* 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 – 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 – Phil Cavarretta, American baseball player ( d. 2010 )

St. Louis: Phil Wagner, 1916

* Phil Leeds ( 1916 – 98 ), American film actor

* Phil " Philthy Animal " Taylor – drums, except " 1916 ", which featured a drum machine.

The building of the laboratory began in 1913 and was finished in 1916 to the designs of Paul Waterhouse, the contractors being Armitage and Hodgson of Leeds.

The son of two prominent communist activists Arnold Kettle ( best remembered as a literary critic, 1916 – 86 ) and Margot Kettle ( née Gale ) ( 1916 – 95 ), Martin Kettle was educated at Leeds Modern School and Balliol College, Oxford University.

On the first day on the Somme, 1 July 1916, the 31st Division attacked towards the village of Serre and the Leeds Pals advanced from a line of copses named after the Gospels.

The worst tragedy ever to happen within Leeds ( in terms of fatalities ) was the Barnbow tragedy of 5 December 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 )