* 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 – 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

** Dom Mintoff, 8th Prime Minister of Malta ( b. 1916 )

Dominic " Dom " Mintoff ( Maltese: Duminku Mintoff ; sometimes referred to simply as il-Perit ( the architect ); 6 August 1916 – 20 August 2012 ) was a Maltese politician, journalist and architect who was leader of the Labour Party from 1949 to 1984, and was Prime Minister of Malta from 1955 to 1958, when Malta was still a British colony, and again, following independence, from 1971 to 1984.

The Poles also settled on the west side, founding West Side Dom Polski ( 1916 ).

***** Prince Dom João of Orléans-Braganza ( 1916 – 2005 )

* 1916 – Don Willesee, Australian politician ( d. 2003 )

* 1916 – Kristján Eldjárn, Icelandic museum curator and politician ( d. 1982 )

* 2005 – Eugene McCarthy, America politician ( b. 1916 )

* 1916 – Cesar Climaco, Filipino politician ( d. 1984 )

* 1916 – Jean Drapeau, Canadian politician, Mayor of Montreal ( d. 1999 )

* J. Smith Young ( 1834 – 1916 ), American politician

* John Andrew Young ( 1916 – 2002 ), American politician from Texas

* 1916 – Raul Hector Castro, American politician

* 1916 – William B. Saxbe, American politician ( d. 2010 )

* 1998 – Joseph Alioto, American politician ( b. 1916 )

* 1916 – Julio César Turbay Ayala, Colombian politician ( d. 2005 )

* 2005 – Gaylord Nelson, American politician ( b. 1916 )

* 1916 – Gough Whitlam, Australian politician, 21st Prime Minister of Australia

* 1916 – Edward Heath, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ( d. 2005 )

* 1916 – Peter Frelinghuysen, American politician ( d. 2011 )

* 1916 – Philip Lucock, Australian politician and Presbyterian minister ( d. 1996 )

* 1916 – Justin Catayée, French politician ( d. 1962 )

* 2000 – Davie Fulton, Canadian politician and judge ( b. 1916 )

* 1916 – Davie Fulton, Canadian politician and judge ( d. 2000 )

* 1916 – Rogelio de la Rosa, Filipino actor and politician ( d. 1986 )

* 1862 – Henry George, Jr., American politician ( d. 1916 )

* Robert S. Stevens ( judge ) ( 1916 – 2000 ), California politician, judge

* 1916 – Françoise Giroud, Swiss-French journalist and politician ( d. 2003 )