List of Famous people who died in 2016

Melbourne Robert Cranshaw was an American jazz bassist. His career spanned the heyday of Blue Note Records to his recent involvement with the Musicians Union. He is perhaps best known for his long association with Sonny Rollins. Cranshaw performed in Rollins's working band on and off for over five decades, starting with a live appearance at the 1959 Playboy jazz festival in Chicago and on record with the 1962 album The Bridge.

André Brincourt was a French writer and journalist.

Paul Wühr was a German experimental author. Wühr lived by Lake Trasimeno in Umbria, Italy and wrote for the publisher Hanser-Verlag.

Miroslav Maratovich Nemirov was a Russian poet, associated with Russian punk rock, born in Rostov-on-Don. He is most known as a founder of Instruktsiya po Vyzhivaniyu rock group in 1985 in Tyumen and the author of the Great Tyumen Encyclopaedia, as well as being a regular columnist of Russian Journal between 2000 and 2003. He collaborated with Grazhdanskaya Oborona as well.

Wei Chueh was a Chinese Bhikshu from Taiwan. He is the founder of the Chung Tai Shan monastery and Buddhist order. Wei Chueh is often credited for reviving the traditional teachings of Chan Buddhism.

Einojuhani Rautavaara was a Finnish composer of classical music. He is among the most notable Finnish composers since Jean Sibelius (1865–1957).

Giuseppe Virgili was an Italian footballer who played as a forward.

Vladimir Kagan was an American furniture designer. He was inducted in the Interior Designer Hall of Fame in 2009, 62 years after he started designing and producing furniture.

Nelson Davidyan was a Soviet Armenian Greco-Roman wrestler and coach. He was an Olympic silver medalist and two-time World and European Champion.

Anne-Marie Nzié was a Cameroonian bikutsi singer.