Explore 1816 historical events from 1900–1909.
Charles Herbert "Red" Ruffing was an American professional baseball player. A pitcher, he played in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1924 through 1947. He played for the Boston Red…
Red Ruffing, American baseball pitcher and coach (died 1986)
Clarence Albert Poindexter, known best as Al Dexter, was an American country musician and songwriter.
Al Dexter, American country singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1984)
Arthur Floyd Gottfredson was an American cartoonist best known for his defining work on the Mickey Mouse comic strip, which he worked on from 1930 until his retirement in 1975. His…
Floyd Gottfredson, American author and illustrator (died 1986)
Sir John Philip Baxter was a British-Australian chemical engineer. He was the second director of the University of New South Wales from 1953, continuing as vice-chancellor when the…
Philip Baxter, Welsh-Australian chemical engineer (died 1989)
Ernest Loring "Red" Nichols was an American jazz cornetist, composer, and jazz bandleader. He was one of the most prolific and influential jazz musicians in the late 1920s and earl…
Red Nichols, American cornet player, composer, and bandleader (died 1965)
Lise Marie Jeanette de Baissac MBE CdeG, code names Odile and Marguerite, was a Mauritian agent in the United Kingdom's clandestine Special Operations Executive (SOE) organization …
Lise de Baissac, Mauritian SOE agent, war hero (died 2004)
Catherine Krouse Bauer Wurster was an American public housing advocate and educator of city planners and urban planners. A leading member of the "housers," a group of planners who…
Catherine Bauer Wurster, American architect and public housing advocate (died 1964)
Alexander A. Schomburg, born Alejandro Schomburg y Rosa, was a Puerto Rican commercial artist and comic-book artist and painter whose career lasted over 70 years.
Alex Schomburg, Puerto Rican artist and illustrator (died 1998)
Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed was an Indian lawyer and politician who served as the President of India from 1974 to 1977.
Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed, Indian lawyer and politician, 5th President of India (died 1977)
Jean-Guenolé-Marie Daniélou was a French Jesuit and cardinal, an internationally well known patrologist, theologian and historian and a member of the Académie française.
Jean Daniélou, French cardinal and theologian (died 1974)
Herbert Morrison was an American journalist whose charged radio report on the Hindenburg disaster is recognized as a landmark in broadcasting. Decades on from his 1937 report, he b…
Herbert Morrison, American journalist (died 1989)
Delesio Antonio Berni was an Argentine figurative artist. He is associated with the movement known as Nuevo Realismo, an Argentine extension of social realism. His work, including …
Antonio Berni, Argentinian painter, illustrator, and engraver (died 1981)
Joseph Cheshire Cotten Jr. was an American film, stage, radio and television actor. Cotten achieved prominence on Broadway, starring in the original stage productions of The Philad…
Joseph Cotten, American actor (died 1994)
Albert Dubout was a French cartoonist, illustrator, painter, and sculptor.
Albert Dubout, French cartoonist, illustrator, painter, and sculptor (died 1976)
Abraham Zapruder was a Ukrainian-born American clothing manufacturer based in Dallas, Texas, who became known for his film work during the assassination of United States President …
Abraham Zapruder, American businessman and amateur photographer, filmed the Zapruder film (died 1970)
Ruth Blaney Alexander was an early American female pilot who set several records in altitude and distance in 1929 and 1930.
Ruth Alexander, pioneering American pilot (died 1930)
Hedley Verity was a professional cricketer who played for Yorkshire and England between 1930 and 1939. A slow left-arm orthodox bowler, he took 1,956 wickets in first-class cricket…
Hedley Verity, English cricketer and soldier (died 1943)
Henry Jaynes Fonda was an American actor whose career spanned five decades on Broadway and in Hollywood. Known for his work on screen and stage, he often portrayed characters who e…
Henry Fonda, American actor (died 1982)
Herbert Ernest Bates, better known as H. E. Bates, was an English writer of novels and short stories. His best-known works include Love for Lydia, The Darling Buds of May and My Un…
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Bodo von Borries in Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia) was a German physicist. He was the co-inventor of the electron microscope.
Bodo von Borries, German physicist and academic, co-invented the electron microscope (died 1956)
Thomas Edward Neil Driberg, Baron Bradwell was a British journalist, politician, High Anglican churchman and possible Soviet spy, who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 194…
Tom Driberg, British politician (died 1976)
George Katsutoshi Nakashima was an American woodworker and architect. In 1983, he accepted the Order of the Sacred Treasure, an honor bestowed by the Emperor of Japan and the Japan…
George Nakashima, American woodworker and architect (died 1990)
Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov was a Russian novelist and winner of the 1965 Nobel Prize in Literature. He is known for writing about life and fate of Don Cossacks during the Rus…
Mikhail Sholokhov, Russian novelist and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1984)
Sebastian Lewis Shaw was an English actor, theatre director, novelist, playwright and poet. During his seven-decade career, he appeared in dozens of stage performances and more tha…
Sebastian Shaw, English actor, director, and playwright (died 1994)