1916 (MCMXVI) is a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar) 1916 - Events. January 1 -The first successful blood transfusion using blood that had been stored and cooled. Impressionist Monet paints 'Water Lilies'. January 5 - Heavy rain - allegedly caused by rainmaker Charles Hatfield - begins; it will cause flooding around San Diego, California January 8 - Allied forces withdraw from Gallipoli January 13/14 - ...

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1916 in rail transport - Unknown date births. Benjamin F. Biaggini, president of the Southern Pacific Company 1964–1976 (d. 2005). ...

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See also: 1915 in film 1916 1917 in film years in film film 1916 in film - Events. November 19 - Samuel Goldfish (later renamed Samuel Goldwyn) and Edgar Selwyn establish Goldwyn Company (the company later became one of the most successful independent filmmakers). 1916 in film - Births. January 3 - Betty Furness, actress, consumer activist (d. 1994) January 3 - Maxene Andrews, singer, actr ...

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Edwin LeMar Cole, known as Buddy Cole (born December 15, 1916 in Irving, Illinois, died November 5, 1964), was a jazz pianist and orchestra leader. He played behind a number of pop singers, including Rosemary Clooney, Jill Corey, and The Four Lads, who recorded for Columbia Records. Buddy Cole started his musical life in the theater playing between movies. He moved to Hollywood and played with a couple of bands before becoming a studio musician. He played piano for Bing Crosby for a number of years and also toured with R ...

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Charles Gilman Norris (1881 - 1945) was a U.S. novelist. He was the brother of novelist Frank Norris, and the husband of author Kathleen Norris. A native of Chicago, Norris worked as a journalist for some years before finding success as a novelist and playwright. His first book was The Amateur 1916. His other novels include Brass; A Novel of Marriage 1921, Bread 1923, Pig Iron 1926, Seed, A Novel of Birth Control 1930, Zest 1933, Hands 1935, and Flint 1944. He also published three plays: The Rout of the Philistines (with Nino Marcelli

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This article is about the American actor. For the British Unionist Politician, see Walter Hume Long, 1st Viscount Long. Walter Long(born 5 March 1879 in [Nasuha, New Hampshire, USA ; died 4 July 1952) was an American character actor in films from the 1910s. He appeared in many D.W. Griffith films, notably The Birth of a Nation (1915), where he appeared as Gus, a negro, in blackface make-up, and Intolerance (1916). But he is now best remembered for his roles in several Laurel and Hardy films in the 1930s as a comic v

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Consuelo Velázquez (1916?-January 22, 2005), was a Mexican songwriter. According to her obituary she was 88 years old. Most music resources, however, list her birth date as August 29, 1924 in Ciudad Guzmán, Jalisco State, Mexico. Velázquez was the songwriter and lyricist of many Latin standard songs, such as Amar y vivir, Verdad amarga, Franqueza, Que seas feliz, Cachito, Enamorada and, most no ...

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Collett Everman Woolman (October 8, 1889 - September 11, 1966) was the founder of Delta Air Lines. Woolman was born in Bloomington, Indiana but grew up in Urbana, Illinois. Woolman was a graduate of the University of Illinois, where he received a B.A. in agriculture. Woolman married Helen H. Fairfield (d. 1962) in 1916 with whom he had two girls. They moved to Louisiana by 1920. Wool ...

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Blessed Charles de Foucauld (1858-1916). Born in Strasbourg on September 15, 1858, he grew up in an aristocratic family and entered the Saint-Cyr Military Academy in 1876. He later was a French army officer in Algeria but left the army in 1882 and went as an explorer to Morocco. In 1890 he joined the Trappist order, but left in 1897 to follow an as yet undefined religious vocation. He returned to Algeria and lived a virtually eremetical life in an isolated Tuareg area. He learned the language and worked on a dictionary a ...

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Asa Griggs Candler (December 30, 1851 - March 12, 1929) was a business tycoon who made most of his money selling Coca-Cola. He also served as mayor of Atlanta, Georgia from 1916 to 1919. Candler Field at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport is named after him. Candler was born in Villa Rica, Georgia. He began his business career as a drugstore owner. In 1887 he bought the formula for Coca-Cola from its inventor John Pemberton for $2,300. The success of Coca-Cola was largely due to Candler's aggressive marketing of t ...

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Edwin LeMar Cole, known as Buddy Cole (born December 15, 1916 in Irving, Illinois, died November 5, 1964), was a jazz pianist and orchestra leader. He played behind a number of pop singers, including Rosemary Clooney, Jill Corey, and The Four Lads, who recorded for Columbia Records. Buddy Cole started his musical life in the theater playing between movies. He moved to Hollywood and played with a couple of bands before becoming a studio musician. He played piano for Bing Crosby for a number of years and also toured with R ...

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Charles Warren Fairbanks (May 11, 1852 – June 4, 1918) was a Senator from Indiana and the twenty-sixth Vice President of the United States. He was born near Unionville Center, Union County, Ohio, and graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio, in 1872. Fairbanks was an agent of the Associated Press in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and in Cleveland, Ohio. He was admitted to the Ohio ba ...

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For Art College in Moscow, see Surikov Moscow Art Institute. Vasily Ivanovich Surikov (Василий Иванович Суриков) (January 24, 1848 (Julian calendar: January 12) – March 19, 1916 (Julian calendar: March 6)) was the foremost Russian painter of large-scale historical subjects. His major pieces are among the best-known paintings in Russia. Vasily Surikov - Biography. Surikov was born in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, wh ...

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Charles Stewart Mott (b. June 2, 1875 d.1973) was a US industrialist and philanthopist who was born in Newark, New Jersey. His parents were John Coon Mott and Isabella Turmball Stewart. He began a bicycle wheel making business (Weston-Mott Co.), which he moved to Flint, Michigan in 1905 in a merger with Buick. The company was later bought by General Motors in exchange for GM stock. Mott served on the GM Board of Directors until his death in 1973. He was mayor of Flint in 1912, 1913, and i ...

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Bill Melendez (born José Cuauhtemoc Melendez on November 15, 1916 in Hermosillo, Mexico) is a Mexican-born American character animator, film director, and film producer, known for his cartoons for Warner Brothers and the Charlie Brown series. Melendez provided the voice of Snoopy the dog in the latter as well. Melendez, a native of the Mexican town of Hermosillo, was educated in Douglas, Arizona and Los Angeles – the latter being the location of California Institute of th ...

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Anna Bonus Kingsford (September 16, 1846 - February 22, 1888) was one of the first female British physicians, after Elizabeth Garrett Anderson. Kingsford established Theosophy in England and was best known as an advocate of women's rights, animal rights and vegetarianism. She obtained a medical degree in Paris in 1880. In 1883, she was made President of the Theosophical Society. She promoted a Western, Christian and Hermetic esotericism that diverged with the Oriental esotericism of H.P. Blavatsky. Kingsford claimed that she ha ...

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Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog (1889-1959), also known as Isaac Herzog, was the first Chief Rabbi of Ireland, his term lasting from 1921 to 1936. Later, he became Chief Rabbi of the British Mandate of Palestine and Israel, once formed. Herzog was born in Lomza, Poland, and moved to the United Kingdom with his family in 1898, where they settled in Leeds. Herzog's initial schooling was largely at the instruction of his father, Joel Leib Herzog, who was a rabbi in Leeds and then later in Paris. After mastering Talmudic studies at a ...

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Alcide Patrick Nunez (March 17, 1884 – September 2, 1934) was an early jazz clarinetist. Also known as Yellow Nunez and Al Nunez, he was born in St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana and moved to New Orleans in his childhood. He initially played guitar, then switched to clarinet about 1902. He soon became one of the top hot clarinetists in the city. He was a regular in Papa Jack Laine's band, in addition to playing with Tom Brown ( ...

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1916 in rail transport - April events. April 13 - Oris Paxton Van Sweringen and his younger brother Mantis James Van Sweringen purchase a 75% controlling interest in the Nickel Plate Road from William Kissam Vanderbilt for $8.5 million. 1916 in rail transport - July events. July 16 - Much of the Southern Railway's mainline in North and South Car ...

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