Explore 1176 historical events from 1900–1909.
Vernon Harold "Tim" Spencer was an American singer, songwriter, and actor. Spencer is best known for founding the popular American Cowboy singing group the Sons of the Pioneers in …
Tim Spencer, American country & western singer-songwriter and actor (died 1974)
Peace Pilgrim, born Mildred Lisette Norman, was an American spiritual teacher, mystic, pacifist, vegetarian activist and peace activist. In 1952, she became the first woman to walk…
Peace Pilgrim, American mystic and activist (died 1981)
María Guadalupe "Lupe" Villalobos Vélez was a Mexican actress, singer, and dancer during the Golden Age of Hollywood cinema.
Lupe Vélez, Mexican-American actress and dancer (died 1944)
Beatrice Aitchison was an American mathematician, statistician, and transportation economist who directed the Transport Economics Division of the United States Department of Commer…
Beatrice Aitchison, American mathematician, statistician, and transportation economist (died 1997)
Dorothy Edith Round was a British tennis player who was active from the late 1920s until 1950. She achieved her major successes in the 1930s. She won the singles title at Wimbledon…
Dorothy Round, English tennis player (died 1982)
Daniel William Fry was an American contactee of the 1950s who claimed he had multiple contacts with an alien and took a ride in a remotely piloted alien spacecraft. Fry was born in…
Daniel Fry, American contactee (died 1992)
Hans Trippel was a German industrial designer, responsible for the designs of the Trippel SG6, Mercedes-Benz Gullwing's door and the Amphicar.
Hans Trippel, German engineer, developed Amphicar (died 2001)
Harold Lee "Jug" McSpaden was an American professional golfer, and golf course architect.
Jug McSpaden, American golfer and architect (died 1996)
Amy Osborne Vanderbilt was an American authority on etiquette. In 1952 she published the best-selling book Amy Vanderbilt's Complete Book of Etiquette. The book, later retitled Amy…
Amy Vanderbilt, American author (died 1974)
William Eric Bowes was an English professional cricketer active from 1929 to 1947 who played in 372 first-class matches as a right arm fast bowler and a right-handed tail end batsm…
Bill Bowes, English cricketer (died 1987)
Ambroise-Marie Carré OP was a Catholic priest, author and member of the Académie française. Born in Fleury-les-Aubrais in Loiret, France, Carré studied at l'école Saint-Joseph and …
Ambroise-Marie Carré, French priest and author (died 2004)
Jack Gilford was an American Broadway, film, and television actor. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Save the Tiger (1973).
Jack Gilford, American actor (died 1990)
Lucien Wercollier was a sculptor from Luxembourg. While he worked primarily in bronze and marble, some of his work is sculpted in wood, alabaster, stone and onyx. His public monume…
Lucien Wercollier, Luxembourger sculptor (died 2002)
Joseph Quincy Mitchell was an American writer best known for the work he published in The New Yorker. He is known for his carefully written portraits of eccentrics and people on th…
Joseph Mitchell, American journalist and author (died 1996)
Terris Chester McDuffie was an American professional baseball player. He was listed at 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m), 200 lb (91 kg).
Terris McDuffie, American baseball player (died 1968)
Charles Cameron Kingston was an Australian politician. From 1893 to 1899 he was Premier of South Australia, leading a coalition of Radicals supported by the Labor Party.
Charles Kingston, Australian politician, 20th Premier of South Australia (born 1850)
Sir Louis-Napoléon Casault was a Quebec lawyer, judge, professor and political figure. He represented Bellechasse in the 1st Canadian Parliament from 1867 to 1870 as a Conservative…
Louis-Napoléon Casault, Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician (born 1823)
Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman was a British statesman and Liberal Party politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1905 to 1908 and Leader of the Liberal Party fro…
Henry Campbell-Bannerman, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1836)
François Édouard Joachim Coppée was a French poet and novelist.
François Coppée, French poet and author (born 1842)
Thomas Mitchell Morris, otherwise known as Old Tom Morris, and The Grand Old Man of Golf, was a Scottish golfer. He was born in St Andrews, Fife, the "home of golf" and location of…
Old Tom Morris, Scottish golfer and architect (born 1821)
Mirza Ghulam Ahmad was an Indian religious leader and the founder of the Ahmadiyya movement in Islam. He claimed to have been divinely appointed as initially the Mujaddid of the 14…
Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, Indian religious leader, founded the Ahmadiyya movement (born 1835)
Louis-Honoré Fréchette was a Canadian poet, politician, playwright and short story writer. For his prose, he would be the first Quebecois to receive the Prix Montyon from the Acadé…
Louis-Honoré Fréchette, Canadian author, poet, and politician (born 1839)
Allen Butler Talcott was an American landscape painter. After studying art in Paris for three years at Académie Julian, he returned to the United States, becoming one of the first …
Allen Butler Talcott, American painter (born 1867)
Frederick Arthur Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom who served as Colonial Secretary from 1885 to 1886 and Governor General of Ca…
Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby, English captain and politician, 6th Governor General of Canada (born 1841)