Explore 2322 historical events from 1900–1909.
Jacques Tati was a French mime, filmmaker, actor and screenwriter. He is best known for portraying the character Monsieur Hulot in his films Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot (1953), …
Jacques Tati, French actor, director, and screenwriter (died 1982)
Horst Ludwig Georg Erich Wessel was a member of the Sturmabteilung (SA), the paramilitary wing of the Nazi Party, who became a propaganda symbol in Nazi Germany following his murde…
Horst Wessel, German SA officer (died 1930)
Allan Jones was an American tenor and actor.
Allan Jones, American actor and singer (died 1992)
Varian Mackey Fry was an American journalist. Fry ran a rescue network in Vichy France from August 1940 to September 1941 that helped 2,000 anti-Nazi and Jewish refugees, mostly ar…
Varian Fry, American journalist and author (died 1967)
Richard Morris Titmuss was a British social researcher and teacher. He founded the academic discipline of social administration and held the founding chair in the subject at the Lo…
Richard Titmuss, English sociologist and academic (died 1973)
John Marley was an American actor and theatre director. He won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor at the 29th Venice International Film Festival for his performance in John Cassavetes' F…
John Marley, American actor (died 1984)
Roger Wolfe Kahn was an American jazz and popular musician, composer, bandleader and an aviator.
Roger Wolfe Kahn, American bandleader and composer (died 1962)
Arlene Francis was an American game show panelist, actress, and radio and television talk show host. She was a pioneer for women in television, and is best known for her long-runni…
Arlene Francis, American actress and television personality (died 2001)
Nikos Engonopoulos was a Greek painter and poet. He was one of the most important members of "Generation of the '30s", as well as a major representative of the surrealist movement …
Nikos Engonopoulos, Greek painter and poet (died 1985)
James Emory Foxx, nicknamed "Double X" and "the Beast", was an American professional baseball first baseman who played 20 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Philadelphi…
Jimmie Foxx, American baseball player (died 1967)
Günther Treptow was a German operatic tenor, best known for Wagner roles.
Günther Treptow, German tenor (died 1981)
Patricia Griffin was a nurse and volunteer social worker from Montserrat. In addition to providing nursing services, she founded the Old People's Welfare Association, was instrumen…
Patricia Griffin, Montserratian nurse and social worker (died 1986)
John Harold Hewitt was perhaps the most significant Belfast poet to emerge before the 1960s generation of Northern Irish poets that included Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon and Michael …
John Hewitt, Irish poet, playwright, and critic (died 1987)
Edwige Feuillère was a French stage and film actress.
Edwige Feuillère, French actress (died 1998)
Sol Tax was an American anthropologist. He is best known for creating action anthropology and his studies of the Meskwaki, or Fox Indians, for "action-anthropological" research tit…
Sol Tax, American anthropologist and academic (died 1995)
Grigorios Maraslis was an official of the Russian Empire and long-time mayor of Odesa (1878–1895) of Greek origin. A noted philanthropist, he sponsored many buildings and education…
Grigorios Maraslis, Greek philanthropist (born 1831)
Ahmed Ali Pasha, better known as "Şeker" Ahmed Pasha, was an Ottoman painter, soldier and government official. His nickname "Şeker" meant "sugar" in Turkish, which he earned due to…
Şeker Ahmed Pasha, Turkish soldier and painter (born 1841)
Alfred Griner Packer, also known as the "Colorado Cannibal", was an American prospector and self-proclaimed wilderness guide who confessed to cannibalism during the winter of 1874.…
Alferd Packer, American prospector and convicted cannibal (born 1842)
Emanuele Luigi Galizia was a Maltese architect and civil engineer, who designed many public buildings and several churches. He is regarded as "the principal Maltese architect throu…
Emanuele Luigi Galizia, Maltese architect and civil engineer (born 1830)
Edmund Gibson Ross was an American politician who represented Kansas after the American Civil War and was later the governor of New Mexico Territory. His vote against convicting Pr…
Edmund G
Charles-Marie-Georges Huysmans was a French novelist and art critic who published his works as Joris-Karl Huysmans. He is most famous for the novel À rebours. He supported himself …
Joris-Karl Huysmans, French author and critic (born 1848)
Sir Benjamin Baker was an English civil engineer who worked in mid to late Victorian era. He helped develop the early underground railways in London with Sir John Fowler, but he is…
Benjamin Baker, English engineer, designed the Forth Bridge (born 1840)
William Le Baron Jenney was an American architect and engineer known for building the first skyscraper in 1884.
William Le Baron Jenney, American architect and engineer, designed the Home Insurance Building (born 1832)
Bartolomé de Jesús Masó Márquez was a Cuban politician and military patriot for Cuban independence from the colonial power of Spain, and later President of the República en Armas.
Bartolomé Masó, Cuban soldier and politician (born 1830)