Explore 1816 historical events from 1900–1909.
Percy Alfred Williams was a Canadian athlete, winner of the 100 and 200 metres races at the 1928 Summer Olympics and a former world record holder for the 100 metres sprint.
Percy Williams, Canadian sprinter (died 1982)
Sir Henry Edward Bolte was an Australian politician who served as the 38th premier of Victoria from 1955 to 1972. He held office as the leader of the Victorian division of the Libe…
Henry Bolte, Australian politician, 38th Premier of Victoria (died 1990)
Louis Daquin was a French film director, screenwriter and actor. He directed 14 films between 1938 and 1963. He also appeared in 11 films between 1937 and 1979.
Louis Daquin, French actor and director (died 1980)
Francis Raymond Fosberg was an American botanist. A prolific collector and author, he played a significant role in the development of coral reef and island studies.
Francis Raymond Fosberg, American botanist and author (died 1993)
James Maitland Stewart was an American actor and military aviator. Known for his distinctive drawl and everyman screen persona, Stewart appeared in 80 films from 1935 to 1991. His…
James Stewart, American actor (died 1997)
Horton Smith was an American professional golfer, best known as the winner of the first and third Masters Tournaments.
Horton Smith, American golfer and captain (died 1963)
John Bardeen was an American physicist. He is the only person to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics twice: first in 1956 with William Shockley and Walter Brattain for their inve…
John Bardeen, American physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1991)
Hélène Boucher was a well-known French pilot in the early 1930s, when she set several women's world speed records and the all-comers record for 1,000 km in 1934. She was killed in …
Hélène Boucher, French pilot (died 1934)
Tomiko Itooka was a Japanese supercentenarian who was recognized as the world's oldest verified living person in September 2024. She managed her family's textile business during Wo…
Tomiko Itooka, Japanese supercentenarian (died 2024)
Robert Adolph Wilton Morley was an English actor who enjoyed a lengthy career in both Britain and the United States. He was frequently cast as a pompous English gentleman represent…
Robert Morley, English actor (died 1992)
Léo Alphonse Joseph Cadieux was a Canadian politician.
Léo Cadieux, Canadian journalist and politician, 17th Canadian Minister of National Defence (died 2005)
Ian Lancaster Fleming was a British writer, best known for his postwar James Bond series of spy novels. Fleming came from a wealthy family connected to the merchant bank Robert Fle…
Ian Fleming, English journalist and author, created James Bond (died 1964)
Mary Diana Morgan was a Welsh playwright, screenwriter and novelist, mostly associated with her work for Ealing Studios as Diana Morgan. She was married to fellow screenwriter Robe…
Diana Morgan, Welsh-English playwright and screenwriter (died 1996)
Annemarie Minna Renée Schwarzenbach was a Swiss writer, journalist and photographer. Her bisexual mother brought her up in a masculine style, and her androgynous image suited the b…
Annemarie Schwarzenbach, Swiss author and photographer (died 1942)
Theodore Huebner Roethke was an American poet. He is regarded as one of the most accomplished and influential poets of his generation, having won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1…
Theodore Roethke, American poet (died 1963)
Nguyễn Ngọc Thơ was a South Vietnamese politician who was the first vice president of South Vietnam, serving under President Ngô Đình Diệm from 1956 until Diệm's overthrow and assa…
Nguyễn Ngọc Thơ, Vietnamese politician, 1st Prime Minister of the Republic of Vietnam (died 1976)
Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén was a Swedish electrical engineer, plasma physicist and winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). He described …
Hannes Alfvén, Swedish physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1995)
Melvin Jerome Blanc was an American voice actor and radio personality whose career spanned over sixty years. Referred to as "The Man of a Thousand Voices", he is regarded as the gr…
Mel Blanc, American voice actor (died 1989)
Don Ameche was an American actor, comedian and vaudevillian. After playing in college shows, repertory theatre, and vaudeville, he became a major radio star in the early 1930s, whi…
Don Ameche, American actor (died 1993)
Emmett B. "Branch" McCracken was an American basketball player and coach. He served as the head basketball coach at Ball State University from 1930 to 1938 and at Indiana Universit…
Branch McCracken, American basketball player and coach (died 1970)
Karl Hein was a German hammer thrower who won a gold medal at the 1936 Summer Olympics.
Karl Hein, German hammer thrower (died 1982)
Francisco de Jesus Marto and Jacinta de Jesus Marto were siblings from Aljustrel, a small hamlet near Fátima, Portugal, who, with their cousin Lúcia dos Santos (1907–2005), reporte…
Francisco Marto, Portuguese saint (died 1919)
Marina Timofeyevna Semyonova was the first Soviet-trained prima ballerina. She was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1975, and a Hero of Socialist Labour in 1988.
Marina Semyonova, Russian ballerina and educator (died 2010)
Otto Johann Anton Skorzeny was an Austrian-born German SS-Obersturmbannführer in the Waffen-SS during World War II. During the war, he was involved in a number of operations, inclu…
Otto Skorzeny, German SS officer (died 1975)