1900: The Year in People

The Lost Generation · Year of the Rat 🐀 · Born in 1900 turn 126 in 2026

The year in numbers

US president

William McKinley

In the news: Boxer Rebellion in China

What happened in 1900

1900 (MCM) was a century common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1900th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 900th year of the 2nd millennium, the 100th and last year of the 19th century, and the 1st year of the 1900s decade. As of the start of 1900, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

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Born in 1900

70 people in our data · most viewed first

Agnes Moorehead

1900–1974 · December 6

American actress

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

1900–1944 · June 29

French writer and aviator

Adlai Stevenson II

1900–1965 · February 5

American politician and diplomat

Adolf Dassler

1900–1978 · November 3

Founder of Adidas

Helen Morgan (singer)

1900–1941 · August 2

American jazz singer and actress

Aaron Copland

1900–1990 · November 14

American composer and conductor

Edith Frank

1900–1945 · January 16

Mother of Anne Frank

Chiune Sugihara

1900–1986 · January 1

Japanese diplomat and humanitarian

Alfred Newman

1900–1970 · March 17

American composer

Camille Chamoun

1900–1987 · April 3

President of Lebanon from 1952 to 1958

Ernie Pyle

1900–1945 · August 3

American war correspondent and writer

Alastair Sim

1900–1976 · October 9

Scottish actor

Ashfaqulla Khan

1900–1927 · October 1

Indian revolutionary

Allen Jenkins

1900–1974 · April 9

American actor

Colin Clive

1900–1937 · January 20

English actor

Charles Farrell

1900–1990 · August 9

American actor

Edna Best

1900–1974 · March 3

British actress

Jacques Prévert

1900–1977 · February 4

French poet and screenwriter

Alice Neel

1900–1984 · January 28

American visual artist

John T. Scopes

1900–1970 · August 3

American schoolteacher and Scopes Trial figure

Claude Pepper

1900–1989 · September 8

American politician

Dennis Gabor

1900–1979 · June 5

Hungarian-British physicist

Elizabeth Goudge

1900–1984 · April 24

English novelist and children's writer

Anna Seghers

1900–1983 · November 19

German writer

Died in 1900

Arthur Sullivan1842–1900 · British composer
Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha1844–1900 · Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha from 1893 to 1900
Casey Jones1864–1900 · American railroad engineer
Gottlieb Daimler1834–1900 · German engineer, industrialist and automotive pioneer
Frederic Edwin Church1826–1900 · American landscape painter
Collis Potter Huntington1821–1900 · American railroad magnate
Ernest Dowson1867–1900 · English writer
Augustus Pitt Rivers1827–1900 · English army officer, ethnologist and archaeologist
Eça de Queiroz1845–1900 · Portuguese realist writer
Duchess Alexandra of Oldenburg1838–1900 · Grand Duchess Alexandra Petrovna of Russia
Alexander Cameron Sim1840–1900 · British businessman active in Japan
David Edward Hughes1831–1900 · British-American musician and inventor