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Mary Cartwright
British mathematician (1900–1998)
Robert Desnos
French writer
Maria of Yugoslavia
Queen Consort of Yugoslavia (1922 - 1934)
James Hilton
British novelist and screenwriter (1900–1954)
W. Edwards Deming
American professor, author, and consultant (1900-1993)
Arno Breker
German sculptor and architect (1900–1991)
Edith Frank-Holländer
Mother of Holocaust diarist Anne Frank (1900–1945)
Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester
British soldier (1900–1974), Governor-General of Australia from 1945 to 1947
Filipp Golikov
Soviet marshal (1900-1980)
Mervyn LeRoy
American film director and producer (1900–1987)
Prince Aimone, 4th Duke of Aosta
Italian prince and navy officer (1900-1948)
Fritz London
German-American physicist (1900-1954)
Aleksandr Ptushko
Soviet animation and fantasy film director (1900-1973)
Isaak Dunayevsky
Soviet composer (1900–1955)
Robert Siodmak
German-born American film director (1900-1973)
Lorenzo Fernández
Uruguayan footballer (1900-1973)
Santos Urdinarán
Uruguayan footballer (1900-1979)
George Uhlenbeck
Dutch physicist (1900–1988)
Jean Negulesco
Romanian-American film director and screenwriter (1900-1993)
Ibrahim Abboud
Sudanese politician and head of state (1900–1983)
Karl Wolff
German Waffen-SS Army general and Nazi military war criminal from Germany (1900-1984)
George Antheil
American avant-garde composer, pianist, author and inventor (1900–1959)
John McEwen
Australian politician, 18th Prime Minister of Australia (1900-1980)
Muhammad Asad
Austrian-born Pakistani writer and social activist (1900–1992)
Violet Brown
Jamaican supercentenarian (1900–2017)
Edward Reilly Stettinius, Jr.
American diplomat, ran Lend Lease (1900-1949)
Marc Allégret
French screenwriter and film director (1900-1973)
Choe Yong-gon
North Korean vice-marshal and politician (1900-1976)
Sālote Tupou III of Tonga
Monarch of Tonga (1918-1965)
Ismail al-Azhari
President of Sudan from 1965 to 1969
Seewoosagur Ramgoolam
politician, statesman and philanthropist and the first prime minister of Mauritius (1900-1985)
Prince Knud of Denmark
younger son of Christian X of Denmark and Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
Camille Chamoun
President of Lebanon from 1952 to 1958
James Bond
American ornithologist and inspiration for the name of the fictional spy (1900-1989)
Duy Tân
Vietnamese emperor (1899-1945)
Ernst Busch
German actor (1900-1980)
Evald Aav
Estonian composer and choirmaster (1900–1939)
Gustavo Rojas Pinilla
26th President of Colombia (1900-1975)
Rudolf Diels
German lawyer and civil servant, first Gestapo chief and protege of Gestapo founder Hermann Göring (1900-1957)
Xavier Cugat
Spanish-Cuban musician and bandleader (1900–1990)
Hassan Fathi
Egyptian architect (1900–1989)
Charley Paddock
American athlete and Olympic gold medalist (1900-1943)
Ernst Krenek
Austrian/American composer (1900–1991)
Herberts Cukurs
Latvian aviator, Holocaust perpetrator (1900–1965)
Roberto Arlt
Argentine writer
Bing Xin
Chinese writer,poet (1900-1999)
Herbert Bayer
Austrian architect, photographer, graphic and typographer (1900-1985)
Luigi Longo
Italian politician (1900-1980)
Oskar Fischinger
German-American abstract animator, filmmaker, and painter (1900-1967)
Alice Neel
American visual artist (1900-1984)
Hyman G. Rickover
United States admiral; Father of the Nuclear Navy (1900–1986)
Haskell Curry
American mathematician and logician (1900-1982)
Elizabeth Goudge
English fiction writer (1900-1984)
Jean Duvieusart
Belgian politician (1900-1977)
Valko Chervenkov
Bulgarian communist politician, prime minister (1900-1980)
Helen Gahagan Douglas
American actress and politician (1900–1980)
Mikhail Lavrentyev
Russian mathematician (1900-1980)
Ernie Pyle
American war correspondent and writer (1900–1945)
Charles Jewtraw
American speed skater (1900–1996)
Semyon Lavochkin
Jewish Soviet aerospace engineer (1900-1960)