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1916 (MCMXVI) was
a leap year starting
on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and
a leap year
starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1916th year of
the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the
916th year of the 2nd millennium,
the 16th year of the 20th century,
and the 7th year of the 1910s decade. As of
the start of 1916, the Gregorian calendar was 13 days ahead of the Julian
calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923. Contents · 1Events · 2Sport · 4Births · 5Deaths Events[edit] Below, the events of the First World War have the
"WWI" prefix. January[edit] Main article: January 1916 ·
January 1 The British Royal Army
Medical Corps carries out the first successful blood transfusion,
using blood that had been stored and cooled. ·
January 9 WWI: Gallipoli Campaign:
The last British troops
are evacuated from Gallipoli, as
the Ottoman Empireprevails
over a joint British and French operation to capture Istanbul. ·
January 10 WWI Erzurum Offensive:
Russia defeats the Ottoman Empire. ·
January 13 WWI Battle of Wadi: Ottoman Empire forces defeat the Allied
British, during the Mesopotamian
campaign in modern-day Iraq. ·
In Browning, Montana,
the temperature drops from +6.7 °C to -48.8 °C (44 °F to
-56 °F) in one day, the greatest change ever on record for a 24-hour
period. ·
Brushaber
v. Union Pacific Railroad Co.: The Supreme
Court of the United States upholds the national income tax. ·
January 29 WWI: Paris is bombed
by German zeppelins for the first time. ·
January 30 The McMahonHussein
Correspondence, between Hussein
bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca and the British official Henry McMahon concerning the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire, ends. ·
January 31 WWI: An attack is planned
on Verdun, France. February[edit] Main article: February 1916 ·
February 3 Parliament buildings
in Ottawa, Canada burned
down. ·
February 9 6.00 p.m. Tristan Tzara "founds" the
art movement Dadaism (according
to Hans Arp). ·
Emma Goldman is arrested, for lecturing
on birth control in
the United States. ·
The Baltimore
Symphony Orchestra presents its first concert in the United
States. ·
The Romanian football club Sportul
Studențesc is founded in Bucharest. ·
February 12 WWI Battle of Salaita
Hill (East
African Campaign): South African and other British Empire troops
fail to take a German East African defensive
position. ·
February 21 WWI: The Battle of Verdun begins in France. March[edit] Main article: March 1916 ·
March 7 In Munich, German automobile company BMW (Die
Bayerischen Motoren Werke) is founded. ·
March 89 Mexican Revolution: Pancho Villa leads about 500 Mexican
raiders in an attack against
Columbus, New Mexico, killing 12 U.S. soldiers. A garrison of the
U.S. 13th Cavalry
Regiment fights back and drives them away. ·
March 15 United States
President Woodrow Wilson sends
12,000 United States troops over the U.S.Mexico borderto
pursue Pancho Villa; the
13th Cavalry regiment enters Mexican territory. ·
March 16 Mexican Revolution:
The U.S. 7th and 10th
Cavalry regiments under John J. Pershing cross the border, to
join the hunt for Villa. ·
March 22 ·
The
temporary Emperor of China, Yuan Shikai, abdicates the throne, and
the Republic of
China is restored once again. ·
J. R. R. Tolkien marries Edith Bratt in England (they will serve
as the inspiration for the fictional characters Lϊthienand Beren). ·
March 24 French ferry SS Sussex is torpedoed by SM UB-29 in the English Channel, with at least 50 killed
(including the composer Enrique Granados), resulting on May 4 in the Sussex Pledge by
Germany to the United States, suspending its intensified
submarine warfare policy.[1] April[edit] Proclamation
of the Irish Republic distributed during the Easter Rising Main article: April 1916 ·
April The toggle light switch is invented, by William J.
Newton and Morris Goldberg. ·
April 11 WWI: The Egyptian
Expeditionary Force begins the occupation
of the Sinai Peninsula. ·
April 20 The Chicago Cubs play their first game at
Weeghman Park (modern-day Wrigley Field), defeating the Cincinnati Reds 76 in 11 innings. ·
April 22 The Chinese troop
transport SS Hsin-Yu capsizes
off the Chinese coast; at least 1,000 are killed. ·
April 2430 The Easter Rising occurs in Ireland.
Members of the Irish
Republican Brotherhood proclaim
an Irish Republic, and the Irish Volunteers and Irish Citizen Army occupy
the General Post
Office and other buildings in Dublin, before surrendering to the British
Army. ·
April 24May 10 Voyage of
the James Caird: An open boat journey from Elephant Island in the South Shetland
Islands to South Georgia in
the southern Atlantic Ocean (800 nautical miles (1,500 km; 920 mi))
is undertaken by Sir Ernest Shackletonand
five companions, to obtain rescue for the main body of the Imperial
Trans-Antarctic Expedition, following the loss of its ship Endurance. ·
April 27 WWI: Gas attack at
Hulluch in France: The 47th Brigade, 16th (Irish)
Division is decimated, in one of the most heavily
concentrated German gas attacks of the war. ·
April 29 WWI Mesopotamian
campaign: The Siege of Kut ends with the surrender of
British forces to the Ottoman Empire, at Kut-al-Amara on the Tigris in Basra Vilayet. May[edit] Main article: May 1916 May 31June 1:Battle of Jutland between
Allies and Germany ·
May 16 ·
United States Marines invade the Dominican Republic. ·
Britain and France conclude
the secret SykesPicot
Agreement, which is to divide Arab areas of the Ottoman Empire, following the conclusion of
WWI and the partitioning
of the Ottoman Empire, into French and British spheres of influence. ·
May 31June 1 WWI: Battle of Jutland,
between the British Royal Navy's Grand Fleet and the Imperial German Navy's High Seas Fleet[2] in
the North Sea, the war's only large-scale clash
of battleships. The result is tactically inconclusive, but British dominance
of the North Sea is maintained. June[edit] Main article: June 1916 ·
June 4 WWI: The Brusilov Offensive,
the height of Russian operations in the war, begins with their breaking
through Austro-Hungarian lines. ·
June 5 WWI: HMS Hampshire sinks,
having hit a mine off
the Orkney Islands,
Scotland, with Lord Kitchener aboard. ·
June 10: The Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire, to create a single unified
Arab state spanning from Aleppo to Aden,
is formally declared by Hussein
bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca. ·
June 15 U.S. President Woodrow Wilson signs a bill
incorporating the Boy Scouts of
America.[3] July[edit] Main article: July 1916 July 1November 18:Battle of the Somme between
British and German. ·
July 1November 18 WWI: Battle of the Somme,
opening with explosion of the British Y Sap mine and the Battle of Albert:
More than one million soldiers die, with 57,470 British Empire casualties on the first day,
19,240 of them killed, the British Army's bloodiest day.[4] The
immediate result is tactically inconclusive. ·
July 112 Jersey
Shore shark attacks of 1916: At least one shark attacks 5 swimmers
along 80 miles (130 km) of New Jersey coastline, resulting in 4
deaths and the survival of one youth, who requires limb amputation. This
event is the inspiration for author Peter Benchley, over half a century later,
to write Jaws. ·
July 2 WWI: Battle of Erzincan Russian forces defeat troops of
the Ottoman Empire in Armenia. ·
July 15 In Seattle, William Boeing incorporates Pacific
Aero Products (later renamed Boeing). ·
July 1519 WWI: Battle of
Delville Wood 766 men from the South African Brigade are
killed, in South Africa's biggest loss during the First World War. ·
July 1920 WWI: Battle of Fromelles
An attack by Australian and British troops is repulsed by the German army,
with heavy casualties. ·
July 22 Preparedness Day
Bombing: In San Francisco, a bomb explodes on Market Street during
a Preparedness Day parade, killing 10 and injuring 40; Warren Billings and Tom Mooney are later wrongly convicted
of it. ·
July 26 WWI: East
African Campaign The German armed ship SMS Graf von Goetzen scuttles herself on Lake Tanganyika. ·
July 29 Matheson Fire: In Ontario, Canada, a lightning strike ignites
a forest fire that destroys the towns of Cochrane and Matheson,
killing 233. ·
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 7 people. August[edit] Main article: August 1916 ·
August Robert Baden-Powell publishes The Wolf Cub's
Handbook in the U.K., establishing the basis of the
junior section of the Scouting movement,
the Wolf Cubs (modern-day Cub Scouts). ·
August 35 WWI: Sinai and
Palestine Campaign Battle of Romani: British Imperial troops
secure victory over a joint Ottoman-German force. ·
August 7 WWI: ·
Portugal joins
the Allies. ·
French
and British forces make an unopposed entry into German-controlled Togoland; on December 27 the country is partitioned
between the two allies. ·
August 9 Lassen Volcanic
National Park is established in California. ·
August 15 Club Atlas is founded as an association
football club in Guadalajara, Mexico,
by English-educated players. ·
August 16 The Migratory Bird
Treaty between Canada and the United States is signed. ·
August 17 (August 4 O.S.)
WWI: The Treaty of
Bucharest is signed secretly between Romania and the Entente Powers, stipulating the conditions
under which Romania agrees to join the war on their side, particularly
territorial promises in Austria-Hungary. ·
August 21 WWI: Peru declares
neutrality. ·
August 25 U.S. President Woodrow
Wilson signs legislation, creating the National Park
Service. ·
August 27 WWI: The Kingdom of Romania declares
war on the Central Powers,
entering the war on the side of the Allies. ·
August 28 WWI: ·
Germany
declares war on Romania. ·
Italy
declares war on Germany. ·
August 29 The United States passes
the Philippine
Autonomy Act. ·
August 30 The crew of the Imperial
Trans-Antarctic Expedition's Endurance is
rescued from Elephant Island. September[edit] Main article: September 1916 ·
September 1 Bulgaria declares
war on Romania,
going on to take Dobruja. ·
September 2 WWI: British pilot Leefe Robinson becomes the first to
shoot down a German airship over
Britain. ·
September 4 WWI: East
African Campaign Dar es Salaam surrenders to British
Empire forces, securing them control of the Central Line of
railway through German East Africa. ·
September 5 D. W. Griffith's film Intolerance: Love's
Struggle Through the Ages is released in the United
States. ·
September 6 The first true self-service grocery store, Piggly Wiggly, is founded in Memphis, Tennessee,
by Clarence
Saunders, opening 5 days later.[5] ·
September 11 A mechanical failure
causes the central span of the Quebec Bridge, a cantilever-type structure, to crash into
the Saint Lawrence River for
the second time, killing 13 workers. ·
September 13 Mary, a circus elephant, is hanged in the
town of Erwin, Tennessee for
killing her handler, Walter "Red" Eldridge. ·
September 1522 WWI Battle of
FlersCourcelette, France: The battle is significant for the first
use of the tank in warfare; also for the debut of
the Canadianand New Zealand Divisions
in the Battle of the Somme. ·
September 19 WWI: East
African Campaign Belgian troops occupy Tabora in German East Africa. ·
September 27 Iyasu V of Ethiopia is deposed in a
palace coup, in favour of his aunt Zewditu. October[edit] Troops from New Zealand during WWI. Main article: October 1916 ·
October 7 the Georgia Tech and Cumberland College football
game ends in a score of 222-0. ·
October 12 Hipσlito Yrigoyen is
elected President of
Argentina. ·
October 14 Perm State
University is founded in Russia. ·
October 16 Margaret Sanger opens the first U.S. birth
control clinic, a forerunner of Planned Parenthood. ·
October 20 Black Friday (1916):
A violent and deadly storm hits Lake Erie in the United States. ·
October 21 Friedrich
Adler shoots Count Karl von Stόrgkh, Minister-President
of Austria. ·
October 27 Battle of Segale: Negus Mikael of Wollo, marching on
the Ethiopian capital in support of his son
Emperor Iyasu V, is defeated by Fitawrari Habte
Giyorgis, securing the throne for Empress Zewditu. November[edit] Main article: November 1916 ·
Pavel Milyukov delivers his
"stupidity or treason" speech in the Russian State Duma, precipitating the downfall of
the Boris Stόrmer government. ·
The
first 40-hour work week officially
begins, in the Endicott-Johnson factories of Western New York. ·
The Kingdom of
Poland (191618) is proclaimed by a joint act of the emperors
of Germany and Austria. ·
Everett massacre: An armed confrontation
in Everett, Washington,
between local authorities and members of the Industrial
Workers of the World results in seven deaths. ·
Honan Chapel, Cork, Ireland, a product of the Irish Arts and Crafts
movement (18941925), is dedicated. ·
U.S.
presidential election, 1916: Democratic President Woodrow Wilson narrowly defeats
Republican Charles E. Hughes. ·
Republican Jeannette Rankin of Montana becomes the first woman elected
to the United
States House of Representatives. ·
Radio
station 2XG, located in the
Highbridge section of New York City, makes the first audio broadcast of
presidential election returns. ·
November 13 Prime Minister
of Australia Billy Hughes is expelled from the Labor Party,
over his support for conscription. ·
November 18 WWI Battle of the Somme:
In France,
British Expeditionary Force commander Douglas Haig calls off the battle,
which started on July 1. ·
Emperor Franz Joseph I
of Austria dies of pneumonia at the Schφnbrunn Palace, Vienna, aged 86, after a reign of 68 years
and is succeeded by his grandnephew Charles I. ·
WWI: Hospital ship HMHS Britannic, designed as the
third Olympic-class ocean liner for White Star Line, sinks in the Kea Channel of the Aegean Sea after hitting a mine; 30
lives are lost. At 48,158 gross register tons, she is the largest ship lost
during the war. ·
November 23 WWI: Eastern Front Bucharest, the capital of Romania, is
occupied by troops of the Central Powers. December[edit] Main article: December 1916 ·
December 12 "White Friday":
In the Dolomites, 100 avalanches bury 18,000 Austrian and
Italian soldiers. ·
December 16 Robert Baden-Powell gives
the first public display of the new Wolf Cub section of Scouting at Caxton Hall, Westminster. ·
December 18 WWI: The Battle of Verdun ends in France with
German troops defeated. ·
December 21 WWI: El Arish occupied by
the British Empire Desert Column during
advance across the Sinai Peninsula. ·
December 22 The British Sopwith Camel aircraft makes its maiden
flight. It is designed to counter the German Fokker aircraft. ·
December 23 WWI: The Desert Column
captures the Ottoman garrison
during the Battle of Magdhaba. ·
Humberto
Gσmez and his mercenaries seize Arauca in Colombia and declare the Republic
of Arauca. He proceeds to pillage the region before fleeing to Venezuela. ·
(December 17 Old Style)
The mystic Grigori Rasputin is
murdered in Saint Petersburg. ·
December 31 The Hampton Terrace Hotel
in North
Augusta, South Carolina, one of the largest and most luxurious
hotels in the United States at the time, burns to the ground. Date unknown[edit] ·
Food
is rationed in Germany. ·
Ferdinand de
Saussure's Cours de
linguistique gιnιrale is collected posthumously and
published. ·
Oxycodone, a narcotic painkiller closely
related to codeine is first synthesized in Germany. ·
Ernst Rόdin publishes his initial
results on the genetics of schizophrenia. ·
Louis Enricht claims he has a
substitute for gasoline. ·
Rodeo's
first side-delivery bucking chute is designed and made by the Bascom boys (Raymond, Mel, Earl) and
their father John W. Bascom at Welling, AlbertaCanada. ·
Gustav Holst composes The Planets, Opus 32. ·
Bray Studios begins the Farmer Al Falfa series, the first
of the Terrytoons. ·
The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers is
founded in the United States as the Society of Motion Picture Engineers. Sport[edit] ·
March
30 - National
Hockey Association's Montreal Canadiens win
their First Stanley Cup by
defeating the Pacific
Coast Hockey Association's Portland
Rosebuds 3 games to 2. All Games were played at Montreal's Montreal Arena ·
Due
to the outbreak of World War I the 1916 Summer Olympics in
Berlin, Germany, are
cancelled. In fiction[edit] ·
In
the 1941 film Citizen Kane, Charles Foster Kane runs
for New York governor and
loses. Also in 1916, Emily Monroe Norton divorces him and, in either this
year or in 1917, he marries Susan Alexander. Births[edit] January[edit] ·
Giuseppe Aquari, Italian film
cinematographer (d. 1982) ·
Italo Viglianesi, Italian trade unionist
politician and syndicalist (d. 1995) ·
January 2 Joseph W. Schmitt,
American aircraft mechanic and spacesuit technician (d. 2017) ·
Maxene Andrews, American singer (The Andrews Sisters)
(d. 1995) ·
Betty Furness, American actress and consumer
activist (d. 1994) ·
Bernard Greenhouse,
American cellist (d. 2011) ·
Erik Εgren,
Swedish boxer (d. 1985) ·
Warren King,
American cartoonist (d. 1978) ·
Princess Niloufer (d. 1989) ·
Sidney Siegel, American psychologist
(d. 1961) ·
Alfred Ryder, American film, radio and
television actor (d. 1995) ·
Wilhelm Szewczyk, Polish writer, poet,
literary critic and translator (d. 1991) ·
Elena Ceaușescu,
Romanian politician, First Lady of
Romania and Deputy Prime Minister of Romania (d. 1989) ·
Paul Keres, Estonian chess player (d. 1975) ·
January 9 Peter Twinn, English mathematician and WWII
code-breaker (d. 2004) ·
Richard Mόnch,
German actor (d. 1987) ·
Sune Bergstrφm,
Swedish biochemist, recipient of the Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2004) ·
Ruth R. Benerito, American chemist (d. 2013) ·
P. W. Botha, 9th President of
South Africa (d. 2006) ·
Mary
Wilson, Lady Wilson of Rievaulx, English poet (d. 2018) ·
January 15 Hugh Gibb, English drummer (d. 1992) ·
Peter Frelinghuysen
Jr., American politician (d. 2011) ·
Tatyana Karpova, Russian actress (d. 2018) ·
January 18 Silviu Brucan, Romanian author and
politician (d. 2006) ·
January 19 Harry Huskey, American computer designer
(d. 2017) ·
January 22 Henri Dutilleux, French composer (d. 2013) ·
January 23 David Douglas Duncan,
American photojournalist (d. 2018) ·
Rafael Caldera, President of
Venezuela (d. 2009) ·
Daphne Lorraine Gum,
Australian educator (d. 2017) ·
Marvin Creamer, American sailor ·
Arnoldo Foΰ, Italian actor (d. 2014) ·
January 27 Stjepan
Filipović, a People's Hero of Yugoslavia (d.1942) ·
January 28 Dottie Hunter, Canadian baseball player
(d. 2005) ·
January 31 Sangoulι Lamizana,
2nd President and Prime Minister of Burkina Faso (d. 2005) February[edit] ·
February 9 Tex Hughson, American baseball player
(d. 1993) ·
February 10 Louis Guttman, American-born Israeli
university professor (d. 1987) ·
February 11 Ivan Hristov Bashev,
Bulgarian Foreign Minister (d. 1971) ·
Joseph Alioto, Mayor of San Francisco
(d. 1998) ·
George Braziller, American literary
publisher (d. 2017) ·
February 13 John Reed,
British actor and opera singer (d. 2010) ·
Marcel Bigeard, French military officer
(d. 2010) ·
Sally Gray, English actress (d. 2006) ·
Denham Harman, American gerontologist
(d. 2014) ·
Edward Platt, American actor (d. 1974) ·
Charles Wycliffe
Joiner, American judge (d. 2017) ·
Masaki Kobayashi, Japanese film director
(d. 1996) ·
Ernest Millington,
English politician (d. 2009) ·
Mary Jane Croft, American actress (d. 1999) ·
Dingiri Banda
Wijetunga, 4th President and 9th Prime Minister of Sri Lanka
(d. 2008) ·
February 16 Karel Dufek, Czechoslovak diplomat (d. 2009) ·
February 18 Maria Altmann, Austrian Holocaust survivor
and heiress (d. 2011) ·
February 20 Jean Erdman, American dancer ·
February 23 Retta Scott, first woman to receive screen
credit as an animator at the Walt Disney
Animation Studios (d. 1990) ·
Jackie Gleason, American comedian, actor and
musician (d. 1987) ·
Preacher Roe, American baseball player
(d. 2008) ·
Svend Asmussen, Danish jazz violinist
(d. 2017) ·
Cesar Climaco, Filipino politician (d. 1984) ·
Frank Crean, Australian politician (d. 2008) ·
February 29 Dinah Shore, American singer (d. 1994) March[edit] ·
March 1 Emelyn Whiton, American Olympic sailor
(d. 1962) ·
March 2 George E. Bria, Italian-American journalist
(d. 2017) ·
March 3 Paul Halmos, Hungarian-born mathematician
(d. 2006) ·
March 4 ·
William Alland, American actor, producer,
writer and director (d. 1997) ·
Giorgio Bassani, Italian writer (d. 2000) ·
Hans Eysenck, German-born psychologist
(d. 1997) ·
March 5 Jack Hamm, American cartoonist (d. 1996) ·
March 6 Rochelle Hudson, American actress (d. 1972) ·
March 10 Ethel Bush, British police officer (d. 2016) ·
March 11 Harold Wilson, Prime
Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1995) ·
March 13 ·
Lindy Boggs, American politician (d. 2013) ·
Jacque Fresco, American futurist and
designer (d. 2017) ·
John Aspinwall
Roosevelt, American businessman and philanthropist (d. 1981) ·
Robert O. Peterson,
American businessman and philanthropist (d. 1994) ·
March 14 Horton Foote, American writer (d. 2009) ·
March 15 ·
Frank Coghlan Jr.,
American actor (d. 2009) ·
Harry James, American musician and band
leader (d. 1983) ·
March 16 ·
Mercedes McCambridge,
American actress (d. 2004) ·
Tsutomu Yamaguchi,
Japanese survivor of Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings (d. 2010) ·
March 17 ·
Volodia Teitelboim,
Chilean author and politician (d. 2008) ·
Lyle Smith, American football coach
(d. 2017) ·
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) ·
Dai Zijin, Chinese aviator (d. 2017) ·
Harry Rabinowitz, British film composer and
conductor (d. 2016) ·
March 29 ·
Sam Beazley, British actor (d. 2017) ·
Peter Geach, British philosopher (d. 2013) ·
Abu Sadat
Mohammad Sayem, 6th President of Bangladesh (d. 1997) ·
Eugene McCarthy, U.S. Senator from Minnesota
and Presidential candidate (d. 2005) ·
March 31 Lucille Bliss, American voice actor
(d. 2012) April[edit] ·
April 1 Balilla Lombardi, Italian professional
football player (d. 1987) ·
April 2 Menachem Porush, member of Israeli Knesset for Agudat Yisrael (d. 2010) ·
April 3 ·
Herb Caen, American journalist (d. 1997) ·
Louiguy, Spanish-French musician of Italian
extraction (d. 1991) ·
Peter Gowland, American photographer
(d. 2010) ·
April 4 ·
David White,
American actor (d. 1990) ·
Nikola
Ljubičić, 10th President of Serbia (d. 2005) ·
April 5 ·
Carmen Silva, Brazilian actress (d. 2008) ·
Albert Henry
Ottenweller, American bishop (d. 2012) ·
Gregory Peck, American actor (d. 2003) ·
April 10 Lee Jung-seob, Korean oil painter (d. 1956) ·
April 11 ·
Alberto Ginastera,
Argentine composer (d. 1983) ·
Armando Leσn
Bejarano, Mexican politician (d. 2016) ·
April 12 ·
Beverly Cleary, American author ·
Benjamin Libet, American pioneering
scientist in the field of human consciousness (d. 2007) ·
Movita Castaneda, American actress (d. 2015) ·
April 13 Phyllis Fraser, American actor and publisher
(d. 2006) ·
April 14 Pehr Victor Edman,
Swedish chemist (d.1977) ·
April 15 ·
Alfred S.
Bloomingdale, American department store heir (d. 1982) ·
Helene Hanff, American writer and critic
(d. 1997) ·
April 16 Hon Sui Sen, Malaysian-Singaporean
politician (d. 1983) ·
April 17 ·
Sirimavo
Bandaranaike, Sri Lankan politician (d. 2000) ·
A. Thiagarajah, Sri Lankan Tamil teacher and
politician (d. 1981) ·
Win Maung, 3rd President of Myanmar
(d. 1989) ·
April 18 ·
Carl Burgos, American comic book artist
(d. 1984) ·
Josι
Joaquνn Trejos Fernαndez, President of
Costa Rica (d. 2010) ·
April 19 ·
Bruno Chizzo, Italian association footballer
(d. 1969) ·
Delio Rodrνguez,
Spanish road racing cyclist and sprinter (d. 1994) ·
April 21 ·
Walter Berg,
German footballer (d. 1949) ·
April 22 Yehudi Menuhin, American-born violinist
(d. 1999) ·
April 24 ·
Stanley Kauffmann,
American film critic (d. 2013) ·
Lou Thesz, American professional wrestler
(d. 2002) ·
April 25 R. J. Rushdoony, American founder of
Christian Reconstructionism (d. 2001) ·
April 26 ·
Dorothy Salisbury
Davis, American writer (d. 2014) ·
Vic Perrin, American voice actor (d. 1989) ·
Paulette Coquatrix,
French costume designer (d. 2018) ·
Ken Wallis, British aviator, engineer, and
inventor (d. 2013) ·
Werner Bischof, Swiss photographer and
photojournalist (d. 1954) ·
George Tuska, American comic strip artist
(d. 2009) ·
April 28 Ferruccio
Lamborghini, Italian automobile manufacturer (d. 1993) ·
April 29 Ramσn Amaya Amador,
Honduran author (d.1966) ·
April 30 ·
Claude Elwood
Shannon, American information theorist (d. 2001) ·
Robert Shaw,
American conductor (d. 1999) May[edit] ·
May 1 Glenn Ford, Canadian actor (d. 2006) ·
May 4 Jane Jacobs, nιe Butzner, American-born
urban activist (d. 2006) ·
May 5 Zail Singh, Indian politician and 7th President of India (d. 1994) ·
May 6 ·
Adriana Caselotti,
American actress (d. 1997) ·
Robert H. Dicke, American experimental
physicist (d. 1997) ·
Sif Ruud, Swedish actress (d. 2011) ·
May 8 ·
Chinmayananda, Indian spiritual leader
(d. 1993) ·
Jens Risom, Danish American furniture
designer (d. 2016) ·
Joγo Havelange,
Brazilian industrialist and football league president (d. 2016) ·
May 10 Milton Babbitt, American composer (d. 2011) ·
May 11 Camilo Josι Cela,
Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 2002) ·
May 14 Sammy Luftspring, Canadian boxer (d. 2000) ·
May 15 ·
Vera Gebuhr, Danish actress (d. 2014) ·
Abbott Pattison, American sculptor and
abstract artist (d. 1999) ·
May 16 ·
Ephraim Katzir, 4th President of Israel (d. 2009) ·
Carlos Aldunate Lyon,
Colombian lawyer, educator and activist (d. 2018) ·
Adriana Caselotti,
American Actress, Voice Actress and Singer (d. 1997) ·
May 17 ·
Jenő Fock, 49th Prime Minister of
Hungary (d. 2001) ·
Lenka Reinerovα,
Czech writer (d. 2008) ·
May 18 Miriam Goldberg, American newspaper
publisher (d. 2017) ·
May 20 ·
Owen Chadwick, British author and historian
(d. 2015) ·
Trebisonda Valla, Italian athlete (d. 2006) ·
May 21 ·
Leonard Manasseh, British architect
(d. 2017) ·
Lydia Mendoza, American musician (d. 2007) ·
Tan Siew Sin, Malaysian minister of Commerce
and Industry (d. 1988) ·
Tinus Osendarp, Dutch runner (d. 2002) ·
Dennis Day, American singer and actor
(d. 1988) ·
Harold Robbins, American novelist (d. 1997) ·
Louis Crump, American politician ·
May 26 ·
Halil
İnalcık, Turkish historian (d. 2016) ·
Henriette Roosenburg,
Dutch journalist (d. 1972) ·
May 31 ·
Bert Haanstra, Dutch filmmaker (d. 1997) ·
Bernard Lewis, British-American historian
(d. 2018) June[edit] ·
June 3 Jack Manning,
American film, stage and television actor (d. 2009) ·
June 4 Robert F. Furchgott,
American chemist, recipient of the Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2009) ·
June 5 Eddie Joost, baseball player and manager
(d. 2011) ·
June 6 Hamani Diori, former President of Niger (d. 1989) ·
June 8 Francis Crick, English molecular biologist,
recipient of the Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2004) ·
June 9 ·
Jurij Brězan, Sorbian writer (d. 2006) ·
Robert McNamara, U.S. Secretary of Defense
(d. 2009) ·
June 11 Bob Berry,
New Zealand dendrologist (d. 2018) ·
June 12 Raϊl Hιctor Castro,
American politician (d. 2015) ·
June 13 Ronald Atkins, Welsh politician ·
June 14 Dorothy McGuire, American actress (d. 2001) ·
June 15 ·
Olga Erteszek, American undergarment
designer and lingerie company owner (d. 1989) ·
Horacio Salgαn,
Argentine tango musician (d. 2016) ·
Herbert A. Simon, American economist, Nobel
Prize laureate (d. 2001) ·
June 16 Phil Chambers, American actor (d. 1993) ·
June 17 Einar Englund, Finnish composer (d. 1999) ·
June 18 ·
Julio Cιsar
Turbay Ayala, Colombian politician (d. 2005) ·
Roman Toi, Estonian composer, choir
conductor, and organist (d. 2018) ·
June 21 ·
Tchan Fou-li, Chinese photographer (d. 2018) ·
Herbert Friedman, American physicist
(d. 2000) ·
June 22 ·
Anne Olivier Bell,
English literary editor and art scholar (d. 2018) ·
Richard Eastham, American actor (d. 2005) ·
Emil Fackenheim, noted Jewish philosopher
and Reform rabbi (d. 2003) ·
June 23 ·
Al G. Wright, American bandleader and
conductor ·
Irene Worth, American actress (d. 2002) ·
Len Hutton, English cricketer (d. 1990) ·
June 24 ·
Pierre Maillard [fr], French diplomat ·
Saloua Raouda
Choucair, Lebanese painter and sculptor (d. 2017) ·
Lidia Wysocka, American actress (d. 2006) ·
William B. Saxbe, American politician
(d. 2010) ·
June 25 Thomas Reddin, American police (d. 2004) ·
June 26 ·
Dennis Filmer, Malaysian sports shooter ·
Alvin Wistert, American football player (d. 2005) ·
June 27 ·
Max
Mόller, Swiss cross-country skier ·
Ivy Cooke, Jamaican educator (d. 2017) ·
June 28 ·
Richard Best,
British film editor (d. 2004) ·
John Evelyn Anderson,
British Army officer (d. 2007) ·
June 29 ·
Ruth Warrick, American actress (d. 2005) ·
Runer Jonsson, Swedish journalist and author
(d. 2006) July[edit] ·
July 1 ·
Olivia de Havilland,
British-born American actress ·
Thomas
Hamilton-Brown, South African boxer ·
Lawrence Halprin, American architect
(d. 2009) ·
July 2 ·
Mary Harrow and
Martha Averett, American supercentenarians ·
Reino Kangasmδki,
Finnish wrestler (d. 2010) ·
Alec Hill, Australian military historian
(d. 2008) ·
Zιlia Gattai, Brazilian author and
photographer (d. 2008) ·
Hans-Ulrich Rudel,
German pilot (d. 1982) ·
Ken Curtis, American motion picture and
television actor and singer (d. 1991) ·
July 3 John Kundla, American basketball coach
(d. 2017) ·
July 4 ·
Iva Toguri D'Aquino ("Tokyo
Rose") (d. 2006) ·
Adam Curle, British academic and peace
activist (d. 2006) ·
Naseem Banu, Indian actress (d. 2002) ·
Fernand Leduc, Canadian painter (d. 2014) ·
July 5 ·
Lνvia Rιv, Hungarian classical pianist
(d. 2018) ·
Ivor Powell, Welsh footballer (d. 2012) ·
July 6 ·
Harold Norse, American writer (d. 2009) ·
Hugh Gibbons, Irish Fianna Fαil politician
(d. 2007) ·
Don R. Christensen,
American animator, cartoonist, illustrator, writer and inventor (d. 2006) ·
July 7 ·
Julia
Ruth Stevens, daughter of Babe Ruth ·
Roberto
Bruni [it], Italian actor ·
Werner G. Scharff,
American arts patron and fashion designer (d. 2006) ·
July 8 ·
Marion Hartzog Smoak,
American lawyer and politician ·
Jean Rouverol, American actress,
screenwriter, and author (d. 2017) ·
Otto Luedeke, American cyclist (d. 2005) ·
July 9 Edward Heath, Prime
Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 2005) ·
July 10 Nicholas D'Antonio
Salza, American bishop (d. 2009) ·
July 11 ·
Mortimer Caplin, American lawyer and
educator ·
Hans Maier, Dutch water polo player
(d. 2018) ·
Aleksandr
Mikhailovich Prokhorov, Russian physicist, Nobel laureate
(d. 2002) ·
Reg Varney, British actor (d. 2008) ·
Gough Whitlam, 21st Prime
Minister of Australia (d. 2014) ·
July 14 ·
Franco Montoro,
Brazilian politician and lawyer (d. 1999) ·
Natalia Ginzburg, Italian author (d. 1991) ·
July 15 ·
Sumner Gerard, American politician and
diplomat (d. 2005) ·
Les Dye, American football player (d. 2000) ·
July 16 ·
Victor Fontana, Brazilian engineer,
businessman and politician (d. 2017) ·
Sudono Salim, Indonesian-Chinese businessman
(d. 2012) ·
July 17 ·
Frieda and Klara Auf
der Maur, Swiss supercentenarians ·
Henning Brandis, German physician and
microbiologist (d. 2004) ·
July 18 ·
Charles Kittel, American physicist ·
L. Patrick Gray III,
American Federal Bureau of Investigation director (d. 2005) ·
Ed Cifers, American football end (d. 2005) ·
Sid Kiel, South African doctor and cricketer
(d. 2007) ·
July 19 Phil Cavarretta, baseball player (d. 2010) ·
July 20 ·
Ersilio Tonini, Italian Cardinal of the
Catholic Church (d. 2013) ·
Hans von
Blixen-Finecke Jr., Swedish officer and horse rider (d. 2005) ·
July 21 ·
Madalena
Sotto [pt], Portuguese actress (d. 2016) ·
Douglas Freeman, English cricketer (d. 2013) ·
Sergeant Stubby, World War I American hero war dog
(d. 1926) ·
July 22 ·
Irene Galitzine, Russian-Georgian fashion
designer (d. 2006) ·
William A. Culpepper,
American judge (d. 2015) ·
William
Harper, Rhodesian politician (d. 2006) ·
Marcel Cerdan, French boxer (d. 1949) ·
July 23 Sandra Gould, American actress (d. 1999) ·
July 25 Fred Lasswell, American cartoonist (d. 2001) ·
July 27 ·
Elizabeth
Hardwick, American literary critic and novelist (d. 2007) ·
Keenan Wynn, American actor (d. 1986) ·
July 28 David Brown,
American producer (d. 2010) ·
July 30 Dick Wilson, American actor (d. 2007) ·
July 31 ·
Bill Todman, American game show producer
(d. 1979) ·
Ignacio Trelles, Mexican football player and
coach August[edit] ·
August 1 ·
Olimpio Bizzi, Italian racing cyclist
(d. 1976) ·
Fiorenzo Angelini,
Italian Cardinal (d. 2014) ·
Edna Hughes, English competition swimmer
(d. 1990) ·
August 2 Zein Al-Sharaf Talal,
Queen of Jordan (d. 1994) ·
August 3 Hertha Feiler, Austrian actress (d. 1970) ·
August 5 Kermit Love, American puppeteer (d. 2008) ·
August 6 Dom Mintoff, Prime Minister of Malta
(d. 2012) ·
August 7 ·
Lawrence Picachy, Indian Jesuit priest
(d. 1992) ·
Rose Wolfe, Canadian social worker and
philanthropist (d. 2016) ·
August 8 Shigeo Arai, Japanese freestyle swimmer
(d. 1944) ·
August 9 Manea Mănescu, 50th Prime Minister of
Romania (d. 2009) ·
August 10 Lorna McDonald,
Australian historian and author (d. 2017) ·
Johnny Claes, English racing driver
(d. 1956) ·
William Coors, American executive (d. 2018) ·
August 12 Ralph Nelson, American film and television
director, producer, writer, and actor (d. 1987) ·
Heinrich
Prinz zu Sayn-Wittgenstein, German night fighter pilot and flying
ace (d. 1944) ·
Ralph de Toledano,
American conservationist and author (d. 2007) ·
Edythe Wright, American singer (d. 1965) ·
Iggy Katona, American race car driver
(d. 2003) ·
August 18 Neagu Djuvara, Romanian historian, essayist,
and diplomat (d. 2018) ·
August 19 Dennis Poore, British entrepreneur,
financier and racing driver (d. 1987) ·
George Rosenkranz,
Mexican co-inventor of oral contraceptive pill ·
Paul Felix Schmidt,
Estonian chess player (d. 1984) ·
Frank O. Braynard,
American maritime writer and historian (d. 2007) ·
Geoffrey Keen, English actor (d. 2005) ·
Bill Lee,
American playback singer (d. 1980) ·
Consuelo Velαzquez,
Mexican songwriter (d. 2005) ·
Robert H. Krieble,
American chemist (d. 1997) ·
Joe Martinelli, American soccer forward
(d. 1991) ·
Hal Smith,
American actor (d. 1994) ·
Lιo Ferrι, French-born Monιgasque poet and
composer (d. 1993) ·
Van Johnson, American actor (d. 2008) ·
Frederick
Chapman Robbins, American pediatrician and virologist, recipient
of the Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2003) ·
Saburō Sakai, Japanese fighter ace
(d. 2000) ·
Martha Raye, American actress (d. 1994) ·
Robert Van Eenaeme,
Belgian cyclist (d. 1959) ·
Larry Thor, Canadian actor (d. 1976) ·
C. Wright Mills, American sociologist
(d. 1962) ·
Jack Vance, American writer (d. 2013) ·
August 29 Luther Davis, American screenwriter
(d. 2008) ·
Shag Crawford, American baseball umpire
(d. 2007) ·
Kenneth
Keith, Baron Keith of Castleacre, British life peer (d. 2004) ·
Daniel Schorr, American journalist (d. 2010) ·
John S. Wold, American politician (d. 2017) September[edit] ·
Dorothy Cheney, American tennis player
(d. 2014) ·
Joseph Minish, American politician (d. 2007) ·
September 3 Tommy J. Smith, Australian trainer (d. 1998) ·
September 5 Allan Louisy, 2nd Prime Minister of Saint
Lucia (d. 2011) ·
September 7 Shen Panwen, Chinese chemist (d. 2017) ·
Leoncio Afonso, Spanish scientist (d. 2017) ·
Edward Binns, American stage, film, and
television actor (d. 1990) ·
September 13 Roald Dahl, Welsh-born author (d. 1990) ·
Eric Bentley, English-born American critic
and playwright ·
John Heyer, Australian documentary filmmaker
(d. 2001) ·
Margaret Lockwood,
Indian-born English actress (d. 1990) ·
Frederick C. Weyand,
U.S. Army General (d. 2010) ·
September 16 Frank Leslie Walcott,
Barbadian labour leader (d. 1999) ·
September 17 Mary Stewart,
born Mary Rainbow, English-born fantasy and mystery writer (d. 2014) ·
September 18 John Jacob Rhodes,
American politician and lawyer (d. 2003) ·
September 21 Zinovy Gerdt, Russian actor (d. 1996) ·
September 23 Aldo Moro, Prime Minister of
Italy (d. 1978) ·
September 24 Ruth Leach Amonette,
American businesswoman (d. 2004) ·
Frank Handlen, American artist ·
Trento Longaretti,
Italian painter (d. 2017) ·
S. Yizhar (aka Yizhar Smilansky),
Israeli author (d. 2006) ·
September 28 Peter Finch, English-born Australian actor
(d. 1977) October[edit] ·
October 2 Jim L. Gillis Jr.,
American politician (d. 2018) ·
Frank Pantridge, Irish physician and
inventor (d. 2004) ·
James Herriot, English veterinarian and
author (d. 1995) ·
Shelby Storck, American television producer
(d. 1969) ·
October 4 Vitaly Ginzburg, Russian physicist, Nobel laureate
(d. 2009) ·
October 7 Sir
Hereward Wake, 14th Baronet, British army officer (d. 2017) ·
October 9 Robert Brubaker, American actor (d. 2010) ·
Bernard Heuvelmans,
Belgian-French cryptozoologist (d. 2001) ·
Sumiko Mizukubo, Japanese actress ·
October 11 Maurice Gaffney, Irish barrister (d. 2016) ·
October 12 Alice Childress, American actress,
playwright, and novelist (d. 1994) ·
October 14 C. Everett Koop, United States Surgeon
General (d. 2013) ·
October 15 Hassan Gouled
Aptidon, President of
Djibouti (d. 2006) ·
Jean Dausset, French immunologist, recipient
of the Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2009) ·
Emil Gilels, Ukrainian pianist (d. 1985) ·
October 21 Eddie Carnett, American baseball player
(d. 2016) ·
October 25 Thιrθse Kleindienst,
French librarian (d. 2018) ·
October 26 Franηois Mitterrand, President of France (d. 1996) ·
October 30 Leon Day, American baseball player (d. 1995) ·
October 31 Carl Johan
Bernadotte, Prince of Sweden (d. 2012) November[edit] ·
November 4 Walter Cronkite, American television
journalist (d. 2009) ·
November 5 Jim Tabor, American baseball player
(d. 1953) ·
November 6 Harry Blamires, British Anglican theologian,
literary critic and novelist (d. 2017) ·
November 8 Lady Ursula d'Abo,
English socialite (d. 2017) ·
November 10 Louis le Brocquy, Irish painter (d. 2012) ·
November 11 Robert Carr, English politician (d. 2012) ·
November 12 Rogelio de la Rosa,
Filipino actor and politician (d. 1986) ·
November 14 Sherwood Schwartz,
American television writer and producer (d. 2011) ·
November 15 Bill Melendez, American animator (d. 2008) ·
November 16 Daws Butler, American voice actor (d. 1988) ·
November 17 Shelby Foote, American historian and
novelist, author of The Civil War:
A Narrative (d. 2005) ·
November 20 Hamida Habibullah,
Indian politician (d. 2018) ·
Michael Gough, Malayan-born English actor
(d. 2011) ·
P. K. Page, Canadian poet (d. 2010) ·
Forrest J Ackerman,
American writer (d. 2008) ·
Frankie Muse Freeman,
American civil rights attorney (d. 2018) ·
November 25 Cosmo Haskard, Irish-born former British
colonial administrator and retired British Army officer (d. 2017) ·
November 26 Gerhard Unger, German tenor (d. 2011) ·
November 27 Chick Hearn, American basketball announcer
(d. 2002) ·
Lilian,
Princess of Rιthy, born Mary Lilian Baels, English-born Belgian
queen consort of Leopold III (d. 2002) ·
Ramσn Josι Velαsquez, President of
Venezuela (d. 2014) ·
November 29 Fran Ryan, American actress (d. 2000) ·
November 30 John C. Harkness, American architect
(d. 2016) December[edit] ·
December 1 Wan Li, Chinese government official
(d. 2015) ·
December 5 Hilary Koprowski, Polish virologist and
immunologist (d. 2013) ·
Kristjαn Eldjαrn,
3rd President of Iceland (d. 1982) ·
Pratap Chandra Lal,
Indian military advisor (d. 1982) ·
Hugo Peretti, American songwriter, record
producer (d. 1986) ·
George Russell
Weller, American salesman known for the Santa Monica Farmer's
Market incident (d. 2010) ·
John G. Morris, American picture editor
(d. 2017) ·
Richard Fleischer,
American film director (d. 2006) ·
T. K. Whitaker, Irish economist and public
servant (d. 2017) ·
Jerome Beatty, Jr.,
American author of children's literature (d. 2002) ·
Kirk Douglas, American film actor ·
Esther Wilkins, American dentist (d. 2016) ·
December 11 Dαmaso Pιrez Prado,
Cuban musician (d. 1989) ·
December 12 Anne Vermeer, Dutch politician (d. 2018) ·
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 16 Birgitta Valberg, Swedish actress (d. 2014) ·
Douglas Fraser, Scottish-born union leader
(d. 2008) ·
Franciszek Kornicki,
Polish fighter pilot (d. 2017) ·
Betty Grable, American actress (d. 1973) ·
Roy Baker, English film director (d. 2010) ·
Elisabeth
Noelle-Neumann, German political scientist (d. 2010) ·
John Crutcher, American politician (d. 2017) ·
December 20 Morrie Schwartz, American professor
(d. 1995) ·
December 21 Arsθne Tchakarian,
Armenian-French resistance fighter (d. 2018) ·
Ron G. Mason, English oceanographer
(d. 2009) ·
Cecνlia Schelingovα,
Czechoslovakian Roman Catholic religious
professed, martyr and blessed (d. 1955) ·
Ahmed Ben Bella, Algerian politician,
1st President of Algeria (d. 2012) ·
Graciela Naranjo, Venezuelan singer and
actress (d. 2001) ·
December 27 Cathy Lewis, American actress (d. 1968) Date Unknown[edit] ·
Saad Jumaa, Prime Minister of Jordan
(d. 1979) Deaths[edit] January[edit] Blessed Juana Marνa
Condesa Lluch ·
January 1 Max Bastelberger, German doctor and
entomologist (b. 1851) ·
January 2 Felix Sarda y
Salvany, Spanish Roman Catholic priest and saint
(b. 1844) ·
January 5 Ulpiano Checa, Spanish painter, sculptor and
illustrator (b. 1860) ·
January 7 Andrιs Baquero,
Spanish teacher and writer (b. 1853) ·
January 8 Rembrandt Bugatti,
Italian sculptor (b. 1884) ·
January 9 Ada Rehan, Irish-born American Shakespearean
actress (b. 1859) ·
January 10 Guido Baccelli, Italian physician (b. 1830) ·
January 11 Takashima Tomonosuke,
Japanese general (b. 1844) ·
January 12 Lιon Autonne, French engineer and
mathematician (b. 1859) ·
January 13 Victoriano Huerta,
Mexican general and statesman, 35th President of Mexico (b. 1854) ·
January 14 Otto Ammon, German anthropologist (b. 1842) ·
January 15 Vojtech Alexander,
Slovakian radiologist (b. 1857) ·
Arnold Aletrino, Dutch physician (b. 1858) ·
Juana Marνa
Condesa Lluch, Spanish Roman Catholic religious professed and
blessed (b. 1862) ·
January 17 Arthur V. Johnson,
American actor and director (b. 1876) ·
January 20 Ephraim Francis
Baldwin, American architect (b. 1837) February[edit] Blessed Ludwika
Szczęsna ·
February 6 Rubιn Darνo, Nicaraguan writer (b. 1867) ·
February 7 Ludwika
Szczęsna, Polish Roman Catholic nun and blessed
(b. 1863) ·
February 12 Richard Dedekind, German mathematician
(b. 1831) ·
February 13 Vilhelm Hammershψi,
Danish painter (b. 1864) ·
February 18 Hans Schmidt,
German Roman Catholic priest
and martyr (executed) (b. 1881) ·
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) ·
Jabez Balfour, English businessman (b. 1843) ·
Hugo von Pohl, German admiral (b. 1855) ·
February 25 David
Bowman, Australian politician (b. 1860) ·
February 26 Tomasa Ortiz Real,
Spanish Roman Catholic religious
professed and blessed (b. 1842) ·
February 27 Ugo Balzani, Italian historian (b. 1847) ·
February 28 Henry James, American writer (b. 1843) March[edit] ·
March 4 Franz Marc, German Expressionist painter
(killed in battle) (b. 1880) ·
March 11 ·
Florence Baker, Hungarian-born explorer
(b. 1841) ·
Henry G. Davis, American politician
(b. 1823) ·
March 15 John Beveridge,
Australian businessman, Mayor of Redfern (b. 1848) ·
March 20 Ota Benga, Congolese pygmy brought to America as part of an
exhibition at the Bronx zoo (b. ca. 1883) ·
March 24 Enrique Granados, Spanish composer (ship
sinking) (b. 1867) ·
March 25 Ishi,
last known member of the Yana people (b. ca. 1860) April[edit] ·
April 11 Richard Harding
Davis, American journalist and author (b. 1864) ·
April 19 Ephraim Shay, American inventor (b. 1839) ·
April 21 John Surratt, suspected of involvement in
the Abraham
Lincoln assassination, son of Mary Surratt (b. 1844) ·
April 27 Prince Leopold Clement of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (b. 1878) ·
April 28 Edward Felix Baxter,
English recipient of the Victorian Cross (b. 1885) May[edit] ·
May 1 Lydia Zvereva, first Russian woman to earn a
pilot's license (b. 1890) ·
May 2 Jules Blanchard, French sculptor (b. 1832) ·
May 3 Padraig Pearse, Irish nationalist (executed)
(b. 1879) ·
May 8 Mabel Beardsley, English actress (b. 1871) ·
May 11 ·
Max Reger, German modernist composer
(b. 1873) ·
Karl Schwarzschild,
German physicist (b. 1873) ·
May 12 James Connolly, Irish socialist (executed)
(b. 1868) ·
May 13 Sholem Aleichem, Ukrainian Yiddish writer
(b. 1859) ·
May 19 Georges Boillot, French Grand Prix driver
(killed in battle) (b. 1884) ·
May 21 Artϊr Gφrgei,
Hungarian military general and politician (b. 1818) ·
May 27 Joseph Gallieni, French general (b. 1849) ·
May 31 Horace Hood, British admiral (killed in
action) (b. 1870) June[edit] ·
June 5 Herbert
Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, British field marshal and statesman
(drowned) (b. 1850) ·
June 6 Yuan Shikai, Chinese military official and
politician, Emperor of China and
1st President
of the Republic of China (b. 1859) ·
June 7 Ιmile Faguet, French writer and critic
(b. 1847) ·
June 9 Richard C. Saufley,
American naval aviation pioneer (b. 1884) ·
June 12 Silvanus P. Thompson,
English professor of physics, electrical engineer, member of the Royal
Society and author (b. 1851) ·
June 17 Edwin Monroe Bacon,
English writer (b. 1844) ·
June 18 ·
Max Immelmann, German fighter ace (killed in
battle) (b. 1890) ·
Helmuth
von Moltke, German general (b. 1848) ·
June 24 Victor Chapman, French-American fighter
pilot (killed in action) (b. 1890) ·
June 25 Thomas Eakins, American realist painter
(b. 1844) ·
June 29 Georges Lacombe,
French painter (b. 1868) ·
June 30 Russell Barton, British-born Australian
politician (b. 1830) July[edit] ·
July 6 Odilon Redon, French painter (b. 1840) ·
July 12 Cesare
Battisti, Italian patriot, geographer and politician (b. 1875) ·
July 15 Ιlie Metchnikoff,
Russian microbiologist, recipient of the Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1845) ·
July 20 Reinhard Sorge, German dramatist and poet
(killed in battle) (b. 1892) ·
July 22 James Whitcomb Riley,
American poet (b. 1849) ·
July 23 Sir William Ramsay, British chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1852) ·
July 27 Charles Fryatt, British mariner (executed)
(b. 1872) ·
July 29 Claude Charles
Castleton, Australian VC recipient (killed in battle) (b. 1893) August[edit] ·
August 3 Roger Casement, Irish nationalist (executed)
(b. 1864) ·
August 5 George Butterworth,
English composer (b. 1885) ·
August 8 Kamimura
Hikonojō, Japanese admiral (b. 1849) ·
August 17 Umberto Boccioni, Italian painter and
sculptor (b. 1882) ·
August 31 Martha McClellan
Brown, American activist (b. 1838) September[edit] ·
September 8 Friedrich Baumfelder,
German composer, conductor, and pianist (b. 1836) ·
September 12 Zygmunt Balicki, Polish sociologist
(b. 1858) ·
Josι Echegaray,
Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1832) ·
Raymond Asquith, English barrister and
lawyer (b. 1878) ·
Josiah Royce, American philosopher (b. 1855) ·
September 25 Gerald Arbuthnot, British soldier and
politician (b. 1872) October[edit] Blessed Isidore De Loor King Otto of Bavaria ·
October 6 Isidore De Loor, Belgian Roman Catholic religious professed and
blessed (b. 1881) ·
October 10 Antonio Sant'Elia,
Italian architect (killed in battle) (b. 1888) ·
October 11 King Otto of Bavaria (b. 1848) ·
October 12 Tony Jannus, American aviator and aircraft
designer (b. 1889) ·
October 18 Ignacio Pinazo,
Spanish painter (b. 1849) ·
October 21 Karl von Stόrgkh,
Prime Minister of Austria (b. 1859) ·
October 25 Gιrard Encausse, Papus,
French occultist (b. 1865) ·
Oswald Boelcke, German World War I fighter
ace, (b. 1891) ·
Cleveland Abbe, American meteorologist
(b. 1838) ·
October 29 John Sebastian
Little, American politician and congressman (b. 1851) ·
Tina Blau, Austrian painter (b. 1845) ·
Charles Taze Russell,
Protestant evangelist, forerunner of Jehovah's Witnesses (b. 1852) November[edit] Emperor Franz Joseph I
of Austria ·
November 1 Prince Franz
Anton von Thun und Hohenstein, Austrian noble and statesman,
former Prime Minister (b. 1847) ·
November 2 Prince Mircea of
Romania (b. 1913) ·
November 9 Ion Dragalina, Romanian general (killed in
battle) (b. 1860) ·
November 10 Walter Sutton, geneticist and physician
(b. 1877) ·
November 12 Percival Lowell, American astronomer
(b. 1855) ·
Henry George, Jr.,
American politician (b. 1862) ·
Franklin Ware Mann,
American inventor (b. 1856) ·
Saki,
British writer (b. 1870) ·
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 VC, British World War I fighter ace, killed
in action by Manfred von
Richthofen (b. 1890) ·
Princess
Adelheid-Marie of Anhalt-Dessau (b. 1833) ·
John Francis Barnett,
English teacher (b. 1851) ·
Hiram Stevens Maxim,
American firearms inventor (b. 1840) ·
November 27 Emile Verhaeren, Belgian poet (b. 1855) ·
November 28 Martinus Theunis
Steyn, Boer lawyer, politician, and statesman, sixth and last
President of the Orange Free State (1896-1902)
(b. 1857) ·
November 30 Demetrio Alonso
Castrillo, Spanish politician (b. 1841) December[edit] Blessed Charles de Foucauld ·
December 1 Charles de Foucauld,
French Roman Catholic religious
professed, priest and blessed (b. 1858) ·
December 4 Paul Allard, French archaeologist and
historian (b. 1841) ·
Princess
Augusta of Cambridge (b. 1822) ·
Hans Richter,
AustrianHungarian conductor (b. 1843) ·
December 8 John Porter Merrell,
American admiral (b. 1846) ·
December 9 Natsume Sōseki,
Japanese writer (b. 1867) ·
December 10 Ōyama Iwao, Japanese field marshal and
a founder of the Imperial Japanese Army (b. 1842) ·
December 12 Edwin Atlee Barber,
American archaeologist (b. 1851) ·
December 15 Josι Maria de Alpoim,
Portuguese journalist (b. 1857) ·
Friedrich Ernst Dorn,
German physicist (b. 1848) ·
Ognjeslav
Stepanović, Serbian inventor (b. 1851) ·
December 18 Giulia Valle, Italian Roman Catholic nun and blessed
(b. 1847) ·
December 19 Doug Allison, American baseball player
(b. 1846) ·
December 25 Albert Chmielowski,
Polish Roman Catholic religious
professed and saint (b. 1845) ·
December 28 Eduard Strauss, Austrian composer (b. 1835) ·
December 30 (December 17 OS)
Grigori Rasputin,
Russian mystic and servant of God (killed in action) (b. 1869) Nobel Prizes[edit] ·
Physics
not awarded ·
Chemistry
not awarded ·
Medicine
not awarded ·
Literature Carl
Gustaf Verner von Heidenstam ·
Peace
not awarded References[edit] 1.
^ Bailey, Peter (2005-12-15). "Torpedoed on the crossing to Dieppe". Sussex
Express. Lewes. Retrieved 2013-08-23. 2.
^ The Hutchinson Factfinder. Helicon. 1999.
p. 483. ISBN 1-85986-000-1. 3.
^ "Woodrow Wilson". Scouting.org.
1916-06-15. Retrieved 2015-12-10. 4.
^ Sheffield, Gary (2003). The Somme. Cassell.
p. 68. ISBN 0-304-36649-8. 5.
^ "See you at the Piggly Wiggly".
Pink Palace Family of Museums. Archived from the original on 2007-10-14.
Retrieved 2007-10-22. Further reading[edit] ·
Williams,
John. The Other Battleground The Home Fronts: Britain, France and
Germany 1914-1918 (1972) pp 10974. Primary sources and
year books[edit] ·
New International Year Book 1916 (1917), Comprehensive coverage of
world and national affairs, 938pp ·
Who's who in New England. A.N. Marquis.
1915. p. 1. ·
Early
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