Famous people and celebrities who died in July 1916

This page is dedicated to commemorating the celebrities and famous people who passed away in July 1916. This month marked the loss of influential and beloved figures whose contributions spanned various fields and touched many lives. Explore our detailed list to remember and celebrate their enduring legacies and the remarkable impact they had on the world

• July 3 Hetty Green

  American financier and businesswoman (d. 1916).

• July 3 Henrietta "Hetty" Howland Robinson Green

  (witch of wall street).

• July 4 Alan Seeger

  American soldier and poet (b. 1888)

• July 6 Odilon Redon

  French painter, lithographer, and etcher who created "in the dream,"1879 and "night,"1886. he used dramatic contrasts of white and black to express his emotions. redon is a proponent of symbolism and produced more than 200 prints.

• July 11 Rik Wouters

  Belgian painter, sculptor and leader of fauvism in belgium. on 7/11/1916 amsterdam, netherlands, he died after an operation for eye cancer.

• July 12 Aritius S Talma

  Dutch minister of agriculture dies at 52

• July 15 Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov

  Nobel Prize laureate in recognition of their work on immunity

• July 16 Ilja [Elias] Metsjnikov

  Russ bacteriologist, nobel 1908)

• July 16 Ludwig P Scharwenka

  German composer (album polonaise), passes away at 70

• July 16 Victor Alexander Haden Horsley

  Physician

• July 18 Benjamin C. Truman

  American journalist and author (b. 1835)

• July 22 James Whitcomb Riley

  American poet and author (b. 1849)

• July 23 William Ramsay

  Scottish chemist who discovered noble gases. he was awarded the nobel prize in chemistry in 1904 for his "services in the discovery of inert gaseous element in air" (alongside lord rayleigh, his collaborator who won the nobel prize in physics in physics in the same year for discovering argon). ramsay began to study other atmospheric gases after the men had …

• July 26 Gellio Benevenuto Coronaro

  Composer dies at 52

• July 27 Charles Fryatt

  Germans execute british captain of ss brussels

• July 27 William Jonas

  English footballer (d. 1890)