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Famous People Born in 1900
Born in 1900? Meet the well-known people who share your birth year, from the biggest names to the ones you might not expect, month by month.
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The 1900s
The most famous people born in 190042
1900–1944Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
French pilot and writer of The Little Prince, one of the best-selling books ever, who vanished on a flight in 1944
Photo: Unknown author · Public domain
1900–1989Ruhollah Khomeini
Shia cleric who led the 1979 Iranian Revolution against the Shah and became the first Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic
Photo: Unknown author · Public domain
1900–1945Heinrich Himmler
Head of the Nazi SS and Gestapo who was a chief architect of the Holocaust and killed himself after capture in 1945
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1900–1980Erich Fromm
German-American psychoanalyst and social philosopher who wrote Escape from Freedom and the bestseller The Art of Loving
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1900–1958Wolfgang Pauli
Nobel Prize-winning physicist who pioneered quantum mechanics
Photo: Bettina Katzenstein · CC BY-SA 4.0
1900–1949Margaret Mitchell
Author of the best-selling historical novel Gone with the Wind
Photo: New York World-Telegram and the Sun staff photographer: Aumuller, Al, photographer. · Public domain
1900–1971Giorgos Seferis
Nobel Prize-winning Greek poet and career diplomat
Photo: Nobel Foundation · Public domain
1900–1983Luis Buñuel
Spanish filmmaker and pioneer of surrealist cinema
Photo: Unknown author · Public domain
Born in 1900, month by month
- January
- Vasily Chuikov (January 31) · Soviet commander who led the defence of Stalingrad in World War II
- February
- Jacques Prévert (February 4) · French poet and screenwriter known for the film Children of Paradise
- Adlai Stevenson II (February 5) · American statesman and twice the Democratic nominee for US President
- Hans-Georg Gadamer (February 11) · Influential German philosopher known for his work on hermeneutics
- Luis Buñuel (February 22) · Spanish filmmaker and pioneer of surrealist cinema
- March
- Giorgos Seferis (March 13) · Nobel Prize-winning Greek poet and career diplomat
- Frédéric Joliot-Curie (March 19) · Scientist who shared a Nobel Prize for discovering artificial radioactivity
- Erich Fromm (March 23) · German-American psychoanalyst and social philosopher who wrote Escape from Freedom and the bestseller The Art of Loving
- April
- Spencer Tracy (April 5) · Versatile American actor and winner of two consecutive Academy Awards
- Sándor Márai (April 11) · Hungarian novelist and journalist known for the book Embers
- Wolfgang Pauli (April 25) · Nobel Prize-winning physicist who pioneered quantum mechanics
- Charles Francis Richter (April 26) · Seismologist who co-developed the scale for measuring earthquake magnitude
- Jan Hendrik Oort (April 28) · Astronomer who identified the cloud of comets surrounding our solar system
- May
- Cecilia Helena Payne Gaposchkin (May 10) · Astronomer who discovered the chemical composition of the stars
- Pridi Banomyong (May 11) · Thai politician who played a key role in establishing Thai democracy
- Ruhollah Khomeini (May 17) · Shia cleric who led the 1979 Iranian Revolution against the Shah and became the first Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic
- Hans Frank (May 23) · Senior Nazi official and governor of occupied Poland during World War II
- Park Hon-young (May 28) · Leader of the Korean Communist movement and North Korean politician
- June
- Dennis Gabor (June 5) · Physicist who won the Nobel Prize for inventing holography
- Martin Bormann (June 17) · Powerful Nazi official and private secretary to Adolf Hitler
- Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (June 25) · British naval officer and the final Viceroy of India
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (June 29) · French pilot and writer of The Little Prince, one of the best-selling books ever, who vanished on a flight in 1944
- July
- Nathalie Sarraute (July 18) · French author known for her pioneering work in the Nouveau Roman
- Zelda Fitzgerald (July 24) · American novelist and socialite of the Jazz Age
- Eyvind Johnson (July 29) · Nobel Prize-winning Swedish novelist and member of the Swedish Academy
- August
- Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother (August 4) · Queen consort of George VI and mother of Queen Elizabeth II
- Norma Shearer (August 10) · Academy Award-winning Canadian actress and 1930s Hollywood star
- Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit (August 18) · Indian diplomat and first female president of the UN General Assembly
- Hans Krebs (August 25) · Nobel Prize-winning biochemist who discovered the citric acid cycle
- September
- Urho Kekkonen (September 3) · Longest-serving President of Finland who held office for over twenty-five years
- Humberto Castelo Branco (September 20) · Brazilian military leader and president during the mid-1960s
- October
- Thomas Wolfe (October 3) · American novelist who wrote the influential book Look Homeward, Angel
- Heinrich Himmler (October 7) · Head of the Nazi SS and Gestapo who was a chief architect of the Holocaust and killed himself after capture in 1945
- Helen Hayes (October 10) · Celebrated actress who was the first woman to achieve EGOT status
- Jean Arthur (October 17) · Hollywood actress famous for her roles in Frank Capra's comedies
- Karin Boye (October 26) · Swedish poet and author of the dystopian novel Kallocain
- Ragnar Granit (October 30) · Nobel Prize-winning neurophysiologist who studied how the eyes process light
- November
- Margaret Mitchell (November 8) · Author of the best-selling historical novel Gone with the Wind
- Aaron Copland (November 14) · American composer famous for works such as Appalachian Spring
- Anna Seghers (November 19) · German author famous for the anti-fascist novel The Seventh Cross
- Rudolf Höss (November 25) · Commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II
- December
- Richard Kuhn (December 3) · Nobel Prize-winning biochemist who pioneered research into vitamins and carotenoids