1916 in sports
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- 2.1 January to May
- 2.2 from June to December
Events
Olympic games
Football
- 2 to 17 July: Campeonato Sudamericano 1916
- The SK Rapid Wien won the Austrian Football Championship 1915/16, top scorer is Richard Kuthan.
Athletics
- July 27: Ted Meredith, New Hampshire, running the 400 meters of the men in 47.4 s
- Finnish Athletics Championships 1916
Motorsport
Swimming
- German Swimming Championships 1916
Born
January to May
- January 01: Giacomo Neri, Italian footballer and coach († 2010)
- January 03: Erik Alfred Ågren, Swedish Boxer ( † 1985)
- January 07: Paul Keres, Estonian- Soviet chess player († 1975)
- January 07: Gerrit Schulte, Dutch cyclist († 1992)
- 08 January: Al Coppage, U.S. American football player († 1992)
- January 15: Gene Force, American race car driver († 1983)
- JANUARY 21: Pietro Rava, Italian footballer and coach († 2006)
- JANUARY 22: Riza Lushta, Albanian football player († 1997)
- January 31: Frank Parker, American tennis player († 1997)
- February 05: Ugo Locatelli, Italian footballer († 1993)
- February 06: Clifford Griffith, American race car driver († 1996)
- February 07: Helmut Schubert, German national football team († 1988)
- February 08: Hans- Hugo Hartmann, German race car driver († 1991)
- February 23: George Gordon Abel, Canadian ice hockey player († 1996)
- February 24: Guglielmo Gabetto, Italian footballer († 1949)
- 08 March: Yvon Petra, French tennis player († 1984)
- March 15: Charley Brock, U.S. American football player († 1987)
- MARCH 18: Arie van Vliet, a Dutch cyclist († 2001)
- 20 March: Jack Ferrante, U.S. American football player († 2006)
- MARCH 21: Ken Wharton, English Formula 1 driver († 1957)
- 08 May: João Havelange, Brazilian football official
- MAY 14: Hermann Böhm, German motorcycle racer († 1983)
- May 20: Trebisonda Valla, Italian track and field athlete and Olympic gold medalist († 2006)
- MAY 21: Martinus Osendarp, Dutch track and field athlete and Olympian († 2002)
- MAY 24: Ottilie Graszl, Austrian table tennis player († 1993)
June to December
- 03 June: Leslie Thorne, American race car driver († 1993)
- June 15: Walter Hellman, Swedish - American world champion in drafts († 1975)
- June 16th: Hank Luisetti, American basketball player († 2002)
- June 23: Ernst Willimowski, German - Polish footballer († 1997)
- June 23: Siegfried desires, German motorcycle racer († 2000)
- July 03: John Kundla, American basketball coach
- July 22: Gino Bianco, Italian racing driver († 1984)
- JULY 22: Marcel Cerdan, French middleweight boxer († 1949)
- September 01: Dorothy Bundy, American tennis player
- September 11: Josef Gauchel, German footballer († 1963)
- September 12: Tony Bettenhausen, American race car driver († 1961)
- SEPTEMBER 15: Antonio Branca, Swiss Formula 1 driver († 1985)
- September 15: Ettore Puricelli, Uruguayan - Italian footballer and coach († 2001)
Died
- November 6: Émile Friol, French cyclist (* 1881)
- November 8: Ernst Möller, German national football team (* 1891)