Explore 1816 historical events from 1900–1909.
Jean Van Kirk Dalrymple was an American theater producer, manager, publicist, and playwright. She was instrumental in the founding of New York City Center, and is best known for he…
Jean Dalrymple, American playwright, producer, manager, and publicist (died 1998)
Darryl Francis Zanuck was an American film producer and studio executive; he earlier contributed stories for films starting in the silent era. Best known as a co-founder of 20th Ce…
Darryl F. Zanuck, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1979)
Stefan Wolpe was a German-born American composer. He was associated with interdisciplinary modernism, with affiliations ranging from the Bauhaus, Berlin agitprop theater and the ki…
Stefan Wolpe, German-American composer and educator (died 1972)
Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira, also known by his initials JK, was a Brazilian politician who served as the 21st president of Brazil from 1956 to 1961. Kubitschek's government pl…
Juscelino Kubitschek, Brazilian physician and politician, 21st President of Brazil (died 1976)
Marya Zaturenska was an American lyric poet, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1938.
Marya Zaturenska, Ukrainian-American poet and author (died 1982)
Giorgos Papasideris was a Greek singer, composer, and lyricist. He was born on Salamis Island. After leaving elementary school, he spent his entire career working professionally in…
Giorgos Papasideris, Greek singer-songwriter (died 1977)
Alice Bigelow Tully was an American singer of opera and recital, music promoter, patron of the arts and philanthropist from New York. She was a second cousin of the American actres…
Alice Tully, American soprano and philanthropist (died 1993)
Beatrice Miles was an Australian eccentric and bohemian rebel. Described as Sydney's "iconic eccentric", she was known for her contentious relationships with the city's taxi driver…
Bea Miles, Australian author (died 1973)
Florence Margaret Smith, known as Stevie Smith, was an English poet and novelist. She won the Cholmondeley Award and was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry. Stevie, a play b…
Stevie Smith, English author and poet (died 1971)
Joaquim de Sousa Andrade, better known by his pseudonym Sousândrade, was a Brazilian poet, adept of the "Condorist" movement. His poetry, exceedingly innovative for the time it was…
Joaquim de Sousa Andrade, Brazilian poet and educator (born 1833)
Cyprien Tanguay was a French Canadian priest and historian.
Cyprien Tanguay, Canadian priest and historian (born 1819)
Francis Brett Hart, known as Bret Harte, was an American short story writer and poet best remembered for short fiction featuring miners, gamblers, and other romantic figures of the…
Bret Harte, American short story writer and poet (born 1836)
Agostino Roscelli, also known as Augustine Roscelli, and Augustin Roscelli, was an Italian priest who inspired social change in Genoa, Italy for children and disadvantaged women. H…
Agostino Roscelli, Italian priest and saint (born 1818)
Almon Brown Strowger was an American inventor for whom the Strowger switch, an electromechanical telephone exchange technology, is named.
Almon Brown Strowger, American soldier and inventor (born 1839)
Vital-Justin Grandin was a Roman Catholic priest and bishop. He has been labelled as a key architect of the Canadian Indian residential school system by contemporary news sources, …
Vital-Justin Grandin, French-Canadian bishop and missionary (born 1829)
Jacint Verdaguer i Santaló was a Spanish writer and priest, regarded as one of the greatest poets of Catalan literature and a prominent literary figure of the Renaixença, a cultura…
Jacint Verdaguer, Catalan priest and poet (born 1845)
Friedrich Wilhelm Karl Ernst Schröder was a German mathematician mainly known for his work on algebraic logic. He is a major figure in the history of mathematical logic, by virtue …
Ernst Schröder, German mathematician and academic (born 1841)
Samuel Butler was an English novelist and critic, best known for the satirical utopian novel Erewhon (1872) and the semi-autobiographical novel The Way of All Flesh. Both novels h…
Samuel Butler, English novelist, satirist, and critic (born 1835)
George Leake was the third Premier of Western Australia, serving from May to November 1901 and then again from December 1901 to his death.
George Leake, Australian politician, 2nd Premier of Western Australia (born 1856)
Swami Vivekananda, born Narendranath Datta, was an Indian Hindu monk, philosopher, author, religious teacher, and the chief disciple of the Indian mystic Ramakrishna. Vivekananda w…
Swami Vivekananda, Indian monk and saint (born 1863)
Maria Teresa Goretti was an Italian virgin martyr of the Catholic Church, and one of the youngest saints to be canonized. She was born to a farming family. Her father died when she…
Maria Goretti, Italian martyr and saint (born 1890)
Mieczysław Halka-Ledóchowski was a Polish Roman Catholic cardinal-priest. He was born in Górki in Russian-controlled Congress Poland to Count Josef Ledóchowski and Maria Zakrzewska…
Mieczysław Halka-Ledóchowski, Polish cardinal (born 1822)
John Henry Twachtman was an American painter best known for his impressionist landscapes, though his painting style varied widely through his career. Art historians consider Twacht…
John Henry Twachtman, American painter and academic (born 1853)
Rudolf Ludwig Carl Virchow was a German physician, anthropologist, pathologist, prehistorian, biologist, writer, editor, and politician. He is known as "the father of modern pathol…
Rudolf Virchow, German anthropologist, pathologist, and biologist (born 1821)