Historical figures in 1900
The atlas holds 46 people and 66 moments here, in 1900. The most recorded lives are Winston Churchill, Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky. Among them Writers, Political Leaders and Scientists.
Notable people
Mahatma Gandhi
in 1900
1 moment here
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist, political ethicist, and leader of mass nonviolent resistance.…
Marcel Proust
in 1900
1 moment here
French novelist, essayist, and critic, best known for À la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time).…
Mark Twain
in 1900
2 moments here
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known as Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, journalist, lecturer, riverboat pilot, and traveler.…
Maxim Gorky
in 1900
2 moments here
Aleksey Maksimovich Peshkov, known as Maxim Gorky, was a Russian and Soviet writer, journalist, publisher, and political activist.…
Max Weber
in 1900
1 moment here
German sociologist, historian, jurist, and political economist whose work on rationalisation, bureaucracy, religion, capitalism, and social action…
Nikola Tesla
in 1900
1 moment here
Serbian-American engineer and inventor best known for foundational work on alternating-current power systems, the induction motor, high-frequency…
Oscar Wilde
in 1900
2 moments here
Irish author, poet, playwright, critic, and leading figure in late nineteenth-century aestheticism.…
Pablo Picasso
in 1900
1 moment here
Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and co-founder of Cubism. Born in Málaga, Picasso trained in A Coruña, Barcelona, and Madrid…
Premchand
in 1900
2 moments here
Dhanpat Rai Srivastava (1880–1936), known by the pen name Premchand, was an Indian Hindi and Urdu writer.…
Pridi Banomyong
in 1900
1 moment here
Thai lawyer, political leader, regent, prime minister, and founder of Thammasat University. A civilian leader of the 1932 Siamese Revolution, he…
Queen Victoria
in 1900
3 moments here
Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 1819–1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death, and…
Rubén Darío
in 1900
1 moment here
Nicaraguan poet, journalist, and diplomat Félix Rubén García Sarmiento, known as Rubén Darío, was a central initiator of Spanish-language Modernismo.…
Rudyard Kipling
in 1900
1 moment here
English journalist, novelist, poet, and short-story writer. Born in Bombay, Kipling spent his childhood in India and England, worked as a journalist…
Ruhollah Khomeini
in 1900
1 moment here
Iranian Shia cleric, revolutionary leader, and first Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran.…
Selma Lagerlöf
in 1900
1 moment here
Swedish writer, teacher, Nobel laureate, and women’s-suffrage speaker. Lagerlöf was born at Mårbacka in Värmland, trained in Stockholm, taught in…
Swami Vivekananda
in 1900
3 moments here
Indian Hindu monk, philosopher, teacher, and chief disciple of Ramakrishna. Born Narendranath Datta in Calcutta, he travelled widely through India…
Virginia Woolf
in 1900
1 moment here
English novelist, essayist, critic and publisher; a central figure in modernist literature and the Bloomsbury Group.…
Vladimir Lenin
in 1900
4 moments here
Russian Marxist revolutionary, Bolshevik leader, political theorist, and founding head of government of Soviet Russia and the Soviet Union.…
William Howard Taft
in 1900
1 moment here
William Howard Taft was an American lawyer, judge, colonial administrator, secretary of war, 27th president of the United States, and 10th chief…
William McKinley
in 1900
2 moments here
William McKinley Jr. (1843–1901) was an American lawyer, Civil War veteran, Republican politician, governor of Ohio, and the 25th president of the…
Winston Churchill
in 1900
6 moments here
Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (1874–1965) was a British soldier, journalist, author and statesman whose career ranged from imperial campaigns in…
Yosano Akiko
in 1900
1 moment here
Japanese poet, author, educator, feminist, and social reformer. Born Hō Shō in Sakai, she became known as Yosano Akiko after her marriage to poet…
Moments
- 1900 Accepts renomination at home William McKinley
- 1900 Baptism at Saint-Maurice-de-Rémens Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- 1900 Presentation of the Hilbert problems David Hilbert
- 1900 Dies in Weimar Friedrich Nietzsche
- 1900 Summer correspondence from Buzzards Bay Grover Cleveland
- 1900 Attended the Corsier conference Vladimir Lenin
- 1900 School years in Birmingham J. R. R. Tolkien
- 1900 First journey to Paris Pablo Picasso
- 1900 Relocated Iskra to Munich Vladimir Lenin
- 1900 Returns to the United States Mark Twain
- 1900 Death at Hôtel d'Alsace Oscar Wilde
- 1900 Christmas at Osborne House Queen Victoria
- 1900 Return to Calcutta Swami Vivekananda
- 1900 Lectures in Philadelphia Winston Churchill
- 1900 Meets Theodore Roosevelt in Albany Winston Churchill
- 1900 Travels to Montreal on lecture tour Winston Churchill