* 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

* Green, Edwin Luther, A History of the University of South Carolina, Published by The State Co., 1916.

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

Hopper was born in Dodge City, Kansas, the son of Marjorie Mae ( née Davis, July 12, 1917-January 12, 2007 ) and James Millard Hopper ( June 23, 1916 – August 7, 1982 ).

The 730-pound bell from the first courthouse was made in Cincinnati in 1836 and given by Sheriff Samuel Davis Gresham, and was used in the second courthouse until 1916.

In 1916, the African Methodist Episcopal Church ( AME ) opened Flipper Davis College in the old Tullahassee Mission building.

Colgate University's football was given a Division I first place ranking by Parke H. Davis in 1916 and 1932, and appeared in the Associated Press Division I polls in 1942 and 1977.

* Herbert Henry Davis Peirce ( 1849 – 1916 ), who pursued a career in the Foreign Service.

Alexander was reelected in 1916, over his Republican opponent D. W. Davis by only 572 votes, the closest gubernatorial election in Idaho history.

Davis won the Republican nomination for governor in 1916, but was narrowly defeated by the Democratic incumbent, Moses Alexander.

* John J. Davis ( congressman ) ( 1835 – 1916 ), United States Representative from West Virginia

* John William Davis ( Georgia politician ) ( 1916 – 1992 ), Lawyer and U. S. Representative from Georgia

* Jack Davis ( Canadian politician ) ( 1916 – 1991 ), Canadian politician from British Columbia

* Henry Gassaway Davis ( November 16, 1823-March 11, 1916 ), 1904 US Vice-Presidential Candidate and Senator from West Virginia

* Jack Davis ( Canadian politician ) ( 1916 – 1991 )

Henry Gassaway Davis ( November 16, 1823 – March 11, 1916 ) was a self-made millionaire and U. S. Senator ( 1871 – 1883 ) from West Virginia.

Davis in his last years acted as chairman of the permanent Pan American Railway Committee ( 1901 – 1916 ) and also donated land to build Davis and Elkins College in Elkins, West Virginia.

* Richard Harding Davis ( 1864 – 1916 ); covered the Spanish-American War, Second Boer War and the fighting on the Macedonian front during World War I.

* J. Warren Davis ( 1913 – 1916 )

Dorothy Salisbury Davis ( born April 26, 1916, Chicago, Illinois ) is an American crime fiction writer.

Davis died under inauspicious circumstances in 1916 and it lay vacant for several years before being purchased by Colonel Cameron Macpherson Edwards, who had earlier lived at 24 Sussex Drive.

Edward Michael Davis ( November 15, 1916 – April 22, 2006 ) was the chief of the Los Angeles Police Department from ( 1969 – 1978 ), and later a California State Senator from ( 1980 – 1992 ) and an unsuccessful Republican candidate for the United States Senate in 1986.

This marked the beginning of a long period of close association between the paper and the Davis family, of whom the most enduring was Peter Davis Jnr, who took over from his father as chairman in 1873 and continued in this position until his retirement in 1916.

The retirement in 1916 of Peter Davis and his death in 1919 seem to have signalled the beginning of financial troubles for the Davis family, marked by the selling off of all the family ’ s commercial outlets, leaving only the newspaper and the printing department.