page_title: 1900
section_title: January
hierarchical_section_title: 1900 / Births / January
caption_attribution_description: Rear Admiral Hyman G. Rickover
context_page_description: 1900 was an exceptional common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1900th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 900th year of the 2nd millennium, the 100th and last year of the 19th century, and the 1st year of the 1900s decade. As of the start of 1900, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
  As of March 1, when the Julian calendar acknowledged a leap day and the Gregorian calendar did not, the Julian calendar fell one day further behind, bringing the difference to 13 days until February 28, 2100.
context_section_description: January 1
  Paola Borboni, Italian film actress (d. 1995)
  Xavier Cugat, Cuban bandleader (d. 1990)
  Roger Maxwell, English actor (d. 1971)
  Lillian Rich, English silent film actress (d. 1954)
  Chiune Sugihara, Japanese diplomat, saved Jewish WWII refugees (d. 1986)
  January 2
  William Haines, American actor (d. 1973)
  Mansaku Itami, Japanese film director (tuberculosis) (d. 1946)
  Una Ledingham, British physician, known for research on diabetes in pregnancy (d. 1965)
  January 3
  Maurice Jaubert, French composer and soldier (d. 1940)
  Ernst Neubach, Austrian screenwriter, producer, and director (d. 1968)
  January 4
  James Bond, American ornithologist (d. 1989)
  William Young, British World War I veteran (d. 2007)
  January 5
  George Magrill, American film actor (d. 1952)
  Yves Tanguy, French painter (d. 1955)
  January 6
  Queen Maria of Yugoslavia (1922-1934) (d. 1961)
  John Sinclair, American actor (d. 1945)
  Emmanuel d'Astier de La Vigerie, French journalist and politician (d. 1969)
  January 8
  Dorothy Adams, American character actress (d. 1988)
  François de Menthon, French politician, professor of law (d. 1984)
  January 9 – Richard Halliburton, American adventurer, writer (d. 1939)
  January 10 – Jean Gehret, Swedish actor and director (d. 1956)
  January 11
  Borden Chase, American writer (d. 1971)
  Lloyd French, American film director (d. 1950)
  January 13 – Shimizugawa Motokichi, Japanese sumo wrestler (d. 1967)
  January 16
  Kiku Amino, Japanese author, translator (d. 1978)
  Edith Frank, German-Dutch mother of Anne Frank (d. 1945)
  January 18 – Wan Laiming, Chinese animator (d. 1997)
  January 20
  Dorothy Annan, English painter, potter, and muralist (d. 1983)
  Colin Clive, American actor (d. 1936)
  January 22
  Ernst Busch, German singer and actor (d. 1980)
  René Pellos, French artist (d. 1998)
  January 23 – William Ifor Jones, Welsh conductor, organist (d. 1988)
  January 24 – Theodosius Dobzhansky, Ukrainian geneticist, evolutionary biologist (d. 1975)
  January 26 – Karl Ristenpart, German conductor (d. 1967)
  January 27 – Hyman G. Rickover, American admiral (d. 1986)
  January 28 – Rajagopala Tondaiman, King of Pudukkottai (d. 1950)
  January 30
  Martita Hunt, Argentine-born British actress (d. 1969)
  Isaak Dunayevsky, Soviet and Russian composer (d. 1955)
  January 31 – Betty Parsons, American artist, art dealer and collector (d. 1982)
caption: Hyman G. Rickover
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