* 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

Image: Brooklyn Museum-In the Park, Light-George Wesley Bellows-overall. jpg | In the Park, Light-George Bellows 1916

On October 16, 1916, Sanger opened a family planning and birth control clinic at 46 Amboy St. in the Brownsville neighborhood of Brooklyn, the first of its kind in the United States.

Ellington started to play gigs in cafés and clubs in and around Washington, D. C. and his attachment grew to be so strong that he turned down an art scholarship to the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn in 1916.

Grimes played for the Pittsburgh Pirates ( 1916 -), the Brooklyn Dodgers (-), the New York Giants (), the Pirates again (-), the Boston Braves (), the St. Louis Cardinals ( 1930 -), the Chicago Cubs (-), the Cardinals again ( 1933 -), the Pirates ( 1934 ), and the New York Yankees ( 1934 ).

* Preacher Roe Born Elwin Charles Roe ( February 16, 1916 – November 9, 2008 ), major league baseball left-handed pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals, Pittsburgh Pirates and Brooklyn Dodgers.

He attended the Manual Training High School in Brooklyn, from which he graduated in 1916.

In 1916, she moved to New York City where she attended Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, then transferred to Columbia University where she earned a bachelor's degree in education in 1920 and a master's of education in 1925.

In late 1916 Fisher and another prominent Bible Student at the Brooklyn headquarters, Clayton J. Woodworth, sought the Executive Committee's approval to produce a book about the prophecies of the books of Revelation and Ezekiel based primarily on Russell's writings.

William Stanley, Jr. ( November 28, 1858 – May 14, 1916 ) was an American physicist born in Brooklyn, New York.

File: Brooklyn Museum-Handsome Drinks-Marsden Hartley-overall. jpg | Marsden Hartley ( 1877-1943 ), Handsome Drinks, c. 1916, Brooklyn Museum

* July 30, 1916 – The Black Tom explosion set off by German saboteurs at a munitions arsenal on a small island in New York Harbor kills seven in Jersey City, New Jersey and causes damage as far as the Brooklyn waterfront and even Times Square.

* 7 – 12 October — Boston Red Sox defeats Brooklyn Dodgers to win the 1916 World Series by 4 games to 1

* 1910 – 1928 — Salvatore " Toto " D ' Aquila – took over the Brooklyn Camorra in 1916 and merged with " Al Mineo's gang " forming the largest family in New York.

The origins of Planned Parenthood date to 1916 when Margaret Sanger, her sister and a friend opened the first birth control clinic in the U. S. in Brooklyn, New York.

French was also the designer of the two allegorical figures Brooklyn and Manhattan currently flanking the museum's entrance ( created in 1916 for the Brooklyn approach to the Manhattan Bridge, relocated to the museum in 1963 ).

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

After extending his career in the minor leagues, he coached the Brooklyn Robins ( 1926 ), and scouted for the New York Yankees ( 1915 – 1916 ).

Seth Low ( January 18, 1850 – September 17, 1916 ), born in Brooklyn, New York, was an American educator and political figure who served as mayor of Brooklyn, as President of Columbia University, as diplomatic representative of the United States, and as Mayor of New York City.

His son, Fred, moved operations to Brooklyn, New York in 1916.

Ezra Jack Keats was born Jacob Ezra Katz on March 11, 1916 in East New York, Brooklyn, the third child of Polish-Jewish immigrants Benjamin Katz and Augusta Podgainy.

On September 7, 1916, Nicholas Morello and his bodyguard Charles Ubriaco were killed by Morano's men outside Vollero's Cafe, a local Navy Street restaurant in Brooklyn.