* 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 )

* Richard Oelze ( 1900 – 1980 ), painter

* June 8 – Richard Wigginton Thompson, American politician ( d. 1900 )

* August 1 – Richard Kuhn, Austrian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1900 )

Richard Willstätter synthesized proline by the reaction of sodium salt of diethyl malonate with 1, 3-Dibromopropane in 1900.

Jung, who had become interested in psychiatry as a student by reading Psychopathia Sexualis by Richard von Krafft-Ebing, professor in Vienna, now worked as a doctor under the psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler in Burghölzli and became familiar with Freud's idea of the unconscious through Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams ( 1900 ) and was a proponent of the new " psycho-analysis.

The longest running production of the play in Broadway history was the staging starring Richard Mansfield in 1900 which ran for 54 performances.

Richard Arthur Warren Hughes OBE ( 19 April 1900 – 28 April 1976 ) was a British writer of poems, short stories, novels and plays.

Vincent Richard Impellitteri ( February 4, 1900 – January 29, 1987 ) was an American politician, who served as the 101st Mayor of New York City.

* Travel writer Richard Halliburton ( 1900 – 1939 ) gathered material, including an interview with Brooke's mother, for an eventual biography of Brooke, but completion of the task fell to Arthur Springer whose Red Wine of Youth — A Life of Rupert Brooke, benefitting from Halliburton's researches, appeared in 1952.

According to Operabase, he has more operas played worldwide than any other composer born in the twentieth century, and only Puccini and Richard Strauss come ahead of him if the list is extended to all operas composed after 1900.

* Richard Stoker, ‘ Bush, Alan Dudley ( 1900 – 1995 )’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 17 February 2008

In 1900, Hofmannsthal met the composer Richard Strauss for the first time.

Richard Wigginton Thompson ( June 9, 1809 – February 9, 1900 ) was an American politician.

Sullivan died in 1900, and Richard D ' Oyly Carte died in 1901.

Gerry Max, in recording the life of one of the community's most famous early members, travel writer Richard Halliburton ( 1900 – 1939 ), has called Laguna a " weary rover's dream ", and in Horizon Chasers offers a sense of Laguna Beach in the 1920s and 1930s.

* Operatic tenor Richard Crooks ( 1900 – 1972 ), longtime host of The Voice of Firestone on network radio, lived in Portola Valley for many years until his death.

Harlowton was founded in 1900 as a station stop on the Montana Railroad, a predecessor to the Milwaukee, and was named for Richard A. Harlow, the Montana Railroad's president.

* Richard Murray Simpson ( August 30, 1900 – January 7, 1960 ) was a Republican member of the U. S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

( See also Margiad Evans Whistler ( 1909 – 58 ); Richard Hughes ( 1900 – 76 ); Alexander Cordell ( 1914 – 97 ).

Then Walter returned in 1900 to Berlin, where he assumed the post of Royal Prussian Conductor at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden, succeeding Franz Schalk ; his colleagues there included Richard Strauss and Karl Muck.

* H. Margival, Essai sur Richard Simon et la critique biblique au XVIIe siècle ( 1900 ).

Also in 1900 Zitkala-Ša was sent by Carlisle's founder, Colonel Richard Henry Pratt, back to the Yankton Reservation for the first time in several years to collect students.

* Richard Halliburton ( 1900 – 1939 ), American writer and adventurer

In 1888, he became music director of Globe Theatre in London, also providing popular incidental music for many of its productions and those of other London theatres, including Richard III ( 1889 ), Henry VIII ( 1892 ) and Nell Gwynn ( 1900 ).