* Fairbanks Fragments ( 1916 – 1918 ) also screenwriter

* Emperor Charles I. of Austria ( 1916 – 1918 ) http :// www. youtube. com / watch? v = jMU9FFzez1A

* Emperor Franz Joseph ( 1848 – 1916 ) http :// www. youtube. com / watch? v = jecUwMPk8pE & feature = related

* 1916 – Phil Leeds, American actor ( d. 1998 )

* 1916 – Vincent Ellis McKelvey, American geologist ( d. 1987 )

* 1916 – Beverly Cleary, American writer

* 1916 – Russell Garcia, American composer ( d. 2011 )

* 1916 – Benjamin Libet, American scientist ( d. 2007 )

* 1916 – Claude Shannon, American engineer and mathematician ( d. 2001 )

* 1916 – Robert Shaw, American conductor ( d. 1999 )

* 1916 – Romania declares war against Austria-Hungary, entering World War I as one of the Allied nations.

* 1921 – The British install the son of Sharif Hussein bin Ali ( leader of the Arab Revolt of 1916 against the Ottoman Empire ) as King Faisal I of Iraq.

* 1916 – Tony Harris, South African cricketer ( d. 1993 )

* 1916 – Martha Raye, American actress ( d. 1994 )

* 1916 – Richard Hofstadter, American historian ( d. 1970 )

* 1916 – Dom Mintoff, Maltese politician and journalist, 8th Prime Minister of Malta ( d. 2012 )

* 1916 – World War I: Austrian sabotage causes the sinking of the Italian battleship Leonardo da Vinci in Taranto.

* 2006 – In Tam, Cambodian politician ( b. 1916 )

After 1890 came philosopher Josiah Royce ( 1855 – 1916 ), botanist Liberty Hyde Bailey ( 1858 – 1954 ), the Southern Agrarians of the 1920s and 1930s, novelist John Steinbeck ( 1902 – 1968 ), historian A. Whitney Griswold ( 1906 – 1963 ), environmentalist Aldo Leopold ( 1887 – 1948 ), Ralph Borsodi ( 1886 – 1977 ), and present-day authors Wendell Berry ( b. 1934 ), Gene Logsdon ( b. 1932 ), Paul Thompson, and Allan C. Carlson ( b. 1949 ).

* 1916 – Fiorenzo Angelini, Italian cardinal

** Émile Faguet, French writer and critic ( d. 1916 )

World class writers in French include the great romantic and symbolist poet Maurice Maeterlinck ( 1862 – 1949, Nobel Prize 1911 ), dramatists Michel de Ghelderode ( 1898 – 1962 ) and Henri Michaux ( 1899 – 1984 ), and the poet and playwright Émile Verhaeren ( 1855 – 1916 ), one of the founders of symbolism.

Auguste Émile Faguet (; 17 December 1847, La Roche-sur-Yon, Vendée – 7 June 1916, Paris ) was a French author and literary critic.

edited by Camille Jordan, Henri Poincaré, Charles Émile Picard with assistance from Ernest Vessiot, 1916, 1918, 1921, 1924, Gauthier-Villars

However, the British and French also secretly concluded the Sykes – Picot Agreement on 16 May 1916.

* 1916 – World War I: The Battle of Verdun ends when German forces under Chief of Staff Erich Von Falkenhayn are defeated by the French, and suffer 337, 000 casualties.

* 1916 – Charles de Foucauld, French religious figure ( b. 1858 )

* 1916 – Marcel Bigeard, French general ( d. 2010 )

French and British influence and control ( Sykes-Picot Agreement, 1916 )

In November 1916 the French occupied Piraeus, bombarded Athens and forced the Greek fleet to surrender.

* 1916 – Bernard Blier, French actor ( d. 1989 )

* 1916 – Henri Dutilleux, French composer

* 1916 – Marcel Cerdan, French boxer ( d. 1949 )

* 1993 – Léo Ferré, French singer-songwriter, pianist, and poet ( b. 1916 )

The beginnings of the modern army arose during 1916, when the French government established the " Legion of the Orient ", which included Lebanese soldiers.

During French air raids in 1916, three bombs fell on Munich.

* 1916 – Justin Catayée, French politician ( d. 1962 )

* 1989 – Bernard Blier, French actor ( b. 1916 )

* 1867 – Louis de Champsavin, French horse rider ( d. 1916 )

* 1916 – Jean Dausset, French immunologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ( d. 2009 )

* 1858 – Charles de Foucauld, French priest ( d. 1916 )

Along the Western Front the British and French launched repeated assaults on the German trench lines in 1915 – 1916, which killed and wounded hundreds of thousands, but failed to make gains of even a mile.

Exclusively French after 1916, Sacred Heart College was the centre of education for young Franco-Ontarians for decades since it was the first, and for a long time, the only college in Northern Ontario.

Pliotrons were closely followed by the French ' R ' type which was in widespread use by the allied military by 1916.

* July 14 – Léo Ferré, French poet and singer-songwriter ( b. 1916 )

** Marcel Cerdan, French boxer ( plane crash ) ( b. 1916 )

* April 25 – WWI: Start of the Gallipoli Campaign ( lasting until January 1916 ): Landing at Anzac Cove by Australian and New Zealand Army Corps and landing at Cape Helles by British and French troops to begin the Allied invasion of the Gallipoli peninsula in the Ottoman Empire.

* October 28 – Robert Charpentier, French Olympic cyclist ( b. 1916 )