page_title: 1916
section_title: December
hierarchical_section_title: 1916 / Deaths / December
caption_attribution_description: English: Honorat Koźmiński
context_page_description: 1916 was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1916th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 916th year of the 2nd millennium, the 16th year of the 20th century, and the 7th year of the 1910s decade. As of the start of 1916, the Gregorian calendar was 13 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
context_section_description: December 1 – Charles de Foucauld, French Roman Catholic religious professed, priest and blessed (b. 1858)
  December 2
  William Brownell, Australian politician (b. 1862)
  Hughie Hughes, British racecar driver (b. 1885)
  José Veríssimo, Brazilian writer (b. 1857)
  December 4 – Paul Allard, French archaeologist and historian (b. 1841)
  December 5
  Princess Augusta of Cambridge (b. 1822)
  Hans Richter, Austrian–Hungarian conductor (b. 1843)
  December 6 – Signe Hornborg, Finnish architect (b. 1856)
  December 8 – John Porter Merrell, American admiral (b. 1846)
  December 9
  Pierre Paul Leroy-Beaulieu, French economist (b. 1843)
  Natsume Sōseki, Japanese writer (b. 1867)
  Clara Ward, Princesse de Caraman-Chimay (b. 1873)
  December 10 – Ōyama Iwao, Japanese field marshal and a founder of the Imperial Japanese Army (b. 1842)
  December 11
  Valentín Díaz, Filipino patriot, during the Philippine Revolution (b. 1845)
  Zoilo H. Garcia, Dominican engineer and aviator (b. 1881)
  December 12 – Edwin Atlee Barber, American archaeologist (b. 1851)
  December 14 – Nicolai Soloviev, Russian composer (b. 1846)
  December 15 – José Maria de Alpoim, Portuguese journalist (b. 1857)
  December 16
  Friedrich Ernst Dorn, German physicist (b. 1848)
  Honorat da Biała, Polish Roman Catholic priest and blessed (b. 1829)
  Hugo Münsterberg, German-born American psychologist (b. 1856)
  Ognjeslav Stepanović, Serbian inventor (b. 1851)
  December 18
  George W. Cook, U.S. Representative from Colorado (b. 1851)
  Giulia Valle, Italian Roman Catholic nun and blessed (b. 1847)
  December 19
  Doug Allison, American baseball player (b. 1846)
  Thibaw Min, King of Burma (b. 1859)
  December 22 – George A. Woodward, American general (b. 1835)
  December 25
  Albert Chmielowski, Polish Roman Catholic religious professed and saint (b. 1845)
  John Dunne, Australian Roman Catholic bishop and reverend (b. 1846)
  December 28 – Eduard Strauss, Austrian composer (b. 1835)
  December 30
  Grigori Rasputin, Russian mystic (assassinated) (b. 1869)
  Leopold Sulerzhitsky, Russian painter (b. 1872)
caption: Blessed Honorat da Biała
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