* 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

Slavoljub Eduard Penkala invented a solid-ink fountain pen in 1907, a German inventor named Baum took out a ballpoint patent in 1910, and yet another ballpoint pen device was patented by Van Vechten Riesburg in 1916.

By 1916 Rutherford had become one of the seven directors of the Watch Tower Society ; when Russell died on October 31, 1916 he joined vice-President Alfred I. Ritchie and Secretary-Treasurer William E. Van Amburgh on a three-man executive committee that ran the Pennsylvania corporation until a new president was elected at the annual general meeting the following January.

In 1916 he encountered and came under the spell of Van Dieren, whose influence soon exceeded that of Delius and led to a significant development in compositional technique, first evident in the Saudades song cycle of 1916 – 17.

The first buildings constructed at this new location were the Administration Building ( 1907, later renamed Steffens Hall ), Severance Hall ( 1911 ), the University Bookstore ( 1912 ), McCormick Gymnasium ( 1915 ), Peters Commons ( 1916 ), and Van Vliet Hall ( 1926 ).

In 1916, he participated in the Fifty at Montross show at the Montross Gallery, which also included works by Cézanne, Matisse, Seurat, and Van Gogh.

Alfred Smith called his friends, the Van Sweringens on February 1, 1916 and offered them the Nickel Plate.

In 1916, the school moved into its own nearby facilities in the new Julia Morrison Memorial Building, which was built with funds provided to the Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts by Dr. Angus Washburn Morrison ( 1883 – 1949 ) and his sister, Ethel Morrison Van Derlip ( 1876 – 1921 ), as a memorial to their mother, Julia Kellogg Washburn Morrison ( 1853-1883 ), the wife of Clinton Morrison.

In 1932, Van Beuren purchased 12 Charlie Chaplin silent films ( his 1916 -' 18 " Lone Star " comedies for Mutual Film Corporation ) for $ 10, 000 apiece, added music ( by Rodemich or Sharples ) and sound effects, and reissued them through RKO.

Van Johnson ( August 25, 1916 – December 12, 2008 ) was an American film and television actor and dancer who was a major star at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios during and after World War II.

*" Battle Cry of Freedom ", Walter Van Brunt ( Edison Blue Amberol 2904, 1916 )— Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project.

After that company folded in 1916, he worked for Prizma, another color film company, founded by William Van Doren Kelley.

* The Chaperon ( 1916 ) ( as Sydney Ainsworth ) .... Count Van Tuyle

* 1916 " Light And Shade And Their Applications ", D. Van Nostrand Co., New York

* Jimmy Van Heusen ( 1916 – 1990 ), American composer

His parents, Samuel Ealy Johnson, Jr., and Rebekah Baines, had three girls and two boys: Johnson and his brother, Sam Houston Johnson ( 1914 – 78 ), and sisters Rebekah ( 1910 – 78 ), Josefa ( 1912 – 61 ), and Lucia ( 1916 – 97 ).

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.

Johnson County has not supported a Democrat on the Presidential ticket since Woodrow Wilson in the 1916 election.

* Andrew R. Johnson ( 1856 – 1933 ) was a state senator from Claiborne and Bienville parishes from 1916 to 1924.

* Andrew R. Johnson ( 1856 – 1933 ), Louisiana state senator from 1916 – 1924 and mayor of Homer in the 1910s, was born in Dadeville.

In 1916, Johnson was elected to the first of two terms, without opposition, to the state senate.

Later a banker and the mayor of Homer in Claiborne Parish, Johnson also served in the Louisiana State Senate from 1916 – 1924, having represented Bienville and Claiborne parishes.

* Andrew R. Johnson ( 1856 – 1933 ), Louisiana state senator from 1916 – 1924 and mayor of Homer in the 1910s, was reared in Scott County near Forest.

Known as the Square deal town, from the Square Deal given to all employees of Endicott-Johnson, Johnson City was originally incorporated in 1892 as the Village of Lestershire, In 1916, the village was renamed Johnson City in honor of George F. Johnson, who led the company that was by then known as the Endicott Johnson Corporation.

In 1916 Johnson ran successfully for the U. S. Senate, assuming office on March 16, 1917.

Although he was forced to sell to a syndicate of Midwestern businessmen fronted by Johnson crony Bob Quinn, he held out for $ 1. 2 million -- nearly double what he paid for the team in 1916.

The Steam Roller was established in 1916 by members of the Providence Journal ; sports-editor Charles Coppen and part-time sports-writer Pearce Johnson.

* William Johnson ( actor ) ( 1916 – 1957 ), American actor

* William Johnson ( Australian politician ) ( 1871 – 1916 ), Australian politician

After graduation he practiced law in Clarksburg, West Virginia ; his firm, Steptoe & Johnson, PLLC eventually opened offices in Charleston, West Virginia, and Washington, D. C .. Elected to the West Virginia House of Delegates in 1916, he served as majority floor leader and chairman of the Judiciary Committee.

In 1973 Phillips died, and was succeeded by former missionary to Germany Jerald Johnson ( born 1916 ).

Bowers ( 1911 – 1913 ), Samuel Young Jameson ( 1913 – 1916 ), Charles Ernest Dicken ( 1916 – 1926 ), Arthur B. Hill ( 1926 – 1929 ), Charles D. Johnson ( 1929 – 1933 ), James R. Grant ( 1933 – 1949 ), Seaford Eubanks ( 1949 – 1951 ), Harold A. Haswell ( 1952 – 1953 ), Ralph Arloe Phelps Jr. ( 1953 – 1969 ), Daniel R. Grant ( 1970 – 1988 ), Ben M. Elrod ( 1988 – 1998 ), and Andrew Westmoreland ( 1998 – 2006 ).

On 18 June 1916, an article " Hero of the Hour in Russia, Described Intimately by One Who Knows Him Well " by Brusilov's brother-in-law, Charles Johnson, appeared in the New York Times.