Famous People Who Died In 1916
Discover the most famous people died who died in the year 1916. This list includes people like Grigori Rasputin, Jack London, Franz Joseph I of Austria, Henry James, Charles Taze Russell and many more. This list of celebrities is loosely sorted by popularity. People featured on this list, include artists, soldiers, poets and novelists who died in 1916. This list includes people from United States, United Kingdom, Germany & Russia and many more countries.
Grigori Rasputin21 January 1869, Russian
Peasant, Mystical Faith healer
Franz Joseph I of Austria18 August 1830, Austrian
Emperor of Austria
Jack London12 January 1876, American
Author
Henry James15 April 1843, American
Writer
Ota Benga29 February 1883, Congolese
Congolese Mbuti Pygmy
Charles Taze Russell16 February 1852, American
Christian Restoration Minister
Saki18 December 1870, British
Writer
James Connolly05 June 1868, British
Socialist Leader
Ernst Mach18 February 1838, Austrian
Physicist
Sholem Aleichem02 March 1859, American
Author
Thomas Eakins25 July 1844, American
Painter
Rubén Darío18 January 1867, Nicaraguan
Poet
James J. Hill16 September 1838, Canadian, American
Canadian-American railroad executive, Businessman
Richard Dedekind06 October 1831, German
Mathematician
Enrique Granados27 July 1867, Spanish
Pianist and Composer
William Ramsay02 October 1852, British
Chemist
Max Reger19 March 1873, German
Composer
Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener24 June 1850, Irish, British
Politician, Diplomat, Engineer, Officer
Yuan Shikai16 September 1859, Chinese
Former President of the Republic of China
Roger Casement01 September 1864, Irish
Diplomat, Writer, Poet
Patrick Pearse10 November 1879, Irish
Poet, writer
Henryk Sienkiewicz05 May 1846, Polish
Writer, Novelist, Screenwriter, Journalist
Karl Schwarzschild09 October 1873, German
Physicist, Astronomer, Astrophysicist, University
Victoriano Huerta22 March 1850, Mexican, American
President
Helmuth von Moltke the Younger23 May 1848, German
officer
Franz Marc08 February 1880, German
Painter
Hiram Maxim05 February 1840, British, American
Inventor
Hetty Green21 November 1834, American
financier
Odilon Redon20 April 1840, French
Painter, Illustrator, Printmaker
Umberto Boccioni19 October 1882, Italian
Painter, Sculptor, Artist
Percival Lowell13 March 1855, American
Astronomer, Mathematician
Oswald Boelcke19 May 1891
Aviator, Military personnel
William Merritt Chase01 November 1849, American
Painter
Max Immelmann21 September 1890
Aviator, Military personnel
Hugo Münsterberg01 June 1863, German, American
Psychologist, University teacher, Philosopher
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Joseph Jacobs29 August 1854, Australian
Literary critic, Literary historian, Folklorist,
George Butterworth12 July 1885, British
Composer, Musicologist
Josiah Royce20 November 1855, American
Philosopher, University teacher
Jack Cornwell08 January 1900, British
Vasily Surikov12 January 1848, Russian
painter
Alfred Kleiner24 April 1849, Swiss
Physicist
Ivan Franko27 August 1856, Ukrainian
Poet
Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz12 August 1843, German
Writer, Military historian, Soldier
Lanoe Hawker30 December 1890, British
Aviator, Military personnel
Marie Bracquemond01 December 1840, French
Painter
Mary Everest Boole1832 AD, British
mathematician, philosopher
Carleton Watkins11 November 1829, American
Photographer
José Echegaray19 April 1832, Spanish
Spanish civil engineer
Klas Pontus Arnoldson27 October 1844, Swedish
Politician, Journalist, Writer, Non-fiction writer
Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov16 May 1845, Russian
Zoologist
John Benjamin Murphy21 December 1857, American
Physician
Emile Verhaeren21 May 1855, French
Belgian poet
Soseki Natsume06 February 1867, Japanese
Novelist
Élie Metchnikoff15 May 1845, Russian
Ștefan Luchian01 February 1868, Romanian
painter, pastelist, watercolourist