Explore 1816 historical events from 1900–1909.
Theodore William Schultz was an American agricultural economist and chairman of the University of Chicago Department of Economics. Schultz rose to national prominence after winning…
Theodore Schultz, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1998)
William Brian de Lacy Aherne was an English actor of stage, screen, radio and television, who enjoyed a long and varied career in Britain and the United States.
Brian Aherne, English actor (died 1986)
Alfred Kastler was a German-born French physicist and Nobel laureate in Physics. He is known for the development of optical pumping.
Alfred Kastler, German-French physicist and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1984)
Ronald Aird was an English first-class cricketer, cricket administrator and British Army officer. Aird began his first-class cricket career with Hampshire County Cricket Club in 19…
Ronnie Aird, English cricketer and administrator (died 1986)
Maximillian Oppenheimer, known as Max Ophüls, was a German and French film director, screenwriter and art director. He was known for his opulent and lyrical visual style, with heav…
Max Ophüls, German-American director and screenwriter (died 1957)
André Michel Lwoff was a French microbiologist and Nobel laureate.
André Michel Lwoff, French microbiologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1994)
David O. Selznick was an American film producer, screenwriter and film studio executive who produced Gone with the Wind (1939) and Rebecca (1940), both of which earned him an Acade…
David O
Richard Joseph Daley was an American politician who served as the mayor of Chicago from 1955, and the chairman of the Cook County Democratic Party from 1953, until his death. He ha…
Richard J
Sigizmund Aleksandrovich Levanevsky was a Soviet pioneer of long-range flight who was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union in 1934 for his role in the SS Chelyuskin rescue.
Sigizmund Levanevsky, Soviet aircraft pilot of Polish origin (died 1937)
Robert Reiniger Meredith Willson was an American flautist, composer, conductor, musical arranger, bandleader, playwright, and writer.
Meredith Willson, American playwright and composer (died 1984)
Lubka Oleksandrivna Kolessa was a classical pianist and professor of piano.
Lubka Kolessa, Ukrainian-Canadian pianist and educator (died 1997)
Howard Earl Averill was an American professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a center fielder from 1929 to 1941, including 11 seasons for the Cleve…
Earl Averill, American baseball player (died 1983)
Marcel Lajos Breuer was a Hungarian-American modernist architect and furniture designer. He moved to the United States in 1937 and became a naturalized American citizen in 1944.
Marcel Breuer, Hungarian-American architect and academic, designed the Ameritrust Tower (died 1981)
Anatoly Mikhailovich Litvak OBE, commonly known as Anatole Litvak, was a Russian-American filmmaker.
Anatole Litvak, Ukrainian-American director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1974)
John Lambert was an English footballer who played as a centre forward or inside forward. He scored 116 goals from 223 appearances in the Football League playing for Rotherham Count…
Jack Lambert, English footballer and manager (died 1940)
Aloysius Harry Simmons was an American professional baseball outfielder who played 20 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB). Nicknamed "Bucketfoot Al", he had his best years with …
Al Simmons, American baseball player and coach (died 1956)
Lionel Pretoria Conacher, nicknamed "the Big Train", was a Canadian athlete and politician. Voted the country's top athlete of the first half of the 20th century, he won championsh…
Lionel Conacher, Canadian football player and politician (died 1954)
Sylvia Daoust, CM, CQ RCA was a Canadian sculptor who was one of the first female sculptors in Quebec. She studied at the Council of Arts & Manufactures and the École des Beaux-Art…
Sylvia Daoust, Canadian sculptor (died 2004)
Henry James Kadwell was an Australian professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1920s and 1930s. An Australian international and New South Wales interstate representat…
Harry Kadwell, Australian rugby league player and coach (died 1999)
Lincoln Theodore Monroe Andrew Perry, better known by his stage name Stepin Fetchit, was an American vaudevillian, comedian, and film actor of Jamaican and Bahamian descent, consid…
Stepin Fetchit, American actor and dancer (died 1985)
James Melvin Lunceford was an American jazz alto saxophonist and bandleader in the swing era.
Jimmie Lunceford, American saxophonist and bandleader (died 1947)
Georges Van Parys was a French composer of film music and operettas. Among his musical influences were the group Les Six, Maurice Ravel, and Claude Debussy. Later in his career he …
Georges Van Parys, French composer (died 1971)
Nehemiah Curtis "Skip" James was an American Delta blues singer, guitarist, pianist and songwriter. AllMusic stated: "Coupling an oddball guitar tuning set against eerie, falsetto …
Skip James, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1969)
Herman B Wells, a native of Boone County, Indiana, was the eleventh president of Indiana University Bloomington and its first university chancellor. He was pivotal in the transform…
Herman B Wells, American banker, author, and academic (died 2000)