Explore 533 historical events from 1900–1909.
Daniel Roland Michener was a Canadian lawyer, politician, and diplomat who served as the 20th governor general of Canada from 1967 to 1974.
Roland Michener, Canadian lawyer and politician, 20th Governor General of Canada (died 1991)
Rhea Silberstein, known professionally as Rhea Silberta, was a Yiddish song composer and teacher of singing.
Rhea Silberta, American Yiddish songwriter and singing teacher (died 1959)
Nellie Beer, OBE, JP, was a Conservative member of Manchester City Council from 1937 to 1972. She was Lord Mayor of Manchester from 1966 to 1967.
Nellie Beer, British politician, Lord Mayor of Manchester (died 1988)
James Leroy Bottomley was an American professional baseball player, scout and manager. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a first baseman from 1922 to 1937, most prominent…
Jim Bottomley, American baseball player and sportscaster (died 1959)
Joseph Green, born Yoysef Grinberg, a.k.a. Josef Grünberg, Joseph Greenberg and Joseph Greene, a Polish-born Jew who emigrated to the United States in 1924, was an actor in Yiddish…
Joseph Green, Polish-American actor and director (died 1996)
Elizabeth de Beauchamp Goudge FRSL was an English writer of fiction and children's books. She won the Carnegie Medal for British children's books in 1946 for The Little White Horse…
Elizabeth Goudge, English author and educator (died 1984)
Hubert Miles Gladwyn Jebb, 1st Baron Gladwyn, was a prominent British civil servant, diplomat and politician who served as the acting secretary-general of the United Nations betwee…
Gladwyn Jebb, English politician and diplomat, Secretary-General of the United Nations (died 1996)
Wolfgang Ernst Pauli was an Austrian–Swiss theoretical physicist and a pioneer of quantum mechanics. In 1945, after having been nominated by Albert Einstein, Pauli received the Nob…
Wolfgang Pauli, Austrian-Swiss-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1958)
Eva Aschoff was a German visual artist known for her bookbinding and calligraphy.
Eva Aschoff, German bookbinder and calligrapher (died 1969)
Charles Francis Richter was an American seismologist and physicist. He is the namesake and one of the creators of the Richter scale, which, until the development of the moment magn…
Charles Francis Richter, American seismologist and physicist (died 1985)
Lewis Robert "Hack" Wilson was an American Major League Baseball player who played 12 seasons for the New York Giants, Chicago Cubs, Brooklyn Dodgers and Philadelphia Phillies. Des…
Hack Wilson, American baseball player (died 1948)
August Koern was an Estonian statesman and diplomat. He was Estonian foreign minister in exile from 1 March 1964 to 3 June 1982.
August Koern, Estonian politician and diplomat, Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs in exile (died 1989)
Dame Alice Miriam Berry was an Australian activist dedicated to finding ways to improve the lives of women and children in rural areas.
Alice Berry, Australian activist (died 1978)
Amelia Martha (Millie) Best MBE was one of the first two women elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly.
Amelia Best, Australian politician (died 1979)
Erni Krusten was an Estonian writer. He was born Ernst Krustein in Muraste, Harku Parish, in a gardening family, and he worked as a gardener himself. He was the brother of the writ…
Erni Krusten, Estonian author and poet (died 1984)
Aleksander Wat was the pen name of Aleksander Chwat, a Polish poet, writer, art theoretician, and memoirist. He was one of the precursors of the Polish futurism movement in the ear…
Aleksander Wat, Polish poet and writer (died 1967)
Heinrich Müller was a high-ranking German Schutzstaffel (SS) and police official during the Nazi era. For most of World War II in Europe, he was the chief of the Gestapo, the secre…
Heinrich Müller, German SS officer (died 1945)
Jan Hendrik Oort was a Dutch astronomer who made significant contributions to the understanding of the Milky Way and who was a pioneer in the field of radio astronomy. The New York…
Jan Oort, Dutch astronomer and academic (died 1992)
Secondino Tranquilli, best known by the pseudonym Ignazio Silone, was an Italian politician and writer. He became famous during World War II for his anti-fascist novels. Considered…
Ignazio Silone, Italian journalist and politician (died 1978)
Helen Redfield, was an American geneticist. Redfield graduated from Rice University in 1920, followed by earning her Ph.D. in zoology from the University of California, Berkeley in…
Helen Redfield, American geneticist (died 1988)
Maria Malicka was a Polish stage and film actress. She appeared in ten films between 1927 and 1966.
Maria Malicka, Polish stage and film actress (died 1992)
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin was a British-born American astronomer and astrophysicist. Her work on the cosmic makeup of the universe and the nature of variable stars was foundational …
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, English-American astronomer and astrophysicist (died 1979)
Helene Weigel was an Austrian actress and artistic director. She was the second and last wife of Bertolt Brecht until his death in 1956; together they had two children.
Helene Weigel, Austrian-German actress (died 1971)
Harold Glen Borland was an American writer, journalist and naturalist. In addition to writing many non-fiction and fiction books about the outdoors, he was a staff writer and edito…
Hal Borland, American journalist and author (died 1978)