* 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

In April 1916, Ernest Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition became stranded on Elephant Island, some southwest of South Georgia.

* Henry King Stanford ( born 1916 ), former President of the University of Georgia

He was an executive of the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company who came to the Phoenix area in 1916 in search of suitable land to farm a long-staple cotton that had previously been available only from the Sea Islands off the coast of Georgia and from Egypt.

* Georgia O ' Keeffe, artist, lived first in Amarillo ( 1912 – 1914 ) and then Canyon ( 1916 – 1918 ), having been inspired by the natural beauty of the Palo Duro country.

* George T. Smith ( 1916 – 2010 ), American Democratic Party politician and jurist from the state of Georgia

Georgia O ' Keeffe, No. 13 Special, 1916 / 1917, Charcoal on paper

In early April 1916, the commission approved the route between Macon and Jacksonville via Savannah, Georgia, and designated the more direct route via Waycross, Georgia as the central division.

From 1916 to 1932, the game was played at several different sites in Georgia ( Athens and Savannah ), and Florida ( Tampa, Gainesville and Jacksonville ).

That same year, 1916, he won the Georgia State Amateur Championship for his first important title, at the Capital City Club, in Brookhaven, where he became an active member later in life.

In 1916, he joined the Georgia National Guard to help chase Pancho Villa in Mexico.

* John William Davis ( Georgia politician ) ( 1916 – 1992 ), Lawyer and U. S. Representative from Georgia

In 1911 he established another yeshivah, Toras Emes, in Palestine, and in 1916 he established a yeshivah in Georgia.

In 1916 Tsereteli was a representative of Georgia in the Union of Nations in Lausanne, in 1918-1919 Ambassador of the Democratic Republic of Georgia ( DRG ) in Sweden and Norway.

The 1916 game against Georgia Tech is famous as the most lopsided-scoring game in the history of college football, which was a 222-0 loss for Cumberland University.

* George E. Allen, head coach of the 1916 football team that lost 0-222 to Georgia Tech, later an advisor to President Harry Truman

File: Brooklyn Museum-Blue 1-Georgia O ' Keeffe. jpg | Georgia O ' Keeffe, Blue 1, 1916

He also served as the 44th Mayor of Atlanta, Georgia from 1916 to 1919.

* Voyage of the James Caird-In 1916 Sir Ernest Shackleton encountered a wave he termed " gigantic " while piloting a lifeboat / whaler from Elephant Island to South Georgia Island.

( The actual all-time college record was the 222 – 0 win by Georgia Tech over Cumberland in 1916.

October 7, 1916: Georgia Tech 222, Cumberland College 0 In the most lopsided game in American football history, Georgia Tech, under legendary coach John Heisman, defeated Cumberland College 222-0.

The building had originally been home to a woman's college and Ottawa Tech moved there in 1916.