Authors born in 1916
- Van Johnson Actor, 1916
- Virginia Satir Author, 1916
- W. W. Dumas Politician, 1916
- Walker Percy Writer, 1916
- Walt Whitman Rostow Economist, 1916
- Walter Cronkite Journalist, 1916
- Walter Schloss Investor, 1916
- Wellington Mara Military Officer, 1916
- Werner Bischof Photographer, 1916
- William C. Brown Electrical Engineer, 1916
- William Crawford Williamson Naturalist, 1916
- William Hanes Ayres Politician, 1916
- William Rosenberg Entrepreneur, 1916
- William Woodruff Professor, 1916
- Wolfgang Hildesheimer Author, 1916
- Yehudi Menuhin Conductor, 1916