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1916
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Year 1916 (MCMXVI ) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Friday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar ).
Events of 1916
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
July 1 - November 18 : More than 1 million soldiers die during The Battle of the Somme including 60,000 casualties for the British Commonwealth on the first day.
July 1 - July 12 : at least one shark mauled five swimmers along 80 miles of New Jersey coastline during the Jersey Shore shark attacks of 1916 , resulting in four deaths and survival of one youth who required limb amputation. This event was the inspiration for author Peter Benchley , over half a century later, to write Jaws .
July 2 - Battle of Erzincan
July 8 - July 16 - Massive flooding caused by two different hurricanes devastates Western North Carolina.
July 15 - In Seattle, Washington , William Boeing incorporates Pacific Aero Products (later renamed Boeing ).
July 22 - In San Francisco, California , a bomb explodes on Market Street during a Preparedness Day parade killing 10 injuring 40. (Warren Billings and Tom Mooney are later wrongly convicted of it)
July 29 - In Ontario, Canada , a lightning strike ignites a forest fire that destroys the towns of Cochrane and Matheson - 233 dead
July 30 - German agents cause the Black Tom explosion in Jersey City, New Jersey , an act of sabotage destroying an ammunition depot and killing at least seven people.
August
September
October
November
November 1 - Paul Miliukov delivers in the State Duma the famous "stupidity or treason" speech, precipitating the downfall of the Boris Stürmer government.
November 5 - Kingdom of Poland proclaimed by joint act of emperors of Germany and Austria
November 5 - Honan Chapel , Cork, Ireland, a product of the Irish Arts & Crafts Movement(1894-1925), is dedicated.
November 7
November 13 - Prime Minister of Australia Billy Hughes is expelled from the Labor Party over his support for conscription .
November 18 - World War I : First Battle of the Somme ends - In France , British Expeditionary Force commander Douglas Haig calls off the battle which started on July 1 , 1916 .
November 21 - HMHS Britannic (built in 1911 and launched in 1914), the third and largest Olympic-class ocean liner of the White Star Line , sister ship of RMS Olympic and the legendary RMS Titanic , sank after hitting a mine with the loss of 30 lives.
November 23 - World War I ,Eastern Front : Bucharest , the capital of Romania , is occupied by the troops of the Central Powers .
November 25 - Friedrich Adler shoots Karl von Stürgkh , Prime Minister of Austria
December
Undated
Rodeo's first side-delivery bucking chute designed and made by the Bascom boys, Raymond, Mel, Earl and their father John W. Bascom at Welling , Alberta Canada
Cours de linguistique générale by Ferdinand de Saussure is published.
Summer Olympic Games in Berlin , Germany , are cancelled.
Food is rationed in Germany .
Ernst Rüdin publishes his initial results on the genetics of schizophrenia .
The Netherlands is hit by a North Sea storm that floods lowlands and kills 10.000 people.
Robert Baden-Powell founds Wolf Cubs scouts in Britain, changed to Cub Scouts in the USA .
Louis Enricht claims he has a substitute for gasoline
Gustav Holst composes The Planets , Opus 32
Bray Studios creates the Farmer Al Falfa series, the first of the Terrytoons .
Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers is founded.
The Enrico Parodi sinks while in tow off the The Carracks in Cornwall , England .
Ongoing
Fictional
The following are references to year 1916 in fiction:
Births
January-February
January 3 - Betty Furness , American actress and consumer activist (d. 1994 )
January 3 - Bernard Greenhouse , American cellist
January 7 - Paul Keres , Estonian chess player (d. 1975 )
January 9 - Peter Twinn , English mathematician and World War II code-breaker (d. 2004 )
January 10 - Sune Bergström , Swedish biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2004 )
January 12 - Pieter Willem Botha , President of South Africa (d. 2006 )
January 17 - Peter Frelinghuysen, Jr. , American politician
January 18 - Silviu Brucan , Romanian author and politician (d. 2006 )
January 19 - Harry Huskey , American computer designer
January 22 - Henri Dutilleux , French composer
January 24
February 2 - Olaf Pooley , English actor
February 4 - Shah Maghsoud Sadegh Angha , 41st master of the Oveyssi Sufi order (d. 1980 )
February 9 - Tex Hughson , baseball player (d. 1993 )
February 11
February 14
February 15 - Ernest Millington , English politician
February 18 - Maria Altmann , Austrian Holocaust survivor and hieress
February 20 - Jean Erdman , American dancer
February 23 - Retta Scott , first female Disney animator to be credited on a feature film (d. 1990 )
February 26 - Jackie Gleason , American comedian (d. 1987 )
February 28
February 29 - Dinah Shore , American singer (d. 1994 )
March-April
March 3 - Paul Halmos , Hungarian-born mathematician (d. 2006 )
March 4
March 11 - Harold Wilson , Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1995 )
March 13
March 14 - Horton Foote , American writer
March 15 - Harry James , American musician and band leader (d. 1983 )
March 17
March 19 - Irving Wallace , American novelist (d. 1990 )
March 20 - Pierre Messmer , French politician (d. 2007 )
March 24 - Donald Hamilton , Swedish-born writer (d. 2006 )
March 26 - Christian B. Anfinsen , American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995 )
March 29 - Eugene McCarthy , U.S. Senator from Minnesota and Presidential candidate (d. 2005 )
March 31 - Lucille Bliss , American voice actor
April 3
April 5 - Gregory Peck , American actor (d. 2003 )
April 11 - Alberto Ginastera , Argentine composer (d. 1983 )
April 12
April 13 - Phyllis Fraser , American actor and publisher (d. 2006 )
April 15 - Alfred S. Bloomingdale , American department store heir (d. 1982 )
April 18 - José Joaquín Trejos Fernández , President of Costa Rica
April 22 - Yehudi Menuhin , American-born violinist (d. 1999 )
April 24 - Stanley Kauffmann , American film critic
April 25 - R.J. Rushdoony , American founder of Christian Reconstructionism (d. 2001 )
April 26
April 28 - Ferruccio Lamborghini , Italian automobile manufacturer (d. 1993 )
April 30
May-June
May 1 - Glenn Ford , American actor (d. 2006 )
May 6 - Robert H. Dicke , American experimental physicist (d. 1997 )
May 8 - Chinmayananda , Indian spiritual leader (d. 1993 )
May 8 - João Havelange , Brazilian industrialist and football league president
May 10 - Milton Babbitt , American composer
May 11 - Camilo José Cela , Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2002 )
May 14 - Sammy Luftspring , Canadian boxer (d. 2000 )
May 15 - Ephraim Katzir , President of Israel
May 17 - Lenka Reinerová , Czech writer
May 20 - Trebisonda Valla , Italian athlete (d. 2006 )
May 20 - Owen Chadwick , British author and historian
May 21
May 26 - Henriette Roosenburg , Dutch journalist (d. 1972 )
May 31
June 4 - Robert F. Furchgott , American chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
June 5 - Eddie Joost , baseball player and manager
June 8 - Francis Crick , English molecular biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2004 )
June 9 - Robert McNamara , U.S. Secretary of Defense
June 15 - Herbert Simon , American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2001 )
June 18 - Julio César Turbay Ayala , Colombian politician (d. 2005 )
June 23
June 24 - William B. Saxbe , American politician
July-August
July 1
July 2
July 3 - John Kundla , American basketball coach
July 4
July 8 - Jean Rouverol , American actress, screenwriter, and author
July 9 - Edward Heath , Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 2005 )
July 11
July 14 - Natalia Ginzburg , Italian author (d. 1991 )
July 18 - L. Patrick Gray III , American Federal Bureau of Investigation director (d. 2005 )
July 19 - Phil Cavarretta , baseball player
July 22
July 25 - Fred Lasswell , American cartoonist (d. 2001 )
July 27 - Elizabeth Hardwick , American literary critic and novelist (d. 2007 )
July 28 - David Brown , American producer
July 30 - Dick Wilson , American actor (d. 2007 )
July 31 - Bill Todman , American game show producer (d. 1979 )
August 1 - Fiorenzo Cardinal Angelini , Italian Cardinal
August 5 - Kermit Love , American puppeter
August 6 - Dom Mintoff , Prime Minister of Malta
August 14 - Ralph de Toledano , American conservationist and author (d. 2007 )
August 16 - Iggy Katona , American race car driver (d. 2003 )
August 20 - Paul Felix Schmidt , Estonian chess player (d. 1984 )
August 25
August 27 - Martha Raye , American actress (d. 1994 )
August 28 - Jack Vance , American writer
August 29 - Luther Davis , American screenwriter
August 30 - Shag Crawford , American umpire in Major League Baseball (d. 2007 )
August 31
September-October
September 1
September 13 - Roald Dahl , Welsh author (d. 1990 )
September 14 - John Heyer , Australian documentary filmmaker (d. 2001 )
September 16 - Frank Leslie Walcott , Barbadian labour leader (d. 1999 )
September 18 - John Jacob Rhodes , American politician and lawyer (d. 2003 )
September 21 - Zinovi Gerdt , Russian actor (d. 1996 )
September 27 - Frank Handlen , American artist
October 3
October 4 - Vitaly Ginzburg , Russian physicist, Nobel laureate
October 12 - Alice Childress , American actress, playwright, and novelist (d. 1994 )
October 14 - C. Everett Koop , United States Surgeon General
October 19
October 26 - François Mitterrand , President of France (d. 1996 )
October 30 - Leon Day , baseball player (d. 1995 )
November-December
November 1 - John C. Harkness , American architect
November 4 - Walter Cronkite , American television journalist
November 5 - Jim Tabor , baseball player (d. 1953 )
November 10 - Louis le Brocquy , Irish painter
November 11 - Robert Carr , British politician
November 12 - Rogelio de la Rosa , Filipino actor and politician (d. 1986 )
November 14 - Sherwood Schwartz , American television writer and producer
November 16 - Daws Butler , American voice actor (d. 1988 )
November 24 - Forrest J. Ackerman , American writer
November 26 - Gerhard Unger , German tenor
November 27 - Chick Hearn , American basketball announcer (d. 2002 )
November 28
November 29 - Fran Ryan , American actress (d. 2000 )
December 7 - George Russell Weller retired salesman known for the Santa Monica Farmer's Market incident
December 8 - Richard Fleischer , American film director (d. 2006 )
December 9 - Kirk Douglas , American actor
December 11 - Dámaso Pérez Prado , Cuban musician (d. 1989 )
December 14 - Shirley Jackson , American writer (d. 1965 )
December 15 - Maurice Wilkins , New Zealand-born physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2004 )
December 18
December 19
December 25 - Graciela Naranjo , Venezuelan singer and actress (d. 2001 )
December 27 - Johnny Frigo , American jazz violinist and bassist (d.2007 )
Deaths
January - June
January 4 - Bruce Sloss , Australian footballer (b. 1889 )
January 8 - Rembrandt Bugatti , Italian sculptor (b. 1884 )
January 13 - Victoriano Huerta , President of Mexico (b. 1854 )
February 6 - Rubén Darío , Nicaraguan writer (b. 1867 )
February 12 - Richard Dedekind , German mathematician (b. 1831 )
February 13 - Vilhelm Hammershøi , Danish painter (b. 1864 )
February 19 - Ernst Mach , Austrian physicist and philosopher (b. 1838 )
February 20 - Klas Pontus Arnoldson , Swedish writer and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1844 )
February 28 - Henry James , American writer (b. 1843 )
March 4 - Franz Marc , German artist (b. 1880 )
March 24 - Enrique Granados , Spanish composer (ship sinking) (b. 1867 )
April 19 - Ephraim Shay , American inventor (b. 1839 )
April 21 - Georges Boillot , French Grand Prix driver (killed in action) (b. 1884 )
May 3 - Padraig Pearse , Irish nationalist (b. 1879 )
May 11 - Max Reger , German composer (b. 1873 )
May 12 - James Connolly , Irish socialist (b. 1868 )
May 13 - Sholom Aleichem , Ukrainian Yiddish writer (b. 1859 )
May 21 - Artúr Görgey , Hungarian military general and politician (b. 1818 )
June 5 - Horatio Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener , British field marshal and statesman (b. 1850 )
June 6 - Yuan Shikai , Chinese military official and politician (b. 1859 )
June 29 - Georges Lacombe , French artist (b. 1868 )
July - December
July 6 - Odilon Redon , French painter (b. 1840 )
July 16 - Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov , Russian microbiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1845 )
July 23 - Sir William Ramsay , Scottish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852 )
July 29 - Claude Charles Castleton , Australian VC recipient (killed in battle) (b. 1893 )
August 3 - Sir Roger Casement , Irish nationalist (executed) (b. 1864 )
August 31 - Martha McClellan Brown , American activist (b. 1838 )
September 4 - José Echegaray y Eizaguirre , Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1832 )
October 7 - James Whitcomb Riley , American poet (b. 1849 )
October 28 - Cleveland Abbe , American meteorologist (b. 1838 )
October 31 - Charles Taze Russell , American preacher (b. 1852 )
November 9 - Ion Dragalina , Romanian general (killed in action) (b. 1860 )
November 14
November 15 - Henryk Sienkiewicz , Polish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1846 )
November 21 - Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria (b. 1830 )
November 22 - Jack London , American author (b. 1876 )
November 23 - Lanoe Hawker , British World War I pilot, VC recipient, KIA by The Red Baron , (b.1890 )
November 24 - Hiram Stevens Maxim , American firearms inventor (b. 1840 )
December 28 - Eduard Strauss , Austrian composer (b. 1835 )
December 29 - Grigori Rasputin , Russian mystic (b. 1869 )
Nobel Prizes
Notes
External links
Early Advertising Publications: "Fishing for Suckers" From the American Memory Collection of the Library of Congress
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