List of Famous people who died in 2016
Delfim de Pádua Peixoto Filho
Delfim de Pádua Peixoto Filho, known as Delfim Peixoto, was a Brazilian politician and football administrator who died as a result of the crash of LaMia Airlines Flight 2933. At the time of his death he was a vice president of the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) and president of the Federação Catarinense de Futebol (FCF), a position he had held since 1985.
Louis Pinton
Louis Pinton was a member of the Senate of France, representing the Indre department. He was a member of the Union for a Popular Movement.
Samuel Willenberg
Samuel Willenberg, nom de guerre Igo, was a Polish Holocaust survivor, artist, and writer. He was a Sonderkommando at the Treblinka extermination camp and participated in the unit's planned revolt in August 1943. While 300 escaped, about 79 were known to survive the war. Willenberg reached Warsaw where, before war's end, he took part in the Warsaw Uprising. At his death, Willenberg was the last survivor of the August 1943 Treblinka prisoners' revolt.
Gerhard Wimberger
Gerhard Wimberger was an Austrian composer and conductor.
Stepan Borozenets
Stepan Nikolayevich Borozenets (Russian: Степан Николаевич Борозенец; 20 August 1922 – 26 August 2016) was a Soviet Air Force colonel and a Hero of the Soviet Union.
Gianroberto Casaleggio
Gianroberto Casaleggio was an Italian entrepreneur and political activist, born in Milan.
Albert McQuarrie
Sir Albert McQuarrie was a British Conservative politician.
Jack Günthard
Jakob "Jack" Günthard was a Swiss artistic gymnast. He competed at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, where he won the gold medal in the horizontal bar, and the silver medal in the team combined exercises. Günthard died in August 2016 at the age of 96.
Zygmunt Zimowski
Zygmunt Zimowski was a Polish prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. Archbishop Zimowski had served until his death in July 2016 as President of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Health Care Workers, having been head of that office since his appointment by Pope Benedict XVI on 18 April 2009. He previously served as bishop of Radom from 2002 until 2009.
John William Vessey
John William "Jack" Vessey Jr. was a career officer in the United States Army. He attained the rank of general, and is most notable for his service as the tenth Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.