2016 deaths

American film director (1939–2016)

French film director, screenwriter and film critic (1928–2016)

French writer (1924–2016)

French writer (1926–2016)

Canadian actor, songwriter, and television host (1947–2016)

American actor (1932–2016)

American psychologist and scholar

American actor (1921–2016)

Canadian ice hockey player (1928–2016)

British recording artist; keyboard player and composer (1944–2016)

Serbian former flight attendant who survived the highest fall without a parachute

Chilean politician and former president (1918–2016)

Danish computer scientist (1928–2016) and Turing Award winner (2005); author of 'Programming as Theory Building' (1985); co-editor of the 1968 NATO Software Engineering Conference report

prime minister of the Netherlands (1915–2016)

Chyna (born Joan Marie Laurer; December 27, 1969 – April 17, 2016), also known as Joanie Laurer, was an American professional wrestler, fitness model, bodybuilder, actress, adult actress, and television personality.

American golfer (1929–2016)

Hungarian writer (1950–2016)

English novelist and art historian (1928–2016)

MIT mathematician, computer scientist, and educator (1928–2016)

American actress (1925–2016)

President of Ecuador (1992–1996)

English film director (1922-2016)

Danish yachtsman (1928–2016)

president of Uruguay (1927-2016)

Honduran environmental activist

Swedish 20th century prime minister (1926-2016)

American conservative activist (1924-2016)

Austrian conductor (1929–2016)

American actor (1917–2016)

former Attorney General of the United States (1938-2016)

American country music songwriter, singer, and musician (1937–2016)

Polish film director (1940-2016)

Danish politician (1922–2016)

English bassist, guitarist, vocalist, songwriter and producer (1947–2016)

Italian mob boss

English playwright and screenwriter (1926-2016)

Hungarian-born American businessman, engineer and author (1936–2016)

British dramatist (1932-2016)

Pakistani model, actress, feminist activist and social media celebrity

French mathematician (1957-2016)

British actor (1919–2016)

British conductor and violinist (1924–2016)

President of Burundi (1946-2016)

American filmmaker (1945–2016)

British actor and musician (1934–2016)

Hungarian-born American electrical engineer

Soviet chess player (1926–2016)

Bulgarian footballer (1965-2016)

American actress (1969–2016)

English composer and conductor (1934-2016)

Mexican singer and songwriter (1950–2016)

French poet, essayist, translator (1923–2016)

Irish writer (1928–2016)

Cape Verdean politician and former president of Cape Verde (1944-2016)

American operations researcher (1918–2016)

Canadian metallurgist, research physicist, author, and educator (1921–2016)

Finnish composer (1928–2016)

Sudanese religious and political leader (1932–2016)

American actress and singer (1934-2016)

British-born American astronaut