Explore 1816 historical events from 1900–1909.
Idel Jakobson was an NKVD officer. According to the materials of Kaitsepolitsei, Jakobson took part in sentencing around 1,200 people to death and persecuting and torturing at leas…
Idel Jakobson, Latvian-Estonian NKVD officer (died 1997)
Henry Payne “Hank” Iba was an American basketball coach and college athletics administrator. He served as the head basketball coach at Northwest Missouri State Teacher's College, n…
Henry Iba, American basketball player and coach (died 1993)
Ralph Johnson Bunche was an American political scientist and diplomat who received the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize for his late 1940s mediation in the Arab–Israeli conflict. He is the f…
Ralph Bunche, American political scientist, academic, and diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1971)
Tamás Lossonczy was a Hungarian abstract painter. He is considered by many critics to be one of the leading figures of modern art in Hungary of the 20th century.
Tamás Lossonczy, Hungarian painter (died 2009)
Alexei Nikolaevich was the last Russian tsesarevich. He was the youngest child and only son of Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna. He was born with haemophilia, whic…
Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia (died 1918)
Charles Edward "Buddy" Rogers was an American film actor and musician. During the peak of his popularity in the late 1920s and early 1930s, he was publicized as "America's Boyfrien…
Buddy Rogers, American actor and musician (died 1999)
Maria Margarita "Margaret" Tafoya was the matriarch of Santa Clara Pueblo potters. She was a recipient of a 1984 National Heritage Fellowship awarded by the National Endowment for …
Margaret Tafoya, Native American Pueblo potter (died 2001)
George Johann Klein, was a Canadian inventor who is widely regarded as the most productive inventor in Canada in the 20th century. Although he struggled as a high school student, h…
George Klein, Canadian inventor, invented the motorized wheelchair (died 1992)
General Minoru Genda was an Imperial Japanese Navy flight officer, JASDF general and politician. He is best known for helping to plan the attack on Pearl Harbor. After the war he …
Minoru Genda, Japanese general, pilot, and politician (died 1989)
Wendell Meredith Stanley was an American biochemist, virologist and Nobel laureate. Stanley's work contributed to lepracidal compounds, diphenyl stereochemistry, and the chemistry …
Wendell Meredith Stanley, American biochemist and virologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1971)
Mary Dawson Cain was an American newspaper editor, political activist, and gubernatorial candidate in Mississippi. A Democrat, she advocated for conservative causes and is particul…
Mary Cain, American journalist and politician (died 1984)
Leopold Nowak was an Austrian musicologist chiefly known for editing the works of Anton Bruckner for the International Bruckner Society. He reconstructed the original form of some …
Leopold Nowak, Austrian composer and musicologist (died 1991)
Francis Factor, also known as Max Factor Jr., was an American businessman who was president of the Max Factor Cosmetics empire.
Max Factor, Jr., American businessman (died 1996)
Maurice Fernand Cary Wilks was an English automotive and aeronautical engineer, and by the time of his death in 1963, was the chairman of the Rover Company. He was the founder of t…
Maurice Wilks, English engineer and businessman (died 1963)
William James "Count" Basie was an American jazz pianist, organist, bandleader, and composer. In 1935, he formed the Count Basie Orchestra, and in 1936 took them to Chicago for a l…
Count Basie, American pianist, composer, and bandleader (died 1984)
Deng Xiaoping was a Chinese statesman, revolutionary, and political theorist who served as the paramount leader of the People's Republic of China (PRC) from 1978 to 1989. Emerging …
Deng Xiaoping, Chinese soldier and politician, paramount leader and 1st Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China…
William Primrose was a Scottish violist and teacher. He performed with the London String Quartet from 1930 to 1935. He then joined the NBC Symphony Orchestra where he formed the Pr…
William Primrose, Scottish viola player and educator (died 1982)
Ida Cook was a British campaigner for Jewish refugees and, as Mary Burchell, a romance novelist.
Ida Cook, English campaigner for Jewish refugees, and romantic novelist as Mary Burchell (died 1986)
Christopher Isherwood was an English and American novelist, playwright, screenwriter, autobiographer, and diarist. His best-known works include Goodbye to Berlin (1939), a semi-aut…
Christopher Isherwood, English-American author and academic (died 1986)
Joseph Harold Anthony Hulme was an English footballer and cricketer.
Joe Hulme, English footballer and cricketer (died 1991)
Alar Kotli was an Estonian architect. He studied sculpture at the art school Pallas in Tartu during 1922–1923 and mathematics at the University of Tartu. He graduated from the Univ…
Alar Kotli, Estonian architect (died 1963)
Norah Ethel Lofts was a 20th-century British writer. She also wrote under the pen names Peter Curtis and Juliet Astley. She wrote more than fifty books. Although specializing in hi…
Norah Lofts, English author (died 1983)
John Hay Whitney was an American venture capitalist, sportsman, philanthropist, newspaper publisher, film producer and diplomat who served as U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom,…
John Hay Whitney, American businessman, publisher, and diplomat, founded J.H. Whitney & Company (died 1982)
Secondo Campini was an Italian engineer and one of the pioneers of the jet engine.
Secondo Campini, Italian-American engineer (died 1980)