List of Famous people who died in 2016

Corrado Farina was an Italian film director, screenwriter, and novelist. He directed two feature films in the 1970s, many documentaries and commercials, and seven of his novels published.

Doreen Barbara Massey FRSA FBA FAcSS was a British social scientist and geographer.

Edmund Piątkowski was a Polish track and field athlete, who competed in the discus event.

Silvano Piovanelli was an Italian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Florence from 1983 to 2001, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1985.

Claude Putman Jr. professionally known as Curly Putman was an American songwriter.

Zyta Janina Gilowska (listen) was a Polish economist, academic, and politician.

Trudi Roth was a Swiss stage and film actress who starred in Swiss German language cinema and television and stage productions.

Jan van Cauwelaert, C.I.C.M. was a Belgian-Congolese bishop of the Roman Catholic Church. Upon his death at the age of 102, he was one of the oldest bishops in the Church, the oldest European-born bishop and the final living one to have been consecrated by Cardinal Jozef-Ernest van Roey.

Chief Ojo Maduekwe was a Nigerian politician of Igbo origin, from Ohafia, Abia State. He was appointed Foreign Minister of Nigeria on July 26, 2007 by President Umaru Yar'Adua. He left office in March 2010 when Acting President Goodluck Jonathan dissolved his cabinet. He was National Secretary of the ruling political party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). He worked as the deputy director of PDP presidential campaign 2011 Goodluck/Sambo ticket. He was nominated for SGF, but was subsequently dropped following criticism by eastern people.

Ratu Joni Madraiwiwi, Lord Madraiwiwi Tangatatonga was a prominent Fijian lawyer, legal scholar, jurist, and politician. He served as Vice-President, and also acting President, of Fiji, and Chief Justice of Nauru.