* 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

E. C. Segar's 1916 comic strip " Charlie Chaplin's Comedy Capers " is an early example.

Hawk's maternal grandfather, C. W. Howard ( 1845 – 1916 ), had homesteaded in Neenah, Wisconsin in 1862 at age 17 and within 15 years had earned a fortune in the town's paper mill and other industrial endeavors.

In 1916, Hawks ' grandfather, C. W.

* 1916 – George C. Stoney, American director and producer ( d. 2012 )

* Joseph Smith ( footballer ) ( 1889 – 1916 ), known as Joe Smith, English footballer with Birmingham F. C.

The term " New Left " was popularised in an open letter written in 1960 by sociologist C. Wright Mills ( 1916 – 62 ) entitled Letter to the New Left.

* 1916 – C. Everett Koop, 13th United States Surgeon General

* 1916 – Frederick C. Weyand, American general ( d. 2010 )

Wilson, after deliberating, decided keeping Marshall on would demonstrate party unity ; thus in 1916 Marshall won reelection over the still divided Republican Party and became the first vice president re-elected since John C. Calhoun in 1828, and Wilson and Marshall became the first president and vice president team to be re-elected since Monroe and Tompkins in 1820.

* March 20 – C. Wright Mills, American sociologist ( b. 1916 )

* September 1 – Richard C. Saufley, American naval aviation pioneer ( d. 1916 )

Ellington started to play gigs in cafés and clubs in and around Washington, D. C. and his attachment grew to be so strong that he turned down an art scholarship to the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn in 1916.

* American ( U. S. A .)— Bradley, Will: Moongold: A Pierrot Pantomime ( 1921 ); Browning, Tod: Puppets ( 1916 ); Cukor, George: Sylvia Scarlett ( 1935 ; features performing foursome called The Pink Pierrots ); Lund, Oscar A. C .: When Pierrot Met Pierrette ( 1913 ).

In 1916, Robinson, whose name appeared as " J. Russel Robinson ", collaborated with W. C. Handy on the song " Ole Miss Rag ".

The legend that Jesus himself visited Britain is referred to in " And did those feet in ancient time ", by William Blake in 1804, and in the hymn " Jerusalem ", with music written by C. Hubert H. Parry in 1916.

In 1916, William C. Durant, who founded General Motors in 1908, had retaken GM from bankers who had taken over the company.

* Edward C. Dahlgren ( 1916 – 2006 ), United States Army soldier

The national headquarters has been in various places in New York City since 1916 when it moved there from Washington, D. C ..

From January 23, 1916 to January 24, 1916, the temperature fell 100 ° F ( 56 ° C ) from 44 ° F ( 7 ° C ) to-56 ° F (- 49 ° C ).

Of these there are surely few that would be more rewarding discoveries than Verner Von Heidenstam, the Swedish poet and novelist who received the award in 1916 and whose centennial was celebrated two years ago.

Lloyd Lewis wrote that when he first knew Carl in 1916, Sandburg was making $27.50 a week writing features for the Day Book and eating sparse luncheons in one-arm restaurants.

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.

Further decrees along this line were issued in 1916 and 1919.

In 1916 he edited Oxford Poetry and later graduated ( B. A.

( Older models have another 4-bead wire for quarter-kopeks, which were minted until 1916.

After being wounded in a leg and suffering other injuries, he moved to North America in 1916 ( first to Canada, then the United States ) to coordinate the shipment of artillery to Russia.

Chemical bonds between atoms were now explained, by Gilbert Newton Lewis in 1916, as the interactions between their constituent electrons.

Unlike the models mentioned above, Christie's Poirot was clearly the result of her early development of the detective in her first book, written in 1916 but not published until 1920.

Poirot had been forcibly retired from the Belgian police force prior to the time he met Hastings in 1916 as a refugee on the case retold in The Mysterious Affair at Styles.

It was here, on 16 July 1916, that he again met his lifelong friend, Captain Arthur Hastings, and solved the first of his cases to be published: The Mysterious Affair at Styles.