2016 deaths

Vietnamese radio personality (1931–2016)

British actress (1921–2016)

American actress (1927–2016)

American mixed martial artist (1971–2016)

Czech director, scriptwriter and university educator (1936–2016)

American war correspondent, screenwriter (1940-2016)

Belgian writer (1930-2016)

politician from Trinidad and Tobago

American mixed martial artist (1974–2016)

German racing cyclist (1937–2016)

American physicist (1968–2016)

American actor (1945-2016)

Russian footballer (1931-2016)

American actor (1937–2016)

British actor (1930–2016)

British physicist (1932–2016)

American politician (1925–2016)

American actress (1920-2016)

American actor (1922-2016)

American novelist (1945-2016)

American politician (1933–2016)

Italian politician (1927–2016)

American historian (1926–2016)

founder of vexillology, the study of flags (1940–2016)

American weightlifter (1930–2016)

Turkish actor and film producer (1949–2016)

French photographer (1923–2016)

Soviet and Russian actress (1938-2016)

Croatian footballer (1925-2016)

Malian photographer (1935–2016)

Indian politician (1936-2016)

British actor (1927–2016)

German writer (1926-2016)

classical pianist, conductor and composer (1952–2016)

Spanish road bicycle racer (1975-2016)

Uruguayan footballer (1936-2016)

Turkish transgender woman

British actor (1930–2016)

American recording engineer (1924-2016)

American singer-songwriter (1934-2016)

American poet, novelist, and essayist (1937–2016)

Brazilian percussionist (1944–2016)

American soul funk singer from NYC

American talk radio host and actor (1956–2016)

American actor (1932-2016)

American mathematician (1932–2016)

American science fiction, horror and mystery novelist (1929–2016)

American weightlifter (1924–2016)

German astronomer and amateur radio operator (1942–2016)

former field hockey player from India (1960-2016)

American politician (1935–2016)

former speaker of the Lok Sabha (1947-2016)

American basketball player and coach (1952–2016)

Swedish writer (1936-2016)

American basketball player (1929–2016)

Canadian historian and writer (1917–2016)

first woman Governor and the first woman Secretary of State

British talent manager (1930–2016)

Czech footballer (1933-2016)

American historian (1913–2016)