List of Famous people who died in 2016

Luis Manuel Miquilena Hernández was a Venezuelan politician. He was involved in politics in the 1940s, and again after the 1958 restoration of democracy, but retired from politics in 1964 until the early 1990s, pursuing a career in business. He was then an early supporter of Hugo Chávez' post-1992 political career, and was the Venezuelan Minister of Interior and Justice from 2001 to 2002, when he resigned.

Helmut Rohde was a German politician who served as federal minister of education and science from 1974 to 1978.

Peter-Jürgen Sanmann was a German professional footballer who played in the 1950s and 1960s. He played as Striker or winger.

Nadine Alari was a French film and television actress.

Joe Cecil "Red" Simpson was an American country singer-songwriter best known for his trucker-themed songs.

Nil Hilevich was a Belarusian poet, a professor in the Belarusian State University, the author of more than 80 books of poetry, publications, and translations, and one of the founders of the Frantsishak Skaryna Belarusian Language Society.

Thérèse Clerc (1927–2016) was a French militant feminist who was active principally in the city of Montreuil. A member of the Movement for Freedom of Abortion and Birth Control, she performed clandestines abortions for women in difficulty in her small Montreuil apartment until 1975 when abortions were legalized under the Veil Law. In 2000, she founded the Maison des Femmes, a cultural, social and feminist centre for women who had been the victims of violence, later renamed Maison Thérèse Clerc. For many years, Clerc fought for the establishment of a self-managed home for elderly women in Montreuil, finally succeeding with the Maison des Babayagas in 2013.

Giorgio Sergio Alessando Gomelsky was a film maker, impresario, music manager, songwriter and record producer. He was born in Georgia, grew up in Switzerland, and later lived in the United Kingdom and the United States.

Gilbert Gruss born February 10, 1943 in Algrange, France and died on October 1, 2016, is a multiple winner of international karate tournaments.

Nicolo Gargano was an English boxer, who won the bronze medal in the welterweight division at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia. He fought as Nicky Gargano.