2016 deaths

American musician (1944–2016)

Swedish actress (1920-2016)

Danish politician (1939-2016)

Polish-born sculptor and Holocaust survivor, participant at the revolt and escape at Treblinka extermination cap (1923-2016)

American politician and attorney (1944–2016)

American soap opera screenwriter (1922–2016)

Soviet-Russian sport wrestler

Finnish cross-country skier

Iraqi footballer (1961-2016)

actress (1946-2016)

Prime Minister of the Solomon Islands (1943-2016)

Slovak ice hockey player (1982–2016)

Cuban-American baseball player

Hungarian politician (1933-2016)

US American peace activist (1936-2016)

Swiss snowboarder (1994-2016)

Welsh footballer (1935-2016)

American musician (1941–2016)

Danish rower (1923–2016)

South Korean weightlifter (1919-2016)

English philosopher (1924-2016)

French footballer (1926-2016)

American scholar of Judaism and Rabbinic literature (1932–2016)

American R&B and soul singer (1942–2016)

Japanese actress and voice actress (1964–2016)

Serbian and Yugoslav actress,theater actress (1923–2016)

Grenadian politician, Prime Minister of Grenada (1925–2016)

Finnish ecologist and evolutionary biologist (1953–2016)

Norwegian historian (1931-2016)

Swiss artistic gymnast (1920–2016)

English poet (1932–2016)

Brazilian footballer (1994-2016)

British film director and writer (1929-2016)

American politician (1923-2016)

Danish rower (1925–2016)

French composer (1929-2016)

Maurice Albert Sinet (; 31 December 1928 – 5 May 2016), known professionally as Siné (), was a French political cartoonist. His work is noted for its anti-capitalism, anti-clericalism, anti-colonialism, antisemitism, and anarchism. thumb|Drawings in a photo by Paolo Monti (1960)

American mathematician (1923-2016)

Turkish association football player (1930–2016)

Brazilian footballer (1991-2016)

Russian physicist and aviator (1919-2016)

Ukrainian economist (1926–2016)

British musician

Russian poet and singer (1934–2016)

Iranian footballer (1942-2016)

Russian officer (1990-2016)

American writer and academic who helped found the Library of America (1912–2016)

Finnish singer (1946–2016)

American singer, model, activist

French football player and manager (1959-2016)

ballerina and ballet teacher (1933-2016)

US sports journalist and tennis player (1929–2016)

Swedish politician (1917-2016)

Apple CEO 1993–1996 (1942–2016)

German footballer (1925-2016)

American computer scientist (1945-2016)

Italian rower (1928–2016)

Belgian footballer (1942–2016)

Canadian-American reporter and correspondent (1931-2016)

Greek military officer