* 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

* 2003 – Iggy Katona, American race car driver ( b. 1916 )

His assignment was not a new one because Baker had sent him to the Mexican border in 1916 to investigate lurid newspaper stories about lack of discipline, drunkenness, and venereal disease in American military camps.

* 1916 – Wellington Mara, American businessman ( d. 2005 )

* 1916 – Van Johnson, American actor ( d. 2008 )

* 1916 – Frederick Chapman Robbins, American pediatrician and virologist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 2003 )

* 1916 – C. Wright Mills American sociologist ( d. 1962 )

* 1916 – Jack Vance, American author

* 1916 – Luther Davis, American playwright ( d. 2008 )

* 1916 – George Montgomery, American actor ( d. 2000 )

* 1864 – Richard Harding Davis, American author ( d. 1916 )

High-alcohol liquor, two forms of which were in the US Pharmacopoeia up until 1916 and in common use by physicians well into the 1930s, has been used in the past as an agent for dulling pain, due to the CNS depressant effects of ethyl alcohol, a notable example being the American Civil War.

* 2002 – Ruth Handler, American businesswoman, created the Barbie doll ( b. 1916 )

* 1916 – Lou Thesz, American wrestler ( d. 2002 )

* 1916 – Anthony Caruso, American actor ( d. 2003 )

Eastman also became executive director of the American Union Against Militarism, which lobbied against America's entrance into the European war and more successfully against war with Mexico in 1916, sought to remove profiteering from arms manufacturing, and campaigned against conscription and imperial adventures.

* 1916 – Buddy Cole, American pianist ( d. 1964 )

* 1916 – Johnny Claes, Belgian race car driver ( d. 1956 )

* 1916 – In Corona, California, race car driver Bob Burman crashes, killing three, and badly injuring five, spectators.

* 1916 – Gino Bianco, Brazilian race car driver ( d. 1984 )

* 1916 – Tony Bettenhausen, American race car driver ( d. 1961 )

Tulsa passed an ordinance on August 16, 1916, forbidding blacks or whites from residing on any block where three-fourths or more of the residents were of the other race.

The race has been held at Aintree each year since 1839, with the exception of 1916 – 1918 during the First World War when it was held at Gatwick Racecourse, 1941 – 1945 during the Second World War when it was called off, and in 1993 when the race was declared void owing to a false start.

The first of these races, in 1916, was called the Racecourse Association Steeplechase, and in 1917 and 1918 the race was called the War National Steeplechase.

The race was originally advertised as the " International 500-Mile Sweepstakes Race " from 1911 to 1916.

In 1914, the Norwegian immigrant Leonhard Seppala first appeared, and went on to win the race in 1915, 1916, and 1917, before the race was discontinued in 1918 during World War I.

In response to the pressure exerted on immigrants to culturally assimilate and also as a reaction against the denigration of the culture and " race " of non-Anglo white immigrants by Nativists, intellectuals on the left such as Horace Kallen, in Democracy Versus the Melting-Pot ( 1915 ), and Randolph Bourne, in Trans-National America ( 1916 ), laid the foundations for the concept of cultural pluralism.

When Belgium took over colonial rule in 1916, the Tutsi and Hutu groups were rearranged according to race instead of occupation.

Although both " Māori " and " Pākehā " terms are based on predominant ancestry, from 1916 a race or cultural self-identification tool has been used by the New Zealand government in statistical definitions, which has caused some confusion.

The 1916 race was shortened to 120 laps, for a number reasons including a lack of entries from Europe ( there were so few entries the Speedway itself entered several cars ), a lack of oil, and out of respect for the war in Europe.

From 2005-2007, the Firestone Indy Lights Series became the first racing series since 1916 to run at the famous race course twice in one year.

* From 1908 to 1916, the race was named the American Grand Prize.

Louis-Joseph Chevrolet ( December 25, 1878 – June 6, 1941 ) was a Swiss-born American race car driver of French descent, founder of the Chevrolet Motor Car Company in 1911 and later, the Frontenac Motor Corporation in 1916 which made racing parts for Ford's Model T.

In 1916, Laemmle sponsored the $ 3, 000. 00, 3 foot tall, solid silver Universal Trophy Cup for the winner of the annual Universal race at the famous Uniontown Speedway board track in southwestern Pennsylvania.

Universal filmed each race from 1916 to 1922.

In 1916, Watson entered the U. S. Senate race against Democratic Senator John W. Kern, but his bitter primary battle against Harry S. New threatened to divide the state Republican party.

The event, when first held in 1994, marked the first race other than the Indianapolis 500 to be held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway since 1916.

In its internal governance, Philo reflected the progressivism of the early twentieth century by being, in 1916, the first Penn group to require its members take an oath not to discriminate on the basis of race, creed, and religion ; in 1948 the Society voted to admit women as full members, prompting the headline “ Philo hits rock bottom, admits women ”.