* 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 )

* 1871 – Stephen Crane, American writer ( d. 1900 )

* November 1 – Stephen Crane, American writer ( d. 1900 )

** Stephen D. Bechtel, Sr., American businessman ( b. 1900 )

Stephen Crane ( November 1, 1871 – June 5, 1900 ) was an American novelist, short story writer, poet and journalist.

The American poet, novelist, and journalist Stephen Crane died there on 15 June 1900 of tuberculosis.

The Red Badge of Courage is a war novel by American author Stephen Crane ( 1871 – 1900 ).

Tree staged many contemporary verse dramas by Stephen Phillips and others, including Herod ( 1900 ), Ulysses ( 1902 ), Nero ( 1906 ) and Faust ( 1908 ).

Mr. Stephen W. Outterbridge ( Born January 23, 1825-Died January 28, 1915 ) taught at the masonic hall from 1885 until 1896 and at his private school located beside his home on Outerbridge Street until 1900.

Stephen Foster by Giuseppe Moretti ( 1900 )

* Stephen Crane ( 1871 – 1900 ), American novelist and journalist

In Scotland, " Steven " and " Stephen " were the 8th and 10th most popular names for newborn boys in 1975, but were not in the top ten in 1900, 1950 or 2000.

" Stephen " was 68th in 1900, and 46th in 1950, while " Steven " was not in the top 100 either year.

At about the same time, Stephen Crane ( 1871 – 1900 ), best known for his Civil War novel The Red Badge of Courage, depicted the life of New York City prostitutes in Maggie: A Girl of the Streets.

* Stephen Jay Gould noted in his essay Dousing Diminutive Dennis ' Debate ( or DDDD = 2000 ) ( Dinosaur in a Haystack ) that celebrations and media announcements marked the turn into the twentieth century along the boundary of 1900 and 1901, citing, among other examples, the New York Times's headline " Twentieth Century's Triumphant Entry " on January 1, 1901.

Stephen Davison Bechtel ( September 24, 1900 – March 14, 1989 ) was the son of Clara Alice West and Warren A. Bechtel, the founder of the Bechtel Corporation and the president of the company from 1933 through 1960.

The development of these idioms, as well as more conservative reactions against them, can be traced through the works of poets such as Edwin Arlington Robinson ( 1869 – 1935 ), Stephen Crane ( 1871 – 1900 ), Robert Frost ( 1874 – 1963 ) and Carl Sandburg ( 1878 – 1967 ).

* Stephen Crane ( 1871 – 1900 ), American author ( The Red Badge of Courage )

# 1901: Lady Mary Katharine Lockhart ( née Eccles ) widow of General Sir William Stephen Alexander Lockhart, Commander in Chief India ( 1898 – 1900 )

Stephen Meredith Potter ( 1 February 1900 – 2 December 1969 ) was a British author best known for his mocking self-help books and their film and television derivatives.

See the section on Stephen Phillips in Poets of the Younger Generation, by William Archer ( 1902 ); also the articles on Tragedy and Mr Stephen Phillips, by William Watson in the Fortnightly Review ( March 1898 ); The Poetry of Mr Stephen Phillips, in the Edinburgh Review ( January 1900 ); Mr Stephen Phillips, in the Century ( January 1901 ), by Edmund Gosse ; and Mr Stephen Phillips, in the Quarterly Review ( April 1902 ), by Arthur Symons.