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1916
1916 is a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar)
Events
January-February
March-June
July-August
November-December
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November 13 - Prime Minister of Australia William Morris Hughes is expelled from the Labor Party over his support for conscription.
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November 25 - Friedrich Adler shoots Karl Stürgh , prime minister of Austria
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December 12 - In the Dolomites, an avalanche buries 18,000 Austrian and Italian soldiers.
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December 31 - The Hampton Terrace Hotel in North Augusta, South Carolina, one of the largest and most luxurious hotels in the nation at the time, burns to the ground.
- November - Woodrow Wilson defeats Charles E. Hughes in the U.S. presidential election
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November 5 - Kingdom of Poland proclaimed by joined act of emperors of Germany and Austria.
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November 7 - Jeannette Rankin of Montana becomes the first woman elected to the United States House of Representatives.
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November 18 - World War I: First Battle of the Somme ends - In France, British Expeditionary Force commander Douglas Haig calls off the battle which started on July 1, 1916.
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November 22 - Jack London, American novelist, dies at the age of 40.
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November 30 - Hellenic Holocaust: According to the Austrian consul: "on 26 November Rafet Bey (Turkish Minister of the Interior) told me: "we must finish off the Greeks as we did with the Armenians … on 28 November.""
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December 23 - World War I: Battle of Magdhaba - In the Sinai desert, Australian and New Zealand mounted troops capture the Turkish garrison.
unknown dates
Ongoing events
Births
January-March
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Jack Agazarian, SOE agent and hero of WW II (d. 1945)
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January 3 - Betty Furness, actress, consumer activist (d. 1994)
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January 12 - Pieter Willem Botha, President of South Africa
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February 9 - Tex Hughson, Major League Baseball player (d. 1993)
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February 11 - Bernice Levin Neugarten , social scientist/gerontologist (d. 2001)
- February 11 - Joseph Alioto, Mayor of San Francisco (d. 1998)
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February 14 - Masaki Kobayashi, director
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February 26 - Jackie Gleason, comedian (d. 1987)
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February 29 - Dinah Shore, singer (d. 1994)
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March 3 - Paul Halmos, mathematician
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March 4 - Hans Eysenck, psychologist (d. 1997)
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March 11 - Harold Wilson, British prime minister (d. 1995)
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March 13 - John Aspinwall Roosevelt, businessman, philanthropist (d. 1981)
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March 14 - Horton Foote, writer
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March 15 - Harry James, musician, band leader (d. 1983)
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March 17 - Ray Ellington, British singer (d. 1985)
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March 19 - Irving Wallace, novelist (d. 1990)
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March 29 - Eugene McCarthy, former US Senator from Minnesota
April-June
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April 3 - Herb Caen, newspaper columnist (d. 1997)
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April 5 - Gregory Peck, actor (d. 2003)
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April 12 - Beverly Cleary, author
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April 15 – Alfred S. Bloomingdale, department store heir (d. 1982)
- April 15 - Helene Hanff , author (d. 1997)
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April 22 - Yehudi Menuhin, American violinist (d. 1999)
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April 25 - R.J. Rushdoony, founder of Christian Reconstructionism (d. 2001)
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April 30 - Claude Elwood Shannon, the "father of information theory (d. 2001)
- April 30 - Robert Shaw, American condcutor (d. 1999)
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May 8 - João Havelange, industrialist and FIFA president 1974-1998
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May 10 - Milton Babbitt, composer
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May 20 - Trebisonda Valla, athlete
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May 21 - Harold Robbins, novelist (d. 1997)
- May 21 - Tinus Osendarp, Dutch sprinter (d. 2002)
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May 26 - Henriette Roosenburg, journalist (d. 1972)
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June 8 - Francis Crick, scientist, Nobel laureate (d. 2004)
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June 23 - Len Hutton, English cricketer (d. 1990)
- June 23 - Hermann Gmeiner , pedagogue (d. 1986)
- June 23 - Irene Worth , actress (d. 2002)
July-December
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July 11 - Gough Whitlam, twenty-first Prime Minister of Australia, 1972-1975
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July 14 - Natalia Ginzburg , author (d. 1991)
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July 22 - Marcel Cerdan, World Champion Boxer (d. 1949)
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July 29 - Fmr Victorian Premier Sir Rupert Dick Hamer (1916-2004)
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July 31 - Bill Todman, game show producer (d. 1979)
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September 13 - Roald Dahl, author (d. 1990)
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October 19 - Emil Gilels, Ukrainian pianist (d. 1994)
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October 30 - Leon Day, baseballer (d. 1995)
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November 4 - Walter Cronkite, anchorman
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November 10 - Louis le Brocquy, leading Irish painter
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November 24 - Forrest J. Ackerman, writer
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November 27 - Chick Hearn, pro-basketball announcer (d. 2002)
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November 28 - Mary Lilian Baels, Princess of Rethy, Belgium (d. 2002)
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December 9 - Kirk Douglas, US actor
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December 11 - Dámaso Pérez Prado, Cuban musician (d. 1989)
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December 19 - Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann , publicist
Deaths
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February 6 - Rubén Darío, writer
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February 12 - Richard Dedekind, mathematician
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February 28 - Henry James, American writer (b. 1843)
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May 3 - Padraig Pearse, Irish nationalist
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May 11 - Max Reger, composer
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May 13 - Sholom Aleichem, Ukrainian Yiddish writer (b. 1859)
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June 6 - Yuan Shikai, Chinese military official and politician
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June 29 - Georges Lacombe, French artist
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July 6 - Odilon Redon, French painter (b. 1840)
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July 23 - Sir William Ramsay, chemist and Nobel prize winner
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October 7 - James Whitcomb Riley, American poet
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October 28 - Cleveland Abbe, U.S. meteorologist (b. 1838)
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November 13 - Lanoe Hawker, British fighter pilot.
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November 14 - Saki, writer (b. 1870)
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November 15 - Henryk Sienkiewicz, Polish author (b. 1846)
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November 22 - Jack London, American author (b. 1876)
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November 24 - Hiram Stevens Maxim, inventor of Maxim Gun (b. 1840)
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December 5 - Princess Augusta of Cambridge, the last grandchild of George III
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December 28 - Eduard Strauss, composer (b. 1835)
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December 29/December 30 - Grigori Rasputin, Russian monk & mystic
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February 19 - Ernst Mach, physicist and philosopher
Last updated: 10-16-2005 11:11:05
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