List of events
Events from the year 1916 in the United States .
Incumbents [ edit ] January [ edit ] February [ edit ] July 1 – The United States Marine Corps take control of Santo Domingo . July 1–12 – At least one shark mauls five swimmers along 80 miles (130 km) of New Jersey coastline during the Jersey Shore shark attacks of 1916 , resulting in four deaths and the survival of one youth who required limb amputation. This event is the inspiration for author Peter Benchley , over half a century later, to write Jaws . July 8–16 – Massive flooding caused by two hurricanes devastates western North Carolina .[citation needed ] July 15 – In Seattle, Washington , William Boeing incorporates Pacific Aero Products (later renamed The Boeing Company ). July 22 – In San Francisco, California , a bomb explodes on Market Street during a Preparedness Day parade, killing 10 and injuring 40. Warren Billings and Tom Mooney would later be wrongfully convicted of the bombing. July 30 – German agents cause the Black Tom explosion in Jersey City, New Jersey , an act of sabotage destroying an ammunition depot and killing at least seven people. September [ edit ] September 1 – The Keating–Owen Act , the first federal law to restrict child labor , is passed, but is ruled unconstitutional in 1918. September 5 – Release of D. W. Griffith 's film Intolerance: Love's Struggle Through the Ages . September 6 – The first true self-service grocery store , Piggly Wiggly , is founded in Memphis, Tennessee , by Clarence Saunders (opening 5 days later). September 7 – The Merchant Marine Act of 1916 establishes the U.S. Shipping Board (inaugurated January 1917). September 13 – Mary , a circus elephant , is hanged in the town of Erwin, Tennessee for killing her handler, Walter "Red" Eldridge. September 30 – Construction is completed on the Hell Gate Bridge in New York City . October [ edit ] November [ edit ] December [ edit ] Undated [ edit ] Ongoing [ edit ] January–June [ edit ] Gregory Peck January 3 January 6 – Eugene Thomas Maleska , American journalist (died 1993 )[8] January 9 – Vic Mizzy , television theme composer (died 2009 ) January 14 January 15 – Artie Shapiro , jazz bassist (died 2003 ) January 17 – Peter Frelinghuysen, Jr. , politician (died 2011 ) January 19 – Harry Huskey , computer designer (died 2017 ) January 23 – David Douglas Duncan , photojournalist (died 2018 ) January 24 – Marvin Creamer , sailor (died 2020 ) February 7 – Floyd K. Haskell , U.S. Senator from Colorado from 1973 to 1979 (died 1998 ) February 9 – Tex Hughson , baseball player (died 1993 ) February 10 – Louis Guttman , mathematician (died 1987 ) February 14 – Denham Harman , gerontologist (died 2014 ) February 20 – Jean Erdman , dancer (died 2020 ) February 23 – Retta Scott , animator (died 1990 ) February 26 February 29 – Dinah Shore , popular singer (died 1994 ) March 1 – Emelyn Whiton , Olympic sailor (died 1962 ) March 4 – William Alland , film actor, producer, writer and director (died 1997 ) March 5 – Jack Hamm , cartoonist (died 1996 ) March 13 March 14 – Horton Foote , writer (died 2009 ) March 15 March 16 – Mercedes McCambridge , actress (died 2004 )[11] March 19 – Irving Wallace , novelist (died 1990 ) March 26 – Christian B. Anfinsen , biochemist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (died 1995 ) March 29 – Eugene McCarthy , U.S. Senator from Minnesota from 1959 to 1971 (died 2005 ) March 31 – Lucille Bliss , voice actress (died 2012 ) April 3 April 4 – Robert S. McMillan , architect (died 2001 ) April 5 April 12 April 13 – Phyllis Fraser , actress and publisher (died 2006 ) April 16 – Ted Mann , businessman (d. 2001) April 15 – Alfred S. Bloomingdale , department store heir (died 1982 ) April 20 – Phil Walters , race car driver and pilot (died 2000 ) April 22 – Yehudi Menuhin , violinist (died 1999 ) April 24 April 25 – R. J. Rushdoony , founder of Christian Reconstructionism (died 2001 ) April 26 April 30 May 2 – Two Ton Baker (Richard Baker), entertainer (died 1975 ) May 4 – Jane Jacobs , née Butzner, urban activist (died 2006 in Canada ) May 6 May 10 – Milton Babbitt , composer (died 2011 ) May 21 May 28 – Dorothy McGuire , film actress (died 2001 ) June 3 – Jack Manning , actor (died 2009 ) June 4 – Robert F. Furchgott , biochemist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (died 2009 ) June 5 – Eddie Joost , baseball player and manager (died 2011 ) June 6 – Jack Miller , U.S. Senator from Iowa from 1961 to 1973 (died 1994 ) June 12 – Raúl Héctor Castro , politician (died 2015 ) June 14 – John Ciardi , poet, translator and etymologist (died 1986 ) June 15 June 16 – Phil Chambers , film and television actor (died 1993 ) June 17 – David "Stringbean" Akeman , country music banjo player (died 1973 ) June 24 – William B. Saxbe , politician (died 2010 ) June 29 July–December [ edit ] July 1 July 3 – John Kundla , basketball coach (died 2017 ) July 4 – Iva Toguri D'Aquino ("Tokyo Rose"), propaganda broadcaster (died 2006 ) July 6 – Harold Norse , writer (died 2009 ) July 8 – Jean Rouverol , actress, screenwriter and author (died 2017 ) July 18 July 19 – Phil Cavarretta , baseball player (died 2010 ) July 25 – Fred Lasswell , cartoonist (died 2001 ) July 27 – Elizabeth Hardwick , literary critic and novelist (died 2007 ) July 28 – David Brown , producer (died 2010 ) July 31 – Bill Todman , game show producer (died 1979 ) August 5 – Kermit Love , puppeteer (died 2008 ) August 14 – Ralph de Toledano , conservationist and author (died 2007 ) August 16 – Iggy Katona , race car driver (died 2003 ) August 21 – Frank O. Braynard , maritime writer and historian (died 2007 ) August 24 – Hal Smith , actor (died 1994 ) August 25 August 27 – Martha Raye , film actress (died 1994 ) August 28 – Jack Vance , writer (died 2013 ) August 29 – Luther Davis , screenwriter (died 2008 ) August 30 – Shag Crawford , baseball umpire (died 2007 ) August 31 September 1 September 13 – John Malcolm Brinnin , poet and literary critic (died 1998 ) September 15 Frederick C. Weyand , U.S. Army General (died 2010 ) September 18 – John Jacob Rhodes , politician and lawyer (died 2003 ) September 24 – Ruth Leach Amonette , businesswoman (died 2004 ) September 27 – Frank Handlen , marine artist (died 2023 ) October 3 – Shelby Storck , television producer (died 1969 ) October 8 – Spark Matsunaga , U.S. Senator from Hawaii from 1977 to 1990 (died 1990 ) October 9 – Robert Brubaker , television Western actor (died 2010 ) October 12 – Alice Childress , actress, playwright and novelist (died 1994 ) October 28 – Bill Harris , jazz trombonist (died 1973 ) October 29 – Hadda Brooks , pianist, singer and composer (died 2002 ) October 30 Kirk Douglas November 4 – Walter Cronkite , television journalist (died 2009 ) November 5 – Bill Fisk , football player and coach (died 2007 ) November 6 – Ray Conniff , trombonist and bandleader (died 2002 ) November 10 – Billy May , composer and arranger (died 2004 ) November 14 – Sherwood Schwartz , television writer and producer (died 2011 ) November 15 – Bill Melendez , animator (died 2008 ) November 16 – Daws Butler , voice actor (died 1988 ) November 17 – Shelby Foote , historian and novelist, author of The Civil War: A Narrative (died 2005 ) November 24 – Forrest J. Ackerman , writer (died 2008 ) November 27 – Chick Hearn , basketball announcer (died 2002 ) November 29 – Fran Ryan , actress (died 2000 ) November 30 – John C. Harkness , architect (died 2016 ) Betty Grable January 1 – Alfred W. Benson , U.S. Senator from Kansas from 1906 to 1907 (born 1843 ) January 9 – Ada Rehan , Shakespearean actress (born 1859 in Ireland ) January 16 – Charles A. Zimmermann , band composer (born 1861 ) January 17 February 3 – Bowman Brown Law , politician (born 1855 ) February 12 – John Townsend Trowbridge , author (born 1827 ) February 28 – Henry James , naturalised English novelist (born 1843 ) March 20 March 25 – Ishi , last known member of the Yana people (born c. 1860 ) April 11 – Richard Harding Davis , journalist and author (born 1864 ) April 15 – Joanna P. Moore , Baptist missionary and educator (born 1832 ) April 19 – Ephraim Shay , inventor (born 1839 ) April 21 – John Surratt , suspected of involvement in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln , son of Mary Surratt (born 1844 ) May 12 – Fred T. Perris , railroad civil engineer (born 1836 ) May 13 May 29 – James J. Hill , financier (born 1838 ) May 30 – John S. Mosby , Confederate army cavalry battalion commander in the American Civil War (born 1833 ) June 9 – Richard C. Saufley , naval aviation pioneer, killed in aviation accident (born 1884 ) June 22 – Oliver Ernesto Branch , politician (born 1847 ) June 24 – Victor Chapman , fighter pilot in the French Air Force , killed in action (born 1890 ) June 25 – Thomas Eakins , realist painter (born 1844 ) June – Addison Hutton , architect (born 1834 ) July 3 – Hetty Green , financier and miser (born 1834) July 4 – Alan Seeger , poet, killed in action (born 1888 ) July 22 – James Whitcomb Riley , poet (born 1849 ) July 23 – Thomas M. Patterson , newspaper publisher and U.S. Senator from Colorado from 1901 to 1907 (born 1839 in Ireland ) August 31 – Martha McClellan Brown , temperance activist (born 1838 ) September 8 – James Gray , journalist and 19th Mayor of Minneapolis (born 1862 ) September 9 – Sydney Ayres , silent film actor (born 1879 ) October 1 – James Paul Clarke , 18th Governor of Arkansas from 1895 to 1897 and U.S. Senator from Arkansas from 1903 to 1916 (born 1854 ) October 12 – Tony Jannus , aviator and aircraft designer, killed in aviation accident in Russia (born 1889 ) October 25 – William Merritt Chase , Impressionist painter (born 1849 ) October 28 – Cleveland Abbe , meteorologist (born 1838 ) October 29 – John Sebastian Little , politician and congressman (born 1851 ) October 31 – Charles Taze Russell , Protestant evangelist, forerunner of Jehovah's Witnesses (born 1852 ) November 4 – James D. Moffat , 3rd president of Washington & Jefferson College (born 1846 ) November 10 – Walter Sutton , geneticist and surgeon (born 1877 ) November 13 – Percival Lowell , astronomer (born 1855 ) November 14 November 15 – Molly Elliot Seawell , novelist (born 1860 ) November 22 November 24 – Sir Hiram Maxim , firearms inventor (born 1840 ) November – Charlie Case , vaudeville entertainer (born c. 1860) December 8 – John Porter Merrell , admiral (born 1846 ) December 20 – William Gilchrist , composer (born 1846) December 31 – Alice Ball , African-American chemist (born 1892 ) See also [ edit ] References [ edit ] ^ Woodson, Carter G., ed. (January 1916). "The Journal of Negro History " . Project Gutenberg . I . Retrieved 2013-05-21 . ^ "Chartered Organizations and the Boy Scouts of America" . www.scouting.org . Archived from the original on 17 March 2008. Retrieved 17 January 2022 . ^ The selected papers of Margaret Sanger, Volume 1 : The Woman Rebel, 1900–1928 . University of Illinois Press. 2003. p. 199. ^ Baker, Jean H. (2011). Margaret Sanger: A Life of Passion . Macmillan. p. 115. ^ Engelman, Peter C. (2011). A History of the Birth Control Movement in America . ABC-CLIO. p. 101. ISBN 978-0-313-36509-6 . ^ Dixon Valve & Coupling Company, Inc. , Bloomberg Businessweek ^ "The long legacy of the U.S. occupation of Haiti" . Washington Post . Retrieved 19 August 2022 . ^ Barron, James (August 5, 1993). "Eugene T. Maleska, Crossword Editor, Dies at 77" . The New York Times . Retrieved 2009-03-08 . ^ "Glen Simmons - Glade Skiffs" . Florida Folklife . Historical Museum of Southern Florida. Retrieved 2012-10-20 . ^ "Glenn J. Simmons in household of Maud E. Simmons, Homestead, Election Precinct 113, Dade, Florida" . United States Census . FamilySearch . 1940. Retrieved 2012-10-20 . ^ "Mercedes McCambridge, 87, Actress Known for Strong Roles" . The New York Times . 18 March 2004. Retrieved 24 October 2021 . External links [ edit ]