List of Famous people who died in 2016

Walter Adolf Giers was a German light, sound and media artist and a pioneer of electronic art.

James Lucius Hickman, nicknamed "Gentleman Jim", was an American professional baseball outfielder and first baseman. He played thirteen seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Mets, Los Angeles Dodgers, Chicago Cubs, and St. Louis Cardinals.

Hande Kader was a politically active Turkish transgender woman. Kader was familiar to millions of Turks as a figurehead for the LGBT community after being photographed at the forefront of the resistance against police forces suppressing the 2015 Gay Pride event in Istanbul. In August 2016, she was reported missing by her flatmate when she failed to return home the following week. Her body was found raped, mutilated, and burnt by the roadside in the Zekeriyaköy up-market on 12 August 2016. Despite being badly mutilated, Kader's body was identified by prosthetics at the city morgue by Dengiler.

Bernard Piras was a French politician, a member of the Senate of France, representing the Drôme department between 1996 and 2014. He was also the mayor of Bourg-lès-Valence from 2001 to 2014.

Akira Yamagishi was a Japanese trade union leader.

Yoshimi Katayama was a Japanese professional Grand Prix motorcycle road racer and auto racer.

Marcel Artelesa was a French footballer who played as a defender. He played for France in the 1966 FIFA World Cup in England.

Michel Houel was a French politician. He was the mayor of Crécy-la-Chapelle from 2001 until 2015, and represented the Seine-et-Marne department in the Senate of France from 2004 until his death in 2016. He was a member of the Union for a Popular Movement Party.

Anna Rita Marchesini was an Italian actress, voice actress, comedian, impressionist and writer.

Mouha Oulhoussein Achiban, also referred to as Oulhoucine or Oulhouceine, was a Moroccan singer and dancer born in El Kbab in 1916 and died on 19 February 2016 in El Kbab.