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

* 1916 – Johnny Hopp, American baseball player ( d. 2003 )

In early 1916 a promoter from Chicago approached clarinetist Alcide Nunez and drummer Johnny Stein about bringing a New Orleans-style band to Chicago, where the similar Brown's Band From Dixieland led by trombonist Tom Brown already was enjoying success.

In 1916 he was chosen as a last-minute replacement for Frank Christian in Johnny Stein's band to play a job up in Chicago, Illinois.

The Johnny Appleseed Commission to the Common Council of the City of Fort Wayne reported, " as a part of the celebration of Indiana's 100th birthday in 1916 an iron fence was placed in the Archer graveyard by the Horticulture Society of Indiana setting off the grave of Johnny Appleseed.

On 24 April 1916, Wilde beat Johnny Rosner by a knockout in the eleventh round at Liverpool Stadium to win the IBU World Flyweight title.

In 1916 he was picked by Alcide Nunez to go to Chicago, Illinois to play trombone with Johnny Stein's Jazz Band.

In 1916 Frank Christian was the first choice of Alcide Nunez, Eddie Edwards, and Johnny Stein to play in a band they had been hired to bring north to Chicago.

Johnny Aitken holds the record for total wins at the track, with 15 victories ( all on the oval ), during the 1909, 1910 and 1916 seasons.

Frank Shuster, ( September 5, 1916 – January 13, 2002 ) was a Canadian comedian best known as a member of the comedy duo Wayne and Shuster ( Johnny Wayne being the other half ).

* Johnny Hall ( 1916 – 1977 ), American football running back

Ernest John " Johnny " Morris OBE ( 20 June 1916 – 6 May 1999 ) was a Welsh television presenter.

Octave John " Johnny " Claes ( 11 August 1916 in London – 3 February 1956 in Brussels ) was a racing driver from Belgium.

On September 4, 1916 he challenged world featherweight champion Johnny Kilbane for his crown.

# Elaine Barrie ( née Elaine Jacobs ), ( 1916 – 2003 ), an actress ; married November 9, 1936 and divorced 1940

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

* Jane Jacobs ( 1916 – 2006 ) American-Canadian writer, activist )

He was able to warn Jacobs and Semphroch of an artillery bombardment that killed Edna Semphroch's fiancé in 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 – Iggy Katona, American race car driver ( d. 2003 )

* 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 )