In the year 1916, Paris is bombed by German zeppelins for the first time (Jan 29), Emma Goldman is arrested for lecturing on birth control in the U.S (Feb 11), the automobile company BMW is founded (Mar 7), the toggle light switch is invented (Apr), the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire is declared (Jun 10), the Pacific Aero Products Co., later named Boeing, is incorporated (Jul 15), Robert Baden-Powell publishes The Wolf Club’s Handbook in the U.K. (Aug), tanks are used for the first time in warfare (Sep), Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria dies after 68 years in power (Nov 21), Grigori Rasputin is murdered in Saint Petersburg, Russia (Dec 30), WWI continues - and all these fine people were born:

1916-0101 Joel Barr* electrical engineer/part of the Soviet Atomic Spy Ring - New York City, NY USA (1998/82) 1916-0103 Maxene Andrews* singer/ soprano (The Andrews Sisters) – Minneapolis, MN USA (1995/79) 1916-0107 Paul Keres* Estonian chess grandmaster - Narva, Russian Empire (1975/59) 1916-0107 Fernando Sancho* actor - Zaragoza, Spain (1990/74) 1916-0108 1916-0109 Peter Twinn* mathematician/ WW2 codebreaker - London, England (2004/88) 1916-0110 1916-0112 Ruth R. Benerito* chemist/ inventor of wrinkle-free cotton - New Orleans, LA USA (2013/97) 1916-0120 1916-0122 Bill Durnan* hockey goalie (NHL 100) - Toronto, ON Canada (1972/56) 1916-0131 1916-0201 1916-0210 1916-0214 Masaki Kobayashi* 小林 正樹 film director - Otaru, Japan (1996/80) 1916-0214 Edward Platt* actor (Get Smart) - Staten Island, NY USA (1974/58) 1916-0215 1916-0218 Jean Drapeau* lawyer/ politician/Mayor of Montreal - Montreal, QC Canada (1999/83) 1916-0218 Francis Henry “Frank” Sullivan* Coxswain /one of the Sullivan quintet whose deaths led way to the Sole Survivor Policy – Waterloo, IA USA (1942/26) 1916-0220 1916-0226 Joan Curran* scientist/helped develop radar and the atomic bomb - Swansea, Wales (1999/82) 1916-0226 Jackie Gleason* actor/ comedian/ composer - Brooklyn, NY USA (1987/71) 1916-0228 1916-0301 Man Kaur* centenarian masters athlete/started at age 93 - British India (2021/105) 1916-0301 Emelyn Whiton* (b Leonard) sailor - New York City, NY USA (1962/46) 1916-0305 Jack Hamm* cartoonist/writer of books on drawing technique - Wichita, KS USA (1996/80) 1916-0310 1916-0315 Harry James* musician (trumpet)/big band leader - Albany, GA USA (1983/67) 1916-0315 Aarne Laine* actor/ film director/brother of Edvin Laine - Iisalmi, GD of Finland (1990/74) 1916-0315 Ingegerd Lindström* (b Ericsson) translator/sister of Astrid Lindgren - Wimmerby, Sweden (1997/81) 1916-0319 Irving Wallace* author/screenwriter - Chicago, IL USA (1990/74) 1916-0320 1916-0326 Christian B. Anfinsen* chemist/N - Monessen, PA USA (1995/79) 1916-0326 Sterling Hayden* actor - Upper Montclair, NJ USA (1986/70) 1916-0331 1916-0401 1916-0405 Gregory Peck* actor - La Jolla, CA USA (2003/87) 1916-0410 Michael Langhorne Astor* politician/son of Waldorf Astor - London, England (1980/63) 1916-0415 Alfred S. Bloomingdale* heir to the Bloomingdale’s department store fortune - New York, NY USA (1982/66) 1916-0415 Mary Meader* aerial photographer/ philanthropist - Kalamazoo, Michigan USA (2008/91) 1916-0420 1916-0422 Yvette Lundy* WW2 Resistance fighter - Oger, France (2019/103) 1916-0422 Yehudi Menuhin* violinist/conductor - New York, NY USA (1999/82) 1916-0422 Ruth A.M. Schmidt* geologist/ paleontologist - Broolyn, NY USA (2014/97) 1916-0428 Ferruccio Lamborghini* car manufacturer/ industrialist - Ferrara, Emilia-Romagna, Kingdom of Italy (1993/76) 1916-0430 1916-0501 Glenn Ford* actor -  Sainte-Christine-d’Auvergne, QC Canada (2006/90) 1916-0502 Liisa Nevalainen* actress (Pojat)/detective story writer - Oulu, GD of Finland (1987/71) 1916-0511 Camilo José Cela* novelist/poet//N - Padrón, A Coruña, Spain (2002/85) 1916-0515 1916-0520 Giuseppe Ottaviani* tailor/centenarian masters athlete (long jump & triple jump) - Sant’Ippolito, Kingdom of Italy (2020/104) 1916-0521 Dennis Day* singer/ entertainer/of Irish descent - The Bronx, NY USA (1988/72) 1916-0525 Charles Hornig* editor/one of the earliest contributors to the science fiction genre - Jersey City, NJ USA (1999/83) 1916-0531 Bernard Lewis* historian - London, England (2018/101) 1916-0601 1916-0609 Robert McNamara* businessman/ politician - San Francisco, CA USA (2009/93) 1916-0614 Dorothy McGuire* actress - Omaha, NE USA (2001/85) 1916-0614 Georg Henrik von Wright* philosopher/w Scottish ancestry - Helsinki, GD of Finland (2003/87) 1916-0620 1916-0630 1916-0701 Olivia de Havilland* British-American actress - Tokyo, Japan (2020/104) 1916-0711 Kitty Joyner* electrical astroengineer - Charlottesville,  Virginia USA (1993/77) 1916-0711 Alexander Prokhorov* Russian physicist/N - Peeramon, Queensland, Australia (2002/85) 1916-0711 Gough Whitlam* politician/PM - Kew, Melbourne, Australia (2014/98) 1916-0714 Natalia Ginzburg* (b Levi) author/ activist/politician - Palermo, Kingdom of Italy (1991/75) 1916-0718 L. Patrick Gray III* Acting Director of the FBI during the Watergate scandal - St. Louis, MO USA (2005/88) 1916-0722 Dean Brooks* physician/actor (One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest) - Colony, KS USA (2013/96) 1916-0724 Sheila Florance* actress - St. KIlda, VIC Australia (1991/75) 1916-0731 Bill Todman* game show producer - New York City, NY USA (1979/62) 1916-0801 Olimpio Bizzi* racing cyclist - Livorno, Kingdom of Italy (1976/60) 1916-0801 Lois Roden* (b Scott) president of the Branch Davidian Seventh-day Adventist Church - Stone County, MT USA (1986/70) 1916-0805 1916-0807 Kermit Love* puppet maker (the Muppets)/ puppeteer/actor - Spring Lake, NJ USA (2008/91) 1916-0810 1916-0816 Helena Kara* (b Dahl) actress - Salo, GD of Finland (2002/85) 1916-0818 Neagu Djuvara* novelist/journalist/ diplomat- Bucharest, Kingdom of Romania (2018/101) 1916-0820 Léo Ferré* poet/ singer-songwriter/composer - Monaco (1993/76) 1916-0825 Van Johnson* actor/singer/dancer - Newport, RI USA (2008/92) 1916-0831 Daniel Schorr* journalist - The Bronx, NY USA (2010/93) 1916-0901 Jørgen Alfred Hviid* Danish-Latvian hockey player/sailer/officer in the Royal Danish Navy - Moscow, Russian Empire (2001/85) 1916-0912 Edward Binns* actor - Philadephia, PA USA (1990/74) 1916-0913 Roald Dahl* WW2 fighter pilot/novelist/of Norwegian descent - Cardiff, Wales (1990/74) 1916-0917 Matti Mattson* social activist/Veteran of the Spanish Civil War/w Finnish parents - Fitchburg, MA USA (2011/94) 1916-0917 Mary Stewart* (b Rainbow) novelist (Merlin series) - Sunderland, England (2014/97) 1916-0921 Zinovy Gerdt* (b Khrapinovich) actor - Sebezh, Russian Empire (1996/80) 1916-0923 Aldo Moro* politician - Maglie, Apulia, Kingdom of Italy (1978/61) 1916-0926 Frank Handlen* marine painter/sculptor - Brooklyn, NY USA (2023/106) 1916-0927 Trento Longaretti* painter - Treviglio, Lombardy, Kingdom of Italy (2017/100) 1916-0927 S. Yizhar* (b Smilansky) Israeli writer/politician - Rehovot, Ottoman Empire (2006/89) 1916-0928 Peter Finch* British-Australian actor - South Kensington, London, England (1977/60) 1916-1003 James Herriot* veterinary surgeon/ author - Sunderland, County Durham, England (1995/78) 1916-1004 Vitaly Ginzburg* theoretical physicist/N - Moscow, Russia, Russian Empire (2009/93) 1916-1004 George Sidney* film director/producer - Long Island City, NY USA (2002/85) 1916-1026 Francois Mitterrand* - politician - Jarnac, France (1996/79) 1916-1028 Lale Sokolov* holocaust surviver - Korompa, Kingdom of Hungary (2006/89) 1916-1031 Carl Johan Bernadotte* Prince - Stockholm Palace, Stockholm, Sweden (2012/95) 1916-1104 Walter Cronkite* television journalist - St. Joseph, MO USA (2009/92) 1916-1112 Hilkka Helinä* (b Itkonen) actress - Viipuri, GD of Finland (1973/56) 1916-1128 Princess Lilian* (b Mary Baels) Belgian queen consort of Leopold III - London, England (2002/85) 1916-1130 John C. Harkness* architect - New York, NY USA (2016/99) 1916-1201 1916-1206 Kristján Eldjárn* politician/P - Tjörn, Svarfaðardal, Iceland (1982/65) 1916-1207 Mortimer Sackler* physician/developer of the drug Oxycontin/ billionaire entrepreneur - Brooklyn, NY USA (2010/93) 1916-1209 Kirk Douglas* (b Issur Danielovitch) actor/filmmaker - Amsterdam, NY USA (2020/103) 1916-1209 Esther Wilkins* dentist - Chelmsford, MA USA (2016/100) 1916-1214 Shirley Jackson* author - San Francisco, CA USA (1965/48) 1916-1216 Birgitta Valberg* actress - Stockholm, Sweden (2014/97) 1916-1218 Betty Grable* actress/model/singer - St.Louis, MO USA (1973/56) 1916-1219 Roy Ward Baker* film director - London, England (2010/93) 1916-0 1916-0 1916-0 Updated 2025-0325 Helsinki Search for another year here