1916
Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century
Decades: 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s - 1910s - 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s
Years: 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 - 1916 - 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921
Events:
- February 11 - Emma Goldman is arrested for lecturing on birth control.
- February 11 - Baltimore Symphony Orchestra presents its 1st concert
- April 24 - April 30 - Easter Rising in Ireland
- May 31 - June 1 - Battle of Jutland
- Summer Olympic Games in Berlin, Germany, are cancelled.
- July 1 - November 18 - Battle of the Somme (1916)
- Cours de linguistique générale by Ferdinand de Saussure published
- November - Woodrow Wilson defeats Charles E. Hughes in the U.S. presidential election
- Federal charter granted to the Boy Scouts of America
- Robert Baden-Powell founds Wolf Scouts in Britain, changed to Cub Scouts in the USA.
Art, Culture & Fashion
Births:
- February 11 - Bernice Levin Neugarten, social scientist/gerontologist.
- February 11 - Joseph Alioto, Mayor of San Francisco
- February 12 - Richard Dedekind, mathematician
- February 14 - Masaki Kobayashi, director
- February 26 - Jackie Gleason, comedian
- March 11 - Harold Wilson, British prime minister
- April 5 - Gregory Peck, actor
- April 15 - Helene Hanff, author
- May 8 - João Havelange, industrialist and FIFA president 1974-1998
- May 10 - Milton Babbitt, composer
- June 23 - Hermann Gmeiner, pedagogue
- June 23 - Irene Worth, actress
- July 11 - Gough Whitlam, Prime Minister of Australia, 1972-1975
- July 14 - Natalia Ginzburg, author
- September 13 - Roald Dahl, author
- December 9 - Kirk Douglas, American actor
- December 19 - Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann, publicist
Deaths:
- July 6 - Odilon Redon, painter
- July 23 - Sir William Ramsay, chemist and Nobel prize winner
- October 7 - James Whitcomb Riley, poet
- December 29 - Grigori Rasputin, Russian monk
- Yuan Shi-Kai
- Physics - not awarded
- Chemistry - not awarded
- Medicine - not awarded
- Literature - Carl Gustaf Verner von Heidenstam
- Peace - not awarded