* 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

From 1916 until 1919 Chiang Ching-kuo attended the " Grammar School " in Wushan in Hsikou.

Chiang Wei-kuo (, or Wego Chiang ; October 6, 1916 – September 22, 1997 ) was an adopted son of President Chiang Kai-shek, adoptive brother of President Chiang Ching-kuo, and an important figure in the Kuomintang ( KMT ).

Faina Chiang Fang-liang (; 15 May 1916 – 15 December 2004 ) was the wife of President Chiang Ching-kuo and served as First Lady of the Republic of China on Taiwan from 1978 to 1988.

Ireland adopted Greenwich Mean Time in 1916, supplanting Dublin Mean Time.

In 1916, New York City adopted the first zoning regulations to apply city-wide as a reaction to The Equitable Building which towered over the neighboring residences, diminishing the availability of sunshine.

" Eventually even these holdouts relented: braille was officially adopted by schools for the blind in the United States in 1916, and a universal braille code for English was formalized in 1932.

Six o ' clock closing was adopted in New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania in 1916.

The borough adopted this form of government in 1916.

His best friend, Eduard von Losch, an aristocrat first lieutenant in the Grenadiers, courted Wilhelmina and eventually married her in 1916, but he died soon after as a result of injuries sustained during World War I. Eduard von Losch never officially adopted the Dietrich children, hence Dietrich's surname was never von Losch, as has sometimes been claimed.

The naval 3-inch was also adopted by the army, the QF 3 inch 20 cwt ( 76 mm ), a new field mounting was introduced in 1916.

The grave of Nellie Bly in Woodlawn Cemetery ( Bronx, New York ) | Woodlawn CemeteryIn 1916 Nellie was given a baby boy whose mother requested Nellie look after him and see that he become adopted.

With lyrics by Henrik Lund and music composed by Jonathan Petersen, the anthem was officially adopted in 1916.

Brazilian Civil Code of 1916 was considered, by many, as the last code of the 19th century despite being adopted in the 20th century.

The word " menaces " was adopted from sections 29 ( 1 )( i ) and 30 of the Larceny Act 1916.

* Since the Sykes – Pichot Agreement of 1916, the whole mandatory system had been adopted.

In the aftermath of the 1916 Easter Rising the party's ranks were swelled by participants and supporters of the rebellion as they were freed from British gaols and internment camps, and at its 1917 Ard Fheis ( annual conference ) de Valera was elected leader and the new, more radical policy adopted.

The 1916 Zoning Resolution adopted by New York City promoted the use of mansard roofs ; rules requiring the use of setbacks on tall buildings were conducive to the mansard design.

It was adopted in 1916 and has virtually remained unchanged.

In 1916, the name United Holy Church of America was adopted, and the church was incorporated on September 15, 1918.

In 1916, Schulz Solari first signed his work “ Xul Solar ,” ostensibly for the purposes to simplify the phonetics of his name, but an examination of the adopted name reveals that the first name is the reverse of “ lux ,” which references the measurement of luminous intensity.

* Provisional Government of the Irish Republic ( 1916 ), a title adopted by the leadership of the short-lived Easter Rising.

For that reason, the Miami Chapter of Phrenocon withdrew from the National Phrenocon and adopted the name Phi Kappa Tau on March 9, 1916.

The song was adopted as the national anthem of Greenland in 1916.

With the outbreak of World War I in 1914 Struve adopted a position of support for the government, and in 1916 he resigned from the Constitutional Democratic party's Central Committee over what he saw as the party's excessive opposition to the government in a time of war.

Though this hypothesis was doubted by Nopcsa, it was adopted by the Danish researcher Gerhard Heilmann who in 1916 proposed that a quadrupedal Hypsilophodon lived like the modern tree-kangaroo Dendrolagus.

The NCC along with other Irish railways adopted Greenwich Mean Time in October 1916.