1916 deaths

German linguist (1840–1916)

mother of Vladimir Lenin (1835-1916)

Irish revolutionary leader (1857-1916)

Czech composer (1872–1916)

Ishi ( – March 25, 1916) was the last known member of the Native American Yahi people from the present-day state of California in the United States. The rest of the Yahi (as well as many members of their parent tribe, the Yana) were killed in the California genocide in the 19th century. Widely described as the "last wild Indian" in the United States, Ishi lived most of his life isolated from modern North American culture, and was the last known Native manufacturer of stone arrowheads. In 1911, aged 50, he emerged at a barn and corral, from downtown Oroville, California.

French painter (1840–1916)

German flying ace (1890–1916)

British geographer (1830-1916)

Italian, later British composer and music teacher (1846–1916)

Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz

Spanish-born French physician, hypnotist, and popularizer of occultism, who founded the modern Martinist Order (1865-1916)

Austrian artist (1845-1916)

Duchess of Nassau, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (1833–1916)

English footballer (1870–1916)

American meteorologist and advocate of time zones (1838-1916)

Chinese revolutionary (1874-1916)

Bosnian activist (1895-1916)

German physicist (1848–1916)

American financier (1834–1916)

author of didactic works on mathematics (1832-1916)

German chemist (1834-1916)

German First World War flying ace (1891–1916)

Greek sport shooter and army officer (1863–1916)

German writer, editor (1865–1916)

Ukrainian sociologist (1851-1916)

Chilean politician and president (1854-1916)

Australian folklorist, historian and writer (1854–1916)

American physician (1850–1916); discoverer of Huntington's disease

Belarusian writer & poet

Italian ethnologist (1841-1916)

Chinese politician (1882-1916)

Irish revolutionary (1883-1916)

Russian meteorologist (1842-1916)

Russian geologist (1862–1916)

Founder of Yamaha (1851–1916)

Minister-President of Austria (1859-1916)

Polish painter (1851-1916)

regent of the Principality of Lippe (1859-1916)

Finnish mining engineer, founder of Nokia (1838–1916)

Polish saint (1846-1916)

explorer

English footballer (1874-1916)

Slovak poet, publicist, politician and writer (1847-1916)

Kosovo Albanian guerilla leader (1864-1916)

American painter (1849–1916)

Swiss anarchist (1844–1916)

Low German writer (1880–1916)

French painter (1819–1916)

Prime Minister of Greece (1844-1916)

Irish nationalist, poet, playwright and revolutionary (1878-1916)

Latvian painter (1866-1916)

French sculptor and painter (1845-1916)

Czech conductor and composer

British social researcher and philanthropist (1840-1916)

historian, philologist and professor from Belgium (1847-1916)

French archer (1862–1916)

Italian writer (1883-1916)

British archaeological forger (1864-1916)

(1886-1916) American suffragist, lawyer

Irish republican and 1916 Easter Rising leader (1881–1916)