* 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 )

Eileen O ' Casey, née Reynolds ( 1900 – 1995 ), the actress wife of Irish dramatist Seán O ' Casey, was another female friend of Macmillan, who published her husband's plays.

* Seán Ó Faoláin ( 1900 – 1991 ), Irish short story writer, born as John Francis Whelan

Seán Proinsias Ó Faoláin ( 22 February 1900 – 20 April 1991 ) was an Irish short story writer.

Pádraig Ó Siochfhradha ( 1883 – 1964 ) and Mícheál Ó Siochfhradha ( 1900 – 1986 ), were brothers who were writers, teachers and Irish language storytellers, from County Kerry, Ireland.

Dinneen's work on Ó Rathaille, published in 1900, was the first published scholarly edition of the complete works of any of the Irish poets.

* 20 April-Seán Ó Faoláin, short story writer ( born 1900 ).

Germans, Irish, Poles, Swedes and Czechs made up nearly two-thirds of the foreign-born population ( by 1900, whites were 98. 1 % of the city's population ).

The date is almost certainly before 1900, and it seems to be Irish.

* 1900 – Bunny Ahearne, Irish ice hockey promoter ( d. 1985 )

* 1854 – Oscar Wilde, Irish writer ( d. 1900 )

* Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900 ), Irish writer and poet

** Oscar Wilde, Irish writer ( d. 1900 )

The Times is the first newspaper to have borne that name, lending it to numerous other papers around the world, including The Times of India ( 1838 ), The Straits Times ( 1845 ), The New York Times ( 1851 ), The Irish Times ( 1859 ), the Los Angeles Times ( 1881 ), The Seattle Times ( 1891 ), The Daily Times ( Malawi ) ( 1900 ), The Canberra Times ( 1926 ), The Times ( Malta ) ( 1935 ) and The Times of Israel ( Israel ) ( 2012 ).

Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan MVO ( 13 May 1842 – 22 November 1900 ) was an English composer of Irish and Italian ancestry.

* Nano Reid Artist ( 1900 – 1981 ), famous Irish painter of landscapes particularly Drogheda, the Boyne Valley and surrounding areas.

Australia was, from 1788 to 1900, a collection of British colonies in which culinary tastes were strongly influenced by British and Irish traditions-and agricultural products such as beef cattle, sheep and wheat became staples in the national diet.

Irish spinning wheel-around 1900 Library of Congress collection

* Somerset Maxwell, 10th Baron Farnham ( 1849 – 1900 ), Irish Representative peer

* The Leader ( Irish newspaper ), a defunct Irish newspaper founded in 1900 by D. P. Moran

The Nation continued to be published until 1900, when it merged with the Irish Weekly Independent.

He enlisted in the 3rd ( militia ) regiment of the Royal Irish Rifles on 11 January 1900 to serve in the Second Boer War.

The year 1900 in literature involved some significant new books and publications, as well as the deaths of several highly prominent writers, including among them the late Irish poet Oscar Wilde and the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche.

* Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900 ), Irish writer

John Edward Redmond ( 1 September 1856 – 6 March 1918 ) was an Irish nationalist politician, barrister, MP in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party from 1900 to 1918.

When on 6 February 1900, through the initiative of William O ' Brien and his United Irish League ( UIL ), the INL and the INF re-united again within the Irish Parliamentary Party, Redmond was elected its chairman ( leader ), a position he held until his death in 1918 — a longer period than any other nationalist leader, except Éamon de Valera and Daniel O ' Connell.

but when he joined the Irish Guards in 1997, a regiment of the British Army created in 1900 by Queen Victoria he was 23 years old and the age limits for the Irish Army is over 17 years and under 25 years of age.