Year (''' MCMXVI ''') was a Leap Year Starting On Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap Year Starting On Friday of the 13-day-slower Julian Calendar ).
: Claude Monet paints ''Water Lilies'' series.]]
: Paris is bombed by Zeppelin s.]]
- soldiers die during The Battle Of The Somme including 60,000 casualties for the British Commonwealth on the first day.
- , resulting in four deaths and survival of one youth who required limb amputation. This event was the inspiration for author Peter Benchley , over half a century later, to write .
- July 2 - Battle Of Erzincan
- July 8-16 - Massive flooding caused by two different hurricanes devastates Western North Carolina.
- July 15 - In Seattle, Washington , William Boeing incorporates Pacific Aero Products (later renamed Boeing ).
- July 22 - In San Francisco, California , a bomb explodes on Market Street during a Preparedness Day parade killing 10 injuring 40. ( Warren Billings and Tom Mooney are later wrongly convicted of it)
- July 23 - Birth of Sandra Gould .
- July 29 - In Ontario, Canada , a lightning strike ignites a forest fire that destroys the towns of Cochrane and Matheson - 233 dead
- July 30 - German agents cause the Black Tom Explosion in Jersey City, New Jersey , an act of sabotage destroying an ammunition depot and killing at least seven people.
- September - Bulgaria takes Dobruja from the Romanians.
- September 2 - William Leefe-Robinson becomes the first pilot to shoot down a German Airship over Britain.
- September 13 - Mary, a circus elephant, is hanged in the town of Erwin, Tennessee for killing her handler, Walter "Red" Eldridge.
during World War I .]]
- November 1 - Paul Miliukov delivers in the State Duma the famous "stupidity or treason" speech, precipitating the downfall of the Boris Stürmer government.
- November 5 - Kingdom Of Poland proclaimed by joint act of emperors of Germany and Austria
- November 5 - Honan Chapel , Cork, Ireland, a product of the Irish Arts & Crafts Movement(1894-1925), is dedicated.
- November 7
- --- Woodrow Wilson defeats Charles E. Hughes in the U.S. Presidential Election .
- --- Republican Jeannette Rankin of Montana becomes the first woman elected to the United States House Of Representatives .
- November 13 - Prime Minister Of Australia Billy Hughes is expelled from the Labor Party over his support for Conscription .
- ends - In France , British Expeditionary Force commander Douglas Haig calls off the battle which started on July 1 , 1916.
- November 21 - HMHS Britannic (built in 1911 and launched in 1914), the third and largest Olympic-class ocean liner of the White Star Line , sister ship of RMS Olympic and the legendary RMS Titanic , sank after hitting a mine with the loss of 30 lives.
- , the capital of Romania , is occupied by the troops of the Central Powers .
- November 25 - Friedrich Adler shoots Karl Von Stürgkh , Prime Minister Of Austria
- Rodeo's first side-delivery bucking chute designed and made by the Bascom boys, Raymond, Mel, Earl and their father John W. Bascom at Welling , Alberta Canada
- ''Cours de linguistique générale'' by Ferdinand De Saussure is published.
- Summer Olympic Games in Berlin , Germany , are cancelled.
- Food is rationed in Germany .
- Ernst Rüdin publishes his initial results on the Genetics of Schizophrenia .
- The Netherlands is hit by a North Sea storm that floods lowlands and kills 10.000 people.
- Robert Baden-Powell founds Wolf Cubs scouts in Britain, changed to Cub Scouts in the USA .
- Louis Enricht claims he has a substitute for Gasoline
- Gustav Holst composes '' The Planets '', Opus 32
- Bray Studios creates the Farmer Al Falfa series, the first of the Terrytoons .
- Society Of Motion Picture And Television Engineers is founded.
- The ''Enrico Parodi'' sinks while in tow off the The Carracks in Cornwall , England .
The following are references to year 1916 in fiction:
- '' runs for New York Governor and loses. Also in 1916, Emily Monroe Norton Divorce s him and, in either this year or in 1917 , he marries Susan Alexander.
- January 3 - Betty Furness , American actress and consumer activist (d. 1994 )
- January 3 - Bernard Greenhouse , American cellist
- January 7 - Paul Keres , Estonian chess player (d. 1975 )
- January 9 - Peter Twinn , English mathematician and World War II code-breaker (d. 2004 )
- January 10 - Sune Bergström , Swedish biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (d. 2004 )
- January 12 - Pieter Willem Botha , President Of South Africa (d. 2006 )
- January 17 - Peter Frelinghuysen, Jr. , American politician
- January 18 - Silviu Brucan , Romanian author and politician (d. 2006 )
- January 19 - Harry Huskey , American computer designer
- January 22 - Henri Dutilleux , French composer
- January 24
- --- Marvin Creamer , American sailor
- --- Rafael Caldera , President Of Venezuela
- February 2 - Olaf Pooley , English actor
- February 4 - Shah Maghsoud Sadegh Angha , 41st master of the Oveyssi Sufi order (d. 1980 )
- February 9 - Tex Hughson , baseball player (d. 1993 )
- February 11
- --- Ivan Hristov Bashev , Bulgarian Foreign Minister (d. 1971 )
- --- Joseph Alioto , Mayor of San Francisco (d. 1998 )
- February 14
- --- Sally Gray , English actress (d. 2006 )
- --- Masaki Kobayashi , Japanese film director (d. 1996 )
- --- Denham Harman , American gerontologist
- --- Marcel Bigeard , French military officer
- February 15 - Ernest Millington , English politician
- February 18 - Maria Altmann , Austrian Holocaust survivor and hieress
- February 20 - Jean Erdman , American dancer
- February 26 - Jackie Gleason , American comedian (d. 1987 )
- February 28 - Svend Asmussen , Danish jazz violinist
- February 29 - Dinah Shore , American singer (d. 1994 )
- March 3 - Paul Halmos , Hungarian-born mathematician (d. 2006 )
- March 4
- --- William Alland , American actor, producer, writer and director (d. 1997 )
- --- Giorgio Bassani , Italian writer (d. 2000 )
- --- Hans Eysenck , German-born psychologist (d. 1997 )
- March 11 - Harold Wilson , Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom (d. 1995 )
- March 13
- --- John Aspinwall Roosevelt , American businessman and philanthropist (d. 1981 )
- --- Lindy Boggs , American politician
- March 14 - Horton Foote , American writer
- March 15 - Harry James , American musician and band leader (d. 1983 )
- March 17
- --- Ray Ellington , British singer (d. 1985 )
- --- Volodia Teitelboim , Chilean author and politician
- March 19 - Irving Wallace , American novelist (d. 1990 )
- March 20 - Pierre Messmer , French politician (d. 2007 )
- March 24 - Donald Hamilton , Swedish-born writer (d. 2006 )
- March 26 - Christian B. Anfinsen , American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995 )
- March 29 - Eugene McCarthy , U.S. Senator from Minnesota and Presidential candidate (d. 2005 )
- March 31 - Lucille Bliss , American voice actor
- April 3
- --- Peter Gowland , American photographer
- --- Herb Caen , American journalist (d. 1997 )
- April 5 - Gregory Peck , American actor (d. 2003 )
- April 11 - Alberto Ginastera , Argentine composer (d. 1983 )
- April 12
- --- Beverly Cleary , American author
- --- Benjamin Libet , American pioneering scientist in the field of human consciousness (d. 2007 )
- April 13 - Phyllis Fraser , American actor and publisher (d. 2006 )
- April 15 - Alfred S. Bloomingdale , American department store heir (d. 1982 )
- April 18 - José Joaquín Trejos Fernández , President Of Costa Rica
- April 22 - Yehudi Menuhin , American-born violinist (d. 1999 )
- April 24 - Stanley Kauffmann , American film critic
- April 25 - R.J. Rushdoony , American founder of Christian Reconstructionism (d. 2001 )
- April 26
- --- Dorothy Salisbury Davis , American writer
- --- George Tuska , American comic strip artist
- April 28 - Ferruccio Lamborghini , Italian automobile manufacturer (d. 1993 )
- April 30
- --- Claude Elwood Shannon , American information theorist (d. 2001 )
- --- Robert Shaw , American conductor (d. 1999 )
- May 1 - Glenn Ford , American actor (d. 2006 )
- May 6 - Robert H. Dicke , American experimental physicist (d. 1997 )
- May 8 - Chinmayananda , Indian spiritual leader (d. 1993 )
- May 8 - João Havelange , Brazilian industrialist and football league president
- May 10 - Milton Babbitt , American composer
- May 11 - Camilo José Cela , Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2002 )
- May 14 - Sammy Luftspring , Canadian boxer (d. 2000 )
- May 15 - Ephraim Katzir , President Of Israel
- May 17 - Lenka Reinerová , Czech writer
- May 20 - Trebisonda Valla , Italian athlete (d. 2006 )
- May 20 - Owen Chadwick , British author and historian
- May 21
- --- Lydia Mendoza , American musician
- --- Tinus Osendarp , Dutch runner (d. 2002 )
- --- Harold Robbins , American novelist (d. 1997 )
- May 26 - Henriette Roosenburg , Dutch journalist (d. 1972 )
- May 31
- --- Bert Haanstra , Dutch filmmaker (d. 1997 )
- --- Bernard Lewis , British historian
- June 4 - Robert F. Furchgott , American chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine
- June 5 - Eddie Joost , baseball player and manager
- June 8 - Francis Crick , English molecular biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (d. 2004 )
- June 9 - Robert McNamara , U.S. Secretary of Defense
- June 15 - Herbert Simon , American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2001 )
- June 18 - Julio César Turbay Ayala , Colombian politician (d. 2005 )
- June 23
- --- Hermann Gmeiner , Austrian educator (d. 1986 )
- --- Len Hutton , English cricketer (d. 1990 )
- June 24 - William B. Saxbe , American politician
- July 1
- --- Olivia De Havilland , British actress
- --- Lawrence Halprin , American architect
- July 2
- --- Hans-Ulrich Rudel , German pilot (d. 1982 )
- --- Zélia Gattai , Brazilian author and photographer
- July 4
- --- Iva Toguri D'Aquino , "Tokyo Rose" (d. 2006 )
- --- Fernand Leduc , Canadian painter
- July 8 - Jean Rouverol , American actress, screenwriter, and author
- July 9 - Edward Heath , Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom (d. 2005 )
- July 11
- --- Aleksandr Mikhailovich Prokhorov , Russian physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 2002 )
- --- Gough Whitlam , twenty-first Prime Minister Of Australia
- --- Reg Varney , British actor
- July 14 - Natalia Ginzburg , Italian author (d. 1991 )
- July 18 - L. Patrick Gray III , American Federal Bureau of Investigation director (d. 2005 )
- July 19 - Phil Cavarretta , baseball player
- July 22
- --- Marcel Cerdan , French boxer (d. 1949 )
- --- Larry Hooper , American singer and musician (d. 1983 )
- July 23 - George 'Dusty' Rhodes , British Army Sergeant and author
- July 25 - Fred Lasswell , American cartoonist (d. 2001 )
- July 28 - David Brown , American producer
- July 30 - Dick Wilson , American actor
- July 31 - Bill Todman , American game show producer (d. 1979 )
- August 1 - Fiorenzo Cardinal Angelini , Italian Cardinal
- August 5 - Kermit Love , American puppeter
- August 6 - Dom Mintoff , Prime Minister Of Malta
- August 14 - Ralph De Toledano , American conservationist and author
- August 16 - Iggy Katona , American race car driver (d. 2003 )
- August 20 - Paul Felix Schmidt , Estonian chess player (d. 1984 )
- August 25
- --- Frederick Chapman Robbins , American pediatrician and virologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (d. 2003 )
- --- Van Johnson , American actor
- August 27 - Martha Raye , American actress (d. 1994 )
- August 28 - Jack Vance , American writer
- August 29 - Luther Davis , American screenwriter
- August 30 - Shag Crawford , American umpire in Major League Baseball (d. 2007 )
- August 31
- --- Daniel Schorr , American journalist
- --- John S. Wold , American politician
- September 1
- --- Dorothy Cheney , American tennis player
- --- Joseph Minish , American politician
- September 13 - Roald Dahl , Welsh author (d. 1990 )
- September 14 - John Heyer , Australian documentary filmmaker (d. 2001 )
- September 27 - Frank Handlen , American artist
- October 3
- --- Shelby Storck , American television producer (d. 1969 )
- --- James Herriot , Scottish veterinarian and author (d. 1995 )
- October 4 - Vitaly Ginzburg , Russian physicist, Nobel laureate
- October 12 - Alice Childress , American actress, playwright, and novelist (d. 1994 )
- October 14 - C. Everett Koop , United States Surgeon General
- October 19
- --- Jean Dausset , French immunologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine
- --- Emil Gilels , Ukrainian pianist (d. 1994 )
- October 26 - François Mitterrand , President Of France (d. 1996 )
- October 30 - Leon Day , baseball player (d. 1995 )
- November 1 - John C. Harkness , American architect
- November 4 - Walter Cronkite , American television journalist
- November 5 - Jim Tabor , baseball player (d. 1953 )
- November 10 - Louis Le Brocquy , Irish painter
- November 11 - Robert Carr , British politician
- November 14 - Sherwood Schwartz , American television writer and producer
- November 16 - Daws Butler , American voice actor (d. 1988 )
- November 24 - Forrest J. Ackerman , American writer
- November 26 - Gerhard Unger , German tenor
- November 27 - Chick Hearn , American basketball announcer (d. 2002 )
- November 28
- --- Mary Lilian Baels , queen of Léopold III Of Belgium (d. 2002 )
- --- Ramón José Velásquez , President Of Venezuela
- November 29 - Fran Ryan , American actress (d. 2000 )
- December 8 - Richard Fleischer , American film director (d. 2006 )
- December 9 - Kirk Douglas , American actor
- December 11 - Dámaso Pérez Prado , Cuban musician (d. 1989 )
- December 14 - Shirley Jackson , American writer (d. 1965 )
- December 15 - Maurice Wilkins , New Zealand-born physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (d. 2004 )
- December 18
- --- Betty Grable , American actress (d. 1973 )
- --- Douglas Fraser , Scottish-born union leader
- December 19
- --- Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann , German political scientist
- --- Roy Ward Baker , English film director
- --- Jack Agazarian , English World War II spy (d. 1945 )
- December 25 - Graciela Naranjo , Venezuelan singer and actress (d. 2001 )
- December 27 - Johnny Frigo , American jazz violinist and bassist (d. 2007 )
- January 4 - VFL Footballer , Bruce Sloss , South Melbourne Football Club
- January 13 - Victoriano Huerta , President Of Mexico (b. 1854 )
- February 6 - Rubén Darío , Nicaraguan writer (b. 1867 )
- February 12 - Richard Dedekind , German mathematician (b. 1831 )
- February 13 - Vilhelm Hammershøi , Danish painter (b. 1864 )
- February 19 - Ernst Mach , Austrian physicist and philosopher (b. 1838 )
- February 20 - Klas Pontus Arnoldson , Swedish writer and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1844 )
- February 28 - Henry James , American writer (b. 1843 )
- March 4 - Franz Marc , German artist (b. 1880 )
- March 24 - Enrique Granados , Spanish composer (ship sinking) (b. 1867 )
- April 19 - Ephraim Shay , American inventor (b. 1839 )
- April 21 - Georges Boillot , French Grand Prix driver (killed in action) (b. 1884 )
- May 3 - Padraig Pearse , Irish nationalist (b. 1879 )
- May 11 - Max Reger , German composer (b. 1873 )
- May 12 - James Connolly , Irish socialist (b. 1868 )
- May 13 - Sholom Aleichem , Ukrainian Yiddish writer (b. 1859 )
- May 21 - Artúr Görgey , Hungarian military general and politician (b. 1818 )
- June 6 - Yuan Shikai , Chinese military official and politician (b. 1859 )
- June 29 - Georges Lacombe , French artist (b. 1868 )
- July 6 - Odilon Redon , French painter (b. 1840 )
- July 16 - Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov , Russian microbiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (b. 1845 )
- July 23 - Sir William Ramsay , Scottish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852 )
- July 29 - Claude Charles Castleton , Australian VC recipient (killed in battle) (b. 1893 )
- August 3 - Sir Roger Casement , Irish nationalist (executed) (b. 1864 )
- August 31 - Martha McClellan Brown , American activist (b. 1838 )
- September 4 - José Echegaray Y Eizaguirre , Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1832 )
- October 7 - James Whitcomb Riley , American poet (b. 1849 )
- October 28 - Cleveland Abbe , American meteorologist (b. 1838 )
- October 31 - Charles Taze Russell , American preacher (b. 1852 )
- November 9 - Ion Dragalina , Romanian general (killed in action) (b. 1860 )
- November 13 - Lanoe Hawker , British fighter pilot (b. 1890 )
- November 14
- --- Henry George, Jr. , American politician (b. 1862 )
- --- Saki , British writer (b. 1870 )
- November 15 - Henryk Sienkiewicz , Polish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1846 )
- November 21 - Emperor Franz Joseph I Of Austria (b. 1830 )
- November 22 - Jack London , American author (b. 1876 )
- November 24 - Hiram Stevens Maxim , American firearms inventor (b. 1840 )
- December 28 - Eduard Strauss , Austrian composer (b. 1835 )
- December 29 - Grigori Rasputin , Russian mystic (b. 1870 )
- [http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/dynaweb/eaa/databases/printlit/@Generic__BookTextView/52 Early] Advertising Publications: "Fishing for Suckers" From the American Memory Collection of the Library of Congress
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