Famous Deaths for Year 1916

Months in Year 1916: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Deaths 1 - 127 of 127

Jan 3rd - Grenville M. Dodge, American Civil War Union Army Major General (b. 1831)
Jan 8th - Ada Rehan, Irish-born American actress (b. 1860)
Jan 8th - Rembrandt Bugatti, Italian sculptor (b. 1884)
Jan 14th - Otto Ammon, German anthropologist/sociologist, dies at 73
Jan 15th - Modest Tchaikovsky, Russian writer (b. 1850)
Jan 16th - Arnold Aletrino, Dut physician-criminologist (From Death), dies at 57
Jan 22nd - Iwan Knorr, composer, dies at 63
Jan 29th - Edward Hubertus Joannes Keurvils, composer, dies at 62
Feb 1st - Anton Simon, composer, dies at 65
Feb 6th - Anne C A I van Diest, Belgian physician/feminist, dies at 73
Feb 6th - Rubén Darío, Nicaraguan writer (b. 1867)
Feb 9th - Hynek Ignac Frantisek Vojacek, composer, dies at 90
Feb 9th - Jack Barrett, cricketer (2 Tests for Australia 1890), dies
Feb 12th - J W Richard Dedekind, German mathematician, dies
Feb 14th - Petko J Todorov, Bulgaria writer (Zmejova), dies at 36
Feb 15th - Nikolay Nikolayevich Lodizhensky, composer, dies at 73
Feb 16th - Jeltje de Bosch Kemper, Dutch feminist, dies at 79
Feb 16th - [Gerard] Jan Ligthart, Dutch educator (Ot & Sien), dies at 57
Feb 19th - Ernst Mach, Austrian physicist/philosopher/psychologist, dies at 78
Feb 20th - Klas Pontus Arnoldson, Swedish politician (Nobel 1908), dies at 71
Feb 23rd - George Clement Martin, composer, dies at 71
Feb 28th - Henry James, US/British writer (Bostonians), dies in London at 72
Feb 29th - Edward H J Keurvels, Flemish conductor/composer (Parisina), dies at 62
Mar 2nd - Elisabeth OL, [Carmen Sylva], Queen of Romania, dies at 72
Mar 4th - Franz Marc, German painter/co-founder (Blaue Reiter), killed at 36
Mar 9th - Ken Hutchings, cricketer (exciting England batsman, WW I), dies
Mar 12th - M v Ebner-Eschenbach, writer, dies at 39
Mar 19th - Vasily Surikov, Russian painter (b. 1848)
Mar 20th - Ota Benga, Congolese pygmy (b. 1884)
Mar 21st - Victor de Stuers, Dutch art expert, dies at 72
Mar 24th - Enrique y Campina Granados, Sp opera composer (Goyescas), drowns at 48
Apr 1st - Gabrielle Petit, Belgian resistance fighter, executed
Apr 9th - Vicente Goicoechea Errasti, composer, dies at 62
Apr 11th - Richard Harding Davis, journalist, dies at 52
Apr 15th - Alfred Cogniaux, Belgian botanist, dies at 75
Apr 16th - Tom Horan, cricketer (15 Tests for Aust, 471 runs, 11 wickets), dies
Apr 19th - Ephraim Shay, American inventor (b. 1839)
Apr 29th - Jørgen Pedersen Gram, Danish mathematician (b. 1850)
May 4th - Joseph Mary Plunkett, Irish revolutionary (b. 1887)
May 6th - Dirk Bos, Dutch MP (Liberal), dies at 53
May 6th - Earl Ross Drake, composer, dies at 50
May 11th - Karl Schwarzschild, German astronomer (s-effect), dies
May 11th - Max Reger, composer, dies at 43
May 11th - Max [Johann BJM] Reger, German composer/pianist/organist, dies at 43
May 12th - James Connolly, Irish socialist (b. 1868)
May 13th - Sholem Aleichem, yiddish writer (Fiddler on the Roof), dies
May 17th - Gervais Bernard Gaston Salvayre, composer, dies at 68
May 17th - Boris Borisovich Galitzine, Russian physicist (b. 1862)
May 25th - Jack Marsh, cricketer (Aboriginal bowler played for NSW 1900-03), dies
May 27th - Joseph S Gallieni, General/military governor of Paris, dies
May 28th - Ivan Franko, Ukrainian writer (b. 1856)
The Gray Ghost John Singleton Mosby (May 30th) May 30th - John Singleton Mosby, American Confederate officer, dies at 82
May 31st - Horace Hood, British spy (Battle of Jutland), dies in battle
Jun 4th - Mildred J Hill, composer/musician (Happy Birthday To You), dies at 56
Jun 5th - Horatio H Kitchener, British General (Sudan), drowns at 65
Jun 6th - Yuan Shikai, president of China, dies at 56
Jun 7th - Émile Faguet, French writer and critic (b. 1847)
Jun 14th - João Simões Lopes Neto, Brazilian writer (b. 1865)
Jun 18th - Helmuth J L von Moltke, German chief general of staff, dies at 67
Jun 18th - Max Immelmann, German pilot (WW I), killed
Jun 23rd - Victor Chapman, US legionaire/WW I pilot, killed
Jun 25th - Thomas Eakins, American artist (b. 1844)
Jun 28th - Ştefan Luchian, Romanian painter (b. 1868)
Jul 1st - William Booth, cricketer (WW I 2 Tests for England 1913-14), dies
Jul 3rd - Henrietta (Hetty) Green, (Witch of Wall Street), dies at 81
Jul 4th - Alan Seeger, American war poet (b. 1888)
The Witch of Wall Street Hetty Green (Jul 3rd) Jul 6th - Odilon Redon, French painter (b. 1840)
Jul 11th - Rik Wouters, Belgian painter/sculptor (Doll Virgin), dies
Jul 12th - Aritius S Talma, Dutch minister of Agriculture, dies at 52
Jul 16th - Ilja [Elias] Metsjnikov, Russ bacteriologist (Nobel 1908), dies
Jul 16th - Ludwig P Scharwenka, German composer (Album Polonaise), dies at 70
Jul 16th - Victor Alexander Haden Horsley, physician, dies
Jul 16th - Ilya Mechnikov, Russian microbiologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1845)
Jul 18th - Benjamin C. Truman, American journalist and author
Jul 22nd - James Whitcomb Riley, American author and poet (b. 1849)
Jul 23rd - William Ramsey, chemist, dies
Jul 26th - Gellio Benevenuto Coronaro, composer, dies at 52
Jul 27th - Charles Fryatt, British capt of SS Brussels, executed by Germans, dies
Aug 1st - Claude Newberry, South African cricket All-rounder (v England 1913-14), dies
Aug 2nd - Hamish MacCunn, composer, dies at 48
Aug 3rd - Roger Casement, Irish nationalist (Easter uprising 1916), executed 51
Aug 5th - George Sainton Kaye Butterworth, composer, dies at 31
Aug 5th - Nikolay Ivanovich Kazanli, composer, dies at 46
Aug 7th - Charles E Manning, Australian judge/major, dies in battle at 36
Aug 13th - Fritz Steinbach, composer, dies at 61
Aug 18th - Edward D Pain, English journalist (NY World), dies in battle at 36
Aug 28th - Francis W Warre-Cornish, Engl vice-provost of Eton (1893-1916), dies
Sep 4th - José Echegaray y Eizaguirre, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1832)
Sep 10th - Friedrich Gernsheim, composer, dies at 77
Sep 14th - Josiah Royce, US philosopher (Conception of Immortality), dies
Sep 15th - Isidore Edouard Legouix, composer, dies at 82
Sep 25th - Julius Fucik, composer, dies at 44
Sep 27th - Emile A G Verhaeren, Belgian writer (Les Heures du Soir), dies at 61
Oct 2nd - Benjamin Kidel, English sociologist (Social Evolution), dies at 58
Oct 16th - Klaas/old stick Kater, christian worker's union leader, dies at 73
Oct 21st - Karl von Storgkh, premier Austria, assassinated
Oct 28th - Cleveland Abbe, American meteorologist (b. 1838)
Oct 28th - Oswald Boelcke, German pilot (b. 1891)
Oct 30th - Silas Gamaliel Pratt, composer, dies at 70
Oct 31st - Charles Taze Russell, American founder of the Jehovah's Witnesses (b. 1852)
Astronomer Percival Lowell (Nov 12th) Nov 12th - Percival Lowell, American amateur astronomer, founder of Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona (b. 1855)
Nov 13th - Frederik Septimus Kelly, composer, dies at 35
Nov 14th - Henry George, Jr., American politician (b. 1862)
Nov 14th - Saki, British writer (b. 1870)
Nov 15th - Henryk Sienkiewicz, Polish author, Nobel laureate (b. 1846)
Nov 21st - Franz Jozef I, King of Austria/Hungary, dies
Nov 22nd - Jack London, author, dies at 40
Nov 23rd - Eduard Napravnik, composer, dies at 77
Nov 23rd - Leonard Moon, cricketer (WW I 4 Tests for England 1905-06), dies
Nov 24th - John Francis Barnett, composer, dies at 79
Nov 24th - Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim, American-born gunsmith (b. 1840)
Nov 27th - James Cutler Dunn Parker, composer, dies at 88
Nov 28th - Marthinus T Steyn, pres of Orange-Free state (1896-1902), dies at 59
Dec 1st - Charles E Vicomte de Foucauld, French explorer, dies at 58
Dec 2nd - Francesco Paolo Tosti, composer, dies at 69
Dec 5th - Hans Richter, composer, dies at 73
Dec 9th - P Paul Leroy-Beaulieu, French economist (Economist France), dies at 73
Dec 9th - Natsume Sōseki, Japanese novelist (b. 1867)
Dec 20th - Manuel Giro, composer, dies at 68
Dec 20th - William Wallace Gilchrist, composer, dies at 70
Dec 25th - St. Albert Chmielowski, Polish Catholic saint (b. 1845)
Dec 26th - Bernhard Scholz, composer, dies at 81
Dec 26th - Frank Penn, cricketer (one Test for England v Australia 1880), dies
Dec 27th - Nikolay Feopemptovich Solov'yov, composer, dies at 70
Dec 28th - Eduard Strauss, Austrian composer (318 dances), dies at 81
Dec 29th - Grigori Rasputin, Russian faith healer/intriguer, murdered at 45
Dec 31st - Ernst Rudorff, composer, dies at 76