Explore 1174 historical events from 1900–1909.
Maurice Herbert Evans was an English actor, noted for his interpretations of Shakespearean characters. His best-known screen roles include Dr. Zaius in the 1968 film Planet of the …
Maurice Evans, English actor (died 1989)
Zhang Xueliang, also known by the epithet "Young Marshal" in contrast to his father "Old Marshal" Zhang Zuolin, was a Chinese general. He is best known for his role in the Xi'an In…
Zhang Xueliang, Chinese general and warlord (died 2001)
Jan Struther was the pen name of Joyce Anstruther, later Joyce Maxtone Graham and finally Joyce Placzek, an English writer remembered for her character Mrs. Miniver and a number …
Jan Struther, English author, poet and hymnwriter who created the character Mrs Miniver (died 1953)
Sukarno was an Indonesian statesman, activist, and revolutionary who served as the first president of Indonesia from 1945 to 1967.
Sukarno, Indonesian engineer and politician, 1st President of Indonesia (died 1970)
Frederick Loewe was an American composer. He collaborated with lyricist Alan Jay Lerner on a series of Broadway musicals, including Brigadoon, Paint Your Wagon, My Fair Lady, and C…
Frederick Loewe, Austrian-American composer (died 1988)
Alfred Henry "Cap" Fear was a star football player in the Canadian Football League (CFL) for seven seasons for the Toronto Argonauts. He was inducted into the Canadian Football Hal…
Cap Fear, Canadian football player and rower (died 1978)
Benny Wearing was an Australian rugby league footballer who played in the 1920s and 1930s. An Australian international and New South Wales representative three-quarter, he played h…
Benny Wearing, Australian rugby league player (died 1968)
Tage Fritjof Erlander was a Swedish politician and statesman who served as Prime Minister of Sweden and leader of the Social Democratic Party from 1946 to 1969. During his record-l…
Tage Erlander, Swedish lieutenant and politician, 25th Prime Minister of Sweden (died 1985)
Elmar Lohk was an Estonian architect and tennis player. Many of his buildings in Tallinn are now valued as great examples of 1930s architecture, for example, the prominent Scandic …
Elmar Lohk, Russian-Estonian architect (died 1963)
Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia was the youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II, the last sovereign of Imperial Russia, and his wife, Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna.
Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia (died 1918)
Walter Llewellyn Rees was an English actor.
Llewellyn Rees, English actor (died 1994)
Elias Katz was a Finnish track and field athlete, who competed mainly in the 3000 metres steeplechase in the 1920s. In 1933, he immigrated to Mandatory Palestine, where he lived fo…
Elias Katz, Finnish runner and coach (died 1947)
Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar was a Turkish poet, novelist, literary scholar and essayist, widely regarded as one of the most important representatives of modernism in Turkish literature. I…
Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar, Turkish author, poet, and scholar (died 1962)
Marcel Mule was a French classical saxophonist. He was known worldwide as one of the greatest classical saxophonists ever, and many pieces were written for him, premiered by him, a…
Marcel Mule, French saxophonist (died 2001)
Harry Partch was an American composer, music theorist, and creator of unique musical instruments. He composed using scales of unequal intervals in just intonation, and was one of t…
Harry Partch, American composer and theorist (died 1974)
Charles Hollis Taylor was an American basketball player and basketball shoe salesman-marketer who was associated with Chuck Taylor All-Stars, which he helped to improve and promote…
Chuck Taylor, American basketball player and salesman (died 1969)
Harold Roe Bennett Sturdyvant Bartle, better known as H. Roe Bartle, was an American businessman, philanthropist, executive, and professional public speaker who served two terms as…
Harold Roe Bartle, American businessman and politician, 47th Mayor of Kansas City (died 1974)
William Stuart Symington III was an American businessman and Democratic politician from Missouri. He served as the first secretary of the Air Force from 1947 to 1950 and was a Unit…
Stuart Symington, American lieutenant and politician, 1st United States Secretary of the Air Force (died 1988)
Merle Antony Tuve was an American geophysicist who was the Chairman of Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD) Section T, created in August 1940. He was founding direc…
Merle Tuve, American geophysicist and academic (died 1982)
Nelson Ackerman Eddy was an American actor and baritone singer who appeared in 19 musical films during the 1930s and 1940s, as well as in opera and on the concert stage, radio, tel…
Nelson Eddy, American singer and actor (died 1967)
Irna Phillips was an American scriptwriter, screenwriter, casting agent, and actress who pioneered a style of daytime soap opera in the United States geared specifically toward wom…
Irna Phillips, American screenwriter (died 1973)
Ruth Crawford Seeger was an American composer and musicologist. Her music heralded the emerging modernist aesthetic, and she became a central member of a group of American composer…
Ruth Crawford Seeger, American composer (died 1953)
Julio Libonatti was an Italian Argentine football manager and footballer who played as a forward for the Argentina and Italy national teams.
Julio Libonatti, Italian-Argentinian footballer (died 1981)
Sam Katzman was an American film producer and director. Katzman's specialty was producing low-budget genre films, including serials, which had disproportionately high returns for t…
Sam Katzman, American director and producer (died 1973)