* 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

Child labor was curtailed by the Keating – Owen Act of 1916, but the U. S. Supreme Court declared it unconstitutional in 1918.

Child labor was curtailed by the Keating – Owen Act of 1916, but the U. S. Supreme Court declared it unconstitutional in 1918.

It is based on Thomas Burke's short story " The Chink and the Child " from the 1916 collection Limehouse Nights.

* 1874: The Ivory Child ( 1916 )

# The Ivory Child ( 1916 )

* Child Lovers ( Fifield, 1916 )

The Keating-Owen Child Labor Act of 1916 also known as Wick's Bill, was a statute enacted by the U. S. Congress which sought to address the evils of child labor by prohibiting the sale in interstate commerce of goods produced by factories that employed children under fourteen, mines that employed children younger than sixteen, and any facility where children under sixteen worked at night or more than eight hours daily.

The work of Alexander McKelway and the National Child Labor Committee ( NCLC ), it was signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson ( who had lobbied heavily for its passage ) in 1916, but in Hammer v. Dagenhart, 247 U. S. 251 ( 1918 ), the Act was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of the United States ( see also Lochner era ).

* Keating Owen Child Labor Act, 1916

* Lady Ann Child Villiers ( 1916 – 2006 ), married ( 1937 ) Major Alexander Henry Elliot ( d. 1986 ).

In 1916, the German government seized Belgian industry and conscripted Belgian civilians for forced labor in the Ruhr.

Wilson tried to bring labor and management together, but when management refused, he had Congress pass the Adamson Act in September 1916, which avoided the strike by imposing an 8-hour workday in the industry ( at the same pay as before ).

* August 6 – Inez Milholland, Suffragist, labor lawyer, World War I correspondent and public speaker ( d. 1916 )

With Francesc Layret, Companys represented the left-wing labor faction of the Partit Republicà Català ( Catalan Republican Party ), for which he was elected councillor of Barcelona in 1916.

Moreover, the Industrial Workers of the World ( IWW ) backed several labor strikes in 1916 and 1917 that the press portrayed as radical threats to American society inspired by left-wing, foreign agents provocateur.

According to Fred J. Cook, the muckrakers ' journalism resulted in litigation or legislation that had a lasting impact, such as the end of Standard Oil's monopoly over the oil industry, the establishment of the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906, the creation of the first child labor laws in the United States around 1916.

The Adamson Act of 1916 established an eight-hour day for railroad labor and solidified the ties between the labor unions and the Democratic Party.

Inez Milholland Boissevain ( August 6, 1886 – November 25, 1916 ) was a suffragist, labor lawyer, World War I correspondent, and public speaker who greatly influenced the women's movement in America.

It is conservatively estimated that 400, 000 African Americans left the South in 1916 through 1918 to take advantage of a labor shortage in the wake of the First World War.

By now, any assistance provided to him by Hudson County Democratic boss Frank Hague in the 1916 election was long forgotten, and Edge hammered on the theme of Hague ’ s power, campaigning that a vote for Murphy was a vote for the domination of “ labor leaders, communists and Hagueism ”.

At issue was the question: Does Congress have the authority to regulate commerce of goods that are manufactured by children under the age 14, as specified in the Keating-Owen Act of 1916, and is it within the authority of Congress in regulating commerce among the states to prohibit the transportation in interstate commerce of manufactured goods by the child labor description above?

* Warren Billings ( 1893-1972 ), American labor leader wrongly convicted of a 1916 bombing in San Francisco

The first known source to do so was a 1916 labor anthology, The Cry for Justice: An Anthology of the Literature of Social Protest by Upton Sinclair.

Among the other members of the SLNA were Tom Mooney, who became a labor martyr while in prison for allegedly throwing a bomb at a Preparedness Day parade in 1916, Earl Browder, an accountant and union activist in Kansas City and Foster's rival for the Presidency of the Communist Party twenty years later, and James P. Cannon, a member of the IWW and one of Foster's allies in the internal warfare within the CPUSA until he was expelled for Trotskyism.

In September 1939, Olson officially pardoned Tom Mooney, a labor activist and political prisoner accused of plotting the 1916 Preparedness Day Bombing in San Francisco.

Thomas Joseph " Tom " Mooney ( December 8, 1882 – March 6, 1942 ) was an American political activist and labor leader, who was convicted with Warren K. Billings of the San Francisco Preparedness Day Bombing of 1916.

Eduardo " Lalo " Guerrero ( December 24, 1916 – March 17, 2005 ), was a Mexican-American guitarist, singer and farm labor activist best known for his strong influence on today's Latin musical artists.

When Strong ran for the Seattle School Board in 1916, she won easily, thanks to support from women's groups and organized labor and to her reputation as an expert on child welfare.

By 1916, however, the Progressives were supporting labor unions, which helped them in ethnic enclaves in the larger cities but alienated the native-stock Protestant, middle-class voters who voted heavily against Senator Johnson and President Wilson in 1916.

Her work against child labor and for wages-and-hours legislation ( the 8-hour day, minimum wage ) was influential in the passage of the Keating-Owen Act in 1916 and the later Fair Labor Standards Act of 1937.