List of Famous people who died in 2016

Hans Lukas "Luc" Hoffmann was a Swiss ornithologist, conservationist, and philanthropist. He co-founded the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), helped establish the Ramsar Convention for the protection of wetlands, and set up the Tour du Valat research centre in the Camargue area of France. In 2012, Luc Hoffmann's MAVA Foundation, along with WWF International, established the Luc Hoffmann Institute. He was the author of more than 60 books, mostly ornithological.

Dominique D'Onofrio was an Italian football coach, later chairman. He was born in Castelforte, Italy.

Pyotr Gennadyevich Devyatkin was a Kazakhstani ice hockey forward.

Alexandre Astruc was a French film critic and film director.

Luděk Macela was a Czech football player. He played eight matches for the Czechoslovakia national football team.

Bandar bin Saud Al Saud was the eighth son of King Saud. He was born on the same day his grandfather, King Abdulaziz, entered and joined the city and province of Qunfudah to his realm.

Mahmut Hekimoğlu was a Turkish actor and film producer.

Wolfgang Suschitzky, BSC, was a documentary photographer, as well as a cinematographer perhaps best known for his collaboration with Paul Rotha in the 1940s and his work on Mike Hodges' 1971 film Get Carter.

Jean Marcel Leroy artistically known as Jean-Jacques Perrey was a French electronic music producer and was an early pioneer in the genre. He is known for being member of the electronic music duo Perrey and Kingsley with the German-American composer Gershon Kingsley.

Henryk Średnicki was a Polish amateur boxer who represented his native country twice at the Summer Olympics, starting in 1976.