List of Famous people who died in 2016

Ousmane Sow was a Senegalese sculptor of larger-than-life statues of people and groups of people.

Georges Séguy was a French trade union leader.

Vladimir Mikhailovich Dolgopolov was a Russian professional footballer. Dolgopolov made his debut in the Soviet Top League in 1980, playing for FC Zenit Leningrad, for which he won a Master of Sports of the USSR award.

Majid al-Shibl, original name Muhammad al-Shibil, was a prominent Saudi announcer who introduced several programs and variety.

Peter Morley, OBE was a German-born British television producer and documentary filmmaker. As a nine-year-old child, he fled Nazi Germany with his elder siblings and moved to England, where he lived until his death. He made several documentaries about the Holocaust, winning several awards, both in Britain and abroad.

Jay Wright Forrester was a pioneering American computer engineer and systems scientist. He is credited with being one of the inventors of magnetic core memory, the predominant form of random-access computer memory during the most explosive years of digital computer development. It was part of a family of related technologies which bridged the gap between vacuum tubes and semiconductors by exploiting the magnetic properties of materials to perform switching and amplification.

Teodoro González de León was a Mexican architect.

Sergio Arellano Stark was a Chilean military officer. He led the so-called “Caravan of Death,” which killed 97 Chileans from helicopters and established Augusto Pinochet’s hold on power.

Richard Edwin Bradford Jr. was an American actor. He is best known for his leading role in the television series Man in a Suitcase (1967–1968) and supporting role in the film The Untouchables (1987).

Igor Fesunenko was a Soviet and Russian journalist, foreign affairs writer, and teacher at the MGIMO.