The year was
1900
Here's everything we logged from 1900 — 2 worldwide and 1 from India.
Someone born this year is around 70 today.
Famous people born in 1900 Antoine, Ruhollah, Heinrich…
Notable figures who share this birth year.
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
French writer and aviator (1900–1944).
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Ruhollah Khomeini
Supreme Leader of Iran from 1979 to 1989.
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Heinrich Himmler
German Nazi politician; leader of the German SS & main architect of the Holocaust (1900-1945).
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Wolfgang Pauli
Physicist, Nobel prize winner (1900–1958).
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Erich Fromm
German sociologist and psychoanalyst (1900–1980).
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Margaret Mitchell
American author and journalist (1900–1949).
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Giorgos Seferis
Greek poet and diplomat (1900-1971).
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Dennis Gabor
Nobel Prize-winning physicist and inventor of holography.
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Paris Exposition Universelle
The World's Fair showcased the future: moving sidewalks, talking films, and electric lighting. A vision of the 20th century.
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Quantum theory born
Max Planck proposed that energy comes in discrete packets called quanta. Modern physics was born.
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Great Famine of 1899-1900
A devastating famine struck large parts of India under British rule. Millions died.