* 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

* 1916 George McAneny / Edward J. McGuire

* Purdon, Edward, The 1916 Rising

* 1916 – Edward Platt, American actor ( d. 1974 )

The signage in the London Underground is a classic design example of the modern era and used a typeface designed by Edward Johnston in 1916.

Edward Johnston designed TfL's distinctive sans-serif typeface in 1916.

* 1916 – Edward Binns, American actor ( d. 1990 )

In 1916, Edward Kleinschmidt filed a patent application for a typebar page printer.

Thomas Edward Lawrence, CB, DSO ( 16 August 1888 — 19 May 1935 ), known professionally as T. E. Lawrence, was a British Army officer renowned especially for his liaison role during the Arab Revolt against Ottoman Turkish rule of 1916 – 18.

He had his first stage success with Theodore & Co in 1916, a production by George Grossmith, Jr. and Edward Laurillard with a score composed by Novello and the young Jerome Kern.

* Waite, Arthur Edward ( 1916 – 1918 ) Complete Rosicrucian Initiations of the Fellowship of the Rosy Cross ; reprinted in 2005 ISBN 978-0-9735931-7-4 and 2007 ISBN 978-0-9783883-4-8 by Ishtar Publishing, Burnaby, British Columbia ; renamed in 2008 Rosicrucian Rites and Ceremonies of the Fellowship of the Rosy Cross by Founder of the Holy Order of the Golden Dawn Arthur Edward Waite ISBN 978-0-9783883-4-8 book description from Ishtar Publishing

Sir Edward Richard George " Ted " Heath, KG, MBE, PC ( 9 July 1916 – 17 July 2005 ) was a British Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ( 1970 – 74 ) and as Leader of the Conservative Party ( 1965 – 75 ).

Wilson was born at 4 Warneford Road, Huddersfield, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England on 11 March 1916, an almost exact contemporary of his rival, Edward Heath ( 9 July 1916 – 17 July 2005 ).

By 1916, Edward H. Bennett, co-author of the Plan of Chicago, wrote that a lakefront location would be most suitable for an airport serving the central business district.

In his letters home to his wife, Rupert Edward Inglis ( 1863 – 1916 ), who was a former rugby international and now a Forces Chaplain, describes passing through the town of Albert: We went through the place today ( 2 October 1915 ) where the Virgin Statue at the top of the Church was hit by a shell in January.

Among the people buried in the cathedral, the most famous is probably Sir Edward Heath, KG, MBE ( 1916 – 2005 ), who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1970 to 1974 and as a Member of Parliament from 1950 to 2001, and who lived in the Cathedral Close for the last twenty years of his life.

When John McLean died in 1916, he put the paper in trust, having little faith that his playboy son Edward " Ned " McLean could manage his inheritance.

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

Billy Barry, the fictional hero in Horace Porter's Young Aeroplane Scouts novel series of 1916 – 19, is also from Bangor, as is Edward Wozny, the protagonist in Lew Grossman's 2004 novel Codex, and Sir Kevin Dean de Courtney MacNair in Hayford Peirce's time-travel novel Napoleon Disentimed.

* Charlie Douglas ( Charles Edward Douglas ), New Zealand explorer, surveyor, and Royal Geographical Society Gill Memorial Prize winner ( 1840 – 1916 )

They had two daughters, Rose ( born 1906 ) and Virginia ( 1916 – 1992 ), and one son, Edward Jr. ( 1919 – 1992 ).

* Edward Heath ( 1916 – 2005 ), former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Charles Moore Watson ( 1844 – 1916 ) proposes an alternate etymology: The Assize of Weights and Measures ( also known as Tractatus de Ponderibus et Mensuris ), one of the statutes of uncertain date from the reign of either Henry III or Edward I, thus before 1307, specifies " troni ponderacionem "— which the Public Record Commissioners translates as " troy weight ".