page_title: 1900
section_title: May
hierarchical_section_title: 1900 / Births / May
caption_attribution_description: Juan Arvizu
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: May 1 – Ignazio Silone, Italian author (d. 1978)
  May 2 – A. W. Lawrence, British leading authority on classical sculpture and architecture (d. 1991)
  May 5
  Helen Redfield, American geneticist (d. 1988)
  Harold Tamblyn-Watts, British cartoonist (d. 1999)
  May 6 – Zheng Ji, Chinese nutritionist, biochemist (d. 2010)
  May 9 – Maria Malicka, Polish stage, film actress (d. 1992)
  May 10 – Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, British-American astronomer, astrophysicist (d. 1979)
  May 11 – Thomas H. Robbins, Jr., American admiral (d. 1972)
  May 12 – Helene Weigel, Austrian actress (d. 1971)
  May 14 – Cai Chang, Chinese politician, women's rights activist (d. 1990)
  May 15 – Ida Rhodes, American mathematician, pioneer in computer programming (d. 1986)
  May 22
  Juan Arvizu, Mexican operatic tenor and bolero vocalist (d. 1985)
  Vina Bovy, Belgian operatic soprano (d. 1983)
  May 23 – Hans Frank, German Nazi official (executed 1946)
  May 24 – Sonia Rosemary Keppel, British baroness, grandmother of Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall (d. 1986)
  May 26 – Karin Juel, Swedish singer, actor and writer (d. 1976)
  May 27
  Lotte Toberentz, German overseer of the Nazi Uckermark concentration camp (d. unknown)
  Uładzimir Žyłka, Belarusian poet (d. 1933)
  May 28 – Tommy Ladnier, American jazz trumpeter (d. 1939)
  May 29 – David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir, British politician, lawyer and judge (d. 1967)
  May 31 – Lucile Godbold, American Olympic athlete (d. 1981)
caption: Juan Arvizu
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