1900 (MCM) was an exceptional common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar, but a leap year starting on Saturday [1] of the Julian calendar. As a result, the Julian calendar was 12 days behind the Gregorian calendar until Wednesday, February 28 (O.S. February 16) and has been 13 days behind since Thursday, March 1 (O.S. February 17). It was the last year of the 19th century.
[edit] Events of 1900 [edit] January See also January 1900 [edit] February See also February 1900 - February 1 – Western Australia refuses to join the Federation unless given 5 years of fiscal freedom.
- February 3
- Kentucky Governor William Goebel dies of wounds after beig shot by assassins on January 30. Goebel, who had prevailed in an a dispute over the winner of the 1899 election, had been sworn in on his deathbed.
Former Secretary of State Caleb Powers is later found guilty in a conspiracy to kill Goebel. See also March 1900 See also April 1900 See also May 1900
See also June 1900  Australia, founded 9 July 1900. See also July 1900
[edit] August See also August 1900 [edit] September See also September 1900 [edit] October See also October 1900 [edit] November See also November 1900 [edit] December See also December 1900 [edit] Undated [edit] World population - World population: 1,650,000,000
- Africa: 133,000,000
- Asia: 947,000,000
- Europe: 408,000,000
- Latin-America: 74,000,000
- Northern America: 82,000,000
- Oceania: 6,000,000
[edit] Births [edit] January–June - January 1 – Xavier Cugat, Cuban bandleader (d. 1990)
- January 2 – William Haines, American actor (d. 1973)
- January 4 – James Bond, American ornithologist (d. 1989)
- January 5 – Yves Tanguy, French painter (d. 1955)
- January 16 – Edith Frank, German-Dutch mother of Anne Frank (d. 1945)
- January 25 – Theodosius Dobzhansky, Ukrainian geneticist and evolutionary biologist (d. 1975)
- January 23 – William Ifor Jones, Welsh conductor and organist (d. 1988)
- January 26 – Karl Ristenpart, German conductor (d. 1967)
- January 27 – Hyman Rickover, American admiral (d. 1986)
- January 30 – Martita Hunt, Argentine-born British actress (d. 1969)
- February 4 – Jacques Prévert, French lyricist and author (d. 1977)
- February 5 – Adlai Stevenson, American politician (d. 1965)
- February 11 – Hans-Georg Gadamer, German philosopher (d. 2002)
- February 12 – Roger J. Traynor, American judge (d. 1983)
- February 19 – Giorgos Seferis, Greek writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1971)
- February 22 – Luis Buñuel, Spanish film director (d. 1983)
- February 25 – Richard M. Hollingshead, Jr., American inventor of the drive-in theatre (d. 1975)
- February 28 – Wolfram Hirth, German pilot and aircraft designer (d. 1959)
- March 4 – Herbert Biberman, American screenwriter and film director (d. 1971)
- March 9 – Howard Aiken, American computing pioneer (d. 1973)
- March 13 – Giorgos Seferis, Greek poet, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (d. 1971)
- March 19 – Frédéric Joliot, French physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (d. 1958)
- March 23 – Erich Fromm, German-born psychologist and philosopher (d. 1980)
- March 29 – John McEwen, Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1980)
- March 31 – Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester (d. 1974)
- April 2 – Roberto Arlt, Argentine writer (d. 1942)
- April 3 – Albert Ingham, English mathematician (d. 1967)
- April 5 – Spencer Tracy, American actor (d. 1967)
- April 8 – Marie Byles, Australian solicitor (d. 1979)
- April 16 – Polly Adler, Russian author (d. 1962)
- April 21 – Hans Fritzsche, German Nazi official (d. 1953)
- April 25 – Wolfgang Ernst Pauli, Austrian-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958)
- April 26 – Charles Richter, American geophysicist and inventor (d. 1985)
- April 27 – August Koern, Estonian statesman and diplomat (d. 1989)
- April 28 – Maurice Thorez, French Communist Leader (d. 1964)
- April 30 – Cecily Lefort, English World War II heroine (d. 1945)
- May 1 – Ignazio Silone, Italian author (d. 1978)
- May 12 – Helene Weigel, Austrian actress (d. 1971)
- May 15 – Zheng Ji, Chinese nutritionist and biochemist
- May 17 – Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Iranian political leader (d. 1989)
- May 23 – Hans Frank, German Nazi official (d. 1946)
- May 27 – Uładzimir Zylka, Belarusian poet (d. 1933)
- May 28 – Tommy Ladnier, American jazz trumpeter (d. 1939)
- June 3 – Rolland Fisher, American temperance activist (d. 1982)
- June 4 – George Watkins, American baseball player (d. 1970)
- June 5 – Dennis Gabor, Hungarian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1979)
- June 7 – Glen Gray, American saxophonist (d. 1963)
- June 15 – Paul Mares, American jazz trumpeter (d. 1949)
- June 17 – Martin Bormann, German Nazi official (d. 1945)
- June 25 – Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, Viceroy of India (d. 1979)
- June 29 – Antoine de Saint-Exupery, French pilot and writer (d. 1944)
[edit] July–December - July 4 – Robert Desnos, French poet (d. 1945)
- July 6 – Frederica Sagor Maas, American playwright, essayist, and author
- July 13 – George Lewis, American jazz clarinetist (d. 1968)
- July 23 – John Babcock, last surviving World War I veteran of the Canadian military
- July 29 – Eyvind Johnson, Swedish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1976)
- August 3 – Ernie Pyle, American journalist (d. 1945)
- August 4 – Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, queen of George VI of the United Kingdom (d. 2002)
- August 6 – Cecil H. Green, British-born geophysicist and businessman (d. 2003)
- August 10 – Arthur Espie Porritt, New Zealand politician and athlete (d. 1994)
- August 11 – Philip Phillips, American archaeologist (d. 1994)
- August 18 – Glenn Albert Black, American archaeologist (d. 1964)
- August 19
- August 22 – Sergei Ozhegov, Russian lexicographer (d. 1964)
- August 25 – Sir Hans Adolf Krebs, German physician and biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1981)
- August 26 – Hellmuth Walter, German engineer and inventor (d. 1980)
- September 3 – Urho Kekkonen, President of Finland (d. 1986)
- September 6 – W.A.C. Bennett, Canadian politician (d. 1979)
- September 22 – Paul H. Emmett, American chemical engineer (d. 1985)
- September 23 – Louise Nevelson, Ukrainian-born American sculptor (d. 1988)
- September 29 – Miguel Alemán Valdés, President of Mexico (d. 1983)
- September 29 – Auguste van Pels, German-Dutch mother of Peter van Pels, housemate of Anne Frank (d. 1945)
- October 1 – Tom Goddard, English cricketer (d. 1966)
- October 6 – Stan Nichols, English cricketer (d. 1961)
- October 7 – Heinrich Himmler, German Nazi official and SS head (d. 1945)
- October 30 – Ragnar Granit, Finnish neuroscientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1991)
- November 4 – Lucreţiu Pătrăşcanu, Romanian communist activist and sociologist (d. 1954)
- November 5
- November 6 – Hugh Prosser, American actor (d. 1952)
- November 8
- November 11 – Halina Konopacka, Polish athlete (d. 1989)
- November 13 – David Marshall Williams, American inventor (d. 1975)
- November 14 – Aaron Copland, American composer (d. 1990)
- November 16 – Nikolai Pogodin, Soviet playwright (d. 1962)
- November 22 – Tom Macdonald, Welsh journalist and novelist (d. 1980)
- November 25 – Rudolf Höß, German Nazi official (d. 1947)
- December 3
- December 4 – John Axon, British railwayman (d. 1957)
- December 6 – Agnes Moorehead, American actress (Bewitched) (d. 1974)
- December 10 – Dominic Costa, Australian politician (d. 1976)
- December 12 – Sammy Davis, Sr., American dancer (d. 1988)
- December 20 – Marinus van der Goes van Naters, Dutch politician (d. 2005)
[edit] Deaths [edit] January–June - January 20 – John Ruskin, English writer and social critic (b. 1819)
- January 31 – John Sholto Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry, Scottish nobleman and boxer (b. 1844)
- February 18 – Clinton L. Merriam, American politician (b. 1824)
- March 6
- April 5
- April 12 – James Richard Cocke, American physician, homeopath, and a pioneer hypnotherapist (b. 1863).
- April 17 – George Curry, Wild West robber (Wild Bunch) (shot) (b. 1864)
- April 19 – James Dawson, Australian activist (b. 1806)
- April 22 – Amédée-François Lamy, French soldier (b. 1858) (killed in battle)
- April 24 – George Douglas Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll, British politician (b.1823)
- April 30 – Casey Jones, American railway engineer (b. 1864)
- May 18 – Jean Gaspard Felix Ravaisson-Mollien, French philosopher (b. 1813)
- June 2
- June 3 – Mary Kingsley, English explorer and writer (b. 1862)
- June 5 – Stephen Crane, American author (b. 1871)
- June 11 – Belle Boyd, American Confederate spy and actress (b. 1843)
- June 19 – Princess Josephine of Baden (b. 1813)
[edit] July–December - July 8 – Henry D. Cogswell, American philanthropist (b. 1820)
- July 29 – Umberto I, King of Italy (b. 1844)
- July 31 – Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, second son of Queen Victoria (b. 1844)
- August 10 – Charles Russell, Baron Russell of Killowen, Lord Chief Justice of England (b. 1832)
- August 12 – Wilhelm Steinitz, Austrian-born chess player (b. 1836)
- August 16 – José Maria de Eça de Queiroz, Portuguese writer (b. 1845)
- August 23 – Kuroda Kiyotaka, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1840)
- August 25 – Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher and writer (b. 1844)
- September 23
- September 29 – Samuel Fenton Cary, American politician (b. 1814)
- October 15 – Zdeněk Fibich, Czech composer (b. 1850)
- October 22 – John Sherman, American politician (b.1823)
- November 22 – Sir Arthur Sullivan. English composer (b. 1842)
- November 30 – Oscar Wilde, Irish writer (b. 1854)
[edit] See also - ^ "Calendar in year 1900 (Russia)" (Julian on Saturday), webpage: Julian-1900 (Russia used the Julian calendar until 1919).
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