Explore 2322 historical events from 1900–1909.
Carey Estes Kefauver was an American politician from Tennessee. A member of the Democratic Party, he served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1939 to 1949 and in the U.S. S…
Estes Kefauver, American lawyer and politician (died 1963)
Nikolay Konstantinovich Cherkasov was a Soviet and Russian actor. He was named People's Artist of the USSR in 1947.
Nikolay Cherkasov, Russian actor (died 1966)
Michail Stasinopoulos was a Greek jurist and politician who served as the President of Greece from 18 December 1974 to 19 July 1975. A member of New Democracy, he was the first off…
Michail Stasinopoulos, Greek jurist and politician, President of Greece (died 2002)
Mārtiņš Zīverts was a Latvian playwright.
Mārtiņš Zīverts, Latvian playwright (died 1990)
Paul George Vincent O'Shaughnessy Horgan was an American writer of historical fiction and non-fiction who mainly wrote about the Southwestern United States. He was the recipient of…
Paul Horgan, American historian, author, and academic (died 1995)
Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey was a Kenyan-British palaeoanthropologist and archaeologist whose work was important in demonstrating that humans evolved in Africa, particularly throug…
Louis Leakey, Kenyan-English palaeontologist and archaeologist (died 1972)
Habib Bourguiba was a Tunisian politician and statesman who served as the prime minister of the Kingdom of Tunisia from 1956 to 1957, and then as the first president of Tunisia fro…
Habib Bourguiba, Tunisian journalist and politician, 1st President of the Republic of Tunisia (died 2000)
Virginia Foster Durr was an American civil rights activist and lobbyist. She was born in Birmingham, Alabama in 1903 to Dr. Sterling Foster, an Alabama Presbyterian minister, and A…
Virginia Foster Durr, American civil rights activist (died 1999)
Joseph Ward Moore was an American science fiction writer. According to The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, "he contributed only infrequently to the field, [but] each of his books …
Ward Moore, American author (died 1978)
Lucienne Boyer was a French entertainer and musician, best known for her song "Parlez-moi d'amour". Her impresario was Bruno Coquatrix. According to The New York Times, she "reigne…
Lucienne Boyer, French singer (died 1983)
James Gould Cozzens was a Pulitzer prize-winning American writer whose work enjoyed an unusual degree of popular success and critical acclaim for more than three decades. His 1949 …
James Gould Cozzens, American novelist and short story writer (died 1978)
Ioannis Constantinidis, also known by the pen name Kostas Giannidis, was a Greek composer, pianist and conductor.
Kostas Giannidis, Greek pianist, composer, and conductor (died 1984)
Samuel Maxwell "Jerry" Iger was an American cartoonist and art-studio entrepreneur. With business partner Will Eisner, he co-founded Eisner & Iger, a comic book packager that produ…
Jerry Iger, American cartoonist, co-founded Eisner & Iger (died 1990)
Karl August Hanke was a German Nazi official and politician who served as the fifth and final Reichsführer of the Schutzstaffel (SS). He also served as Gauleiter of Gau Lower Siles…
Karl Hanke, German businessman and politician (died 1945)
Arpad Emmerich Elo was a Hungarian-American physics professor who created the Elo rating system for two-player games such as chess.
Arpad Elo, Hungarian-American chess player, created the Elo rating system (died 1992)
Muhammad Yamin was an Indonesian poet, politician, historian and national hero who played a key role in the writing of the draft preamble to the 1945 constitution.
Mohammad Yamin, Indonesian poet, revolutionary, and politician (died 1962)
Bhagwati Charan Verma was a Hindi author. He wrote many novels, his best work was Chitralekha (1934), which was made into two successful Hindi films in 1941 and 1964 respectively. …
Bhagwati Charan Verma, Indian author (died 1981)
Caroline Pafford Miller was an American novelist. She gathered the folktales, stories, and archaic dialects of the rural communities she visited in her home state of Georgia in the…
Caroline Pafford Miller, American author (died 1992)
Bruno Bettelheim was an Austrian-born American psychologist, scholar, public intellectual and writer who spent most of his academic and clinical career in the United States. An ear…
Bruno Bettelheim, Austrian-American psychologist and author (died 1990)
Arthur Morton Godfrey was an American radio and television broadcaster and entertainer. At the peak of his success, in the early to mid-1950s, Godfrey was heard on radio and seen o…
Arthur Godfrey, American radio and television host (died 1983)
Vladimir Jankélévitch was a French philosopher and musicologist.
Vladimir Jankélévitch, French musicologist and philosopher (died 1985)
Margaret Landon was an American writer known for Anna and the King of Siam, her best-selling 1944 novel of the life of Anna Leonowens which eventually sold over a million copies an…
Margaret Landon, American missionary and author (died 1993)
Dorothy Marie Donnelly was a poet and essayist, the author of six books of poetry and prose and numerous articles published in Europe and the United States.
Dorothy Marie Donnelly, American poet and author (died 1994)
Eileen Norah Owbridge was a British writer who under the pseudonym Jane Arbor wrote 57 romances for Mills & Boon from 1948 to 1985.
Jane Arbor, English author (died 1994)