Explore 2322 historical events from 1900–1909.
Dewey "Pigmeat" Markham was an American entertainer. Though best known as a comedian, Markham was also a singer, dancer, and actor. His nickname came from a stage routine, in which…
Pigmeat Markham, African-American comedian, singer, and dancer (died 1981)
Bruce Cabot was an American film actor, best remembered as Jack Driscoll in King Kong (1933) and for his roles in films such as The Last of the Mohicans (1936), Fritz Lang's Fury (…
Bruce Cabot, American actor (died 1972)
Jean Hélion was a French painter whose abstract work of the 1930s established him as a leading modernist. His midcareer rejection of abstraction was followed by nearly five decades…
Jean Hélion, French painter (died 1987)
The Russo-Japanese War was fought between the Russian Empire and the Empire of Japan over rival imperial ambitions in Manchuria and the Korean Empire. The major land battles of the…
Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of the Yellow Sea between the Russian and Japanese battleship fleets takes place.
The Treaty of Peace and Friendship of 1904 between Chile and Bolivia was signed in Santiago de Chile on 20 October 1904, to delineate the boundary through 96 specified points betwe…
Chile and Bolivia sign the Treaty of Peace and Friendship, delimiting the border between the two countries.
Odilo Lothar Ludwig Globočnik was an Austrian Nazi Party official of Slovene-Croatian descent and a perpetrator of the Holocaust. A high-ranking member of the SS, Globočnik was the…
Odilo Globocnik, Italian-Austrian SS officer (died 1945)
J. Robert Oppenheimer was an American theoretical physicist who served as the director of the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos Laboratory during World War II. He is often called the …
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Clifford Bricker was a Canadian long-distance runner who competed in the 1928 and 1932 Summer Olympics. In 1927 he set the amateur world record for 15 miles.
Clifford Bricker, Canadian long-distance runner (died 1980)
Louis Muhlstock, LL.D. was a Canadian painter best known for his depictions of the Great Depression and for landscapes and urban scenes in and around Montreal.
Louis Muhlstock, Polish-Canadian painter (died 2001)
Renault Renaldo Duncan, better known as Duncan Renaldo, was a Romanian-born American actor best remembered for his portrayal of The Cisco Kid in films and on the 1950–1956 American…
Duncan Renaldo, American actor (died 1985)
Willem de Kooning was a Dutch-American abstract expressionist artist. Born in Rotterdam, in the Netherlands, he moved to the United States in 1926, becoming a U.S. citizen in 1962.…
Willem de Kooning, Dutch-American painter and educator (died 1997)
Paul-Émile Léger was a Canadian Catholic prelate, educator, missionary, and humanitarian. A member of the Society of Saint-Sulpice, he served as Archbishop of Montreal from 1950 to…
Paul-Émile Léger, Canadian cardinal (died 1991)
Xenophon Euthymiou Zolotas was a Greek economist who served as an interim non-party Prime Minister of Greece.
Xenophon Zolotas, Greek economist and politician, 177th Prime Minister of Greece (died 2004)
Cecil Day-Lewis, often written as C. Day-Lewis, was an Anglo-Irish poet and Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1968 until his death. He also wrote mystery stories under the p…
Cecil Day-Lewis, Anglo-Irish poet and author (died 1972)
Nikos Zachariadis was the leader of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) from 1931 to 1956.
Nikos Zachariadis, Greek politician (died 1973)
Moshé Pinchas Feldenkrais was an Israeli engineer and physicist, known as the founder of the Feldenkrais method.
Moshé Feldenkrais, Ukrainian-Israeli physicist and academic (died 1984)
Catherine Lacey was an English actress of stage and screen.
Catherine Lacey, English actress (died 1979)
Harry Martinson was a Swedish writer, poet and former sailor. In 1949 he was elected into the Swedish Academy. He was awarded a joint Nobel Prize in Literature in 1974 together wit…
Harry Martinson, Swedish novelist, essayist, and poet Nobel Prize laureate (died 1978)
John Derrick Mordaunt Snagge was a British newsreader and commentator on BBC Radio.
John Snagge, English journalist (died 1996)
Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, Marquess of Dalí de Púbol, known as Salvador Dalí, was a Spanish surrealist artist renowned for his technical skill, precise drafts…
Salvador Dalí, Spanish artist (died 1989)
Frieda Belinfante was a Dutch cellist, philharmonic conductor, a prominent lesbian, and a member of the Dutch resistance during World War II. After the war, Belinfante emigrated to…
Frieda Belinfante, Dutch musician and LGBT member of the Dutch resistance (died 1995)
Hans Albert Einstein was a Swiss-American engineer, the second child and first son of physicists Albert Einstein and Mileva Marić. He was a professor of hydraulic engineering at th…
Hans Albert Einstein, Swiss-American engineer and educator (died 1973)
Marcel Junod was a Swiss medical doctor and one of the most accomplished field delegates in the history of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). After medical school…
Marcel Junod, Swiss physician and anesthesiologist (died 1961)
Clifton Paul "Kip" Fadiman was an American intellectual, author, editor, and radio and television personality. He began his work in radio, and switched to television later in his c…
Clifton Fadiman, American game show host and author (died 1999)