List of Famous people who died in 1916

Jules Cantini (1826–1916) was a French sculptor and philanthropist.

Henri-Joseph Harpignies was a French landscape painter of the Barbizon school.

Klas Pontus Arnoldson was a Swedish author, journalist, politician, and committed pacifist who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1908 with Fredrik Bajer. He was a founding member of the Swedish Peace and Arbitration Society and a Member of Parliament in the second Chamber of 1882–1887.

Alexandre Jean Albert Lavignac was a French music scholar, known for his essays on theory, and a minor composer.

Baron Katō Hiroyuki was an academic and politician of the Meiji period Japan.

Mabel Veronica Hatch Batten (1856–1916) was a well-known amateur singer of lieder.

Sir Charles Bent Ball, 1st Baronet, Hon FRCS MD FRCSI was an Irish surgeon and an honorary surgeon to the King in Ireland.

Victor Eugène Louis de Stuers was a Dutch art historian, lawyer, civil servant and politician. He was highly active in the cultural field – he is widely regarded as the father of historic preservation in the Netherlands, played a notable part in keeping Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring in the Netherlands and chose the architect Pierre Cuypers to design the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.