Deaths 2016

january

vilmos zsigmond



ashraf pahlavi



david bowie



alan rickman



jacques rivette



january 1 – vilmos zsigmond, hungarian-american cinematographer (b. 1930)
january 2

michel delpech, french singer-songwriter , actor (b. 1946)
sheikh nimr, saudi arabian shia religious leader (b. 1959)


january 3

paul bley, canadian pianist (b. 1932)
peter naur, danish computer scientist (b. 1928)


january 4 – michel galabru, french actor (b. 1922)
january 5 – pierre boulez, french composer, conductor , writer (b. 1925)
january 6 – silvana pampanini, italian actress (b. 1925)
january 7

princess ashraf of iran (b. 1919)
andré courrèges, french fashion designer (b. 1923)


january 8 – maria teresa de filippis, italian racing driver (b. 1926)
january 10

david bowie, english singer-songwriter , actor (b. 1947)
yusuf zuayyin, 51st , 53rd prime minister of syria (b. 1931)


january 13 – brian bedford, british actor (b. 1935)
january 14

rené angélil, canadian singer , manager (b. 1942)
alan rickman, english actor , director (b. 1946)


january 18

glenn frey, american musician (b. 1948)
michel tournier, french writer (b. 1924)


january 19 – ettore scola, italian screenwriter , film director (b. 1931)
january 23 – jimmy bain, scottish musician (b. 1947)
january 24 – marvin minsky, american computer scientist (b. 1927)
january 26

black, british singer-songwriter (b. 1962)
abe vigoda, american actor (b. 1921)


january 28

paul kantner, american singer , musician (b. 1941)
signe toly anderson, american singer (b. 1941)


january 29

jean-marie doré, 11th prime minister of guinea (b. 1938)
jacques rivette, french film director , critic (b. 1928)


january 30

frank finlay, british actor (b. 1926)
francisco flores pérez, president of el salvador (b. 1959)


january 31 – terry wogan, irish-british broadcaster (b. 1938)

february

boutros boutros-ghali



umberto eco



harper lee



february 1 – Óscar humberto mejía victores, 27th president of guatemala (b. 1930)
february 3 – joe alaskey, american voice actor (b. 1952)
february 4

edgar mitchell, american astronaut (b. 1930)
maurice white, american singer-songwriter (b. 1941)


february 9 – sushil koirala, 37th prime minister of nepal (b. 1939)
february 13

trifon ivanov, bulgarian footballer (b. 1965)
slobodan santrač, serbian football player , manager (b. 1946)
antonin scalia, american supreme court justice (b. 1936)


february 15 – george gaynes, finnish-born american actor (b. 1917)
february 16 – boutros boutros-ghali, egyptian politician , diplomat, secretary-general of un (b. 1922)
february 17

mohamed hassanein heikal, egyptian journalist (b. 1923)
andrzej Żuławski, polish film director , writer (b. 1940)


february 19

umberto eco, italian writer , philosopher (b. 1932)
harper lee, american writer (b. 1926)


february 22 – douglas slocombe, british cinematographer (b. 1913)
february 23 – donald e. williams, american astronaut (b. 1942)
february 24 – peter kenilorea, 1st prime minister of solomon islands (b. 1943)
february 25 – tony burton, american actor (b. 1937)
february 28 – george kennedy, american actor (b. 1925)
february 29

hannes löhr, german footballer (b. 1942)
josé parra martínez, spanish footballer (b. 1925)



march

nancy reagan



guido westerwelle



anker jørgensen



johan cruyff



patty duke



march 5

hassan al-turabi, sudanese spiritual leader (b. 1932)
nikolaus harnoncourt, austrian conductor (b. 1929)
ray tomlinson, american computer programmer (b. 1941)


march 6 – nancy reagan, american actress, first lady of united states (b. 1921)
march 8

george martin, english record producer, composer, arranger , engineer (b. 1926)
claus ogerman, german conductor , composer (b. 1930)


march 9 – naná vasconcelos, brazilian jazz percussionist , vocalist (b. 1944)
march 10

anita brookner, british novelist (b. 1928)
keith emerson, british musician (b. 1944)
roberto perfumo, argentine footballer , sport commentator (b. 1942)


march 11

dragan nikolić, serbian actor (b. 1943)


march 12 – lloyd shapley, american nobel mathematician (b. 1923)
march 13 – hilary putnam, american philosopher, mathematician , computer scientist (b. 1926)
march 14 – peter maxwell davies, english composer , conductor (b. 1934)
march 17

meir dagan, israeli general , former director of mossad (b. 1945)
larry drake, american actor (b. 1950)


march 18

lothar späth, german politician (b. 1937)
guido westerwelle, german politician (b. 1961)


march 20 – anker jørgensen, prime minister of denmark (b. 1922)
march 21 – andrew grove, hungarian-american electronic executive (b. 1936)
march 22 – rob ford, canadian politician (b. 1969)
march 23 – ken howard, american actor (b. 1944)
march 24

roger cicero, german jazz , pop musician (b. 1970)
johan cruyff, dutch footballer , manager (b. 1947)
garry shandling, american actor , comedian (b. 1949)


march 26 – raúl cárdenas, mexican footballer , coach (b. 1928)
march 29 – patty duke, american actress (b. 1946)
march 31

georges cottier, swiss cardinal (b. 1922)
hans-dietrich genscher, german politician (b. 1927)
zaha hadid, iraqi-british architect (b. 1950)
imre kertész, hungarian nobel author (b. 1929)



april

patricio aylwin



prince



banharn silpa-archa



april 2

amber rayne, american pornographic actress (b. 1984)
gato barbieri, argentine jazz saxophonist (b. 1932)


april 3

cesare maldini, italian football player , manager (b. 1932)
kōji wada, japanese rock singer (b. 1974)


april 4 – chus lampreave, spanish actress (b. 1930)
april 6 – merle haggard, american country singer (b. 1937)
april 8 – erich rudorffer, german fighter ace (b. 1917)
april 12

balls mahoney, american professional wrestler (b. 1972)
arnold wesker, british playwright (b. 1932)


april 16 – louis pilot, luxembourgian football player , manager (b. 1940)
april 17 – doris roberts, american actress (b. 1925)
april 19

patricio aylwin, 32nd president of chile (b. 1918)
ronit elkabetz, israeli actress , film director (b. 1964)
walter kohn, austrian-born american nobel physicist (b. 1923)


april 20

chyna, american professional wrestler (b. 1969)
guy hamilton, british film director (b. 1922)


april 21 – prince, american singer-songwriter , multi-instrumentalist (b. 1958)
april 23 – banharn silpa-archa, 21st prime minister of thailand (b. 1932)
april 24

billy paul, american singer (b. 1934)
klaus siebert, german olympic biathlete (b. 1955)
papa wemba, congolese singer (b. 1949)


april 25 – martin gray, polish writer (b. 1922)
april 26 – harry wu, chinese human rights activist (b. 1937)
april 27 – viktor gavrikov, lithuanian-swiss chess grandmaster (b. 1957)
april 30 – harry kroto, english nobel chemist (b. 1939)

may

margot honecker



marco pannella



loris francesco capovilla



mohamed abdelaziz



may 1 – solomon w. golomb, american mathematician (b. 1932)
may 2 – afeni shakur, american music businesswoman (b. 1947)
may 4

jean-baptiste bagaza, 2nd president of burundi (b. 1946)
bob bennett, american politician (b. 1933)


may 5

siné, french political cartoonist (b. 1928)
isao tomita, japanese composer (b. 1932)


may 6 – margot honecker, east german politician (b. 1927)
may 8 – william schallert, american actor (b. 1922)
may 10 – kang young-hoon, 21st prime minister of south korea (b. 1922)
may 16 – giovanni coppa, italian cardinal (b. 1925)
may 17

guy clark, american singer-songwriter (b. 1941)
yūko mizutani, japanese voice actress (b. 1964)


may 19

alexandre astruc, french film critic , director (b. 1923)
marco pannella, italian politician (b. 1930)
alan young, british-born canadian-american actor (b. 1919)


may 21

sándor tarics, hungarian olympic water polo player (b. 1913)
nick menza, german-born american drummer (b. 1964)


may 22 – bata Živojinović, serbian actor , politician (b. 1933)
may 26

loris francesco capovilla, italian cardinal (b. 1915)
arturo pomar, spanish chess grandmaster (b. 1931)


may 28

giorgio albertazzi, italian actor (b. 1923)
david cañada, spanish cyclist (b. 1975)


may 31

mohamed abdelaziz, 3rd secretary-general of polisario front (b. 1947)
corry brokken, dutch singer (b. 1932)
antonio imbert barrera, dominican politician (b. 1920)



june

muhammad ali



gordie howe



anton yelchin



martin lundstrom



june 2 – tom kibble, british physicist (b. 1932)
june 3

muhammad ali, american olympic , professional boxer (b. 1942)
luis salom, spanish motorcycle racer (b. 1991)


june 5 – jerome bruner, american psychologist (b. 1915)
june 6

viktor korchnoi, russian-born swiss chess grandmaster (b. 1931)
peter shaffer, british playwright , screenwriter (b. 1926)


june 7 – stephen keshi, nigerian footballer , manager (b. 1962)
june 8 – qahhor mahkamov, 1st president of tajikistan (b. 1932)
june 10

gordie howe, canadian ice hockey player (b. 1928)
christina grimmie, american singer (b. 1994)


june 11 – rudi altig, german road racing cyclist (b. 1937)
june 12 – george voinovich, american politician (b. 1936)
june 18 – vittorio merloni, italian entrepreneur (b. 1933)
june 19

victor stănculescu, romanian general , politician (b. 1928)
anton yelchin, russian-born american actor (b. 1989)


june 20 – edgard pisani, french politician (b. 1918)
june 23

michael herr, american writer, journalist , screenwriter (b. 1940)
ralph stanley, american bluegrass musician (b. 1927)


june 25 – maurice g. dantec, french writer (b. 1959)
june 27

bud spencer, italian actor (b. 1929)
alvin toffler, american writer , futurist (b. 1928)


june 28

scotty moore, american guitarist (b. 1931)
pat summitt, american basketball coach (b. 1952)


june 30 – martin lundström, swedish olympic cross country skier (b. 1918)

july

elie wiesel



zygmunt zimowski



ursula franklin



piet de jong



fazil iskander



july 1 – yves bonnefoy, french poet (b. 1923)
july 2

michael cimino, american screenwriter , film director (b. 1939)
rudolf e. kálmán, hungarian-born american electrical engineer (b. 1930)
patrick manning, 2-time prime minister of trinidad , tobago (b. 1946)
michel rocard, prime minister of france (b. 1930)
elie wiesel, romanian-born american nobel writer , political activist (b. 1928)


july 4 – abbas kiarostami, iranian film director (b. 1940)
july 6 – turgay Şeren, turkish footballer (b. 1932)
july 8

abdul sattar edhi, pakistani philanthropist, social activist, ascetic , humanitarian (b. 1928)
william h. mcneill, canadian-american historian , author (b. 1917)


july 9 – silvano piovanelli, italian cardinal (b. 1924)
july 12 – goran hadžić, serbian politician , alleged war criminal (b. 1958)
july 13

héctor babenco, argentine-brazilian film director (b. 1946)
bernardo provenzano, italian criminal (b. 1933)
zygmunt zimowski, polish bishop (b. 1949)


july 14 – péter esterházy, hungarian writer (b. 1950)
july 16 – nate thurmond, american basketball player (b. 1941)
july 19

garry marshall, american film director, television producer , actor (b. 1934)
anthony d. smith, british historical sociologist (b. 1939)


july 22 – ursula franklin, german-born canadian scientist (b. 1921)
july 23 – thorbjörn fälldin, 2-time prime minister of sweden (b. 1926)
july 24 – marni nixon, american vocalist (b. 1930)
july 25

halil İnalcık, turkish historian (b. 1916)
dwight jones, american basketball player (b. 1952)
tim lahaye, american evangelist , author (b. 1926)


july 27

einojuhani rautavaara, finnish composer (b. 1928)
piet de jong, dutch politician , naval officer, prime minister of netherlands (b. 1915)
jerry doyle, american talk show host , actor (b. 1956)


july 28

mahasweta devi, indian social activist , writer (b. 1926)
vladica kovačević, serbian footballer (b. 1940)
Émile derlin zinsou, 4th president of dahomey (b. 1918)


july 30 – gloria dehaven, american actress (b. 1925)
july 31

seymour papert, south african-born american mathematician , computer scientist (b. 1928)
fazil iskander, russian writer (b. 1929)
chiyonofuji mitsugu, japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1955)



august

queen anne of romania



françoise mallet-joris



walter scheel



sonia rykiel



juan gabriel



gene wilder



august 1 – queen anne of romania, french-born consort of former king michael of romania (b. 1923)
august 2

terence bayler, new zealand actor (b. 1930)
david huddleston, american actor (b. 1930)
franciszek macharski, polish cardinal (b. 1927)
ahmed zewail, egyptian-american nobel chemist (b. 1946)


august 3 – chris amon, new zealand motor racing driver (b. 1943)
august 9 – gerald grosvenor, 6th duke of westminster (b. 1951)
august 13

kenny baker, english actor (b. 1934)
françoise mallet-joris, belgian writer (b. 1930)


august 14

hermann kant, german writer (b. 1926)
fyvush finkel, american actor (b. 1922)


august 15

dalian atkinson, english footballer (b. 1968)
stefan henze, german canoeist , coach (b. 1981)
bobby hutcherson, american jazz musician (b. 1941)


august 16

andrew florent, australian tennis player (b. 1970)
joão havelange, brazilian athlete , football executive (b. 1916)


august 17 – arthur hiller, canadian film director (b. 1923)
august 18 – ernst nolte, german historian (b. 1923)
august 19

lou pearlman, american music manager , record producer (b. 1954)
nina ponomaryova, russian olympic discus thrower (b. 1929)
mohammad ali samatar, 5th prime minister of somalia (b. 1931)


august 22

s. r. nathan, 6th president of singapore (b. 1924)
toots thielemans, belgian jazz musician (b. 1922)


august 23

steven hill, american film , television actor (b. 1922)
berit mørdre lammedal, norwegian cross-country skier (b. 1940)
reinhard selten, german nobel economist (b. 1930)


august 24

michel butor, french writer (b. 1926)
walter scheel, president of west germany (b. 1919)
roger y. tsien, american nobel biologist (b. 1952)


august 25

james cronin, american nobel physicist (b. 1931)
sonia rykiel, french fashion designer (b. 1930)
rudy van gelder, american recording engineer (b. 1924)


august 26 – harald grønningen, norwegian cross country skier (b. 1934)
august 28

binyamin ben-eliezer, israeli politician , former deputy prime minister (b. 1936)
mr. fuji, american professional wrestler , wrestling manager (b. 1934)
juan gabriel, mexican singer-songwriter (b. 1950)


august 29 – gene wilder, american actor (b. 1933)
august 30

věra Čáslavská, czech gymnast (b. 1942)
marc riboud, french photographer (b. 1923)



september

phyllis schlafly



carlo azeglio ciampi



arnold palmer



shimon peres



september 1 – jon polito, american actor (b. 1950)
september 2

islam karimov, 1st president of uzbekistan (b. 1938)
daniel willems, belgian cyclist (b. 1956)


september 3 – jean-christophe yoccoz, french mathematician (b. 1957)
september 5

hugh o brian, american actor (b. 1925)
phyllis schlafly, american writer , political activist (b. 1924)


september 7

norbert schemansky, american weightlifter (b. 1924)
joseph keller, american mathematician (b. 1923)


september 8

prince buster, jamaican singer-songwriter , producer (b. 1938)
dragiša pešić, 5th prime minister of serbia , montenegro (b. 1954)


september 11 – alexis arquette, american actress (b. 1969)
september 12 – sándor csoóri, hungarian poet (b. 1930)
september 13 – jonathan riley-smith, english medieval historian (b. 1938)
september 16

edward albee, american playwright (b. 1928)
gabriele amorth, italian catholic priest , exorcist (b. 1925)
carlo azeglio ciampi, 10th president , 49th prime minister of italy (b. 1920)
antónio mascarenhas monteiro, 2nd president of cape verde (b. 1944)


september 17

charmian carr, american actress (b. 1942)
sigge parling, swedish footballer (b. 1930)


september 20 – curtis hanson, american film director , screenwriter (b. 1945)
september 23 – marcel artelesa, french footballer (b. 1938)
september 24

bill mollison, australian researcher, author , biologist (b. 1928)
bill nunn, american actor (b. 1952)


september 25

david padilla, 64th president of bolivia (b. 1927)
arnold palmer, american golfer (b. 1929)


september 26 – herschell gordon lewis, american film director , screenwriter (b. 1929)
september 27 – jamshid amouzegar, 71st prime minister of iran (b. 1923)
september 28 – shimon peres, 9th president , 8th prime minister of israel, nobel peace prize laureate (b. 1923)
september 29 – miriam defensor santiago, filipino politician (b. 1945)
september 30 – trịnh thị ngọ, vietnamese radio personality (b. 1931)

october

michal kováč



andrzej wajda



bhumibol adulyadej



jorge batlle



october 1 – david herd, scottish footballer (b. 1934)
october 2 – neville marriner, british conductor (b. 1924)
october 4 – brigitte hamann, german-austrian historian , author (b. 1940)
october 5 – michal kováč, 1st president of slovakia (b. 1930)
october 8 – stylianos pattakos, greek military officer (b. 1912)
october 9

mamadou dembelé, 3rd prime minister of mali (b. 1934)
andrzej wajda, polish film director (b. 1926)


october 11 – teatao teannaki, 2nd president of kiribati (b. 1936)
october 13

bhumibol adulyadej (rama ix), king of thailand (b. 1927)
dario fo, italian actor, nobel playwright , comedian (b. 1926)


october 14 – klim churyumov, soviet-ukrainian astronomer (b. 1937)
october 16

kigeli v, king of rwanda (b. 1936)
viktor zubkov, russian basketball player (b. 1937)


october 20

michael massee, american actor (b. 1952)
junko tabei, japanese mountaineer (b. 1939)


october 23

khalifa bin hamad al thani, emir of qatar (b. 1932)
pete burns, british singer (b. 1959)


october 24

jorge batlle, 38th president of uruguay (b. 1927)
benjamin creme, scottish artist, author , esotericist (b. 1922)
reinhard häfner, german footballer (b. 1952)
bobby vee, american pop singer (b. 1943)


october 25 – carlos alberto torres, brazilian footballer (b. 1944)
october 27 – takahito, prince mikasa (b. 1915)
october 28 – nicholas brathwaite, 3rd prime minister of grenada (b. 1925)
october 29

roland dyens, french classical guitarist , composer (b. 1955)
pen sovan, 32nd prime minister of cambodia (b. 1936)


october 31 – silvio gazzaniga, italian sculptor (b. 1921)

november

leonard cohen



sixto durán ballén



konstantinos stephanopoulos



fidel castro



luis alberto monge



november 2 – oleg popov, russian clown (b. 1930)
november 5 – marek svatoš, slovak ice hockey player (b. 1982)
november 6 – zoltán kocsis, hungarian pianist, conductor , composer (b. 1952)
november 7

leonard cohen, canadian singer, songwriter , poet (b. 1934)
janet reno, american lawyer (b. 1938)


november 11

ilse aichinger, austrian writer (b. 1921)
Željko Čajkovski, croatian football player (b. 1925)
robert vaughn, american actor (b. 1932)


november 12 – lupita tovar, mexican-american actress (b. 1910)
november 13

enzo maiorca, italian free diver (b. 1931)
leon russell, american musician (b. 1942)


november 14 – gardnar mulloy, american tennis player (b. 1913)
november 15

mose allison, american jazz musician (b. 1927)
sixto durán ballén, 37th president of ecuador (b. 1921)


november 16

jay wright forrester, american computer engineer (b. 1918)
melvin laird, american politician , writer (b. 1922)
daniel prodan, romanian football player (b. 1972)


november 17 – whitney smith, american vexillologist (b. 1940)
november 18 – denton cooley, american heart surgeon (b. 1920)
november 20

gabriel badilla, costa rican footballer (b. 1984)
konstantinos stephanopoulos, 5th president of greece (b. 1926)
william trevor, irish writer (b. 1928)


november 23 – andrew sachs, german-born british actor (b. 1930)
november 24

florence henderson, american actress (b. 1934)
pauline oliveros, american composer (b. 1932)


november 25

fidel castro, 16th prime minister , 17th president of cuba (b. 1926)
ron glass, american actor (b. 1945)
david hamilton, british photographer (b. 1933)


november 27 – ioannis grivas, 176th prime minister of greece (b. 1923)
november 28

cléber santana, brazilian footballer (b. 1981)
mark taimanov, russian chess grandmaster , concert pianist (b. 1926)


november 29 – luis alberto monge, 39th president of costa rica (b. 1925)
date unknown – james joseph dresnok, american defector north korea (b. 1941)

december

john glenn



thomas schelling



george michael



vera rubin



carrie fisher



december 2 – sammy lee, american olympic diver (b. 1920)
december 4 – gotlib, french comic artist (b. 1934)
december 5 – geydar dzhemal, russian islamic philosopher (b. 1947)
december 5 – jayalalithaa jayaram, indian politician (b. 1948)
december 6 – peter vaughan, british actor (b. 1923)
december 7

paul elvstrøm, danish olympic yachtsman (b. 1928)
greg lake, british musician (b. 1947)


december 8

john glenn, american aviator, astronaut , politician (b. 1921)
joseph mascolo, american actor (b. 1929)


december 10 – esma redžepova, macedonian-romani singer (b. 1943)
december 12 – javier echevarría rodríguez, spanish bishop (b. 1932)
december 13

thomas schelling, american nobel economist (b. 1921)
alan thicke, canadian actor , songwriter (b. 1947)


december 14

paulo evaristo arns, brazilian cardinal (b. 1921)
bernard fox, welsh actor (b. 1927)


december 16 – faina melnik, ukrainian-born russian olympic discus thrower (b. 1945)
december 17 – henry heimlich, american physician (b. 1920)
december 18 – zsa zsa gabor, hungarian-american actress , socialite (b. 1917)
december 20 – michèle morgan, french actress (b. 1920)
december 22 – miruts yifter, ethiopian long distance runner (b. 1944)
december 23

heinrich schiff, austrian cellist (b. 1951)
piers sellers, british-american astronaut , meteorologist (b. 1955)
vesna vulović, serbian air disaster survivor (b. 1950)


december 24

richard adams, british author (b. 1920)
rick parfitt, british musician (b. 1948)
liz smith, british actress (b. 1921)


december 25

george michael, british singer (b. 1963)
vera rubin, american astronomer (b. 1928)


december 26 – ashot anastasian, armenian chess grandmaster (b. 1964)
december 27

carrie fisher, american actress , writer (b. 1956)
ratnasiri wickremanayake, 12th prime minister of sri lanka (b. 1933)


december 28

gregorio conrado Álvarez, president of uruguay (b. 1925)
michel déon, french writer (b. 1919)
debbie reynolds, american actress, dancer, , singer (b. 1932)


december 29

néstor gonçalves, uruguayan footballer (b. 1936)
ferdinand kübler, swiss racing cyclist (b. 1919)


december 31 – henning christophersen, danish politician (b. 1939)