Explore 2322 historical events from 1900–1909.
Gerald Marks was an American composer of popular music. He was best known for the 1931 song "All of Me", which he co-wrote with Seymour Simons and has been recorded about 2,000 tim…
Gerald Marks, American composer (died 1997)
Heinrich Luitpold Himmler was a German Nazi politician, police administrator, and military leader. He was the fourth and longest-serving Reichsführer of the Schutzstaffel, serving …
Heinrich Himmler, Nazi politician, head of the SS and senior official responsible for the Holocaust (died 1945)
Alastair George Bell Sim was a Scottish actor. He began his theatrical career at the age of thirty and quickly became established as a popular West End performer, remaining so unti…
Alastair Sim, Scottish-English actor and academic (died 1976)
William Edwards Deming was an American business theorist, composer, economist, industrial engineer, management consultant, statistician, and writer. Educated initially as an electr…
W. Edwards Deming, American statistician, author, and academic (died 1993)
Mervyn LeRoy was an American film director and producer. During the 1930s, he was one of the two great practitioners of economical and effective film directing at Warner Brothers s…
Mervyn LeRoy, American actor, director, and producer (died 1987)
Edward Jeffrey Irving Ardizzone,, who sometimes signed his work "DIZ", was a British painter, printmaker and war artist, and the author and illustrator of books, many of them for c…
Edward Ardizzone, Vietnamese-English author and illustrator (died 1979)
Primo Conti was an Italian futurist artist.
Primo Conti, Italian painter and poet (died 1988)
Leon Allen "Goose" Goslin was an American professional baseball left fielder. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Washington Senators, St. Louis Browns, and Detroit Ti…
Goose Goslin, American baseball player and manager (died 1971)
Jonkvrouwe (Lady) Cornélie Caroline "Cox" van Asch van Wijck was a Dutch artist and sculptor.
C. C. van Asch van Wijck, Dutch artist and sculptor (died 1932)
Jean Arthur was an American film and theater actress whose career began in silent films in the early 1920s and lasted until the early 1950s.
Jean Arthur, American actress (died 1991)
Arthur Yvor Winters was an American poet and literary critic.
Yvor Winters, American critic and poet (died 1968)
Erna Berger was a German lyric coloratura soprano. She was best known for roles such as Queen of the Night and Konstanze.
Erna Berger, German soprano and actress (died 1990)
William Harold Ponsford MBE was an Australian cricketer. Usually playing as an opening batsman, he formed a successful and long-lived partnership opening the batting for Victoria a…
Bill Ponsford, Australian cricketer and baseball player (died 1991)
Roy Thomas "Shrimp" Worters was a Canadian professional Hockey Hall of Fame goaltender who played twelve seasons in the National Hockey League for the Pittsburgh Pirates, Montreal …
Roy Worters, Canadian ice hockey player (died 1957)
Ismail al-Azhari was a Sudanese nationalist and political figure. He served as the first Prime Minister of Sudan between 1954 and 1956, and as Head of State of Sudan from 1965 unti…
Ismail al-Azhari, Sudanese politician, 3rd President of Sudan (died 1969)
Wayne Lyman Morse was an American attorney and United States Senator from Oregon. Morse is well known for opposing the Democratic Party’s leadership and for his opposition to the V…
Wayne Morse, American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician (died 1974)
Andrée Boisson was a French fencer. She competed in the women's individual foil event at the 1936 Summer Olympics.
Andrée Boisson, French Olympic fencer (died 1973)
Douglas Robert Jardine was a cricketer who played 22 Test matches for England, captaining the side in 15 of those matches between 1931 and 1934. A right-handed batsman, he is best …
Douglas Jardine, Indian-English cricketer and lawyer (died 1958)
Johan Jacob Greter was a Dutch equestrian who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics. In 1936 he and his horse Ernica won the silver medal as part of the Dutch show jumping team, aft…
Johan Greter, Dutch equestrian (died 1975)
Chief Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, also known as Funmilayo Aníkúlápó-Kuti, was a Nigerian educator, political organizer, and women's rights advocate who intellectually engaged with anti…
Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, Nigerian educator and activist (died 1978)
William Edwards Stevenson was an American track and field athlete, lawyer and diplomat, who won the gold medal in the 4 × 400 metres relay at the 1924 Summer Olympics, and later se…
William Stevenson, American track and fielder (died 1985)
Karin Maria Boye was a Swedish poet and novelist. In Sweden, she is acclaimed as a poet, but internationally, she is best known for the dystopian science fiction novel Kallocain (1…
Karin Boye, Swedish poet and novelist (died 1941)
Ibrahim Abboud was a Sudanese military officer and political figure who served as the head of state of Sudan between 1958 and 1964 and as President of Sudan in 1964; however, he so…
Ibrahim Abboud, Sudanese politician and general, 1st President of Sudan (died 1983)
Ragnar Arthur Granit was a Finnish and Swedish neurophysiologist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1967 along with Haldan Keffer Hartline and George Wald…
Ragnar Granit, Finnish-Swedish physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1991)