Explore 1816 historical events from 1900–1909.
Alexander Frederik Paul "Frits" Thors was a Dutch journalist and news anchor. Thors was best known as the newscaster of the NTS-Journaal from 1965 until 1972.
Frits Thors, Dutch journalist and radio host (died 2014)
Sir Peter Markham Scott was a British ornithologist, conservationist, painter, naval officer, broadcaster and sportsman. The only child of Antarctic explorer Robert Falcon Scott, h…
Peter Scott, English ornithologist, painter, and sailor (died 1989)
Conjeevaram Natarajan Annadurai, also known as Perarignar Anna, was an Indian politician who was the founder and first general-secretary of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK). He …
C. N. Annadurai, Indian educator and politician, 7th Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu (died 1969)
Phil Arnold was an American screen, stage, television, and vaudeville actor and dancer. He appeared in approximately 150 films and television shows between 1939 and 1968.
Phil Arnold, American actor (died 1968)
Elizabeth Wright Enright Gillham was an American writer of children's books, an illustrator, writer of short stories for adults, literary critic and teacher of creative writing. Pe…
Elizabeth Enright, American author and illustrator (died 1968)
Nathalie Sophia Nielsine Caroline Rink was a Danish writer and ethnologist. Together with her husband Hinrich, she founded Greenland's first newspaper, Atuagagdliutit, in 1861. She…
Signe Rink, Greenland-born Danish writer and ethnologist (born 1836)
Isaac Manuel Francisco Albéniz y Pascual was a Spanish virtuoso pianist, composer, and conductor. He is one of the foremost composers of the post-romantic era who also had a signif…
Isaac Albéniz, Spanish pianist and composer (born 1860)
Ernest Hogan was the first Black American entertainer to produce and star in a Broadway show, The Oyster Man in 1907, and helped to popularize the musical genre of ragtime.
Ernest Hogan, American actor and composer (born 1859)
Thomas Price served as the South Australian United Labor Party's first Premier of South Australia. He formed a minority government at the 1905 election and was re-elected with incr…
Thomas Price, Welsh-Australian politician, 24th Premier of South Australia (born 1852)
George Meredith was an English novelist and poet of the Victorian era. At first, his focus was poetry, influenced by John Keats among others, but Meredith gradually established a r…
George Meredith, English novelist and poet (born 1828)
Edward Everett Hale was an American author, historian, and Unitarian minister, best known for his writings such as "The Man Without a Country", published in Atlantic Monthly, in su…
Edward Everett Hale, American minister, historian, and author (born 1822)
Friedrich Fromhold Martens, or Friedrich Fromhold von Martens, was a diplomat and jurist in service of the Russian Empire who made important contributions to the science of interna…
Friedrich Martens, Estonian-Russian historian, lawyer, and diplomat (born 1845)
Theodora Sarah Orne Jewett was an American novelist, short story writer and poet, best known for her local color works set along or near the southern coast of Maine. Jewett is reco…
Sarah Orne Jewett, American novelist, short story writer, and poet (born 1849)
Simon Newcomb was a Canadian–American astronomer, applied mathematician, and autodidactic polymath. He served as Professor of Mathematics in the United States Navy and at Johns Hop…
Simon Newcomb, Canadian-American astronomer and mathematician (born 1835)
Sir Frederick William Holder was an Australian politician who served as the first speaker of the Australian House of Representatives from 1901 to 1909. A member of the Free Trade P…
Frederick Holder, Australian politician, 19th Premier of South Australia (born 1850)
Mary Helen MacKillop RSJ was an Australian religious sister. She was born in Melbourne but is best known for her activities in South Australia. Together with Fr Julian Tenison-Wood…
Mary MacKillop, Australian nun and saint, co-founded the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart (born 1842)
William Ford Robinson Stanley was an English inventor with 78 patents filed in both the United Kingdom and the United States of America. He was an engineer who designed and made pr…
William Stanley, British engineer and author (born 1829)
Euclides da Cunha was a Brazilian journalist, sociologist and engineer. His most important work is Os Sertões, a non-fictional account of the military expeditions promoted by the B…
Euclides da Cunha, Brazilian sociologist and journalist (born 1866)
Madan Lal Dhingra was an Indian freedom fighter who, whilst a student at University College London in 1909, assassinated Sir William Hutt Curzon Wyllie, the political Aide-de-camp …
Madan Lal Dhingra, Indian activist (born 1883)
Henry Radcliffe Crocker, FRCP was an English dermatologist. Originally from Hove in Sussex, England, Crocker started his working life as an apprentice to a general practitioner bef…
Henry Radcliffe Crocker, English dermatologist and author (born 1846)
Emil Christian Hansen was a Danish mycologist and fermentation physiologist.
Emil Christian Hansen, Danish physiologist and mycologist (born 1842)
William Clyde Fitch was an American dramatist, the most popular writer for the Broadway stage of his time.
Clyde Fitch, American playwright and songwriter (born 1865)
Louis Bouveault was a French scientist who became professor of organic chemistry at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Paris. He is known for the Bouveault aldehyde synth…
Louis Bouveault, French chemist (born 1864)
Vere Thomas "St. Leger" Goold was an Irish tennis player who competed for the 1879 Wimbledon All Comers' final. That year he became the first singles champion of the Irish Champion…
Vere St. Leger Goold, Irish tennis player (born 1853)