Explore 2322 historical events from 1900–1909.
Wilbur Charles "Weeb" Ewbank was an American professional football coach. He led the Baltimore Colts to consecutive NFL championships in 1958 and 1959 and the New York Jets to vict…
Weeb Ewbank, American football player and coach (died 1998)
George Copeland "Jackie" Grant was a West Indian cricketer who captained the West Indies in Test cricket between 1930 and 1935. He was later a missionary in South Africa and Rhodes…
Jackie Grant, Trinidadian cricketer (died 1978)
Baldur Benedikt von Schirach was a German politician who was the leader (Reichsjugendführer) of the Hitler Youth from 1931 to 1940. From 1940 to 1945, he was the Gauleiter and Reic…
Baldur von Schirach, German politician (died 1974)
Truett Banks "Rip" Sewell was an American right-handed starting pitcher in Major League Baseball who played 13 years in the major leagues with the Detroit Tigers (1932) and Pittsbu…
Rip Sewell, American baseball player and coach (died 1989)
Leslie Charteris, was a British-Chinese author of adventure fiction, as well as a screenwriter. He was best known for his many books chronicling the adventures of his hero Simon Te…
Leslie Charteris, English author and screenwriter (died 1993)
Katharine Houghton Hepburn was an American actress whose career as a leading lady on stage and screen spanned six decades. Known for her headstrong independence, spirited personali…
Katharine Hepburn, American actress (died 2003)
Dame Daphne du Maurier, Lady Browning, was an English novelist, biographer and playwright. Her parents were actor-manager Sir Gerald du Maurier and his wife, actress Muriel Beaumon…
Daphne du Maurier, English novelist and playwright (died 1989)
Field Marshal Mohammad Ayub Khan NPk HJ HPk MBE was a Pakistani politician and military officer who served as the 2nd President of Pakistan from 1958 until his resignation in 1969.…
Ayub Khan, Pakistani general and politician, 2nd President of Pakistan (died 1974)
John Moss was a gambler and professional poker player. He was the first winner of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event, at the time a cash game event in which he was awarded…
Johnny Moss, gambler and professional poker player, first winner of the World Series of Poker (died 1995)
Sukhdev Thapar was an Indian freedom fighter who fought against the British government for Indian independence. He was a member of the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association (H…
Sukhdev Thapar, Indian activist (died 1931)
Irene Hunt was an American children's writer known best for historical novels. She was a runner-up for the Newbery Medal for her first book, Across Five Aprils, and won the medal f…
Irene Hunt, American author and educator (died 2001)
Robert Morton Newburgh Tisdall was an Irish athlete who won a gold medal in the 400-metre hurdles at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
Bob Tisdall, Irish hurdler (died 2004)
Carl Mydans was an American photographer who worked for the Farm Security Administration and Life magazine.
Carl Mydans, American photographer and journalist (died 2004)
John C. Allen was a roller coaster designer who was responsible for the revival of wooden roller coasters which began in the 1960s. He attended Drexel University. He started workin…
John C
Georges Prosper Remi, known by the pen name Hergé, from the French pronunciation of his reversed initials RG, was a Belgian comic strip artist. He is best known for creating The Ad…
Hergé, Belgian author and illustrator (died 1983)
Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier was an English actor and director. He and his contemporaries John Gielgud, Michael Redgrave and Ralph Richardson made up a quartet of male acto…
Laurence Olivier, English actor, director, and producer (died 1989)
Nu, commonly known as U Nu and also by the honorific name Thakin Nu, was a prominent Burmese statesman and the first Prime Minister of Union of Burma. He was educated at Rangoon Un…
U Nu, Burmese politician, 1st Prime Minister of Burma (died 1995)
Jean Bernard was a French physician and haematologist. During his life, he served as president of the French Academy of Sciences and the French National Academy of Medicine. He was…
Jean Bernard, French physician and haematologist (died 2006)
Marion Robert Morrison, known professionally as John Wayne, was an American actor. Nicknamed "Duke", he became a popular icon through his starring roles in films which were produce…
John Wayne, American actor, director, and producer (died 1979)
Nicolas Calas was the pseudonym of Nikos Kalamaris, a Greek-American poet and art critic. While living in Greece, he also used the pseudonyms Nikitas Randos and M. Spieros.
Nicolas Calas, Greek-American poet and critic (died 1988)
Rachel Louise Carson was an American marine biologist, writer, and conservationist whose sea trilogy (1941–1955) and book Silent Spring (1962) are credited with advancing marine co…
Rachel Carson, American biologist, environmentalist, and author (died 1964)
Hartland de Montarville Molson was an Anglo-Quebecer statesman, Canadian senator, military aviator, and a member of the Molson family of brewers.
Hartland Molson, Canadian captain and politician (died 2002)
Germaine Tillion was a French ethnologist, known for her work in Algeria in the 1950s on behalf of the Government of France. A member of the French Resistance in World War II, she …
Germaine Tillion, French anthropologist and academic (died 2008)
Jan Patočka was a Czech philosopher. Having studied in Prague, Paris, Berlin, and Freiburg, he was one of the last pupils of Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger. In Freiburg he als…
Jan Patočka, Czech philosopher (died 1977)