1900
Year 1900 (MCM) was an exceptional common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar, but a leap year starting on Saturday
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of the Julian calendar. As a result, the Julian calendar was 12 days behind the Gregorian calendar until Wednesday, February 28 (O.S. February 16) and has been 13 days behind since Thursday, March 1 (O.S. February 17).
Events of 1900
January
February
March
April
May
June
Australia, founded July 9, 1900.
July
August
September
November
December
Undated
World population
- World population: 1,650,000,000
- Africa: 133,000,000
- Asia: 947,000,000
- Europe: 408,000,000
- Latin-America: 74,000,000
- Northern America: 82,000,000
- Oceania: 6,000,000
Births
January-June
- January 2 - William Haines, American actor (d. 1973)
- January 4 - James Bond, American ornithologist (d. 1989)
- January 5 - Yves Tanguy, French painter (d. 1955)
- January 16 - Edith Frank, German-Dutch mother of Anne Frank (d. 1945)
- January 25 - Theodosius Dobzhansky, Ukrainian geneticist and evolutionary biologist (d. 1975)
- January 23 - William Ifor Jones, Welsh conductor and organist (d. 1988)
- January 26 - Karl Ristenpart, German conductor (d. 1967)
- January 27 - Hyman Rickover, American admiral (d. 1986)
- January 30 - Martita Hunt, Argentine-born British actress (d. 1969)
- February 4 - Jacques Prévert, French lyricist and author (d. 1977)
- February 5 - Adlai Stevenson, American politician (d. 1965)
- February 11 - Hans-Georg Gadamer, German philosopher (d. 2002)
- February 12 - Roger J. Traynor, American judge (d. 1983)
- February 19 - Giorgos Seferis, Greek writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1971)
- February 22 - Luis Buñuel, Spanish film director (d. 1983)
- February 28 - Wolfram Hirth, German pilot and aircraft designer (d. 1959)
- March 4 - Herbert Biberman, American screenwriter and film director (d. 1971)
- March 9 - Howard Aiken, American computing pioneer (d. 1973)
- March 19 - Frédéric Joliot, French physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (d. 1958)
- March 23 - Erich Fromm, German-born psychologist and philosopher (d. 1980)
- March 29 - John McEwen, Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1980)
- March 31 - Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester (d. 1974)
- April 2 - Roberto Arlt, Argentine writer (d. 1942)
- April 5 - Spencer Tracy, American actor (d. 1967)
- April 8 - Marie Byles, Australian solicitor (d. 1979)
- April 16 - Polly Adler, Russian author (d. 1962)
- April 21 - Hans Fritzsche, German Nazi official (d. 1953)
- April 25 - Wolfgang Ernst Pauli, Austrian-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958)
- April 26 - Charles Richter, American geophysicist and inventor (d. 1985)
- April 27 ? August Koern, Estonian statesman and diplomat (d. 1989)
- April 30 - Cecily Lefort, English World War II heroine (d. 1945)
- May 1 - Ignazio Silone, Italian author (d. 1978)
- May 12 - Helene Weigel, Austrian actress (d. 1971)
- May 15 - Zheng Ji, Chinese nutritionist and biochemist
- May 17 - Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Iranian political leader (d. 1989)
- May 23 - Hans Frank, German Nazi official (d. 1946)
- May 27 - U?adzimir Zylka, Belarusian poet (d. 1933)
- May 28 - Tommy Ladnier, American jazz trumpeter (d. 1939)
- June 3 - Rolland Fisher, American temperance activist (d. 1982)
- June 4 - George Watkins, American baseball player (d. 1970)
- June 5 - Dennis Gabor, Hungarian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1979)
- June 7 - Glen Gray, American saxophonist (d. 1963)
- June 15 - Paul Mares, American jazz trumpeter (d. 1949)
- June 17 - Martin Bormann, German Nazi official (d. 1945)
- June 29 - Antoine de Saint-Exupery, French pilot and writer (d. 1944)
July-December
- July 4 - Robert Desnos, French poet (d. 1945)
- July 6 - Frederica Sagor Maas, American playwright, essayist, and author
- July 13 - George Lewis, American jazz clarinetist (d. 1968)
- July 29 - Eyvind Johnson, Swedish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1976)
- August 3 - Ernie Pyle, American journalist (d. 1945)
- August 4 - Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, queen of George VI of the United Kingdom (d. 2002)
- August 6 - Cecil H. Green, British-born geophysicist and businessman (d. 2003)
- August 10 - Arthur Espie Porritt, New Zealand politician and athlete (d. 1994)
- August 11 - Philip Phillips, American archaeologist (d. 1994)
- August 18 - Glenn Albert Black, American archaeologist (d. 1964)
- August 19
- August 22 - Sergei Ozhegov, Russian lexicographer (d. 1964)
- August 25 - Sir Hans Adolf Krebs, German physician and biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1981)
- August 26 - Hellmuth Walter, German engineer and inventor (d. 1980)
- September 3 - Urho Kekkonen, President of Finland (d. 1986)
- September 6 - W.A.C. Bennett, Canadian politician (d. 1979)
- September 22 - Paul H. Emmett, American chemical engineer (d. 1985)
- September 23 - Louise Nevelson, Ukrainian-born American sculptor (d. 1988)
- September 28 - Boris Efimov, Russian political cartoonist and propaganda artist (d. 2008)
- September 29 - Miguel Alemán Valdés, President of Mexico (d. 1983)
- September 29 - Auguste van Pels, German-Dutch mother of Peter van Pels, housemate of Anne Frank (d. 1945)
- October 1 - Tom Goddard, English cricketer (d. 1966)
- October 6 - Stan Nichols, English cricketer (d. 1961)
- October 7 - Heinrich Himmler, German Nazi official and SS head (d. 1945)
- October 30 - Ragnar Granit, Finnish neuroscientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1991)
- November 4 - Lucre?iu P?tr??canu, Romanian communist activist and sociologist (d. 1954)
- November 5
- November 6 - Hugh Prosser, American actor (d. 1952)
- November 8
- November 11 - Halina Konopacka, Polish athlete (d. 1989)
- November 13 - David Marshall Williams, American inventor (d. 1975)
- November 14 - Aaron Copland, American composer (d. 1990)
- November 16 - Nikolai Pogodin, Soviet playwright (d. 1962)
- November 22 - Tom Macdonald, Welsh journalist and novelist (d. 1980)
- November 25 - Rudolf Höß, German Nazi official (d. 1947)
- December 3
- December 4 - John Axon, British railwayman (d. 1957)
- December 6 - Agnes Moorehead, American actress (d. 1974)
- December 12 - Sammy Davis, Sr., American dancer (d. 1988)
- December 20 - Marinus van der Goes van Naters, Dutch politician (d. 2005)
Deaths
January - June
- January 20 - John Ruskin, English writer and social critic (b. 1819)
- January 31 - John Sholto Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry, Scottish nobleman and boxer (b. 1844)
- February 18 - Clinton L. Merriam, American politician (b. 1824)
- March 6
- April 5
- April 17 - George Curry, Wild West robber (Wild Bunch) (b. 1864) (shot)
- April 19 - James Dawson, Australian activist (b. 1806)
- April 22 - Amédée-François Lamy, French solder (b. 1858) (killed in battle)
- April 24 - George Douglas Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll, British politician (b.1823)
- April 30 - Casey Jones, American railway engineer (b. 1864)
- May 18 - Jean Gaspard Felix Ravaisson-Mollien, French philosopher (b. 1813)
- June 2
- June 3 - Mary Kingsley, English explorer and writer (b. 1862)
- June 5 - Stephen Crane, American author (b. 1871)
- June 11 - Belle Boyd, American Confederate spy and actress (b. 1843)
- June 19 - Princess Josephine of Baden (b. 1813)
July - December
- July 8 - Henry D. Cogswell, American philanthropist (b. 1820)
- July 29 - Umberto I, King of Italy (b. 1844)
- July 31 - Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, second son of Queen Victoria (b. 1844)
- August 10 - Charles Russell, Baron Russell of Killowen, Lord Chief Justice of England (b.1832)
- August 12 - Wilhelm Steinitz, Austrian-born chess player (b. 1836)
- August 16 - José Maria de Eça de Queiroz, Portuguese writer (b. 1845)
- August 23 - Kuroda Kiyotaka, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1840)
- August 25 - Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher and writer (b. 1844)
- September 23
- September 29 - Samuel Fenton Cary, American politician (b. 1814)
- October 15 - Zden?k Fibich, Czech composer (b. 1850)
- October 22 - John Sherman, American politician (b.1823)
- November 22 - Sir Arthur Sullivan. English composer (b. 1842)
- November 30 - Oscar Wilde, Irish writer (b. 1854)
Notes
- ↑ "Calendar in year 1900 (Russia)" (Julian on Saturday), webpage:
Julian-1900
(Russia used the Julian calendar until 1919). External links
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