Explore 1816 historical events from 1900–1909.
Tage Fritjof Erlander was a Swedish politician and statesman who served as Prime Minister of Sweden and leader of the Social Democratic Party from 1946 to 1969. During his record-l…
Tage Erlander, Swedish lieutenant and politician, 25th Prime Minister of Sweden (died 1985)
Elmar Lohk was an Estonian architect and tennis player. Many of his buildings in Tallinn are now valued as great examples of 1930s architecture, for example, the prominent Scandic …
Elmar Lohk, Russian-Estonian architect (died 1963)
Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia was the youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II, the last sovereign of Imperial Russia, and his wife, Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna.
Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia (died 1918)
Walter Llewellyn Rees was an English actor.
Llewellyn Rees, English actor (died 1994)
Elias Katz was a Finnish track and field athlete, who competed mainly in the 3000 metres steeplechase in the 1920s. In 1933, he immigrated to Mandatory Palestine, where he lived fo…
Elias Katz, Finnish runner and coach (died 1947)
Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar was a Turkish poet, novelist, literary scholar and essayist, widely regarded as one of the most important representatives of modernism in Turkish literature. I…
Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar, Turkish author, poet, and scholar (died 1962)
Marcel Mule was a French classical saxophonist. He was known worldwide as one of the greatest classical saxophonists ever, and many pieces were written for him, premiered by him, a…
Marcel Mule, French saxophonist (died 2001)
Harry Partch was an American composer, music theorist, and creator of unique musical instruments. He composed using scales of unequal intervals in just intonation, and was one of t…
Harry Partch, American composer and theorist (died 1974)
Charles Hollis Taylor was an American basketball player and basketball shoe salesman-marketer who was associated with Chuck Taylor All-Stars, which he helped to improve and promote…
Chuck Taylor, American basketball player and salesman (died 1969)
Harold Roe Bennett Sturdyvant Bartle, better known as H. Roe Bartle, was an American businessman, philanthropist, executive, and professional public speaker who served two terms as…
Harold Roe Bartle, American businessman and politician, 47th Mayor of Kansas City (died 1974)
William Stuart Symington III was an American businessman and Democratic politician from Missouri. He served as the first secretary of the Air Force from 1947 to 1950 and was a Unit…
Stuart Symington, American lieutenant and politician, 1st United States Secretary of the Air Force (died 1988)
Merle Antony Tuve was an American geophysicist who was the Chairman of Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD) Section T, created in August 1940. He was founding direc…
Merle Tuve, American geophysicist and academic (died 1982)
Nelson Ackerman Eddy was an American actor and baritone singer who appeared in 19 musical films during the 1930s and 1940s, as well as in opera and on the concert stage, radio, tel…
Nelson Eddy, American singer and actor (died 1967)
Irna Phillips was an American scriptwriter, screenwriter, casting agent, and actress who pioneered a style of daytime soap opera in the United States geared specifically toward wom…
Irna Phillips, American screenwriter (died 1973)
Ruth Crawford Seeger was an American composer and musicologist. Her music heralded the emerging modernist aesthetic, and she became a central member of a group of American composer…
Ruth Crawford Seeger, American composer (died 1953)
Julio Libonatti was an Italian Argentine football manager and footballer who played as a forward for the Argentina and Italy national teams.
Julio Libonatti, Italian-Argentinian footballer (died 1981)
Vittorio De Sica was an Italian film director and actor, a leading figure in the neorealist movement.
Vittorio De Sica, Italian actor and director (died 1974)
Dame Mary Barbara Hamilton Cartland was an English writer who published both contemporary and historical romance novels, the latter set primarily during the Victorian or Edwardian …
Barbara Cartland, English author (died 2000)
Gwendolyn Margaret Lizarraga, MBE commonly known as Madam Liz, was a Belizean businesswoman, women's rights activist and politician. She was the first woman elected to the British …
Gwendolyn Lizarraga, Belizean businesswoman, activist, and politician (died 1975)
Eric Harrison Portman was an English stage and screen actor. He is probably best remembered for his roles in three films for Powell and Pressburger during the 1940s. He was nominat…
Eric Portman, English actor (died 1969)
Sam Katzman was an American film producer and director. Katzman's specialty was producing low-budget genre films, including serials, which had disproportionately high returns for t…
Sam Katzman, American director and producer (died 1973)
Eiji Tsuburaya was a Japanese special effects director, filmmaker, and cinematographer. A co-creator of the Godzilla and Ultraman franchises, he is considered one of the most impo…
Eiji Tsuburaya, Japanese cinematographer and producer (died 1970)
Gerald Raphael Finzi was an English composer. Finzi is best known as a choral composer, but also wrote in other genres. Large-scale compositions by Finzi include the cantata Dies n…
Gerald Finzi, English composer and academic (died 1956)
Luigi Chinetti was an Italian-born racecar driver, who emigrated to the United States during World War II. He drove in 12 consecutive 24 Hours of Le Mans races, taking three outrig…
Luigi Chinetti, Italian-American race car driver (died 1994)