* 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 1916, Hugo Ball, Emmy Hennings, Tristan Tzara, Jean Arp, Marcel Janco, Richard Huelsenbeck, Sophie Täuber, and Hans Richter, along with others, discussed art and put on performances in the Cabaret Voltaire expressing their disgust with the war and the interests that inspired it.

In 1916, in Kraków's Planty gardens, Banach encountered Professor Hugo Steinhaus, one of the renowned mathematicians of the time.

* August 25 – Hugo von Pohl, German admiral ( d. 1916 )

Most famous Belgian authors are: Guido Gezelle ( 1830 – 1899 ), Emile Verhaeren ( 1855 – 1916 ), Max Elskamp ( 1862 – 1931 ), Maurice Maeterlinck ( 1862 – 1949 ), Paul van Ostaijen ( 1896 – 1926 ), Henri Michaux ( French born and educated in Belgium, 1899 – 1984 ) and Jacques Brel ( 1929 – 1978 ) and prose writers: Hendrik Conscience ( 1812 – 1883 ), Charles de Coster ( 1827 – 1879 ), Willem Elsschot ( 1882 – 1960 ), Michel de Ghelderode ( 1898 – 1962 ), Georges Simenon 1903-1989, Louis Paul Boon ( 1912 – 1979 ), Hugo Claus ( 1929 – 2008 ), Pierre Mertens ( born in 1939 ) Ernest Claes ( 1885 – 1968 ), and, Amélie Nothomb ( born in 1967 ).

** Hugo Francis Charteris, Lord Elcho ( 1884 – 1916 )

The earliest known attempt to use duralumin for a heavier-than-air aircraft structure occurred in 1916, when Hugo Junkers first introduced its use in the creation of the Junkers J 3's airframe, a single-engined monoplane that marked the first use of the Junkers trademark duralumin corrugated skinning.

Hugo Ball's 1916 poem, " Karawane "

In 1916, Hugo Ball created the Dada Manifesto, making a political statement about his views on the terrible state of society and acknowledging his dislike for philosophies in the past claiming to possess the ultimate Truth.

The phi phenomenon is an optical illusion defined by Max Wertheimer in the Gestalt psychology in 1912, in which persistence of vision formed a part of the base of the theory of cinema, applied by Hugo Münsterberg in 1916.

It was founded by Hugo Ball, with his companion Emmy Hennings on February 5, 1916 as a cabaret for artistic and political purposes.

Hugo Ball performing at Cabaret Voltaire in 1916

The history of the USPD began on December 21, 1915, members of the SPD fraction in the Reichstag, the German parliament, voted against the authorization of further credits to finance World War I, an incident that emphasized existing tensions between the party's leadership and the left-wing pacifists surrounding Hugo Haase and ultimately led to the expulsion of the group from the SPD fraction on March 24, 1916.

* Hugo Hamilton ( 1916 – 1928 )

A piece performed by Hugo Ball in a reading at Cabaret Voltaire in 1916:

Hugo Ball in the " bishop dress ", 1916

* Riemann, Hugo, Ideen zu einer Lehre von den Tonvorstellungen, Jahrbuch der Musikbibliothek Peters, ( 1914 / 15 ), Leipzig 1916, pp. 1-26.

Hugo Münsterberg ( June 1, 1863 – December 19, 1916 ) was a German-American psychologist.

Moritz had two sons with Rosalie, Otto ( 1854 – 1915 ) and Emil ( 1855 – 1915 ), and two with Anna, Hugo ( 1863 – 1916 ) and Oscar ( 1865 – 1920 ).

Lady Violet, known as Letty, married firstly Hugo Charteris, Lord Elcho ( killed in action 1916 ) and was mother of two sons, David Charteris, 12th Earl of Wemyss and Lord Charteris of Amisfield.

Hugo von Pohl ( August 25, 1855 – 23 February 1916 ) was a German admiral who during the First World War commanded the German High Seas Fleet from 1915 until shortly before his death from illness in 1916.

Other items of interest range from a gilded bronze medallion of the Montgolfier brothers, created in 1783 by Jean-Antoine Houdon ( 1741 – 1828 ), the Glider Massia-Biot ( 1879 ), an 1884 electric motor by Arthur Constantin Krebs ( 1850 – 1935 ), the rear gondola of the 1915 Zeppelin LZ 113, equipped with 3 Maybach engines, type HS, a 1916 SPAD VII aircraft by Blériot-SPAD, a 1917 Airco DH. 9 aircraft by Geoffrey de Havilland ( 1882 – 1965 ), and a 1918 Junkers D. I aircraft by Hugo Junkers ( 1859 – 1935 ), to the 1961 Dassault Mirage IIIC by Marcel Dassault ( 1892 – 1986 ), an SSBS S3 surface-to-surface ballistic missile commissioned in 1981, and a 2002 Dassault-Breguet Super Étendard model.