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Famous People Who Died in November 1916

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