* 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

He had his first stage success with Theodore & Co in 1916, a production by George Grossmith, Jr. and Edward Laurillard with a score composed by Novello and the young Jerome Kern.

James Jerome Hill ( September 16, 1838 – May 29, 1916 ), was a Canadian-American railroad executive.

He first met George Gershwin, who was working as a song plugger in Jerome H. Remick's, in 1916.

* Bronze sculpture of Robert Emmet ( 1916 ), by Jerome Stanley Connor, in Emmet Park, Washington, DC ( photos )

* a 1916 ballet by the Ballets Russes, see Vaslav Nijinsky, later adapted by George Balanchine for Jerome Robbins at New York City Ballet

In 1916, aeronautical engineer Jerome C. Hunsaker published the following quote:

* " Brickhill, Paul Chester Jerome 1916 – 1991.

When Jellicoe was promoted to First Sea Lord in 1916, Beatty succeeded him as commander-in-chief of the Grand Fleet and received promotion to the acting rank of Admiral at the age of 45 on 27 November.

On 1 January 1919, Beatty was promoted to the permanent rank of Admiral, with seniority from 27 November 1916.

* 1915 – 27 November 1916: Vice-Admiral Sir David Beatty, KCB, KCVO, DSO

Admiral Jellicoe was appointed First Sea Lord in November 1916 and turned over command of the Grand Fleet to Admiral David Beatty.

On 12 May 1916 a meeting took place at Rosyth between Jellicoe, Beatty and First Sea Lord Jackson to discuss the future of the battlecruiser fleet.

John Jellicoe was replaced as commander of the Grand Fleet by Beatty in November 1916, largely as a result of public perceptions that the British had not performed well at Jutland.

The family plot of Damon Runyon in Woodlawn Cemetery ( Bronx, New York ) | Woodlawn CemeteryRunyon's marriage to Ellen Egan produced two children ( Mary and Damon, Jr .), and broke up in 1928 over rumors that Runyon had become infatuated with a Mexican girl he had first met while covering the Pancho Villa raids in 1916 and discovered once again in New York, when she called the American seeking him out.

* 1916 – John H. Wood, Jr., American jurist ( d. 1979 )

Mitchell read the books of Thomas Dixon, Jr., and in 1916, when the silent film, The Birth of a Nation, was showing in Atlanta, she dramatized Dixon's The Traitor: A Story of the Fall of the Invisible Empire ( 1907 ).

* 1862 – Henry George, Jr., American politician ( d. 1916 )

* November 3 – Henry George, Jr., American politician ( d. 1916 )

In April 1916, Wallis met Earl Winfield Spencer, Jr., a U. S. Navy aviator, at Pensacola, Florida, while visiting her cousin Corinne Mustin.

His parents, Samuel Ealy Johnson, Jr., and Rebekah Baines, had three girls and two boys: Johnson and his brother, Sam Houston Johnson ( 1914 – 78 ), and sisters Rebekah ( 1910 – 78 ), Josefa ( 1912 – 61 ), and Lucia ( 1916 – 97 ).

* 4-August Belmont, Jr ./ Blemton Stable ( 1896, 1902, 1916, 1917 )

* Jacobs, T. K., Jr. " History of Transportation in Allen County " ( 1916 )

On November 3, 1862 Annie gave birth to future United States Representative from New York, Henry George, Jr. ( 1862 – 1916 ).

They had two daughters, Rose ( born 1906 ) and Virginia ( 1916 – 1992 ), and one son, Edward Jr. ( 1919 – 1992 ).

* Henry George, Jr. ( 1862 – 1916 ), United States Representative from New York

Walter Leland Cronkite, Jr. ( November 4, 1916 – July 17, 2009 ) was an American broadcast journalist, best known as anchorman for the CBS Evening News for 19 years ( 1962 – 81 ).

* Erich Von Stroheim Jr. ( 1916 – 1968 ), actor, director, son of Erich Von Stroheim

In 1905, he married the former Ada Ruth Dismukes of Natchitoches, and they had three daughters, Katharine ( born 1910 ), Ruth ( born 1912 ) and Mary Elizabeth ( born 1916 ), and a son, John H. Overton, Jr., ( 1914 – 1946 ).

Summer and Smoke is set in Glorious Hill, Mississippi, from the " turn of the century through 1916 ," and centers on a high-strung, unmarried minister's daughter, Alma Winemiller, and the spiritual / sexual romance that nearly blossoms between her and the wild, undisciplined young doctor who grew up next door, John Buchanan, Jr. She, ineffably refined, identifies with the gothic cathedral, " reaching up to something beyond attainment "; her name, as Williams makes clear during the play, means " soul " in Spanish ; whereas Buchanan, doctor and sensualist, defies her with the soulless anatomy chart.

* Charles E. Stewart, Jr. ( 1916 – 1994 ), U. S. federal judge

Two of Stroheim's sons eventually joined the film business: Erich Jr. ( 1916 – 1968 )( with Mae Jones ) as an assistant director and Josef ( 1922 – 2002 )( with Valerie Germonprez ) as a sound editor.

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 ).

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

* William Stanley, Jr. ( 1858 – 1916 ), American physicist and electrical engineer

In 1914, she married Nazareth Lee Bogan, a railwayman, and gave birth to a son, Nazareth Jr., in either 1915 or 1916.

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 ).