Timeline July 1916

Events in July 1916 5

• 1873 – 1916 Erik Satie French avant-garde composer Eccentric French composer whose Gymnopédies and Gnossiennes pioneered minimalism and influenced Debussy, Ravel and the entire 20th-century avant-garde.
• 1916 Dwight D. Eisenhower marries Mamie Doud They marry at her parents home in Denver.
• 1916 – 2020 Olivia de Havilland (1916-2020) Died 26 July 2020, aged 104 Olivia de Havilland was a two-time Academy Award-winning actress best remembered for playing Melanie in Gone with the Wind. She died on 26 July 2020 in Paris, at the age of 104.
• 1916 The Battle of the Somme Somme, France On the first day the British Army took 57,470 casualties, 19,240 of them dead — the worst day in its history. The battle ran for 141 days and moved the line about six miles.
• 1916 – 2014 Gough Whitlam (1916-2014) Died 21 October 2014, aged 98 Gough Whitlam, the reformist Australian prime minister whose government was controversially dismissed by the governor-general in 1975, died in Sydney. His government introduced universal healthcare and free university education in Australia. His dismissal remains a defining moment in Australian constitutional history.