Explore 1176 historical events from 1900–1909.
Louis Victor Armbruster was an Australian rugby league footballer for New South Wales, Queensland and Australia. He is considered one of the nation's finest footballers of the 20th…
Vic Armbruster, Australian rugby league footballer (died 1984)
Jean Rey was a Belgian Liberal politician who served as the second president of the European Commission from 1967 to 1970. He served as European Commissioner for External Relations…
Jean Rey, Belgian lawyer and politician, 2nd President of the European Commission (died 1983)
Alexander Romanovich Luria was a Soviet neuropsychologist, often credited as the father of modern neuropsychology. He developed an extensive and original battery of neuropsychologi…
Alexander Luria, Russian psychologist and physician (died 1977)
Mary Loretta Philbin was an American film actress of the silent film era, who played Christine Daaé in the 1925 film The Phantom of the Opera opposite Lon Chaney, and Dea in The M…
Mary Philbin, American actress (died 1993)
Christina Stead was an Australian novelist and short-story writer acclaimed for her satirical wit and penetrating psychological characterisations. Christina Stead was a committed M…
Christina Stead, Australian author and academic (died 1983)
Mary Jessamyn West was an American author of short stories and novels, notably The Friendly Persuasion (1945). A Quaker from Indiana, she graduated from Fullerton Union High School…
Jessamyn West, American author (died 1984)
Theodore Childress "Chill" Wills was an American actor and a singer in the Avalon Boys quartet.
Chill Wills, American actor (died 1978)
Samudrala Raghavacharya, also known as Samudrala Sr., was an Indian screenwriter, lyricist, playback singer, director, and producer known for his works in Telugu cinema. Samudrala …
Samudrala Sr., Indian singer, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1968)
Leonidas Harris Berry was an American and pioneer in gastroscopy and endoscopy. He served as the president of the National Medical Association from 1965 to 1966.
Leonidas Berry, American gastroenterologist (died 1995)
Yaroslav Oleksandrovych Halan was a Soviet Ukrainian writer, playwright, and publicist.
Yaroslav Halan, Ukrainian playwright and publicist (died 1949)
Eric Hoffer was an American philosopher and social critic. A moderate with an atypical working-class background, Hoffer wrote ten books over his career and was awarded the Presiden…
Eric Hoffer, American philosopher and author (died 1983)
Albert Namatjira was an Arrernte painter from the MacDonnell Ranges in Central Australia, widely considered one of the most notable Australian artists. As a pioneer of contemporary…
Albert Namatjira, Australian painter (died 1959)
Sir Karl Raimund Popper was an Austrian–British philosopher, academic and social commentator. One of the 20th century's most influential philosophers of science, Popper is known fo…
Sir Karl Popper, Austrian-English philosopher and academic (died 1994)
Joaquim de Sousa Andrade, better known by his pseudonym Sousândrade, was a Brazilian poet, adept of the "Condorist" movement. His poetry, exceedingly innovative for the time it was…
Joaquim de Sousa Andrade, Brazilian poet and educator (born 1833)
Cyprien Tanguay was a French Canadian priest and historian.
Cyprien Tanguay, Canadian priest and historian (born 1819)
Francis Brett Hart, known as Bret Harte, was an American short story writer and poet best remembered for short fiction featuring miners, gamblers, and other romantic figures of the…
Bret Harte, American short story writer and poet (born 1836)
Agostino Roscelli, also known as Augustine Roscelli, and Augustin Roscelli, was an Italian priest who inspired social change in Genoa, Italy for children and disadvantaged women. H…
Agostino Roscelli, Italian priest and saint (born 1818)
Almon Brown Strowger was an American inventor for whom the Strowger switch, an electromechanical telephone exchange technology, is named.
Almon Brown Strowger, American soldier and inventor (born 1839)
Jacint Verdaguer i Santaló was a Spanish writer and priest, regarded as one of the greatest poets of Catalan literature and a prominent literary figure of the Renaixença, a cultura…
Jacint Verdaguer, Catalan priest and poet (born 1845)
Samuel Butler was an English novelist and critic, best known for the satirical utopian novel Erewhon (1872) and the semi-autobiographical novel The Way of All Flesh. Both novels h…
Samuel Butler, English novelist, satirist, and critic (born 1835)
George Leake was the third Premier of Western Australia, serving from May to November 1901 and then again from December 1901 to his death.
George Leake, Australian politician, 2nd Premier of Western Australia (born 1856)
Swami Vivekananda, born Narendranath Datta, was an Indian Hindu monk, philosopher, author, religious teacher, and the chief disciple of the Indian mystic Ramakrishna. Vivekananda w…
Swami Vivekananda, Indian monk and saint (born 1863)
Vital-Justin Grandin was a Roman Catholic priest and bishop. He has been labelled as a key architect of the Canadian Indian residential school system by contemporary news sources, …
Vital-Justin Grandin, French-Canadian bishop and missionary (born 1829)
Friedrich Wilhelm Karl Ernst Schröder was a German mathematician mainly known for his work on algebraic logic. He is a major figure in the history of mathematical logic, by virtue …
Ernst Schröder, German mathematician and academic (born 1841)