What Happened In October 1900 In History

Historical Events for October, 1900

• 25th » The United Kingdom annexes the Transvaal Colony e.g Transvaal.

Famous Birthdays on October in 1900

• 1st » Tom Goddard, English cricketer (d. 1966)
• 3rd » Thomas Wolfe, American author (d. 1938)
• 4th » August Mälk, Estonian author, playwright, and politician (d. 1987)
• 6th » Willy Merkl, German mountaineer (d. 1934)
• 6th » Stan Nichols, English cricketer (d. 1961)
• 7th » Heinrich Himmler, German commander and politician (d. 1945)
• 9th » Joseph Friedman, American inventor, invented the bendy straw (d. 1982)
• 9th » Alastair Sim, Scottish-English actor (d. 1976)
• 10th » Helen Hayes, American actress and singer (d. 1993)
• 13th » Gerald Marks, American composer (d. 1997)
• 14th » W. Edwards Deming, American statistician, educator, and author (d. 1993)
• 15th » Mervyn LeRoy, American actor, director, and producer (d. 1987)
• 16th » Edward Ardizzone, Vietnamese-English author and illustrator (d. 1979)
• 16th » Primo Conti, Italian painter and poet (d. 1988)
• 16th » Goose Goslin, American baseball player and manager (d. 1971)
• 17th » Jean Arthur, American actress and singer (d. 1991)
• 19th » Erna Berger, German soprano (d. 1990)
• 19th » Bill Ponsford, Australian cricketer and baseball player (d. 1991)
• 19th » Roy Worters, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1957)
• 20th » Wayne Morse, American lawyer and politician (d. 1974)
• 22nd » Ashfaqulla Khan, Indian activist (d. 1927)
• 23rd » Douglas Jardine, English cricketer (d. 1958)
• 25th » Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, Nigerian educator and activist (d. 1978)
• 30th » Ragnar Granit, Finnish-Swedish physiologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine known as Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1991)

Famous Deaths for October 1900

• 9th » Heinrich von Herzogenberg, Austrian composer and conductor (b. 1843)
• 15th » Zdeněk Fibich, Czech composer (b. 1850)
• 20th » Naim Frashëri, Albanian poet (b. 1846)
• 28th » Max Müller, German philologist and orientalist (b. 1823)

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