Births
25 June 1900: Lord Mountbatten, born His Serene Highness Prince Louis of Battenberg was the youngest child and second son to Prince Louis of Battenberg and his wife Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine (a granddaughter of Queen Victoria). In 1917 Prince Louis and his family stopped using their German titles and in 1947 Louis was granted the title Earl Mountbatten. In 1922 Lord Mountbatten married Edwina Ashley and they had two daughters. Earl Mountbatten was killed on 27 August 1979 in County Sligo, Ireland by a IRA bomb aboard his boat.
13 October 1900: Ghislaine Dommanget was the daughter of Colonel Robert Dommanget and wife Marie Louise Meunier. She was the Princess of Monaco from 1946 to 1949. Prior to become the Princess of Monaco, Ghislaine was a French comedy actress and married to actor André Brulé. After her divorce Ghislaine married the reigning Prince of Monaco, Louis II in 1946. She is also noted to be the first Grimaldi bride without a dowry. The Dowager Princess of Monaco died in 1991.
28 March 1901: Princess Märtha of Sweden, later known as Crown Princess Märtha of Norway, was the second child of Prince Carl of Sweden and Norway, Duke of Västergötland and his wife Princess Ingeborg of Denmark. In 1929 she married her cousin Crown Prince Olav of Norway, only child of King Haakon VII and Queen Maud (born Maud of Wales). The marriage produced three children. Märtha died in 1954 from cancer and three years before her husband became King.
29 April 1901: Emperor Hirohito (or Emperor Shōwa) was born Prince Michi, the first son of Crown Prince Yoshihito (the future Emperor Taishō) and Crown Princess Sadako (the future Empress Teimei). In 1924 he married his distant cousin Princess Nagako Kuni (the future Empress Kōjun), the eldest daughter of Prince Kuni Kuniyoshi and his wife, Chikako. The marriage between Emperor Hirohito and Empress Kōjun produced seven children. The most notable event that happened during Emperor Hirohito's reign was that of World War II. Emperor Hirohito died in 1989.
3 November 1901: Prince Leopold of Belgium, Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, later known as Leopold III, was the oldest son of Crown Prince Albert of Belgium and his wife Duchess Elisabeth of Bavaria. In 1926 Leopold married Princess Astrid of Sweden, daughter of Prince Carl of Sweden and Norway, Duke of Västergötland and his wife Princess Ingeborg of Denmark.. The marriage produced three children. In 1935 King Leopold was driving a car with his wife when he was involved in a automobile accident. The accident caused the death of Queen Astrid and their unborn child. In 1941 King Leopold married for a second time in a secret morganatic religious ceremony to Lilian Baels. The marriage produced three children. The most notable event to happen during King Leopold's reign was World War II and his abdication in 1951. King Leopold died in 1983.
14 December 1901: Prince Paul of Greece, later known as King Paul of Greece, was the third son of King Constantine I of Greece and his wife Princess Sophie of Prussia. In 1938 Prince Paul married Princess Frederica of Hanover, the daughter of Ernest Augustus III, Duke of Brunswick and his wife Princess Viktoria Luise of Prussia. The marriage produced three children. From 1941 to 1946 Prince Paul was in exile with his brother, King George II. When his brother passed away in 1947 Paul became King. King Paul passed away in 1964.
6 March 1903: Princess Nagako Kuni, later known as Empress Kōjun, was the eldest daughter of Prince Kuni Kuniyoshi and his wife, Chikako. In 1924 she married her distant cousin Crown Prince Hirohito of Japan, the son of Emperor Taishō and Empress Teimei. The marriage between Emperor Hirohito and Empress Kōjun produced seven children. Empress Kōjun died in 2000.
2 July 1903: Prince Alexander of Denmark, later known as King Olav V of Norway, was the only child Prince Carl of Denmark and Maud of Wales (later King Haakon VII and Queen Maud). His name was changed to Olav two years after his birth when his father accepted the throne of Norway. In 1929 he married his cousin Princess Märtha of Sweden who was the second child of Prince Carl of Sweden and Norway, Duke of Västergötland and his wife Princess Ingeborg of Denmark. The marriage produced three children. King Olav succeeded his father in 1957 and died in 1991.
12 August 1904: Tsarevitch Alexei of Russia was the youngest child and only son and heir of Tsar Nicholas II and his wife Alexandra (born Princess Alix of Hesse). He had inherited hemophilia from his mother Alexandra. The condition was kept a secret from the Russian people. Tsarevitch Alexei and his immediate family were assassinated in the cellar room of the Ipatiev House in Yekaterinburg, Russia in 1918 by forces of the Bolshevik secret police.
17 November 1905: Princess Astrid of Sweden, later known as Queen Astrid of Belgium, was the third child of Prince Carl of Sweden and Norway, Duke of Västergötland and his wife Princess Ingeborg of Denmark. In 1926 Princess Astrid married Crown Prince Leopold of Belgium, son of King Albert I and Queen Elisabeth of Belgium. The marriage between Astrid and Leopold produced three children. 29 August 1935 Queen Astrid and her unborn child died in an automobile accident in Switzerland.
22 April 1906: Prince Gustav Adolf of Sweden, Duke of Västerbotten was the eldest child and heir of Crown Prince Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden and his wife Princess Margaret of Connaught. In 1932 he married Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, daughter of Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and his wife Princess Victoria Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein. The marriage produced five children. Prince Gustav Adolf was killed in a plane crash in 1947 in Kastrup, Denmark.
16 August 1906: Prince Franz Joseph of Liechtenstein, later known as Franz Joseph II, Prince of Liechtenstein was the oldest child of Prince Aloys of Liechtenstein and his wife Archduchess Elisabeth Amalia of Austria. In 1943 he married Countess Georgina von Wilczek, daughter of Ferdinand, Count of Wilczek and his wife, Countess Norbertine Kinsky of Wchinitz and Tettau. The marriage produced five children He succeeded his childless cousin Prince Franz I in 1938, after his own father renounced his right of succession in his favor a decade earlier. Franz Joseph died in 1989.
18 January 1908: Princess Sybilla of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, later known as Duchess of Västerbotten, was the second child of of Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and his wife Princess Victoria Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein. In 1932 she married Prince Gustav Adolf of Sweden, Duke of Västerbotten, eldest child of Crown Prince Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden and his wife Princess Margaret of Connaught. The marriage between Sybilla and Gustav Adolf produced five children. Sybilla became a widow in 1947 when her husband was killed in a plane crash Kastrup, Denmark. She died of cancer in 1972.
26 February 1909: Talal bin Abdullah, later known as King Talal I of Jordan was the son of King Abdullah I of Jordan and his first wife Musbah bint Nasser. In 1934 he married Zein al-Sharaf, the daughter of Sharif Jamal 'Ali bin Nasser and Wijdan Shakir Pasha. The marriage produced six children. King Talal succeeded his father after he was killed by an assassin inJerusalem in July 1951, but was forced to abdicate a year later due to health reasons. King Talal died in 1972.
30 April 1909: Princess Juliana of The Netherlands, later known as Queen Juliana of The Netherlands was the only child of Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands and her husband Duke Hendrik of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. In 1937 Princess Juliana married HSH Count Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld, the eldest son of Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld and Baroness Armgard von Sierstorpff-Cramm. The marriage produced four daughters. In 1948 Queen Wilhelmina abdicated the throne in favor of her daughter. Queen Juliana reigned until 1980, when she abdicated the throne in favor of her oldest daughter Beatrix. Queen Juliana died in 2004.
10 August 1909: Mohammed V of Morocco was the son of Yusef of Morocco and succeeded him in 1927. From 1927 to 1953 he was Sultan of Morocco. During the years 1953-55 he was in exile. When he returned from exile he was still recognized as Sultan. In February 1956 he successfully negotiated with France for the independence of Morocco In 1957 until 1961 he took on the title of King. In 1929 he married Lalla Abla bint Tahar, daughter of Moulay al-Tahar ben Hasan. Lalla Abla bint Tahar was the mother of Mohammed's successor, King Hassan II of Morocco. King Mohammed died in 1961.