Deaths Date 1916 | History by KabAstro

Grenville M. Dodge (1831-1916)

Jan 3 American railroad engineer (Transcontinental Railroad-Union Pacific) and Major General (Union Army), dies at 84

Jan 8 Ada Rehan, Irish-American stage actress and comedian (Daly's Fifth Avenue Theatre), dies from arteriosclerosis and cancer at 58
Jan 8 Rembrandt Bugatti, Italian sculptor (b. 1884)

Victoriano Huerta (1850-1916)

Jan 13 Mexican general who seized power in a coup and installed himself as dictator and President of Mexico (1913-14), dies cirrhosis of the liver or possibly cancer at 65

Jan 14 Otto Ammon, German anthropologist and sociologist (schedelmetingen), dies at 73
Jan 15 Modest Tchaikovsky, Russian writer (b. 1850)
Jan 16 Arnold Aletrino, Dutch physician, criminologist, and author (From Death), dies at 57
Jan 22 Iwan Knorr, German composer, dies at 63
Feb 1 Anton Simon, Russian composer, dies at 65
Feb 6 Isla van Diest, Belgian physician, 1st female doctor and 1st female university graduate in Belgium, dies at 73
Feb 6 Rubén Darío, Nicaraguan writer (b. 1867)
Feb 8 Gustav Falke, German author and poet (Der Mann im Nebel), dies at 63
Feb 9 Hynek Vojáček, Czech composer, dies at 90
Feb 9 Jack Barrett, Australian cricketer (2 Tests for Australia 1890), dies at 49
Feb 12 Richard Dedekind, German mathematician (Nature & Meaning of Numbers), dies at 84
Feb 14 Petko Todorov, Bulgarian writer (Zmejova), dies at 36
Feb 15 Nikolay Lodizhensky, Russian diplomat and 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 (shock waves, Mach number), philosopher and psychologist, dies at 78
Feb 20 Klas Arnoldson, Swedish politician and pacifist (Nobel Peace 1908), dies at 71
Feb 23 George Martin, English composer and organist, dies at 71
Feb 28 Henry James, American-British writer (Bostonians), dies at 72
Feb 29 Edward H J Keurvels, Flemish conductor/composer (Parisina), dies at 62
Mar 2 Elisabeth OL [Carmen Sylva], Queen of Romania, dies at 72
Mar 4 Franz Marc, German Expressionist painter (co-founder of journal Blaue Reiter), dies in battle at 36
Mar 9 Kenneth Hutchings, English cricketer (exciting England batsman, WWI), dies fighting at the Battle of the Somme at 33
Mar 12 Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Austrian writer (The Child of the Parish), dies at 39
Mar 19 Vasily Surikov, Russian painter (b. 1848)
Mar 20 Ota Benga, Congolese pygmy (b. 1884)
Mar 21 Victor de Stuers, Dutch art historian (saved Johannes Vermeer's "Girl with a Pear Earring"), dies at 72
Mar 24 Enrique Granados, Spanish concert pianist, and composer (Goyescas), drowns crossing the English Channel when his ferry is sunk by a German torpedo attack at 48

Susan Blow (1843-1916)

Mar 27 American educator who pioneered kindergarten education and was known as the "Mother of the Kindergarten", dies at 72

Apr 1 Gabrielle Petit, Belgian resistance fighter, executed
Apr 9 Vicente Goicoechea Errasti, Basque composer, dies at 62
Apr 11 Richard Harding Davis, American journalist and author (Soldiers of Fortune, The King's Jackal), dies of a heart attack at 52
Apr 15 Alfred Cogniaux, Belgian botanist, dies at 75
Apr 16 Tom Horan, Australian cricket all-rounder (15 Tests, 1 x 100, 11 wickets; Victoria CA), dies a 62
Apr 19 Ephraim Shay, American inventor of Shay type of geared steam locomotive, dies at 76
Apr 29 Jørgen Pedersen Gram, Danish mathematician (Gram-Schmidt process), dies at 65
May 4 Joseph Mary Plunkett, Irish revolutionary (b. 1887)
May 6 Dirk Bos, Dutch Liberal 2nd Member of Parliament, dies at 53
May 6 Earl Ross Drake, American composer, dies at 50
May 11 Karl Schwarzschild, German astronomer (Schwarzschild effect), dies on the Eastern front at 42, mere months after working out a solution to Einstein's Theory of Relativity
May 11 Max Reger, German composer, pianist and professor (Leipzig Univ), dies at 43
May 12 James Connolly, Irish socialist (founder of the Irish Socialist Republican Party), dies at 47
May 13 Sholem Aleichem [Solomon Rabinowitz], Yiddish author and playwright (Fiddler on the Roof, Tevye the Dairyman), dies of tuberculosis at 57
May 14 William Stanley, American inventor of the induction coil (electricity transformer), dies at 57 [1]
May 17 Boris Borisovich Galitzine, Russian physicist (b. 1862)
May 17 Gervais Salvayre, French composer (Calypso; La Résurrection), and music critic dies at 68
May 25 Jack Marsh, Australian cricketer (Aboriginal bowler played for NSW 1900-03), dies in a pub brawl at 41 or 42
May 27 Joseph Gallieni, French general (Battle of Marne) and military governor of Paris, dies at 67
May 28 Ivan Franko, Ukrainian writer and political activist, dies at 59

John Singleton Mosby (1833-1916)

May 30 Confederate Army cavalry battalion commander in the American Civil War, dies at 82

May 31 British Rear Admiral Horace Hood, dies in Battle of Jutland on board HMS Invincible, at 45

Jun 5 British General who commanded British forces during the Battle of Omdurman (Sudan) and the Second Boer War who became British Secretary of State for War during WWI (1914-16), drowns at 65 after the HMS Hampshire struck a German mine

Jun 5 Mildred J. Hill, American composer and musician ("Good Morning To All" which later became "Happy Birthday To You"), dies at 56

Yuan Shikai (1859-1916)

Jun 6 Chinese general and President of the Republic of China (1916), dies of uremia at 56

Jun 7 Émile Faguet, French writer and critic (b. 1847)
Jun 14 João Simões Lopes Neto, Brazilian writer (b. 1865)
Jun 18 Helmuth von Moltke, German General (German Chief of Staff at start of WWI), dies at 67
Jun 18 Max Immelmann, German pilot (1st flying ace of WWI), shot down over Northern France at 25
Jun 24 Victor Chapman, French-American pilot renowned during WW1 (1st American pilot to die in WW1), succumbs to wounds at age 26

Thomas Eakins (1844-1916)

Jun 25 American artist (The Gross Clinic), dies at 71

Jun 28 Ştefan Luchian, Romanian painter (b. 1868)
Jul 1 William Booth, English Test cricket batsman (WWI 2 Tests), dies at the Somme at 39

Hetty Green (1834-1916)

Jul 3 American businesswoman and financier whose wealth and miserliness saw her known as the "Witch of Wall Street", dies of a stroke at 81

Jul 4 Alan Seeger, American war poet (b. 1888)
Jul 6 Odilon Redon [Bertrand-Jean Redon], French symbolist painter (b. 1840)
Jul 11 Rik Wouters, Belgian painter (Lady in Blue), and sculptor (The Nymph), dies of cancer at 33
Jul 15 Ilya Mechnikov, Russian zoologist and bacteriologist known as the "father of natural immunity" (Nobel 1908), dies of heart failure at 71
Jul 16 Victor Horsley, English physician and neuroscientist, dies while serving in Iraq in WWI at 59
Jul 18 Benjamin C. Truman, American journalist and author
Jul 22 James Whitcomb Riley, American author and poet (The Raggedy Man), dies after a stroke at 66

William Ramsay (1852-1916)

Jul 23 Scottish chemist who discovered noble gases (Nobel 1904), dies at 63

Jul 26 Gellio Benevenuto Coronaro, Italian pianist and composer, dies at 52
Jul 26 Sally Louisa Tompkins, American nurse and philanthrophist, only commissioned woman in US Confederate Army, dies at 82
Jul 27 Charles Fryatt, British captain of SS Brussels, executed by Germans, dies
Jul 30 Albert Neisser, German physician who discovered the bacteria 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, Scottish composer (The Land of the Mountain and the Flood), and teacher, dies at 48
Aug 3 Roger Casement, Irish diplomat, ardent Irish nationalist (Easter uprising 1916) and poet, hanged after conviction for treason by the British at 51
Aug 5 George Butterworth, English composer, dies at 31
Aug 5 Nikolay Ivanovich Kazanli, Russian composer, dies at 46
Aug 7 Charles E. Manning, Australian judge and major, dies in battle at 36
Aug 9 Lily Braun [Amalie von Kretschmann], German feminist writer (Im Schatten Titanen), and socialist politician, dies from complications of a stroke at 51
Aug 13 Fritz Steinbach, German conductor and composer, dies at 61
Aug 17 Umberto Boccioni, Italian painter and sculptor (Unique Forms of Continuity in Space), dies in a military training mishap at 33
Aug 18 Edward D Pain, English journalist (NY World), dies in battle at 36
Aug 28 Francis Warre-Cornish, English writer and scholar, dies at 77
Aug 29 Johann Oskar Backlund, Swedish-Russian astronomer (planets/asteroids), dies at 64
Sep 4 José Echegaray, Spanish politician and dramatist (Nobel Prize for Literature 1904), dies at 84
Sep 10 Friedrich Gernsheim, German composer, dies at 77
Sep 14 Josiah Royce, American philosopher (Conception of Immortality), dies at 60
Sep 14 Pierre Duhem, French naturalist, philosopher and historian, dies at 55
Sep 15 Isidore Legouix, French composer, dies at 82
Sep 16 Basil W. Duke, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 78
Sep 25 Julius Fučík, Czech composer, dies at 44
Sep 27 Emile A G Verhaeren, Belgian writer (Les Heures du Soir), dies at 61
Oct 2 Benjamin Kidd, English sociologist (Social Evolution), dies of heart disease at 58
Oct 16 Klaas/old stick Kater, christian worker's union leader, dies at 73
Oct 21 Karl von Stürgkh, Austrian nobleman and politician (Prime Minister, 1911-16) who declared war on Serbia, initiating WWI, assassinated while having lunch at 56
Oct 25 William Merritt Chase, American impressionist painter, and educator (Chase School, now known as the Parsons School of Design), dies at 66
Oct 26 Klaas Kater, Dutch Christian Worker's Union Leader, dies at 83
Oct 28 Cleveland Abbe, American meteorologist (Father of Weather Bureau), dies at 77
Oct 28 Oswald Boelcke, German pilot (b. 1891)
Oct 30 Silas Gamaliel Pratt, American composer (The Tragedy of the Deep), dies at 70

Charles Taze Russell (1852-1916)

Oct 31 American religious leader (founder of the Bible School Movement that led to Jehovah's Witnesses), dies at 64

Percival Lowell (1855-1916)

Nov 12 American astronomer (predicted discovery of Pluto) and founder of Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, dies of a stroke at 61

Nov 13 Frederik Septimus Kelly, Australian-British composer and rower (Summer Olympic gold 1908), dies at 35
Nov 14 Henry George, Jr., American politician (b. 1862)
Nov 14 Saki [Hector Hugo Munro], British writer (Reginald; When William Came), killed in battle during WWI at 45
Nov 15 Henryk Sienkiewicz, Polish author (Quo Vadis, Nobel 1905), dies at 70
Nov 15 Luis Muñoz Rivera, Puerto Rican journalist (founded Federalist Party), dies at 57

Franz Joseph I (1830-1916)

Nov 21 Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary, Croatia and Bohemia (1848-1916), dies of pneumonia after catching a cold taking a walk at 86

Jack London (1876-1916)

Nov 22 American activist and author (Call of the Wild), dies at 40

Nov 23 Eduard Napravnik, Czech conductor and composer, dies at 77
Nov 23 Leonard Moon, English cricket batsman (4 Tests, Cambridge University CC, Middlesex CCC), dies in WWI action at 38
Nov 24 Hiram Maxim, American-British inventor (Maxim gun, 1st automatic machine gun), dies at 76
Nov 24 John Francis Barnett, British composer, dies at 79

Inez Milholland (1886-1916)

Nov 25 American suffragist (National Woman's Party), labor lawyer and socialist, dies at 30 after suffering from pernicious anemia

Nov 27 James Cutler Dunn Parker, American organist, composer, and pedagogue, dies at 88
Nov 28 Marthinus Theunis Steyn, South African politician and President of Orange-Free state (1896-1902), dies at 59
Dec 1 Charles Eugène, vicomte de Foucauld, French explorer (Morocco) and ascetic, killed in the Sahara during an uprising at 58
Dec 2 Paolo Tosti, Italian composer, dies at 69
Dec 5 Hans Richter, Austrian-Hungarian composer, dies at 73
Dec 5 Princess Augusta of Cambridge, Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz and granddaughter of George III, dies at 94
Dec 9 Natsume Sōseki, Japanese novelist (b. 1867)
Dec 9 P Paul Leroy-Beaulieu, French economist (Economist France), dies at 73
Dec 16 Friedrich Ernst Dorn, German physicist who discovered that radon is emitted from radium, dies at 68
Dec 20 Manuel Giro, Spanish composer, dies at 68
Dec 20 William Wallace Gilchrist, American composer, dies at 70
Dec 25 Albert Chmielowski, Polish Catholic Saint, dies at 71
Dec 26 Bernhard Scholz, composer, dies at 81
Dec 26 Frank Penn, cricketer (one Test for England v Australia 1880), dies
Dec 26 Willie Smith, Scottish golfer (US Open 1899), dies of pneumonia at 40
Dec 27 Nicolai Soloviev, Russian music critic and composer, dies at 70
Dec 28 Eduard Strauss, Austrian composer (318 dances), dies at 81