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Famous People Who Died in January 1916

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