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 [1] 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
See also January 1900
February
See also February 1900
- February 1 – Western Australia refuses to join the Federation unless given 5 years of fiscal freedom.
- February 3
- Kentucky Governor William Goebel dies of wounds after beig shot by assassins on January 30. Goebel, who had prevailed in an a dispute over the winner of the 1899 election, had been sworn in on his deathbed.
Former Secretary of State Caleb Powers is later found guilty in a conspiracy to kill Goebel.
March
See also March 1900
April
See also April 1900
May
See also May 1900
June
See also June 1900
Australia, founded July 9, 1900.
July
See also July 1900
August
See also August 1900
September
See also September 1900
October
See also October 1900
November
See also November 1900
December
See also December 1900
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 1 – Xavier Cugat, Cuban bandleader (d. 1990)
- 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 25 – Richard M. Hollingshead, Jr., American inventor of the drive-in theatre (d. 1975)
- 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 13 – Giorgos Seferis, Greek poet, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (d. 1971)
- 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 – Uładzimir 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 25 – Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, Viceroy of India (d. 1979)
- 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 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 – Lucreţiu Pătrăşcanu, 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 (Bewitched) (d. 1974)
- December 10 – Dominic Costa, Australian politician (d. 1976)
- 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) (shot) (b. 1864)
- April 19 – James Dawson, Australian activist (b. 1806)
- April 22 – Amédée-François Lamy, French soldier (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 – Zdeněk 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)
See also
Notes
- ^ "Calendar in year 1900 (Russia)" (Julian on Saturday), webpage: Julian-1900 (Russia used the Julian calendar until 1919).
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