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2016 (MMXVI) was
a leap year starting on
Friday of the Gregorian calendar,
the 2016th year of the Common Era (CE)
and Anno Domini (AD)
designations, the 16th year of the 3rd millennium, the 16th year of
the 21st century,
and the 7th year of the 2010s decade.
2016 was designated as: ·
International
Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United
Nations General Assembly.[1] ·
International
Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science
(ICSU), the International Social Science Council (ISSC), and the
International Council for Philosophy and Human Sciences (CIPSH).[2] Contents · 1Events · 2Births · 3Deaths Events[edit] January[edit] ·
January 3 – Following the fallout caused by the execution of Nimr al-Nimr, Saudi Arabia and several other
countries end their diplomatic relations with Iran.[3] ·
January 4–5 – The highest ever recorded
individual cricket score,
1,009 not out, is made by Pranav Dhanawade. ·
January 8 – Joaquín Guzmán,
widely regarded as the world's most powerful drug trafficker, is recaptured
following his escape from a maximum security prison in Mexico.[4] ·
January 12 – Ten people are killed and
15 wounded in a bombing near
the Blue Mosque in Istanbul. ·
The International
Atomic Energy Agency announces that Iran has adequately
dismantled its nuclear
weapons program, allowing the United Nations to lift sanctions
immediately.[5] ·
30
people are killed and 56 injured in terrorist
attacks in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, targeting a hotel and a nearby
restaurant. A siege occurs and 176 hostages are released afterwards, by
government forces. ·
In
the general
election of the Republic of China (Taiwan), the Democratic
Progressive Party, led by Tsai Ing-wen, secured a majority in the
Legislative Yuan, resulting in the first majority by a non-KMT party and the
first majority won by the DPP. Tsai become the 14th President for Taiwan, and
also become the first female leader for China.[6] ·
January 28 – The World Health
Organization announces an outbreak of
the Zika virus.[7] February[edit] ·
February 7 – North Korea launches Kwangmyŏngsŏng-4 into
space, condemned as a long-range ballistic missile test.[8] ·
February 12 – Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill sign an Ecumenical Declaration in the first
such meeting between leaders of the Catholic and Russian Orthodox
Churches since their schism in
1054.[9] March[edit] ·
March 14 – The ESA and Roscosmos launch
the joint ExoMars Trace
Gas Orbiter on a mission to Mars.[10] ·
March 21 ·
The International
Criminal Court finds former Congolese Vice
President Jean-Pierre Bemba guilty
of war crimes and crimes against humanity,
the first time the ICC convicted someone of sexual violence.[11] ·
Barack Obama visits Cuba,
marking the first time a sitting US president has visited the island nation
since president Calvin Coolidge visited
in 1928.[12] ·
March 22 – 2016 Brussels
bombings: Suicide bombings at Brussels Zaventem airport and
Maalbeek metro station kill 35 people and injure 300 more. ·
March 24 – Ex-Bosnian Serb leader Radovan
Karadžić is sentenced to 40 years in prison after being
found guilty of genocide and crimes against
humanity committed during the Bosnian War.[13] April[edit] ·
April 2 – Clashes
between Armenian and Azerbaijani military in Nagorno-Karabakh kill at least 193
people, which becomes the heaviest breach of the 1994 ceasefire.[14] ·
April 3 – The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ)
and the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung publish
a set of 11.5 million
confidential documents from the Panamanian corporate Mossack Fonseca that provides detailed
information on more than 214,000 offshore companies,
including the identities of shareholders and directors including
noted personalities and heads of state.[15] May[edit] ·
May 19 – EgyptAir Flight 804 with
66 people on board crashes into the Mediterranean Sea en
route from Paris to Cairo.[16] ·
May 20 – Tsai Ing-wen is sworn in as the 14th
President of the Republic of China (Taiwan).[17] ·
May 30 – Former Chadian
President Hissène Habré is
sentenced to life in prison for crimes against humanity committed during his
tenure from 1982 to 1990,
the first time an African Union-backed
court convicted a former ruler of a country within its jurisdiction.[18] June[edit] ·
June 1 – The Gotthard Base Tunnel,
the world's longest and deepest railway tunnel, is opened following two
decades of construction work.[19] ·
June 10 – July 10 – France hosts the UEFA Euro 2016 football tournament,
which is won by Portugal.[20] ·
June 12 – Gunman claiming allegiance to the
Islamic State opens fire at gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, killing 49,
injuring 53.[21] ·
June 23 – The United Kingdom votes in a referendum to leave the European Union.[22] ·
June 28 – ISIL is
suspected to be responsible for attacking Atatürk Airport in Istanbul, killing 45 and injuring around
230.[23] July[edit] ·
July 1 – Latvia becomes the 35th member of
the OECD.[24] ·
July 2 – Australian
federal election, 2016: Malcolm Turnbull's Liberal/National Coalition Government is
narrowly re-elected,[25] defeating the Labor Party led
by Bill Shorten.[26] ·
July 5 – NASA's Juno spacecraft
enters orbit around Jupiter and begins
a 20-month survey of the planet.[27] ·
July 6 – The app Pokémon Go is released on smartphones,
breaking numerous records in terms of sales and revenue.[28] ·
July 12 – The Philippines wins the arbitration case they
filed at the Permanent
Court of Arbitration regarding the legality of China's "Nine-Dash Line" claim over the South China Sea under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.[29][30] ·
July 14 – 86 people are killed in a
truck attack in Nice, during Bastille Day celebrations.[31] ·
July 15–16 – In Turkey, a faction within the Turkish Armed Forces that
organized themselves as the Peace at Home
Council, unsuccessfully
stages a coup against the state institutions, resulting in
the deaths of at least two hundred and forty and the triggering of a series
of unprecedented purges throughout
the country.[32] ·
July 22 – The final videocassette
recorder is manufactured by the Japanese company Funai.[33] ·
July 26 – Swiss Solar Impulse 2 becomes the
first solar-powered
aircraft to circumnavigate the Earth.[34] August[edit] ·
August 5–21 – The 2016 Summer Olympics are
held in Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil, the first time in a South American nation.[35] ·
August 31 – The Brazilian Senate votes (61–20) to impeach the President of Brazil Dilma Rousseff. The Vice President
of Brazil, Michel Temer, who had assumed the
presidential powers and duties as Acting President of Brazil during Rousseff's suspension,
takes office for the remainder of her term.[36] September[edit] ·
September 3 – The US and China,
together responsible for 40% of the world's carbon emissions, both formally joined
the Paris global climate
agreement.[37] ·
September 8 – NASA launches OSIRIS-REx, its first asteroid sample
return mission. The probe will visit Bennu and is expected to return with
samples in 2023.[38][39] ·
September 9 – The government of North Korea conducts its fifth and
reportedly biggest nuclear
test. World leaders condemn the act, with South Korea calling it "maniacal
recklessness".[40] ·
International
investigators conclude that Malaysia
Airlines Flight 17 was shot down by a Buk missile that
came from an area controlled by pro-Russian rebels.[41] ·
Global
CO2 levels exceed 400 ppm at the time
of year normally associated with minimum levels.[42] A 400 ppm level is believed to be higher than anything
experienced in human history.[43] ·
September 30 – Two paintings by Vincent Van Gogh with a combined value
of $100 million, Seascape at
Scheveningen and Congregation Leaving the Reformed Church in Nuenen,
are recovered after having been stolen on December 7, 2002 from the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.[44] October[edit] ·
October 13 – The Maldives announces its decision to
withdraw from the Commonwealth of
Nations.[45] ·
October 15 – 150 nations meet at
the United
Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) summit in Rwanda and
agree to phase out hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) as an amendment to the Montreal Protocol.[46] November[edit] ·
November 2 – The Chicago Cubs win the World Series for the first time since
1908, ending the longest championship drought in American sports history.[47] ·
November 8 – Businessman and television
personality Donald Trump is elected the
45th President
of the United States as a Republican after
running a campaignwidely
characterized as populist.[48] ·
November 24 – The Colombian
government and the Revolutionary
Armed Forces of Colombia—People's Army sign a revised peace
deal, bringing an end to the Colombian conflict.[49] ·
November 28 – LaMia Flight 2933 crashes
into a mountain, killing 71 people on board, including members of the
Brazilian Chapecoense
football squad. December[edit] ·
December 19 – Andrei Karlov, the Russian ambassador to
Turkey, is assassinated in Ankara.[50] ·
December 22 – A study finds the VSV-EBOV vaccine against the Ebola virus between 70-100% effective,
and thus making it the first proven vaccine against the disease.[51] ·
December 23 – The United
Nations Security Council adopts Resolution 2334 condemning "Israeli settlements in Palestinian
territories occupied since 1967".[52] ·
December 31 – United
States troops withdraw from Afghanistan, leaving behind 8,400
troops stationed at 4 garrisons (Kabul, Kandahar, Bagram, and Jalalabad). Births[edit] ·
February 5 – Jigme Namgyel
Wangchuck, heir apparent to the throne of Bhutan ·
March 2 – Prince Oscar,
Duke of Skåne ·
April 19 – Prince
Alexander, Duke of Södermanland Deaths[edit] Main article: Deaths in 2016 Further
information: Category:2016 deaths
January[edit]
·
January 1 – Vilmos Zsigmond, Hungarian-American
cinematographer (b. 1930) ·
January 2 – Sheikh Nimr, Saudi Arabian Shia religious
leader (b. 1959) ·
Paul Bley, Canadian pianist (b. 1932) ·
Peter Naur, Danish computer scientist
(b. 1928) ·
Colin Butler,
British entomologist (b. 1913) ·
Michel Galabru, French actor (b. 1922) ·
January 5 – Pierre Boulez, French composer, conductor
and writer (b. 1925) ·
Silvana Pampanini,
Italian actress (b. 1925) ·
Pat Harrington Jr.,
American voice actor (b. 1929) ·
Princess Ashraf of Iran (b. 1919) ·
André Courrèges,
French fashion designer (b. 1923) ·
January 8 – Maria Teresa de
Filippis, Italian racing driver (b. 1926) ·
David Bowie, English singer-songwriter and
actor (b. 1947) ·
Ralph Hauenstein, American philanthropist
and businessman (b. 1912) ·
Yusuf Zuayyin, 51st and 53rd Prime Minister
of Syria (b. 1931) ·
January 12 – Meg Mundy, English-born American actress
(b. 1915) ·
René Angélil,
Canadian singer and manager (b. 1942) ·
Alan Rickman, English actor and director
(b. 1946) ·
January 15 – Dan Haggerty, American actor (b. 1941) ·
Glenn Frey, American musician (b. 1948) ·
Michel Tournier, French writer (b. 1924) ·
January 19 – Ettore Scola, Italian screenwriter and film
director (b. 1931) ·
January 23 – Jimmy Bain, Scottish musician (b. 1947) ·
January 24 – Marvin Minsky, American computer scientist
(b. 1927) ·
January 26 – Abe Vigoda, American actor (b. 1921) ·
Paul Kantner, American singer and musician
(b. 1941) ·
Signe Toly Anderson,
American singer (b. 1941) ·
Jean-Marie Doré,
11th Prime Minister of Guinea (b. 1938) ·
Jacques Rivette, French film director and
critic (b. 1928) ·
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[edit]
·
February 1 – Óscar
Humberto Mejía Victores, 27th President of Guatemala (b. 1930) ·
February 3 – Joe Alaskey, American voice actor (b. 1952) ·
Edgar Mitchell, American astronaut (b. 1930) ·
Maurice White, American singer-songwriter
(b. 1941) ·
February 8 – Amelia Bence, Argentine actress (b. 1914) ·
February 9 – Sushil Koirala, 37th Prime Minister of Nepal
(b. 1939) ·
Trifon Ivanov, Bulgarian footballer
(b. 1965) ·
Slobodan
Santrač, Serbian football player and 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 and diplomat, Secretary-General
of the UN (b. 1922) ·
Mohamed
Hassanein Heikal, Egyptian journalist (b. 1923) ·
Andrzej
Żuławski, Polish film director and writer (b. 1940) ·
Umberto Eco, Italian writer and philosopher
(b. 1932) ·
Harper Lee, American writer (b. 1926) ·
Cara McCollum, American journalist (b. 1992) ·
Douglas Slocombe, British cinematographer
(b. 1913) ·
February 23 – Donald E. Williams,
American astronaut (b. 1942) ·
February 24 – Peter Kenilorea, 1st Prime Minister of the
Solomon Islands (b. 1943) ·
February 25 – Tony Burton, American actor (b. 1937) ·
February 28 – George Kennedy, American actor (b. 1925) ·
Hannes Löhr, German footballer (b. 1942) ·
José Parra Martínez,
Spanish footballer (b. 1925) March[edit]
·
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 the United States (b. 1921) ·
March 8 ·
George Martin, English record producer,
composer, arranger and engineer (b. 1926) ·
Claus Ogerman, German conductor and composer
(b. 1930) ·
March 9 – Naná Vasconcelos,
Brazilian jazz percussionist and vocalist (b. 1944) ·
March 10 ·
Anita Brookner, British novelist (b. 1928) ·
Keith Emerson, British musician (b. 1944) ·
Roberto Perfumo, Argentine footballer and
sport commentator (b. 1942) ·
March 11 ·
Deva Dassy, French opera singer (b. 1911) ·
Dragan Nikolić,
Serbian actor (b. 1943) ·
March 12 – Lloyd Shapley, American Nobel mathematician
(b. 1923) ·
March 13 – Hilary Putnam, American philosopher,
mathematician and computer scientist (b. 1926) ·
March 14 – Peter Maxwell Davies,
English composer and conductor (b. 1934) ·
March 17 ·
Meir Dagan, Israeli general and 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 and pop musician
(b. 1970) ·
Johan Cruyff, Dutch footballer and manager
(b. 1947) ·
Garry Shandling, American actor and comedian
(b. 1949) ·
March 26 – Raúl Cárdenas,
Mexican footballer and coach (b. 1928) ·
March 29 – Patty Duke, American actress (b. 1946) ·
March 31 ·
Ronnie Corbett, English comedian (b. 1930) ·
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[edit]
·
April 2 – Gato Barbieri, Argentine jazz saxophonist
(b. 1932) ·
April 3 – Cesare Maldini, Italian football player and
manager (b. 1932) ·
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 – Arnold Wesker, British playwright (b. 1932) ·
April 16 – Louis Pilot, Luxembourgian football player
and 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 and 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 and multi-instrumentalist (b. 1958) ·
April 23 – Banharn Silpa-archa,
21st Prime Minister of Thailand (b. 1932) ·
April 24 – Klaus Siebert, German Olympic biathlete
(b. 1955) ·
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[edit]
·
May 1 – Solomon W. Golomb,
American mathematician (b. 1932) ·
May 2 ·
Afeni Shakur, American music businesswoman
(b. 1947) ·
Tomohiro Matsu, Japanese light novelist and
screenwriter（b. 1972） ·
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 and
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 and 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 the Polisario Front (b. 1947) ·
Corry Brokken, Dutch singer (b. 1932) ·
Antonio Imbert
Barrera, Dominican politician (b. 1920) June[edit]
·
June 2 – Tom Kibble, British physicist (b. 1932) ·
June 3 ·
Muhammad Ali, American Olympic and
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 and
screenwriter (b. 1926) ·
June 7 – Stephen Keshi, Nigerian footballer and
manager (b. 1962) ·
June 8 – Qahhor Mahkamov, 1st President of Tajikistan
(b. 1932) ·
June 9 – Hassan Muhammad
Makki, 10th Prime Minister of Yemen (b. 1933) ·
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 16 – Jo Cox, English politician (b. 1974) ·
June 18 – Vittorio Merloni, Italian entrepreneur
(b. 1933) ·
June 19 ·
Victor
Stănculescu, Romanian general and 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
and screenwriter (b. 1940) ·
Ralph Stanley, American bluegrass musician
(b. 1927) ·
June 25 – Maurice G. Dantec,
French writer (b. 1959) ·
June 27 – Alvin Toffler, American writer and 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[edit]
·
July 1 – Yves Bonnefoy, French poet (b. 1923) ·
July 2 ·
Michael Cimino, American screenwriter and
film director (b. 1939) ·
Rudolf E. Kálmán,
Hungarian-born American electrical engineer (b. 1930) ·
Patrick Manning, Prime Minister of Trinidad
and Tobago (b. 1946) ·
Michel Rocard, Prime Minister of France
(b. 1930) ·
Elie Wiesel, Romanian-born American Nobel writer
and political activist (b. 1928) ·
Caroline Aherne, English actress, comedian
and writer (b. 1963) ·
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, and ascetic (b. 1928) ·
William H.
McNeill, Canadian-American historian and author (b. 1917) ·
July 9 – Silvano Piovanelli,
Italian cardinal (b. 1924) ·
July 12 – Goran Hadžić,
Serbian politician and convicted 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 and actor (b. 1934) ·
Anthony D. Smith, British historical
sociologist (b. 1939) ·
July 22 – Ursula Franklin, German-born Canadian
scientist (b. 1921) ·
July 23 ·
Carl Falck, Norwegian businessman (b. 1907) ·
Thorbjörn Fälldin,
2-Time Prime Minister of Sweden (b. 1926) ·
July 25 ·
Halil
İnalcık, Turkish historian (b. 1916) ·
Dwight Jones,
American basketball player (b. 1952) ·
Tim LaHaye, American evangelist and author
(b. 1926) ·
July 27 ·
Einojuhani
Rautavaara, Finnish composer (b. 1928) ·
Piet de Jong, Dutch politician and naval
officer, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1915) ·
July 28 ·
Mahasweta Devi, Indian social activist and
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 ·
Fazil Iskander, Russian writer (b. 1929) ·
Bobbie Heine Miller,
South African tennis player (b. 1909) ·
Chiyonofuji Mitsugu,
Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1955) ·
Seymour Papert, South African-born American
mathematician and computer scientist (b. 1928) August[edit]
·
August 1 – Queen Anne of
Romania, French-born consort of former King Michael of
Romania (b. 1923) ·
August 2 ·
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) ·
Kenny Baker,
English actor (b. 1934) ·
Françoise
Mallet-Joris, Belgian writer (b. 1930) ·
Hermann Kant, German writer (b. 1926) ·
Fyvush Finkel, American actor (b. 1922) ·
Dalian Atkinson, English footballer
(b. 1968) ·
Stefan Henze, German canoeist and coach
(b. 1981) ·
Bobby Hutcherson, American jazz musician (b. 1941) ·
Andrew Florent, Australian tennis player
(b. 1970) ·
João Havelange,
Brazilian athlete and football executive (b. 1916) ·
August 17 – Arthur Hiller, Canadian film director
(b. 1923) ·
August 18 – Ernst Nolte, German historian (b. 1923) ·
Lou Pearlman, American music manager and
record producer (b. 1954) ·
Nina Ponomaryova, Russian Olympic discus
thrower (b. 1929) ·
Mohammad Ali Samatar,
5th Prime Minister of Somalia (b. 1931) ·
S. R. Nathan, 6th President of Singapore
(b. 1924) ·
Toots Thielemans, Belgian jazz musician
(b. 1922) ·
Steven Hill, American film and television
actor (b. 1922) ·
Berit Mørdre
Lammedal, Norwegian cross-country skier (b. 1940) ·
Reinhard Selten, German Nobel economist
(b. 1930) ·
Michel Butor, French writer (b. 1926) ·
Walter Scheel, 8th President of the Federal
Republic of Germany (West Germany) (b. 1919) ·
Roger Y. Tsien, American Nobel biologist
(b. 1952) ·
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) ·
Binyamin Ben-Eliezer,
Israeli politician and former Deputy Prime Minister (b. 1936) ·
Mr. Fuji, American professional wrestler and
wrestling manager (b. 1934) ·
Juan Gabriel, Mexican singer-songwriter
(b. 1950) ·
August 29 – Gene Wilder, American actor (b. 1933) ·
Věra
Čáslavská, Czech gymnast (b. 1942) ·
Marc Riboud, French photographer (b. 1923) September[edit]
·
September 1 – Jon Polito, American actor (b. 1950) ·
Islam Karimov, 1st President of Uzbekistan
(b. 1938) ·
Daniel Willems, Belgian cyclist (b. 1956) ·
Johnny Rebel,
American white supremacist singer and songwriter (b. 1938) ·
Jean-Christophe
Yoccoz, French mathematician (b. 1957) ·
Hugh O'Brian, American actor (b. 1925) ·
Phyllis Schlafly, American writer and
political activist (b. 1924) ·
Norbert Schemansky,
American weightlifter (b. 1924) ·
Joseph Keller, American mathematician
(b. 1923) ·
Prince Buster, Jamaican singer-songwriter
and producer (b. 1938) ·
Dragiša Pešić,
5th Prime Minister of Serbia and 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) ·
Edward Albee, American playwright (b. 1928) ·
Gabriele Amorth, Italian Catholic priest and
exorcist (b. 1925) ·
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi,
10th President and 49th Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1920) ·
António
Mascarenhas Monteiro, 2nd President of Cape Verde (b. 1944) ·
Qiao Renliang, Chinese singer and actor
(b. 1987) ·
Charmian Carr, American actress (b. 1942) ·
Sigge Parling, Swedish footballer (b. 1930) ·
C. Martin Croker, American animator and
voice actor (b. 1962) ·
September 20 – Curtis Hanson, American film director and
screenwriter (b. 1945) ·
September 23 – Marcel Artelesa, French footballer (b. 1938) ·
September 24 – Bill Mollison, Australian researcher, author
and biologist (b. 1928) ·
David Padilla, 64th President of Bolivia
(b. 1927) ·
Arnold Palmer, American golfer (b. 1929) ·
September 26 – Herschell Gordon
Lewis, American film director and screenwriter (b. 1929) ·
September 27 – Jamshid Amouzegar,
71st Prime Minister of Iran (b. 1923) ·
September 28 – Shimon Peres, 9th President and 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[edit]
·
October 1 – David Herd,
Scottish footballer (b. 1934) ·
October 2 – Neville Marriner, British conductor
(b. 1924) ·
October 4 – Brigitte Hamann, German-Austrian historian
and author (b. 1940) ·
October 5 – Michal Kováč,
1st President of Slovakia (b. 1930) ·
October 8 – Stylianos Pattakos,
Greek military officer (b. 1912) ·
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) ·
Bhumibol Adulyadej
(Rama IX), King of Thailand (b. 1927) ·
Dario Fo, Italian actor, Nobel playwright
and comedian (b. 1926) ·
October 14 – Klim Churyumov, Soviet-Ukrainian astronomer
(b. 1937) ·
Kigeli V,
King of Rwanda (b. 1936) ·
Viktor Zubkov,
Russian basketball player (b. 1937) ·
October 23 – Khalifa bin
Hamad Al Thani, Emir of Qatar (b. 1932) ·
Jorge Batlle, 38th President of Uruguay
(b. 1927) ·
Benjamin Creme, Scottish artist, author and
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) ·
Roland Dyens, French classical guitarist and
composer (b. 1955) ·
Pen Sovan, 32nd Prime Minister of Cambodia
(b. 1936) ·
October 31 – Silvio Gazzaniga, Italian sculptor (b. 1921) November[edit]
·
November 2 – Oleg Popov, Soviet and Russian clown
(b. 1930) ·
November 4 – Catherine Davani, first female Papua New Guinean judge (b. 1960) ·
November 5 – Marek Svatoš, Slovak ice hockey player
(b. 1982) ·
November 6 – Zoltán Kocsis, Hungarian pianist, conductor
and composer (b. 1952) ·
Leonard Cohen, Canadian singer, songwriter
and poet (b. 1934) ·
Janet Reno, American lawyer (b. 1938) ·
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) ·
Enzo Maiorca, Italian free diver (b. 1931) ·
Leon Russell, American musician (b. 1942) ·
November 14 – Gardnar Mulloy, American tennis player
(b. 1913) ·
Mose Allison, American jazz musician
(b. 1927) ·
Sixto Durán Ballén,
37th President of Ecuador (b. 1921) ·
Jay Wright Forrester,
American computer engineer (b. 1918) ·
Melvin Laird, American politician and 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) ·
Gabriel Badilla, Costa Rican footballer
(b. 1984) ·
Konstantinos
Stephanopoulos, 5th President of Greece (b. 1926) ·
William Trevor, Irish writer (b. 1928) ·
Rita Barberá, Spanish politician (b. 1948) ·
Andrew Sachs, German-born British actor
(b. 1930) ·
Florence Henderson,
American actress (b. 1934) ·
Pauline Oliveros, American composer
(b. 1932) ·
Fidel Castro, 16th Prime Minister and 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) ·
Cléber Santana,
Brazilian footballer (b. 1981) ·
Mark Taimanov, Russian chess Grandmaster and
concert pianist (b. 1926) ·
November 29 – Luis Alberto Monge,
39th President of Costa Rica (b. 1925) ·
Date
unknown – James Joseph Dresnok,
American defector to North Korea (b. 1941) December[edit]
Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds ·
December 2 – Sammy Lee,
American Olympic diver (b. 1920) ·
December 4 – Gotlib, French comic artist (b. 1934) ·
Geydar Dzhemal, Russian Islamic philosopher
(b. 1947) ·
Jayalalithaa Jayaram,
Indian politician (b. 1948) ·
December 6 – Peter Vaughan, British actor (b. 1923) ·
Paul Elvstrøm, Danish Olympic yachtsman
(b. 1928) ·
Greg Lake, British musician (b. 1947) ·
John Glenn, American aviator, astronaut and
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) ·
Thomas Schelling, American Nobel economist
(b. 1921) ·
Alan Thicke, Canadian actor and songwriter
(b. 1947) ·
Paulo Evaristo Arns,
Brazilian prelate (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
and socialite (b. 1917) ·
December 19 – Andrei Karlov, Russian diplomat (b. 1954) ·
December 20 – Michèle Morgan,
French actress (b. 1920) ·
Yevgeny Dzhugashvili,
Soviet Air Force colonel and grandson of Joseph Stalin (b. 1930) ·
Miruts Yifter, Ethiopian long distance
runner (b. 1944) ·
Heinrich Schiff, Austrian cellist (b. 1951) ·
Piers Sellers, British-American astronaut
and meteorologist (b. 1955) ·
Vesna Vulović, Serbian air disaster
survivor (b. 1950) ·
Richard Adams, British author (b. 1920) ·
Rick Parfitt, British musician (b. 1948) ·
Liz Smith,
British actress (b. 1921) ·
George Michael, British singer (b. 1963) ·
Vera Rubin, American astronomer (b. 1928) ·
December 26 – Ashot Anastasian, Armenian chess grandmaster
(b. 1964) ·
Carrie Fisher, American actress and writer
(b. 1956) ·
Ratnasiri
Wickremanayake, 12th Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (b. 1933) ·
Gregorio Conrado
Álvarez, President of Uruguay (b. 1925) ·
Michel Déon, French writer (b. 1919) ·
Debbie Reynolds, American actress, dancer,
and singer (b. 1932) ·
Néstor Gonçalves,
Uruguayan footballer (b. 1936) ·
Ferdinand Kübler,
Swiss racing cyclist (b. 1919) ·
William Christopher,
American actor (b. 1932) ·
Henning
Christophersen, Danish politician (b. 1939) Nobel Prizes[edit]
·
Chemistry – Ben Feringa, Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Fraser Stoddart ·
Economics – Oliver Hart, Bengt R. Holmström ·
Literature – Bob Dylan ·
Physics – John M. Kosterlitz, Duncan Haldane, David J. Thouless ·
Physiology
or Medicine – Yoshinori Ohsumi New English words[edit] ·
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