* 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 – Giuseppe Taddei, Italian opera singer ( d. 2010 )

* 1916 – Luigi Comencini, Italian director ( d. 2007 )

* 1916 – Arnoldo Foà, Italian actor

* 1884 – Rembrandt Bugatti, Italian sculptor ( d. 1916 )

* 1882 – Umberto Boccioni, Italian painter and sculptor ( d. 1916 )

Actresses such as Mary Pickford in all her films, Eleonora Duse in the Italian film Cenere ( 1916 ), Janet Gaynor in Sunrise, Priscilla Dean in Outside the Law and White Tiger, and Lillian Gish and Greta Garbo in most of their performances made restraint and easy naturalism in acting a virtue.

* 1916 – Aldo Moro, Italian politician, 39th Prime Minister of Italy ( d. 1978 )

* 1916 – Rossano Brazzi, Italian actor and singer ( d. 1994 )

* February 20 – Ferruccio Lamborghini, Italian automobile manufacturer ( b. 1916 )

* October 16 – Rembrandt Bugatti, Italian sculptor ( d. 1916 )

The brigade had arrived on the plateau in May 1916 to help in the Italian effort to stop the Austrian Spring offensive.

Aldo Moro (; September 23, 1916 – May 9, 1978 ) was an Italian politician and the 39th Prime Minister of Italy, from 1963 to 1968, and then from 1974 to 1976.

His father Alfredo, as well as his older brother, also named Alfredo, died in 1916 as a result of a widespread Italian flu outbreak.

Chaired by General Joseph Joffre, the commander-in-chief of the French Army, Allied representatives agreed on a concerted offensive against the Central Powers in 1916 by the French, British, Italian and Russian armies.

Don Procopio was revived in Monte Carlo in 1906 ; An Italian version of Les pêcheurs de perles was performed at the Metropolitan Opera in New York on 13 November 1916, with Caruso in the leading tenor role ; it has since become a staple at many opera houses.

* Aldo Moro ( 1916 – 1978 ), Italian politician and prime minister

* while only various military commanders and since 1916 a Secretary for Civil Affairs in Albania ( Ugo Capialbi ) had acted for Rome since Italy invaded on 27 December 1914 ( occupying Valorë and parts of Southern Albania ; on 3 June 1917 Albanian independence under an Italian protectorate was declared by Italy, opposed by most Albanians ; adding in November 1918 the former Austro-Hungarian occupied areas to the Italian zone ) only since in 1919 an Albanian provisional government recognized by Italy as the legal government of the protected zone, consecutive High Commissioners for the Crown were appointed until Italy effectively withdraw its troops on 3 September 1920 ( as agreed on 22 August 1920 when formally recognizing the total independence of Albania ):

" on Austrian stamps of 1916, and then just " Venezia / Giulia " on Italian stamps, while in the Trentino the overprint was " Regno d Italia / Trentino / 3 nov 1918 " on Austrian stamps and then just " Venezia / Tridentina " on Italian stamps.

At the beginning of Italian participation in World War I, he was a Lieutenant Colonel ( Tenente Colonnello ); he rose to the rank of General following his handling of the capture of Monte Sabotino in May 1916 and by the late months of 1917 ( mostly thanks to his Masonic contacts, including his superior, General Capello ) was named as Vice Chief-of-Staff ( Sottocapo di Stato Maggiore ) despite being one of the main leaders responsible for the disaster during the Battle of Caporetto on 24 October 1917.

Umberto Boccioni (; 19 October 1882 – 17 August 1916 ) was an Italian painter and sculptor.

The Italian Army conquered Gorizia during the Sixth Battle of the Isonzo in August 1916, with the front line moving to the eastern outskirts of the town.

World War I similarly produced an in pectore cardinal, appointed in 1916 by Benedict XV: Adolf Bertram, who was published after the war ended and who became a vigorous opponent of Nazism.

( Another in pectore cardinal was also appointed in 1916 and was never published.

On December 4, 1916, Bertram was created a cardinal, but only in pectore, for fear of provoking a negative reaction against the Church on the part of the Allies, especially from the Italian side.