1st Prime Minister of Burma (died 1995)
Jean Bernard was a French physician and haematologist. During his life, he served as president of the French Academy of Sciences and the French National Academy of Medicine. He was…
Jean Bernard, French physician and haematologist (died 2006)
Nicolas Calas was the pseudonym of Nikos Kalamaris, a Greek-American poet and art critic. While living in Greece, he also used the pseudonyms Nikitas Randos and M. Spieros.
Nicolas Calas, Greek-American poet and critic (died 1988)
Marion Robert Morrison, known professionally as John Wayne, was an American actor. Nicknamed "Duke", he became a popular icon through his starring roles in films which were produce…
John Wayne, American actor, director, and producer (died 1979)
Rachel Louise Carson was an American marine biologist, writer, and conservationist whose sea trilogy (1941–1955) and book Silent Spring (1962) are credited with advancing marine co…
Rachel Carson, American biologist, environmentalist, and author (died 1964)
Hartland de Montarville Molson was an Anglo-Quebecer statesman, Canadian senator, military aviator, and a member of the Molson family of brewers.
Hartland Molson, Canadian captain and politician (died 2002)
Germaine Tillion was a French ethnologist, known for her work in Algeria in the 1950s on behalf of the Government of France. A member of the French Resistance in World War II, she …
Germaine Tillion, French anthropologist and academic (died 2008)
Jan Patočka was a Czech philosopher. Having studied in Prague, Paris, Berlin, and Freiburg, he was one of the last pupils of Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger. In Freiburg he als…
Jan Patočka, Czech philosopher (died 1977)
Air Commodore Sir Frank Whittle was an English engineer, inventor and Royal Air Force (RAF) air officer. He is credited with co-creating the turbojet engine. A patent was submitted…
Frank Whittle, English airman and engineer, developed the jet engine (died 1996)
Dorothy West was an American novelist, short-story writer, and magazine editor associated with the Harlem Renaissance, a cultural movement in the 1920s and 1930s that celebrated bl…
Dorothy West, American journalist and author (died 1998)
Rudolf John Frederick Lehmann was an English publisher, poet and man of letters. He founded the periodicals New Writing and The London Magazine, and the publishing house of John Le…
John Lehmann, English poet and publisher (died 1987)
Paul Rotha was an English documentary film-maker, film historian and critic.
Paul Rotha, English director and producer (died 1984)
Jacques Roumain Encarnación was a Haitian writer, politician, and Marxist. He is considered one of the most prominent figures in Haitian literature. Langston Hughes translated some…
Jacques Roumain, Haitian journalist and politician (died 1944)
Winifred Emma May was a poet from the United Kingdom, best known for her work under the pen name Patience Strong. Her poems were usually short, simple and imbued with sentimentali…
Patience Strong, English poet and journalist (died 1990)
William Malcolm Dickey was an American professional baseball catcher and manager. He played in Major League Baseball with the New York Yankees for 17 seasons. Dickey managed the Ya…
Bill Dickey, American baseball player and manager who played in eight World Series, winning seven (died 1993)
Sigvard Oscar Fredrik, Prince Bernadotte, Count of Wisborg born as, and until 1934 known as, Prince Sigvard of Sweden, Duke of Uppland, was a member of the Swedish Royal Family and…
Sigvard Bernadotte, Count of Wisborg (died 2002)
Catherine Rosalind Russell was an American actress, model, comedian, screenwriter, and singer, known for her role as fast-talking newspaper reporter Hildy Johnson in the Howard Haw…
Rosalind Russell, American actress (died 1976)
Fairfield Porter was an American painter and art critic. He was the fourth of five children of James Porter, an architect, and Ruth Furness Porter, a poet from a literary family. H…
Fairfield Porter, American painter and critic (died 1975)
William Wells, known professionally as Dicky Wells, was an American jazz trombonist.
Dicky Wells, American jazz trombonist (died 1985)[n 1]
Nicolas Clerihew Bentley was a British writer and illustrator, best known for his humorous cartoon drawings in books and magazines in the 1930s and 1940s. The son of Edmund Clerihe…
Nicolas Bentley, English author and illustrator (died 1978)