List of Famous people who died in 1916

Grigori Rasputin

First Name Grigori
Born on January 9, 1869
Died on December 30, 1916 (aged 47)

Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin was a Russian mystic and self-proclaimed holy man who befriended the family of Nicholas II, the last emperor of Russia, and gained considerable influence in late imperial Russia.

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Fergus Suter

First Name Fergus
Last Name Suter
Born on November 21, 1857
Died on July 31, 1916 (aged 58)

Fergus Suter was a Scottish stonemason and footballer in the early days of the game. Arguably the first recognised professional footballer, Suter was a native of Glasgow and played for Partick before moving to England to play for Darwen and Blackburn Rovers.

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Ishi

Born on January 1, 1860
Died on March 25, 1916 (aged 56)

Ishi was the last known member of the Native American Yahi people from the present-day state of California in the United States. The rest of the Yahi were killed in the California genocide in the 19th century. Ishi, who was widely acclaimed as the "last wild Indian" in America, lived most of his life isolated from modern American culture. In 1911, aged 50, he emerged near the foothills of Lassen Peak in Northern California.

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Hans Schmidt

First Name Hans
Last Name Schmidt
Born on June 15, 1881
Died on February 18, 1916 (aged 34)
Born in Germany, Bavaria

Hans B. Schmidt was a German Roman Catholic priest convicted of murder, and the only priest to be executed in the United States.

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Ota Benga

First Name Ota
Last Name Benga
Born on November 30, 1882
Died on March 20, 1916 (aged 33)
Height 150 cm | 4'11

Ota Benga was a Mbuti man, known for being featured in an exhibit at the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, Missouri, and as a human zoo exhibit in 1906 at the Bronx Zoo. Benga had been purchased from African slave traders by the explorer Samuel Phillips Verner, a businessman searching for African people for the exhibition, who took him to the United States. While at the Bronx Zoo, Benga was allowed to walk the grounds before and after he was exhibited in the zoo's Monkey House. Except for a brief visit to Africa with Verner after the close of the St. Louis Fair, Benga lived in the United States, mostly in Virginia, for the rest of his life.

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William Ramsay

First Name William
Last Name Ramsay
Born on October 2, 1852
Died on July 23, 1916 (aged 63)

Sir William Ramsay was a Scottish chemist who discovered the noble gases and received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1904 "in recognition of his services in the discovery of the inert gaseous elements in air" along with his collaborator, John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, who received the Nobel Prize in Physics that same year for their discovery of argon. After the two men identified argon, Ramsay investigated other atmospheric gases. His work in isolating argon, helium, neon, krypton and xenon led to the development of a new section of the periodic table.

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Donald Dinnie

First Name Donald
Last Name Dinnie
Born on January 1, 1837
Died on January 1, 1916 (aged 79)

Donald Dinnie (1837–1916) was a Scottish strongman, born at Balnacraig, Birse, near Aboyne, Aberdeenshire. He has been recognized as "The Nineteenth Century's Greatest Athlete". Dinnie's athletic career spanned over 50 years, and over 11,000 successful competitions.

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Marie Bracquemond

Marie Anne Caroline Quivoron
First Name Marie
Last Name Bracquemond
Born on December 1, 1840
Died on January 17, 1916 (aged 75)
Born in France, Brittany

Marie Bracquemond was a French Impressionist artist, who was described retrospectively by Henri Focillon in 1928 as one of "les trois grandes dames" of Impressionism alongside Berthe Morisot and Mary Cassatt. Her frequent omission from books on artists is sometimes attributed to the efforts of her husband, Félix Bracquemond.

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Nedeljko Čabrinović

First Name Nedeljko
Born on February 2, 1895
Died on January 20, 1916 (aged 20)

Nedeljko Čabrinović was a Bosnian Serb member of the pro-Yugoslav Young Bosnia movement and one of seven young men of a secret society known as the Black Hand who conspired to assassinate Archduke Franz Ferdinand during his June 1914 visit to Sarajevo.

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Charles Fryatt

First Name Charles
Last Name Fryatt
Born on December 2, 1872
Died on July 27, 1916 (aged 43)

Charles Algernon Fryatt was a British mariner who was executed by the Germans for attempting to ram a U-boat in 1915. When his ship, the SS Brussels, was captured off the Netherlands in 1916, he was court-martialled and sentenced to death although he was a civilian non-combatant. International outrage followed his execution near Bruges, Belgium. In 1919, his body was reburied with full honours in the United Kingdom.

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