Explore 2322 historical events from 1900–1909.
Eric Arthur Blair was an English novelist, poet, essayist, journalist, and critic who wrote under the pen name of George Orwell. His work is characterised by lucid prose, social cr…
George Orwell, British novelist, essayist, and critic (died 1950)
Anne Revere was an American actress and a member of the board of the Screen Actors Guild. She was best known for her work on Broadway and her portrayals of mothers in a series of c…
Anne Revere, American actress (died 1990)
Alan Dower Blumlein was an English electronics engineer, notable for his many inventions in telecommunications, sound recording, stereophonic sound, television and radar. He receiv…
Alan Blumlein, English engineer, developed the H2S radar (died 1942)
Amy Johnson was a pioneering English pilot who was the first woman to fly solo from London to Australia.
Amy Johnson, English pilot (died 1941)
Beatrix Alice Lehmann was a British actress, theatre director, writer and novelist.
Beatrix Lehmann, English actress (died 1979)
Big Bill Broonzy, later known as William Lee Broonzy, was an American blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist. His career began in the 1920s, when he played country music to mostly…
Big Bill Broonzy, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1958)
Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home, Baron Home of the Hirsel, known as Lord Dunglass from 1918 to 1951 and the Earl of Home from 1951 to 1963, was a British statesman and Conservativ…
Alec Douglas-Home, English cricketer and politician, 66th Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1995)
Olav V was King of Norway from 1957 until his death in 1991.
Olav V, Norwegian king, 1957–1991 (died 1991)
Irvine Wallace "Ace" Bailey was a Canadian professional ice hockey player. He played for the Toronto Maple Leafs for eight seasons, from 1926 to 1933. His playing career ended with…
Ace Bailey, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (died 1992)
Franciscus Florentinus Peeters, Baron Peeters was a Belgian composer, organist and academic teacher. He was director of the Conservatorium in Antwerp, Belgium, and organist at Mech…
Flor Peeters, Belgian organist, composer, and educator (died 1986)
Axel Hugo Theodor Theorell was a Swedish scientist and Nobel Prize laureate in medicine.
Hugo Theorell, Swedish biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1982)
Karl Rudolf Werner Best was a German jurist, police chief, SS-Obergruppenführer, Nazi Party leader, and theoretician from Darmstadt. He was the first chief of Department 1 of the G…
Werner Best, German SS officer and jurist (died 1989)
John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris was an English science fiction writer best known for his works published under the pen name John Wyndham, although he also used other combin…
John Wyndham, English author (died 1969)
William August Fisher, better known by the alias Rudolf Ivanovich Abel, was a Soviet intelligence officer. He adopted his alias to alert his Soviet KGB handlers when he was arreste…
Rudolf Abel, English-Russian colonel and Soviet spy (died 1971)
Sidney Franklin was the first American to become a successful matador, the most senior level of bullfighter.
Sidney Franklin, American bullfighter (died 1976)
Kenneth Mackenzie Clark, Baron Clark was a British art historian, museum director and broadcaster. His expertise covered a wide range of artists and periods, but he is particularly…
Kenneth Clark, English historian and author (died 1983)
Irving Stone was an American writer, chiefly known for his biographical novels of noted artists, politicians, and intellectuals. Among the best known are Lust for Life (1934), abou…
Irving Stone, American author and educator (died 1989)
Walter "Wat" Dumaux Edmonds was an American writer best known for historical novels. One of them, Drums Along the Mohawk (1936), was adapted as a Technicolor feature film in 1939, …
Walter D. Edmonds, American journalist and author (died 1998)
Kumaraswami Kamaraj, popularly known as Kamarajar was an Indian independence activist, politician, social reformer and statesman who served as the Chief Minister of Madras from 13 …
K. Kamaraj, Indian journalist and politician (died 1975)
Fritz Bauer was a German Jewish judge and prosecutor. He played an instrumental role in the post-war capture of former Holocaust planner Adolf Eichmann, and in bringing about the F…
Fritz Bauer, German lawyer and judge (died 1968)
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)