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Art and culture
- The World's Fair (Exposition Universelle) held in Paris in 1900 announced Art Nouveau as a significant new style in architecture and design.
Visual arts
Literature
- The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud
- La Ronde - Arthur Schnitzler
- The Diary of a Chambermaid by Octave Mirbeau
Films
- The Enchanted Drawing by J. Stuart Blackton
- The Two Blind Men directed by Georges Méliès
Births
- April 13 - Pierre Molinier, French outsider artist (d. 1976)
- January 5 - Yves Tanguy, French painter (d. 1955)
- February 4 - Jacques Prévert, French lyricist and author (d. 1977)
- February 11 - Hans-Georg Gadamer, German philosopher (d. 2002)
- February 22 - Luis Buñuel, Spanish film director (d. 1983)
- March 23 - Erich Fromm, German-born psychologist and philosopher (d. 1980)
- June 8 - George Antheil, American avant-garde composer and pianist (b. 1959).
- June 22 - Oskar Fischinger, German filmmaker (d. 1967)
- July 4 - Robert Desnos, French poet (d. 1945)
Deaths
- January 20 - John Ruskin, English writer and social critic (b. 1819)
- June 5 - Stephen Crane, American author (b. 1871)
- July 29 - Henry Spencer Ashbee, British book collector and writer (b. 1834)
- August 25 - Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher and writer (b. 1844)
- November 30 - Oscar Wilde, Irish writer (b. 1854)
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