List of Famous people who died in 1916

Charles Aurelius Smith was the 91st Governor of South Carolina from January 14 to January 19, 1915. His term of five days stands as the shortest for any governor in South Carolina.

Oskar Zwintscher was a German painter. He is often associated with the Jugendstil movement.

Prince Leopold Clement Philipp August Maria of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha was an Austro-Hungarian officer and the heir apparent to the wealth of the House of Koháry. His death in a murder–suicide shocked the royal courts of Austria and Germany.

Knut Fredrik Idestam was a Finnish mining engineer and businessman, best known as a founder of Nokia.

Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener was an Irish-born senior British Army officer and colonial administrator who won notoriety for his imperial campaigns, most especially his scorched earth policy against the Boers and his expansion of Lord Roberts' internment camps during the Second Boer War and later played a central role in the early part of the First World War.

Pauline Wengeroff (1833–1916), born Pessele Epstein, was a Russian-Jewish memoirist. She is best known for her two-volume work chronicling her experience of Jewish modernity in late-19th-century Russia. She was the mother of Semyon Vengerov and Isabelle Vengerova.

George Devereux de Vere Capell, 7th Earl of Essex, was a British aristocrat. He succeeded to the title Earl of Essex in 1892.

Léon François Comerre was a French academic painter, famous for his portraits of beautiful women and Oriental themes.

Natsume Sōseki , born Natsume Kin'nosuke , was a Japanese novelist. He is best known around the world for his novels Kokoro, Botchan, I Am a Cat and his unfinished work Light and Darkness. He was also a scholar of British literature and composer of haiku, kanshi, and fairy tales. From 1984 until 2004, his portrait appeared on the front of the Japanese 1000 yen note.

Charles Gordon-Cumming-Dunbar was an Anglican priest in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.