Explore 1176 historical events from 1900–1909.
Carmen Lombardo was lead saxophonist and featured vocalist for his brother Guy Lombardo's orchestra. He was also a successful composer. In 1927, Carmen Lombardo was the vocalist of…
Carmen Lombardo, Canadian singer-songwriter (died 1971)
Irmgard Flügge-Lotz, née Lotz was a German-American mathematician and aerospace engineer. She was a pioneer in the development of the theory of discontinuous automatic control, whi…
Irmgard Flügge-Lotz, German mathematician and engineer (died 1974)
Russell Werner Lee was an American photographer and photojournalist, best known for his work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA) during the Great Depression. His images docu…
Russell Lee, American photographer and journalist (died 1986)
Roy Rothschild Neuberger was an American financier who contributed money to raise public awareness of modern art through his acquisition of pieces he deemed worthy. He was a co-fou…
Roy Neuberger, American businessman and financier, co-founded Neuberger Berman (died 2010)
Carey Estes Kefauver was an American politician from Tennessee. A member of the Democratic Party, he served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1939 to 1949 and in the U.S. S…
Estes Kefauver, American lawyer and politician (died 1963)
Nikolay Konstantinovich Cherkasov was a Soviet and Russian actor. He was named People's Artist of the USSR in 1947.
Nikolay Cherkasov, Russian actor (died 1966)
Michail Stasinopoulos was a Greek jurist and politician who served as the President of Greece from 18 December 1974 to 19 July 1975. A member of New Democracy, he was the first off…
Michail Stasinopoulos, Greek jurist and politician, President of Greece (died 2002)
Mārtiņš Zīverts was a Latvian playwright.
Mārtiņš Zīverts, Latvian playwright (died 1990)
Sir Oliver Mowat was a Canadian lawyer, politician, and Ontario Liberal Party leader. He served for nearly 24 years as the third premier of Ontario. He was the eighth lieutenant go…
Oliver Mowat, Canadian politician, third Premier of Ontario, eighth Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (born 1820)
Josiah Willard Gibbs was an American mechanical engineer and scientist who made fundamental theoretical contributions to physics, chemistry, and mathematics. His work on the applic…
Josiah Willard Gibbs, American scientist (born 1839)
Godfrey Downes Carter was an Australian businessman, politician and mayor of Melbourne from 1884 to 1885.
Godfrey Carter, Australian businessman and politician, 39th Mayor of Melbourne (born 1830)
Paul Belloni Du Chaillu was a French-American traveler, zoologist, and anthropologist. He became famous in the 1860s as the first modern European outsider to confirm the existence …
Paul Du Chaillu, French-American anthropologist and zoologist (born 1835)
Emily Howard Stowe was a Canadian physician who was the first female physician to practise in Canada, the second licensed female physician in Canada and an activist for women's rig…
Emily Stowe, Canadian physician and activist (born 1831)
Bruce Price was an American architect and an innovator in the Shingle Style. The stark geometry and compact massing of his cottages in Tuxedo Park, New York, influenced Modernist a…
Bruce Price, American architect, designed the Château Frontenac and American Surety Building (born 1845)
Nikolai Vasilievich Bugaev was a Russian mathematician, the father of Andrei Bely.
Nikolai Bugaev, Russian mathematician and philosopher (born 1837)
Alexander I reigned as the king of Serbia from 1889 to 1903 when he and his wife, Draga Mašin, were assassinated by a group of Royal Serbian Army officers, led by Captain Dragutin …
Alexander I of Serbia (born 1876)
Draginja "Draga" Obrenović, née Lunjevica (Луњевица) and formerly Mašin (Машин), was Queen of Serbia as the wife of King Aleksandar Obrenović. She was formerly a lady-in-waiting to…
Draga Mašin, Serbian wife of Alexander I of Serbia (born 1864)
Georgi Nikolov Delchev, known as Gotse Delchev or Goce Delčev, was a prominent Macedonian Bulgarian revolutionary (komitadji) and one of the most important leaders of what is commo…
Gotse Delchev, Macedonian Bulgarian revolutionary IMRO (born 1872)
Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin was a French painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramist, and writer, whose work has been primarily associated with the Post-Impressionist and Symbolist movem…
Paul Gauguin, French painter and sculptor (born 1848)
Apolinario Mabini y Maranán was a Filipino revolutionary leader, educator, lawyer, and statesman who served first as a legal and constitutional adviser to the Revolutionary Governm…
Apolinario Mabini, Filipino lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of the Philippines (born 1864)
Arthur Shrewsbury was an English cricketer and rugby football administrator. He was widely rated as competing with W. G. Grace for the accolade of best batsman of the 1880s; Grace …
Arthur Shrewsbury, English cricketer (born 1856)
Herbert Alfred Henry Joseph Thomas Vaughan was an English prelate of the Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Westminster from 1892 until his death in 1903, and was elevated…
Herbert Vaughan, English cardinal (born 1832)
Edward James Delahanty, nicknamed "Big Ed", was an American professional baseball player, who spent his Major League Baseball (MLB) playing career with the Philadelphia Quakers, Cl…
Ed Delahanty, American baseball player (born 1867)
Alphonse Francois Renard, Belgian geologist and petrographer, was born at Ronse, in East Flanders, on 27 September 1842. He was educated for the church of Rome, and from 1866 to 1…
Alphonse François Renard, Belgian geologist and photographer (born 1842)