* 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 – 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 – Tony Bettenhausen, American race car driver ( d. 1961 )

The former Belvedere House, Dublin is now part of the renowned teaching establishment Belvedere College, school to the writers James Joyce and Austin Clarke, the stained glass artist Harry Clarke, the patriot and poet Joseph Plunkett who was executed in 1916, the poet Donagh MacDonagh, Volunteer Kevin Barry, and latter-day press and bean baron, Tony O ' Reilly.

Melvin E. " Tony " Bettenhausen ( September 12, 1916 Tinley Park, Illinois – May 12, 1961 Indianapolis, Indiana ) was an American racing driver, who won the National Championship in 1951 and 1958.

* Tony Harris ( sportsman ) ( 1916 – 1993 ), South African batsman

Antony Habersack Jannus, more familiarly known as Tony Jannus ( July 22, 1889 – October 12, 1916 ), was an early American pilot whose aerial exploits were widely publicized in aviation's pre-World War I period.

Mars Ravelo ( born October 9, 1916 in Tanza, Cavite, Philippines-September 12, 1988 ) was a Filipino graphic novelist who created the characters Darna, Dyesebel, Captain Barbell, Lastikman, Bondying, Varga, Wanted: Perfect Mother, Hiwaga, Maruja, Mariposa, Roberta, Rita, Buhay Pilipino, Jack and Jill, Flash Bomba, Tiny Tony, and Dragonna among others.

* Eric W. Harris ( 1916 – 2007 ), businessman and Louisiana state Jaycees founder

* Derek Marshall Harris, 7th Baron Harris ( 1916 – 1996 )

* James L. Harris ( 1916 – 1944 ), American World War II soldier and Medal of Honor recipient

* Bill Harris ( musician ) ( 1916 – 1973 ), American jazz trombonist

Bill Harris ( October 28, 1916 – August 21, 1973 ) was a jazz trombonist.

As the original Harris painting was lost in the Parliament fire of 1916, this reproduction is one of only two versions depecting an historic event in Canadian history.

* Harris, JR and A Mingana ( 1916, 1920.

In March 1914 Harris announced a Light Car completely made by the company ; this was sold up to 1916 when war intervened.

* William Harris ( theatrical producer ) ( 1844 – 1916 ), American theatre producer and vaudevillian performer

" — William Laurel Harris, John White Alexander, His Influence on American Art and Industry, New York City, 1916.

Dr Arthur Seldon CBE ( 29 May 1916 – 11 October 2005 ) was joint founder president, with Ralph Harris, of the Institute of Economic Affairs, where he directed academic affairs for 30 years.

Lockwood was also among the all-star ensemble cast of the 1916 D. W. Griffith directed classic Intolerance which included Lillian Gish, Robert Harron, Mae Marsh, Douglas Fairbanks, Sam De Grasse, Wallace Reid, Mildred Harris and Carol Dempster.

* 1916 – Child labor: In South Carolina, the minimum working age for factory, mill, and mine workers is raised from twelve to fourteen years old.

Victoriano Huerta ( 1850 – 1916 ), general who defeated the Liberation Army of the South in 1911 and Pascual Orozco in 1912.

Several nationalist leaders banded together in 1916 under the leadership of Annie Besant to voice a demand for self-government, and to obtain the status of a Dominion within the British Empire as enjoyed by Australia, Canada, South Africa, New Zealand and Newfoundland at the time.

In April 1916, Ernest Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition became stranded on Elephant Island, some southwest of South Georgia.

In 1916, New South Wales Premier William Holman was expelled from the Australian Labor Party for supporting conscription.

Cosgrave played an active role in the Easter Rising of 1916 serving under Eamonn Ceannt at the South Dublin Union.

He played again in Madrid in 1912, at the Paris Conservatory in 1915, in Barcelona in 1916, and made a successful tour of South America in 1919.

Six o ' clock closing was adopted in New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania in 1916.

* Sir Samuel Way, 1st Baronet, of Montefiore, in South Australia ( 1899 ), extinct 1916

In 1916, the current alignment of Route 35 was legislated as a part of pre-1927 Route 4 between Point Pleasant and Brielle and from Eatontown to South Amboy.

The large South Mountain Oil Field southeast of town, just across the Santa Clara River, was discovered by the Oak Ridge Oil Company in 1916, and developed methodically through the 1920s, bringing further economic diversification and growth to the area.

He ran for a seat in the South Dakota State Senate in 1916 and beat out the incumbent, T. H.

The community was incorporated as the Borough of South Sharon in 1916 ; its population peaked at over 15, 000 in 1920 and its status was elevated to a third-class city in 1932.

A veteran of the 1916 Easter Rising, the War of Independence and the Civil War, Lemass was first elected as a Sinn Féin Teachta Dála ( TD ) for the Dublin South constituency in a by-election on 18 November 1924 and was returned at each election until the constituency was abolished in 1948, when he was re-elected for Dublin South – Central until his retirement in 1969.

They are a member of the International Federation of Association Football ( FIFA ) since 1923 and also a member of the South American Football Confederation ( CONMEBOL ) since 1916.

Suchet was born in London, the son of Joan Patricia ( née Jarché ; 1916 – 1992 ), an actress, and Jack Suchet, who emigrated to England from South Africa in 1932, and trained to be a doctor at St Mary's Hospital, London in 1933.

Several nationalist leaders banded together in 1916 under the leadership of Annie Besant to voice a demand for self-government, and to obtain the status of a Dominion within the British Empire as enjoyed by Australia, Canada, South Africa, New Zealand and Newfoundland at the time.

Iva Ikuko Toguri D ' Aquino ( July 4, 1916 – September 26, 2006 ) was an American citizen who participated in English-language propaganda broadcast transmitted by Radio Tokyo to Allied soldiers in the South Pacific during World War II.

During 1916, a conference recommended the formation of The Returned Sailors and Soldiers Imperial League of Australia ( RSSILA ) which included representation from Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania and Victoria.

In 1916, at age 31, he was named professor of dermatology at South Manchuria Medical University and earned his Ph. D. based on the culture of " Malassetia furfur ".

In 1916, he repeated his request, and this time the Navy's Bureau of Construction and Repair produced a series of design studies, which again had some influence on the design of the next class of battleships, in this case the South Dakotas, an enlargement of the previous Colorado class.

South African supporters of Theodor Herzl contacted Smuts in 1916.

The first Asian feature was Japan's The Life Story of Tasuke Shiobara ( 1912 ), the first Indian feature was Raja Harishchandra ( 1913 ), the first South American feature was Brazil's O Crime dos Banhados ( 1913 ), and the first African feature was South Africa's Die Voortrekkers ( 1916 ).