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As of [[March 1]] ([[Old Style|O.S.]] [[February 17]]), when the Julian calendar acknowledged a leap day and the Gregorian calendar did not, the Julian calendar fell one day farther behind, bringing the difference to 13 days until [[February 28]] ([[Old Style|O.S.]] [[February 15]]), 2100.

== Summary ==

=== Political and military ===
The year 1900 was the end of the [[19th century]] and the beginning of the [[20th century]]. Two days into the new year, the [[United States Secretary of State|U.S. Secretary of State]] [[John Hay]] announced the [[Open Door Policy]] regarding [[Qing dynasty|China]], advocating for equal access for all nations to the Chinese market. The [[1900 Galveston hurricane|Galveston hurricane]] would become the [[List of disasters in the United States by death toll|deadliest]] [[natural disaster]] in United States history, killing between 6,000 and 12,000 people, mostly in and near [[Galveston, Texas]], as well as leaving 10,000 people homeless, destroying 7,000 buildings of all kinds in Galveston. As of [[2025]], it remains the [[Atlantic hurricane|fourth deadliest Atlantic hurricane on record]].
An ongoing [[Boxer Rebellion]] in China escalates with multiple attacks by the [[Boxer movement|Boxers]] on Chinese and European civilians, killing hundreds; the rebellion would progress with the [[Russian invasion of Manchuria|Russian Empire's invasion of Manchuria]] and the [[Battle of Peking (1900)]]. During the [[Scramble for Africa]], the [[Battle of Kousséri]] would see [[French Third Republic|French]] forces secure their domination of [[Chad]], which would become a [[French Chad|French colony]]. Britain would annex the [[South African Republic]] and the [[Orange Free State]] in Southern Africa, becoming the [[Orange River Colony]] until 1910.

For [[British Empire|Britain]], developments such as the [[Siege of Ladysmith#Battle of Platrand|Battle of Platrand]], [[Battle of Spion Kop]] and the [[Battle of Paardeberg]] in the [[Second Boer War]] highlighted the harsh nature of [[Boers|Boer]] [[Guerrilla warfare|guerrilla tactics]]. The British [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]] was founded in 1900, emerging out of the [[Labour movement]] and [[History of the socialist movement in the United Kingdom|socialist parties of the 19th century]]; it would go on to become a major political force in Britain after the [[World War I|First World War]]. The [[Federation of Australia]] is enacted, marking the unification of its colonies into a single country.

=== Science ===
Four main scientific discoveries were achieved in the year 1900:

# [[Max Planck]] formulates [[Planck's law of black-body radiation]], marking the birth of modern [[quantum mechanics]], which would revolutionize humanity's understanding of the [[universe]], leading to groundbreaking discoveries in [[technology]], [[energy]], and the fabric of [[reality]] itself.
# [[Botany|Botanist]] [[Hugo de Vries]] would rediscover [[Mendelian inheritance|Mendel's laws of heredity]], laying the foundation for the field of [[genetics]].
# The [[ABO blood group system]], which becomes fundamental in transfusion medicine is discovered by [[Karl Landsteiner]], saving [[Blood transfusion|countless]] numbers of lives across the globe.
# [[Gamma ray|Gamma Rays]] are discovered by French physicist [[Paul Ulrich Villard|Paul Villard]], while studying [[Uranium carbide|uranium decay]], unveiling the mystery of the universe's most powerful phenomena and marking an important advancement in [[nuclear physics]].

=== Cultural and artistic ===
[[Giacomo Puccini]]'s opera ''[[Tosca]]'' premiers, one of the most frequently performed [[opera]]s worldwide, a [[melodrama]]tic piece set in Rome in June 1800, with the [[Kingdom of Naples]]'s control of Rome threatened by [[Napoleon]]'s [[Italian campaigns of the French Revolutionary Wars|invasion of Italy]]. It contains depictions of torture, murder, and suicide, as well as some of Puccini's best-known lyrical [[aria]]s.{{Year nav|1900}}
[[L. Frank Baum]], an American author, publishes ''[[The Wonderful Wizard of Oz]]'', a cornerstone of American children's literature, marking the first book of the [[List of Oz books|Oz series]].

=== Miscellaneous ===
The [[United States Senate|U.S. Senate]] accepts the British-German Treaty of 1899 on January 14. This formally ended U.S. claims to the [[Samoan Islands]]. The [[Attempts to build a canal across Nicaragua|U.S.-UK Treaty for a Central American Canal]] would be signed on February 5. While the initial plan for a Nicaraguan canal did not materialize, this treaty laid the groundwork for the construction of the [[Panama Canal]], a project of immense geopolitical and economic importance.

The year 1900 also marked [[Rat (Zodiac)|the Year of the Rat]] on the Chinese calendar.
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== Events ==
[[File:Flag Map of The World (1900).png|thumb|358x358px|The world in the year 1900]]

=== January ===
{{Main|January 1900}}
[[File:BoxerSoldiers.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Boxer soldiers]]
* c. January – The first ''[[Michelin Guide]]'' is published for French motorists.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.oldclassiccar.co.uk/guide-michelin-1900.htm|title=Guide Michelin 1900 First edition|website=Old Classic Car|accessdate=2025-05-23}}</ref>
* [[January 2]] – [[U.S. Secretary of State]] [[John Hay]] announces the [[Open Door Policy]] to promote American trade with [[China]].
* [[January 6]] – [[Second Boer War]]: [[Boer]]s attempt to end the [[Siege of Ladysmith]], which leads to the [[Battle of Platrand]].
* [[January 14]]
** [[Giacomo Puccini|Puccini]]'s opera ''[[Tosca]]'' premieres in Rome.<ref>{{Cite web |last=KGaA (www.bertelsmann.com) |first=Bertelsmann SE & Co |title=Rome Celebrates 125 Years Of 'Tosca' - Bertelsmann SE & Co. KGaA |url=https://www.bertelsmann.com/corporate-responsibility/engagement/project/rome-celebrates-125-years-of-tosca.jsp |access-date=2025-07-27 |website=www.bertelsmann.com |language=en}}</ref>
** The [[U.S. Senate]] accepts the British-[[German Empire|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 [[Battle of Spion Kop|Spion Kop]]]]
* [[January 24]] – [[Second Boer War]]: [[Battle of Spion Kop]] – Boer troops defeat the [[British Army]].
* [[January 27]] – [[Boxer Rebellion]]: Foreign diplomats in [[Peking]], [[Qing dynasty]] China, demand that the Boxer rebels (who oppose foreign interests in the country) be disciplined.
* [[January 31]] – Datu Muhammad Salleh, leader of the [[Mat Salleh Rebellion]] in [[North Borneo]], is shot dead in [[Tambunan]].

=== February ===
{{Main|February 1900}}
[[File:LabourPartyPlaque.jpg|thumb|200px|Plaque recording the location of the formation of the [[Labour Party (UK)|British Labour Party]] in 1900.]]
* [[February 5]] – The United Kingdom and the United States sign a treaty for the building of a [[Nicaragua Canal|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 [[Boer]]s at [[Ladysmith, South Africa]].
* [[February 15]] – [[Second Boer War]]: The [[Siege of Kimberley]] is lifted.
* [[February 16]] &ndash; The [[Southern Cross expedition]] led by [[Carsten Borchgrevink]] achieves a new [[Farthest South]] of 78° 50'S, making the first landing at the [[Ross Ice Shelf|Great Ice Barrier]].<ref>{{cite book|author-link= Hugh Robert Mill|last=Mill|first= Hugh Robert|title= The Siege of the South Pole|publisher=[[Alston Rivers]]|location= London|year= 1905 |pages=402}}</ref>
* [[February 17]] – [[Second Boer War]]: [[Battle of Paardeberg]] – British troops defeat the Boers.
* [[February 27]]
** The [[Labour Party (UK)|British Labour Party]] is officially established, at a meeting in the [[Congregational Memorial Hall]] in [[London]],<ref>{{Cite web |last=Flett |first=Keith |title=The Labour Party: a complicated birth |url=https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/labour-party-complicated-birth |access-date=2025-09-14 |website=Morning Star |language=en}}</ref> 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 Munich|FC Bayern]], Germany's most successful [[association football|football]] club, is founded in [[Munich]].

=== March ===
{{Main|March 1900}}
* [[March 5]] – Two U.S. Navy [[cruiser]]s 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 [[Mendelian inheritance|Mendel's laws of heredity]].
* [[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 20]] — Thomas lambert received a patent for some of the first indestructible type [[Phonograph cylinder|cylinder records]].
* [[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 system]]<ref>Landsteiner, 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)</ref> and for which he will be awarded the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] in 1930.

=== April ===
{{Main|April 1900}}
[[Image:Vue panoramique de l'exposition universelle de 1900.jpg|thumb|right|115px|Exposition Universelle view in Paris]]
* [[April 14]] – The [[Exposition Universelle (1900)|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.
* [[April 30]] – [[Casey Jones]] dies in fatal train accident after his locomotive, No. 382, plows into the caboose and two fully loaded boxcars of corn and hay of locomotive No. 83.

=== May ===
{{Main|May 1900}}
* May – American [[explorer]] [[Robert Peary]] is the first person to sight [[Kaffeklubben Island]].<ref>{{cite book|title=The Canadian Surveyor|publisher=Canadian Institute of Surveying and Mapping|year=1970 |page=150}}</ref>
* [[May 1]] – [[Scofield Mine disaster]]: An explosion of blasting powder in a [[coal]] mine in [[Scofield, Utah]], kills 200 people.
* [[May 14]] – The second [[Olympic Games]], [[Paris 1900]], open (as part of the [[Exposition Universelle (1900)|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 [[List of Oz books|Oz books]], chronicling the fictional [[Land of Oz]] for children.
* [[May 18]] – The United Kingdom proclaims a [[protectorate]] over [[Tonga]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Minnerop |first1=Petra |last2=Wolfrum |first2=Rüdiger |last3=Lachenmann |first3=Frauke |title=International Development Law: The Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law |date=2019 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-883509-7 |page=784 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HiKQDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA784 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[May 21]] – The [[Chinese province]] of [[Manchuria]] is invaded by the [[Russian Empire]].
* [[May 24]] – [[Second Boer War]]: The British annex the [[Orange Free State]], as the [[Orange River Colony]].
* [[May 28]] – [[Boxer Rebellion]]: Boxers attack Belgians in the Fengtai railway station.
* [[May 29]] – [[N'Djamena]], the capital city of [[French Chad|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 unite with Japanese forces.

=== June ===
{{Main|June 1900}}
* [[June 5]] – [[Second Boer War]]: British soldiers [[Advance on Pretoria|take Pretoria]].
* [[June 11]] – [[1899–1900 peasant unrest in Bulgaria]] starts to turn passive.<ref>{{cite book|last=Hristov|first=Hristo|year=1962|title=Селските вълнения и бунтове 1899–1900|trans-title=Peasant Disturbances and Rebellions 1899–1900|url=https://chitanka.info/text/29695-selskite-vylnenija-i-buntove-1899-1900.epub|format=epub|language=bg|publisher=Izdatelstvo na Natsionalnia Savet na Otechestvenia Front|via=chitanka.info}}</ref>
* [[June 14]] – The [[Reichstag (German Empire)|Reichstag]] approves the second of the [[German Naval Laws]] allowing expansion of the [[Imperial German Navy]].
* [[June 17]] – [[Boxer Rebellion]]: [[Battle of Dagu Forts (1900)|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]] – [[Taoism|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]] – [[1900 Hoboken Docks fire|Hoboken Docks fire]]: A wharf fire at the docks in [[Hoboken, New Jersey]], spreads to German [[passenger ship]]s {{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 ===
{{Main|July 1900}}
[[File:First Zeppelin ascent.jpg|thumbnail|[[July 2]]: First successful rigid airship flight by [[Zeppelin LZ 1|Zeppelin ''LZ 1'']]]]
[[File:Map of Australia.png|thumb|150px|[[July 9]]: [[Federation of Australia]] enacted.]]
* [[July 1]] – [[Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria]] makes a [[morganatic marriage]] with [[Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg]].
* [[July 2]] – The first [[zeppelin]] [[airship]] flight, by [[Zeppelin LZ 1]], is carried out over [[Lake Constance]], near [[Friedrichshafen]], [[German Empire|Germany]].
* [[July 9]] – The [[Federation of Australia]] is enacted, marking the unification of its colonies into a single country.
* [[July 12]] – The new [[German Empire|German]] [[cruise liner]] [[SS Deutschland (1900)|SS ''Deutschland'']] breaks the record for the [[Blue Riband]] on her maiden transatlantic voyage with an average speed of {{convert|22.4|kn|km/h}}.
* [[July 19]] – The first line of the [[Paris Métro]] opens.
* [[July 23]] – [[July 25|25]] – The [[First Pan-African Conference]] is held in London.
* [[July 29]] – King [[Umberto I of Italy]] is assassinated by [[Italians|Italian]]-born anarchist [[Gaetano Bresci]] in [[Monza]].

=== August ===
{{Main|August 1900}}
* [[August 14]] – [[Boxer Rebellion]]: An international contingent of troops, under British command, invades [[Peking]] and frees the European hostages.

=== September ===
{{Main|September 1900}}
* [[September 8]] – The [[1900 Galveston hurricane]], killing around 8,000 people. It is the deadliest hurricane in U.S. history.
* [[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.

=== October ===
{{Main|October 1900}}
* [[October 9]] – The [[Cook Islands]] become a territory of the United Kingdom.
* [[October 19]] – [[Max Planck]] first states [[Planck's law]] of [[black-body radiation]] to a meeting of the [[German Physical Society]] in Berlin, marking the birth of modern [[quantum mechanics]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Gamow|first=Max|title=Thirty Years that Shook Physics|publisher=Dover Publications|isbn=978-0486248950|year=1985}}</ref> He restates it on December 14.
* [[October 24]] – [[1900 United Kingdom general election]]: voting concludes with the [[Unionist government, 1895–1905|Unionist]]s led by the [[Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury|Marquess of Salisbury]] re-elected.
* [[October 25]] – The United Kingdom annexes the [[South African Republic|Transvaal]].

===November===
{{Main|November 1900}}
* [[November 6]] – [[1900 United States presidential election]]: [[United States Republican Party|Republican]] incumbent [[William McKinley]] is re-elected by defeating [[United States Democratic Party|Democratic]] challenger [[William Jennings Bryan]] in a rematch.
* [[November 7]] – [[1900 Canadian federal election]]: [[Canadian Liberal Party|Liberal]] incumbent [[Sir Wilfrid Laurier]] is reelected by defeating [[Canadian Conservative Party|Conservative]] leader [[Sir Charles Tupper]] again after having done that in the [[1896 Canadian federal election]].
* [[November 29]] – [[Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener|Herbert Kitchener]] succeeds [[Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts|Frederick Roberts]] as commander-in-chief of the British forces in South Africa and implements a [[scorched earth]] strategy.<ref>{{cite book|last=Pakenham|first=Thomas|title=The Boer War|publisher=Jonathan Ball Publishers|year=1979|isbn=978-0868500461}}</ref>

=== December ===
{{Main|December 1900}}
* [[December 5]] – The final [[Anglo-Ashanti wars|Anglo-Ashanti War]], "[[War of the Golden Stool]]", is declared over. Most of the British troops and [[James Willcocks|Governor James Willcocks]] depart the city of [[Kumasi]].
* [[December 14]] – [[History of quantum mechanics]]: [[Max Planck]] presents his groundbreaking paper on [[Quantum mechanics|quantum theory]] to the [[German Physical Society]] in [[Berlin]].
* [[December 16]] – The German training [[frigate]] ''[[SMS Gneisenau (1879)|Gneisenau]]'', with 450 naval cadets on board, sinks in a storm during exercises off of the Spanish coast at [[Málaga]], drowning 136.
* [[December 17]] – The [[Prix Guzman]], first and only prize ever offered for communication with [[extraterrestrial life]], is announced in [[Paris]]. A prize of 100,000 francs is provided, except for communication with [[Mars]], which is considered too easy.
* [[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 23]] – [[Reginald Fessenden]] makes the first use of [[amplitude modulation]] (the basis for [[AM broadcasting|AM radio]]) for wireless transmission of the human voice, from [[Cobb Island (Maryland)]].
* [[December 24]] – [[Boxer Rebellion]] Demands: The foreign powers present their 12 conditions for reform to the [[Qing dynasty|Chinese Imperial]] government, including the payment of a large indemnity.
* [[December 28]] – The first steel produced by [[electrometallurgy]] (from an electric furnace) is delivered.

== Births ==
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=== January ===
[[File:Sugihara b.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Chiune Sugihara]]]]
[[File:Kraljica marija.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Queen Maria of Yugoslavia]]]]
[[File:Hyman Rickover 1955.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Hyman G. Rickover]]]]
* [[January 1]]
** [[Xavier Cugat]], Spanish-born Cuban bandleader (d. [[1990]])<ref>{{cite book | last = Roberts | first = John | title = The Latin tinge : the impact of Latin American music on the United States | publisher = Oxford University Press | location = New York | year = 1999 | isbn = 9780195121018 | page=59}}</ref>
** [[Chiune Sugihara]], Japanese diplomat and humanitarian (d. [[1986]])<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.raoulwallenberg.net/saviors/others/sempo-quot-chiune-quot-914/|title=Sempo "Chiune" Sugihara, Japanese Savior|work=The International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation|access-date=2017-10-23|language=en-US|archive-date=April 21, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130421045129/http://www.raoulwallenberg.net/saviors/others/sempo-quot-chiune-quot-914/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[January 2]] – [[William Haines]], American actor (d. [[1973]])
* [[January 3]] – [[Maurice Jaubert]], French composer and soldier (d. [[1940]])
* [[January 4]] – [[James Bond (ornithologist)|James Bond]], American ornithologist (d. [[1989]])
* [[January 5]] – [[Yves Tanguy]], French painter (d. [[1955]])
* [[January 6]] – [[Maria of Yugoslavia]], queen consort (d. [[1961]])<ref name=":3">{{Cite news|url=http://www.royalfamily.org/dynasty/hm-queen-maria-of-yugoslavia/|title=HM Queen Maria of Yugoslavia|work=Royal Family of Serbia|access-date=2017-10-17|language=en-US|archive-date=April 13, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140413202412/http://www.royalfamily.org/dynasty/hm-queen-maria-of-yugoslavia/|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[January 8]]
** [[Dorothy Adams]], American character actress (d. [[1988]])<ref>{{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/20190917150900/http://www.classicmoviehub.com/bio/dorothy-adams/|url-status=live}}</ref>
** [[Solon Earl Low]], Canadian [[Social Credit Party of Canada|social credit]] politician (d. [[1962]])
* [[January 16]] – [[Edith Frank]], German-Dutch mother of [[Anne Frank]] (d. [[1945]])<ref name=":4">{{Cite web|url=http://www.annefrank.org/en/Anne-Franks-History/All-people/Edith-Frank/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100706062831/http://www.annefrank.org/en/Anne-Franks-History/All-people/Edith-Frank/|url-status=dead|archive-date=2010-07-06|title=Edith Frank|date=2010-07-06|access-date=2017-10-18}}</ref>
* [[January 18]] – [[Wan Laiming]], Chinese animator (d. [[1997]])
* [[January 20]] – [[Colin Clive]], British actor (d. [[1937]])
* [[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 30]] – [[Martita Hunt]], Argentine-born British actress (d. [[1969]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/67/101067806/|title=Martita Hunt|website=oxforddnb.com|access-date=2017-10-19|archive-date=December 20, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161220125843/http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/67/101067806/|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[January 31]] – [[Betty Parsons]], American artist, art dealer and collector (d. [[1982]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.anb.org/articles/17/17-01999.html|title=American National Biography Online: Parsons, Betty|website=anb.org|access-date=2017-10-18|archive-date=March 22, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160322025247/http://www.anb.org/articles/17/17-01999.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

=== February ===
[[File:AdlaiEStevenson1900-1965.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Adlai Stevenson II]]]]
[[File:Aubert jeanne.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Jeanne Aubert]]]]
* [[February 4]] – [[Jacques Prévert]], French lyricist and author (d. [[1977]])
* [[February 5]] – [[Adlai Stevenson II]], American politician (d. [[1965]])
* [[February 11]] 
** [[Ellen Broe]], Danish nurse, pioneer in nursing education (d. [[1994]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.kvinfo.dk/side/597/bio/313/origin/170/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070708132625/http://www.kvinfo.dk/side/597/bio/313/origin/170/|url-status=dead|archive-date=2007-07-08|title=Dansk Kvindebiografisk Leksikon – Ellen Broe|date=2007-07-08|access-date=2017-10-19}}</ref>
** [[Hans-Georg Gadamer]], German philosopher (d. [[2002]])
** [[Jōsei Toda]], Japanese educator and activist (d. [[1958]])
* [[February 12]]
** [[Vasily Chuikov]], Soviet general, [[Marshal of the Soviet Union]] during WWII (d. [[1982]])
** [[Roger J. Traynor]], American judge (d. [[1983]])
* [[February 21]] – [[Jeanne Aubert]], French singer and actress (d. [[1988]])<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.histoire-vesinet.org/j-aubertbio.htm|title=Biographie de Jeanne Aubert (1900–1988)|website=histoire-vesinet.org|access-date=2017-10-20|archive-date=October 21, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171021061414/http://www.histoire-vesinet.org/j-aubertbio.htm|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[February 22]] – [[Luis Buñuel]], Spanish film director (d. [[1983]])
* [[February 24]] – [[Irmgard Bartenieff]], German-American dancer, physical therapist and pioneer of [[dance therapy]] (d. [[1981]])
* [[February 26]] – [[Halina Konopacka]], Polish discus thrower, Olympic champion ([[Athletics at the 1928 Summer Olympics – Women's discus throw|1928]]) (d. [[1989]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.olimpijski.pl/pl/bio/1020,konopacka-matuszewska-szczerbinska-halina-wlasciwie-leonarda-kazimiera.html|title=Biografie • Polski Komitet Olimpijski|last=Olimpijski|first=Polski Komitet|website=olimpijski.pl|language=pl|access-date=2017-10-18|archive-date=October 14, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181014212253/http://www.olimpijski.pl/pl/bio/1020,konopacka-matuszewska-szczerbinska-halina-wlasciwie-leonarda-kazimiera.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>

=== March ===
[[File:Gral. Gustavo Rojas Pinilla.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Gustavo Rojas Pinilla]]]]
[[File:Sir John McEwen.jpg|thumb|100px|[[John McEwen|Sir John McEwen]]]]
[[File:Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester]]]]
* [[March 3]] 
**[[Maghfoor Ahmad Ajazi]], Indian independence activist (d. [[1966]])<ref name="Mpositive">{{cite web|title=Maghfoor Ahmad Ajazi|url=https://www.mpositive.in/tag/dr-maghfoor-ahmed-ajazi-bihar/|website=mpositive.in|date=August 30, 2020|access-date=January 28, 2022|archive-date=January 23, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220123142325/https://www.mpositive.in/tag/dr-maghfoor-ahmed-ajazi-bihar/|url-status=live}}</ref>
**[[Edna Best]], British actress (d. [[1974]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://projects.latimes.com/hollywood/star-walk/edna-best/|title=Edna Best – Hollywood Star Walk – Los Angeles Times|website=projects.latimes.com|language=en|access-date=2017-10-23|archive-date=October 23, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171023063243/http://projects.latimes.com/hollywood/star-walk/edna-best/|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[March 4]] – [[Herbert Biberman]], American screenwriter, film director (d. [[1971]])
* [[March 7]] 
** [[Fritz London]], German physicist (d. [[1954]]) 
** [[Carel Willink]], Dutch painter (d. [[1983]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://artway.eu/content.php?id=3366&lang=en&action=show|title=ArtWay.eu|website=artway.eu}}</ref>
* [[March 8]] – [[Howard H. Aiken]], American computing pioneer (d. [[1973]])
* [[March 12]] – [[Gustavo Rojas Pinilla]], 19th [[President of Colombia]] (d. [[1975]])
* [[March 13]] 
** [[Sālote Tupou III]], queen regnant of Tonga, (d. [[1965]])<ref>{{cite book|last=Wood-Ellem|first=Elizabeth|author-link=Elizabeth Wood-Ellem|title=Queen Sālote of Tonga: The Story of an Era 1900–1965|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h5LL854qzTAC|year=1999|publisher=Auckland University Press|location=Auckland, N.Z|isbn=978-0-8248-2529-4|oclc=262293605|page=1}}</ref>
** [[Giorgos Seferis]], Greek poet, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Literature]] (d. [[1971]])
* [[March 17]] – [[Alfred Newman (composer)|Alfred Newman]], American film composer (d. [[1970]])
* [[March 19]] – [[Frédéric Joliot-Curie]], French physicist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]] (d. [[1958]])<ref>{{cite web |title=The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1935 |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/1935/joliot-fred/facts/ |website=NobelPrize.org |access-date=2 January 2022 |archive-date=October 22, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221022045213/https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/1935/joliot-fred/facts/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[March 23]] – [[Erich Fromm]], German-born psychologist and philosopher (d. [[1980]])<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.enelvolcan.com/oct2013/294-fromm-otro-volcan-en-cuernavaca|title=Fromm: otro volcán en Cuernavaca|publisher=En el Volcan|date=October 1, 2013|access-date=June 1, 2019|language=es|trans-title=Fromm: Another volcano in Cuernavaca|archive-date=May 31, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230531165844/http://www.enelvolcan.com/oct2013/294-fromm-otro-volcan-en-cuernavaca|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[March 29]]
** [[John McEwen|Sir John McEwen]], 18th [[Prime Minister of Australia]] (d. [[1980]])<ref>C.J. Lloyd, '[https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/mcewen-sir-john-10948 McEwen, Sir John (1900–1980)] ', [[Australian Dictionary of Biography]], Vol. 15, Melbourne University Press, 2000, pp 205–208.</ref>
** [[Oscar Elton Sette]], American fisheries scientist (d. [[1972]])
* [[March 31]] – [[Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester]], British royal family member (d. [[1974]])

=== April ===
[[File:Spencer tracy state of the union.jpg|thumb|right|100px|[[Spencer Tracy]]]]
[[File:Pauli.jpg|thumb|right|100px|[[Wolfgang Pauli]]]]
* [[April 1]] – [[Stefanie Clausen]], Danish Olympic diver (d. [[1981]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.stefanie-fryland-clausen.com/|title=Stefanie Fryland Clausen|website=stefanie-fryland-clausen.com|language=en-US|access-date=2017-10-19|archive-date=April 1, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190401112722/http://www.stefanie-fryland-clausen.com/|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[April 3]] – [[Camille Chamoun]], 7th president of Lebanon (d. [[1987]])
* [[April 5]] – [[Spencer Tracy]], American actor (d. [[1967]]) 
* [[April 8]] – [[Marie Byles]], Australian solicitor (d. [[1979]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/byles-marie-beuzeville-9652|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150411235131/http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/byles-marie-beuzeville-9652|url-status=live|archive-date=2015-04-11|title=Biography – Marie Beuzeville Byles – Australian Dictionary of Biography|date=2015-04-11|access-date=2017-10-22}}</ref>
* [[April 11]] – [[Sándor Márai]], Hungarian writer and journalist (d. [[1989]])
* [[April 16]] – [[Polly Adler]], Russian-born American author, madam (d. [[1962]])<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/notableamericanw00sich_0/page/7 |title=Notable American women : the modern period : a biographical dictionary |date=1980 |publisher=Belknap Press of Harvard University Press |isbn=9780674627338 |editor-last=Sicherman |editor-first=Barbara |location=Cambridge, Mass. |pages=[https://archive.org/details/notableamericanw00sich_0/page/7 7] |oclc=6487187 |editor-last2=Green |editor-first2=Carol Hurd}}</ref>
* [[April 18]] – [[Bertha Isaacs]], Bahamian teacher, tennis player, politician and women's rights activist (d. [[1997]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.womensuffragebahamas.com/history/suffrage-women/albertha-isaacs/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121128230606/http://www.womensuffragebahamas.com/history/suffrage-women/albertha-isaacs/|url-status=dead|archive-date=2012-11-28|title=Albertha Isaacs « Women Suffrage Bahamas|date=2012-11-28|access-date=2017-10-19}}</ref>
* [[April 21]] – [[Hans Fritzsche]], German Nazi official (d. [[1953]])
* [[April 24]] – [[Elizabeth Goudge]], English novelist (d. [[1984]])<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/04/27/obituaries/elizabeth-goudge.html|title=ELIZABETH GOUDGE|date=1984-04-27|work=The New York Times|access-date=2017-10-20|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=January 30, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180130034152/http://www.nytimes.com/1984/04/27/obituaries/elizabeth-goudge.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[April 25]] – [[Wolfgang Pauli]], Austrian-born American physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1958]])
* [[April 26]] – [[Charles Richter]], American seismologist and physicist (d. [[1985]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Charles-F-Richter|title=Charles F. Richter &#124; Seismology, Earthquake Magnitude & Caltech &#124; Britannica|date=April 22, 2025|website=www.britannica.com}}</ref>
* [[April 28]] – [[Maurice Thorez]], French Communist leader (d. [[1964]])
* [[April 30]] – [[David Manners]], Canadian-American actor (d. [[1998]])

=== May ===
* [[May 1]] – [[Ignazio Silone]], Italian author (d. [[1978]])
* [[May 2]] – [[A. W. Lawrence]], British archaeologist (d. [[1991]])
* [[May 6]] – [[Zheng Ji (biochemist)|Zheng Ji]], Chinese nutritionist, biochemist (d. [[2010]])
* [[May 10]]
** [[Beryl May Dent]], English mathematical physicist (d. [[1977]])<ref>{{Cite book|author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.-->|year=2003|title=Beryl Dent at the University of Bristol Department of Physics|publisher=[[University of Bristol]] Physics Library|id=DM1961/2|type=Document|location=Bristol|language=en|url=https://archives.bristol.ac.uk/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=DM1961%2f2&pos=1|access-date=May 11, 2021|archive-date=October 20, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211020133627/https://archives.bristol.ac.uk/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=DM1961/2&pos=1|url-status=live}}</ref>
** [[Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin]], British-American astronomer, astrophysicist (d. [[1979]])<ref>{{Cite book|title=The biographical encyclopedia of astronomers |date=2007|publisher=Springer |editor1=Thomas Hockey |editor2=Virginia Trimble |editor3=Thomas R. Williams |editor4=Katherine Bracher |editor5=Richard A. Jarrell |editor6=Jordan D. Marché |editor7=JoAnn Palmeri |editor8=Daniel W. E. Green|isbn=9780387304007|location=New York, NY|pages=[https://archive.org/details/biographicalency00hock_878/page/n907 876]|oclc=184930573}}</ref>
* [[May 11]] – [[Thomas H. Robbins Jr.]], American admiral (d. [[1972]])
* [[May 13]] – [[Karl Wolff]], German SS functionary and war criminal (d. [[1984]])
* [[May 14]] – [[Cai Chang]], Chinese politician, women's rights activist (d. [[1990]])<ref>{{Cite book|title=Encyclopedia of women social reformers|url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopediawome00rapp|url-access=limited|first=Helen|last=Rappaport|date=2001|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=1576075818|location=Santa Barbara, Calif.|pages=[https://archive.org/details/encyclopediawome00rapp/page/n162 125]–126|oclc=52710512}}</ref>
* [[May 15]] – [[Ida Rhodes]], American mathematician, pioneer in computer programming (d. [[1986]])<ref>{{Cite book|title=Notable women in mathematics : a biographical dictionary|date=1998|publisher=Greenwood Press |editor1=Morrow, Charlene |editor2=Perl, Teri|isbn=9780313291319|location=Westport, Conn.|oclc=36768082|url=https://archive.org/details/notablewomeninma00morr}}</ref>
* [[May 23]] – [[Hans Frank]], German Nazi official (executed [[1946]])
* [[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]])<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia|url=http://www.scencyclopedia.org/sce/entries/godbold-lucile-ellerbe/|title=Godbold, Lucile Ellerbe – South Carolina Encyclopedia|encyclopedia=South Carolina Encyclopedia|access-date=2017-10-19|language=en-US|archive-date=October 20, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171020035121/http://www.scencyclopedia.org/sce/entries/godbold-lucile-ellerbe/|url-status=live}}</ref>

=== June ===
[[File:Dennis Gabor 1971b.jpg|thumb|100px|right|[[Dennis Gabor]]]]
[[File:11exupery-inline1-500.jpg|thumb|100px|right|[[Antoine de Saint-Exupéry]]]]
* [[June 5]] – [[Dennis Gabor]], Hungarian-born British physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1979]])
* [[June 7]] – [[Frederick Terman]], American electrical engineer, professor (d. [[1982]])
* [[June 11]] – [[Leopoldo Marechal]], Argentine writer (d. [[1970]])
* [[June 17]] 
** [[Martin Bormann]], German Nazi official (d. [[1945]])
** [[Evelyn Irons]], Scottish journalist, war correspondent (d. [[2000]])<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/04/30/nyregion/evelyn-irons-war-reporter-is-dead-at-99.html|title=Evelyn Irons, War Reporter, Is Dead at 99|last=Lewis|first=Paul|date=2000-04-30|work=The New York Times|access-date=2017-10-18|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=July 31, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170731204124/http://www.nytimes.com/2000/04/30/nyregion/evelyn-irons-war-reporter-is-dead-at-99.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[June 21]] – [[Choe Yong-gon (army commander)|Choi Yong-kun]], North Korean general, defense minister (d. [[1976]])
* [[June 24]] – [[Raphael Lemkin]], Polish international lawyer (d. [[1959]])
* [[June 25]]
** [[Georgia Hale]], American silent film actress (d. [[1985]])<ref>{{Cite book|title=Charlie Chaplin: intimate close-ups|last=Hale|first=Georgia|date=1999|publisher=Scarecrow|others=Kiernan, Heather.|isbn=978-1578860043|location=Lanham, Md.|pages=x|oclc=43929623}}</ref>
** [[Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma]], English naval officer and last Viceroy of India (assassinated) (d. [[1979]])
* [[June 29]] – [[Antoine de Saint-Exupéry]], French aviator and writer (d. [[1944]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Antoine-de-Saint-Exupery|title=Antoine de Saint-Exupéry &#124; French Aviator, Author & Poet &#124; Britannica|website=www.britannica.com}}</ref>

=== July ===
[[File:Eyvind.JPG|thumb|100px|[[Eyvind Johnson]]]]
* [[July 3]] – [[Alessandro Blasetti]], Italian film director and screenwriter (d. [[1987]])
* [[July 4]] 
** [[Robert Desnos]], French poet (d. [[1945]])
** [[Nellie Mae Rowe]], African-American folk artist (d. [[1982]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/nellie-mae-rowe-1900-1982|title=Nellie Mae Rowe (1900–1982)|website=New Georgia Encyclopedia|access-date=2017-10-20|archive-date=October 12, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171012231435/http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/nellie-mae-rowe-1900-1982|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[July 5]] – [[Bernardus Johannes Alfrink]], Dutch cardinal, Archbishop of Utrecht (d. 1987)<ref>[https://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/balfrink.html Bernardus Johannes Cardinal Alfrink]. ''Catholic Hierarchy''. Retrieved 25 Sep 2024.</ref>
* [[July 6]] – [[Frederica Sagor Maas]], American playwright, essayist and author (d. [[2012]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://wfpp.cdrs.columbia.edu/pioneer/ccp-frederica-sagor-maas/|title=Frederica Sagor Maas – Women Film Pioneers Project|website=wfpp.cdrs.columbia.edu|access-date=2017-10-23|archive-date=December 21, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181221111335/https://wfpp.cdrs.columbia.edu/pioneer/ccp-frederica-sagor-maas/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[July 7]] – [[Earle E. Partridge]], American general (d. [[1990]])
* [[July 10]] – [[Evelyn Laye]], English actress (d. [[1996]])<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Evelyn-Laye|title=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/20201103170449/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Evelyn-Laye|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[July 13]] – [[George Lewis (clarinetist)|George Lewis]], American jazz clarinetist (d. [[1968]])
* [[July 23]] – [[John Babcock]], last surviving Canadian World War I veteran (d. [[2010]])
* [[July 28]] – [[Lady Dorothy Macmillan]], spouse of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. [[1966]])
* [[July 29]] 
** [[Eyvind Johnson]], Swedish novelist, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1976]])
** [[Teresa Noce]], Italian labor leader, activist and journalist (d. [[1980]])<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia|date=2002-01-01|title=Noce, Teresa (1900–1980)|encyclopedia=Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia|url=https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G2-2591307063.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160220190538/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G2-2591307063.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=2016-02-20}}</ref>

=== August ===
[[File:Arturo Umberto Illia 1965.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Arturo Umberto Illia]]]]
[[File:Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother portrait.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother]]]]
* [[August 3]] – [[Ernie Pyle]], American journalist (d. [[1945]])
* [[August 4]] 
** [[Arturo Umberto Illia]], 34th [[President of Argentina]] (d. [[1983]])
** [[Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother]], British queen consort of [[George VI]] (d. [[2002]])<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Elizabeth-queen-consort-of-United-Kingdom|title=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/20171022195611/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Elizabeth-queen-consort-of-United-Kingdom|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[August 6]] – [[Cecil Howard Green]], British-born geophysicist, businessman (d. [[2003]])
* [[August 9]] – [[Charles Farrell]], American actor (d. [[1990]])
* [[August 10]] – [[Arthur Porritt, Baron Porritt]], New Zealand politician, athlete (d. [[1994]])
* [[August 11]] – [[Alexander Mosolov]], Russian composer (d. [[1973]])
* [[August 15]] – [[Estelle Brody]], American silent film actress (d. [[1995]])<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituaryestelle-brody-1585164.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituaryestelle-brody-1585164.html |archive-date=May 1, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=OBITUARY:Estelle Brody|date=1995-06-06|work=The Independent|access-date=2017-10-22|language=en-GB}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
* [[August 17]] – [[Vivienne de Watteville]], British travel writer and adventurer (d. [[1957]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.lukashartmann.ch/pdf/1.7.a.Erw.Tochter%20Materialien.pdf|title=Materialien zum Lukas Hartmanns Roman "Die Tochter des Jägers"|last=Hartmann|first=Lukas|website=Lukas Hartmann|language=de|access-date=October 23, 2017|archive-date=March 3, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303201811/http://www.lukashartmann.ch/pdf/1.7.a.Erw.Tochter%20Materialien.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[August 18]]
** [[Glenn Albert Black]], American archaeologist (d. [[1964]])
** [[Ruth Norman]], American religious leader (d. [[1993]])<ref>{{Cite book|title=When prophecy never fails : myth and reality in a flying-saucer group|last=Tumminia|first= Diana G.|date=2005|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=9780195176759|location=Oxford|pages=Appendix 1|oclc=56481658}}</ref>
* [[August 19]]
** [[Colleen Moore]], American actress (d. [[1988]])<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Colleen-Moore|title=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/20171023013242/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Colleen-Moore|url-status=live}}</ref>
** [[Gilbert Ryle]], British philosopher (d. [[1976]])
** [[Dorothy Burr Thompson]], American archaeologist, art historian (d. [[2001]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.brown.edu/Research/Breaking_Ground/bios/Thompson_Dorothy%20Burr.pdf|title=Dorothy Burr Thompson 1900–2001|last=Uhlenbrock|first=Jaimee P.|website=Brown University|access-date=October 22, 2017|archive-date=August 9, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170809205352/http://www.brown.edu/Research/Breaking_Ground/bios/Thompson_Dorothy%20Burr.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[August 23]] – [[Ernst Krenek]], Austrian-American composer (d. [[1991]])
* [[August 25]] – [[Hans Krebs (biochemist)|Sir Hans Krebs]], German-born British biochemist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (d. [[1981]])

=== September ===
[[File:Urho-Kekkonen-1977-c.jpg|thumb|right|100px|[[Urho Kekkonen]]]]
* [[September 3]] – [[Urho Kekkonen]], 8th [[President of Finland]] (d. [[1986]])
* [[September 6]] – [[W. A. C. Bennett]], Canadian politician (d. [[1979]])
* [[September 8]] – [[Tilly Devine]], English-born Australian organised crime boss (d. [[1970]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/devine-matilda-mary-tilly-5970|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150623031546/http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/devine-matilda-mary-tilly-5970|url-status=live|archive-date=2015-06-23|title=Biography – Matilda Mary (Tilly) Devine – Australian Dictionary of Biography|date=2015-06-23|access-date=2017-10-22}}</ref>
* [[September 17]] – [[J. Willard Marriott]], American entrepreneur, founder of [[Marriott International]] (d. [[1985]])
* [[September 18]] – [[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 26]] – [[Suzanne Belperron]], French jewellery designer (d. [[1983]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.langantiques.com/university/Belperron|title=Belperron – AJU|website=langantiques.com|language=en|access-date=2017-10-22|archive-date=October 23, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171023064257/http://www.langantiques.com/university/Belperron|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[September 29]] – [[Miguel Alemán Valdés]], 46th [[President of Mexico]], 1946–1952 (d. [[1983]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.miguelaleman.org/index.php/biografias/presidente-miguel-aleman-valdes|title=Biografia|publisher=Fundacion Miguel Aleman, A.C.|language=es|access-date=May 31, 2019|archive-date=December 21, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221221031347/https://www.miguelaleman.org/index.php/biografias/presidente-miguel-aleman-valdes|url-status=usurped}}</ref>

=== October ===
[[File:Promotional photograph of Helen Hayes.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Helen Hayes]]]]
[[File:Princess Mother Srinagarindra.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Srinagarindra]]]]
[[File:Douglas Jardine.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Douglas Jardine]]]]
* [[October 5]] – [[Bing Xin]], Chinese author, poet, known for her contributions to children's literature (d. [[1999]])<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Bingxin|title=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/20190330180156/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Bingxin|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[October 7]] – [[Heinrich Himmler]], German Nazi official, SS head (d. [[1945]])
* [[October 10]] – [[Helen Hayes]], American actress (d. [[1993]])<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Helen-Hayes|title=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/20230926082631/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Helen-Hayes|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[October 16]] – [[Edward Ardizzone]], English painter, printmaker and author (d. [[1979]])
* [[October 17]] – [[Jean Arthur]], American actress (d. [[1991]])<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jean-Arthur|title=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/20171022200126/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jean-Arthur|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[October 18]] – [[Sarah Bavly]], Dutch-Israeli nutritionist, author and educator (d. [[1993]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/Bavly-Sarah|title=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/20190603181316/https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/bavly-sarah|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[October 19]] – [[Bill Ponsford]], Australian cricketer (d. [[1991]])
* [[October 20]] – [[Ismail al-Azhari]], 2nd [[Prime Minister of Sudan]], 3rd [[President of Sudan]] (d. [[1969]])
* [[October 21]] – [[Srinagarindra]], Princess Mother of Thailand (d. [[1995]])
* [[October 23]] – [[Douglas Jardine]], English cricketer (d. [[1958]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/cricketers/douglas-jardine-15481|title=Douglas Jardine Profile - Cricket Player England &#124; Stats, Records, Video|website=ESPNcricinfo}}</ref>
* [[October 26]] 
** [[Ibrahim Abboud]], 4th prime minister, 1st president of Sudan (d. [[1983]])
** [[Karin Boye]], Swedish poet and novelist (d. [[1941]])<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Karin-Boye|title=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/20170812155655/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Karin-Boye|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[October 28]] – [[Wajid Ali Khan Burki]], Pakistani ophthalmologist and army officer.<ref>[https://history.rcplondon.ac.uk/inspiring-physicians/wajid-ali-khan-burki Wajid Ali Khan Burki]. ''Royal College of Physicians''. Retrieved 12 May 2024.</ref>
* [[October 30]] – [[Ragnar Granit]], Finnish-born Swedish physiologist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]].<ref>{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Ragnar Granit |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ragnar-Granit |website=britannica.com |publisher=Encyclopædia Britannica Online |access-date=30 November 2022 |language= |date=}}</ref>

=== November ===
[[File:Margaret Mitchell NYWTS.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Margaret Mitchell]]]]
[[File:Aaron Copland 1970.JPG|thumb|100px|[[Aaron Copland]]]]
* [[November 4]] – [[Lucrețiu Pătrășcanu]], Romanian communist activist, sociologist (d. [[1954]])
* [[November 5]]
** [[Martin Dies Jr.]], American politician (d. [[1972]])
** [[Natalie Schafer]], American actress (d. [[1991]])
* [[November 8]] – [[Margaret Mitchell]], American novelist (''[[Gone with the Wind (film)|Gone With The Wind]]'') (d. [[1949]])<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Margaret-Mitchell|title=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/20200628021722/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Margaret-Mitchell|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[November 13]] – [[David Marshall Williams]], American inventor (d. [[1975]])
* [[November 14]] – [[Aaron Copland]], American composer (d. [[1990]])
* [[November 16]]
** [[Eliška Junková]], Czechoslovakian automobile racer (d. [[1994]])<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.auto-veteran.com/index.php/en/latest-news/item/329-eliska-junkova-1900-1994-en|title=AVC – Famous Racing drivers – Eliška Junková|access-date=2017-10-19|language=en-gb|archive-date=October 19, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171019111929/https://www.auto-veteran.com/index.php/en/latest-news/item/329-eliska-junkova-1900-1994-en|url-status=live}}</ref>
** [[Nikolai Pogodin]], Soviet playwright (d. [[1962]])
* [[November 19]] – [[Anna Seghers]], German writer (d. [[1983]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Anna Seghers |url=https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/seghers-anna |website=Jewish Women's Archive |date=July 5, 2021 |access-date=18 January 2022 |language=en |archive-date=October 10, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231010215329/https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/seghers-anna |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[November 25]] – [[Rudolf Höss]], German Nazi official (d. [[1947]])
* [[November 29]]
** [[Mildred Gillars]], American broadcaster (''Axis Sally''), employed by Nazi Germany to disseminate propaganda during WWII (d. [[1988]])<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mildred-Gillars|title=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/20201026034057/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mildred-Gillars|url-status=live}}</ref>
** [[Håkan Malmrot]], Swedish swimmer (d. [[1987]])
* [[November 30]] – [[Luigi Stipa]], Italian engineer and aircraft designer (d. [[1992]])

=== December ===
[[File:Agnes Moorehead Bewitched 1969.JPG|thumb|100px|[[Agnes Moorehead]]]]
* [[December 3]] – [[Richard Kuhn]], Austrian chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1967]])<ref>{{cite web | editor=Karl Grandin | title=Richard Kuhn Biography | url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1938/kuhn-bio.html | work=Les Prix Nobel | publisher=The Nobel Foundation | year=1938 | access-date=29 November 2020 | archive-date=April 9, 2008 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080409215407/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1938/kuhn-bio.html | url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[December 6]] – [[Agnes Moorehead]], American actress (''[[Bewitched]]'') (d. [[1974]])<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Agnes-Moorehead|title=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/20190419084143/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Agnes-Moorehead|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[December 7]] – [[Kateryna Bilokur]], Ukrainian folk artist (d. [[1961]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://en.uartlib.org/kateryna-bilokur-biographical-sketch/|title=Kateryna Bilokur: Biographical sketch – Ukrainian Art Library|website=en.uartlib.org|language=en-US|access-date=2017-10-21|date=2015-01-22|archive-date=October 9, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181009125621/http://en.uartlib.org/kateryna-bilokur-biographical-sketch/|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[December 16]] – [[Rudolf Diels]], German Nazi civil servant, Gestapo chief (d. [[1957]])
* [[December 17]]
** [[Mary Cartwright]], British mathematician (d. [[1998]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Obits/Cartwright.html|title=Mary Cartwright Times obituary|website=www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk|access-date=2017-10-20|archive-date=May 12, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170512113259/http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Obits/Cartwright.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
** [[Katina Paxinou]], Greek actress (d. [[1973]])<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Katina-Paxinou|title=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/20201108165931/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Katina-Paxinou|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[December 19]] – [[Margaret Brundage]], American illustrator (''[[Weird Tales]]'') (d. [[1976]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/brundage_margaret|title=Authors : Brundage, Margaret : SFE : Science Fiction Encyclopedia|website=sf-encyclopedia.com|language=en|access-date=2017-10-21|archive-date=October 22, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171022085100/http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/brundage_margaret|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[December 22]] – [[Alan Bush]], British composer, pianist and conductor (d. [[1995]])
* [[December 23]] – [[José de León Toral]], Mexican assassin of president [[Álvaro Obregón]] (d. [[1929]])
* [[December 24]] 
**[[Joey Smallwood]], first [[Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador]] (d. [[1991]])
** [[Hussein Al Oweini]], 18th prime minister of Lebanon (d. [[1971]])
* [[December 25]] – [[Antoni Zygmund]], Polish mathematician (d. [[1992]])

=== Date unknown ===
* [[Rubén Jaramillo]], Mexican peasant leader (d. [[1962]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://relatosehistorias.mx/nuestras-historias/quien-fue-ruben-jaramillo|title=¿Quién fue Rubén Jaramillo?|last=Salmerón|first=Luis A.|date=July 3, 2018|publisher=Relatos e Historias de Mexico|access-date=March 10, 2019|language=es|trans-title=Who was Ruben Jaramillo?|archive-date=April 15, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190415233833/https://relatosehistorias.mx/nuestras-historias/quien-fue-ruben-jaramillo|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Yung Fung-shee]], Hong Kong philanthropist (d. [[1972]])

== Deaths ==
=== January–March ===
[[File:John Ruskin 1863.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[John Ruskin]]]]
[[File:gottliebdaimler1.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Gottlieb Daimler]]]]
[[File:Mary Kingsley West African Studies.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Mary Kingsley]]]]
[[File:Josephine Princess of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Princess Josephine of Baden]]]]
* [[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]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article3242352|title=Obituary – Dr. James Martineau, London – January 12, 1900|work=[[The West Australian]] |date=15 January 1900 |page=5 |access-date=15 January 2014 |via=Trove}}</ref> 
* [[January 16]] – [[S. M. I. Henry]], American evangelist (b. [[1839]])
* [[January 20]] – [[John Ruskin]], English writer, artist, and social critic (b. [[1819]])
* [[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]])<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.carl-bechstein-gymnasium.de/profil/artikel/geschichte/erkner/erkneranerhefte/heft3.pdf |author=Bernd Rühle |title=Carl Bechstein (1826–1900) Über Leben und Lebenswerk eines grossen Klavierbauers... |accessdate=6 April 2018 |archive-date=May 5, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190505181133/http://www.carl-bechstein-gymnasium.de/profil/artikel/geschichte/erkner/erkneranerhefte/heft3.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>
** [[Gottlieb Daimler]], German inventor, automotive pioneer (b. [[1834]])
* [[March 7]] – [[Rachel Lloyd (chemist)|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–June ===
* [[April 2]] – [[Gustaf Åkerhielm]], 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 Bunch)|George Curry]], Wild West robber (''Wild Bunch'') (shot) (b. [[1871]])
* [[April 19]] – [[James Dawson (activist)|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|Carit Etlar (Carl Brosbøll)]], Danish author (b. [[1816]])
* [[May 18]] – [[Félix Ravaisson-Mollien]], French philosopher (b. [[1813]])
* [[May 28]] – [[George Grove|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]])<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mary-Henrietta-Kingsley|title=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/20180702040809/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mary-Henrietta-Kingsley|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[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–September ===
[[File:Ritratto di Umberto I.jpg|thumb|120px|King [[Umberto I of Italy|Umberto I]]]]
[[File:Nietzsche187a.jpg|thumb|120px|[[Friedrich Nietzsche]]]]
[[File:Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan.jpg|thumb|120px|[[Arthur Sullivan|Sir Arthur Sullivan]]]]
[[File:Oscar Wilde MET DP136272.jpg|thumb|120px|[[Oscar Wilde]]]]
* [[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 Kretzulescu]], 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]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Panton |first1=James |title=Historical Dictionary of the British Monarchy |date=February 24, 2011 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |isbn=978-0-8108-7497-8 |page=40 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BiyyueBTpaMC&pg=PA40 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[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]])<ref>{{cite EB1911 |wstitle=Liebknecht, Wilhelm |volume=16 |page=592}}</ref>
* [[August 8]] 
** [[Emil Škoda]], 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 (philosopher)|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 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–December ===
* [[October 15]] – [[Zdeněk Fibich]], Czech composer (b. [[1850]])
* [[October 19]] – [[Roderick Cameron|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]] – [[Arthur Sullivan|Sir Arthur Sullivan]], English composer (b. [[1842]])
* [[November 24]] – [[Rafael Monleón]] y Torres, Spanish painter, archaeologist, and historian (b. [[1843]])<ref>{{cite web |title=The Naval Construction in the Works of Rafael Monleón Torres |url=https://elbauldelapipeta.es/files/CONSTRUCCI%C3%93N_NAVAL_EN_LA_OBRA_DE_RAFAEL_MONLE%C3%93N.pdf|access-date=6 September 2025 |page=24 }}</ref>
* [[November 26]] – [[Méry Laurent]], French artist's muse, model (b. [[1849]])
* [[November 30]] – [[Oscar Wilde]], Irish writer (b. [[1854]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Oscar Wilde |url=https://www.bl.uk/people/oscar-wilde |website=www.bl.uk |access-date=12 November 2022 |archive-date=November 12, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221112093040/https://www.bl.uk/people/oscar-wilde |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[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 ==
{{Main|List of countries by population in 1900}}
* [[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
{{clear}}

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

==Further reading==
* ''Appletons' annual cyclopaedia and register of important events...1900'' (1901), vast compendium of data; global coverage [https://books.google.com/books?id=DEwoAAAAMAAJ&q=intitle:cyclopaedia+intitle:events 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: [http://www.forgottenfutures.com/library/wend/wend.htm "How Will The World End?"]

{{Events by month links}}

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