Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century
Decades: 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s - 1900s - 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s
Years: 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 - 1904 - 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909
Events:
Art, Culture & Fashion
Births:
- January 5 - Jeane Dixon[?], astrologer (+ 1997)
- January 10 - Ray Bolger, actor, singer, dancer (+ 1987)
- January 18 - Cary Grant, actor (+ 1986)
- January 22 - George Balanchine, choreographer (+ 1983)
- January 26 - Ancel Keys, scientist
- February 1 - S. J. Perelman[?], humorist, author
- February 4 - MacKinlay Kantor[?], historian (+ 1977)
- February 5 - Walter Gross[?], cabaretist (+ 1989)
- February 7 - Ernst Ginsberg[?], actor and film director (+ 1964)
- February 11 - Henry LaBouisse[?], head of UNICEF (1965-1979)
- February 11 - Sir Keith Holyoake, New Zealand Prime Minister (1960-1972)
- February 20 - Alexei Kosygin[?], Premier of the Soviet Union[?] (+ 1980)
- February 25 - Adelle Davis[?], nutritionist, writer (+ 1974)
- February 29 - Jimmy Dorsey, bandleader (+ 1957)
- March 1 - Glenn Miller, bandleader (+ 1944)
- March 2 - Dr. Seuss, author (+ 1991)
- March 8 - Victor de Kowa[?], actor (+ 1973)
- March 6 - Joseph Schmidt[?], tenor (+ 1942)
- March 7 - Reinhard Heydrich, Nazi official
- March 20 - B. F. Skinner, behavioral psychologist (+ 1990)
- March 23 - Joan Crawford, actress
- March 26 - Joseph Campbell, author and expert on mythology
- March 28 - Werner Bahlsen[?], biscuit[?] producer (+ 1985)
- April 3 - Sally Rand[?], dancer (+ 1979)
- April 7 - Ralph Bunche[?], diplomat, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize
- April 16 - Fifi D'Orsay, actress (+ 1983)
- April 22 - Robert Oppenheimer, physicist (+ 1967)
- May 6 - Harry Martinson, swedish author, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature
- May 11 - Salvador Dalí, artist
- May 17 - Jean Gabin[?], actor (+ 1976)
- May 21 - Fats Waller, pianist (+ 1943)
- May 21 - Robert Montgomery, actor (+ 1981)
- June 2 - Johnny Weissmuller, American swimmer and actor
- July 12 - Deng Xiaoping, Chinese politician and leader
- July 13 - Pablo Neruda, poet
- August 28 - Secondo Campini, Italian jet pioneer
- November 30 - Clyfford Still, painter
Deaths:
- January 20 - Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev, Russian chemist and inventor of the Periodic table
- May 19 - Auguste Molinier, French historian
- July 14 - Anton Chekhov, Russian playwright and short story writer
- July 22 - Wilson Barrett, actor
- August 22 - Kate Chopin, author
- August 25 - Henri Fantin-Latour, painter
- August 29 - Murat V, deposed Ottoman sultan
- September 26 - John F. Stairs, businessman, statesman
- October 4 - Frédéric Bartholdi, sculptor
Nobel Prizes