1900
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Year 1900 (MCM) was the 1900th year of the Anno Domini or the Common Era designation, the 900th year of the 2nd millennium, the last year of the 19th century and the first year of the 1900s.
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Art and culture
- The Exposition Universelle held in Paris in 1900 announced Art Nouveau as a significant new style in architecture and design.
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Visual arts
- The Road to Hell by Alfred Kubin
- The Thinker: Portrait of Louis N. Kenton by Thomas Eakins
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Literature
- The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud
- La Ronde by Arthur Schnitzler
- The Diary of a Chambermaid by Octave Mirbeau
- Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic by Henri Bergson
- Der Marquis de Sade und seine Zeit by Iwan Bloch
- Bibliomania in the Middle Ages by Frederick Somner Merryweather
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Films
- The Enchanted Drawing by J. Stuart Blackton
- The Two Blind Men directed by Georges Méliès
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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)
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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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