* 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

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

In 1916, Hugo Ball, Emmy Hennings, Tristan Tzara, Jean Arp, Marcel Janco, Richard Huelsenbeck, Sophie Täuber, and Hans Richter, along with others, discussed art and put on performances in the Cabaret Voltaire expressing their disgust with the war and the interests that inspired it.

The first buildings constructed on the Cambridge campus, completed in 1916, are sometimes called the " Maclaurin buildings " after Institute president Richard Maclaurin who oversaw their construction.

William Everdell, for example, has argued that modernism began in the 1870s, when metaphorical ( or ontological ) continuity began to yield to the discrete with mathematician Richard Dedekind's ( 1831 – 1916 ) Dedekind cut, and Ludwig Boltzmann's ( 1844 – 1906 ) statistical thermodynamics.

* 1831 – Richard Dedekind, German mathematician ( d. 1916 )

His notable novels are The Thirty-nine Steps ( 1915 ), Greenmantle ( 1916 ) and sequels, all featuring the heroic Scotsman Richard Hannay.

* September 1 – Richard C. Saufley, American naval aviation pioneer ( d. 1916 )

* October 6 – Richard Dedekind, German mathematician ( d. 1916 )

: Mon Ami Pierrot: Songs and Fantasies ( 1917 ; illustrated by Will Bradley ); Beswick, Katherine: Columbine Wonders and Other Poems ( c. 1920 ); Bodenheim, Maxwell: " Pierrot Objects " ( 1920 ); Breed, Ida Marian: Poems for Pierrot ( 1939 ); Burt, Maxwell Struthers: " Pierrot at War " ( 1916 ); Burton, Richard: " Here Lies Pierrot " ( 1913 ); Chaplin, Ralph: Maybe, Pierrot ... ( c. 1918 ); Crane, Hart: " The Moth That God Made Blind " ( c. 1918, pub.

Sir Edward Richard George " Ted " Heath, KG, MBE, PC ( 9 July 1916 – 17 July 2005 ) was a British Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ( 1970 – 74 ) and as Leader of the Conservative Party ( 1965 – 75 ).

Her second husband, whom she married ( at age 39 ) in 1943, was Richard Ney ( 1916 – 2004 ), the younger actor ( 27 years old ) who played her son in Mrs. Miniver.

Richard Timothy " Dick " Kinney ( 1916 – 1985, Glendale, California ) was an American animator and comic book writer.

On a sort of drunken whim, two decadent young princes, Grand Duke Dmitri ( Richard Warwick ) and Prince Felix Yusupov ( Martin Potter ), invite Rasputin to an opium party and kill him in December, 1916.

* Richard Eastham ( 1916 – 2005 ), an American actor, was born in Opelousas.

* Richard Dedekind ( 1831 – 1916 ), German mathematician

In 1916 he succeeded Richard Willstätter as director at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry in Berlin.

His son Richard Fleischer, born in 1916, entered the film industry in the 1940s, and in retirement worked on merchandising Betty Boop.

The poll resulted in candidates including Guy Fawkes, who was executed for trying to blow up the Parliament of England ; Oliver Cromwell who created a republican England ; Richard III, suspected of murdering his nephews ; James Connolly, an Irish nationalist and socialist who was executed by the Crown in 1916 ; and a surprisingly high ranking of 17th for the former Some Mothers Do ' Ave ' Em star Michael Crawford.

The couple married in 1916 and had three children: Ingeborg Caroline Auguste Seyss-Inquart ( born 18 September 1917 ), Richard Seyss-Inquart ( born 22 August 1921 ) and Dorothea Seyss-Inquart ( born 7 May 1928 ).

Paul Richard Halmos ( March 3, 1916 – October 2, 2006 ) was a Hungarian-born American mathematician who made fundamental advances in the areas of probability theory, statistics, operator theory, ergodic theory, and functional analysis ( in particular, Hilbert spaces ).

* 1916 / 17 Richard Henry Swain

* Dermot Richard Claud Chichester, 7th Marquess of Donegall ( 1916 – 2007 )

* Dermot Richard Claud Chichester, 5th Baron Templemore ( 1916 – 2007 ) ( succeeded as 7th Marquess of Donegall in 1975 )