Page 16: Historical Events In 1916

Nov 07   Grand duke Nikolai Nikolayevich warns czar of uprising.   

Nov 07   Joe Bushkin, NYC, jazz pianist (A Couple of Joes).   

Nov 07   Woodrow Wilson (D) re-elected President.   

Nov 08   Frank McGuire, basketball coach (won 550 games in 30 college seasons)   

Nov 08   HMS Zulu, a Tribal Class Royal Navy destroyer. Disabled by a mine in the Dover Straits which destroyed the after part of the ship. The fore part of HMS Zulu and the aft part of HMS Nubian were salvaged and later joined together to form HMS Zubian. This ship went on to acquire battle honours, to be sold later in 1919   

Nov 10   Billy May, Pitts Pa, orch leader (Milton Berle Show)   

Nov 11   Eladio Rusconi, writer/publisher/businessman   

Nov 12   Jean Papineau-Couture, composer.   

Nov 13   Battle of the Somme ends, with a cost of 60000 Allied lives   

Nov 13   British offensive at Ancre Belgium   

Nov 13   Frederik Septimus Kelly, composer, dies at 35.   

Nov 13   Jack Elam, Miami AZ, actor (The Dakotas, East Street, Rio Lobo)   

Nov 14   Sherwood Schwartz, Passaic NJ, TV creator (Brady Bunch, Gilligan Is)   

Nov 15   Dame Ruth Nita Barrow, governor-general of Barbados.   

Nov 16   Daws Butler, Toledo OH, animation voice (Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound).   

Nov 16   Eugene O'Neill's "Bound East for Cardiff," premieres in NYC   

Nov 17   Winson Hudson, community activist (rural Mississippi).   

Nov 18   Gen Douglas Haig finally calls off 1st Battle of the Somme in Europe.   

Nov 18   James L Lyons, jazz promoter.   

Nov 19   Samuel Goldwyn and Edgar Selwyn establish Goldwyn Pictures (the company later became one of the most successful independent filmmakers)   

Nov 20   Ferdinand AM van der Ham, Dutch WW II resistance fighter.   

Nov 21   Cecilia P J "Cilly" Bach, Dutch/US/Spanish actress (In Pyama)   

Nov 21   Franz Josef of Austria, dies   

Nov 21   Franz Jozef I, King of Austria/Hungary, dies   

Nov 21   HMHS Britannic sinks in the Aegean Sea after a mine explodes, killing 30 people.   

Nov 22   Jack London, author, dies at 40   

Nov 23   Eduard Napravnik, composer, dies at 77   

Nov 24   Forrest J Ackerman, invented the term "sci-fi".   

Nov 24   John Francis Barnett, composer, dies at 79   

Nov 26   Bob Elliot, baseball player   

Nov 26   Greece declares war on Germany.   

Nov 27   City of Birmingham, an Ellerman Lines ship, of 7498 grt, and built by Palmers of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1911, she was torpedoed by the German submarine U32, 90 miles south-east of Malta while bound from Liverpool to Karachi. with 315 passengers and crew on board, 4 lost their lives, all crew   

Nov 27   James Cutler Dunn Parker, composer, dies at 88.   

Nov 28   1st (German) air attack on London.   

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Jan 01   Earl wrightson: Balt md, singer (paul whiteman's goodyear revue)   

Jan 03   Antonio estevez: Composer   

Jan 03   Betty furness: Nyc, actress/consumer activist (studio 1)   

Jan 03   Bernard greenhouse: American cellist   

Jan 04   Catherina elisabeth "tootje" vreede: Portrait painter   

Jan 04   Robert parrish: Columbus ga, director (casino royale)   

Jan 04   Lionel newman: American film music composer    

Jan 06   Philip bezanson: Composer   

Jan 03   Grenville m. dodge: American civil war union army major general (b. 1831)   

Jan 08   Ada rehan: Irish-born american actress (b. 1860)   

Jan 14   Otto ammon: German anthropologist/sociologist,    

Jan 15   Modest tchaikovsky: Russian writer (b. 1850)   

Jan 16   Arnold aletrino: Dut physician-criminologist (from death),   

Jan 22   Iwan knorr: Composer,    

Jan 29   Edward hubertus joannes keurvils: Composer,   

Feb 01   Anton simon: Composer,