* 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 – 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

* Beverly Cleary ( born 1916 ), American children's author

Sarah Archie Swanson Beverly, who between 1916 and 1951 taught there and served as principal, believed that " the country school must be the center of community life.

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 )

* 1916 – Anthony Caruso, American actor ( d. 2003 )

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 )

* 1856 – Ivan Franko, Ukrainian writer ( d. 1916 )

* 1916 – Aleks Çaçi, Albanian writer ( d. 1989 )

* 1986 – Sibte Hassan, Pakistani activist, journalist and writer ( b. 1916 )

* 1832 – José Echegaray y Eizaguirre, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1916 )

* 1916 – Shirley Jackson, American writer ( d. 1965 )

* 1916 – Jackie Gleason, American actor, writer, composer and comedian ( d. 1987 )

* 1916 – Émile Faguet, French writer and critic ( b. 1847 )

* 1916 – Harold Norse, American writer ( d. 2009 )

* 1916 – Vincent Serventy, Australian writer and conservationist ( d. 2007 )

* 1916 – Camilo José Cela, Spanish writer, Nobel laureate ( d. 2002 )

* 1916 – Albert Murray, American writer

* 1916 – Forrest J. Ackerman, American writer ( d. 2008 )

* 1844 – Klas Pontus Arnoldson, Swedish writer and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize ( d. 1916 )

* May 10 – Peter Weiss, German writer and artist ( b. 1916 )

* December 18 – Saki, English writer ( d. 1916 )

* April 15 – Henry James, American writer ( d. 1916 )

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

* October 27 – Klas Pontus Arnoldson, Swedish writer and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize ( d. 1916 )

** Camilo José Cela, Spanish writer ( b. 1916 )

* April 19 – José Echegaray y Eizaguirre, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1916 )

Richard Timothy " Dick " Kinney ( 1916 – 1985, Glendale, California ) was an American animator and comic book writer.

Lowell persuaded D. H. Lawrence to contribute poems to the 1915 and 1916 volumes, making him the only writer to publish as both a Georgian poet and an Imagist.

* Alexander Russell Webb ( 1846 – 1916 ), writer and publisher.

His short-story collections My People ( 1915 ) and Capel Sion ( 1916 ) were highly controversial, and Roland Mathias bitterly comments that " No other Anglo-Welsh prose writer.