1916 deaths

American author, journalist and social activist (1876–1916)

Polish writer, novelist, journalist, philanthropist and Nobel Prize laureate (1846–1916)

Russian mystic (1869–1916)

American and British writer (1843–1916)

Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary (1830-1916)

Scottish chemist (1852–1916)

Austrian physicist (1838–1916)

Spanish playwright (1832-1916)

Russian-French immunologist, embryologist, biologist

Ukrainian poet and writer (1856–1916)

Nicaraguan poet, journalist, writer, and diplomat (1867-1916)

German mathematician (1831–1916)

German artist (1880–1916)

Japanese novelist

Austrian writer (1830–1916)

Belgian poet (1855-1916)

Jewish writer and playwright of Yiddish, who worked in Russian Empire, Switzerland, Germany and the United States (1859-1916)

American astronomer (1855-1916)

Swedish politician (1844-1916)

Chinese military and government official (1859–1916)

French painter (1840–1916)

Irish republican, trade unionist and socialist revolutionary

German writer; queen consort of Romania as the wife of King Carol I (1843–1916)

German physicist, astronomer and mathematician (1873–1916)

Irish officer and colonial administrator in the British Army (1850–1916)

Russian artist (1848-1916)

Italian painter and sculptor (1882-1916)

Chief of the German General Staff (1848–1916)

American painter (1844–1916)

German composer, pianist and conductor (1873-1916)

Hector Hugh Munro (18 December 1870 – 14 November 1916), popularly known by his pen name Saki and also frequently as H. H. Munro, was a British writer whose witty, mischievous and sometimes macabre stories satirise Edwardian society and culture. He is considered to be a master of the short story and is often compared to O. Henry and Dorothy Parker. Influenced by Oscar Wilde, Lewis Carroll and Rudyard Kipling, Munro himself influenced A. A. Milne, Noël Coward and P. G. Wodehouse.

French Catholic religious man, explorer and scholar (1858–1916)

Irish revolutionary, shot by the British Army in 1916

Founder of the Bible Student movement (1852–1916)

King of Bavaria (1848-1916)

Mexican military officer and 35th President of Mexico (1850-1916)

Spanish pianist and composer (1867–1916)

African American chemist (1892–1916)

French physicist and historian of science (1861-1916)

French egyptologist (1846–1916)

American-born inventor (1840-1916)

Irish diplomat, activist, nationalist and poet (1864–1916)

Field marshal and military writer (1843-1916)

French literary critic (1847–1916)

German-American psychologist (1863-1916)

French psychologist (1839-1916)

French soldier (1849-1916)

Bosnian Serb writer (1877-1916)

Austrian composer (1835–1916)

Japanese general (1842-1916)

American novelist (1876-1916)

Danish artist (1864-1916)

Irish nationalist, poet, journalist and 1916 Easter Rising leader

Swedish astronomer (1846–1916)

Last king of Burma (1859–1916)

Hungarian military leader (1818–1916)

Mbuti pygmy featured in an anthropology exhibit in 1904

American philosopher (1855–1916)

German linguist (1840–1916)

Austrian-Hungarian orchestral and operatic conductor (1843-1916)