* 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

* 2009 – Vitaly Ginzburg, Russian physicist ( b. 1916 )

Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg, ForMemRS (; October 4, 1916 – November 8, 2009 ) was a Soviet theoretical physicist, astrophysicist, Nobel laureate, a member of the Soviet and Russian Academies of Sciences and one of the fathers of Soviet hydrogen bomb.

* Vitaly Ginzburg ( 1916 – 2009 ), Russian physicist and laureate of the Nobel Prize of Physics

He was born to a Jewish family in Moscow in 1916, the son of an engineer Lazar Efimovich Ginzburg and a doctor Augusta Felgenauer, and graduated from the Physics Faculty of Moscow State University in 1938.

* Natalia Ginzburg ( born Levi ) ( 1916 — 1991 ), Italian author

Natalia Ginzburg née Levi (; 14 July 1916, Palermo — 7 October 1991, Rome ) was an Italian author whose work explored family relationships, politics during and after the Fascist years and World War II, and philosophy.

Its first modern incidence in biological warfare were when Scandinavian " freedom fighters " supplied by the German General Staff used anthrax with unknown results against the Imperial Russian Army in Finland in 1916.

* 1859 – Sholom Aleichem, Russian Yiddish humorist ( d. 1916 )

* 1916 – Alexander Prokhorov, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 2002 )

* 1869 – Grigori Rasputin, Russian monk ( d. 1916 )

* 1848 – Vasily Surikov, Russian painter ( d. 1916 )

* 1916 – Erzurum Offensive during World War I, Russian victory over Ottoman Empire.

Starving and displaced, many Kazakhs joined in the general Central Asian Revolt against conscription into the Russian imperial army, which the tsar ordered in July 1916 as part of the effort against Germany in World War I.

In late 1916, Russian forces brutally suppressed the widespread-armed resistance to the taking of land and conscription of Central Asians.

The ruthless suppression of the 1916 rebellion in Central Asia, triggered by the Russian imposition of the military draft on the Kyrgyz and other Central Asian peoples, caused many Kyrgyz to flee to China.

On 3 November 2008 a work by Malevich entitled Suprematist Composition from 1916 set the world record for any Russian work of art and any work sold at auction for that year, selling at Sotheby ’ s in New York City for just over $ 60 million U. S. ( far surpassing his previous record of $ 17 million set in 2000 ).

In the course of developing the Russian application of Marxism, the pamphlet Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism ( 1916 ) presented Lenin ’ s analysis of an economic development predicted by Karl Marx: that capitalism would become a global financial system, wherein advanced industrial countries export financial capital to their colonial countries, to finance the exploitation of their natural resources and the labour of the native populations.

* 1859 – Sholom Aleichem, Russian novelist ( d. 1916 )

* 1862 – Boris Borisovich Galitzine, Russian physicist ( d. 1916 )

* 1940 – Alexander Obolensky, Russian prince and Rugby footballer ( b. 1916 )

In 1916 the Brusilov Offensive of the Russian Army almost completely destroyed the military of Austria-Hungary.

In 1916 violent opposition broke out in Uzbekistan and elsewhere, in response to the conscription of Central Asians into the Russian army fighting World War I.

* November 18 – Zinovi Gerdt, Russian actor ( b. 1916 )

* January 24 – Vasily Surikov Russian painter ( d. 1916 )

* January 10 – Grigori Rasputin, Russian mystic ( d. 1916 ) proven 1872

* May 16 – Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov, Russian microbiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ( d. 1916 )

** Alexander Prokhorov, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1916 )

Shalva Dadiani's play, originally entitled The Unfortunate Russian ( უბედური რუსი ; 1916 – 1926 ), was attacked by the Soviet critics for distorting the " centuries-long friendship of the Russian and Georgian peoples.