List of Famous people who died in 1916

Solomon Naumovich Rabinovich, better known under his pen name Sholem Aleichem, was a leading Yiddish author and playwright. The 1964 musical Fiddler on the Roof, based on his stories about Tevye the Dairyman, was the first commercially successful English-language stage production about Jewish life in Eastern Europe. The Hebrew phrase שלום עליכם literally means "[May] peace [be] upon you!", and is a greeting in traditional Hebrew and Yiddish.

Prince Mircea of Romania was the third son and last child of King Ferdinand of Romania and his wife, Marie of Edinburgh and a great-grandson of Queen Victoria through his mother. He died aged three in 1916.

Robert Donston Stephenson was a British writer and journalist, chiefly known for having been made a potential suspect in the Jack the Ripper investigation and for his personal theory as to the identity of the murderer.

Norman Hay Forbes of Forbes, FRS, FRSE, FRCSE, JP was a British doctor and academic author, often under the name of Li’mach, the war-cry of the Forbes clan. His writing ranges from therapeutic medicine to Scottish history.

Timothy Dwight V was an American academic, educator, Congregational minister, and President of Yale University (1886–1898). During his years as the school's president, Yale's schools first organized as a university. His grandfather was Timothy Dwight IV, who served as President of Yale College ninety years before his grandson's tenure.

Georges Louis Frederic Boillot was a French Grand Prix motor racing driver and World War I fighter pilot.

Antoon Stillemans was for 26 years the twenty-fourth bishop of Ghent, in Belgium.

Konstantin Andonov Zhostov was a Bulgarian general and Chief of the Bulgarian Army Staff.

Henri François Julien Claude, viscount Davignon was a Belgian politician who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs (1907–1916).