* 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 )

In 1900 Charles Pathé began film production under the Pathé-Frères brand, with Ferdinand Zecca hired to actually make the films.

Perhaps the most famous example in modern times was the 1900 marriage of the heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, and Bohemian aristocrat Countess Sophie Chotek von Chotkowa.

* Maria of Yugoslavia ( 1900 – 1961 ), queen consort of Yugoslavia, the daughter of Ferdinand I of Romania and Marie of Edinburgh, and the mother of Peter II of Yugoslavia

In 1900, Ferdinand Porsche developed a series-hybrid using two motor-in-wheel-hub arrangements with a combustion generator set providing the electric power, setting two speed records.

Also in 1897, he played briefly as King Ferdinand V of Vingolia in F. C. Burnand's His Majesty at the Savoy Theatre and made two more short London stage appearances thereafter, as Scoones in Young Mr Yarde ( 1898 ) and Lambert Simnel in The Gay Pretenders ( 1900 ).

Ferdinand Porsche designed and built a four-wheel-driven Electric vehicle for the k. u. k. Hofwagenfabrik Ludwig Lohner & Co. at Vienna in 1899, presented to the public during the 1900 World Exhibition at Paris.

( The problems of such a situation were encountered when Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir presumptive to the throne, dared to marry a " simple " countess in 1900.

Ferdinand Wythe Peck at the Exposition Universelle ( 1900 ).

In 1900, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria ( then heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne ) contracted a morganatic marriage with Countess Sophie Chotek.

* Ferdinand Hueppe ( 1900 – 1904 )

The general features of the representation theory of a finite group G, over the complex numbers, were discovered by Ferdinand Georg Frobenius in the years before 1900.

* HOESS, Rudolf Franz Ferdinand ( 1900 – 47 ) Commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp.

In 1900 he married Nellie Purcell, a daughter of the surgeon Ferdinand Purcell.

* Ferdinand von Zeppelin, German Empire — 1900

Right here the Archducke Franz Ferdinand, a nephew of Franz Joseph who was first in line for the succession, spoke the Oath of Renunciation on 28 June 1900 and in so doing renounced all claim to the throne in the name of his future wife and descendents.

Prince Tomislav was born on 19 January 1928, on Epiphany according to the Julian calendar used by the Serbian Orthodox Church, at 1 A. M., as the second son of the sovereign of the then Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes ( later the Kingdom of Yugoslavia ), Alexander I ( 1888 – 1934 ) and Queen Maria ( 1900 – 1961 ), the second daughter of King Ferdinand of Romania ( 1865 – 1927 ) and Queen Maria ( 1875 – 1938 ).

Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg were married there in 1900.

On her first introduction into society, in 1900, she met Crown Prince Ferdinand, the heir apparent to the Romanian throne, but after a secret engagement of one year, Marthe married at seventeen Prince George III Valentin Bibescu ( Bibesco ), scion of one of the country's prestigious aristocratic families.

In 1900, Ferdinand Löwe founded the orchestra as the Wiener Concertverein ( Vienna Concert Society ).