Explore 1816 historical events from 1900–1909.
Luis Kutner was a US human rights activist, FBI informant, and lawyer who was on the National Advisory Council of the US branch of Amnesty International during its early years and …
Luis Kutner, American lawyer, author, and activist (died 1993)
Bud Collyer was an American radio actor, announcer and game show host who became one of the nation's first major television game show stars. He is best remembered for his work as t…
Bud Collyer, American actor and game show host (died 1969)
Stanley Howard Knowles was a Canadian parliamentarian. Knowles represented the riding of Winnipeg North Centre from 1942 to 1958 on behalf of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federati…
Stanley Knowles, American-Canadian academic and politician (died 1997)
Nedra Volz was an American actress. On television, she portrayed Aunt Iola on All in the Family, Adelaide Brubaker on Diff'rent Strokes, Emma Tisdale on The Dukes of Hazzard, Pearl…
Nedra Volz, American actress (died 2003)
William Murray Werber was an American professional baseball third baseman in Major League Baseball who played for the New York Yankees, Boston Red Sox (1933–1936), Philadelphia Ath…
Billy Werber, American baseball player (died 2009)
August "Gus" Schilling was an American film actor who started in burlesque comedy and usually played nervous comic roles, often unbilled. A friend of Orson Welles, he appeared in f…
Gus Schilling, American actor (died 1957)
William Klaas Frankena was an American moral philosopher. He was a member of the University of Michigan's department of philosophy for 41 years (1937–1978), and chair of the depart…
William Frankena, American philosopher and academic (died 1994)
Helmut Ulm was a German mathematician who established the classification of countable periodic abelian groups by means of their Ulm invariants.
Helmut Ulm, German mathematician (died 1975)
August Hugo Distler was a German organist, choral conductor, teacher and composer.
Hugo Distler, German organist, composer, and conductor (died 1942)
Alfons Vilhelm Robert Rebane was an Estonian military commander. He was the most highly decorated Estonian military officer during World War II, serving in various Wehrmacht and Wa…
Alfons Rebane, Estonian colonel (died 1976)
Willard Van Orman Quine was an American logician and philosopher in the analytic tradition, recognized as "one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century". He wa…
Willard Van Orman Quine, American philosopher and academic (died 2000)
Salvador Guillermo Allende Gossens was a Chilean socialist politician who served as the 29th president of Chile from 1970 until his suicide in 1973. As a socialist committed to dem…
Salvador Allende, Chilean physician and politician, 29th President of Chile (died 1973)
João Guimarães Rosa was a Brazilian novelist, short story writer, poet and diplomat.
João Guimarães Rosa, Brazilian physician and author (died 1967)
Leroy Anderson was an American composer of short, light concert pieces, many of which were introduced by the Boston Pops Orchestra under the direction of Arthur Fiedler. John Willi…
Leroy Anderson, American composer and conductor (died 1975)
Erik Hjalmar Lundqvist was a Swedish athlete who won a gold medal in the javelin throw at the 1928 Summer Olympics. Two weeks later he became the first man to break the 70 m barrie…
Erik Lundqvist, Swedish javelin thrower (died 1963)
Winston Mawdsley Graham OBE, born Winston Grime, was an English novelist best known for the Poldark series of historical novels set in Cornwall, though he also wrote numerous other…
Winston Graham, English author (died 2003)
Luigi Rovere was an Italian film producer.
Luigi Rovere, Italian film producer (died 1996)
Robert Nieuwenhuys was a Dutch writer of Indo descent. The son of a 'Totok' Dutchman and an Indo-European mother, he and his younger brother Roelof, grew up in Batavia, where his f…
Rob Nieuwenhuys, Dutch writer (died 1999)
Thoroughgood "Thurgood" Marshall was an American lawyer who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1967 until 1991. He was the Supreme Court'…
Thurgood Marshall, American lawyer and civil rights activist, 32nd Solicitor General of the United States, and former…
Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher Parrish Friede, writing as M.F.K. Fisher, was an American food writer. She was a founder of the Napa Valley Wine Library. Over her lifetime she wrote 27…
M. F. K. Fisher, American author (died 1992)
Robert Baumle Meyner was an American Democratic Party politician and attorney who served as the 44th governor of New Jersey from 1954 to 1962. Before being elected governor, Meyner…
Robert B. Meyner, American lawyer and politician, 44th Governor of New Jersey (died 1990)
Henri d'Orléans, was the Orléanist pretender to the defunct throne of France as Henry VI from 1940 until his death in 1999. Henri was the direct descendant of Philippe I, Duke of O…
Henri of Orléans, (died 1999)
Lyman Skinner Ayres II was president of L. S. Ayres and Company from 1954 to 1962 and its chairman of the board from 1962 to 1973. The flagship store in the Ayres family's Midweste…
Lyman S. Ayres II, American businessman (died 1996)
Major General Anton Muttukumaru, OBE, ED, ADC was the first native Ceylonese to serve as the Commander of the Ceylon Army, a post he held from 1955 to 1959. He also served as Ceylo…
Anton Muttukumaru, Sri Lankan general and diplomat (died 2001)