Alla källor som gick bort år 1916

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November 14th 1915: Booker T. Washington (1856-1915) - US educator
November 19th 1915: Solomon Schechter (1847-1915)
November 19th 1915: Joe Hill (1879-1915) - for the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW); his execution for an alleged robbery-murder made him a martyr and folk hero in the radical American labour movement.

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1916

John Lancaster Spalding (1840-1916)
February 19th: Ernst Mach (1838-1916) - German scientist
February 28th: Jr. Henry James (1843-1916) - US writer
March 12th: Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830-1916) - Austrian writer
April 11th: Richard Harding Davis (1864-1916)
May 3rd: Patrick Henry Pearse (1879-1916)
May 11th: Max Reger (1873-1916) - German composer
May 13th: Sholom Aleichem (1859-1916) - Yiddish literature's most beloved author.
July 1st: William Booth (1829-1916) - English religious leader
July 6th: Odilon Redon (1840-1916) - lithographer and etcher.
September 14th: Josiah Royce (1855-1916)
November 13th: Hector Hugh Munro (Saki) (1870-1916) - Scottish writer
November 13th: H. H. Munro (1870-1916)
November 22nd: Jack London (1876-1916) - whose works deal romantically with elemental struggles for survival. One of the most extensively translated of American authors.

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1917: Edward Thomas (1918-1917) -
1917: Giovanni Boine (1887-1917)
May 19th 1917: Belva Lockwood (1830-1917) - US lawyer
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