page_title: 1900
section_title: June
hierarchical_section_title: 1900 / Births / June
caption_attribution_description: English: Photograph of Carmen Polo, Lady of Meiras, with mantilla, in the day of her granduaghter's wedding (8 March 1972) to Prince Alfonso of Bourbon, later Duke of Cadiz
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: June 3
  Adelaide Ames, American astronomer (d. 1932)
  Leo Picard, German-born Israeli geologist (d. 1997)
  June 4 – George Watkins, American baseball player (d. 1970)
  June 5 – Dennis Gabor, Hungarian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1979)
  June 7
  Glen Gray, American saxophonist (d. 1963)
  Frederick Terman, American electrical engineer, professor (d. 1982)
  June 8 – Lena Baker, African-American maid executed for capital murder, pardoned posthumously (d. 1945)
  June 11
  Leopoldo Marechal, Argentine writer (d. 1970)
  Carmen Polo, 1st Lady of Meirás, widow of Francisco Franco (d. 1988)
  June 14
  Ruth Nanda Anshen, American writer, editor and philosopher (d. 2003)
  June Walker, American stage, film actress (d. 1966)
  June 15 – Paul Mares, American jazz trumpeter (d. 1949)
  June 17
  Martin Bormann, German Nazi official (d. 1945)
  Evelyn Irons, Scottish journalist, war correspondent (d. 2000)
  June 18 – Vlasta Vraz, Czech-American relief worker, editor and fundraiser (d. 1989)
  June 21 – Choi Yong-kun, North Korean general, defense minister (d. 1976)
  June 22
  Russell Vis, American wrestler (d. 1990)
  Henriette Alimen, French paleontologist, geologist (d. 1996)
  June 23 – Blanche Noyes, American aviator, winner of the 1936 Bendix Trophy Race (d. 1981)
  June 24
  Juan Carlos Caballero Vega, Mexican revolutionary (d. 2010)
  Raphael Lemkin, Polish-born international lawyer (d. 1959)
  Bernard D. H. Tellegen, Dutch electrical engineer (d. 1990)
  June 25
  Marta Abba, Italian actress (d. 1988)
  Zinaida Aksentyeva, Ukrainian/Soviet astronomer (d. 1969)
  Georgia Hale, American silent film actress, real estate investor (d. 1985)
  Philip D'Arcy Hart, British medical researcher, pioneer in tuberculosis treatment (d. 2006)
  Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, born Prince Louis of Battenberg, English naval officer and last Viceroy of India (assassinated) (d. 1979)
  June 26 – John Benham, British long-distance runner (d. 1990)
  June 27 – Dixie Brown, St Lucian-born British boxer (d. 1957)
  June 29 – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, French pilot, writer (d. 1944)
  June 30 – Alf Ihlen, Norwegian industrialist (d. 2006)
caption: Carmen Polo, 1st Lady of Meirás
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