Centuries: Year in Review 20th Century (19th century - 20th century - 21st century)
Decades: 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s - 1900s - 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s
Years: 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 - 1902 - 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907
Births
- February 11 - Arne Jacobsen Danish architect/designer
- March 21 - Son House, blues musician
- August 8 - Paul Dirac, physicist
- August 19 - Ogden Nash, poet
- August 22 - Leni Riefenstahl, German film director
Deaths
Events
- February 11 - Police beat up universal suffrage demonstrators in Brussels.
- Physics - Hendrik Antoon Lorentz, Pieter Zeeman
- Chemistry - Hermann Emil Fischer
- Medicine - Ronald Ross
- Literature - [[Christian Mommsen]|Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen]
- Peace - Élie Ducommun, Charles Albert Gobat