Explore 1816 historical events from 1900–1909.
Bengt Gunnar Ekelöf was a Swedish poet and writer. He was a member of the Swedish Academy from 1958 and was awarded an honorary doctorate in philosophy by Uppsala University in 195…
Gunnar Ekelöf, Swedish poet and author (died 1968)
Vina Fay Wray was a Canadian-American actress best known for starring as Ann Darrow in the 1933 film King Kong. Through an acting career that spanned nearly six decades, Wray attai…
Fay Wray, Canadian-American actress (died 2004)
Warren Earl Burger was an American attorney who served as the 15th chief justice of the United States from 1969 to 1986.
Warren E. Burger, American lawyer and judge, 15th Chief Justice of the United States (died 1995)
Leon Askin was an Austrian-born actor best known in North America for portraying the character General Albert Burkhalter on the TV situation comedy Hogan's Heroes. From the 1950s o…
Leon Askin, Austrian actor (died 2005)
Edwin Mattison McMillan was an American physicist credited with being the first to produce a transuranium element, neptunium. For this, he shared the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry …
Edwin McMillan, American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1991)
Grigorios Maraslis was an official of the Russian Empire and long-time mayor of Odesa (1878–1895) of Greek origin. A noted philanthropist, he sponsored many buildings and education…
Grigorios Maraslis, Greek philanthropist (born 1831)
Ahmed Ali Pasha, better known as "Şeker" Ahmed Pasha, was an Ottoman painter, soldier and government official. His nickname "Şeker" meant "sugar" in Turkish, which he earned due to…
Şeker Ahmed Pasha, Turkish soldier and painter (born 1841)
Emanuele Luigi Galizia was a Maltese architect and civil engineer, who designed many public buildings and several churches. He is regarded as "the principal Maltese architect throu…
Emanuele Luigi Galizia, Maltese architect and civil engineer (born 1830)
Alfred Griner Packer, also known as the "Colorado Cannibal", was an American prospector and self-proclaimed wilderness guide who confessed to cannibalism during the winter of 1874.…
Alferd Packer, American prospector and convicted cannibal (born 1842)
Edmund Gibson Ross was an American politician who represented Kansas after the American Civil War and was later the governor of New Mexico Territory. His vote against convicting Pr…
Edmund G
Charles-Marie-Georges Huysmans was a French novelist and art critic who published his works as Joris-Karl Huysmans. He is most famous for the novel À rebours. He supported himself …
Joris-Karl Huysmans, French author and critic (born 1848)
Sir Benjamin Baker was an English civil engineer who worked in mid to late Victorian era. He helped develop the early underground railways in London with Sir John Fowler, but he is…
Benjamin Baker, English engineer, designed the Forth Bridge (born 1840)
William Le Baron Jenney was an American architect and engineer known for building the first skyscraper in 1884.
William Le Baron Jenney, American architect and engineer, designed the Home Insurance Building (born 1832)
Bartolomé de Jesús Masó Márquez was a Cuban politician and military patriot for Cuban independence from the colonial power of Spain, and later President of the República en Armas.
Bartolomé Masó, Cuban soldier and politician (born 1830)
Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz was an American educator, naturalist, writer, and the co-founder and first president of Radcliffe College. A researcher of natural history, she was an autho…
Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz, American educator, co-founded Radcliffe College (born 1822)
Konstantinos Volanakis was a Greek painter. He is known as one of the greatest Greek seascape painters. Another notable seascape painter was Ioannis Altamouras.
Konstantinos Volanakis, Greek painter and academic (born 1837)
August Johann Gottfried Bielenstein was a Baltic German linguist, folklorist, ethnographer, and theologian.
August Johann Gottfried Bielenstein, German linguist and theologian (born 1826)
Hendrik "Henrik" Sillem was a Dutch jurist, mountaineer and sport shooter.
Henrik Sillem, Dutch target shooter and jurist (born 1866)
Sir William Henry Perkin was an English chemist and entrepreneur best known for his serendipitous discovery of the first commercial synthetic organic dye, mauveine, made from anili…
William Henry Perkin, English chemist and academic (born 1838)
Hector-Henri Malot was a French writer born in La Bouille, Seine-Maritime. He studied law in Rouen and Paris, but eventually literature became his passion. He worked as a dramatic …
Hector Malot, French author and critic (born 1830)
Joseph Joachim was a Hungarian violinist, conductor, composer and teacher who made an international career, based in Hanover and Berlin. A close collaborator of Johannes Brahms, he…
Joseph Joachim, Hungarian violinist, composer, and conductor (born 1831)
Richard Mansfield was a German-born English actor-manager best known for his performances in Shakespeare plays, Gilbert and Sullivan operas, and the play Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; h…
Richard Mansfield, American actor and manager (born 1857)
Edvard Hagerup Grieg was a Norwegian composer and pianist. He is widely considered one of the leading Romantic era composers, and his music is part of the standard classical repert…
Edvard Grieg, Norwegian pianist and composer (born 1843)
René François Armand "Sully" Prudhomme was a French poet and essayist. He was the first winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, in 1901.
Sully Prudhomme, French poet and critic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1839)