* Gene Austin ( 1900 – 1972 ), American singer

* 1900 – Leo Robin, American songwriter and composer ( d. 1984 )

* 1900 – Philippine – American War: Filipino guerrillas launch a surprise attack on U. S. infantry and begin a four-day siege of Catubig, Philippines.

* 1900 – Hawaii becomes a territory of the United States, with Sanford B. Dole as governor.

* 1900 – Casey Jones dies in a train wreck in Vaughn, Mississippi, while trying to make up time on the Cannonball Express.

* 1900 – David Manners, Canadian-American actor ( d. 1998 )

* 1844 – Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha ( d. 1900 )

* 1900 – Cecil Howard Green, English-American geophysicist ( d. 2003 )

* 1820 – George Grove, English historian ( d. 1900 )

* 1867 – Ernest Dowson, English poet ( d. 1900 )

* 1984 – Elizabeth Goudge, English writer ( b. 1900 )

* 1900 – Otto Nothling, Australian cricketer and rugby player ( d. 1965 )

* 1900 – The Firestone Tire and Rubber Company is founded.

* 1900 – Ernie Pyle, American journalist ( d. 1945 )

* 1900 – John T. Scopes, American teacher ( d. 1970 )

* 1900 – The Eight-Nation Alliance occupies Beijing, China, in a campaign to end the bloody Boxer Rebellion in China.

* 1900 – Estelle Brody, American actress ( d. 1995 )

* 1900 – The Battle of Elands River during the Second Boer War ends after a 13-day siege is lifted by the British.

* 1900 – Olga Baclanova, Russian actress ( d. 1974 )

* 1900 – Colleen Moore, American actress ( d. 1988 )

* 1900 – Gontran de Poncins, French writer and adventurer ( d. 1962 )

* 1900 – Gilbert Ryle, English philosopher ( d. 1976 )

* 1840 – Ferdinand Hamer, Dutch missionary and bishop ( d. 1900 )

* 1900 – Hans Adolf Krebs, German physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1981 )

* 1900 – Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother ( d. 2002 )

Admiral of the Fleet Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas George Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma ( born Prince Louis of Battenberg ; 25 June 1900 – 27 August 1979 ), was a British statesman and naval officer, an uncle of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh and second cousin once removed to Elizabeth II.

** Elizabeth Goudge, English writer ( b. 1900 )

* March 30 – Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother ( née Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon ), queen consort of George VI and mother of Elizabeth II ( b. 1900 )

London married Elizabeth " Bessie " Maddern on April 7, 1900, the same day The Son of the Wolf was edited.

Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon ( 4 August 1900 – 30 March 2002 ) was the queen consort of King George VI from 1936 until his death in 1952, after which she was known as Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, to avoid confusion with her daughter, Queen Elizabeth II.

* Goldman, Lawrence ( May 2006 ) " Elizabeth ( 1900 – 2002 )", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press,, retrieved 1 May 2009 ( Subscription required )

In 1900, Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon was born, youngest daughter of Claude Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne and his countess, Cecilia.

On August 29, 1900, he wed Elizabeth Moulton and they had five children.

* Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon ( 1900 – 2002 ), queen consort, queen dowager and queen mother of the United Kingdom ( known from 1952 until her death as Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother )

* Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon ( 1900 – 2002 ), the late queen consort of Great Britain, who had the nickname Buffy as a child

Mildred Elizabeth Gillars ( November 29, 1900 – June 25, 1988 ), nicknamed " Axis Sally " along with Rita Zucca, was an American broadcaster employed by the Third Reich in Nazi Germany to proliferate propaganda during World War II.

In 1900 Cram married Elizabeth Carrington Read at New Bedford, Massachusetts.

He married Elizabeth Harris on February 28, 1900.

* Goldsworthy, Kerryn ( 2000 ) " Fiction from 1900 to 1970 " in Webby, Elizabeth ( ed.

* Elizabeth Jordan ( 1900 – 1913 )

Elizabeth Storrs Billings Mead taught for two years at Oberlin College and subsequently, from 1890 to 1900, served as president of Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts.

Margaret Anne Sinclair ( born Edinburgh, Scotland 1900: died London, England 1925 ), a Scottish Roman Catholic nun, was born in Middle Arthur Place, Edinburgh in a basement flat of a dilapidated tenement block, the third of six children of Andrew, a dustman for Edinburgh City Corporation, and Elizabeth Sinclair.