Birthdays In History 1900

1900 Chiune Sugihara Japanese soldier and diplomat (d. 1986)

1900 Xavier Cugat Spanish-American singer-songwriter and actor (d. 1990)

1900 Una Ledingham British physician known for research on diabetes in pregnancy (d. 1965)

1900 Donald J. Russell American businessman (d. 1985)

1900 James Bond American ornithologist and zoologist (d. 1989)

1900 Yves Tanguy French-American painter (d. 1955)

1900 Maria of Yugoslavia Queen of Yugoslavia (d. 1961)

1900 John Brownlee Australian actor and singer (d. 1969)

1900 Dorothy Adams American character actress (d. 1988)

1900 Serge Poliakoff Russian-French painter (d. 1969)

1900 Richard Halliburton American journalist and author (d. 1939)

1900 Violette Cordery English racing driver (d. 1983)

1900 Shimizugawa Motokichi Japanese sumo wrestler (d. 1967)

1900 Gertrude Mary Cox American mathematician (d. 1978)

1900 Kiku Amino Japanese author and translator (d. 1978)

1900 Edith Frank German-Dutch mother of Anne Frank (d. 1945)

1900 Dorothy Annan English painter potter and muralist (d. 1983)

1900 Colin Clive English actor (d. 1937)

1900 Elof Ahrle Swedish actor and director (d. 1965)

1900 Anselm Franz Austrian engineer (d. 1994)

1900 Fernando Quiroga Palacios Spanish Cardinal (d. 1971)

1900 Ernst Busch German actor and singer (d. 1980)

1900 William Ifor Jones Welsh organist and conductor (d. 1988)

1900 René Guillot French writer (d. 1969)

1900 István Fekete Hungarian author (d. 1970)

1900 Yōjirō Ishizaka Japanese author and educator (d. 1986)

1900 Theodosius Dobzhansky Russian-American geneticist and pioneer of evolutionary biology (d. 1975)

1900 Karl Ristenpart German conductor (d. 1967)

1900 Martita Hunt Argentine-born British actress (d. 1969)

1900 Betty Parsons American artist art dealer and collector (d. 1982)

1900 Willie Kamm American baseball player and manager (d. 1988)

1900 Mabel Mercer English-American singer (d. 1984)

1900 Jacques Prévert French poet and screenwriter (d. 1977)

1900 Ellen Broe Danish nurse pioneer in nursing education (d. 1994)

1900 Hans-Georg Gadamer German philosopher and scholar (d. 2002)

1900 Jōsei Toda Japanese educator and activist (d. 1958)

1900 Barbara von Annenkoff Russian-born German film and stage actress (d. 1979)

1900 Jessica Dragonette American singer (d. 1980)

1900 Ruth Clifford American actress (d. 1998)

1900 Jeanne Aubert French singer and actress (d. 1988)

1900 Luis Buñuel Spanish-Mexican director and producer (d. 1983)

1900 Irmgard Bartenieff German-American dancer and physical therapist leading pioneer of dance therapy (d. 1981)

1900 Basil Bunting British poet (d. 1985)

1900 Kurt Weill German-American pianist and composer (d. 1950)

1900 Edna Best British stage and film actress (d. 1974)

1900 Herbert Biberman American director and screenwriter (d. 1971)

1900 Lilli Jahn Jewish German doctor (d. 1944)

1900 Johanna Langefeld German guard and supervisor of three Nazi concentration camps (d. 1974)

1900 Violet Brown Jamaican supercentenarian oldest Jamaican ever (d. 2017)

1900 Pandelis Pouliopoulos Greek lawyer and politician (d. 1943)

1900 Rinus van den Berge Dutch athlete (d. 1972)

1900 Sylvi Kekkonen Finnish writer and wife of President of Finland Urho Kekkonen (d. 1974)

1900 Gustavo Rojas Pinilla 19th President of Colombia (d. 1975)

1900 Andrée Bosquet Belgian painter (d. 1980)

1900 Giorgos Seferis Greek poet and diplomat Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1971)

1900 Gilberto Freyre Brazilian sociologist anthropologist historian and writer (d. 1987)

1900 Cyril Hume American novelist and screenwriter (d. 1966)

1900 Mencha Karnicheva Macedonian revolutionary and assassin (d. 1964)

1900 Alfred Newman American composer and conductor (d. 1970)

1900 Carmen Carbonell Spanish stage and film actress (d. 1988)

1900 Amelia Chopitea Villa Bolivia's first female physician (d. 1942)

1900 Erich Fromm German psychologist and sociologist (d. 1980)

1900 Angela Maria Autsch German nun murdered in Auschwitz helping Jewish prisoners (d. 1941)

1900 Edward Wagenknecht American critic and educator (d. 2004)

1900 Bill Aston English race car driver (d. 1974)

1900 John McEwen Australian farmer and politician 18th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1980)

1900 Charles Sutherland Elton English zoologist and animal ecologist (d. 1991)

1900 Prince Henry Duke of Gloucester (d. 1974)

1900 Stefanie Clausen Danish Olympic diver (d. 1981)

1900 Roberto Arlt Argentinian journalist author and playwright (d. 1942)

1900 Anis Fuleihan Cypriot-American pianist composer and conductor (d. 1970)

1900 Alfred Strange English footballer (d. 1978)

1900 Camille Chamoun Lebanese lawyer and politician 7th President of Lebanon (d. 1987)

1900 Albert Walsh Canadian lawyer and politician 1st Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland (d. 1958)

1900 Herbert Bayer Austrian-American graphic designer painter and photographer (d. 1985)

1900 Roman Steinberg Estonian wrestler (d. 1939)

1900 Leo Robin American composer and songwriter (d. 1984)

1900 Adolf Dymsza Polish actor (d. 1975)

1900 Tebbs Lloyd Johnson English race walker (d. 1984)

1900 Marie Byles Australian solicitor (d. 1979)

1900 Allen Jenkins American actor and singer (d. 1974)

1900 Sándor Márai Hungarian journalist and author (d. 1989)

1900 Sorcha Boru American potter and ceramic sculptor (d. 2006)

1900 Pierre Molinier French painter and photographer (d. 1976)

1900 Polly Adler Russian-American madam and author (d. 1962)

1900 Bertha Isaacs Bahamian teacher tennis player politician and women's rights activist (d. 1997)

1900 Iracema de Alencar Brazilian film actress (d. 1978)

1900 Richard Hughes English author poet and playwright (d. 1976)

1900 Roland Michener Canadian lawyer and politician 20th Governor General of Canada (d. 1991)

1900 Rhea Silberta American Yiddish songwriter and singing teacher (d. 1959)

1900 Nellie Beer British politician Lord Mayor of Manchester from 1966 to 1967 (d. 1988)

1900 Joseph Green Polish-American actor and director (d. 1996)

1900 Elizabeth Goudge English author and educator (d. 1984)

1900 Gladwyn Jebb English politician and diplomat Secretary-General of the United Nations (d. 1996)

1900 Wolfgang Pauli Austrian-Swiss-American physicist and academic Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958)

1900 Eva Aschoff German bookbinder and calligrapher (d. 1969)

1900 Charles Francis Richter American seismologist and physicist (d. 1985)

1900 August Koern Estonian politician and diplomat Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs in exile (d. 1989)

1900 Alice Berry Australian activist (d. 1978)

1900 Heinrich Müller German SS officer (d. 1945)

1900 Jan Oort Dutch astronomer and academic (d. 1992)

1900 Concha de Albornoz Spanish feminist and intellectual exiled during the Spanish Civil War (d. 1972)

1900 Amelia Best Australian politician one of the first women elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly (d. 1979)

1900 Erni Krusten Estonian author and poet (d. 1984)

1900 Ignazio Silone Italian journalist and politician (d. 1978)

1900 Aleksander Wat Polish poet and writer (d. 1967)

1900 Helen Redfield American geneticist (d. 1988)

1900 Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin English-American astronomer and astrophysicist (d. 1979)

1900 Helene Weigel Austrian-German actress (d. 1971)

1900 Hal Borland American journalist and author (d. 1978)

1900 Walter Rehberg Swiss pianist and composer (d. 1957)

1900 Cai Chang Chinese first leader of All-China Women's Federation (d. 1990)

1900 Leo Smit Dutch pianist and composer (d. 1943)

1900 Edgar Wind German-English historian author and academic (d. 1971)

1900 Ida Rhodes American mathematician pioneer in computer programming (d. 1986)

1900 Sumitranandan Pant Indian poet and author (d. 1977)

1900 Juan Arvizu Mexican lyric opera tenor and bolero vocalist (d.1985)

1900 Franz Leopold Neumann German lawyer and theorist (d. 1954)

1900 Eduardo De Filippo Italian actor and screenwriter (d. 1984)

1900 Alain Grandbois Canadian poet and author (d. 1975)

1900 George Lennon Irish Republican Army leader during the Irish War of Independence and the Irish Civil War (d. 1991)

1900 Karin Juel Swedish singer actress and writer (d. 1976)

1900 Lotte Toberentz German overseer of the Nazi Uckermark concentration camp (d. 1964)

1900 Uładzimir Žyłka Belarusian poet and translator (d. 1933)

1900 Tommy Ladnier American trumpet player (d. 1939)

1900 Lucile Godbold American athlete (d. 1981)

1900 Adelaide Ames American astronomer and academic (d. 1932)

1900 Leo Picard German-Israeli geologist and academic (d. 1997)

1900 Manfred Sakel Ukrainian-American psychiatrist and physician (d. 1957)

1900 Lena Baker African-American maid executed for capital murder later pardoned posthumously (d. 1945)

1900 Fred Waring American singer bandleader and television host (d. 1984)

1900 Ruth Nanda Anshen American writer editor and philosopher (d. 2003)

1900 June Walker American stage and film actress (d. 1966)

1900 Gotthard Günther German philosopher and academic (d. 1984)

1900 Otto Luening German-American composer and conductor (d. 1996)

1900 Evelyn Irons Scottish journalist and war correspondent (d. 2000)

1900 Vlasta Vraz Czech-American relief worker editor and fundraiser (d. 1989)

1900 Georges-Henri Bousquet French economist and Islamologist (d. 1978)

1900 Oskar Fischinger German-American abstract artist filmmaker and painter (d. 1967)

1900 Blanche Noyes American aviator winner of the 1936 Bendix Trophy Race (d. 1981)

1900 Wilhelm Cauer German mathematician and engineer (d. 1945)

1900 Marta Abba Italian actress (d. 1988)

1900 Zinaida Aksentyeva Ukrainian/Soviet astronomer (d. 1969)

1900 Georgia Hale American silent film actress and real estate investor (d. 1985)

1900 Louis Mountbatten 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma English admiral and politician 44th Governor-General of India (d. 1979)

1900 Dixie Brown British boxer (d. 1957)

1900 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry French poet and pilot (d. 1944)

1900 Tyrone Guthrie English actor and director (d. 1971)

1900 Sophie Harris English costume and scenic designer for theatre and opera (d. 1966)

1900 Alessandro Blasetti Italian director and screenwriter (d. 1987)

1900 Belinda Dann Indigenous Australian who was one of the Stolen Generation reunited with family aged 107 (d. 2007)

1900 Nellie Mae Rowe American folk artist (d. 1982)

1900 Yoshimaro Yamashina Japanese ornithologist founded the Yamashina Institute for Ornithology (d. 1989)

1900 Bernardus Johannes Alfrink Dutch cardinal (d. 1987)

1900 Frederica Sagor Maas American author and screenwriter (d. 2012)

1900 Elfriede Wever German Olympic runner (d. 1941)

1900 Maria Bard German stage and silent film actress (d. 1944)

1900 Earle E. Partridge American general (d. 1990)

1900 George Antheil American pianist composer and author (d. 1959)

1900 Mitchell Parish Lithuanian-American songwriter (d. 1993)

1900 Sampson Sievers Russian monk and mystic (d. 1979)

1900 George Lewis American clarinet player and songwriter (d. 1969)

1900 Nathalie Sarraute French lawyer and author (d. 1999)

1900 Maurice Leyland English cricketer and coach (d. 1967)

1900 Isadora Bennett American theatre manager and modern dance publicity agent (d. 1980)

1900 Julia Davis Adams American author and journalist (d. 1993)

1900 John Babcock Canadian-American sergeant (d. 2010)

1900 Inger Margrethe Boberg Danish folklore researcher and writer (d. 1957)

1900 Zelda Fitzgerald American author visual artist and ballet dancer (d. 1948)

1900 Sarah Kafrit Israeli politician and teacher (d. 1983)

1900 Mary V. Austin Australian community worker and political activist (d. 1986)

1900 Eyvind Johnson Swedish novelist and short story writer Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1976)

1900 Teresa Noce Italian labor leader activist and journalist (d. 1980)

1900 Don Redman American composer and bandleader (d. 1964)

1900 Otto Nothling Australian cricketer and rugby player (d. 1965)

1900 Holling C. Holling American author and illustrator (d. 1973)

1900 Helen Morgan American actress and singer (d. 1941)

1900 Ernie Pyle American soldier and journalist (d. 1945)

1900 Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother of the United Kingdom (d. 2002)

1900 Rudolf Schottlaender German philosopher classical philologist and translator (d. 1988)

1900 Cecil Howard Green English-American geophysicist and businessman co-founded Texas Instruments (d. 2003)

1900 Charles Farrell American actor and singer (d. 1990)

1900 Arthur Porritt Baron Porritt New Zealand physician and politician 11th Governor-General of New Zealand (d. 1994)

1900 Charley Paddock American sprinter (d. 1943)

1900 Philip Phillips American archaeologist and scholar (d. 1994)

1900 Margret Boveri German journalist (d. 1975)

1900 Estelle Brody American silent film actress (d. 1995)

1900 Jack Tworkov Polish-American painter and educator (d. 1982)

1900 Ida Browne Australian geologist and palaeontologist (d. 1976)

1900 Vivienne de Watteville British travel writer and adventurer (d. 1957)

1900 Pauline A. Young American teacher historian aviator and activist (d. 1991)

1900 Ruth Bonner Soviet Communist activist sentenced to a labor camp during Joseph Stalin's Great Purge (d. 1987)

1900 Ruth Norman American religious leader (d. 1993)

1900 Gontran de Poncins French author and adventurer (d. 1962)

1900 Gilbert Ryle English philosopher author and academic (d. 1976)

1900 Dorothy Burr Thompson American archaeologist and art historian (d. 2001)

1900 Lisy Fischer Swiss-born pianist and child prodigy (d. 1999)

1900 Frances Adaskin Canadian pianist (d. 2001)

1900 Ernst Krenek Austrian-American composer and educator (d. 1991)

1900 Malvina Reynolds American singer-songwriter and activist (d. 1978)

1900 Isobel Hogg Kerr Beattie Scottish architect (d. 1970)

1900 Hans Adolf Krebs German physician and biochemist Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1981)

1900 Margaret Utinsky American nurse recipient of the Medal of Freedom (d. 1970)

1900 Hellmuth Walter German-American engineer and businessman (d. 1980)

1900 Gino Lucetti Italian anarchist attempted assassin of Benito Mussolini (d. 1943)

1900 Percy Chapman English cricketer (d. 1961)

1900 Urho Kekkonen Finnish journalist lawyer and politician 8th President of Finland (d. 1986)

1900 W. A. C. Bennett Canadian businessman and politician 25th Premier of British Columbia (d. 1979)

1900 Julien Green French-American author (d. 1998)

1900 Taylor Caldwell English-American author (d. 1985)

1900 Giuseppe Zangara Italian-American assassin of Anton Cermak (d. 1933)

1900 Tilly Devine English-Australian organised crime boss (d. 1970)

1900 Claude Pepper American lawyer and politician (d. 1989)

1900 James Hilton English-American author and screenwriter (d. 1954)

1900 Haskell Curry American mathematician logician and academic (d. 1982)

1900 Hughie Critz American baseball player (d. 1980)

1900 Lena Frances Edwards African-American physician awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom (d. 1986)

1900 J. Willard Marriott American businessman founded the Marriott Corporation (d. 1985)

1900 Martha Ostenso Canadian screenwriter and novelist (d. 1963)

1900 Hedwig Ross New Zealand-born educator and political activist founding member of the Communist Party of New Zealand (d. 1971)

1900 Willis Laurence James American violinist and educator (d. 1966)

1900 Seewoosagur Ramgoolam Mauritian philanthropist and politician 1st Prime Minister of Mauritius (d. 1985)

1900 Ricardo Cortez American actor (d. 1977)

1900 Paul Hugh Emmett American chemist and engineer (d. 1985)

1900 William Spratling American-Mexican silversmith and educator (d. 1967)

1900 Bill Stone English soldier (d. 2009)

1900 Ham Fisher American cartoonist (d. 1955)

1900 Artur Sirk Estonian soldier lawyer and politician (d. 1937)

1900 Suzanne Belperron French jewelry designer (d. 1983)

1900 Isabel Pell American socialite fought as part of the French Resistance during WWII (d. 1951)

1900 Tom Goddard English cricketer (d. 1966)

1900 Leela Roy Nag Indian freedom fighter social reformer and politician (d. 1970)

1900 August Mälk Estonian author and playwright (d. 1987)

1900 Bing Xin Chinese author and poet known for her contributions to children's literature (d. 1998)

1900 Margherita Bontade Italian politician (d. 1992)

1900 Vivion Brewer American activist and desegregationist (d. 1991)

1900 Willy Merkl German mountaineer (d. 1934)

1900 Stan Nichols English cricketer (d. 1961)

1900 Joseph Friedman American inventor (d. 1982)

1900 Alastair Sim Scottish-English actor and academic (d. 1976)

1900 Joseph Zubin Lithuanian-American psychologist and academic (d. 1990)

1900 Gerald Marks American composer (d. 1997)

1900 W. Edwards Deming American statistician author and academic (d. 1993)

1900 Mervyn LeRoy American actor director and producer (d. 1987)

1900 Edward Ardizzone Vietnamese-English author and illustrator (d. 1979)

1900 Primo Conti Italian painter and poet (d. 1988)

1900 Goose Goslin American baseball player and manager (d. 1971)

1900 C. C. van Asch van Wijck Dutch artist and sculptor (d. 1932)

1900 Jean Arthur American actress (d. 1991)

1900 Yvor Winters American critic and poet (d. 1968)

1900 Erna Berger German soprano and actress (d. 1990)

1900 Roy Worters Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1957)

1900 Ismail al-Azhari Sudanese politician 3rd President of Sudan (d. 1969)

1900 Wayne Morse American lieutenant lawyer and politician (d. 1974)

1900 Andrée Boisson French Olympic fencer (d. 1973)

1900 Ashfaqulla Khan Indian activist (d. 1927)

1900 Douglas Jardine Indian-English cricketer and lawyer (d. 1958)

1900 Johan Greter Dutch equestrian (d. 1975)

1900 Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti Nigerian educator and activist (d. 1978)

1900 William Stevenson American track and fielder (d. 1985)

1900 Ibrahim Abboud Sudanese politician and general 1st President of Sudan (d. 1983)

1900 Karin Boye Swedish poet and novelist (d. 1941)

1900 Asbjørg Borgfelt Norwegian sculptor (d. 1976)

1900 Adolf Dassler German businessman founded Adidas (d. 1978)

1900 Lucrețiu Pătrășcanu Romanian sociologist and activist (d. 1954)

1900 Natalie Schafer American actress (d. 1991)

1900 Ethelwynn Trewavas British ichthyologist over a dozen fish species named in her honor (d. 1993)

1900 Ida Lou Anderson American orator and professor pioneer in the field of radio broadcasting (d. 1941)

1900 Nellie Campobello Mexican writer who chronicled the Mexican Revolution (d. 1986)

1900 Oskar Loorits Estonian author and academic (d. 1961)

1900 Maria Babanova Russian stage and film actress (d. 1983)

1900 Stanley Graham New Zealand mass murderer (d. 1941)

1900 David Marshall Williams American convicted murderer and firearms designer (d. 1975)

1900 Edward Buzzell American actor director and screenwriter (d. 1985)

1900 Eliška Junková Czechoslovakian race car driver (d. 1994)

1900 Bunny Ahearne Irish-English ice hockey player and manager (d. 1985)

1900 Mikhail Lavrentyev Russian mathematician and hydrodynamicist (d. 1980)

1900 Anna Seghers German author and politician (d. 1983)

1900 Florieda Batson American Olympic hurdler (d. 1996)

1900 Helen Bradley English painter (d. 1979)

1900 Chester Gould American cartoonist and author created Dick Tracy (d. 1985)

1900 Tom Macdonald Welsh journalist and author (d. 1980)

1900 Helenka Pantaleoni American actress and humanitarian co-founded U.S. Fund for UNICEF (d. 1987)

1900 Rudolf Höss German SS officer (d. 1947)

1900 Helen Gahagan Douglas American actress and politician (d. 1980)

1900 Anna Maurizio Swiss biologist known for her study of bees (d. 1993)

1900 Jovette Bernier Canadian journalist author and radio show host (d. 1981)

1900 Mary Bothwell Canadian classical vocalist and painter (d. 1985)

1900 Mildred Gillars American broadcaster employed by Nazi Germany to disseminate propaganda during WWII (d. 1988)

1900 Karna Maria Birmingham Australian artist illustrator and print maker (d. 1987)

1900 Elisa Godínez Gómez de Batista former First Lady of Cuba (d. 1993)

1900 Herta Hammerbacher German landscape architect and professor (d. 1985)

1900 Albert Hawke Australian politician 18th Premier of Western Australia (d. 1986)

1900 Ulrich Inderbinen Swiss mountaineer (d. 2004)

1900 Richard Kuhn Austrian-German biochemist and academic Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1967)

1900 Jimmy Dimmock English footballer (d. 1972)

1900 Kateryna Vasylivna Bilokur Ukrainian folk artist (d. 1961)

1900 Sun Li-jen Chinese general and politician (d. 1990)

1900 Ants Oras Estonian-American author and academic (d. 1982)

1900 Margaret Brundage American illustrator known for illustrating pulp magazine Weird Tales (d. 1976)

1900 Albert Weisbord American activist founded the Communist League of Struggle (d. 1977)

1900 Hermína Týrlová Czechoslovakian animator screenwriter and film director (d. 1993)

1900 Gerd Arntz German Modernist artist co-creator of Isotype (d. 1988)

1900 Jonel Perlea Romanian-American conductor and educator (d. 1970)

1900 Lucille Lortel American actress and producer (d. 1999)

1900 V. S. Pritchett British writer and literary critic (d. 1997)

1900 Mary Cartwright English mathematician and academic one of the first people to analyze a dynamical system with chaos (d. 1998)

1900 Lissy Arna German film actress (d. 1964)

1900 Luis Arturo González López Guatemalan supreme court judge and briefly acting president (d. 1965)

1900 Marc Allégret French director and screenwriter (d. 1973)

1900 Merle Barwis American-Canadian supercentenarian (d. 2014)

1900 Marie Bell French actress and stage director (d. 1985)

1900 Otto Soglow American cartoonist (d. 1975)

1900 Joey Smallwood Canadian journalist and politician 1st Premier of Newfoundland (d. 1991)

1900 Hawayo Takata Japanese-American teacher and master practitioner of Reiki (d. 1980)

1900 Evelyn Bark leading member of the British Red Cross first female recipient of the CMG (d. 1993)

1900 Hans Stuck German race car driver (d. 1978)

1900 Ted Lyons American baseball player (d. 1986)

1900 Hyman G. Rickover American admiral (d. 1986)

1900 Alice Neel American painter (d. 1984)

1900 Roger J. Traynor American lawyer and jurist 23rd Chief Justice of California (d. 1983)

1900 Halina Konopacka Polish discus thrower and poet (d. 1989)

1900 Fritz Wiessner German-American mountaineer (d. 1988)

1900 Gina Cigna French-Italian soprano and actress (d. 2001)

1900 Lefty Grove American baseball player (d. 1975)

1900 Henri Jeanson French journalist and author (d. 1970)

1900 Arnold Orville Beckman American chemist inventor and philanthropist (d. 2004)

1900 Maria Malicka Polish stage and film actress (d. 1992)

1900 Shivrampant Damle Indian educationist (d. 1977)

1900 Gabby Hartnett American

1900 Sammy Davis Sr. American

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