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Show PROMINENT PERSONS WHO DIED IN 1916 i January 1 Ex-United Slates Sena- tor Alfred W. Benson of Kansas in Topeka. Al Rinirling. circus man. January Jan-uary 2 Joseph K. Lamar, associate justice Uuiled States Supreme court. January 3 Gen. Grcnville M. Dodge, Civil war commander, in Council P. lull's, Iowa; Col. Robert T. Van Horn, ! founder of the Kansas City Journal, in ; Kansas City. Mo. January t! Charles W. Knapp, newspaper publisher, in ! New York city. January 10 Frank H. Dodd. publisher. In New York cily. January ;7 Miss Jeanette L. Gilder, famous author and critic. January 30 Sir Clements Markhani, scientist and explorer, in London. February 7 Col. William P. Hepburn, Hep-burn, former congressman, In Clarin- da, la. February 10 Belvidere Brooks, telegraph magnate. In New Y'ork city. February 12 John T. Trowbridge, uu-tor. uu-tor. In Arlington, Mass. March 2 "Carmen Sylva," Dowager Queen of Roumania. March 4 Brigadier Bri-gadier General William S. Smith, Civil war veteran nnd civil engineer. March G Richard A. McCurdy, life Insurance lender. In Morristown, N. J. March 11 Ex-United States Senator Henry G. Davis, In Washington. March 10 Cardinal Gottl, prefect of the propaganda, propa-ganda, in Rome. March 21 Cole Younger, famous bandit. March 27 Thomas J. Pence, secretary of the Democratic national committee, In Washington. April 1 Jnmes B. Angell, president emeritus of the University of Michl-gnn. Michl-gnn. April 11 Richard H. Davis, author. au-thor. April 1G Ex-Governor Peck of Wisconsin. April 19 -German Field Marshal von der Goltz. May 13 Sholem Alelchern, called the "Yiddish Mark Twain," In New York city; Clnra Louise Kellogg, famous fa-mous opera singer. May 20 George B. Cox, Republican political leader, in Cincinnati, O. May 20 Dr. Timothy Dwight, former president of Ynle university. uni-versity. May 27 Gen. Joseph S. Gal-lleni, Gal-lleni, former minister of wnr, in Pnris. May 29 James J. Hill, railroad pioneer. pi-oneer. In St. Paul. May 30 Col. John S. Mosby, Civil war guerrilla, In Washington. Wash-ington. June G Yuan Shih Kai, president of China. June 9 John R. Mclieau, newspaper man, in Washington. June 1.8 Count von Moltke, former German chief of staff, In Berlin. July 3 Mrs. Hetty Green, financier, in New York city. July 15 Prof. E!le Metchnikoff, bacteriologist, in Parts. July 17 James II. Moore, financier, tn Lake Geneva, Wis. July 22 James Whitcomb Riley, poet, in Indianapolis. July 23 ITormer United States Senator Sena-tor Thomas M. Patterson, In Denver; Sir William Ramsay, chemist, In Bucks, England. August 9 Robert Grnu, Impresario, In Mount Vernon, N. Y.; John Mw Thurston, ex-United States Senator, In Omaha. August 11 Dr. John B. Murphy, Mur-phy, surgeon, in Chicago. August 12 Gen. Charles J. Paine, yachtsman and railroad man, In Weston, Mass. August Au-gust 20 James Seligman, banker. In Long Branch, N. J. August 25 Archbishop Arch-bishop John L. Spalding, In Peoria, 111. August 31 John P. St. John, ex-governor ex-governor of Kansas and Prohibition candidate for president in 1884, In Olathe, Kan. September 4 Richard C. Kerens ol St. Louis. September 15 Jose Eche-garay, Eche-garay, dramatist, in Madrid. September Septem-ber 18 MaJ. Gen. Albert L. Mills, chief of the division of militia affairs, In Washington. September 19 William J. Calhoun, ex-minister to China, In Chicago. October 1 James P. Clarke, president presi-dent pro tempore of the United States senate. October 4 Major William Warner, ex-United States senator from .Missouri. October IS Norman Duncan, Dun-can, author, in Fredonia, N. Y. October Oc-tober 25 William M. Chase, artist, in New York city. October 28 Prof, Cleveland Abbe, in Washington. October Octo-ber 2S Captain Boelcke. famous German Ger-man aviator. October 31 Charles T. (Pastor) Russell, evangelist. November 5-'Cardinal Francis della Volpe, prefect of the Congregation of the Index, in Rome. November 12 Dr. Percival Lowell, astronomer, in Flagstaff, Ariz. November 1G Hen-ryk Hen-ryk Sienkiewicz, Polish novelist. In Ve-vny. Ve-vny. Switz jrland. November 21 Emperor Em-peror Frar.cis Joseph of Austria. November No-vember 22- -Jack London, author. November No-vember 24 Sir Hirnm Maxim, Inventor. Inven-tor. November 25 Mrs. Inez Milhol-land Milhol-land Boissevain, suffragist. December 3 Sir Francis P. Tosti, composer, in Rome. December 5 John D. Archbold, president of Stand-nrd Stand-nrd Oil company. December 10 Field Marshal Oyama, In Tokyo. December 17 Prof. Hugo Munsterberg, psychologist, psycholo-gist, in Cambridge, Mass. December 19 Dr. James M. Taylor, president emeritus of Vassar college. |