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1916 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1916 MCMXVI
Ab urbe condita	2669
Armenian calendar	1365 ԹՎ ՌՅԿԵ
Assyrian calendar	6666
Bahá'í calendar	72–73
Balinese saka calendar	1837–1838
Bengali calendar	1323
Berber calendar	2866
British Regnal year	6 Geo. 5 – 7 Geo. 5
Buddhist calendar	2460
Burmese calendar	1278
Byzantine calendar	7424–7425
Chinese calendar	乙卯年 (Wood Rabbit) 4612 or 4552     — to — 丙辰年 (Fire Dragon) 4613 or 4553
Coptic calendar	1632–1633
Discordian calendar	3082
Ethiopian calendar	1908–1909
Hebrew calendar	5676–5677
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1972–1973
- Shaka Samvat	1837–1838
- Kali Yuga	5016–5017
Holocene calendar	11916
Igbo calendar	916–917
Iranian calendar	1294–1295
Islamic calendar	1334–1335
Japanese calendar	Taishō 5 (大正５年)
Javanese calendar	1846–1847
Juche calendar	5
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar	4249
Minguo calendar	ROC 5 民國5年
Nanakshahi calendar	448
Thai solar calendar	2458–2459
Tibetan calendar	阴木兔年 (female Wood-Rabbit) 2042 or 1661 or 889     — to — 阳火龙年 (male Fire-Dragon) 2043 or 1662 or 890

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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.

Events[]

Below, the events of the First World War have the "WWI" prefix.

January[]

• 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 Empire prevails 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.
• January 24
  • 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 McMahon–Hussein 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[]

• 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).
• February 11
  • 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[]

• March 7 – In Munich, German automobile company BMW (Die Bayerischen Motoren Werke) is founded.
• March 8–9 – 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 border to 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 Lúthien and 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[]

• April – The toggle light switch is invented, by William J. Newton and Morris Goldberg.
• April 11 – WWI: The Egyptian Expionary 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 7–6 in 11 innings.
• April 22 – The Chinese troop transport SS Hsin-Yu capsizes off the Chinese coast; at least 1,000 are killed.
• April 24–30 – 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 24–May 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 Shackleton and five companions, to obtain rescue for the main body of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expion, 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[]

• May 16
  • United States Marines invade the Dominican Republic.
  • Britain and France conclude the secret Sykes–Picot 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 31–June 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[]

• 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[]

• July 1–November 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 1–12 – 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 15–19 – 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 19–20 – 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[]

• 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 3–5 – 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 Expion's Endurance is rescued from Elephant Island.

September[]

• 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 15–22 – WWI – Battle of Flers–Courcelette, France: The battle is significant for the first use of the tank in warfare; also for the debut of the Canadian and 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[]

• October 7 – the Georgia Tech and Cumberland College football game ends in a score of 222-0.
• October 12 – Hipólito 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 Stürgkh, 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[]

• November 1
  • Pavel Milyukov delivers his "stupidity or treason" speech in the Russian State Duma, precipitating the downfall of the Boris Stürmer government.
  • The first 40-hour work week officially begins, in the Endicott-Johnson factories of Western New York.
• November 5
  • The Kingdom of Poland (1916–18) 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 (1894–1925), is dedicated.
• November 7
  • 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 Expionary Force commander Douglas Haig calls off the battle, which started on July 1.
• November 21
  • Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria dies of pneumonia at the Schönbrunn 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[]

• 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.
• December 30
  • Humberto Gómez 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[]

• Food is rationed in Germany.
• Ferdinand de Saussure's Cours de linguistique générale is collected posthumously and published.
• Oxycodone, a narcotic painkiller closely related to codeine is first synthesized in Germany.
• Ernst Rüdin 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, Alberta Canada.
• 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[]

• 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[]

• 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[]

January[]

• January 1
  • 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)
• January 3
  • 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 Ågren, Swedish boxer (d. 1985)
  • Warren King, American cartoonist (d. 1978)
• January 4
  • Princess Niloufer (d. 1989)
  • Sidney Siegel, American psychologist (d. 1961)
• January 5
  • Alfred Ryder, American film, radio and television actor (d. 1995)
  • Wilhelm Szewczyk, Polish writer, poet, literary critic and translator (d. 1991)
• January 7
  • Elena Ceaușescu, First Lady of Romania (d. 1989)
  • Paul Keres, Estonian chess player (d. 1975)
• January 9 – Peter Twinn, English mathematician and WWII code-breaker (d. 2004)
• January 10
  • Richard Münch, German actor (d. 1987)
  • Sune Bergström, Swedish biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2004)
• January 12
  • 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)
• January 17
  • 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)
• January 24
  • Rafael Caldera, President of Venezuela (d. 2009)
  • Daphne Lorraine Gum, Australian educator (d. 2017)
  • Marvin Creamer, American sailor
  • Arnoldo Foà, 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 – Sangoulé Lamizana, 2nd President and Prime Minister of Burkina Faso (d. 2005)

February[]

• 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)
• February 12
  • 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)
• February 14
  • 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)
• February 15
  • 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 cr as an animator at the Walt Disney Animation Studios (d. 1990)
• February 26
  • Jackie Gleason, American comedian, actor and musician (d. 1987)
  • Preacher Roe, American baseball player (d. 2008)
• February 28
  • 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[]

• 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[]

• 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 León 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)
  • José Joaquín Trejos Fernández, President of Costa Rica (d. 2010)
• April 19
  • Bruno Chizzo, Italian association footballer (d. 1969)
  • Delio Rodríguez, 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 – Ramón Amaya Amador, Honduran author (d.1966)
• April 30
  • Claude Elwood Shannon, American information theorist (d. 2001)
  • Robert Shaw, American conductor (d. 1999)

May[]

• May 1 – Glenn Ford, Canadian actor (d. 2006)
• May 4 – Jane Jacobs, née 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)
  • João Havelange, Brazilian industrialist and football league president (d. 2016)
• May 10 – Milton Babbitt, American composer (d. 2011)
• May 11 – Camilo José 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 Actres, Voice Actres and Singer (d. 1997)
• May 17
  • Jenő Fock, 49th Prime Minister of Hungary (d. 2001)
  • Lenka Reinerová, 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[]

• 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 – Raúl Héctor 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 Salgán, 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 César 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 or 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 Müller, Swiss cross-country skier
  • Ivy Cooke, Jamaican educator (d. 2017)
• June 28
  • Richard Best, British film or (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[]

• 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 Kangasmäki, Finnish wrestler (d. 2010)
  • Alec Hill, Australian military historian (d. 2008)
  • Zélia 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
  • Lívia Rév, Hungarian classical pianist (d. 2018)
  • Ivor Powell, Welsh footballer (d. 2012)
• July 6
  • Harold Norse, American writer (d. 2009)
  • Hugh Gibbons, Irish Fianna Fáil 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
  • 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[]

• 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)
• August 11
  • 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)
• August 14
  • Heinrich Prinz zu Sayn-Wittgenstein, German night fighter pilot and flying ace (d. 1944)
  • Ralph de Toledano, American conservationist and author (d. 2007)
• August 16
  • 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)
• August 20
  • George Rosenkranz, Mexican co-inventor of oral contraceptive pill
  • Paul Felix Schmidt, Estonian chess player (d. 1984)
• August 21
  • Frank O. Braynard, American maritime writer and historian (d. 2007)
  • Geoffrey Keen, English actor (d. 2005)
  • Bill Lee, American playback singer (d. 1980)
  • Consuelo Velázquez, Mexican songwriter (d. 2005)
• August 22
  • Robert H. Krieble, American chemist (d. 1997)
  • Joe Martinelli, American soccer forward (d. 1991)
• August 24
  • Hal Smith, American actor (d. 1994)
  • Léo Ferré, French-born Monégasque poet and composer (d. 1993)
• August 25
  • 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)
• August 27
  • Martha Raye, American actress (d. 1994)
  • Robert Van Eenaeme, Belgian cyclist (d. 1959)
  • Larry Thor, Canadian actor (d. 1976)
• August 28
  • C. Wright Mills, American sociologist (d. 1962)
  • Jack Vance, American writer (d. 2013)
• August 29 – Luther Davis, American screenwriter (d. 2008)
• August 30
  • Shag Crawford, American baseball umpire (d. 2007)
  • Kenneth Keith, Baron Keith of Castleacre, British life peer (d. 2004)
• August 31
  • Daniel Schorr, American journalist (d. 2010)
  • John S. Wold, American politician (d. 2017)

September[]

• September 1
  • 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)
• September 12
  • 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)
• September 14
  • Eric Bentley, English-born American critic and playwright
  • John Heyer, Australian documentary filmmaker (d. 2001)
• September 15
  • 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)
• September 27
  • 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[]

• October 2 – Jim L. Gillis Jr., American politician (d. 2018)
• October 3
  • 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)
• October 10
  • 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)
• October 19
  • 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 – Thérèse Kleindienst, French librarian (d. 2018)
• October 26 – François 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[]

• 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)
• November 23
  • Michael Gough, Malayan-born English actor (d. 2011)
  • P. K. Page, Canadian poet (d. 2010)
• November 24
  • 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)
• November 28
  • Lilian, Princess of Réthy, born Mary Lilian Baels, English-born Belgian queen consort of Leopold III (d. 2002)
  • Ramón José Velásquez, President of Venezuela (d. 2014)
• November 29 – Fran Ryan, American actress (d. 2000)
• November 30 – John C. Harkness, American architect (d. 2016)

December[]

• December 1 – Wan Li, Chinese government official (d. 2015)
• December 5 – Hilary Koprowski, Polish virologist and immunologist (d. 2013)
• December 6
  • Kristján Eldjárn, 3rd President of Iceland (d. 1982)
  • Pratap Chandra Lal, Indian military advisor (d. 1982)
• December 7
  • George Russell Weller, American salesman known for the Santa Monica Farmer's Market incident (d. 2010)
  • John G. Morris, American picture or (d. 2017)
• December 8
  • Richard Fleischer, American film director (d. 2006)
  • T. K. Whitaker, Irish economist and public servant (d. 2017)
• December 9
  • Jerome Beatty, Jr., American author of children's literature (d. 2002)
  • Kirk Douglas, American film actor
  • Esther Wilkins, American dentist (d. 2016)
• December 11 – Dámaso Pérez 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)
• December 18
  • Douglas Fraser, Scottish-born union leader (d. 2008)
  • Franciszek Kornicki, Polish fighter pilot (d. 2017)
  • Betty Grable, American actress (d. 1973)
• December 19
  • 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 – Arsène Tchakarian, Armenian-French resistance fighter (d. 2018)
• December 24
  • Ron G. Mason, English oceanographer (d. 2009)
  • Cecília Schelingová, Czechoslovakian Roman Catholic religious professed, martyr and blessed (d. 1955)
• December 25
  • 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[]

• Saad Jumaa, Prime Minister of Jordan (d. 1979)

Deaths[]

January[]

• 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 – Andrés 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 – Léon 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)
• January 16
  • Arnold Aletrino, Dutch physician (b. 1858)
  • Juana María Condesa Lluch, Spanish Roman Catholic religious professed and blessed (b. 1862)
• January 17 – Arthur V. Johnson, American actor and director (b. 1876)

February[]

• February 6 – Rubén Darío, 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 Hammershøi, 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)
• February 23
  • 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[]

• 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 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[]

• 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[]

• May 1 – Lydia Zvereva, first Russian woman to earn a pilot's license (b. 1890)
• 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 – Artúr Görgei, 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[]

• 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 – Émile 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[]

• July 6 – Odilon Redon, French painter (b. 1840)
• July 12 – Cesare Battisti, Italian patriot, geographer and politician (b. 1875)
• July 15 – Élie 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[]

• 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[]

• September 8 – Friedrich Baumfelder, German composer, conductor, and pianist (b. 1836)
• September 14
  • José Echegaray, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1832)
• September 15
  • 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[]

• 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 Stürgkh, Prime Minister of Austria (b. 1859)
• October 25 – Gérard Encausse, Papus, French occultist (b. 1865)
• October 28
  • 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)
• October 31 – Charles Taze Russell, Protestant evangelist, forerunner of Jehovah's Witnesses (b. 1852)

November[]

• 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)
• November 14
  • 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)
• November 24
  • 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[]

• 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)
• December 5
  • Princess Augusta of Cambridge (b. 1822)
  • Hans Richter, Austrian–Hungarian 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 16
  • 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 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[]

• Physics – not awarded
• Chemistry – not awarded
• Medicine – not awarded
• Literature – Carl Gustaf Verner von Heidenstam
• Peace – not awarded

References[]

Further reading[]

• Williams, John. The Other Battleground The Home Fronts: Britain, France and Germany 1914-1918 (1972) pp 109-74.

Primary sources and year books[]

• 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 Advertising, "Fishing for Suckers" at Duke University