Famous birthdays, deaths and events of 1900
Birthdays
- January 1 - Chiune Sugihara, Japanese diplomat (d. 1986)
- January 1 - Xavier Cugat, Spanish musician (d. 1990)
- January 4 - James Bond, American ornithologist (d. 1989)
- January 5 - Yves Tanguy, French painter (d. 1955)
- January 6 - Kathryn Hulme, U.S. novelist (The Nun's Story) (d. 1981)
- January 7 - John Brownlee, Australian tenor (d. 1969)
- January 8 - Dame Merlyn Myer, Australian philanthropist (d. 1982)
- January 9 - Richard Halliburton, American adventurer (presumed dead 1939)
- January 9 - Maria of Romania, Queen Consort of Yugoslavia (d. 1961)
- January 20 - Colin Clive, British actor (d. 1937)
- January 22 - Ernst Busch, German singer and actor (d. 1980)
- January 23 - William Ifor Jones, Welsh conductor and organist (d. 1988)
- January 25 - Theodosius Dobzhansky, Ukrainian-American geneticist and biologist (d. 1975)
- January 25 - Yojiro Ishizaka, Japanese writer (d. 1986)
- January 26 - Karl Ristenpart, German conductor (d. 1967)
- January 27 - Hyman Rickover, American admiral (d. 1986)
- January 28 - Alice Neel, American artist (d. 1984)
- February 2 - Willie Kamm, American baseball player (d. 1988)
- February 4 - Jacques Prévert, French poet and lyricist (d. 1977)
- February 5 - Adlai Stevenson, American politician (d. 1965)
- February 8 - Ivan Ivanov-Vano Soviet animator and Russian animation director, (d. 1987)
- February 11 - Hans-Georg Gadamer, German philosopher (d. 2002)
- February 11 - Josei Toda, Japanese educator (d. 1958)
- February 12 - Roger J. Traynor, American judge (d. 1980)
- February 13 - Roy Harrod, English economist (d. 1978)
- February 21 - Madeleine Renaud, French theater actress (d. 1994)
- February 22 - Luis Buñuel, Spanish-born film director (d. 1983)
- February 22 - Seán Ó Faoláin, Irish author (d. 1991)
- February 28 - Wolfram Hirth, German pilot (d. 1959)
- March 2 - Kurt Weill, German composer (d. 1950)
- March 4 - Herbert Biberman, American screenwriter (d. 1971)
- March 6 - Lefty Grove, American Baseball Player (d. 1975)
- March 9 - Howard Aiken, American computing pioneer (d. 1973)
- March 9 - Tomislav II of Croatia, 4th Duke of Aosta
- March 13 - Béla Guttman, Hungarian footballer (d. 1981)
- March 13 - Giorgos Seferis, Greek poet
- March 19 - Frédéric Joliot, French physicist
- March 23 - Erich Fromm, German-born psychoanalyst (d. 1980)
- March 28 - Edward Wagenknecht, American literary critic (d. 2004)
- March 29 - John McEwen, eighteenth Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1980)
- March 29 - Bill Aston, British racing driver (d. 1974)
- April 1 - Robert McDowell, Mayor of Maryborough
- April 2 - Roberto Arlt, Argentine writer (d. 1942)
- April 5 - Spencer Tracy, American actor (d. 1967)
- April 11 - Sandor Marai, Hungarian writer (d. 1989)
- April 13 - Pierre Molinier, French painter and photographer (d. 1976)
- April 19 - Richard Hughes, English novelist (d. 1976)
- April 19 - Roland Michener, Governor General of Canada (d. 1991)
- April 23 - Joseph Green, Polish-born actor and director (d. 1996)
- April 23 - Jim Bottomley, American baseball player (d. 1959)
- April 25 - Wolfgang Ernst Pauli, Austrian-born physicist
- April 26 - Charles Richter, American geophysicist (d. 1985)
- April 26 - Hack Wilson, American baseball player (d. 1948)
- April 28 - Heinrich Müller, head of the Gestapo (disappeared in 1945)
- April 28 - Jan Oort, Dutch astronomer (d. 1992)
- May 12 - Helene Weigel, German actress (d. 1971)
- May 14 - Hal Borland, American author (d. 1978)
- May 14 - Leo Smit, Dutch composer (d. 1943)
- May 14 - Edgar Wind, German art historian (d. 1971)
- May 17 - Ruhollah Khomeini, Iranian Muslim cleric (d. 1989)
- May 22 - Yvonne de Gaulle, wife of Charles de Gaulle (d. 1979)
- May 23 - Hans Frank, German Nazi war criminal (d. 1946)
- May 24 - Lionel Conacher, Canadian athlete and politician (d. 1954)
- May 24 - Eduardo De Filippo, Italian actor and screenwriter (d. 1984)
- May 25 - Alain Grandbois, French Canadian poet (d. 1975)
- May 27 - Uładzimir Zylka, Belarusian poet (d. 1933)
- May 28 - Tommy Ladnier, American musician (d. 1939)
- June 5 - Dennis Gabor, Hungarian physicist
- June 6 - Manfred Sakel, Polish psychiatrist (d. 1957)
- June 7 - Glen Gray, Jazz musician and leader of the Casa Loma Orchestra (d. 1963)
- June 9 - Fred Waring, American bandleader (d. 1984)
- June 15 - Gotthard Günther, German philosopher (d. 1984)
- June 15 - Otto Luening, German-American composer (d. 1996)
- June 17 - Martin Bormann, Nazi official (d. 1945)
- June 19 - Laura Z. Hobson, American novelist (d. 1986)
- June 24 - Wilhelm Cauer, German mathematician (d. 1945)
- June 25 - Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma
- June 29 - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, French writer (d. 1944)
- July 2 - Tyrone Guthrie, English actor (d. 1971)
- July 3 - Alessandro Blasetti, Italian film director (d. 1987)
- July 6 - Frederica Sagor Maas, American playwright
- July 7 - Earle E. Partridge, United States Air Force general (d. 1990)
- July 10 - Sampson Sievers, Russian Orthodox Christian monk
- July 10 - Mitchell Parish, American lyricist (d. 1993)
- July 13 - George Lewis, American musician (d. 1969)
- July 17 - Marcel Dalio, French actor (d. 1983)
- July 18 - Nathalie Sarraute, French writer (d. 1999)
- July 20 - Maurice Leyland, Former England cricketer (d. 1967)
- July 24 - Zelda Fitzgerald, American artist
- July 28 - Catherine Dale Owen, American actress (d. 1965)
- July 29 - Eyvind Johnson, Swedish writer
- July 29 - Don Redman, American musician (d. 1964)
- August 1 - Otto Nothling, Former Australain cricketer and rugby union footballer (d. 1965)
- August 3 - Ernie Pyle, American war correspondent (d. 1945)
- August 3 - John T. Scopes, American defendant (d. 1970)
- August 4 - Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, (Queen Elizabeth
- August 6 - Cecil H. Green, American geophysicist (d. 2003)
- August 10 - Arthur Espie Porritt, New Zealand politician and athlete (d. 1994)
- August 11 - Philip Phillips, American archaeologist (d. 1994)
- August 18 - Glenn Albert Black, American archaeologist (d. 1964)
- August 19 - Colleen Moore, American film actress.(d. 1988)
- August 19 - Gilbert Ryle, British philosopher (d. 1976)
- August 22 - Sergei Ozhegov, Russian lexicographer (d. 1964)
- August 23 - Ernst Krenek, Austrian-born composer (d. 1991)
- August 23 - Malvina Reynolds, American folk singer/songwriter (d. 1978)
- August 25 - Hans Adolf Krebs, German physician and biochemist; Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1981)
- August 26 - Hellmuth Walter, German engineer and inventor (d. 1980)
- August 31 - Gino Lucetti, Italian anarchist (d. 1943)
- September 3 - Maurice Dobb, British economist (d. 1976)
- September 3 - Urho Kekkonen, Finnish politician (d. 1986)
- September 3 - Percy Chapman, England cricketer (d. 1961)
- September 6 - W.A.C. Bennett, Canadian politician (d. 1979)
- September 6 - Julien Green, French-born American novelist (d. 1998)
- September 9 - James Hilton, English novelist (d. 1954)
- September 11 - D. W. Brooks, American farmer and businessman (d. 1999)
- September 17 - John Willard Marriott, American hotelier (d. 1985)
- September 17 - Hughie Critz, baseball player (d. 1980)
- September 22 - William Spratling, American silversmith (d. 1967)
- September 22 - Paul H. Emmett, American chemical engineer (d. 1985)
- September 23 - Louise Nevelson, American sculptor (d. 1988)
- September 23 - Bill Stone, British serviceman; one of the last surviving veterans of World War I
- September 24 - Ham Fisher, American cartoonist (d. 1955)
- September 29 - Miguel Alemán Valdés, President of Mexico (d. 1983)
- October 1 - Tom Goddard, English cricketer (d. 1966)
- October 3 - Thomas Wolfe, American author (d. 1938)
- October 6 - Stan Nichols, English cricketer (d. 1961)
- October 7 - Heinrich Himmler, German Nazi official (d. 1945)
- October 9 - Alastair Sim, Scottish actor (d. 1976)
- October 10 - Helen Hayes, American actress (d. 1993)
- October 13 - Gerald Marks, American songwriter (All of Me) (d. 1997)
- October 14 - Agustín Lara, Mexican composer (d. 1970)
- October 15 - Mervyn LeRoy, American film director (d. 1987)
- October 16 - Edward Ardizzone, artist and illustrator (d. 1979)
- October 16 - Primo Conti, Italian painter (d. 1988)
- October 16 - Goose Goslin, American baseball player (d. 1971 )
- October 17 - Jean Arthur, American actress (d. 1991)
- October 18 - Lotte Lenya, Austrian singer and actress (d. 1981)
- October 19 - Bill Ponsford, Australian cricketer (d. 1991)
- October 19 - Roy Worters, Canadian ice hockey goaltender (d. 1957)
- October 19 - Erna Berger, German soprano (d. 1990)
- October 20 - Wayne Morse, U.S. Senator from Oregon (d. 1974)
- October 23 - Douglas Jardine, English cricketer (d. 1958)
- October 30 - Ragnar Granit Finnish neuroscientist, Nobel laureate (d. 1991)
- November 3 - Adolf Dassler, founder of Adidas (d. 1978)
- November 4 - Lucreţiu Pătrăşcanu, Romanian communist activist and sociologist (d. 1954)
- November 5 - Martin Dies, Jr.
- November 5 - Natalie Schafer, American actress (d. 1991)
- November 8 - Margaret Mitchell, American author (d. 1949)
- November 8 - Charlie Paddock, American athlete (d. 1943)
- November 11 - Halina Konopacka, Polish athlete (d. 1989)
- November 13 - Edward Buzzell, American film director (d. 1985)
- November 14 - Aaron Copland, American composer (d. 1990)
- November 19 - Mikhail Lavrentyev, Russian scientist (d. 1980)
- November 19 - Anna Seghers, German writer (d. 1983)
- November 19 - Bunny Ahearne, Irish ice hockey promoter (d. 1985)
- November 20 - Chester Gould, American comic strip artist (d. 1985)
- November 22 - Tom Macdonald, Welsh journalist and novelist (d. 1980)
- November 25 - Rudolf Höß, commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp (d. 1947)
- December 3 - Ulrich Inderbinen, Swiss mountain guide (d. 2004)
- December 3 - Richard Kuhn, Austrian-German biochemist
- December 6 - Agnes Moorehead, American actress (d. 1974)
- December 8 - Sun Li-jen, Chinese general (d. 1990)
- December 9 - Albert Weisbord, American labor organizer (d. 1977)
- December 12 - Sammy Davis, Sr.
- December 16 - V. S. Pritchett, English author and critic (d. 1997)
- December 17 - Mary Cartwright, English mathematician (d. 1998)
- December 17 - Katina Paxinou, Greek actress (d. 1973)
- December 22 - Marc Allégret, French film director and screenwriter (d. 1973)
- December 23 - Otto Soglow, American comics artist (d. 1975)
- December 24 - Joey Smallwood, Canadian politician
- December 27 - Hans Stuck, German race car driver (d. 1978)
Deaths
- January 20 - John Ruskin, art critic (b. 1819)
- January 22 - David E. Hughes, American musician (b. 1831)
- February 18 - Clinton L. Merriam, American politician (b. 1824)
- March 6 - Gottlieb Daimler, German engineer and industrialist (b. 1834)
- March 19 - John Bingham, American politician and lawyer (b. 1815)
- March 19 - Charles-Louis Hanon, French composer (b. 1819)
- April 5 - Joseph Louis François Bertrand, French mathematician (b. 1822)
- April 30 - Casey Jones, American train engineer (b. 1863)
- May 5 - Ivan Aivazovsky, Russian painter (b. 1817)
- May 18 - Jean Gaspard Felix Ravaisson-Mollien, French philosopher (b. 1813)
- June 5 - Stephen Crane, American author (b. 1871)
- June 29 - Ivan Mikheevich Pervushin, Russian mathematician (b. 1900)
- July 29 - King Umberto I of Italy, (b. 1844)
- July 30 - Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (b. 1844)
- August 4 - Isaac Levitan, Russian painter (b. 1860)
- August 12 - Wilhelm Steinitz, Austrian chess player (b. 1836)
- August 16 - Eça de Queiroz, Portuguese writer (b. 1845)
- August 19 - Jean-Baptiste Accolay, Belgian composer (b. 1833)
- August 25 - Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher (b. 1844)
- August 25 - Kuroda Kiyotaka, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1840)
- August 28 - Henry Sidgwick, English philosopher (b. 1838)
- September 23 - William Marsh Rice, American philanthropist and university founder (b. 1816)
- September 25 - Félix-Gabriel Marchand, premier of Québec (b. 1832)
- September 29 - Samuel Fenton Cary, congressman
- October 15 - Zdeněk Fibich, Czech composer (b. 1850)
- October 20 - Naim Frashëri, Albanian poet (b. 1846)
- October 28 - Max Müller, German-born orientalist (b. 1823)
- November 22 - Arthur S. Sullivan, British composer (b. 1842)
- November 30 - Oscar Wilde, Irish writer (b. 1854)
- December 21 - Roger Wolcott, American political figure
- December 27 - William George Armstrong, English inventor
- December 28 - Alexandre Alberto da Rocha de Serpa Pinto, Portuguese explorer (b. 1846)
Events
- January 2 - John Hay announces the Open Door Policy to promote trade with China.
- January 5 - Irish leader John Edward Redmond calls for a revolt against British rule.
- January 6 - Boers attack Ladysmith, South Africa
- January 8 - President William McKinley places Alaska under military rule.
- January 16 - The United States Senate accepts the Anglo-German treaty of 1899 in which the United Kingdom renounces its claims to the Samoan islands.
- January 29 - The American League is organized in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with 8 founding teams.
- January 31 - Datu Muhammad Salleh is assassinated in Kampung Teboh, Tambuan, ending the Mat Salleh Rebellion
- February 3 - Gubernatorial candidate William Goebel is assassinated in Frankfort, Kentucky.
- February 5 - The United States and the United Kingdom sign treaty for Panama Canal
- February 6 - The international arbitration court at The Hague is created when the Netherlands' Senate ratifies an 1899 peace conference decree. wow
- February 8 - British troops are defeated by Boers at Ladysmith, South Africa.
- February 9 - Davis Cup competition is established.
- February 14 - Russia responds to international pressure to free Finland by tightening imperial control over the country.
- February 14 - Second Boer War: In South Africa, 20,000 British troops invade the Orange Free State.
- February 23 - In South Africa, the Boers and British troops fight in the Battle of Hart's Hill.
- February 27 - Second Boer War: In South Africa, British military leaders receive an unconditional notice of surrender from Boer General Piet Cronje at the Battle of Paardeberg.
- February 27 - The British Labour Party is founded.
- February 28 - The Second Boer War: The 118-day "Siege of Ladysmith" is lifted.
- March 11 - Second Boer War: Boer leader Paul Kruger's peace overtures are rejected by Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Lord Salisbury.
- March 13 - Second Boer War: British forces occupy Bloemfontein, Orange Free State.
- March 13 - In France the length of the workday for women and children is limited to 11 hours by law.
- March 14 - The Gold Standard Act is ratified, placing United States currency on the gold standard.
- March 16 - Sir Arthur Evans purchases the land around the ruins of Knossos, the largest Bronze Age archaeological site on Crete.
- March 24 - New York City Mayor Robert Anderson Van Wyck breaks ground for a new underground "Rapid Transit Railroad" that would link Manhattan and Brooklyn.
- April 2 - The Foraker Act passes through Congress, giving Puerto Ricans limited self-rule.
- April 30 - Hawaii becomes a territory of the United States, with Sanford B. Dole as governor.
- April 30 - Casey Jones dies in a train wreck in Vaughn, Mississippi, while trying to make up time on the Cannonball Express.
- May 1 - The Scofield mine disaster kills 200 in Scofield, Utah in what is to date the fifth-worst mining accident in United States history.
- May 2 - Oscar II, King of Sweden, declares support for the United Kingdom at the time of the Second Boer War.
- May 17 - Second Boer War: British troops relieve Mafeking.
- May 18 - The United Kingdom proclaims a protectorate over Tonga.
- May 23 - American Civil War: Sergeant William Harvey Carney becomes the first African American to be awarded the Medal of Honor, for his heroism in the Assault on the Battery Wagner.
- May 24 - Second Boer War: The United Kingdom annexes the Orange Free State.
- June 5 - Second Boer War: British soldiers take Pretoria.
- June 14 - Hawaii becomes a United States territory.
- June 14 - The Reichstag approves a second law that allows the expansion of the German navy.
- June 18 - Empress Dowager Longyu of China orders all foreigners killed, including foreign diplomats and their families.
- July 2 - First zeppelin flight takes place on Lake Constance near Friedrichshafen, Germany.
- July 9 - Queen Victoria gives royal assent to an Act creating the Commonwealth of Australia thus uniting separate colonies on the continent under one federal government.
- July 29 - In Italy, King Umberto I of Italy is assassinated by Italian-born anarchist Gaetano Bresci.
- August 3 - Firestone Tire & Rubber Company founded.
- August 14 - A joint European-Japanese-United States force (Eight-Nation Alliance) occupies Beijing, in a campaign to end the bloody Boxer Rebellion in China.
- August 20 - Japan's primary school law is amended to provide for four years of mandatory schooling.
- September 8 - Galveston Hurricane of 1900: a powerful hurricane hits Galveston, Texas killing about 8,000 people.
- September 13 - Filipino resistance fighters defeat a small American column in the Battle of Pulang Lupa, during the Philippine-American War.
- September 17 - Philippine-American War: Filipinos under Juan Cailles defeat Americans under Colonel Benjamin F. Cheatham at Mabitac.
- September 19 - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid commit their first robbery together.
- October 25 - The United Kingdom annexes the Transvaal.
- November 7 - Battle of Leliefontein, a battle during which the Royal Canadian Dragoons win three Victoria Crosses.
- December 7 - Max Planck, in his house at Grunewald, on the outskirts of Berlin, discovers the law of black body emission.
- December 14 - Quantum Mechanics: Max Planck presents a theoretical derivation of his black-body radiation law.
- December 18 - The Upper Ferntree Gully to Gembrook Narrow-gauge (2 ft 6 in or 762 mm) Railway (now the Puffing Billy Railway) in Victoria, Australia is opened for traffic.
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