* 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 – 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 – 1925 Sir Robert Molesworth Kindersley

* 2002 – Robert Hanbury Brown, British astronomer and physicist ( b. 1916 )

* 1916 – Robert H. Dicke, American physicist ( d. 1997 )

* 1997 – Robert H. Dicke, American physicist ( b. 1916 )

* Robert S. Stevens ( judge ) ( 1916 – 2000 ), California politician, judge

* 1916 – Robert Llewellyn Bradshaw, Caribbean politician, Prime Minister of Saint Kitts and Nevis ( d. 1978 )

In 1916, under the British Board of Invention and Research, Canadian physicist Robert William Boyle took on the active sound detection project with A B Wood, producing a prototype for testing in mid 1917.

* January 25 – Robert Shaw, American conductor ( b. 1916 )

* October 28 – Robert Charpentier, French Olympic cyclist ( b. 1916 )

* Robert Hale Ives Goddard ( 1837 – 1916 ), American businessman and politician from Rhode Island

* Robert Blake, Baron Blake ( 1916 – 2003 ), British historian

* Robert Alexander Walker ( 1916 – 1989 ), Saskatchewan lawyer and Attorney General

The French counter offensive devised by General Robert Nivelle was one of a number of Allied successes of 1916.

* Robert T. Davies ( 1849 – 1916 ), businessman, racehorse owner

Robert Strange McNamara ( June 9, 1916 – July 6, 2009 ) was an American business executive and the eighth Secretary of Defense, serving under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson from 1961 to 1968, during which time he played a large role in escalating the United States involvement in the Vietnam War.

Robert Mills Gagné ( August 21, 1916 – April 28, 2002 ) was an American educational psychologist best known for his " Conditions of Learning ".

* William Robert Smith ( 1863 – 1924 ), member of the U. S. House of Representatives from Texas ( 1903 – 1916 )

Later, in 1916, while in Barcelona and within a small circle of refugee artists that included Marie Laurencin and Robert and Sonia Delaunay, he started his well-known Dada periodical 391, modeled on Stieglitz's own periodical.

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

* Robert Blake, Baron Blake ( 1916 – 2003 ), historian

** Robert Blake, Baron Blake ( 1916 – 2003 ), English historian

After that battle Joffre was replaced by General Robert Nivelle on 13 December 1916.

* Robert Edward Peter Cecil Gascoyne-Cecil, 6th Marquess of Salisbury ( 1916 – 2003 )

While perhaps Bowdoin's better-known alumnus in the sciences is the controversial entomologist-turned-sexologist Alfred Kinsey, class of 1916, the College's reputation in this area was cemented in large part by the Arctic explorations of Admiral Robert E. Peary, class of 1877, and Donald B. MacMillan, class of 1898. View of the campus from Coles Tower ( constructed as the " Senior Center "), the second tallest building in Maine Peary led the first successful expedition to the North Pole in 1908, and MacMillan, a member of Peary's crew, became famous in his own right as he explored Greenland, Baffin Island and Labrador in the schooner Bowdoin between 1908 and 1954.