* 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 – Harold Norse, American writer ( d. 2009 )

* Harold Wilson ( 11 March 1916 – 1 January 1945 )

Harold Robbins ( May 21, 1916 – October 14, 1997 ) was an American author of popular novels.

He was depicted as wearing a traditional Scottish kilt and his voice actor Hal Smith ( Harold John Smith, August 24, 1916 – January 28, 1994 ), known for his old role as Otis Campbell on The Andy Griffith Show, gave him a thick Scottish accent.

* Harold Cruse ( 1916 – 2005 ), social critic and teacher of African-American studies, born in Petersburg.

Those who have been inducted to the Maine Alpha chapter as undergraduates include Nathaniel Hawthorne ( 1825 ), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ( 1825 ), Robert E. Peary ( 1877 ), Owen Brewster ( 1909 ), Harold Hitz Burton ( 1909 ), Paul Douglas ( 1913 ), Alfred Kinsey ( 1916 ), Thomas R. Pickering ( 1953 ), and Lawrence B. Lindsey ( 1976 ).

Simpson also had a stepdaughter by this marriage, Cynthia Josephine Dechert ( born 1916 ), who wed Robert Harold Baker ( married 1937, annulled 1938 ) and James Imbrie Jr. ( married 1950 ).

Bowers ( 1911 – 1913 ), Samuel Young Jameson ( 1913 – 1916 ), Charles Ernest Dicken ( 1916 – 1926 ), Arthur B. Hill ( 1926 – 1929 ), Charles D. Johnson ( 1929 – 1933 ), James R. Grant ( 1933 – 1949 ), Seaford Eubanks ( 1949 – 1951 ), Harold A. Haswell ( 1952 – 1953 ), Ralph Arloe Phelps Jr. ( 1953 – 1969 ), Daniel R. Grant ( 1970 – 1988 ), Ben M. Elrod ( 1988 – 1998 ), and Andrew Westmoreland ( 1998 – 2006 ).

* Mary Wilson, Lady Wilson of Rievaulx ( born 1916 ), British poet, widow of former British prime minister Harold Wilson

Gladys Mary Wilson, Baroness Wilson of Rievaulx ( born 12 January 1916 ) is an English poet, best known as the widow of former British Prime Minister Harold Wilson.

* George Harold Baker ( 1877 – 1916 ), Canadian politician and lawyer

* James Harold Wilson ( 1916 – 1995 ), Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1964 – 1970 and 1974 – 1976

By 1916 submarine attacks on shipping had made the journey to England unsafe and so Harold and his brother were sent in September to Chateau de Lancy, an international school near Geneva.

*" Past and present of Russian economics " in Russian realities & problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916, by Pavel Milyukov, Peter Struve, Harold Williams, Alexander Lappo-Danilevsky and Roman Dmowski, Cambridge, University press, 1917, 229p.

* Harold Raymond Kingsmill Bates ( 1916 – 2006 ), officer in the British Royal Navy

Harold John " Hal " Smith ( August 24, 1916 – January 28, 1994 ) was an American character actor and voice actor.

In 1916 Londonderry was appointed second-in-command of The Blues which was part of the 8th Cavalry Brigade, and he served at the front during the Battle of the Somme witnessing the mass slaughter first hand, during which his closest friend, Lt Colonel Harold Brassey, who had been best man at his wedding in 1899, was killed.

In 1915, Payne produced the first staging of Hobson's Choice by Harold Brighouse for The Shubert Organization. In 1916 he directed John Barrymore in his first success in a serious role, in the American premiere of Justice by John Galsworthy.

* Harold Wilson, Baron Wilson of Rievaulx ( 1916 – 1995 ), Prime Minister

In 1916, Darcy KO'd Harold Hardwick to capture the Australian heavyweight title.

He was one of eight brothers of a family of 13, four of whom served in the First World War ( Harold being the 4th ) and one in the second ( Douglas ), though unfortunately two others were also killed in action, Sergeant A. C. Ware, Dorset Regiment, on 1 July 1916 and Private A. Ware, Wiltshire Regiment, on 11 March 1915.

After this, the theatre hosted a variety of works, including seasons of plays by Charles Hawtrey in 1913, 1914 and 1924, and Harold Brighouse's Hobson's Choice in 1916.

* Harold Warren Danforth ( 1916 – 1993 ), Member of the Parliament of Canada