1900s

## 1900

* January 4 – Harlan Hubbard born.
* January 10 – John Beckwith born.
* January 30 – Newly elected Governor William Goebel was shot on the Old State Capitol lawn.
* February 1 – John Y. Brown, Sr. born.
* February 3 – William Goebel died, aged 44.
* April 4 – John Quast born.
* April 4 – Carlos G. Stratton born.
* May 19 – John Paul Riddle born.
* June 5 – Fred Zahner died, aged 30.
* June 12 – Mox McQuery died, aged 38.
* July 28 – Catherine Dale Owen born.
* August 1 – Kennedy Jones born.
* August 3 – John T. Scopes born.
* September 2 – Joe Heving born.
* September 11 – Thomas Turner died, aged 79.

## 1901

* January 3 – Henrietta Bingham born.
* January 11 – John Gregg Fee died, aged 84.
* January 23 – Arnold E. True born.
* March 25 – Denver Grigsby born.
* April 21 – Rice Mountjoy born.
* May 20 – Jimmy Blythe born.
* August 23 – John Sherman Cooper born.
* August 29 – Rabbit Benton born.
* September 2 – Adolph Rupp born.
* December 18 – William F. Perry died, aged 78.

## 1902

* February 19 – John W. Bubbles born.
* April 1 – Joseph S. Fowler died, aged 81.
* April 4 – Stanley G. Weinbaum born.
* May 11 – Dick Curtis born.
* May 13 – Walter N. Haldeman died, aged 81.
* March 15 – Theophilus T. Garrard died, aged 89.
* July 9 – John C. Watts born.
* July 17 – Oscar Turner, Jr. died, aged 34.
* August 25 – Samuel L. Casey died, aged 81.
* September 7 – James A. Williamson died, aged 73.
* December 2 – A. J. Alexander died, aged 78.
* December 18 – Mary Nolan born.

## 1903

* January 17 – Charles Champion Gilbert died, aged 80.
* January 18 – Leane Zugsmith born.
* January 28 – John H. Mallory died, aged 58.
* February 3 – Sondra Rodgers born.
* February 12 – Todd Duncan born.
* February 15 – Phil Reccius died, aged 40.
* March 11 – Buster Ross born.
* April 8 – James William Bryan died, aged 49.
* April 30 – Martha-Bryan Allen born.
* May 16 – Jimmy Wolf died, aged 41.
* July 14 – Thomas D. Clark born.
* August 15 – Bo Otto born.
* September 13 – Richard Taylor Jacob died, aged 78.
* October 16 – Buck Washington born.
* December 10 – Una Merkel born.

## 1904

* January 11 – John Y. Brown died, aged 68.
* February 8 – Mae Street Kidd born.
* March 6 – Stratton Hammon born.
* April 16 – Andrew H. Ward died, aged 89.
* June 27 – Alberta Vaughn born.
* July 6 – Joseph Horace Lewis died, aged 79.
* August 9 – George Graham Vest died, aged 73.
* September 27 – David Grant Colson died, aged 43.
* October 1 – Henry Brainerd McClellan died, aged 63.
* October 14 – Moses Bensinger died, aged 65.

## 1905

* March 7 – Basil Davenport born.
* March 28 – Janice Holt Giles born.
* April 17 – Arthur Lake born.
* April 24 – Robert Penn Warren born.
* April 27 – Alvin Hawkins died, aged 83.
* May 7 – Ray Baer born.
* May 22 – Laura Miller Derry born.
* June 5 – Edmon Ryan born.
* September 10 – Irv Jeffries born.
* September 10 – Pete Browning died, aged 44.
* November 8 – Adamae Vaughn born.
* December 21 – Fred Koster born.

## 1906

* January 22 – Willa Brown born.
* February 10 – Barry Bingham, Sr. born.
* March 5 – George Blowers born.
* May 11 – Edward D. Brown died, aged ~55.
* June 1 – Otto Voit died, aged 61.
* June 2 – William H. Gibson died, aged ~76.
* June 12 – Lyman T. Johnson born.
* July 2 – Blanton Collier born.
* July 16 – James Still born.
* August 8 – Jesse Stuart born.
* September 21 – Thomas M. Doherty died, aged 37.
* October 16 – Cleanth Brooks born.
* October 17 – James D. Walker died, aged 75.
* October 22 – Polk Laffoon died, aged 61.
* December 16 – Nick Denes born.
* December 18 – J. D. Grey born.
* December 20 – Hazel Farris died, aged 26.

## 1907

* January 27 – Joyce Compton born.
* February 7 – Preston Leslie died, aged 87.
* February 24 – Earl Grace born.
* February 28 – Clarence R. Graham born.
* April 27 – Matty Matlock born.
* April 27 – Thomas Satterwhite Noble died, aged 71.
* May 26 – Charles W. Anderson, Jr. born.
* July 23 – William Shakespeare Hays died, aged 70.

## 1908

* January 18 – Charles Hermany died, aged 77.
* March 4 – T. R. M. Howard born.
* March 25 – Charles Burke Elbrick born.
* April 5 – James E. Cantrill died, aged 68.
* April 20 – Lionel Hampton born.
* July 7 – Harriette Simpson Arnow born.
* August 7 – Clyde Hatter born.
* October 31 – Joseph C. Clifton born.

## 1909

* April 29 – Tom Ewell born.
* May 20 – Ernest Hogan died, aged 44.
* June 9 – John R. Eden died, aged 83.
* June 16 – C. W. Grafton born.
* June 20 – Henry Ward born.
* July 25 – Mary Elizabeth Bliss died, aged 85.
* July 29 – Harry Pulliam died, aged 40.
* October 16 – Rainey Bethea born.
* October 22 – Paul Twitchell born.
* November 4 – Betty Arlen born.
* December 15 – Philip B. Thompson, Jr. died, aged 64.