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

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