Explore 1816 historical events from 1900–1909.
Alessandro Blasetti was an Italian film director and screenwriter who influenced Italian neorealism with the film Four Steps in the Clouds. Blasetti was one of the leading figures …
Alessandro Blasetti, Italian director and screenwriter (died 1987)
Belinda Dann was an Indigenous Australian born as Quinlyn Wardagoo to an Irish cattle station manager and a Nyikina mother in the Lunlungai community in Derby, Western Australia. A…
Belinda Dann, Indigenous Australian who was one of the Stolen Generation, reunited with family aged 107 (died 2007)
Nellie Mae Rowe was an African-American artist from Fayette County, Georgia. Although she is best known today for her colorful works on paper, Rowe worked across mediums, creating …
Nellie Mae Rowe, American folk artist (died 1982)
Marquis Yoshimaro Yamashina was a Japanese ornithologist. He was the founder of the Yamashina Institute for Ornithology.
Yoshimaro Yamashina, Japanese ornithologist, founded the Yamashina Institute for Ornithology (died 1989)
Bernardus Johannes Alfrink was a Dutch Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Utrecht from 1955 to 1975, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1960.
Bernardus Johannes Alfrink, Dutch cardinal (died 1987)
Frederica Alexandrina Sagor Maas was an American screenwriter, playwright, supercentenarian, memoirist and author, the youngest daughter of Jewish immigrants from Russia. As an es…
Frederica Sagor Maas, American author and screenwriter (died 2012)
Elfriede Wever was a German runner. She competed at the 1928 Olympics in the 800 m event and finished in ninth place.
Elfriede Wever, German Olympic runner (died 1941)
Maria Bard was a German stage actress, who made several films in the silent era for Rimax, her first husband Wilhelm Graaff's company.
Maria Bard, German stage and silent film actress (died 1944)
Earle Everard "Pat" Partridge was a four-star general in the United States Air Force and a Command Pilot.
Earle E. Partridge, American general (died 1990)
George Johann Carl Antheil was an American avant-garde composer, pianist, author, and inventor whose modernist musical compositions explored the sounds – musical, industrial, and m…
George Antheil, American pianist, composer, and author (died 1959)
Mitchell Parish was an American lyricist, notably as a writer of songs for stage and screen.
Mitchell Parish, Lithuanian-American songwriter (died 1993)
Sampson Sievers, July 10, 1900 – August 24, 1979 was a Russian Orthodox Christian elder, hieromonk, priest, confessor of Russian patriarch and higher clergy, and mystic of English …
Sampson Sievers, Russian monk and mystic (died 1979)
Marcel Paul was a French trade unionist and communist politician. He was also a Nazi concentration camp survivor and later served as a member of the French parliament.
Marcel Paul, French communist politician and Holocaust survivor (died 1982)
George Lewis was an American jazz clarinetist who achieved his highest profile in the later decades of his life.
George Lewis, American clarinet player and songwriter (died 1969)
Nathalie Sarraute was a French writer and lawyer. She was nominated in 1969 for the Nobel Prize in Literature by Nobel Committee member Lars Gyllensten.
Nathalie Sarraute, French lawyer and author (died 1999)
Maurice Leyland was an English international cricketer who played 41 Test matches between 1928 and 1938. In first-class cricket, he represented Yorkshire County Cricket Club betwee…
Maurice Leyland, English cricketer and coach (died 1967)
Isadora Bennett was an American publicity agent for modern dance theatre. Her work has been considered significant for establishing modern dance. Her clients included Martha Graham…
Isadora Bennett, American theatre manager and modern dance publicity agent (died 1980)
Julia Davis Adams was an American writer best known for her young adult books, historical and biographical novels and dramas.
Julia Davis Adams, American author and journalist (died 1993)
John Henry Foster Babcock was a Canadian electrician and soldier. At age 109, he was the last known surviving veteran of the Canadian military to have served in the First World War…
John Babcock, Canadian-American sergeant (died 2010)
Sarah Kafrit was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Mapai between 1951 and 1959.
Sarah Kafrit, Israeli politician and teacher (died 1983)
Inger Margrethe Boberg was a Danish folklore researcher and writer. She studied philology at the University of Copenhagen and received her Master's degree in 1925. In 1927, she sta…
Inger Margrethe Boberg, Danish folklore researcher and writer (died 1957)
Zelda Fitzgerald was an American novelist, painter, writer, and socialite. Born in Montgomery, Alabama, to a wealthy Southern family, she became locally famous for her beauty and h…
Zelda Fitzgerald, American author, visual artist and ballet dancer (died 1948)
Dame Mary Valentine Austin DBE was an Australian community worker and political activist. The daughter of Admiral Percival Hall-Thompson and his wife, Helen, she was educated in Ne…
Mary V. Austin, Australian community worker and political activist (died 1986)
Eyvind Johnson was a Swedish novelist and short story writer. Regarded as the most groundbreaking novelist in modern Swedish literature he became a member of the Swedish Academy in…
Eyvind Johnson, Swedish novelist and short story writer, Nobel Prize Laureate (died 1976)