Explore 1816 historical events from 1900–1909.
Max Ludwig Henning Delbrück was a German–American biophysicist who participated in launching the molecular biology research program in the late 1930s. He stimulated physical scient…
Max Delbrück, German-American biophysicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1981)
Luis Federico Leloir was an Argentine physician and biochemist who received the 1970 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of the metabolic pathways by which carbohydrates are…
Luis Federico Leloir, French-Argentine physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1987)
Ali Hadi Bara was a Turkish sculptor and one of the first artists of the Republican generation in Turkey.
Ali Hadi Bara, Iranian-Turkish sculptor and educator (died 1971)
Karl ("Carlo") Wien was a German mountaineer.
Karl Wien, German geographer, academic, and mountaineer (died 1937)
Jacques Becker was a French film director and screenwriter. His films, made during the 1940s and 1950s, encompassed a wide variety of genres, and they were admired by some of the f…
Jacques Becker, French actor, director, and screenwriter (died 1960)
Walter Engle "Jack" Rollins was an American musician born in Scottdale, Pennsylvania and raised in Keyser, West Virginia.
Walter E. Rollins, American songwriter (died 1973)
John Malcolm Thorpe Fleming Churchill, was a British Army officer. Nicknamed "Fighting Jack Churchill" and "Mad Jack", he fought in the Second World War with a broadsword, longbow,…
Jack Churchill, Sri Lankan-British colonel (died 1996)
Junius Richard Jayewardene, commonly referred to by his initials JR, was a Sri Lankan lawyer, and statesman who served as prime minister of Sri Lanka from 1977 to 1978 and as the s…
J. R. Jayewardene, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician, 2nd President of Sri Lanka (died 1996)
Edgar Arthur Wayburn was an American environmentalist who served as the president of the Sierra Club five times in the 1960s. He has been recognized as one of the least-known yet m…
Edgar Wayburn, American physician and environmentalist (died 2010)
Kaka Hathrasi was a Hindi satirist and humorist poet from India.
Kaka Hathrasi, Indian poet and author (died 1995)
Maurice Maillot was a French film and theater actor. He was born in Rethel, Ardennes, and died in Paris.
Maurice Maillot, French actor (died 1968)
Julio Ras Rosales, was a Filipino cardinal of the Catholic Church. He was the second archbishop of Cebu, and a former bishop of Tagbilaran.
Julio Rosales, Filipino cardinal (died 1983)
Jean Dréville was a French film director. He directed more than 40 films between 1928 and 1969.
Jean Dréville, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1997)
Vera Faddeeva was a Soviet mathematician. Faddeeva published some of the earliest work in the field of numerical linear algebra. Her 1950 work, Computational methods of linear alge…
Vera Faddeeva, Russian mathematician (died 1983)
Luis Martín García was a Spanish Jesuit, elected the twenty-fourth Superior General of the Society of Jesus.
Luis Martín, Spanish religious leader, 24th Superior-General of the Society of Jesus (born 1846)
Pierre Curie was a French physicist and chemist, and a pioneer in crystallography and magnetism. He shared one half of the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics with his wife, Marie Curie, f…
Pierre Curie, French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1859)
Spencer William Gore was an English tennis player who won the first Wimbledon tournament in 1877 and a first-class cricketer who played for Surrey County Cricket Club (1874–1875).
Spencer Gore, English tennis player and cricketer (born 1850)
John Knowles Paine was the first American-born composer to achieve fame for large-scale orchestral music. The senior member of a group of composers collectively known as the Boston…
John Knowles Paine, American composer and educator (born 1839)
Oscar Leopold von Gebhardt was a German Lutheran theologian, born in the Baltic German settlement of Wesenberg in the Russian Empire.
Oscar von Gebhardt, German theologian and academic (born 1844)
Carl Christian Schurz was a German-American revolutionary and an American statesman, journalist, and reformer. He migrated to the United States after the German revolutions of 1848…
Carl Schurz, German-American general, journalist, and politician, 13th United States Secretary of the Interior (born 182
Gabriel Dumont (1837–1906) was a Métis political figure best known for being a prominent leader of the Métis people. Dumont was well known for his movements within the North-West R…
Gabriel Dumont, Canadian Métis leader (born 1837)
Henrik Johan Ibsen was a Norwegian playwright. He is considered one of the world's pre-eminent writers of the 19th century and is often referred to as "the father of modern drama".…
Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian director, playwright, and poet (born 1828)
John Riley Maxwell was an American golfer who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics.
John Maxwell, American golfer (born 1871)
George Chetwynd Griffith-Jones was a British writer. He was active mainly in the science fiction genre—or as it was known at the time, scientific romance—in particular writing many…
George Griffith, British writer (born 1857)