In the year 1916
173 Notable deaths
Charles Ericksen
Norwegian-american wrestler (1875-1916).
Born June 20th, 1875 in Tønsberg.
Died February 23rd, 1916 at 40 years old in Brooklyn.
Signe Hornborg
Finnish architect (1862-1916).
Born November 8th, 1862 in Turku.
Died December 6th, 1916 at 54 years old in Helsinki.
Alf Torp
Norwegian linguist (1853–1916).
Born September 27th, 1853 in Stryn Municipality.
Died September 26th, 1916 at 62 years old in Christiania.
Jan Ligthart
Dutch educator (1859–1916).
Born January 11th, 1859 in Amsterdam.
Died February 16th, 1916 at 57 years old in Laag-Soeren (drowning).
Felipe Trigo
Spanish writer.
Born February 13th, 1864 in Villanueva de la Serena.
Died September 2nd, 1916 at 52 years old in Madrid.
John Somers-Smith
British rower.
Born December 15th, 1887 in Walton-on-Thames.
Died July 1st, 1916 at 28 years old in Gommecourt.
Alaiza Pashkievich
Poet, activist.
Born July 15th, 1876 in Stary Dvor.
Died February 18th, 1916 at 39 years old in Lida (typhus).
Mikhail Pomortsev
Russian meteorologist.
Born July 24th, 1851 in Nizhny Novgorod.
Died July 2nd, 1916 at 64 years old in Saint Petersburg.
Maurice Raoul-Duval
Polo player.
Born April 27th, 1866 in Saint-Germain-de-la-Grange. [ref]
Died May 5th, 1916 at 50 years old in Esnes-en-Argonne. [ref]
Bin Ueda
Japanese writer (1874–1916).
Born October 30th, 1874 in Tokyo.
Died July 9th, 1916 at 41 years old in Tokyo.
Deaths 141 to 150 of 173
You’ll drift apart, it’s true, but you’ll be out in the open, part of everything alive again. Philip Pullman