* 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

His younger brother, Oswald ( who died during the first World War in 1916 ) and son Anthony would, like him, also play for first-class cricket but none were stand-outs with the willow.

John Anthony Ciardi ( ; ) ( June 24, 1916 – March 30, 1986 ) was an American poet, translator, and etymologist.

** James Anthony Butler, Viscount Thurles ( 1916 – 1940 )

* Captain Anthony Wilding by A. Wallis Myers ( 1916, Hodder and Stoughton, London )

* Richard Tregaskis ( 1916 – 73 ), war correspondent and author of Guadalcanal Diary, the source for the 1943 film of the same name starring William Bendix, Richard Conte, and Anthony Quinn.

Dr. Anthony Edward Rupert ( 4 October 1916 – 18 January 2006 ) was an Afrikaner South African billionaire entrepreneur, businessman and conservationist.

He had three elder half-brothers from his father's first marriage, Sir John Esmonde, 14th Baronet, who served in the First World War, 2nd Lt. Geoffrey Esmonde ( 1897 – 1916 ) who was killed in action in the First World War serving with the 26th Tyneside Irish Battalion of the Northumberland Fusiliers, and Sir Anthony Esmonde, 15th Baronet.

In 1916, she left both Ireland and her husband, and moved to Barrow-in-Furness with her son Anthony to work as a welfare supervisor.

* Anton Rupert Dr. Anthony Edward Rupert ( 4 October 1916 – 18 January 2006 ) was an Afrikaner-South African entrepreneur, businessman and conservationist.

** Anthony Russo ( mobster ) ( 1916 – 1979 ), Genovese crime family figure

Anthony Dawson ( 18 October 1916 – 8 January 1992 ) was a Scottish-born actor, best known for his supporting roles in British films.

* Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 9th Earl of Shaftesbury 3 March 1916 – 1952

The parish was canonically erected in 1916, when Father Ulrich Taube, SS. CC., built the first wooden church that was consecrated that same year under the title of Saint Anthony of Padua by Msgr.

Anthony " Spag " Borgatti ( 1916 – 1996 ) opened Shrewsbury Battery and Tire Service in 1934.

James Anthony Stodart, Baron Stodart of Leaston ( 6 June 1916 – 31 May 2003 ) was a Scottish Tory politician.

Don Procopio was revived in Monte Carlo in 1906 ; An Italian version of Les pêcheurs de perles was performed at the Metropolitan Opera in New York on 13 November 1916, with Caruso in the leading tenor role ; it has since become a staple at many opera houses.

The Metropolitan Opera revived the opera in its 1915 / 1916 season with Margarete Matzenauer as Delilah, Enrico Caruso as Samson, and Pasquale Amato as the High Priest.

His assignment was not a new one because Baker had sent him to the Mexican border in 1916 to investigate lurid newspaper stories about lack of discipline, drunkenness, and venereal disease in American military camps.

* 1916 – Wellington Mara, American businessman ( d. 2005 )

* 1916 – Iggy Katona, American race car driver ( d. 2003 )

* 1916 – Van Johnson, American actor ( d. 2008 )

* 1916 – Frederick Chapman Robbins, American pediatrician and virologist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 2003 )

* 1916 – C. Wright Mills American sociologist ( d. 1962 )

* 1916 – Jack Vance, American author

* 1916 – Luther Davis, American playwright ( d. 2008 )

* 1916 – George Montgomery, American actor ( d. 2000 )

* 1864 – Richard Harding Davis, American author ( d. 1916 )

High-alcohol liquor, two forms of which were in the US Pharmacopoeia up until 1916 and in common use by physicians well into the 1930s, has been used in the past as an agent for dulling pain, due to the CNS depressant effects of ethyl alcohol, a notable example being the American Civil War.

* 2002 – Ruth Handler, American businesswoman, created the Barbie doll ( b. 1916 )

* 1916 – Lou Thesz, American wrestler ( d. 2002 )

Eastman also became executive director of the American Union Against Militarism, which lobbied against America's entrance into the European war and more successfully against war with Mexico in 1916, sought to remove profiteering from arms manufacturing, and campaigned against conscription and imperial adventures.

* 1916 – Buddy Cole, American pianist ( d. 1964 )