List of Famous people who died in 2016

Georg Nees was a German academic who was a pioneer of computer art and generative graphics. He studied mathematics, physics and philosophy in Erlangen and Stuttgart and was scientific advisor at the SEMIOSIS, International Journal of semiotics and aesthetics. In 1977, he was appointed Honorary Professor of Applied computer science at the University of Erlangen Nees is one of the "3N" computer pioneers, an abbreviation that has become acknowledged for Frieder Nake, Georg Nees and A. Michael Noll, whose computer graphics were created with digital computers.

Michael George Hartwell MacDowel was an English racing driver who participated in one Formula One World Championship Grand Prix, the 1957 French Grand Prix on 7 July 1957, sharing his car with Jack Brabham. MacDowel did not score any championship points as he finished seventh, and points were only awarded to the first five finishers.

Vyacheslav Anatolyevich Voronin ; November 7, 1934, Zherdevsky District, Tambov Oblast, RSFSR, Soviet Union — October 7, 2016, Kiev, Ukraine) was a Soviet, Russian and Ukrainian actor; he was a Merited Artist of Ukraine (2003).

Hamdy Ahmed Mohamed Khalifa was an Egyptian actor. He is known for his role as Mahjoub Abdel Dayem in the film Cairo 30 (1966). Ahmed was a parliamentary representative for the district of Bulaq at the time of the forcible relocation of the population of that quarter to public housing in the az-Zawiya al-Hamra district in the periphery of Cairo. He was a member of the Labour Party of Egypt, but left it in 1984. Since 1998 Ahmed has been a columnist for the newspaper Elosboa (الأسبوع).

Luigi Caccia Dominioni was an Italian architect and furniture designer.

Asım Can Gündüz was a Turkish rock and blues guitarist. He was also known as Awesome John, especially outside Turkey, partly because his name is pronounced very much like Awesome (Asım) John (Can).

Raymond Burki was a Swiss cartoonist. He did over 8,000 drawings over the course of his career, and spent four decades as a cartoonist for 24 heures.

Sofía Gandarias was a Spanish painter.

Thierry "Ted" Benoit was a French comics artist, graphic novelist and prominent figure in the stylish Franco-Belgian ligne claire comics scene in the 1980s. His influences included Edgar P. Jacobs, Moebius, Robert Crumb and to a lesser extend Jacques Tardi.

Didier Bellens was a Belgian businessman. Until 15 November 2013, he was the CEO of Belgacom, the leading telecommunications company of Belgium. He was married and had three children. He died on 28 February 2016.