List of Famous people who died in 2016

Rubén Mendoza Ayala was a Mexican politician who was affiliated with the Party of the Democratic Revolution. He served as Deputy of the LVII and LIX Legislatures of the Mexican Congress representing the State of Mexico.

Fazu Aliyeva was an Avar-speaking Soviet-born Russian poet, novelist and journalist. She played a significant role in the development of Dagestani in Russian literature. She was also a human rights activist.

Michel Louis Coloni was a Catholic bishop.

Ruth Rehmann was a German writer.

Trayan Kolev Dyankov was a Bulgarian football defender and manager of Spartak Varna. He was a right or central defender, and began his career in Spartak Varna's youth teams.

Sidney David Drell was an American theoretical physicist and arms control expert.

Wenche Bryn Lowzow was a Norwegian politician in the Conservative Party of Norway. She was a member of the Norwegian parliament as a representative from Oslo from 1977 to 1985. When same-sex civil unions were accepted by Norwegian law in 1993, Lowzow and her partner, author and activist Karen-Christine Friele, were among the first to formalize their relationship.

Alfredo Antonio Peña was a Venezuelan journalist and politician.

Arkady Adamovich Brish was a Soviet and Russian physicist, a designer of nuclear weapons, Doctor of Sciences, professor, Hero of Socialist Labour, Laureate of the Lenin Prize and the USSR State Prize.

Bronisław Baczko was a Polish philosopher and historian of ideas. Together with Leszek Kołakowski, he was a leading figure in the Warsaw School of the history of ideas in the late 1950s and 1960s.