Notable Deaths - 1916
1916 Deaths
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 3 |
Grenville M. Dodge, American Civil War Union Army Major General (b. 1831) |
Jan 8 |
Ada Rehan, Irish-born American actress (b. 1860) |
Jan 8 |
Rembrandt Bugatti, Italian sculptor (b. 1884) |
Jan 11 |
Sam Lucas, Uncle Tom's Cabin |
Jan 14 |
Otto Ammon, German anthropologist/sociologist, dies at 73 |
Jan 15 |
Modest Tchaikovsky, Russian writer (b. 1850) |
Jan 15 |
Modest Tchaikovsky, The Queen of Spades: Bolshoi Opera |
Jan 16 |
Arnold Aletrino, Dut physician-criminologist (From Death), dies at 57 |
Jan 17 |
Arthur V. Johnson, The Sealed Room |
Jan 21 |
George Musgrove, Nell Gwynne |
Jan 22 |
Iwan Knorr, composer, dies at 63 |
Jan 29 |
Edward Hubertus Joannes Keurvils, composer, dies at 62 |
Feb 1 |
Anton Simon, composer, dies at 65 |
Feb 6 |
Anne C A I van Diest, Belgian physician/feminist, dies at 73 |
Feb 6 |
Rubén Darío, Nicaraguan writer (b. 1867) |
Feb 6 |
Rubén Darío, La hora bruja |
Feb 9 |
Hynek Ignac Frantisek Vojacek, composer, dies at 90 |
Feb 9 |
Jack Barrett, cricketer (2 Tests for Australia 1890), dies |
Feb 12 |
J W Richard Dedekind, German mathematician, dies |
Feb 12 |
John Townsend Trowbridge, The Vagabonds |
Feb 14 |
Petko J Todorov, Bulgaria writer (Zmejova), dies at 36 |
Feb 15 |
Nikolay Nikolayevich Lodizhensky, composer, dies at 73 |
Feb 16 |
Jeltje de Bosch Kemper, Dutch feminist, dies at 79 |
Feb 16 |
[Gerard] Jan Ligthart, Dutch educator (Ot & Sien), dies at 57 |
Feb 19 |
Ernst Mach, Austrian physicist/philosopher/psychologist, dies at 78 |
Feb 20 |
Klas Pontus Arnoldson, Swedish politician (Nobel 1908), dies at 71 |
Feb 23 |
George Clement Martin, composer, dies at 71 |
Feb 26 |
Charles Manley, Uncle Josh at the Moving Picture Show |
Feb 28 |
Henry James, US/British writer (Bostonians), dies in London at 72 |
Feb 28 |
Henry James, The Wings of the Dove |
Feb 29 |
Edward H J Keurvels, Flemish conductor/composer (Parisina), dies at 62 |
Mar 1 |
Jean Mounet-Sully, La légende d'Oedipe |
Mar 2 |
Elisabeth OL, [Carmen Sylva], Queen of Romania, dies at 72 |
Mar 4 |
Franz Marc, German painter/co-founder (Blaue Reiter), killed at 36 |
Mar 8 |
Julius Larsen, Direktør Ivar Knudsen til prøvesejlads om bord paa et dieselskib, omgivet af repræsentanter for handel og industri, hvoriblandt admiral A. de Richelieu, etatsraad Martin Dessau, gehejmeetatsraad Julius Larsen, baron Blixen-Finecke og flere |
Mar 9 |
Ken Hutchings, cricketer (exciting England batsman, WW I), dies |
Mar 12 |
M v Ebner-Eschenbach, writer, dies at 39 |
Mar 12 |
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Krambambuli |
Mar 17 |
Frank Danby, The Heart of a Child |
Mar 19 |
Vasily Surikov, Russian painter (b. 1848) |
Mar 20 |
Ota Benga, Congolese pygmy (b. 1884) |
Mar 21 |
Victor de Stuers, Dutch art expert, dies at 72 |
Mar 24 |
Enrique y Campina Granados, Sp opera composer (Goyescas), drowns at 48 |
Mar 24 |
Enric Granados, Original Sin |
Apr 1 |
Gabrielle Petit, Belgian resistance fighter, executed |
Apr 9 |
Vicente Goicoechea Errasti, composer, dies at 62 |
Apr 11 |
Richard Harding Davis, journalist, dies at 52 |
Apr 11 |
Richard Harding Davis, It's a Dog's Life |
Apr 15 |
Alfred Cogniaux, Belgian botanist, dies at 75 |
Apr 16 |
Tom Horan, cricketer (15 Tests for Aust, 471 runs, 11 wickets), dies |
Apr 19 |
Ephraim Shay, American inventor (b. 1839) |
Apr 21 |
Guy Rathbone, Julius Caesar |
Apr 26 |
Mário de Sá-Carneiro, Retrato de Família |
Apr 28 |
Alex Rautio, Salaviinanpolttajat |
Apr 29 |
Jørgen Pedersen Gram, Danish mathematician (b. 1850) |
Apr 30 |
Poul Klein, Manden fra Mørket |
May 4 |
Joseph Mary Plunkett, Irish revolutionary (b. 1887) |
May 6 |
Dirk Bos, Dutch MP (Liberal), dies at 53 |
May 6 |
Earl Ross Drake, composer, dies at 50 |
May 9 |
Teppo Raikas, Sylvi |
May 11 |
Karl Schwarzschild, German astronomer (s-effect), dies |
May 11 |
Max Reger, German composer/pianist/organist, dies at 43 |
May 11 |
Max Reger, Fury |
May 12 |
James Connolly, Irish socialist (b. 1868) |
May 13 |
Sholem Aleichem, yiddish writer (Fiddler on the Roof), dies |
May 13 |
Sholom Aleichem, Fiddler on the Roof |
May 17 |
Gervais Bernard Gaston Salvayre, composer, dies at 68 |
May 17 |
Boris Borisovich Galitzine, Russian physicist (b. 1862) |
May 25 |
Jack Marsh, cricketer (Aboriginal bowler played for NSW 1900-03), dies |
May 27 |
Joseph S Gallieni, General/military governor of Paris, dies |
May 27 |
Joseph-Simon Galliéni, |
May 28 |
Ivan Franko, Ukrainian writer (b. 1856) |
May 28 |
Ivan Franko, Zakhar Berkut |
May 30 |
John Singleton Mosby, American Confederate officer, dies at 82 |
May 31 |
Rear Admiral Sir Horace Lambert Alexander Hood, dies in Battle of Jutland |
May 31 |
Gorch Fock, Die Königin von Honolulu |
Jun 2 |
Carlo Bertolazzi, Vanità |
Jun 4 |
Mildred J Hill, composer/musician (Happy Birthday To You), dies at 56 |
Jun 5 |
Horatio H Kitchener, British General (Sudan), drowns at 65 |
Jun 5 |
Mildred J. Hill, Batman Begins |
Jun 5 |
Lord Kitchener, Gen'l Sir Herbert Kitchener |
Jun 6 |
Yuan Shikai, president of China, dies at 56 |
Jun 7 |
Émile Faguet, French writer and critic (b. 1847) |
Jun 11 |
Jean Webster, Daddy Long Legs |
Jun 14 |
João Simões Lopes Neto, Brazilian writer (b. 1865) |
Jun 17 |
Ernest Lacy, The Ragged Earl |
Jun 18 |
Helmuth J L von Moltke, German chief general of staff, dies at 67 |
Jun 18 |
Max Immelmann, German pilot (WW I), killed |
Jun 20 |
Edward Sylvester Ellis, The Break-Out |
Jun 23 |
Victor Chapman, US legionaire/WW I pilot, killed |
Jun 23 |
Maurice Vinot, Hercules and the Big Stick |
Jun 25 |
Thomas Eakins, American artist (b. 1844) |
Jun 28 |
Ştefan Luchian, Romanian painter (b. 1868) |
Jun 28 |
Thomas Russell Sullivan, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde |
Jul 1 |
William Booth, cricketer (WW I 2 Tests for England 1913-14), dies |
Jul 3 |
henrietta (Hetty) Green, (Witch of Wall Street), dies at 81 |
Jul 4 |
Alan Seeger, American war poet (b. 1888) |
Jul 6 |
Odilon Redon, French painter (b. 1840) |
Jul 11 |
Rik Wouters, Belgian painter/sculptor (Doll Virgin), dies |
Jul 12 |
Aritius S Talma, Dutch minister of Agriculture, dies at 52 |
Jul 16 |
Ilja [Elias] Metsjnikov, Russ bacteriologist (Nobel 1908), dies |
Jul 16 |
Ludwig P Scharwenka, German composer (Album Polonaise), dies at 70 |
Jul 16 |
Victor Alexander Haden Horsley, physician, dies |
Jul 16 |
Ilya Mechnikov, Russian microbiologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1845) |
Jul 18 |
Benjamin C. Truman, American journalist and author |
Jul 22 |
James Whitcomb Riley, American author and poet (b. 1849) |
Jul 22 |
James Whitcomb Riley, Little Orphant Annie |
Jul 23 |
William Ramsey, chemist, dies |
Jul 26 |
Gellio Benevenuto Coronaro, composer, dies at 52 |
Jul 26 |
Sally Louisa Tompkins, American nurse and philanthrophist, only commissioned woman in US Confederate Army dies aged 82 |
Jul 27 |
Charles Fryatt, British capt of SS Brussels, executed by Germans, dies |
Jul 27 |
William T. Rock, Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman |
Jul 30 |
Albert Neisser, German physician who discovered the bacterias that cause gonorrhea and leprosy, dies of septicemia at 61 |
Aug 1 |
Claude Newberry, South African cricket All-rounder (v England 1913-14), dies |
Aug 2 |
Hamish MacCunn, composer, dies at 48 |
Aug 3 |
Sir Roger Casement, an Ulster Protestant and ardent Irish nationalist, executed by the British at 51 |
Aug 5 |
George Sainton Kaye Butterworth, composer, dies at 31 |
Aug 5 |
Nikolay Ivanovich Kazanli, composer, dies at 46 |
Aug 7 |
Charles E Manning, Australian judge/major, dies in battle at 36 |
Aug 9 |
G. Gozzano, 100 Years of Love |
Aug 9 |
Guido Gozzano, La vita delle farfalle |
Aug 13 |
Fritz Steinbach, composer, dies at 61 |
Aug 16 |
Johannes Kilian, Mara-Onga |
Aug 18 |
Edward D Pain, English journalist (NY World), dies in battle at 36 |
Aug 18 |
Vilhelm Wiehe, Den farlige leg |
Aug 28 |
Francis W Warre-Cornish, Engl vice-provost of Eton (1893-1916), dies |
Aug 28 |
Petar Kocic, Mejdan Simeuna Djaka |
Aug 29 |
Holger Holm, Døden |
Sep 4 |
José Echegaray y Eizaguirre, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1832) |
Sep 9 |
Sydney Ayres, She Loved Them Both |
Sep 10 |
Friedrich Gernsheim, composer, dies at 77 |
Sep 14 |
Josiah Royce, US philosopher (Conception of Immortality), dies |
Sep 14 |
José Echegaray y Eizaguirre, El gran Galeoto |
Sep 15 |
Isidore Edouard Legouix, composer, dies at 82 |
Sep 15 |
Francis Carlyle, The Perils of Pauline |
Sep 17 |
Seth Low, Opening of New East River Bridge, New York |
Sep 22 |
C.M.S. McLellan, The Belle of New York |
Sep 25 |
Julius Fucik, composer, dies at 44 |
Sep 25 |
Julius Fucík, Big Fish |
Sep 27 |
Emile A G Verhaeren, Belgian writer (Les Heures du Soir), dies at 61 |
Oct 2 |
Benjamin Kidel, English sociologist (Social Evolution), dies at 58 |
Oct 2 |
Curt A. Stark, Der Schatten des Meeres |
Oct 6 |
Henry Woodruff, A Man and His Mate |
Oct 14 |
Constantin Radovici, Spionul |
Oct 16 |
Klaas/old stick Kater, christian worker's union leader, dies at 73 |
Oct 17 |
Silvio Pettirossi, |
Oct 18 |
Eben E. Rexford, Barfly |
Oct 18 |
Norman Duncan, The Measure of a Man |
Oct 21 |
Karl von Storgkh, premier Austria, assassinated |
Oct 28 |
Cleveland Abbe, American meteorologist (b. 1838) |
Oct 28 |
Oswald Boelcke, German pilot (b. 1891) |
Oct 28 |
Oswald Boelcke, Who Killed the Red Baron? |
Oct 30 |
Silas Gamaliel Pratt, composer, dies at 70 |
Oct 31 |
Charles Taze Russell, American founder of the Jehovah's Witnesses (b. 1852) |
Nov 3 |
George Elwell, The Raiders |
Nov 12 |
Percival Lowell, American amateur astronomer, founder of Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona (b. 1855) |
Nov 13 |
Frederik Septimus Kelly, composer, dies at 35 |
Nov 13 |
Hector Hugh Munro, Sredni Vashtar |
Nov 14 |
Henry George, Jr., American politician (b. 1862) |
Nov 14 |
Saki, British writer (b. 1870) |
Nov 15 |
Henryk Sienkiewicz, Polish author, Nobel laureate (b. 1846) |
Nov 15 |
Henryk Sienkiewicz, Quo Vadis |
Nov 16 |
Ellen Landquist, Hon fick platsen |
Nov 21 |
Franz Jozef I, King of Austria/Hungary, dies |
Nov 21 |
Emperor Franz Josef, Emperor Franz Josef Opening the Millenial Exhibition |
Nov 22 |
Jack London, author, dies at 40 |
Nov 22 |
Jack London, White Fang |
Nov 22 |
Frank Desprez, Lasca of the Rio Grande |
Nov 23 |
Eduard Napravnik, composer, dies at 77 |
Nov 23 |
Leonard Moon, cricketer (WW I 4 Tests for England 1905-06), dies |
Nov 23 |
Eduard Napravnik, Dubrovsky |
Nov 24 |
John Francis Barnett, composer, dies at 79 |
Nov 24 |
Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim, American-born gunsmith (b. 1840) |
Nov 25 |
Inez Millholland, Votes for Women |
Nov 25 |
Inez Milholland Boissevain, Animated Weekly, No. 1 |
Nov 27 |
James Cutler Dunn Parker, composer, dies at 88 |
Nov 27 |
Carolina Invernizio, The Kiss of Death |
Nov 28 |
Marthinus T Steyn, pres of Orange-Free state (1896-1902), dies at 59 |
Nov 30 |
Dorrit Weixler, Fräulein Piccolo |
Dec 1 |
Charles E Vicomte de Foucauld, French explorer, dies at 58 |
Dec 2 |
Francesco Paolo Tosti, composer, dies at 69 |
Dec 2 |
Francesco Paolo Tosti, The 3 Tenors in Concert 1994 |
Dec 5 |
Hans Richter, composer, dies at 73 |
Dec 5 |
Princess Augusta of Cambridge, |
Dec 9 |
P Paul Leroy-Beaulieu, French economist (Economist France), dies at 73 |
Dec 9 |
Natsume Sōseki, Japanese novelist (b. 1867) |
Dec 9 |
Soseki Natsume, And Then |
Dec 13 |
Comyns Carr, Called Back |
Dec 16 |
Friedrich Ernst Dorn, German physicist who discovered that radon is emitted from radium, dies at 68 |
Dec 16 |
Grigory Rasputin, |
Dec 20 |
Manuel Giro, composer, dies at 68 |
Dec 20 |
William Wallace Gilchrist, composer, dies at 70 |
Dec 25 |
St. Albert Chmielowski, Polish Catholic saint (b. 1845) |
Dec 25 |
Wilhelmine von Hillern, Geierwally |
Dec 26 |
Bernhard Scholz, composer, dies at 81 |
Dec 26 |
Frank Penn, cricketer (one Test for England v Australia 1880), dies |
Dec 27 |
Nikolay Feopemptovich Solov'yov, composer, dies at 70 |
Dec 28 |
Eduard Strauss, Austrian composer (318 dances), dies at 81 |
Dec 29 |
Grigori Rasputin, Russian faith healer/intriguer, murdered at 45 |
Dec 31 |
Ernst Rudorff, composer, dies at 76 |
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