List of Famous people who died in 1916

Brigadier-General Sir Hay Frederick Donaldson was an Australia-born English mechanical engineer.

John George Barry Bingham, 5th Baron Clanmorris DL, JP, was an Irish peer.

John Fitzhardinge Paul Butler was a British Army officer during the First World War and an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

Horace Grant Underwood was a Presbyterian missionary, educator, and translator who dedicated his life to developing Christianity in Korea.

Sir John William Pitt Muir Mackenzie was the acting governor of Bombay during the British Raj from 27 July 1907 to 18 October 1907.

Sir Kenelm Edward Digby was an English lawyer and civil servant. He was Permanent Under Secretary of State at the Home Office from 1895-1903.

Friedrich Ernst Dorn was a German physicist who was the first to discover that a radioactive substance, later named radon, is emitted from radium.