List of Famous people who died in 2016
Gaston Berghmans
Gaston Petrus Bernardina Berghmans was a Belgian actor and comedian. Between 1972 and 1993 he and Leo Martin formed a comic duo called Gaston and Leo.
Zenon Czechowski
Zenon Czechowski was a Polish cyclist. He competed in the individual road race and the team time trial events at the 1968 Summer Olympics.
Giovanni Orelli
Giovanni Orelli was a Swiss poet and writer who worked in Italian and the Ticinese dialect. His cousin Giorgio Orelli was a poet and literary critic.
Clementia Killewald
Clementia Killewald OSB was a German Benedictine nun, at Eibingen Abbey: serving first as an organist, then by taking care of the elderly and sick, and finally from 2000 as the abbess. She introduced the life and work of Hildegard of Bingen, the convent's founder, during the 2012 ceremony when Pope Benedict XVI proclaimed Hildegard a Saint and a Doctor of the Church.
Don Friedman
Donald Ernest Friedman was an American jazz pianist. He began playing in Los Angeles and moved to New York in 1958. In the 1960s, he played with both modern stylists and more traditional musicians.
Fred Osam-Duodu
Frederick Osam-Duodu was a Ghanaian coach and a FIFA Instructor. A former Ghana national football team coach, he won the 1978 Africa Cup of Nations, the 1993 African U-20 Cup of Nations and a silver medal at the 1993 FIFA World Youth Championship. He was also Ghana's coach during the 2002 African Cup of Nations, held in Mali.
Giuseppe De Andrea
Giuseppe De Andrea was an Italian-born prelate of the Catholic Church who spent twenty years as a pastor in the United States and then twenty-five years in the diplomatic service of the Holy See.
Tosun Terzioğlu
Tosun Terzioğlu was a Turkish mathematician and academic administrator.