List of Famous people who died in 1916

Eleanor Vere Boyle (1825–1916) was an artist of the Victorian era whose work consisted mainly of watercolor illustrations in children’s books. These illustrations were strongly influenced by the Pre-Raphaelites, being highly detailed and haunting in content. Love and death were popular subject matter of Pre-Raphaelite art and something that can be seen in Eleanor Vere Boyle’s work. Dante Gabriel Rossetti, the founder of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, even called her work "great in design." However, even though she was one of the first woman artists to be recognized for her achievements, she did not exhibit or sell work often as it was not acceptable given her family’s social status. Thus, she signed her works “EVB” to obscure her identity and quickly became one of the most important female illustrators in the 1860s.

Eric Skeffington Poole was a British Army soldier who was the first commissioned officer to be executed by British military authority during World War I.

Samuel Whitaker Pennypacker was the 23rd Governor of Pennsylvania from 1903 to 1907. He also served Pennsylvania as a judge and wrote on aspects of Pennsylvania history.

Sir Foster Hugh Egerton Cunliffe, 6th Baronet was an English historian and first-class cricketer who played for Oxford University from 1895 to 1898, for Middlesex from 1897 to 1903 and for Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) from 1899 to 1903. He was killed serving in World War I.

Harcourt Vanden-Bempde-Johnstone, 1st Baron Derwent, known as Sir Harcourt Vanden-Bempde-Johnstone, 3rd Baronet, from 1869 to 1881, was a British peer and Liberal Party politician. He served for ten years as a Member of Parliament (MP), before becoming a peer with a seat in the House of Lords.

Francis Warre Warre-Cornish was a British schoolmaster, scholar and writer.

Frederick Henry Norman was an English merchant banker and a director of the merchant bank Brown, Shipley & Co. He was also a first-class cricketer, appearing for Kent, Cambridge University, Cambridge Town Club and some amateur teams. He was born at Bromley Common, Kent and died in Mayfair, London.

Auguste Émile Faguet was a French author and literary critic.

Bernhard E. Scholz, was a German conductor, composer and teacher of music.

Sir George Scott Robertson, was a British soldier, author, and administrator who was best known for his arduous journey to the remote and rugged region of Kafiristan in what is now northeastern Afghanistan and for his overall command of British Empire forces during the Siege of Chitral. He chronicled his Kafiristan experience in the book The Kafirs of the Hindu Kush. Some have suggested that Robertson's year-long expedition and subsequent book provided background and inspiration for Rudyard Kipling's short story "The Man Who Would Be King". However, Kipling's work was originally published in 1888, predating Robertson's travels to the region.