1900 births

French writer and aviator (1900–1944)

Ruhollah Mostafavi Musavi Khomeini was an Iranian political revolutionary and Shia cleric who served as the first supreme leader of Iran from 1979 until his death in 1989. He was the leader of the Iranian Revolution, which overthrew Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, ended the Pahlavi era, and transformed the country into an Islamic republic. As supreme leader, he implemented policies that came to be known as Khomeinism.

German Nazi politician; leader of the German SS & main architect of the Holocaust (1900–1945)

German sociologist and psychoanalyst (1900–1980)

physicist, Nobel prize winner (1900–1958)

American author and journalist (1900–1949)

Greek poet and diplomat (1900-1971)

Spanish-Mexican filmmaker (1900–1983)

American actor (1900–1967)

Nobel Prize-winning physicist and inventor of holography

queen consort of the British Empire from 1936 to 1952; mother of Elizabeth II (1900–2022)

Swedish writer (1900–1976)

French poet and screenwriter (1900-1977)

French scientist (1900-1958)

German Nazi Party official and head of the Nazi Party Chancellery (1900–1945)

German philosopher (1900–2002)

eighth President of Finland (1900–1986)

American actress (1900–1993)

Thai prime minister (1900-1983)

Seismologist and mathematician

German-British biochemist (1900-1981)

German lawyer, Nazi politician, General Governor of Nazi occupied Poland and convicted war criminal (1900-1946)

British statesman and naval officer (1900-1979)

Austrian-German biochemist (1900-1967)

British-born American astronomer

German writer (1900–1983)

American politician and diplomat (1900–1965); 31st governor of Illinois from 1949 to 1953 (1900–1965)

American composer, composition teacher, writer, and conductor (1900-1990)

Dutch astronomer (1900–1992)

Soviet marshal (1900–1982)

American writer

Finnish scientist (1900–1991)

Hungarian writer (1900–1989)

Japanese diplomat, Righteous Among the Nations (1900-1986)

Indian diplomat and politician (1900-1990)

French lawyer and writer

North Korean politician (1900–1955)

Swedish poet and novelist (1900–1941)

American actress

German composer (1900–1950)

Greek actress (1900-1973)

acting Secretary-General of the United Nations (1900-1996)

American author (1900–1998)

American writer (1900–1948)

geneticist and evolutionary biologist (1900-1975)

American actress (1900–1974)

French painter (1900–1955)

German SS police official SS-General and head of the Gestapo from 1939-1945 (1900–1945)

pioneer in computing, original conceptual designer behind IBM's Harvard Mark I computer (1900-1973)

Polish Jewish lawyer (1900–1959)

Hungarian–American scientist and inventor (1900–1995)

American composer (1900-1970)

German Nazi official (1900-1953); International Military Tribunal defendant

Ukrainian painter (1900-1961)

Italian writer and politician (1900-1978)

Italian actor, director and playwright (1900–1984)

British biochemist, historian and sinologist (1900–1995)

53th President of Mexico

French politician (1900-1964)

President of Argentina (1900-1983)