Lista de Personas Famosas que murieron en 1916

Johann Heinrich August Leskien fue un lingüista y filólogo alemán, exponente de la escuela neogramática que influyó profundamente en la indoeuropeística entre los siglos XIX y XX. Su nombre está unido a la ley que promulgó: la Ley de Leskien sobre la regularidad del cambio fonético.

Helmuth Johannes Ludwig von Moltke, también conocido como Moltke el Joven para diferenciarlo de su tío de Helmuth von Moltke, fue un militar alemán que sirvió como jefe del Estado Mayor entre 1906 y 1914.

Arthur V. Johnson fue un actor pionero y director de cine mudo norteamericano.

Rear Admiral Sir Horace Lambert Alexander Hood was a British Royal Navy admiral of the First World War, whose lengthy and distinguished service saw him engaged in operations around the world, frequently participating in land campaigns as part of a shore brigade. His early death at the Battle of Jutland in the destruction of his flagship HMS Invincible was met with mourning and accolades from across Britain.

Ricardo de Madrazo y Garreta fue un pintor español, hijo y discípulo de Federico Madrazo, hermano de Raimundo Madrazo y nieto de José Madrazo. Influido por Mariano Fortuny, tanto por la técnica preciosista como por los temas orientales, que le encuadran en el grupo de los orientalistas españoles, fue un agudo retratista, además de una autoridad en la clasificación de la pintura antigua.

Iwan Otto Armand Knorr was a German composer and teacher of music. A native of Gniew, he attended the Leipzig Conservatory where he studied with Ignaz Moscheles, Ernst Friedrich Richter and Carl Reinecke. In 1874 he became a teacher and in 1878 director of music theory instruction at the Imperial Kharkiv Conservatory, in what is now Ukraine. In 1883 he settled in Frankfurt, where he joined the faculty of the Hoch Conservatory; in 1908 he became director of the school. As a teacher he exerted great influence; among his pupils were Bernhard Sekles, Ernest Bloch, Vladimir Sokalskyi, Ernst Toch and Hans Pfitzner, as well as the English-speaking composers and friends that become known as the Frankfurt Group: Balfour Gardiner, Percy Grainger, Norman O'Neill, Roger Quilter and Cyril Scott.

Sergei Utochkin. Ukrainian cyclist, sportsman and aviator. He was the second Russian pilot after Mikhail Efimov. Utochkin had a nickname "the Man of all kind of sport" and "the Academician of sports" - swimming, diving, rowing and sailing, running, pistol shooting, ice skating, fencing, soccer, tennis, horse riding, wrestling, boxing. One of the most notable natives of the Black Sea port of Odessa in the early years of the 20th century.

General Edward Henry Clive, DL, JP was a British soldier and Liberal politician, the son of George Clive and Ann Sybella Martha, daughter of Sir Thomas Farquhar, 2nd Baronet.

Lieutenant Colonel Edward Henry Trotter, DSO was a British Army officer who commanded the 18th Battalion, The King's during the First World War.