Explore 2322 historical events from 1900–1909.
Marcel Albert Carné was a French film director. A key figure in the poetic realism movement, Carné's best known films include Port of Shadows (1938), Le Jour Se Lève (1939), Les Vi…
Marcel Carné, French director and screenwriter (died 1996)
Curtis Jones was an American blues pianist.
Curtis Jones, American blues pianist and singer (died 1971)
Philo Taylor Farnsworth was an American inventor who was granted the first patent for the television by the United States government. He also invented a video camera tube and the i…
Philo Farnsworth, American inventor, invented the Fusor, key figure in the invention of television (died 1971)
Vidrik "Frits" Rootare was an Estonian chess player. His wife, Salme Rootare, was also an Estonian chess player, 15-time Estonian Champion and a Women's International Master (WIM).
Vidrik Rootare, Estonian chess player (died 1981)
Isadore "Friz" Freleng, credited as I. Freleng early in his career, was an American animator, cartoonist, director, producer, and composer known for his work at Warner Bros. Cartoo…
Friz Freleng, American animator, director, and producer (died 1995)
Zoltan Sarosy was a Hungarian-Canadian professional chess master and supercentenarian. He was born in Budapest and won numerous tournaments in his native country before immigrating…
Zoltan Sarosy, Hungarian-Canadian chess master (died 2017)
Cedric Ivan James Smith was an English cricketer who played in five Test matches for the England cricket team between 1935 and 1937.
Jim Smith, English cricketer (died 1979)
Henry Wilfred "Bunny" Austin was an English tennis player. For 74 years he was the last Briton to reach the final of the men's singles at the Wimbledon Championships, until Andy Mu…
Bunny Austin, English tennis player (died 2000)
Albert Bruce Sabin was a Polish-American medical researcher, best known for developing the oral polio vaccine, which has played a key role in nearly eradicating the disease. In 196…
Albert Sabin, Polish-American physician and virologist, developed the polio vaccine (died 1993)
Edward Theodore Gein, also known as the Butcher of Plainfield and the Plainfield Ghoul, was an American murderer and body snatcher. His crimes, committed around his hometown of Pla…
Ed Gein, American murderer and body snatcher, The Butcher of Plainfield (died 1982)
Edmund Antoni Wojtyła was a Polish doctor who died of scarlet fever a few years after graduating. He was the elder brother of Karol Wojtyła, the future Pope John Paul II.
Edmund Wojtyła, Polish doctor (died 1932)
Sir John Betjeman was an English poet, writer, and broadcaster. He was Poet Laureate from 1972 until his death. He was a founding member of The Victorian Society and first presiden…
John Betjeman, English poet and academic (died 1984)
Rose Joan Blondell was an American actress who performed in film and television for 50 years.
Joan Blondell, American actress and singer (died 1979)
Olga Taussky-Todd was an Austrian and American mathematician. She published more than 300 research papers on algebraic number theory, integral matrices, and matrices in algebra and…
Olga Taussky-Todd, Austrian mathematician (died 1995)
Joaquín Antonio Balaguer Ricardo was a Dominican politician, scholar, writer, and lawyer who was the 41st, 45th and 49th president of the Dominican Republic, serving three non-cons…
Joaquín Balaguer, Dominican lawyer and politician, 49th President of the Dominican Republic (died 2002)
Eleanor Alice Hibbert was an English writer of historical romances. She was a prolific writer who published several books a year in different literary genres, each genre under a di…
Eleanor Alice Burford (Jean Plaidy), English author (died 1993)
Ruben Oskar Auervaara was a notorious Finnish conman and thief. He became famous by cheating money from women he met through newspaper announcements, by pretending to intend to mar…
Ruben Oskar Auervaara, Finnish fraudster (died 1964)
Max Ludwig Henning Delbrück was a German–American biophysicist who participated in launching the molecular biology research program in the late 1930s. He stimulated physical scient…
Max Delbrück, German-American biophysicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1981)
Ralston Crawford (1906–1978) was a Canadian-born American painter, lithographer, photographer, and teacher. He is best known for his abstract representations of urban life and indu…
Ralston Crawford, American painter, lithographer, and photographer (died 1978)
Albert Luandrew, known as Sunnyland Slim, was an American blues pianist born in the Mississippi Delta and moved to Chicago, helping to make that city a center of postwar blues.
Sunnyland Slim, American singer-songwriter and pianist (died 1995)
Andrei Pavlovich Kirilenko was a Soviet politician, and a member of the Secretariat of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. He was one of the most loyal politicians to Leonid B…
Andrei Kirilenko, Russian engineer and politician (died 1990)
Luis Federico Leloir was an Argentine physician and biochemist who received the 1970 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of the metabolic pathways by which carbohydrates are…
Luis Federico Leloir, French-Argentine physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1987)
Ali Hadi Bara was a Turkish sculptor and one of the first artists of the Republican generation in Turkey.
Ali Hadi Bara, Iranian-Turkish sculptor and educator (died 1971)
Karl ("Carlo") Wien was a German mountaineer.
Karl Wien, German geographer, academic, and mountaineer (died 1937)