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{{Year dab|1900}}{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2011}}{{hatnote|Read century, for an explanation of its start.}}{{Events by month|1900}}{{Year nav|1900}}{{C19 year in topic}}{{Year article header|1900}}As of March 1 (O.S. February 17), when the Julian calendar acknowledged a leap day and the Gregorian calendar did not, the Julian calendar fell one day further behind, bringing the difference to 13 days until February 28 (O.S. February 15), 2100. The year 1900 also marked the Year of the Rat on the Chinese calendar.{{TOC limit|2}}

Events

January

• January 2 – U.S. Secretary of State John Hay announces the Open Door Policy, to promote American trade with China.
• January 5 – Henry A. Rowland of Johns Hopkins University announces a theory about the cause of the Earth’s magnetism.
• January 6 – Second Boer War: Boers attempt to end the Siege of Ladysmith, which leads to the Battle of Platrand.
• January 9
  • Italian club SS Lazio is founded in Rome.
  • The first through passenger train goes from Cairo to Khartoum.
• January 14
  • Puccini’s opera Tosca premieres in Rome, Italy.
  • The U.S. Senate accepts the British-German Treaty of 1899, in which the United Kingdom renounces its claims to the American Samoa portion of the Samoan Islands.

File:Boers at Spion Kop, 1900 - Project Gutenberg eText 16462.jpg|thumb|Second Boer War: Boers at Spion Kop, 1900]]

• January 24 – Second Boer War – Battle of Spion Kop: Boer troops defeat the British Army.

(File:BoxerSoldiers.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Boxer Soldiers)

• January 27 – Boxer Rebellion: Foreign diplomats in Peking, Qing Dynasty China, demand that the Boxer rebels be disciplined.
• January 31 – Datu Muhammad Salleh, leader of the Mat Salleh Rebellion in North Borneo, is shot dead in Tambunan.

February

File:LabourPartyPlaque.jpg|thumb|200px|Plaque recording the location of the formation of the British Labour Party in 1900.]]

• February 5 – The United Kingdom and the United States sign a treaty for the building of a Central American shipping canal across Central America in Nicaragua.
• February 6 – The International Arbitration Court at The Hague is created, when the Netherlands’ Senate ratifies an 1899 peace conference decree.
• February 8 – Second Boer War: British troops defeat the Boers at Ladysmith, South Africa.
• February 14 – Second Boer War: Battle of Paardeberg – 20,000 British troops invade the Orange Free State.
• February 15 – Second Boer War: The Siege of Kimberley is lifted.
• February 16 – The Southern Cross expedition led by Carsten Borchgrevink achieved a new Farthest South of 78° 50’S, making the first landing at the Great Ice Barrier.BOOK, Hugh Robert Mill, Mill, Hugh Robert, The Siege of the South Pole, Alston Rivers, London, 1905, 402,
• February 17 – Second Boer War: Battle of Paardeberg – British troops defeat the Boers.
• February 27
  • The British Labour Party is officially established, at a meeting in the Congregational Memorial Hall in London, and Ramsay MacDonald is appointed as its first secretary.
  • Second Boer War: British military leaders accept the unconditional notice of surrender from Boer General Piet Cronjé.
  • FC Bayern, Germany’s most successful football club, is founded in Munich.

March

• March 5 – Two U.S. Navy cruisers are sent to Central America to protect American interests in a dispute between Nicaragua and Costa Rica.
• March 6 – A coal mine explosion in West Virginia, United States, kills 50 miners.
• March 14
  • Botanist Hugo de Vries rediscovers Mendel’s Laws of Heredity.
  • The Gold Standard Act is ratified, placing the United States currency on the gold standard.WEB,legisworks.org/sal/31/stats/STATUTE-31-Pg45a.pdf, Session 1 of the fifty-sixth United States Congress, chapters 39 and 41, legisworks.org, December 29, 2017,legisworks.org/sal/31/stats/STATUTE-31-Pg45a.pdf," title="web.archive.org/web/20180707081049legisworks.org/sal/31/stats/STATUTE-31-Pg45a.pdf,">web.archive.org/web/20180707081049legisworks.org/sal/31/stats/STATUTE-31-Pg45a.pdf, July 7, 2018, dead,
• March 16 – British archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans purchases the land on Crete on which the ruins of the Palace of Knossos stand. He begins to unearth some of the palace three days later.
• March 18 – AFC Ajax, a successful football club in Netherlands, is founded in Amsterdam.Facts About Association Football - History Timeline {{ISBN|1-471-61231-7}} p. 13
• March 23 – Karl Landsteiner first reports his discovery of an accurate means for classifying a system of blood type, which will universally be referred to as the ABO blood group systemLandsteiner, Karl (1900). “Zur Kenntnis der antifermentativen, lytischen und agglutinierenden Wirkungen des Blutserums und der Lymphe”]. Zbl f. Bakt. 27:357-362 (issue of March 23, 1900) and for which he will be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1930.
• March 27 – The arrival of a Russian naval fleet in Korea causes concern to the Imperial Japanese government.

April

• April 4 – Queen Victoria arrives in Dublin on a rare visit.
• April 14 – The Exposition Universelle, a world’s fair, opens in Paris.
• April 22 – Battle of Kousséri: French forces secure their domination of Chad. Warlord Rabih az-Zubayr is defeated and killed.

May

• May – American explorer Robert Peary is the first person to sight Kaffeklubben Island.BOOK, The Canadian Surveyor, Canadian Institute of Surveying and Mapping, 1970, 150,
• May 1 – Scofield Mine disaster: An explosion of blasting powder in a coal mine in Scofield, Utah, United States, kills 200 people.
• May 14 – The second Olympic Games, Paris 1900, open (as part of the Paris World Exhibition).
• May 17
  • Second Boer War: The British Army relieves the Siege of Mafeking.
  • Boxer Rebellion: Boxers destroy three villages near Peking, and kill 60 Chinese Christians.
  • L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is published in Chicago, the first of Baum’s Oz books, chronicling the fictional Land of Oz for children.
• May 18 – The United Kingdom proclaims a protectorate over Tonga.BOOK, Minnerop, Petra, Wolfrum, Rüdiger, Lachenmann, Frauke, International Development Law: The Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law, 2019, Oxford University Press, 978-0-19-883509-7, 784,books.google.com/books?id=HiKQDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA784, en,
• May 21 – Russia invades Manchuria.
• May 24 – Second Boer War: The British annex the Orange Free State, as the Orange River Colony.
• May 28 – Boxer Rebellion: The Boxers attack Belgians, in the Fengtai railway station.
• May 29 – N’Djamena, the capital city of Chad, is founded as Fort-Lamy, by French commander Émile Gentil.
• May 31 – Boxer Rebellion: Peacekeepers from various European countries arrive in China, where they eventually end up uniting with Japanese forces.

June

• June 1 – American temperance agitator Carrie Nation begins her crusade to demolish saloons.
• June 5 – Second Boer War: British soldiers take Pretoria.
• June 14 – The Reichstag approves the second of the German Naval Laws allowing expansion of the Imperial German Navy.
• June 17 – Boxer Rebellion – Battle of Dagu Forts: Naval forces of the Eight-Nation Alliance capture the Taku Forts, on the Hai River estuary in China.
• June 20 – Boxer Rebellion: Boxers gather about 20,000 people near Peking, and kill hundreds of European citizens, including the German ambassador.
• June 25 – The Taoist monk Wang Yuanlu discovers the Dunhuang manuscripts, a cache of ancient texts that are of great historical and religious significance, in the Mogao Caves of Dunhuang, China, where they have been sealed since the early 11th century.
• June 30 – Hoboken Docks fire: A wharf fire at the docks in Hoboken, New Jersey, owned by the North German Lloyd Steamship line, spreads to German passenger ships {{SS|Saale||2}}, {{SS|Main|1900|2}}, and {{SS|Bremen|1896|2}}. The fire engulfs the adjacent piers and nearby ships, killing 326 people.

July

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• July 1 - Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg and Archduke Franz Ferdinand get married
• July 2 – The first zeppelin airship flight, by Ferdinand Zeppelin’s Zeppelin LZ 1 is carried out over Lake Constance, near Friedrichshafen, Germany.
• July 12 – The new German cruise liner, the SS Deutschland, breaks the record for the Blue Riband for the first time with an average speed of {{convert|22.4|kn|km/h}}.
• July 23–25 – The First Pan-African Conference is held in London.
• July 29 – King Umberto I of Italy is assassinated by Italian-born anarchist Gaetano Bresci in Monza.

August

• August – The first Michelin Guide is published in France.“What’s Observed in a Rating? Rankings as Orientation in the Face of Uncertainty”, by Elena Esposito and David Stark, in The Performance Complex: Competition and Competitions in Social Life, ed. by David Stark (Oxford University Press, 2020) p.124“On this Day: Historic Publication” {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200821091618www.onthisday.com/date/1900/august/1 |date=August 21, 2020 }}, OnThisDay.com
• August 14 – Boxer Rebellion: An international contingent of troops, under British command, invades Peking and frees the European hostages.
• August 27 – The 1900 Galveston Hurricane forms, going on to kill 8,000 people, the deadliest hurricane in U.S. history, and dissipates on September 15.

September

• September 8 – The 1900 Galveston hurricane kills about 6,000–12,000 people.
• September 12 – Admiral Fredrik von Otter becomes Prime Minister of Sweden.
• September 13 – Philippine–American War – Battle of Pulang Lupa: Filipino resistance fighters defeat a detachment of American soldiers.
• September 17 – Philippine–American War – Battle of Mabitac: Filipinos under Juan Cailles defeat the Americans, under Colonel Benjamin F. Cheatham.

October

• October 9 – The Cook Islands become a territory of the United Kingdom.
• October 19 – Max Planck discovers the law of black-body radiation (Planck’s law), by introducing the notion of light quanta, leading in 1905 to Albert Einstein’s explanation of the photoelectric effect and beginning the Quantum Revolution.BOOK, Gamow, Max, Thirty Years that Shook Physics, Dover Publications, 978-0486248950, July 1985,
• October 25 – The United Kingdom annexes the Transvaal.

November

• November 6 – 1900 United States presidential election: Republican incumbent William McKinley is reelected by defeating Democratic challenger William Jennings Bryan in a rematch.
• November 29 – Herbert Kitchener succeeds Frederick Roberts as commander-in-chief of the British forces in South Africa and implements a scorched earth strategy.BOOK, Pakenham, Thomas, The Boer War, Jonathan Ball Publishers, 1979, 978-0868500461,

December

• December 14 – Max Planck announces his discovery of the law of black body emission, marking the birth of quantum physics.
• December 19 – Hopetoun Blunder: The first Governor-General of Australia John Hope, 7th Earl of Hopetoun, appoints Sir William Lyne premier of the new state of New South Wales, but he is unable to persuade other colonial politicians to join his government, and is forced to resign.
• December 27 – British human rights activist Emily Hobhouse arrives in Cape Town, South Africa.

Date unknown

• Australasian prospector Albert Fuller Ellis identifies phosphate deposits on the Pacific Islands of Nauru and Banaba Island (Ocean Island).
• In New Haven, Connecticut, U.S., Louis Lassen of Louis’ Lunch makes the first modern-day hamburger sandwich.
• Ten out of every 1,000 residents of British India die of cholera each year.BOOK, Arnold, David,books.google.com/books?id=QzaWUtZwAXIC&pg=PP1, Colonizing the Body: State Medicine and Epidemic Disease in Nineteenth-Century India, 1993-08-12, University of California Press, 978-0-520-08295-3, en,

Births

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January

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• January 1
  • MieczysÅ‚aw Batsch, Polish footballer (d. 1977)
  • Paola Borboni, Italian film actress (d. 1995)WEB,www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/paola-borboni_(Enciclopedia-del-Cinema)/, BORBONI, Paola in “Enciclopedia del Cinema”, treccani.it, it-IT, 2017-10-18, October 18, 2017,www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/paola-borboni_(Enciclopedia-del-Cinema)/," title="web.archive.org/web/20171018191440www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/paola-borboni_(Enciclopedia-del-Cinema)/,">web.archive.org/web/20171018191440www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/paola-borboni_(Enciclopedia-del-Cinema)/, live,
  • Xavier Cugat, Cuban bandleader (d. 1990)BOOK, Roberts, John, The Latin tinge : the impact of Latin American music on the United States, Oxford University Press, New York, 1999, 9780195121018, 59,
  • Hub van Doorne, Dutch businessman (d. 1979)
  • Chiune Sugihara, Japanese diplomat, saved Jewish WWII refugees (d. 1986)NEWS,www.raoulwallenberg.net/saviors/others/sempo-quot-chiune-quot-914/, Sempo “Chiune” Sugihara, Japanese Savior, The International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation, 2017-10-23, en-US, April 21, 2013,www.raoulwallenberg.net/saviors/others/sempo-quot-chiune-quot-914/," title="web.archive.org/web/20130421045129www.raoulwallenberg.net/saviors/others/sempo-quot-chiune-quot-914/,">web.archive.org/web/20130421045129www.raoulwallenberg.net/saviors/others/sempo-quot-chiune-quot-914/, dead,
• January 2
  • William Haines, American actor (d. 1973)
  • Mansaku Itami, Japanese film director (tuberculosis) (d. 1946)
  • Józef Klotz, Polish footballer (d. 1941)
  • Una Ledingham, British physician, known for research on diabetes in pregnancy (d. 1965)BOOK, The biographical dictionary of women in science : pioneering lives from ancient times to the mid-20th century, 2000, Routledge, Ogilvie, Marilyn Bailey, Harvey, Joy Dorothy, Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie, Joy Harvey, 978-0415920407, 2, New York, 763, 40776839,archive.org/details/biographicaldict02ogil/page/763,
• January 3
  • Maurice Jaubert, French composer and soldier (d. 1940)
  • Ernst Neubach, Austrian screenwriter, producer, and director (d. 1968)
• January 4
  • James Bond, American ornithologist (d. 1989)
  • William Young, British World War I veteran (d. 2007)
• January 5
  • George Magrill, American film actor (d. 1952)
  • Yves Tanguy, French painter (d. 1955)
• January 6
  • Queen Maria of Yugoslavia (1922-1934) (d. 1961)NEWS,www.royalfamily.org/dynasty/hm-queen-maria-of-yugoslavia/, HM Queen Maria of Yugoslavia, Royal Family of Serbia, 2017-10-17, en-US, April 13, 2014,www.royalfamily.org/dynasty/hm-queen-maria-of-yugoslavia/," title="web.archive.org/web/20140413202412www.royalfamily.org/dynasty/hm-queen-maria-of-yugoslavia/,">web.archive.org/web/20140413202412www.royalfamily.org/dynasty/hm-queen-maria-of-yugoslavia/, live,
  • John Sinclair, American actor (d. 1945)
  • Emmanuel d’Astier de La Vigerie, French journalist and politician (d. 1969)
• January 8
  • Dorothy Adams, American character actress (d. 1988){{Citation|title=Dorothy Adams : Classic Movie Hub (CMH)|url=http://www.classicmoviehub.com/bio/dorothy-adams/|access-date=2017-10-19|archive-date=September 17, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190917150900www.classicmoviehub.com/bio/dorothy-adams/|url-status=live}}
  • François de Menthon, French politician, professor of law (d. 1984)
• January 9 – Richard Halliburton, American adventurer and writer (d. 1939)
• January 10 – Jean Gehret, Swedish actor and director (d. 1956)
• January 11 – Lloyd French, American film director (d. 1950)
• January 13 – Shimizugawa Motokichi, Japanese sumo wrestler (d. 1967)
• January 16
  • Kiku Amino, Japanese author, translator (d. 1978)BOOK, Japanese women novelists in the 20th century : 104 biographies, 1900-1993, Schierbeck, Sachiko, 1994, Museum Tusculanum Press, 9788772892689, Copenhagen, 73–76, 32348453,
  • Edith Frank, German-Dutch mother of Anne Frank (d. 1945)WEB,www.annefrank.org/en/Anne-Franks-History/All-people/Edith-Frank/,www.annefrank.org/en/Anne-Franks-History/All-people/Edith-Frank/," title="web.archive.org/web/20100706062831www.annefrank.org/en/Anne-Franks-History/All-people/Edith-Frank/,">web.archive.org/web/20100706062831www.annefrank.org/en/Anne-Franks-History/All-people/Edith-Frank/, dead, 2010-07-06, Edith Frank, 2010-07-06, 2017-10-18,
• January 18 – Wan Laiming, Chinese animator (d. 1997)
• January 20
  • Dorothy Annan, English painter, potter, and muralist (d. 1983)
  • Colin Clive, British actor (d. 1937)
• January 22
  • Ernst Busch, German singer and actor (d. 1980)
  • René Pellos, French artist (d. 1998)
• January 23 – William Ifor Jones, Welsh conductor, organist (d. 1988)
• January 24 – Theodosius Dobzhansky, Ukrainian geneticist, evolutionary biologist (d. 1975)
• January 26 – Karl Ristenpart, German conductor (d. 1967)
• January 27 – Hyman G. Rickover, American admiral (d. 1986)
• January 28 – Rajagopala Tondaiman, King of Pudukkottai (d. 1950)
• January 30 – Martita Hunt, Argentine-born British actress (d. 1969)WEB,www.oxforddnb.com/index/67/101067806/, Martita Hunt, oxforddnb.com, 2017-10-19, December 20, 2016,www.oxforddnb.com/index/67/101067806/," title="web.archive.org/web/20161220125843www.oxforddnb.com/index/67/101067806/,">web.archive.org/web/20161220125843www.oxforddnb.com/index/67/101067806/, live,
• January 31 – Betty Parsons, American artist, art dealer and collector (d. 1982)WEB,www.anb.org/articles/17/17-01999.html, American National Biography Online: Parsons, Betty, anb.org, 2017-10-18, March 22, 2016,www.anb.org/articles/17/17-01999.html," title="web.archive.org/web/20160322025247www.anb.org/articles/17/17-01999.html,">web.archive.org/web/20160322025247www.anb.org/articles/17/17-01999.html, live,

February

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• February 2
  • Anni Frind, German lyric soprano (d. 1987)NEWS,www.nytimes.com/1987/04/11/obituaries/anni-frind-soprano-is-dead-performed-in-20-s-and-30-s.html, Anni Frind, Soprano, Is Dead; Performed in 20’s and 30’s, 1987-04-11, The New York Times, 2017-10-19, en-US, 0362-4331, November 5, 2017,www.nytimes.com/1987/04/11/obituaries/anni-frind-soprano-is-dead-performed-in-20-s-and-30-s.html," title="web.archive.org/web/20171105103035www.nytimes.com/1987/04/11/obituaries/anni-frind-soprano-is-dead-performed-in-20-s-and-30-s.html,">web.archive.org/web/20171105103035www.nytimes.com/1987/04/11/obituaries/anni-frind-soprano-is-dead-performed-in-20-s-and-30-s.html, live,
  • Józef Kowalski, Polish supercentenarian, one of the last surviving veterans of the Polish–Soviet War (d. 2013)
• February 4 – Jacques Prévert, French lyricist and author (d. 1977)
• February 5 – Adlai Stevenson, American politician (d. 1965)
• February 11
  • Ellen Broe, Danish nurse, pioneer in nursing education (d. 1994)WEB,www.kvinfo.dk/side/597/bio/313/origin/170/,www.kvinfo.dk/side/597/bio/313/origin/170/," title="web.archive.org/web/20070708132625www.kvinfo.dk/side/597/bio/313/origin/170/,">web.archive.org/web/20070708132625www.kvinfo.dk/side/597/bio/313/origin/170/, dead, 2007-07-08, Dansk Kvindebiografisk Leksikon - Ellen Broe, 2007-07-08, 2017-10-19,
  • Hans-Georg Gadamer, German philosopher (d. 2002)
  • Jōsei Toda, Japanese educator and activist (d. 1958)
• February 12
  • Vasily Chuikov, Marshal of the Soviet Union during WWII (d. 1982)
  • Roger J. Traynor, American judge (d. 1983)
• February 13 – Barbara von Annenkoff, Russian-born German film and stage actress (d. 1979)
• February 21
  • Józef Adamek, Polish footballer (d. 1974)
  • Jeanne Aubert, French singer and actress (d. 1988)WEB,www.histoire-vesinet.org/j-aubertbio.htm, Biographie de Jeanne Aubert (1900-1988), histoire-vesinet.org, 2017-10-20, October 21, 2017,www.histoire-vesinet.org/j-aubertbio.htm," title="web.archive.org/web/20171021061414www.histoire-vesinet.org/j-aubertbio.htm,">web.archive.org/web/20171021061414www.histoire-vesinet.org/j-aubertbio.htm, live,
• February 22 – Luis Buñuel, Spanish film director (d. 1983)
• February 24 – Irmgard Bartenieff, German-American dancer, physical therapist and leading pioneer of dance therapy (d. 1981)
• February 25
  • Richard Hollingshead, American inventor of the drive-in theatre (d. 1975)
  • Illa Martin, German dendrologist, botanist, conservationist and dentist (d. 1988)
  • Madame Satã, Brazilian drag performer and capoeirista (d. 1976)
• February 26 – Halina Konopacka, Polish athlete (d. 1989)WEB,www.olimpijski.pl/pl/bio/1020,konopacka-matuszewska-szczerbinska-halina-wlasciwie-leonarda-kazimiera.html, Biografie • Polski Komitet Olimpijski, Olimpijski, Polski Komitet, olimpijski.pl, pl, 2017-10-18, October 14, 2018,www.olimpijski.pl/pl/bio/1020,konopacka-matuszewska-szczerbinska-halina-wlasciwie-leonarda-kazimiera.html," title="web.archive.org/web/20181014212253www.olimpijski.pl/pl/bio/1020,konopacka-matuszewska-szczerbinska-halina-wlasciwie-leonarda-kazimiera.html,">web.archive.org/web/20181014212253www.olimpijski.pl/pl/bio/1020,konopacka-matuszewska-szczerbinska-halina-wlasciwie-leonarda-kazimiera.html, dead,
• February 28 – Wolfram Hirth, German pilot and aircraft designer (d. 1959)

March

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• March 2 – Kurt Weill, German-American composer (d. 1950)
• March 3
  • Maghfoor Ahmad Ajazi, veteran Indian Independence activist (d. 1966)WEB, Maghfoor Ahmad Ajazi,www.mpositive.in/tag/dr-maghfoor-ahmed-ajazi-bihar/, mpositive.in, August 30, 2020, January 28, 2022, January 23, 2022,web.archive.org/web/20220123142325/https://www.mpositive.in/tag/dr-maghfoor-ahmed-ajazi-bihar/, live,
  • Edna Best, British stage and film actress, appeared on early television in 1938 (d. 1974)WEB,projects.latimes.com/hollywood/star-walk/edna-best/, Edna Best - Hollywood Star Walk - Los Angeles Times, projects.latimes.com, en, 2017-10-23, October 23, 2017,projects.latimes.com/hollywood/star-walk/edna-best/," title="web.archive.org/web/20171023063243projects.latimes.com/hollywood/star-walk/edna-best/,">web.archive.org/web/20171023063243projects.latimes.com/hollywood/star-walk/edna-best/, live,
  • Ruby Dandridge, African-American film, radio actress (d. 1987)
• March 4 – Herbert Biberman, American screenwriter, film director (d. 1971)
• March 5
  • Lilli Jahn, German-Jewish doctor (d. 1944)BOOK, My wounded heart : the life of Lilli Jahn, 1900-1944, Martin., Doerry, 2004, Bloomsbury, Brownjohn, John., 978-1582343709, 1st U.S., New York, N.Y., 53001452,
  • Johanna Langefeld, German guard, supervisor of three Nazi concentration camps (d. 1974)
• March 7
  • Lorimer Dods, Australian medical pioneer (d. 1981)
  • Leslie Hutchinson, Grenada-born cabaret singer (d. 1969)
  • Fritz London, German-Jewish physicist (d. 1954)
  • Carel Willink, Dutch painter (d. 1983)
• March 8
  • Howard Aiken, American computing pioneer (d. 1973)
  • Henry Abel Smith, 17th Governor of Queensland (d. 1993)
• March 9 – Prince Aimone, Duke of Aosta, Italian prince (d. 1948)
• March 10 – Violet Brown, Jamaican supercentenarian, oldest Jamaican ever (d. 2017)WEB,www.grg.org/SC/WorldSCRankingsList.html, GRG World Supercentenarian Rankings List, grg.org, 2017-10-20, December 25, 2018,www.grg.org/SC/WorldSCRankingsList.html%20," title="web.archive.org/web/20181225015128www.grg.org/SC/WorldSCRankingsList.html%20,">web.archive.org/web/20181225015128www.grg.org/SC/WorldSCRankingsList.html%20, live,
• March 11
  • Hanna Bergas, German teacher who helped rescue Jewish children during WWII (d. 1987)
  • Alfredo Dinale, Italian Olympic cyclist (d. 1976)
• March 12
  • Rinus van den Berge, Dutch athlete (d. 1972)
  • Sylvi Kekkonen, Finnish writer and wife of President of Finland Urho Kekkonen (d. 1974)WEB, Kekkonen, Sylvi (1900-1974),kansallisbiografia.fi/kansallisbiografia/henkilo/8089, Kansallisbiografia.fi, National Biography of Finland, 1 August 2021, fi, August 1, 2021,web.archive.org/web/20210801134406/https://kansallisbiografia.fi/kansallisbiografia/henkilo/8089, live,
  • Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, 19th President of Colombia (d. 1975)
• March 13
  • Queen Sālote Tupou III of Tonga, (d. 1965)BOOK, Wood-Ellem, Elizabeth, Elizabeth Wood-Ellem, Queen Sālote of Tonga: The Story of an Era 1900–1965,books.google.com/books?id=h5LL854qzTAC, 1999, Auckland University Press, Auckland, N.Z, 978-0-8248-2529-4, 262293605, 1,
  • Andrée Bosquet, Belgian painter (d. 1980)WEB,www.galeriedupistoletdor.com/gdpo/Bosquet.htm, Andree Bosquet - Groupe Nervia - Frans Depooter - Le Bon vouloir - Galerie du Pistolet d’Or, galeriedupistoletdor.com, 2017-10-21, October 25, 2017,www.galeriedupistoletdor.com/gdpo/Bosquet.htm," title="web.archive.org/web/20171025084424www.galeriedupistoletdor.com/gdpo/Bosquet.htm,">web.archive.org/web/20171025084424www.galeriedupistoletdor.com/gdpo/Bosquet.htm, live,
  • Giorgos Seferis, Greek poet, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (d. 1971)
• March 16 – Mencha Karnicheva, Macedonian revolutionary, assassin (d. 1964)WEB,www.macedonia-science.org/page.php?51, MEHÄŒA KAPHICHEBA -” WHY DID I KILL TODOR PANITSA?” MACEDONIA: HISTORY AND NEWS FROM MSI, 2009-01-01, Macedonian Scientific Institute,www.macedonia-science.org/page.php?51," title="web.archive.org/web/20090101041043www.macedonia-science.org/page.php?51,">web.archive.org/web/20090101041043www.macedonia-science.org/page.php?51, January 1, 2009, 2017-10-22,
• March 17 – Manuel Plaza, Chilean athlete (d. 1969)
• March 18 – Hanne Sobek, German footballer (d. 1989)
• March 19
  • Carmen Carbonell, Spanish stage, film actress (d. 1988)WEB,www.spainisculture.com/en/artistas_creadores/carmen_carbonell.html, Carmen Carbonell. Film, Theatre. Biography and works at Spain is culture., spainisculture.com, en, 2017-10-22, October 4, 2018,www.spainisculture.com/en/artistas_creadores/carmen_carbonell.html," title="web.archive.org/web/20181004230039www.spainisculture.com/en/artistas_creadores/carmen_carbonell.html,">web.archive.org/web/20181004230039www.spainisculture.com/en/artistas_creadores/carmen_carbonell.html, live,
  • Frédéric Joliot-Curie, French physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (d. 1958)WEB, The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1935,www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/1935/joliot-fred/facts/, NobelPrize.org, 2 January 2022, October 22, 2022,web.archive.org/web/20221022045213/https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/1935/joliot-fred/facts/, live,
• March 20 – Amelia Chopitea Villa, Bolivia’s first female physician (d. 1942)WEB,sucre-historica.blogspot.ca/2016/11/chopitea-villa-maria-amelia-1900-1951.html, CHOPITEA VILLA MARÍA AMELIA (1900 - 1951), sucre-historica.blogspot.ca, November 30, 2016, 2017-10-19, October 20, 2017,sucre-historica.blogspot.ca/2016/11/chopitea-villa-maria-amelia-1900-1951.html," title="web.archive.org/web/20171020033504sucre-historica.blogspot.ca/2016/11/chopitea-villa-maria-amelia-1900-1951.html,">web.archive.org/web/20171020033504sucre-historica.blogspot.ca/2016/11/chopitea-villa-maria-amelia-1900-1951.html, live,
• March 23 – Erich Fromm, German-born psychologist, philosopher who lived in Cuernavaca, Mexico (d. 1980)WEB,www.enelvolcan.com/oct2013/294-fromm-otro-volcan-en-cuernavaca, Fromm: otro volcán en Cuernavaca, En el Volcan, October 1, 2013, June 1, 2019, es, Fromm: Another volcano in Cuernavaca, May 31, 2023,www.enelvolcan.com/oct2013/294-fromm-otro-volcan-en-cuernavaca," title="web.archive.org/web/20230531165844www.enelvolcan.com/oct2013/294-fromm-otro-volcan-en-cuernavaca,">web.archive.org/web/20230531165844www.enelvolcan.com/oct2013/294-fromm-otro-volcan-en-cuernavaca, live,
• March 26 – Angela Maria Autsch, German nun, died in Auschwitz helping Jewish prisoners (d. 1941)WEB,www.heiligenlexikon.de/BiographienA/Angela_Autsch.html, Angela vom Heiligen Herzen Jesu Autsch - Ökumenisches Heiligenlexikon, heiligenlexikon.de, de, 2017-10-23, October 23, 2017,web.archive.org/web/20171023120142/https://www.heiligenlexikon.de/BiographienA/Angela_Autsch.html, live,
• March 29
  • Sir John McEwen, 18th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1980)C.J. Lloyd, ‘McEwen, Sir John (1900–1980) {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060619150150www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A150245b.htm |date=June 19, 2006 }}’, Australian Dictionary of Biography, Vol. 15, Melbourne University Press, 2000, pp 205–208
  • Oscar Elton Sette, American fisheries scientist (d. 1972)
• March 30 – Santos Urdinarán, Uruguayan footballer (d. 1979)
• March 31 – Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester (d. 1974)

April

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• April 1 – Stefanie Clausen, Danish Olympic diver (d. 1981)WEB,www.stefanie-fryland-clausen.com/, Stefanie Fryland Clausen, stefanie-fryland-clausen.com, en-US, 2017-10-19, April 1, 2019,www.stefanie-fryland-clausen.com/," title="web.archive.org/web/20190401112722www.stefanie-fryland-clausen.com/,">web.archive.org/web/20190401112722www.stefanie-fryland-clausen.com/, live,
• April 3
  • Camille Chamoun, 7th president of Lebanon (d. 1987)
  • Albert Ingham, English mathematician (d. 1967)
  • Albert Walsh, Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland (d. 1958)
• April 5
  • Josefina Passadori, Argentinian writer and poet (d. 1987)
  • Spencer Tracy, American actor (d. 1967)
• April 8 – Marie Byles, Australian solicitor (d. 1979)WEB,adb.anu.edu.au/biography/byles-marie-beuzeville-9652,adb.anu.edu.au/biography/byles-marie-beuzeville-9652," title="web.archive.org/web/20150411235131adb.anu.edu.au/biography/byles-marie-beuzeville-9652,">web.archive.org/web/20150411235131adb.anu.edu.au/biography/byles-marie-beuzeville-9652, dead, 2015-04-11, Biography - Marie Beuzeville Byles - Australian Dictionary of Biography, 2015-04-11, 2017-10-22,
• April 10
  • Arnold Orville Beckman, American chemist and investor (d. 2004)
  • Jean Duvieusart, Belgian politician (d. 1977)
• April 11 – Sándor Márai, Hungarian writer and journalist (d. 1989)
• April 13 – Sorcha Boru, American potter, ceramic sculptor (d. 2006)
• April 14 – Salvatore Baccaloni, Italian operatic bass, buffo artist, and actor. (d. 1969)
• April 16 – Polly Adler, Russian-American author, madam (d. 1962)BOOK,archive.org/details/notableamericanw00sich_0/page/7, Notable American women : the modern period : a biographical dictionary, 1980, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 9780674627338, Sicherman, Barbara, Cambridge, Mass., 7, 6487187, Green, Carol Hurd,
• April 18 – Bertha Isaacs, Bahamian teacher, tennis player, politician and women’s rights activist (d. 1997)WEB,www.womensuffragebahamas.com/history/suffrage-women/albertha-isaacs/,www.womensuffragebahamas.com/history/suffrage-women/albertha-isaacs/," title="web.archive.org/web/20121128230606www.womensuffragebahamas.com/history/suffrage-women/albertha-isaacs/,">web.archive.org/web/20121128230606www.womensuffragebahamas.com/history/suffrage-women/albertha-isaacs/, dead, 2012-11-28, Albertha Isaacs « Women Suffrage Bahamas, 2012-11-28, 2017-10-19,
• April 19
  • Iracema de Alencar, Brazilian film actress (d. 1978)
  • Rhea Silberta, Yiddish songwriter, singing teacher (d. 1959)
• April 20 – Fred Raymond, Austrian composer (d. 1954)
• April 21 – Hans Fritzsche, German Nazi official (d. 1953)
• April 22 – Nellie Beer, British politician, Lord Mayor of Manchester (1966–67) (d. 1988)WEB,abitofhistory.net/html/rhw/b_body.htm, Women of History - B, abitofhistory.net, 2017-10-19, March 4, 2016,www.abitofhistory.net/html/rhw/b_body.htm," title="web.archive.org/web/20160304141705www.abitofhistory.net/html/rhw/b_body.htm,">web.archive.org/web/20160304141705www.abitofhistory.net/html/rhw/b_body.htm, live,
• April 24 – Elizabeth Goudge, English writer (d. 1984)WEB,www.msmc.edu/library/find_information/archives_and_special_collections/elizabeth_goudge_special_collection/biography_of_elizabeth_goudge, Biography of Elizabeth Goudge, msmc.edu, 2017-10-20, October 21, 2017,web.archive.org/web/20171021111555/https://www.msmc.edu/library/find_information/archives_and_special_collections/elizabeth_goudge_special_collection/biography_of_elizabeth_goudge, dead, NEWS,www.nytimes.com/1984/04/27/obituaries/elizabeth-goudge.html, ELIZABETH GOUDGE, 1984-04-27, The New York Times, 2017-10-20, en-US, 0362-4331, January 30, 2018,www.nytimes.com/1984/04/27/obituaries/elizabeth-goudge.html," title="web.archive.org/web/20180130034152www.nytimes.com/1984/04/27/obituaries/elizabeth-goudge.html,">web.archive.org/web/20180130034152www.nytimes.com/1984/04/27/obituaries/elizabeth-goudge.html, live,
• April 25 – Wolfgang Pauli, Austrian-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958)
• April 26
  • Roberto Arlt, Argentine writer (d. 1942)
  • Eva Aschoff, German bookbinder, calligrapher (d. 1969)WEB,www.germandesigners.net/designers/eva_aschoff, German graphic designers during the Hitler period: Biographical and bibliographical references by Gerald Cinamon, germandesigners.net, 2017-10-20, August 21, 2020,www.germandesigners.net/designers/eva_aschoff," title="web.archive.org/web/20200821093240www.germandesigners.net/designers/eva_aschoff,">web.archive.org/web/20200821093240www.germandesigners.net/designers/eva_aschoff, dead,
  • Charles Francis Richter, American geophysicist, inventor (d. 1985)
• April 27 – August Koern, Estonian statesman, diplomat (d. 1989)
• April 28
  • Alice Berry, Australian activist (d. 1978)WEB,adb.anu.edu.au/biography/berry-dame-alice-miriam-9496,adb.anu.edu.au/biography/berry-dame-alice-miriam-9496," title="web.archive.org/web/20160305152309adb.anu.edu.au/biography/berry-dame-alice-miriam-9496,">web.archive.org/web/20160305152309adb.anu.edu.au/biography/berry-dame-alice-miriam-9496, dead, 2016-03-05, Biography - Dame Alice Miriam Berry - Australian Dictionary of Biography, 2016-03-05, 2017-10-22,
  • Maurice Thorez, French Communist leader (d. 1964)
• April 29
  • Concha de Albornoz, Spanish feminist, intellectual, exiled during the Spanish Civil War (d. 1972)
  • Amelia Best, Australian politician, one of the first women elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly (d. 1979)TAS PARLIAMENT, besta521, 1900, 25 August 2022,
• April 30
  • David Manners, Canadian-American actor (d. 1998)
  • Cecily Lefort, English World War II heroine, spy for the SOE (d. 1945)BOOK,books.google.com/books?id=SCotAgAAQBAJ&q=Cecily+Lefort+1900&pg=PT64, Quickly To Her Fate, Jones, Phillip, 2010, Lulu.com, 9780956554932, en, {{self-published source|date=February 2020}}{{self-published inline|date=February 2020}}

May

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• May 1 – Ignazio Silone, Italian author (d. 1978)
• May 2 – A. W. Lawrence, British leading authority on classical sculpture and architecture (d. 1991)
• May 5
  • Helen Redfield, American geneticist (d. 1988)BOOK, The biographical dictionary of women in science: pioneering lives from ancient times to the mid-20th century, 2000, Routledge, Ogilvie, Marilyn Bailey, Harvey, Joy Dorothy, 9780415920407, New York, 1082, 40776839,archive.org/details/biographicaldict02ogil/page/1082,
  • Harold Tamblyn-Watts, British cartoonist (d. 1999)
• May 6 – Zheng Ji, Chinese nutritionist, biochemist (d. 2010)
• May 9 – Maria Malicka, Polish stage, film actress (d. 1992)NEWS,www.filmpolski.pl/fp/index.php?osoba=21849, Maria Malicka, FilmPolski, 2017-10-22, pl, October 23, 2017,www.filmpolski.pl/fp/index.php?osoba=21849," title="web.archive.org/web/20171023011716www.filmpolski.pl/fp/index.php?osoba=21849,">web.archive.org/web/20171023011716www.filmpolski.pl/fp/index.php?osoba=21849, live,
• May 10
  • Beryl May Dent, English mathematical physicist (d. 1977)BOOK, 2003, Beryl Dent at the University of Bristol Department of Physics, University of Bristol Physics Library, DM1961/2, Document, Bristol, en,archives.bristol.ac.uk/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=DM1961%2f2&pos=1, May 11, 2021, October 20, 2021,web.archive.org/web/20211020133627/https://archives.bristol.ac.uk/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=DM1961/2&pos=1, live,
  • Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, British-American astronomer, astrophysicist (d. 1979)BOOK, The biographical encyclopedia of astronomers, 2007, Springer, Thomas Hockey, Virginia Trimble, Thomas R. Williams, Katherine Bracher, Richard A. Jarrell, Jordan D. Marché, JoAnn Palmeri, Daniel W. E. Green, 9780387304007, New York, NY, 876, 184930573,
• May 11 – Thomas H. Robbins Jr., American admiral (d. 1972)
• May 12 – Helene Weigel, Austrian actress (d. 1971)WEB,jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/weigel-helene, Helene Weigel {{!, Jewish Women’s Archive|website=jwa.org|language=en|access-date=2017-10-20|archive-date=July 17, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210717144028jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/weigel-helene|url-status=live}}
• May 13 – Karl Wolff, German SS functionary and war criminal (d. 1984)
• May 14 – Cai Chang, Chinese politician, women’s rights activist (d. 1990)BOOK, Encyclopedia of women social reformers,archive.org/details/encyclopediawome00rapp, limited, Helen, Rappaport, 2001, ABC-CLIO, 1576075818, Santa Barbara, Calif., 125–126, 52710512,
• May 15 – Ida Rhodes, American mathematician, pioneer in computer programming (d. 1986)BOOK, Notable women in mathematics : a biographical dictionary, 1998, Greenwood Press, Morrow, Charlene, Perl, Teri, 9780313291319, Westport, Conn., 36768082,archive.org/details/notablewomeninma00morr,
• May 22
  • Juan Arvizu, Mexican operatic tenor and bolero vocalist (d. 1985)
  • Vina Bovy, Belgian operatic soprano (d. 1983)
• May 23 – Hans Frank, German Nazi official (executed 1946)
• May 24 – Sonia Rosemary Keppel, British baroness, grandmother of Queen Camilla (d. 1986)Sonia Rosemary Keppel
• May 26 – Karin Juel, Swedish singer, actor and writer (d. 1976)
• May 27
  • Lotte Toberentz, German overseer of the Nazi Uckermark concentration camp (d. unknown)WEB,yourarchives.nationalarchives.gov.uk/index.php?title=WO_311/510,webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20130313205941/http://yourarchives.nationalarchives.gov.uk/index.php?title=WO_311/510, dead, 2013-03-13, WO 311/510 - Your Archives, webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk, en, 2017-10-20,
  • UÅ‚adzimir ŽyÅ‚ka, Belarusian poet (d. 1933)
• May 28 – Tommy Ladnier, American jazz trumpeter (d. 1939)
• May 29 – David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir, British politician, lawyer and judge (d. 1967)
• May 31 – Lucile Godbold, American Olympic athlete (d. 1981)ENCYCLOPEDIA,www.scencyclopedia.org/sce/entries/godbold-lucile-ellerbe/, Godbold, Lucile Ellerbe - South Carolina Encyclopedia, South Carolina Encyclopedia, 2017-10-19, en-US, October 20, 2017,www.scencyclopedia.org/sce/entries/godbold-lucile-ellerbe/," title="web.archive.org/web/20171020035121www.scencyclopedia.org/sce/entries/godbold-lucile-ellerbe/,">web.archive.org/web/20171020035121www.scencyclopedia.org/sce/entries/godbold-lucile-ellerbe/, live,

June

File:Dennis Gabor 1971b.jpg|thumb|100px|right|Dennis GaborDennis GaborFile:11exupery-inline1-500.jpg|thumb|100px|right|Antoine de Saint-ExupéryAntoine de Saint-Exupéry

• June 3
  • Adelaide Ames, American astronomer (d. 1932)BOOK, Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers, Bracher, Katherine, 2014, Springer New York, 9781441999160, Hockey, Thomas, 68, en, 10.1007/978-1-4419-9917-7_9217, Trimble, Virginia, Williams, Thomas R., Bracher, Katherine, Jarrell, Richard A., II, Jordan D. Marché, Palmeri, JoAnn, Green, Daniel W. E., Ames, Adelaide,
  • Leo Picard, German-born Israeli geologist (d. 1997)
• 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)
  • Frederick Terman, American electrical engineer, professor (d. 1982)
• June 8 – Lena Baker, African-American maid executed for capital murder, pardoned posthumously (d. 1945)NEWS,bishop.house.gov/media-center/congressional-record-statements/in-honor-of-lena-baker-posthumously, In Honor of Lena Baker (Posthumously), 2011-01-03, Congressman Sanford Bishop, 2017-10-20, en, August 31, 2019,web.archive.org/web/20190831234209/https://bishop.house.gov/media-center/congressional-record-statements/in-honor-of-lena-baker-posthumously, dead,
• June 11
  • Leopoldo Marechal, Argentine writer (d. 1970)
  • Carmen Polo, 1st Lady of Meirás, widow of Francisco Franco (d. 1988)
• June 14
  • Ruth Nanda Anshen, American writer, editor and philosopher (d. 2003)WEB,jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/anshen-ruth-nanda, Ruth Nanda Anshen {{!, Jewish Women’s Archive|website=jwa.org|language=en|access-date=2017-10-20|archive-date=July 24, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180724093346jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/anshen-ruth-nanda|url-status=live}}
  • June Walker, American stage, film actress (d. 1966)
• June 15 – Paul Mares, American jazz trumpeter (d. 1949)
• June 17
  • Martin Bormann, German Nazi official (d. 1945)
  • Evelyn Irons, Scottish journalist, war correspondent (d. 2000)NEWS,www.nytimes.com/2000/04/30/nyregion/evelyn-irons-war-reporter-is-dead-at-99.html, Evelyn Irons, War Reporter, Is Dead at 99, Lewis, Paul, 2000-04-30, The New York Times, 2017-10-18, en-US, 0362-4331, July 31, 2017,www.nytimes.com/2000/04/30/nyregion/evelyn-irons-war-reporter-is-dead-at-99.html," title="web.archive.org/web/20170731204124www.nytimes.com/2000/04/30/nyregion/evelyn-irons-war-reporter-is-dead-at-99.html,">web.archive.org/web/20170731204124www.nytimes.com/2000/04/30/nyregion/evelyn-irons-war-reporter-is-dead-at-99.html, live,
• June 18 – Vlasta Vraz, Czech-American relief worker, editor and fundraiser (d. 1989)
• June 21 – Choi Yong-kun, North Korean general, defense minister (d. 1976)
• June 22
  • Russell Vis, American wrestler (d. 1990)
  • Henriette Alimen, French paleontologist, geologist (d. 1996)JOURNAL, Chavaillon, Jean, Henriette Alimen (1900-1996),www.persee.fr/doc/bspf_0249-7638_1996_num_93_4_10592, Bulletin de la Société Préhistorique Française, fr-FR, 93, 4, 450–453, 1996, October 20, 2017, June 14, 2019,web.archive.org/web/20190614103205/https://www.persee.fr/doc/bspf_0249-7638_1996_num_93_4_10592, live,
• June 23 – Blanche Noyes, American aviator, winner of the 1936 Bendix Trophy Race (d. 1981)WEB,www.atca.org/from-the-archives-early-earhart-rival-leaves-legacy-of-safety, From the Archives Early Earhart Rival Leaves Legacy of Safety, atca.org, en, 2017-10-20, October 21, 2017,web.archive.org/web/20171021111729/https://www.atca.org/from-the-archives-early-earhart-rival-leaves-legacy-of-safety, dead,
• June 24
  • Juan Carlos Caballero Vega, Mexican revolutionary (d. 2010)
  • Raphael Lemkin, Polish-born international lawyer (d. 1959)
  • Bernard D. H. Tellegen, Dutch electrical engineer (d. 1990)
• June 25
  • Marta Abba, Italian actress (d. 1988)BOOK,books.google.com/books?id=eZorDgAAQBAJ&q=marta+abba+1900&pg=PR27, Pirandello’s Love Letters to Marta Abba, Pirandello, Luigi, 2017-03-14, Princeton University Press, 9781400887286, en,
  • Zinaida Aksentyeva, Ukrainian/Soviet astronomer (d. 1969)
  • Georgia Hale, American silent film actress, real estate investor (d. 1985)BOOK, Charlie Chaplin: intimate close-ups, Hale, Georgia, 1999, Scarecrow, Kiernan, Heather., 978-1578860043, Lanham, Md., x, 43929623,
  • Philip D’Arcy Hart, British medical researcher, pioneer in tuberculosis treatment (d. 2006)
  • Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, born Prince Louis of Battenberg, English naval officer and last Viceroy of India (assassinated) (d. 1979)
• June 26
  • John Benham, British long-distance runner (d. 1990)
  • Jo Spier, Dutch artist and illustrator (d. 1978)
• June 27 – Dixie Brown, St Lucian-born British boxer (d. 1957)
• June 29 – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, French pilot, writer (d. 1944)
• June 30 – Alf Ihlen, Norwegian industrialist (d. 2006)

July

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• July 2
  • Joe Bennett, American baseball player (d. 1987)
  • Sophie Harris, English costume, scenic designer for theatre and opera (d. 1966)
• July 3
  • Alessandro Blasetti, Italian film director and screenwriter (d. 1987)
  • Gordon MacQuarrie, American author and journalist (d. 1956)
• July 4
  • Belinda Dann, indigenous Australian who was one of the Stolen Generation, reunited with family aged 107 (d. 2007)WEB,www.porthedland.wa.gov.au/council/media_releases/mediareleasebelinadannturns107130907,web.archive.org/web/20071029005808/https://www.porthedland.wa.gov.au/council/media_releases/mediareleasebelinadannturns107130907, dead, 2007-10-29, Town of Port Hedland - BELINDA DANN TURNS 107, 2007-10-29, 2017-10-20, WEB,www.smh.com.au/news/national/stolen-generation-survivor-dies/2007/10/25/1192941248988.html, Stolen generation survivor dies - National - smh.com.au, smh.com.au, en, 2017-10-20, 2007-10-26, October 21, 2017,www.smh.com.au/news/national/stolen-generation-survivor-dies/2007/10/25/1192941248988.html," title="web.archive.org/web/20171021070346www.smh.com.au/news/national/stolen-generation-survivor-dies/2007/10/25/1192941248988.html,">web.archive.org/web/20171021070346www.smh.com.au/news/national/stolen-generation-survivor-dies/2007/10/25/1192941248988.html, live,
  • Robert Desnos, French poet (d. 1945)
  • Nellie Mae Rowe, African-American folk artist (d. 1982)WEB,www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/nellie-mae-rowe-1900-1982, Nellie Mae Rowe (1900-1982), New Georgia Encyclopedia, 2017-10-20, October 12, 2017,www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/nellie-mae-rowe-1900-1982," title="web.archive.org/web/20171012231435www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/nellie-mae-rowe-1900-1982,">web.archive.org/web/20171012231435www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/nellie-mae-rowe-1900-1982, live,
• July 5
  • Richard K. Webel, American landscape architect (d. 2000)
  • Reed Howes, American model (d. 1964)
• July 6
  • Frederica Sagor Maas, American playwright, essayist, and author (d. 2012)WEB,wfpp.cdrs.columbia.edu/pioneer/ccp-frederica-sagor-maas/, Frederica Sagor Maas – Women Film Pioneers Project, wfpp.cdrs.columbia.edu, 2017-10-23, December 21, 2018,web.archive.org/web/20181221111335/https://wfpp.cdrs.columbia.edu/pioneer/ccp-frederica-sagor-maas/, dead,
  • Paul Métivier, Canadian World War I veteran (d. 2004)
  • Elfriede Wever, German Olympic runner (d. 1941)
• July 7
  • Maria Bard, German stage, silent film actress (d. 1944)
  • Frank W. Cyr, American educator, author (d. 1995)
  • Earle E. Partridge, American general (d. 1990)
• July 9 – Joseph LaShelle, American cinematographer (d. 1989)
• July 10 – Evelyn Laye, English actress (d. 1996)ENCYCLOPEDIA,www.britannica.com/biography/Evelyn-Laye, Evelyn Laye {{!, British actress|encyclopedia=Encyclopedia Britannica|access-date=2017-10-22|language=en|archive-date=November 3, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201103170449www.britannica.com/biography/Evelyn-Laye|url-status=live}}
• July 11 – Lily Eberwein, Sarawakian nationalist, women’s rights activist (d. 1980)JOURNAL, Jehom, Welyne, Lily Eberwein: Her life and involvement in the anti-cession movement in Sarawak,www.academia.edu/4533286, Women in Southeast Asian Nationalist Movements, January 2013, 10.2307/j.ctv1qv1g3.12, en, free, December 28, 2017, November 24, 2023,web.archive.org/web/20231124002513/https://www.academia.edu/4533286, live,
• July 13
  • Cornelius Keefe, American actor (d. 1972)
  • George Lewis, American jazz clarinetist (d. 1968)
• July 15 – Enrique Cadícamo, Argentine tango lyricist, poet and novelist (d. 1999)
• July 16 – Mumon Yamada, Japanese Rinzai religious leader (d. 1988)
• July 20 – Hunter Lane, American baseball player (d. 1994)
• July 21 – Isadora Bennett, American theatre manager, modern dance publicity agent (d. 1980)
• July 23
  • Julia Davis Adams, American author, journalist (d. 1993)NEWS,www.connect-clarksburg.com/connect.cfm?func=view§ion=News&item=Julia-Davis-Adams-is-One-of-Clarksburgs-Most-Published-and-Celebrated-Authors-12086, Julia Davis Adams is One of Clarksburg’s Most Published and Celebrated Authors, Connect Clarksburg, 2017-10-22,www.connect-clarksburg.com/connect.cfm?func=view§ion=News&item=Julia-Davis-Adams-is-One-of-Clarksburgs-Most-Published-and-Celebrated-Authors-12086," title="web.archive.org/web/20171023010448www.connect-clarksburg.com/connect.cfm?func=view§ion=News&item=Julia-Davis-Adams-is-One-of-Clarksburgs-Most-Published-and-Celebrated-Authors-12086,">web.archive.org/web/20171023010448www.connect-clarksburg.com/connect.cfm?func=view§ion=News&item=Julia-Davis-Adams-is-One-of-Clarksburgs-Most-Published-and-Celebrated-Authors-12086, October 23, 2017, dead,
  • John Babcock, last surviving Canadian World War I veteran (d. 2010)
  • Inger Margrethe Boberg, Danish folklore researcher, writer (d. 1957)WEB,www.kvinfo.dk/side/597/bio/170/origin/170/, Dansk Kvindebiografisk Leksikon - Inger Boberg, 2003-05-15, kvinfo.dk, 2017-10-22, March 4, 2016,www.kvinfo.dk/side/597/bio/170/origin/170/," title="web.archive.org/web/20160304050237www.kvinfo.dk/side/597/bio/170/origin/170/,">web.archive.org/web/20160304050237www.kvinfo.dk/side/597/bio/170/origin/170/, live,
  • Prince Kaya Tsunenori (d. 1978)
• July 26 – Sarah Kafrit, Israeli politician, teacher (d. 1983)WEB,www.knesset.gov.il/mk/eng/mk_eng.asp?mk_individual_id_t=460, Knesset Member, Sarah Kafrit, knesset.gov.il, 2017-10-22, October 23, 2017,web.archive.org/web/20171023011057/https://www.knesset.gov.il/mk/eng/mk_eng.asp?mk_individual_id_t=460, live,
• July 28 – Lady Dorothy Macmillan, spouse of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1966)
• July 29
  • Mary V. Austin, Australian community worker, political activist (d. 1986)WEB,www.womenaustralia.info/biogs/IMP0008b.htm, Austin, Mary Valentine Hall - Woman - The Australian Women’s Register, Melbourne, National Foundation for Australian Women and The University of, womenaustralia.info, en-gb, 2017-10-20, October 21, 2017,www.womenaustralia.info/biogs/IMP0008b.htm," title="web.archive.org/web/20171021111452www.womenaustralia.info/biogs/IMP0008b.htm,">web.archive.org/web/20171021111452www.womenaustralia.info/biogs/IMP0008b.htm, live,
  • Eyvind Johnson, Swedish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1976)
  • Teresa Noce, Italian labor leader, activist, and journalist (d. 1980)ENCYCLOPEDIA, 2002-01-01, Noce, Teresa (1900–1980), Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia,www.highbeam.com/doc/1G2-2591307063.html,web.archive.org/web/20160220190538/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G2-2591307063.html, dead, 2016-02-20,

August

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• August 3 – Ernie Pyle, American journalist (d. 1945)
• August 4
  • Arturo Umberto Illia, 34th President of Argentina (d. 1983)
  • Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, queen consort of George VI (d. 2002)ENCYCLOPEDIA,www.britannica.com/biography/Elizabeth-queen-consort-of-United-Kingdom, Elizabeth {{!, queen consort of United Kingdom|encyclopedia=Encyclopedia Britannica|access-date=2017-10-22|language=en|archive-date=October 22, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171022195611www.britannica.com/biography/Elizabeth-queen-consort-of-United-Kingdom|url-status=live}}
  • Nabi Tajima, Japanese supercentenarian, last surviving person born in the 19th centuryNEWS,www.ibtimes.com/misao-okawa-worlds-oldest-woman-39-other-female-supercentenarians-1596262, Misao Okawa, The World’s Oldest Woman, And 39 Other Female Supercentenarians, 2014-06-09, International Business Times, 2017-10-22, July 8, 2015,www.ibtimes.com/misao-okawa-worlds-oldest-woman-39-other-female-supercentenarians-1596262," title="web.archive.org/web/20150708192119www.ibtimes.com/misao-okawa-worlds-oldest-woman-39-other-female-supercentenarians-1596262,">web.archive.org/web/20150708192119www.ibtimes.com/misao-okawa-worlds-oldest-woman-39-other-female-supercentenarians-1596262, live, (d. 2018)
• August 6
  • Cecil Howard Green, British-born geophysicist, businessman (d. 2003)
  • Grigori Shtern, Soviet general (d. 1941)
• August 8 – Alexis Minotis, Greek actor, stage director (d. 1990)
• August 9 – Charles Farrell, American actor (d. 1990)
• August 10 – Arthur Espie Porritt, New Zealand politician, athlete (d. 1994)
• August 11
  • Alexander Mosolov, Russian composer (d. 1973)
  • Charley Paddock, American sprinter (d. 1943)
  • Philip Phillips, American archaeologist (d. 1994)
• August 14
  • Margret Boveri, German journalist, recipient of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (d. 1975)BOOK,books.google.com/books?id=01dvizg_hCoC&q=margret+boveri+august+1900&pg=PA560, Exil im Nebelland: Elisabeth Castoniers Briefe an Mary Tucholsky : eine Chronik, Castonier, Elisabeth, 2010, Peter Lang, 9783039100378, de,
  • Benita von Falkenhayn, German baroness, spy for the Second Polish Republic pre-WWII (d. 1935)
• August 15 – Estelle Brody, American silent film actress (d. 1995)NEWS,www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituaryestelle-brody-1585164.html,ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituaryestelle-brody-1585164.html, May 1, 2022, subscription, live, OBITUARY:Estelle Brody, 1995-06-06, The Independent, 2017-10-22, en-GB, {{cbignore}}
• August 16 – Ida Browne, Australian geologist, palaeontologist (d. 1976)WEB,adb.anu.edu.au/biography/browne-ida-alison-10004,adb.anu.edu.au/biography/browne-ida-alison-10004," title="web.archive.org/web/20170216021835adb.anu.edu.au/biography/browne-ida-alison-10004,">web.archive.org/web/20170216021835adb.anu.edu.au/biography/browne-ida-alison-10004, dead, 2017-02-16, Biography - Ida Alison Browne - Australian Dictionary of Biography, 2017-02-16, 2017-10-22,
• August 17
  • Mary Paik Lee, Korean-American writer (d. 1995)BOOK, Mary Paik Lee, Quiet Odyssey: A Pioneer Korean Woman in America,archive.org/details/quietodysseypion00leem, registration, 1990, University of Washington Press, 978-0-295-96969-5,
  • Vivienne de Watteville, British travel writer and adventurer (d. 1957)WEB,www.lukashartmann.ch/pdf/1.7.a.Erw.Tochter%20Materialien.pdf, Materialien zum Lukas Hartmanns Roman “Die Tochter des Jägers”, Hartmann, Lukas, Lukas Hartmann, de, October 23, 2017, March 3, 2016,www.lukashartmann.ch/pdf/1.7.a.Erw.Tochter%20Materialien.pdf," title="web.archive.org/web/20160303201811www.lukashartmann.ch/pdf/1.7.a.Erw.Tochter%20Materialien.pdf,">web.archive.org/web/20160303201811www.lukashartmann.ch/pdf/1.7.a.Erw.Tochter%20Materialien.pdf, live,
• August 18
  • Glenn Albert Black, American archaeologist (d. 1964)
  • Ruth Norman, American religious leader (d. 1993)BOOK, When prophecy never fails : myth and reality in a flying-saucer group, Tumminia, Diana G., 2005, Oxford University Press, 9780195176759, Oxford, Appendix 1, 56481658,
• August 19
  • Colleen Moore, American actress (d. 1988)ENCYCLOPEDIA,www.britannica.com/biography/Colleen-Moore, Colleen Moore {{!, American actress|encyclopedia=Encyclopedia Britannica|access-date=2017-10-22|language=en|archive-date=October 23, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171023013242www.britannica.com/biography/Colleen-Moore|url-status=live}}
  • Gilbert Ryle, British philosopher (d. 1976)
  • Dorothy Burr Thompson, American archaeologist, art historian (d. 2001)WEB,www.brown.edu/Research/Breaking_Ground/bios/Thompson_Dorothy%20Burr.pdf, Dorothy Burr Thompson 1900-2001, Uhlenbrock, Jaimee P., Brown University, October 22, 2017, August 9, 2017,www.brown.edu/Research/Breaking_Ground/bios/Thompson_Dorothy%20Burr.pdf," title="web.archive.org/web/20170809205352www.brown.edu/Research/Breaking_Ground/bios/Thompson_Dorothy%20Burr.pdf,">web.archive.org/web/20170809205352www.brown.edu/Research/Breaking_Ground/bios/Thompson_Dorothy%20Burr.pdf, live,
• August 22
  • Lisy Fischer, Swiss-born pianist, child prodigy (d. 1999)Certified Archival Documents with birth and marriage dates (Charlottenberg, Berlin), birth certificate of daughter (Amsterdam) and death certificate for Lisy Fischer (UK)
  • Sergey Ozhegov, Russian lexicographer (d. 1964)
• August 23
  • Frances Adaskin, Canadian pianist (d. 2001)WEB,www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/frances-marr-adaskin-emc, Frances Marr Adaskin, King, Betty N., July 8, 2007, The Canadian Encyclopedia,www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/en/article/frances-marr-adaskin-emc/," title="web.archive.org/web/20160304064437www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/en/article/frances-marr-adaskin-emc/,">web.archive.org/web/20160304064437www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/en/article/frances-marr-adaskin-emc/, March 4, 2016, October 23, 2017,
  • Ernst Krenek, Austrian-American composer (d. 1991)
• August 25
  • Isobel Hogg Kerr Beattie, Scottish architect (d. 1970)WEB,www.scottisharchitects.org.uk/architect_full.php?id=100348, Dictionary of Scottish Architects - DSA Architect Biography Report (October 18, 2017, 8:45 pm), Goold, David, scottisharchitects.org.uk, 2017-10-18, October 19, 2017,www.scottisharchitects.org.uk/architect_full.php?id=100348," title="web.archive.org/web/20171019060211www.scottisharchitects.org.uk/architect_full.php?id=100348,">web.archive.org/web/20171019060211www.scottisharchitects.org.uk/architect_full.php?id=100348, live,
  • Sir Hans Adolf Krebs, German physician, biochemist and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1981)
• August 26
  • Margaret Utinsky, American nurse, recipient of the Medal of Freedom (d. 1970)WEB,philippine-defenders.lib.wv.us/html/utinsky_margaret_bio.html, Margaret Utinsky Biography, philippine-defenders.lib.wv.us, 2017-10-22,philippine-defenders.lib.wv.us/html/utinsky_margaret_bio.html," title="web.archive.org/web/20171029081142philippine-defenders.lib.wv.us/html/utinsky_margaret_bio.html,">web.archive.org/web/20171029081142philippine-defenders.lib.wv.us/html/utinsky_margaret_bio.html, October 29, 2017, dead,
  • Hellmuth Walter, German engineer, inventor (d. 1980)

September

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• September 3 – Urho Kekkonen, 8th President of Finland (d. 1986)
• September 5 – Grace Eldering, American public health scientist, co-developed vaccine for whooping cough (d. 1988)WEB,newspaperarchive.com/grace-eldering-obituary-249306594/, Grace Eldering Obituary, Newspaper Archive, 31 October 2017, November 7, 2017,web.archive.org/web/20171107020328/https://newspaperarchive.com/grace-eldering-obituary-249306594/, dead,
• September 6 – W. A. C. Bennett, Canadian politician (d. 1979)
• September 8 – Tilly Devine, English-Australian organised crime boss (d. 1970)WEB,adb.anu.edu.au/biography/devine-matilda-mary-tilly-5970,adb.anu.edu.au/biography/devine-matilda-mary-tilly-5970," title="web.archive.org/web/20150623031546adb.anu.edu.au/biography/devine-matilda-mary-tilly-5970,">web.archive.org/web/20150623031546adb.anu.edu.au/biography/devine-matilda-mary-tilly-5970, dead, 2015-06-23, Biography - Matilda Mary (Tilly) Devine - Australian Dictionary of Biography, 2015-06-23, 2017-10-22,
• September 12 – Martha Atwell, American radio director (d. 1949)Howes, Durward, ed. (1937). American Women : The Official Who’s Who Among the Women of the Nation, Vol. II (1937-38). Los Angeles, CA: American Publications, Inc. p. 26. 435906904.“Radio Writer Dead in Bath” {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230603043333www.newspapers.com/image/415694594/?clipping_id=44284695 |date=June 3, 2023 }}. New York Daily News. December 29, 1949. p. 16. Retrieved June 3, 2023.
• September 17
  • J. Willard Marriott, American entrepreneur and founder of Marriott International (d. 1985)
  • Lena Frances Edwards, African-American physician, awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom (d. 1986)BOOK, Black women in America : an historical encyclopedia, 1994, Indiana University Press, Hine, Darlene Clark, Brown, Elsa Barkley, Terborg-Penn, Rosalyn, 978-0253327741, Bloomington, 387–388, 28334683,
  • Martha Ostenso, Canadian screenwriter, novelist (d. 1963)BOOK,books.google.com/books?id=Mkh2vJ_9GpEC&q=ostenso, Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada, New, William H., 2002, University of Toronto Press, 9780802007612, 854–855, en,
  • Hedwig Ross, New Zealand-born educator, political activist and founding member of the Communist Party of New Zealand (d. 1971)BOOK,adb.anu.edu.au/biography/ross-hedwig-hettie-13176, Ross, Hedwig (Hettie) 1900–1971, Sullivan, Martin, 2005, Australian Dictionary of Biography, October 22, 2017, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, December 24, 2014,adb.anu.edu.au/biography/ross-hedwig-hettie-13176," title="web.archive.org/web/20141224052409adb.anu.edu.au/biography/ross-hedwig-hettie-13176,">web.archive.org/web/20141224052409adb.anu.edu.au/biography/ross-hedwig-hettie-13176, live,
• September 18
  • Thomas Darden, American rear admiral, 37th Governor of American Samoa (d. 1961)
  • Seewoosagur Ramgoolam, 1st prime minister of Mauritius (d. 1985)
• September 20 – Uuno Klami, Finnish composer (d. 1961)
• September 22 – Paul Hugh Emmett, American chemical engineer (d. 1985)
• September 23 – Louise Nevelson, Ukrainian-born American sculptor (d. 1988)
• September 26 – Suzanne Belperron, French jewellery designer (d. 1983)WEB,www.langantiques.com/university/Belperron, Belperron - AJU, langantiques.com, en, 2017-10-22, October 23, 2017,www.langantiques.com/university/Belperron," title="web.archive.org/web/20171023064257www.langantiques.com/university/Belperron,">web.archive.org/web/20171023064257www.langantiques.com/university/Belperron, live,
• September 27 – Miguel Alemán Valdés, 46th President of Mexico, 1946-1952 (d. 1983)WEB,www.miguelaleman.org/index.php/biografias/presidente-miguel-aleman-valdes, Biografia, Fundacion Miguel Aleman, A.C., es, May 31, 2019, December 21, 2022,web.archive.org/web/20221221031347/https://www.miguelaleman.org/index.php/biografias/presidente-miguel-aleman-valdes, live,

October

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• October 1 – Tom Goddard, English cricketer (d. 1966)
• October 2
  • Olive Ann Alcorn, American dancer, model, and silent film actress (d. 1975)NEWS,www.presspubs.com/st_croix/news/article_1b5bf6ca-dc9e-5f9f-816a-b115ad6cf4d0.html, Stillwater native Olive Ann Alcorn appeared with Chaplin, Lon Chaney in silent movies, Press Publications, 2017-10-20, en, September 25, 2018,www.presspubs.com/st_croix/news/article_1b5bf6ca-dc9e-5f9f-816a-b115ad6cf4d0.html," title="web.archive.org/web/20180925124426www.presspubs.com/st_croix/news/article_1b5bf6ca-dc9e-5f9f-816a-b115ad6cf4d0.html,">web.archive.org/web/20180925124426www.presspubs.com/st_croix/news/article_1b5bf6ca-dc9e-5f9f-816a-b115ad6cf4d0.html, live,
  • Rod Keller, Canadian general (d. 1954)WEB,generals.dk/general/Keller/Rodney_Frederick_Leopold/Canada.html, Keller, Rodney Frederick Leopold, generals.dk, 30 December 2023,
• October 5
  • Bing Xin, Chinese author, poet, known for her contributions to children’s literature (d. 1999)ENCYCLOPEDIA,www.britannica.com/biography/Bingxin, Bingxin {{!, Chinese author|encyclopedia=Encyclopedia Britannica|access-date=2017-10-19|language=en|archive-date=March 30, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190330180156www.britannica.com/biography/Bingxin|url-status=live}}
  • Margherita Bontade, Italian politician (d. 1992)WEB,legislature.camera.it/chiosco.asp?content=deputati%2Flegislatureprecedenti%2Fleg04%2Fframedeputato.asp%3FDeputato%3Dd7030&position=IV%20Legislatura%20%2F%20I%20gruppi%20parlamentari, La Camera dei Deputati, Deputati, La Camera dei, legislature.camera.it, it, 2017-10-22, October 22, 2017,legislature.camera.it/chiosco.asp?content=deputati%2Flegislatureprecedenti%2Fleg04%2Fframedeputato.asp%3FDeputato%3Dd7030&position=IV%20Legislatura%20%2F%20I%20gruppi%20parlamentari," title="web.archive.org/web/20171022085546legislature.camera.it/chiosco.asp?content=deputati%2Flegislatureprecedenti%2Fleg04%2Fframedeputato.asp%3FDeputato%3Dd7030&position=IV%20Legislatura%20%2F%20I%20gruppi%20parlamentari,">web.archive.org/web/20171022085546legislature.camera.it/chiosco.asp?content=deputati%2Flegislatureprecedenti%2Fleg04%2Fframedeputato.asp%3FDeputato%3Dd7030&position=IV%20Legislatura%20%2F%20I%20gruppi%20parlamentari, live,
• October 6
  • Vivion Brewer, American activist, desegregationist (d. 1991)WEB,www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=2487, Vivion Mercer Lenon Brewer - Encyclopedia of Arkansas, encyclopediaofarkansas.net, 2017-10-22, October 23, 2017,www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=2487," title="web.archive.org/web/20171023011039www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=2487,">web.archive.org/web/20171023011039www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=2487, live,
  • Stan Nichols, English cricketer (d. 1961)
• October 7 – Heinrich Himmler, German Nazi official, SS head (d. 1945)
• October 10 – Helen Hayes, American actress (d. 1993)ENCYCLOPEDIA,www.britannica.com/biography/Helen-Hayes, Helen Hayes {{!, American actress|encyclopedia=Encyclopedia Britannica|access-date=2017-10-22|language=en|archive-date=September 26, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230926082631www.britannica.com/biography/Helen-Hayes|url-status=live}}
• October 11 – Boris Yefimov, Soviet political cartoonist (d. 2008)
• October 16 – Edward Ardizzone, English painter, printmaker and author (d. 1979)
• October 17 – Jean Arthur, American actress (d. 1991)ENCYCLOPEDIA,www.britannica.com/biography/Jean-Arthur, Jean Arthur {{!, American actress|encyclopedia=Encyclopedia Britannica|access-date=2017-10-22|language=en|archive-date=October 22, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171022200126www.britannica.com/biography/Jean-Arthur|url-status=live}}
• October 18
  • Sarah Bavly, Dutch-Israeli nutritionist, author and educator (d. 1993)WEB,jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/Bavly-Sarah, Sarah Bavly {{!, Jewish Women’s Archive|website=jwa.org|language=en|access-date=2017-10-22|archive-date=June 3, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190603181316jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/bavly-sarah|url-status=live}}
  • Evelyn Berckman, American author, known for her detective and Gothic horror novels (d. 1978)BOOK,books.google.com/books?id=3nPYfqEbfrsC&q=berckman, Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, Reginald, R., Burgess, Mary A., Menville, Douglas, 2010, Wildside Press LLC, 9780941028783, 815, en, WEB,www.fantasticfiction.com/b/evelyn-berckman/, Evelyn Berckman, fantasticfiction.com, en, 2017-10-22, October 22, 2017,web.archive.org/web/20171022090312/https://www.fantasticfiction.com/b/evelyn-berckman/, live,
• October 19
  • Erna Berger, German coloratura lyric soprano (d. 1990)
  • Bill Ponsford, Australian cricketer (d. 1991)
• October 20 – Ismail al-Azhari, 2nd Prime Minister of Sudan, 3rd President of Sudan (d. 1969)
• October 21
  • Andrée Boisson, French Olympic fencer (d. 1973)
  • Princess Mother Srinagarindra of Thailand (d. 1995)
• October 23 – Douglas Jardine, British cricketeer (d. 1958)
• October 25 – Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, Nigerian suffragist and women’s rights activist (d. 1978)
• October 26
  • Ibrahim Abboud, 4th prime minister, 1st president of Sudan (d. 1983)
  • Karin Boye, Swedish poet, novelist, known for her dystopian sci-fi novel Kallocain (d. 1941)ENCYCLOPEDIA,www.britannica.com/biography/Karin-Boye, Karin Boye {{!, Swedish author|encyclopedia=Encyclopedia Britannica|access-date=2017-10-22|language=en|archive-date=August 12, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170812155655www.britannica.com/biography/Karin-Boye|url-status=live}}
• October 30
  • Ragnar Granit, Finnish neuroscientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1991)
  • Agustín Lara, Mexican composer and interpreter of songs and boleros (d. 1970){{citation|website=Mexico News Network|title=THE AGUSTIN LARA MUSEUM IN VERACRUZ|date=August 20, 2014|access-date=August 23, 2019|url=http://www.mexiconewsnetwork.com/en/art-and-culture/agustin-lara-museum-veracruz/|archive-date=August 24, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190824050827www.mexiconewsnetwork.com/en/art-and-culture/agustin-lara-museum-veracruz/|url-status=dead}}
• October 31 – Asbjørg Borgfelt, Norwegian sculptor (d. 1976)

November

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• November 2 – Carola Neher, German actress and singer (d. 1942)
• November 3 – Adolf Dassler, Cobbler, entrepreneur and inventor who founded Adidas (d. 1978)
• November 4 – LucreÈ›iu Pătrășcanu, Romanian communist activist, sociologist (d. 1954)
• November 5
  • Martin Dies Jr., American politician (d. 1972)
  • Natalie Schafer, American actress (d. 1991)
  • Ethelwynn Trewavas, British ichthyologist, over a dozen fish species named in her honor (d. 1993)NEWS,www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-ethelwynn-trewavas-1462529.html,ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-ethelwynn-trewavas-1462529.html, May 1, 2022, subscription, live, Obituary: Ethelwynn Trewavas, 1993-08-21, The Independent, 2017-10-22, en-GB, {{cbignore}}
• November 6
  • Ida Lou Anderson, American orator, professor and radio broadcasting pioneer (d. 1941)WEB,ntserver1.wsulibs.wsu.edu/masc/finders/cg52.htmref4, Guide to the Ida Louise Anderson Papers - Biographical and Historical Note, ntserver1.wsulibs.wsu.edu, 2017-10-22, October 22, 2017,ntserver1.wsulibs.wsu.edu/masc/finders/cg52.htmref4," title="web.archive.org/web/20171022141506ntserver1.wsulibs.wsu.edu/masc/finders/cg52.htmref4,">web.archive.org/web/20171022141506ntserver1.wsulibs.wsu.edu/masc/finders/cg52.htmref4, live,
  • Hugh Prosser, American actor (d. 1952)
• November 8 – Margaret Mitchell, American writer (Gone With The Wind) (d. 1949)ENCYCLOPEDIA,www.britannica.com/biography/Margaret-Mitchell, Margaret Mitchell {{!, American novelist|encyclopedia=Encyclopedia Britannica|access-date=2017-10-22|language=en|archive-date=June 28, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200628021722www.britannica.com/biography/Margaret-Mitchell|url-status=live}}
• November 10 – Rudolf Vogel, German film and television actor (d. 1967)
• November 11
  • Maria Babanova, Russian stage, film actress (d. 1983)
  • Frederick Lawton, 9th Director of the Office of Management and Budget (d. 1975)
• November 13
  • David Marshall Williams, American inventor (d. 1975)
  • Samuel King Allison, American physicist (d. 1965)
• November 14 – Aaron Copland, American composer (d. 1990)
• November 16
  • EliÅ¡ka Junková, Czechoslovakian automobile racer (d. 1994)NEWS,www.auto-veteran.com/index.php/en/latest-news/item/329-eliska-junkova-1900-1994-en, AVC - Famous Racing drivers - EliÅ¡ka Junková, 2017-10-19, en-gb, October 19, 2017,web.archive.org/web/20171019111929/https://www.auto-veteran.com/index.php/en/latest-news/item/329-eliska-junkova-1900-1994-en, live,
  • Nikolai Pogodin, Soviet playwright (d. 1962)
• November 19 – Anna Seghers, German writer (d. 1983)WEB, Anna Seghers,jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/seghers-anna, Jewish Women’s Archive, July 5, 2021, 18 January 2022, en, October 10, 2023,web.archive.org/web/20231010215329/https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/seghers-anna, live,
• November 20
  • Florieda Batson, American hurdler, captain of the United States team at the 1922 Women’s Olympics (d. 1996)
  • Helen Bradley, English painter (d. 1979)WEB,odnb2.pubfactory.com/view/article/64232?docPos=&backToResults=/search/results/contributors.jsp?contributorId=38684, Helen Bradley - Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (archived by the Wayback Machine), 2015-12-27,odnb2.pubfactory.com/view/article/64232?docPos=&backToResults=%2Fsearch%2Fresults%2Fcontributors.jsp%3FcontributorId%3D38684," title="web.archive.org/web/20151227122448odnb2.pubfactory.com/view/article/64232?docPos=&backToResults=%2Fsearch%2Fresults%2Fcontributors.jsp%3FcontributorId%3D38684,">web.archive.org/web/20151227122448odnb2.pubfactory.com/view/article/64232?docPos=&backToResults=%2Fsearch%2Fresults%2Fcontributors.jsp%3FcontributorId%3D38684, December 27, 2015, dead, 2017-10-22,
• November 21 – Bettina Warburg, German-American psychiatrist, professor (d. 1990)
• November 22 – Tom Macdonald, Welsh journalist, novelist (d. 1980)
• November 25 – Rudolf Höß, German Nazi official (d. 1947)
• November 26 – Anna Maurizio, Swiss biologist, known for her study of bees (d. 1993)WEB,www.encyclopedia.com/women/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/maurizio-anna-1900-1993, Maurizio, Anna (1900–1993) {{!, Encyclopedia.com: FREE online dictionary|website=encyclopedia.com|language=en|access-date=2017-10-22|archive-date=October 23, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171023011417www.encyclopedia.com/women/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/maurizio-anna-1900-1993|url-status=live}}
• November 27 – Jovette Bernier, Canadian journalist, author, and radio show host (d. 1981)BOOK, Encyclopedia of literature in Canada, 2002, University of Toronto Press, New, William Herbert, 978-0802007612, Toronto, Ont., 105, 244767732,archive.org/details/encyclopediaofli0000unse/page/105,
• November 28 – Mary Bothwell, Canadian classical vocalist, painter (d. 1985)WEB,www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/mary-bothwell-emc/, Mary Bothwell, July 2007, The Canadian Encyclopedia,www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/mary-bothwell-emc/," title="web.archive.org/web/20160304080951www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/mary-bothwell-emc/,">web.archive.org/web/20160304080951www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/mary-bothwell-emc/, March 4, 2016, October 23, 2017,
• November 29
  • Mildred Gillars, American broadcaster (Axis Sally), employed by Nazi Germany to disseminate propaganda during WWII (d. 1988)ENCYCLOPEDIA,www.britannica.com/biography/Mildred-Gillars, Mildred Gillars {{!, American traitor|encyclopedia=Encyclopedia Britannica|access-date=2017-10-20|language=en|archive-date=October 26, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201026034057www.britannica.com/biography/Mildred-Gillars|url-status=live}}
  • HÃ¥kan Malmrot, Swedish swimmer (d. 1987)
• November 30 – Luigi Stipa, Italian aeronautical, hydraulic, and civil engineer and aircraft designer (d. 1992)

December

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• December 2
  • Elisa Godínez Gómez de Batista, First Lady of Cuba (1940-1944) (d. 1993)
  • Herta Hammerbacher, German landscape architect, professor (d. 1985)BOOK, The shoulders on which we stand - Wegbereiter der Wissenschaft 125 Jahre Technische Universität Berlin,archive.org/details/theshouldersonwh0000tech, 2004, Springer, Knobloch, Eberhard, 9783642623530, Berlin, 62–63, 907300121,
• December 3
  • Karna Maria Birmingham, Australian artist, illustrator and print maker (d. 1987)WEB,www.daao.org.au/bio/karna-marie-birmingham/personal_details/, Karna Marie Birmingham - biography at Design and Art Australia Online, daao.org.au, en, 2017-10-22, October 22, 2017,web.archive.org/web/20171022141829/https://www.daao.org.au/bio/karna-marie-birmingham/personal_details/, live,
  • Ulrich Inderbinen, Swiss mountain guide (d. 2004)
  • Richard Kuhn, Austrian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1967)WEB, Karl Grandin, Richard Kuhn Biography,nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1938/kuhn-bio.html, Les Prix Nobel, The Nobel Foundation, 1938, 29 November 2020, April 9, 2008,nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1938/kuhn-bio.html," title="web.archive.org/web/20080409215407nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1938/kuhn-bio.html,">web.archive.org/web/20080409215407nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1938/kuhn-bio.html, live,
• December 6 – Agnes Moorehead, American actress, best known for her role in Bewitched (d. 1974)ENCYCLOPEDIA,www.britannica.com/biography/Agnes-Moorehead, Agnes Moorehead {{!, American actress|encyclopedia=Encyclopedia Britannica|access-date=2017-10-21|language=en|archive-date=April 19, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190419084143www.britannica.com/biography/Agnes-Moorehead|url-status=live}}
• December 7
  • Kateryna Vasylivna Bilokur, Ukrainian folk artist (d. 1961)WEB,en.uartlib.org/kateryna-bilokur-biographical-sketch/, Kateryna Bilokur: Biographical sketch – Ukrainian Art Library, en.uartlib.org, en-US, 2017-10-21, 2015-01-22, October 9, 2018,en.uartlib.org/kateryna-bilokur-biographical-sketch/," title="web.archive.org/web/20181009125621en.uartlib.org/kateryna-bilokur-biographical-sketch/,">web.archive.org/web/20181009125621en.uartlib.org/kateryna-bilokur-biographical-sketch/, live,
  • Christian Matras, Faroese linguist, poet (d. 1988)
• December 10 – Dominic Costa, Australian politician (d. 1976)
• December 11 – Hermína Týrlová, Czechoslovakian animator, screenwriter, and film director (d. 1993)NEWS,www.radio.cz/fr/rubrique/celebres/hermina-tyrlova, Hermina Tyrlova {{!, Radio Prague|access-date=2017-10-21|language=fr|archive-date=March 6, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306231352www.radio.cz/fr/rubrique/celebres/hermina-tyrlova|url-status=live}}
• December 12 – Sammy Davis Sr., American dancer (d. 1988)
• December 16 – Rudolf Diels, German Nazi civil servant, Gestapo chief (d. 1957)
• December 17
  • Mary Cartwright, British mathematician, one of the first people to analyze a dynamical system with chaos (d. 1998)WEB,www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Obits/Cartwright.html, Mary Cartwright Times obituary, www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk, 2017-10-20, May 12, 2017,www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Obits/Cartwright.html," title="web.archive.org/web/20170512113259www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Obits/Cartwright.html,">web.archive.org/web/20170512113259www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Obits/Cartwright.html, live,
  • Katina Paxinou, Greek actress (d. 1973)ENCYCLOPEDIA,www.britannica.com/biography/Katina-Paxinou, Katina Paxinou {{!, Greek actress|encyclopedia=Encyclopedia Britannica|access-date=2017-10-21|language=en|archive-date=November 8, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201108165931www.britannica.com/biography/Katina-Paxinou|url-status=live}}
• December 19 – Margaret Brundage, American illustrator, known for illustrating the pulp magazine Weird Tales (d. 1976)WEB,www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/brundage_margaret, Authors : Brundage, Margaret : SFE : Science Fiction Encyclopedia, sf-encyclopedia.com, en, 2017-10-21, October 22, 2017,www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/brundage_margaret," title="web.archive.org/web/20171022085100www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/brundage_margaret,">web.archive.org/web/20171022085100www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/brundage_margaret, live,
• December 20
  • Lissy Arna, German film actress (d. 1964)
  • Marinus van der Goes van Naters, Dutch politician (d. 2005)
• December 22
  • Alan Bush, British composer, pianist and conductor (d. 1995)
  • Ofelia Uribe de Acosta, Colombian author, editor, and suffragist (d. 1988)WEB,www.banrepcultural.org/node/73272, Ofelia Uribe de Acosta {{!, banrepcultural.org|last=Magdala|first=Velásquez Toro|website=banrepcultural.org|language=es|access-date=2017-10-19|archive-date=October 20, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171020083905www.banrepcultural.org/node/73272|url-status=live}}
• December 23
  • Merle Barwis, American-Canadian supercentenarian (d. 2014)
  • Marie Bell, French actress, stage director (d. 1985)
  • José de León Toral, assassin of Mexican President Álvaro Obregón (d. 1929)
• December 24
  • Joey Smallwood, first Premier of Newfoundland & Labrador (d. 1991)
  • Hussein Al Oweini, 18th prime minister of Lebanon (d. 1971)
  • Hawayo Takata, Japanese-American teacher, master practitioner of Reiki (d. 1980)
• December 25 – Antoni Zygmund, Polish mathematician (d. 1992)
• December 26 – Evelyn Bark, leading member of the British Red Cross, first female recipient of the CMG (d. 1993)NEWS,www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-evelyn-bark-1493450.html,ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-evelyn-bark-1493450.html, May 1, 2022, subscription, live, Obituary: Evelyn Bark, 1993-06-24, The Independent, 2017-10-20, en-GB, {{cbignore}}

Date unknown

• Robina Addis, early British professional psychiatric social worker (d. 1986)WEB,wellcomelibrary.org/collections/digital-collections/mental-healthcare/robina-addis/, Robina Addis, wellcomelibrary.org, en, 2017-10-21, October 21, 2017,wellcomelibrary.org/collections/digital-collections/mental-healthcare/robina-addis/," title="web.archive.org/web/20171021155258wellcomelibrary.org/collections/digital-collections/mental-healthcare/robina-addis/,">web.archive.org/web/20171021155258wellcomelibrary.org/collections/digital-collections/mental-healthcare/robina-addis/, live,
• Margaret Altmann, German-American biologist, specialist in animal husbandry and psychobiology (d. 1984)BOOK, American women of science since 1900, Wayne, Tiffany K., 2011, ABC-CLIO, 9781598841589, Santa Barbara, Calif., 189, 702118874,
• Juanita Ángeles, Filipina silent film actress (d. unknown)
• Hattie Moseley Austin, African-American entrepreneur, restaurateur (d. 1998)WEB,www.saratoga.com/aboutsaratoga/history/hattie-moseley-austin/, Meet Hattie Moseley Austin, The Woman Behind Hattie’s Famous Fried Chicken, saratoga.com, en-US, 2017-10-21, October 22, 2017,web.archive.org/web/20171022061917/https://www.saratoga.com/aboutsaratoga/history/hattie-moseley-austin/, live,
• Louella Ballerino, American fashion designer, known for her work in sportswear (d. 1978)WEB,vintagefashionguild.org/fashion-history/louella-ballerino/, Vintage Fashion Guild : Fashion History : Louella Ballerino, vintagefashionguild.org, en, 2017-10-21, August 10, 2017,vintagefashionguild.org/fashion-history/louella-ballerino/," title="web.archive.org/web/20170810223930vintagefashionguild.org/fashion-history/louella-ballerino/,">web.archive.org/web/20170810223930vintagefashionguild.org/fashion-history/louella-ballerino/, live,
• Natalya Bilikhodze, Russian Romanov impostor falsely claiming to be Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia (d. 2000)BOOK, The Murder of the Romanovs, Cook, Andrew, Amberley Publishing, 2012, 978-1-4456-0796-2,
• Ruth Bonner, Soviet Communist activist, sentenced to labor camp during Joseph Stalin’s Great Purge (d. 1987)NEWS,sakharovfoundation.org/reading-material/biographies/biography-elena-bonner/, Elena Bonner » ASF, ASF, 2017-10-23, en-US, October 23, 2017,sakharovfoundation.org/reading-material/biographies/biography-elena-bonner/," title="web.archive.org/web/20171023230446sakharovfoundation.org/reading-material/biographies/biography-elena-bonner/,">web.archive.org/web/20171023230446sakharovfoundation.org/reading-material/biographies/biography-elena-bonner/, dead, NEWS,www.nytimes.com/1987/12/27/obituaries/ruth-bonner-stalin-purge-victim.html, Ruth Bonner, Stalin Purge Victim, 1987-12-27, The New York Times, 2017-10-23, en-US, 0362-4331, October 29, 2017,www.nytimes.com/1987/12/27/obituaries/ruth-bonner-stalin-purge-victim.html," title="web.archive.org/web/20171029082218www.nytimes.com/1987/12/27/obituaries/ruth-bonner-stalin-purge-victim.html,">web.archive.org/web/20171029082218www.nytimes.com/1987/12/27/obituaries/ruth-bonner-stalin-purge-victim.html, live,
• Anna Borkowska (Sister Bertranda), Polish nun, prioress who hid 17 Jews in her monastery during WWII (d. 1988)
• Grace Hartman, Canadian social activist, politician, and first female mayor of Sudbury, Ontario (d. 1998)WEB,section15.ca/features/people/2002/01/30/grace_hartman_social/, Grace Hartman :: section15.ca, section15.ca, en, 2017-10-19, October 20, 2017,section15.ca/features/people/2002/01/30/grace_hartman_social/," title="web.archive.org/web/20171020033149section15.ca/features/people/2002/01/30/grace_hartman_social/,">web.archive.org/web/20171020033149section15.ca/features/people/2002/01/30/grace_hartman_social/, dead,
• Rubén Jaramillo, Mexican peasant leader (d. 1962)WEB,relatosehistorias.mx/nuestras-historias/quien-fue-ruben-jaramillo, ¿Quién fue Rubén Jaramillo?, Salmerón, Luis A., July 3, 2018, Relatos e Historias de Mexico, March 10, 2019, es, Who was Ruben Jaramillo?, April 15, 2019,web.archive.org/web/20190415233833/https://relatosehistorias.mx/nuestras-historias/quien-fue-ruben-jaramillo, live,
• Daudo Okelo, Ugandan Roman Catholic martyr and saint (b. {{Circa|1900}}; d. 1918)
• Bella Reay, English footballer (d. unknown)
• Virginia Frances Sterrett, American artist, illustrator (d. 1931)WEB,www.themarysue.com/virginia-frances-sterrett-old-french-fairy-tales/, Take a Gander at Virginia Frances Sterrett’s Fairy Tale Illustrations, themarysue.com, November 18, 2011, en, 2017-10-21, October 22, 2017,web.archive.org/web/20171022085415/https://www.themarysue.com/virginia-frances-sterrett-old-french-fairy-tales/, live,
• Yung Fung-shee, Hong Kong philanthropist (d. 1972)

Deaths

January–June

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• January 5 – William A. Hammond, American military physician, neurologist, and 11th Surgeon General of the United States Army (1862–1864) (b. 1828)
• January 11 – James Martineau, English religious philosopher (b. 1805)WEB,nla.gov.au/nla.news-article3242352, Obituary - Dr. James Martineau, London - January 12, 1900, The West Australian, 15 January 1900, 5, 15 January 2014, Trove,
• January 16 – S. M. I. Henry, American evangelist (b. 1839)
• January 20 – John Ruskin, English writer, artist, and social critic (b. 1819)
• January 31 – John Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry, Scottish nobleman, boxer (b. 1844)
• February 18 – Clinton L. Merriam, American politician (b. 1824)
• February 23 – William Butterfield, British architect (b. 1814)
• March 6
  • Carl Bechstein, German piano maker (b. 1826)WEB,www.carl-bechstein-gymnasium.de/profil/artikel/geschichte/erkner/erkneranerhefte/heft3.pdf, Bernd Rühle, Carl Bechstein (1826-1900) Ãœber Leben und Lebenswerk eines grossen Klavierbauers..., 6 April 2018, May 5, 2019,www.carl-bechstein-gymnasium.de/profil/artikel/geschichte/erkner/erkneranerhefte/heft3.pdf," title="web.archive.org/web/20190505181133www.carl-bechstein-gymnasium.de/profil/artikel/geschichte/erkner/erkneranerhefte/heft3.pdf,">web.archive.org/web/20190505181133www.carl-bechstein-gymnasium.de/profil/artikel/geschichte/erkner/erkneranerhefte/heft3.pdf, dead,
  • Gottlieb Daimler, German inventor, automotive pioneer (b. 1834)
• March 7 – Rachel Lloyd, American chemist (b. 1839)
• March 10 – Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann, Danish composer (b. 1805)
• March 18 – Hjalmar Kiærskou, Danish botanist (b. 1835)
• March 28 – Piet Joubert, Boer politician, military commander (b. 1834)
• March 29 – Cyrus K. Holliday, cofounder of Topeka, Kansas, 1st president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway (b. 1826)
• April 2 – Gustaf Ã…kerhielm, 6th prime minister of Sweden (b. 1833)
• April 5
  • Joseph Bertrand, French mathematician (b. 1822)
  • Maria Louise Eve, American author (b. 1848)
  • Osman Nuri Pasha, Ottoman military leader (b. 1832)
• April 7 – Frederic Edwin Church, American landscape painter (b. 1826)
• April 12 – James Richard Cocke, American physician, homeopath, and pioneer hypnotherapist (b. 1863)
• April 17 – George Curry, Wild West robber (Wild Bunch) (shot) (b. 1871)
• April 19 – James Dawson, Australian activist (b. 1806)
• April 21 – Vikramatji Khimojiraj, Indian ruler (b. 1819)
• April 22 – Amédée-François Lamy, French soldier (b. 1858) (killed in battle)
• April 24 – George Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll, British politician (b. 1823)
• April 30 – Casey Jones, American railway engineer (b. 1864)
• May 1 – Mihály Munkácsy, Hungarian painter (b. 1844)
• May 2 – Seweryn Morawski, Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1819)
• May 9 – Carit Etlar (Carl Brosbøll), Danish author (b. 1816)
• May 18 – Félix Ravaisson-Mollien, French philosopher (b. 1813)
• May 28 – Sir George Grove, English music writer (b. 1820)
• June 2 – Samori Ture, West African empire-builder (b. 1830)
• June 3 – Mary Kingsley, English explorer, writer (b. 1862)ENCYCLOPEDIA,www.britannica.com/biography/Mary-Henrietta-Kingsley, Mary Henrietta Kingsley {{!, English traveler|encyclopedia=Encyclopedia Britannica|access-date=2017-10-22|language=en|archive-date=July 2, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180702040809www.britannica.com/biography/Mary-Henrietta-Kingsley|url-status=live}}
• June 5 – Stephen Crane, American author (b. 1871)
• June 11 – Belle Boyd, American Confederate spy, actress (b. 1843)
• June 19 – Princess Josephine of Baden (b. 1813)

July–December

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• July 5 – Henry Barnard, American educationalist (b. 1811)
• July 8 – Henry D. Cogswell, American philanthropist (b. 1820)
• July 9 – Gregorio Grassi, Italian Franciscan friar, Roman Catholic martyr and saint (b. 1833)
• July 26 – Nicolae CreÈ›ulescu, 2-time prime minister of Romania (b. 1812)
• July 29 – King Umberto I of Italy (assassinated) (b. 1844)
• July 30 – Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, second son of Queen Victoria (b. 1844)BOOK, Panton, James, Historical Dictionary of the British Monarchy, February 24, 2011, Scarecrow Press, 978-0-8108-7497-8, 40,books.google.com/books?id=BiyyueBTpaMC&pg=PA40, en,
• August 1 – Rafael Molina Sanchez, Spanish bullfighter (b. 1841)
• August 4 – Étienne Lenoir, Belgian engineer (b. 1822)
• August 7 – Wilhelm Liebknecht, German Social Democratic politician (b. 1826)EB1911, Liebknecht, Wilhelm, 16, 592,
• August 8
  • Emil Å koda, Czech engineer and industrialist (b. 1839)
  • József Szlávy, 6th prime minister of Hungary (b. 1818)
• August 10 – Charles Russell, Baron Russell of Killowen, Lord Chief Justice of England (b. 1832)
• August 12 – Wilhelm Steinitz, Austrian-born chess player, first undisputed World Champion (b. 1836)
• August 13 – Vladimir Solovyov, Russian philosopher and poet (b. 1853)
• August 16 – José Maria de Eça de Queirós, Portuguese writer (b. 1845)
• August 23 – Kuroda Kiyotaka, Japanese politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1840)
• August 25 – Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher, writer (b. 1844)
• September 5 – Arthur Sewall, American politician, industrialist (b. 1835)
• September 19 – Belle Archer, American actress (b. 1859)
• September 23
  • William Marsh Rice, American philanthropist, university founder (b. 1816)
  • Arsenio Martínez-Campos, Spanish general, revolutionary, and Prime Minister of Spain (b. 1831)
• September 29 – Samuel Fenton Cary, American politician (b. 1814)
• October 15 – ZdenÄ›k Fibich, Czech composer (b. 1850)
• October 19 – Sir Roderick Cameron, Canadian shipping magnate (b. 1825)
• October 22 – John Sherman, American politician (b.1823)
• October 28 – Max Müller, German philologist, Orientalist (b. 1823)
• November 22 – Sir Arthur Sullivan, English composer (b. 1842)
• November 26 – Méry Laurent, French artist’s muse, model (b. 1849)
• November 30 – Oscar Wilde, Irish writer (b. 1854)WEB, Oscar Wilde,www.bl.uk/people/oscar-wilde, www.bl.uk, 12 November 2022, November 12, 2022,web.archive.org/web/20221112093040/https://www.bl.uk/people/oscar-wilde, live,
• December 4 – Aquileo Parra, 11th President of Colombia (b. 1825)
• December 14 – Paddy Ryan, Irish-American boxer, former world’s heavyweight champion (b. 1851)
• December 21 – Leonhard Graf von Blumenthal, Prussian field marshal (b. 1810)

World population

• World population: 1,640,000,000
  • Africa: 133,000,000
  • Asia: 947,000,000
    • Japan: c. 45,000,000
  • Europe: 408,000,000
  • Latin America: 74,000,000
  • Northern America: 82,000,000
  • Oceania: 6,000,000

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References

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Further reading

• Appletons’ annual cyclopaedia and register of important events...1900 (1901), vast compendium of data; global coverage online edition
• Gilbert, Martin. A History of the Twentieth Century 1900-1933, Vol. 1 (1997) pp 7–35; global coverage of politics, diplomacy and warfare.
• Herbert C. Fyfe, Pearson’s Magazine, July 1900: “How Will The World End?”

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