List of Famous people who died in 2016

Vladimir Vladimirovich Kuzmichyov was a Russian footballer.

Gail Zeiler, known professionally as Kacey Jones, was an American singer-songwriter, producer and humorist. After co-writing the Mickey Gilley hit "I'm the One Mama Warned You About", she found success as a performer through the band Ethel & The Shameless Hussies, with whom she released her first album. Later, in 1997, she released her first solo album, Men Are Some of My Favorite People, through Curb Records, before founding her own label, IGO Records, co-founding the Kinkajou Records label with Kinky Friedman and creating two publishing houses—Zamalama Music and Mamalama Music. Since her first solo album, Jones released eight CDs and produced music for both the theatrical comedy Nipples to the Wind and the movie Sordid Lives.

Antoni Asunción Hernández was a Spanish politician of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE). He was Minister of Interior between 1993 and 1994. He also served as member of the Congress of Deputies during the V Legislature (1993–1996).

Hans Tietmeyer was a German economist and regarded as one of the foremost experts on international financial matters. He was president of Deutsche Bundesbank from 1993 until 1999 and remained afterwards one of the most important figures in finance of the European Union.

John James Warr was an English cricketer. A successful county player for Middlesex County Cricket Club, he took part in two Test matches for England. Warr was known for his sense of humour and made many humorous after-dinner speeches.

Sutan Bhatoegana Siregar was an Indonesian politician of the Democratic Party. Sutan was a member of the People's Representative Council Commission VII of the Republic of Indonesia (DPR-RI) for the period 2009-2014 were selected from the 2009 legislative elections from the first North Sumatra constituency that includes Medan, Deli Serdang, Serdang Badagai, and Tebing Tinggi by the Democratic Party. Sutan was one of the founders of the Democratic Party, he was recorded as a founder and secretary of the Communication Forum Deklarator (FKPD) Democratic Party, although it is considered the unofficial forum by internal Democratic Party.

Urii Mikhailovich Eliseev was a Russian chess player. He won the Under-16 section of World Youth Chess Championship in 2012 and was awarded the Grandmaster title by FIDE in 2013 at the age of 17. He won the Moscow Chess Championship in 2015 and the Moscow Open in 2016. He was ranked 212th in the world and 42nd in Russia, with an Elo rating of 2614.

Jean-Paul L'Allier was a Quebec politician, a two-term Member of the National Assembly of Quebec (MNA) and the 38th mayor of Quebec City.

Joseph Robert Dever, also known as Joe Dever was an English fantasy author and game designer. Originally a musician, Dever became the first British winner of the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Championship of America in 1982.

Marisol Escobar, otherwise known simply as Marisol, was a Venezuelan-American sculptor born in Paris, who lived and worked in New York City.