Explore 2322 historical events from 1900–1909.
William Edward Merritt was a New Zealand Test cricketer who played for Canterbury and Northamptonshire, and a rugby league footballer who played for Canterbury, Wigan and Halifax.
Bill Merritt, New Zealand cricketer and sportscaster (died 1977)
Alfonso Ramón López was a Spanish-American professional baseball catcher and manager. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Brooklyn Robins / Dodgers, Boston Bees, Pitts…
Al López, American baseball player and manager (died 2005)
Henri Cartier-Bresson was a French humanist photographer and artist. He was considered a master of candid photography, and was an early user of 35mm film. He pioneered the genre of…
Henri Cartier-Bresson, French photographer and painter (died 2004)
Erwin Thiesies was a German international rugby union player, playing for the Berliner SV 92 Rugby and the Germany national rugby union team.
Erwin Thiesies, German rugby player and coach (died 1993)
Hannah Frank was an artist and sculptor from Glasgow, Scotland. She was known for her Art Nouveau monochrome drawings until she decided to concentrate on sculpture in 1952.
Hannah Frank, Scottish sculptor and illustrator (died 2008)
Shivaram Hari Rajguru was an Indian anti-colonial revolutionary and independence activist. He is best known for his involvement in the 1928 assassination of a British police office…
Shivaram Rajguru, Indian activist (died 1931)
Walter Bruno Henning was a German scholar of Middle Iranian languages and literature, especially of the corpus discovered by the Turpan expeditions of the early 20th century.
Walter Bruno Henning, Prussian-American linguist and scholar (died 1967)
Aubrey Schenck was an American film producer from the 1940s through the 1970s.
Aubrey Schenck, American screenwriter and producer (died 1999)
Sir Donald George Bradman, nicknamed "the Don", was an Australian international cricketer, widely acknowledged as the greatest batsman of all time. His cricketing successes have be…
Don Bradman, Australian cricketer and manager (died 2001)
Lyndon Baines Johnson, also known as LBJ, was the 36th president of the United States from 1963 to 1969. Johnson was vice president under John F. Kennedy from 1961 until Kennedy's …
Lyndon B. Johnson, American commander and politician, 36th President of the United States (died 1973)
Roger Tory Peterson was an American naturalist, conservationist, citizen scientist ornithologist, artist and illustrator, educator, and a founder of the 20th-century environmental …
Roger Tory Peterson, American ornithologist and author (died 1996)
Frederick Martin MacMurray was an American actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films and a successful television series in a career that spanned nearly a half-century. His …
Fred MacMurray, American actor (died 1991)
William Saroyan was an American novelist, playwright, and short story writer of Armenian descent. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1940, and in 1943 won the Academy A…
William Saroyan, American novelist, playwright, and short story writer (died 1981)
Amir Elahi was one of the fifteen cricketers who have played Test cricket for more than one country. This honor was given to him because he had earlier played Tests for India again…
Amir Elahi, Pakistani cricketer (died 1980)
Lou Kenton was an English proofreader who served as a medical courier and ambulance driver with the International Brigade and was its oldest surviving member at the time of his dea…
Lou Kenton, English social activist (died 2012)
Ruth Bancroft was the creator of the Ruth Bancroft Garden in Walnut Creek, California.
Ruth Bancroft, American landscape and garden designer (died 2017)
Lev Semyonovich Pontryagin was a Soviet mathematician. Completely blind from the age of 14, he made major discoveries in a number of fields of mathematics, including algebraic topo…
Lev Pontryagin, Russian mathematician and academic (died 1988)
Josué de Castro, born Josué Apolônio de Castro, was a Brazilian physician, nutritionist, geographer, writer, public administrator, and activist against world hunger.
Josué de Castro, Brazilian physician, geographer, and activist (died 1973)
Joaquín María Nin-Culmell was a Cuban-Spanish composer, internationally known concert pianist, and emeritus professor of music at the University of California, Berkeley.
Joaquín Nin-Culmell, German-American pianist and composer (died 2004)
Cecilia Seghizzi was an Italian composer, painter, teacher and supercentenarian.
Cecilia Seghizzi, Italian composer and painter (died 2019)
Renzo Rivolta was an Italian engineer and entrepreneur who founded the Iso vehicle company that produced appliances, scooters and later sports cars.
Renzo Rivolta, Italian engineer (died 1966)
Sir Anthony Richard Wagner was a long-serving officer of arms at the College of Arms in London. He served as Garter Principal King of Arms before retiring to the post of Clarenceux…
Anthony Wagner, English genealogist and academic (died 1995)
Edward Dmytryk was a Canadian-born American film director and editor. He was known for his 1940s noir films and received an Oscar nomination for Best Director for Crossfire (1947).…
Edward Dmytryk, Canadian-American director and producer (died 1999)
Richard Nathaniel Wright (1908–1960) was an American author of novels, short stories, poems, and non-fiction. Much of his literature concerns racial themes, especially related to t…
Richard Wright, American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet (died 1960)