List of Famous people who died in 2016

Jit Sukha Samaroo was a Trinidadian composer and steelpan musician.

Jeannette Colombel was a French philosopher.

Solange Fasquelle was a French writer. She is the author of more than 20 novels.

Koço Kasapoğlu, also known as Yorgo or Kostas Kasapoğlu, was a Greek-Turkish football player and manager. He was also nicknamed penaltı kralı because he scored 500 of the 501 penalties he took in his career and is considered the best penalty taker in Turkish football history.

Robin St. Clair Rimington Hardy was an English author and film director. His most famous directorial work is The Wicker Man, and his last project was a film adaptation of his novel Cowboys for Christ, which was retitled The Wicker Tree.

Émile Derlin Zinsou was a Beninese politician and physician who was the President of Dahomey from 17 July 1968 until 10 December 1969, supported by the military regime that took power in 1967. Zinsou was present at the signing of the treaty that formed the African Union on 12 July 2000 in Togo.

Maria Isabel Barreno de Faria Martins GOIH was a Portuguese writer.

Felix Davidovich Krivin was a Soviet, Ukrainian and Israeli writer and poet, author of intellectual humoristic prose, screenwriter.

Anique Poitras was an award-winning writer in Quebec, Canada, whose work was aimed mostly at adolescent readers.

Lilian Uchtenhagen was a Swiss politician and economist.