* 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 – Roger Casement, Irish rebel ( b. 1864 )

* 1916 – Easter Rising: Martial law in Ireland is lifted and the rebellion is officially over with the surrender of Irish nationalists to British authorities in Dublin.

* 1916 – Easter Rising: The Irish Republican Brotherhood led by nationalists Patrick Pearse, James Connolly, and Joseph Plunkett starts a rebellion in Ireland.

Irish Republicans, who sought full independence for Ireland rather than just Home Rule, staged the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin against British rule.

The Easter Rising of 1916, the Irish War of Independence, and the subsequent Irish Civil War resulted in a significant amount of physical destruction in central Dublin.

Organised by the Military Council of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, the Rising lasted from Easter Monday 24 to 30 April 1916.

The Proclamation of 1916 is inscribed on the wall in both Irish and English

The aftermath of the Rising, and in particular the British reaction to it, helped to sway a large section of Irish nationalist opinion away from hostility or ambivalence and towards support for the rebels of Easter 1916.

A few months after the Easter Rising, W. B. Yeats commemorated some of the fallen figures of the Irish Republican movement, as well as expressed his torn emotions regarding these events, in the poem Easter, 1916.

While the Rising and its leaders continued to be venerated by Irish republicans — including members and supporters of the Provisional IRA and the modern Sinn Féin — with murals in republican areas of Belfast and other towns celebrating the actions of Pearse and his comrades, and a number of parades held annually in remembrance of the Rising, the Irish government discontinued its annual parade in Dublin in the early 1970s, and in 1976 it took the unprecedented step of proscribing ( under the Offences against the State Act ) a 1916 commemoration ceremony at the GPO organised by Sinn Féin and the Republican commemoration Committee.

Rebels: The Irish Rising of 1916.

* McNally, Michael and Dennis, Peter, Easter Rising 1916: Birth of the Irish Republic ( 2007 ), Osprey Publishing, ISBN 978-1-84603-067-3

* Townshend, Charles, Easter 1916: The Irish Rebellion

LIBAU in the Irish Easter rising 1916 ), in: Schiff & Zeit, Nr.

* Edited by Ruán O ’ Donnell, The Impact of the 1916 Rising: Among the Nations, Irish Academic Press Dublin 2008, ISBN 978-0-7165-2965-1

On 10 December 1916, Alexander took second-in-command of 1st Battalion Irish Guards as acting major.

It was descended from the Irish Volunteers, an organisation established on 25 November 1913 that staged the Easter Rising in April 1916.

Having lost the civil war, this group remained in existence, with the intention of overthrowing both the Irish Free State and Northern Ireland and achieving the Irish Republic proclaimed in 1916.

The Proclamation of the Irish Republic | Proclamation of the Republic read by Pádraig Pearse outside the GPO in 1916.

From 1916 to 1918, the two dominant nationalist movements, Sinn Féin and the Irish Parliamentary Party, fought a tough series of battles in by-elections.

Infantry of the Royal Irish Rifles during the Battle of the Somme ( 1916 ) | Battle of the Somme in World War I.