Famous People Born in 1900

Discover the most famous people born in 1900. The list includes people like Martin Bormann, Spencer Tracy, Wolfgang Pauli, Aaron Copland, Zelda Fitzgerald and many more. This list of celebrities is loosely sorted by popularity. People featured on this list, include political leaders, novelists, journalists and soldiers born in 1900. This list includes people from United States, Germany, United Kingdom & Japan and many more countries.

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Birthdate: 4th August

Sun Sign: Leo

Birthplace: Hitchin, London

Died: March 30, 2002

Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, better known as The Queen Mother, was King George VI’s wife and the mother of Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Margaret. She ruled England as the Queen from 1936 to 1952, after which her daughter Elizabeth II took over. She was also the last empress of India.

Spencer Tracy

(One of the Greatest Actors of Hollywood's Golden Age)

Birthdate: 5th April

Sun Sign: Aries

Birthplace: Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States

Died: June 10, 1967

One of the most popular actors of classical Hollywood cinema, Spencer Tracy was known for his versatility, which helped him win two successive Oscars for Best Actor. In 1999, he was ranked the ninth greatest male star of Hollywood's Golden Age by the American Film Institute. Tracy is widely regarded as one of the finest actors of the 20th century.

Agnes Moorehead

(Best Known for Her Role as ‘Endora’ in the TV Series ‘Bewitched’)

Birthdate: 6th December

Sun Sign: Sagittarius

Birthplace: Clinton, Massachusetts, United States

Died: April 30, 1974

Agnes Moorehead is best known for her Emmy-winning performance in the series The Wild Wild West and her Golden Globe-winning roles in the films Mrs. Tarkington and Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte. She was also famous as Endora from the series Bewitched. She was the first female to host the Academy Awards.

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Birthdate: 25th June

Sun Sign: Cancer

Birthplace: Frogmore House, Windsor, England

Died: August 27, 1979

The last Viceroy of India and the first governor-general of independent India, Lord Mountbatten was a British Royal Navy officer and statesman. Born to a prominent aristocratic family in England, he had a successful military career and was made the NATO Commander Allied Forces Mediterranean in his later career. He was assassinated in 1979.

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Birthdate: 29th June

Sun Sign: Cancer

Birthplace: Lyon, France

Died: July 31, 1944

French writer, poet, aristocrat, and journalist, Antoine de Saint-Exupery, is best remembered for his novella, The Little Prince. He was a pioneering aviator as a young man. A successful commercial pilot before World War II, he joined the French Air Force at the start of the war. Equally successful as a writer, he won several of France's highest literary awards.

Zelda Fitzgerald

(Socialite & Referred to as 'The first American Flapper' by Her Husband 'F. Scott Fitzgerald')

Birthdate: 24th July

Sun Sign: Leo

Birthplace: Montgomery, Alabama, United States

Died: March 10, 1948

Zelda Fitzgerald was a painter, socialite, and novelist. Along with her husband Scott Fitzgerald, Zelda became a prominent personality of the Jazz Age. Renowned for her high spirits and beauty, she was named the first American flapper by Scott. For her work as a novelist and painter, Fitzgerald was posthumously made an inductee to the Alabama Women's Hall of Fame.

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Birthdate: 14th November

Sun Sign: Scorpio

Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York, United States

Died: December 2, 1990

Birthdate: 10th October

Sun Sign: Libra

Birthplace: Washington, D.C., United States

Died: March 17, 1993

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Natalie Schafer

(Actress)

Birthdate: 5th November

Sun Sign: Scorpio

Birthplace: New York City, New York, USA

Died: April 10, 1991

Birthdate: 17th October

Sun Sign: Libra

Birthplace: Plattsburgh

Died: June 19, 1991

Jean Arthur was an American film and Broadway actress whose performances in films like Mr. Deeds Goes to Town and You Can't Take It with You established her as the quintessential comedic leading lady of Hollywood. Jean Arthur's contribution to the film industry earned her a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

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Birthdate: 8th November

Sun Sign: Scorpio

Birthplace: Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Died: August 16, 1949

Birthdate: 5th February

Sun Sign: Aquarius

Birthplace: Los Angeles, California, United States

Died: July 14, 1965

Adlai Stevenson II served as the Illinois governor from 1949 to 1953. He contested as the Democratic presidential nominee in 1952 and 1956 but was defeated by Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower both the times. Stevenson II also served as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations from 1961 to 1965.

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Thomas Clayton Wolfe

(An Important Writer in Modern American Literature and One of the First Masters of Autobiographical Fiction)

Birthdate: 3rd October

Sun Sign: Libra

Birthplace: Asheville, North Carolina, United States

Died: September 15, 1938

Novelist Thomas Wolfe is remembered for his novels Look Homeward, Angel and Of Time and the River. He had also authored countless short stories and plays. His signature style included elements of autobiographical writing mixed with poetic and lyrical prose. His works influenced Beat Generation writers, too.

Alastair Sim

(Actor)

Birthdate: 9th October

Sun Sign: Libra

Birthplace: Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

Died: August 19, 1976

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Wolfgang Pauli

(One of the Pioneers of Quantum Physics and Winner of 1945 Nobel Prize for Physics)

Birthdate: 25th April

Sun Sign: Taurus

Birthplace: Vienna, Austria

Died: December 15, 1958

Nobel Prize-winning Austrian physicist Wolfgang Pauli is remembered for his contribution to quantum physics and for laying down the Pauli principle. While he was initially married to a cabaret dancer, the marriage ended in a divorce after a year. His written works are considered classics in science.

Edith Frank

(Anne Frank's mother)

Birthdate: 16th January

Sun Sign: Capricorn

Birthplace: Aachen, Germany

Died: January 6, 1945

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Erich Fromm

(German Social Psychologist and Psychoanalyst & One of the Founders of The 'William Alanson White Institute')

Birthdate: 23rd March

Sun Sign: Aries

Birthplace: Frankfurt, Germany

Died: March 18, 1980

Erich Fromm was a German social psychologist, psychoanalyst, sociologist, and socialist. A German Jew, he fled the Nazi regime and settled in the United States. He was a co-founder of The William Alanson White Institute and was associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory. He is best remembered for authoring the book Escape from Freedom.

Birthdate: 3rd August

Sun Sign: Leo

Birthplace: Dana, Indiana, United States

Died: April 18, 1945

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Birthdate: 1st January

Sun Sign: Capricorn

Birthplace: Kozuchi Town (now Mino, Gifu Prefecture), Japan

Died: July 31, 1986

Chiune Sugihara was a Japanese diplomat best remembered for helping thousands of Jews flee Europe during the Second World War. He did so by issuing transit visas to the Jews, enabling them to travel through Japanese territory. Sugihara helped the Jews despite knowing that he was risking the lives of his family and his job.

Clyde Tolson

(1st Associate Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation)

Birthdate: 22nd May

Sun Sign: Gemini

Birthplace: Laredo, Missouri, United States

Died: April 14, 1975

Clyde Tolson was an American associate director of the FBI from 1930 to 1972. He is perhaps best remembered for his relationship with FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover; it has been speculated that Clyde Tolson shared an intimate relationship with Hoover.

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Xavier Cugat

(Spanish Musician and Bandleader)

Birthdate: 1st January

Sun Sign: Capricorn

Birthplace: Girona, Catalonia, Spain

Died: October 27, 1990

Xavier Cugat was a Spanish musician and bandleader. He studied classical violin as a child and began working in silent films to support his family. He grew up to become a successful musician and played a leading role in the spread of Latin music. Besides music, he was also a cartoonist and a restaurateur. He was married five times.

Luis Buñuel

(Film director, Screenwriter, Actor, Film editor, Writer)

Birthdate: 22nd February

Sun Sign: Pisces

Birthplace: Calanda, Spain

Died: July 29, 1983

Luis Buñuel was a Spanish-Mexican filmmaker with a brilliant career spanning almost half a century. He worked in France, Mexico, and Spain and directed films spanning various genres. His filmmaking technique was strongly influenced by mise-en-scène. He was hailed as a leader of avant-garde surrealism and is considered one of the top directors of the 20th century.

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Henry Sturgis Morgan

(American Banker and Co-Founder of 'Morgan Stanley')

Birthdate: 24th October

Sun Sign: Scorpio

Birthplace: London, England

Died: February 8, 1982

The grandson of J.P. Morgan founder John Pierpont Morgan, Sr., Henry Sturgis Morgan co-founded the multinational investment company Morgan Stanley. A Harvard alumnus, he also headed the Morgan Library & Museum as its president and chairman. A sailing enthusiast, too, he was part of the New York Yacht Club.

Birthdate: 17th March

Sun Sign: Pisces

Birthplace: New Haven, Connecticut, United States

Died: February 17, 1970

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Hans Frank

(German Politician and Lawyer Who Served as Governor-General of Poland During World War II)

Birthdate: 23rd May

Sun Sign: Gemini

Birthplace: Karlsruhe, Germany

Died: October 16, 1946

Hitler’s legal advisor Hans Frank was made the governor-general of Poland after World War II broke out. Known as the Butcher of Poland for his atrocities against the Jews, he was hanged at the end of the Nuremberg Trials. He penned his autobiography while awaiting his execution.

Dorothy Macmillan

(Socialite)

Birthdate: 28th July

Sun Sign: Leo

Birthplace: Lancashire, United Kingdom

Died: May 21, 1966

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Hyman Rickover

(United States Navy Admiral)

Birthdate: 27th January

Sun Sign: Aquarius

Birthplace: Makow Mazowiecki, Poland

Died: July 8, 1986

Hyman Rickover was an admiral who served in the U.S. Navy. Rickover is credited with overseeing the development of naval nuclear propulsion before controlling its operations for 30 years. He also supervised the development of the first commercial pressurized water reactor, the Shippingport Atomic Power Station. Hyman Rickover is one of only four people to receive two Congressional Gold Medals.

Birthdate: 19th March

Sun Sign: Pisces

Birthplace: Paris

Died: August 14, 1958

Frédéric Joliot-Curie was a French physicist whose discovery of artificial radioactivity earned him the 1935 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, which was jointly awarded to Frédéric and his wife Irène Joliot-Curie. Along with his wife, Frédéric is credited with founding the Orsay Faculty of Sciences, a physics and mathematics school within Paris-Saclay University. He had also won the Stalin Peace Prize.

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Birthdate: 23rd September

Sun Sign: Libra

Birthplace: Quanah, Texas, United States

Died: November 17, 1967

Mária Telkes

(Biophysicist)

Birthdate: 12th December

Sun Sign: Sagittarius

Birthplace: Budapest, Hungary

Died: December 2, 1995

Kurt Weill

(German-American Composer Best Known for His Work ‘The Threepenny Opera’)

Birthdate: 2nd March

Sun Sign: Pisces

Birthplace: Dessau, Germany

Died: April 3, 1950

Kurt Weill was a German composer best remembered for his collaboration with Bertolt Brecht. An influential composer, Weill's music has been recorded by several performers like Frank Sinatra and David Bowie. Singers like Marianne Faithfull and Anne Sofie von Otter have recorded several albums of his music. His music continues to be performed in classical as well as popular contexts.

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin

(American Astronomer and Astrophysicist)

Birthdate: 10th May

Sun Sign: Taurus

Birthplace: Wendover, Buckinghamshire, England

Died: December 7, 1979

After losing her father at 4, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin was raised singlehandedly by her mother. The incredibly talented Cecilia studied at Cambridge but failed to secure a degree because of her gender. She later joined Harvard and opposing prevalent beliefs, proposed that stars were mainly made of hydrogen and helium.

Birthdate: 15th October

Sun Sign: Libra

Birthplace: San Francisco, California, United States

Died: September 13, 1987

John Scopes

(Educator)

Birthdate: 3rd August

Sun Sign: Leo

Birthplace: Paducah, Kentucky, United States

Died: October 21, 1970

William Haines

(Actor, Interior designer)

Birthdate: 2nd January

Sun Sign: Capricorn

Birthplace: Staunton, Virginia, United States

Died: December 26, 1973

Lefty Grove

(American Professional Baseball Player Who Played as Pitcher)

Birthdate: 6th March

Sun Sign: Pisces

Birthplace: Lonaconing, Maryland, United States

Died: May 22, 1975

Maria of Yugoslavia

(Consort)

Birthdate: 6th January

Sun Sign: Capricorn

Birthplace: Gotha, Germany

Died: June 22, 1961

Hans Adolf Krebs

(British Biologist Who was a Pioneer Scientist in the Study of Cellular Perspiration)

Birthdate: 25th August

Sun Sign: Virgo

Birthplace: Hildesheim, Germany

Died: November 22, 1981

Born to an ENT surgeon in Germany, Hans Adolf Krebs followed in his father’s footsteps and studied medicine. After fleeing Nazi Germany, he went to England, where he joined the University of Cambridge as a researcher. The Nobel Prize-winning scientist is remembered for his groundbreaking discovery of cellular respiration.

Urho Kekkonen

(8th President of Finland (1956 - 1952), Prime Minister of Finland (1950 - 1953, 1954 - 1956))

Birthdate: 3rd September

Sun Sign: Virgo

Birthplace: Pielavesi, Finland

Died: August 31, 1986

Urho Kekkonen was the eighth and longest-serving president of Finland. He was noted for continuing and further developing the Paasikivi-Kekkonen doctrine established by his predecessor President Juho Kusti Paasikivi aiming survival of Finland as an independent nation in immediate proximity of the Soviet Union. Kekkonen earlier held several ministerial and legislative posts including serving as as Prime Minister of Finland.

Heinrich Müller

(German Police Officer)

Birthdate: 28th April

Sun Sign: Taurus

Birthplace: Munich, Germany

Died: April 30, 1945

Birthdate: 5th June

Sun Sign: Gemini

Birthplace: Budapest

Died: February 8, 1979

Dennis Gabor was a Hungarian-British physicist and electrical engineer best remembered for inventing holography. His invention earned him the prestigious Nobel Prize in Physics in 1971. Gabor won several awards during his lifetime. After his demise, many awards are given in his honor. The Dennis Gabor Award and Gabor Medal are some of the awards that are named after him.

Hack Wilson

(Baseball player)

Birthdate: 26th April

Sun Sign: Taurus

Birthplace: Ellwood City, Pennsylvania, United States

Died: November 23, 1948

James Bond

(US Ornithologist and an Expert on Birds of the Caribbean)

Birthdate: 4th January

Sun Sign: Capricorn

Birthplace: Philadelphia

Died: February 14, 1989

US ornithologist James Bond is remembered as the author of Birds of the West Indies. British author Ian Fleming, himself a bird enthusiast, borrowed his name to create James Bond, the iconic fictional spy. He was mostly associated with the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia’s Drexel University.

Allen Jenkins

(Actor)

Birthdate: 9th April

Sun Sign: Aries

Birthplace: Staten Island, New York, United States

Died: July 20, 1974

Yves Tanguy

(Painter)

Birthdate: 5th January

Sun Sign: Capricorn

Birthplace: Paris, France

Died: January 15, 1955

Birthdate: 23rd March

Sun Sign: Aries

Birthplace: Alexandria

Died: November 30, 1989

Egyptian architect Hassan Fathy is best remembered for his innovative idea of building planned communities using age-old methods such as mud-brick and adobe. His book Architecture for the Poor detailed his efforts in building the village of New Gourna. His signature technique was known as appropriate technology.

Salote Tupou III

(Queen of Tonga from 1918 to 1965)