Discover what happened on 5 March 1916 in history! This day marks a series of notable events, famous births, and significant deaths. Explore the details below to learn more about the historical happenings of this day. On this day, history comes alive!
Births
- Colette Dorsay (Canadian actor (1906-1996))
- Ian Parrott (English composer (1916–2012))
- Pierre Loutrel (French resistance member (1916–1946))
- Biju Patnaik (Indian politician, aviator and businessman (1916–1997))
- Georgy Antonov
- Winston H. Bostick (American Physicist (1916–1991))
- Aida Yūji (historian)
- Edith Kinney Gaylord (American journalist)
- Alfonso Rojas (Spanish actor (1916-1996))
- José Cano Timoner (Spanish association football player)
- Odorico D’ Andrea
- Jack Hamm (cartoonist (1916-1996))
- Vicente Marco (Spanish journalist (1916-2008))
- Karl Kasten (American artist (1916-2010))
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- Nick Wolmarans (South African boxer (1916-1994))
- Patrick D. McGee (American politician)
- Phyllis Dewar (Canadian swimmer, Olympic athlete, British Empire Games gold medallist (1916–1961))
- Walter de Paula (Brazilian fencer)
- Edward Abramowicz
- Marialzira Perestrello (Brazilian writer and poet (1916-2015))
- Dick Threlfall (English footballer (1916-1994))
- Shigeru Furuya (Ph.D. University of Tokyo 1961)
- Hiroshi Hiruma (Japanese sculptor (1916-1984))
- Valdemar Kosonen
- Ivan Kuzmin (Soviet military personnel (1916-1963))
- Lars Bremnes (Norwegian fisherman, politician)
- Alfred Dahl (German roofer (1916-2011))
- Leopold Holzmann (Austrian officer and Knight’s Cross recipients (1916-2002))
- J. G. Fox (American nuclear physicist)
- Leonard Marks (American lawyer (1916-2006))
- László Szűcs ((1916–1996))
- Richard Neville Spann ((1916-1981) professor of government and public administration)
- Julia Romera Yáñez (Catalan activist)
- Jürgen Deichmüller
- Annibale Pagliarin
- Gabriele Marinucci (Roman Catholic clergyman)
- Frank Milton Byers, Jr. (geologist)
- Lawrence Herbst (American politician (1916-2003))
- Hermann Fischer
- Karl Knecht
- Marta Makovská
- Jeronym Řepa
- Alexander Hellwig (German navy officer and WWII submarine commander)
- Paul Darcy Boles (1916-)
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- Gertruda Paskuszová (Holocaust victim (born 1916))
- Nadezhda Lekarska (Bulgarian essayist)
- William Dallas Herring (educator and founder of the North Carolina Community College system)
- Harry Gozzard (American jazz trumpeter)
- Liza Timár (Hungarian actress (1916–1993))
- Eliška Bleyerová
- John R. Wilhelm (World War II reporter, Ohio University dean emeritus of the College of Communication)
- Antonín Kříž
- Jaime Umbelino
- Mappa Oudang (Indonesian diplomat)
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Deaths
- Kazimierz Chłapowski (Polish landowner, economic activist and conservative politician, member of the German Reichstag (1832–1916))
- Wilhelm Fraenkel (German architect (1844–1916))
- Émile Clermont (French writer (1880–1916))
- Ahron Marcus
- John Mount Batten (British Army officer (1843-1916))
- Eulàlia Anzizu (Spanish writer (1868-1916))
- Olney Arnold II (American diplomat)
- Valeriano Menéndez Conde y Álvarez
- Jürgen Brix
- John C. Grady (American lawyer and politician (1847-1916))
- Juan Mas y Pi
- Théodore Peyrusson
- Wilhelm Lesenberg (German physician)
- Charles Henry Labouchere ((1863-1916))
- Victor Parker ((1877-1916))
- Cilluf Olsson (Swedish textile artist (1847–1916))
- Růžena Machová
- Theodor Deppe
- André Dupont (1884-1916)
- Josep Solà i Pujol
- Henry Floy
- Hermann Friedrich Wagner (Austrian pedagogue (1844-1916))
- Lavrids Nyegaard
- August Werthner (Austrian estate owner and newspaper employee)