1909
Ignace Lepp, French psychologist and author (died 1966)
Ignace Lepp, was a French writer of Estonian origin.
Ignace Lepp, French psychologist and author (died 1966)
The 1900s
Explore 2322 historical events from 1900–1909.
1909
Dante Quinterno, Argentinian author and illustrator (died 2003)
Dante Quinterno was an Argentine comics artist, agricultural producer, and prolific editorial businessman, famous for being the creator of the Patoruzú, Isidoro Cañones and Patoruz…
Dante Quinterno, Argentinian author and illustrator (died 2003)
1909
Francis Bacon, Irish painter and illustrator (died 1992)
Francis Bacon was an Irish-born British figurative painter known for his raw, unsettling imagery. Focusing on the human form, his subjects included crucifixions, portraits of popes…
Francis Bacon, Irish painter and illustrator (died 1992)
1909
Homi J. Bhabha, Indian-French physicist and academic (died 1966)
Homi Jehangir Bhabha was an Indian nuclear theoretical physicist who is widely credited as the "father of the Indian nuclear programme". He was the founding director and professor …
Homi J. Bhabha, Indian-French physicist and academic (died 1966)
1909
Signe Rink, Greenland-born Danish writer and ethnologist (born 1836)
Nathalie Sophia Nielsine Caroline Rink was a Danish writer and ethnologist. Together with her husband Hinrich, she founded Greenland's first newspaper, Atuagagdliutit, in 1861. She…
Signe Rink, Greenland-born Danish writer and ethnologist (born 1836)
1909
Isaac Albéniz, Spanish pianist and composer (born 1860)
Isaac Manuel Francisco Albéniz y Pascual was a Spanish virtuoso pianist, composer, and conductor. He is one of the foremost composers of the post-romantic era who also had a signif…
Isaac Albéniz, Spanish pianist and composer (born 1860)
1909
Ernest Hogan, American actor and composer (born 1859)
Ernest Hogan was the first Black American entertainer to produce and star in a Broadway show, The Oyster Man in 1907, and helped to popularize the musical genre of ragtime.
Ernest Hogan, American actor and composer (born 1859)
1909
George Meredith, English novelist and poet (born 1828)
George Meredith was an English novelist and poet of the Victorian era. At first, his focus was poetry, influenced by John Keats among others, but Meredith gradually established a r…
George Meredith, English novelist and poet (born 1828)
1909
Thomas Price, Welsh-Australian politician, 24th Premier of South Australia (born 1852)
Thomas Price served as the South Australian United Labor Party's first Premier of South Australia. He formed a minority government at the 1905 election and was re-elected with incr…
Thomas Price, Welsh-Australian politician, 24th Premier of South Australia (born 1852)
1909
Edward Everett Hale, American minister, historian, and author (born 1822)
Edward Everett Hale was an American author, historian, and Unitarian minister, best known for his writings such as "The Man Without a Country", published in Atlantic Monthly, in su…
Edward Everett Hale, American minister, historian, and author (born 1822)
1909
Friedrich Martens, Estonian-Russian historian, lawyer, and diplomat (born 1845)
Friedrich Fromhold Martens, or Friedrich Fromhold von Martens, was a diplomat and jurist in service of the Russian Empire who made important contributions to the science of interna…
Friedrich Martens, Estonian-Russian historian, lawyer, and diplomat (born 1845)
1909
Sarah Orne Jewett, American novelist, short story writer, and poet (born 1849)
Theodora Sarah Orne Jewett was an American novelist, short story writer and poet, best known for her local color works set along or near the southern coast of Maine. Jewett is reco…
Sarah Orne Jewett, American novelist, short story writer, and poet (born 1849)
1909
Simon Newcomb, Canadian-American astronomer and mathematician (born 1835)
Simon Newcomb was a Canadian–American astronomer, applied mathematician, and autodidactic polymath. He served as Professor of Mathematics in the United States Navy and at Johns Hop…
Simon Newcomb, Canadian-American astronomer and mathematician (born 1835)
1909
Frederick Holder, Australian politician, 19th Premier of South Australia (born 1850)
Sir Frederick William Holder was an Australian politician who served as the first speaker of the Australian House of Representatives from 1901 to 1909. A member of the Free Trade P…
Frederick Holder, Australian politician, 19th Premier of South Australia (born 1850)
1909
William Stanley, British engineer and author (born 1829)
William Ford Robinson Stanley was an English inventor with 78 patents filed in both the United Kingdom and the United States of America. He was an engineer who designed and made pr…
William Stanley, British engineer and author (born 1829)
1909
Euclides da Cunha, Brazilian sociologist and journalist (born 1866)
Euclides da Cunha was a Brazilian journalist, sociologist and engineer. His most important work is Os Sertões, a non-fictional account of the military expeditions promoted by the B…
Euclides da Cunha, Brazilian sociologist and journalist (born 1866)
1909
Madan Lal Dhingra, Indian activist (born 1883)
Madan Lal Dhingra was an Indian freedom fighter who, whilst a student at University College London in 1909, assassinated Sir William Hutt Curzon Wyllie, the political Aide-de-camp …
Madan Lal Dhingra, Indian activist (born 1883)
1909
Henry Radcliffe Crocker, English dermatologist and author (born 1846)
Henry Radcliffe Crocker, FRCP was an English dermatologist. Originally from Hove in Sussex, England, Crocker started his working life as an apprentice to a general practitioner bef…
Henry Radcliffe Crocker, English dermatologist and author (born 1846)
1909
Mary MacKillop, Australian nun and saint, co-founded the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart (born 1842)
Mary Helen MacKillop RSJ was an Australian religious sister. She was born in Melbourne but is best known for her activities in South Australia. Together with Fr Julian Tenison-Wood…
Mary MacKillop, Australian nun and saint, co-founded the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart (born 1842)
1909
Emil Christian Hansen, Danish physiologist and mycologist (born 1842)
Emil Christian Hansen was a Danish mycologist and fermentation physiologist.
Emil Christian Hansen, Danish physiologist and mycologist (born 1842)
1909
Clyde Fitch, American playwright and songwriter (born 1865)
William Clyde Fitch was an American dramatist, the most popular writer for the Broadway stage of his time.
Clyde Fitch, American playwright and songwriter (born 1865)
1909
Louis Bouveault, French chemist (born 1864)
Louis Bouveault was a French scientist who became professor of organic chemistry at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Paris. He is known for the Bouveault aldehyde synth…
Louis Bouveault, French chemist (born 1864)
1909
Vere St. Leger Goold, Irish tennis player (born 1853)
Vere Thomas "St. Leger" Goold was an Irish tennis player who competed for the 1879 Wimbledon All Comers' final. That year he became the first singles champion of the Irish Champion…
Vere St. Leger Goold, Irish tennis player (born 1853)
1909
E. H. Harriman, American businessman and philanthropist (born 1848)
Edward Henry Harriman was an American financier and railroad executive as well as one of the founders of the Harriman business dynasty.
E. H. Harriman, American businessman and philanthropist (born 1848)