Explore 1816 historical events from 1900–1909.
Terris Chester McDuffie was an American professional baseball player. He was listed at 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m), 200 lb (91 kg).
Terris McDuffie, American baseball player (died 1968)
Kurt Peter Eichhorn, was a German conductor.
Kurt Eichhorn, German conductor (died 1994)
Harold Edward Holt was an Australian politician who served as the 17th prime minister of Australia from 1966 until his disappearance and presumed death in 1967. He held office as l…
Harold Holt, Australian lawyer and politician, 17th Prime Minister of Australia (died 1967)
José García Villa was a Filipino poet, literary critic, short story writer, and painter. He was awarded the National Artist of the Philippines title for literature in 1973, as well…
Jose Garcia Villa, Filipino short story writer and poet (died 1997)
Maria Ludwika Bernhard was a Polish classical archaeologist and a specialist in Greek Art. During the German Occupation of Poland in World War II, Bernhard was living in Warsaw and…
Maria Ludwika Bernhard, Polish classical archaeologist and a member of WWII Polish resistance (died 1998)
Helen Hull Jacobs was an American tennis player who won nine Grand Slam titles. In 1936 she was ranked No. 1 in singles by A. Wallis Myers.
Helen Jacobs, American tennis player and commander (died 1997)
Lajos Vajda was a Hungarian painter and graphic artist. From 1927 to 1930 he was a student of István Csók at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts.
Lajos Vajda, Hungarian painter and illustrator (died 1941)
Arthur Joseph Goldberg was an American politician and jurist who served as the 9th U.S. secretary of labor, an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, and the …
Arthur Goldberg, American jurist and politician, 6th United States Ambassador to the United Nations (died 1990)
Frederica Lucy "Rica" Erickson, née Sandilands, was an Australian naturalist, botanical artist, historian, author and teacher. Without any formal scientific training, she wrote ext…
Rica Erickson, Australian botanist, historian, and author (died 2009)
Adelino William Gonsalves was an American soccer player, sometimes described as the "Babe Ruth of American Soccer". He spent over 25 years playing in various American professional …
Billy Gonsalves, American soccer player (died 1977)
Don Freeman was an American painter, printmaker, cartoonist, and an illustrator and writer of children's books. He was active from the 1930s to the 1970s and often used Times Squar…
Don Freeman, American author and illustrator (died 1978)
Torgny T. Segerstedt was a Swedish philosopher and sociologist.
Torgny T:son Segerstedt, Swedish sociologist and philosopher (died 1999)
Gene Raymond was an American film, television, and stage actor of the 1930s and 1940s. In addition to acting, Raymond was also a singer, composer, screenwriter, director, producer,…
Gene Raymond, American actor and pilot (died 1998)
Orlando Cole was an American cello teacher who taught two generations of soloists, chamber musicians, and first cellists in a dozen leading orchestras, including David Cole, Lynn H…
Orlando Cole, American cellist and educator (died 2010)
William Keepers Maxwell Jr. was an American editor, novelist, short story writer, essayist, children's author, and memoirist. He served as a fiction editor at The New Yorker from 1…
William Keepers Maxwell, Jr., American editor, novelist, short story writer, and essayist (died 2000)
Edgar Jean Faure was a French politician, lawyer, essayist, historian and memoirist who served as Prime Minister of France in 1952 and again between 1955 and 1956. Prior to his ele…
Edgar Faure, French historian and politician, 139th Prime Minister of France (died 1988)
Olav Håkonson Hauge was a Norwegian horticulturist, translator and poet.
Olav H. Hauge, Norwegian poet and gardener (died 1994)
William Edward Merritt was a New Zealand Test cricketer who played for Canterbury and Northamptonshire, and a rugby league footballer who played for Canterbury, Wigan and Halifax.
Bill Merritt, New Zealand cricketer and sportscaster (died 1977)
Alfonso Ramón López was a Spanish-American professional baseball catcher and manager. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Brooklyn Robins / Dodgers, Boston Bees, Pitts…
Al López, American baseball player and manager (died 2005)
Henri Cartier-Bresson was a French humanist photographer and artist. He was considered a master of candid photography, and was an early user of 35mm film. He pioneered the genre of…
Henri Cartier-Bresson, French photographer and painter (died 2004)
Erwin Thiesies was a German international rugby union player, playing for the Berliner SV 92 Rugby and the Germany national rugby union team.
Erwin Thiesies, German rugby player and coach (died 1993)
Hannah Frank was an artist and sculptor from Glasgow, Scotland. She was known for her Art Nouveau monochrome drawings until she decided to concentrate on sculpture in 1952.
Hannah Frank, Scottish sculptor and illustrator (died 2008)
Shivaram Hari Rajguru was an Indian anti-colonial revolutionary and independence activist. He is best known for his involvement in the 1928 assassination of a British police office…
Shivaram Rajguru, Indian activist (died 1931)
Walter Bruno Henning was a German scholar of Middle Iranian languages and literature, especially of the corpus discovered by the Turpan expeditions of the early 20th century.
Walter Bruno Henning, Prussian-American linguist and scholar (died 1967)