1900
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Births
- 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)
- 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 8 - Henry D. Cogswell, American philanthropist (b. 1820)
- July 29 - Umberto I, King of Italy (assassinated) (b. 1844)
- July 31 - Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, second eldest son of Queen Victoria (b. 1844)
- August 10 - Charles Russell, Baron Russell of Killowen, Lord Chief Justice of England (b.1832)
- August 12 - Wilhelm Steinitz, Austrian-born chess player (b. 1836)
- August 16 - José Maria Eça de Queiroz, Portuguese writer (b. 1845)
- August 25 - Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher and writer (b. 1844)
- August 25 - Kuroda Kiyotaka, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1840)
- September 23 - William Marsh Rice, American philanthropist and university founder (murdered) (b. 1816)
- September 29 - Samuel Fenton Cary, American politician (b. 1814)
- October 15 - Zdeněk Fibich, Czech composer (b. 1850)
- October 22 - John Sherman, American politician (b.1823)
- November 22 - Sir Arthur Sullivan. English composer (b. 1842)
- November 30 - Oscar Wilde, Irish writer (b. 1854)
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