List of Famous people who died in 2016

Klaus Traube was a German engineer and former manager in the German nuclear power industry and one of its leading opponents. He was the victim of an illegal eavesdropping operation by the BfV, because he was falsely suspected of passing on secret information to people sympathizing with terrorism, notably the Red Army Faction.

Rafael Iriondo Aurtenetxea was a Spanish football forward and manager.

Ricardo Larraín was a Chilean film editor and director. His 1991 film The Frontier won the Silver Bear for an outstanding single achievement at the 42nd Berlin International Film Festival.

Anisa Makhlouf was the Syrian matriarch of the Al-Assad family, which has ruled the country since 1971. The wife of the late President Hafez al-Assad, Makhlouf held the position of First Lady of Syria from 1971 until 2000. Her five children include Bashar al-Assad, the President of Syria since 2000.

Gonzalo Peralta was an Argentine footballer who at the time of his death played defender for Deportivo Riestra.

Bobbie Heine-Miller was a South African tennis player. She was born in Greytown in the Colony of Natal. As Bobbie Heine, she won the doubles title at the 1927 French Championships partnering Irene Bowder Peacock. In 1929, she was ranked no. 5 in the world. Her brother was the South African cricketer Peter Heine.

Doris Egbring-Kahn (1926–2016) was a German actress.

Jerome Seymour Bruner was an American psychologist who made significant contributions to human cognitive psychology and cognitive learning theory in educational psychology. Bruner was a senior research fellow at the New York University School of Law. He received a B.A. in 1937 from Duke University and a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1941. He taught and did research at Harvard University, the University of Oxford, and New York University. A Review of General Psychology survey, published in 2002, ranked Bruner as the 28th most cited psychologist of the 20th century.

Léonie Geisendorf, née Kaplan, was a Polish-born, Swedish architect. She lived most of her professional life in Stockholm, Sweden. At the time of her death, she was living in Paris, France.

Jean-Claude Risset was a French composer, best known for his pioneering contributions to computer music. Risset was a former student of André Jolivet and former co-worker of Max Mathews at Bell Labs.