List of Famous people who died in 2016

Joseph Michel was a Christian-Democrat Belgian politician, member of the PSC, who was President of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives (1980–81) and who twice served as Minister of the Interior.

Rolf Schweizer was a German composer, choirmaster and church music director, who was based primarily at Pforzheim. Schweizer was part of the movement Neues Geistliches Lied, and his compositions, several of which appear in the Protestant hymnal Evangelisches Gesangbuch (EG), were heavily influenced by contemporary secular music, especially jazz.

Cornelius Michael 'Nelie' Smith was a South African rugby union player and coach.

Helena Zoila Tirona Benitez was a Filipina academic and administrator of the Philippine Women's University.

Shaker Wahib al-Fahdawi al-Dulaimi, better known as Abu Waheeb, was a terrorist leader of the militant group Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant in Anbar, Iraq. He killed three Syrian truck drivers in Iraq in the summer of 2013, and was himself killed, with three others, in a United States-led coalition airstrike in May 2016, according to the US Department of Defense.

Anatoly Ivanovich Savin was a Russian scientist. He was a specialist in the field of information and control automation systems. He was also a Doctor of technical sciences. Savin was the chairman of the Council on the problems of image processing and the scientific director of OJSC Almaz-Antey.

Wendell Richard "Wendy" Anderson was an American hockey player, politician and the 33rd governor of Minnesota, serving from January 4, 1971, to December 29, 1976. In late 1976 he resigned as governor in order to be appointed to the U.S. Senate after Senator Walter Mondale was elected Vice President of the United States. Anderson served in the Senate from December 30, 1976, to December 29, 1978.

Vittorio Merloni was an Italian entrepreneur and industrialist. He was the honorary chairman of Indesit and Fineldo, the family holding company that controls Indesit and other group interests.

André Goustat was a French politician who was the co-founder of CPNT, an agrarianist political party in France. Goustat also served as the mayor of Mauzac-et-Grand-Castang and as the regional councilor of Aquitaine from 1992 to 2004.

Masanobu Deme was a Japanese film director.