Timeline May 1916

Events in May 1916 6

• 1859 – 1916 Sholem Aleichem (1859-1916) Died 13 May 1916, aged 57 Sholem Aleichem was a Yiddish author whose stories of Tevye the Dairyman later formed the basis of "Fiddler on the Roof." He died in the Bronx, New York, and his funeral drew one of the largest public gatherings the city had seen.
• 1916 – 2006 Glenn Ford (1916-2006) Canadian-born American actor, a leading man in Gilda, The Big Heat, Blackboard Jungle and 3:10 to Yuma.
• 1916 Glenn Ford born in Sainte-Christine-d'Auvergne Glenn Ford is born in Sainte-Christine-d'Auvergne.
• 1916 – 2002 Camilo Jose Cela (1916-2002) Died 17 January 2002, aged 85 The Spanish writer Camilo Jose Cela won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1989. His 1942 novel The Family of Pascual Duarte, a grim tale of rural violence, helped revive the Spanish novel after the civil war, and The Hive portrayed the hunger of postwar Madrid. He was a divisive figure who had worked as a censor under Franco before serving as a senator in the democratic era.
• 1916 Sykes-Picot Agreement signed Britain and France secretly agree to divide Ottoman Arab lands Britain and France secretly agreed to divide the Ottoman Empire's Arab provinces into postwar spheres of influence. Negotiated by Mark Sykes and Francois Georges-Picot, the agreement shaped the modern borders of the Middle East.
• 1916 The Battle of Jutland North Sea The only full-scale clash of battle fleets in the war. Britain lost more ships and men, but the German fleet returned to port and stayed there — which settled the blockade, and the war's outcome, more than any battle on land.