List of Famous people who died in 2016

Danus George Moncrieff Skene was a Scottish teacher, educationalist and politician.

Radu-Anton Câmpeanu was a Romanian politician. He was president of the National Liberal Party (PNL) between 1990 and 1993, a party he helped re-found after the fall of communism, and a Senator between 1990 and 1992 and also between 2004 and 2008. He ran against Ion Iliescu in the 1990 Romanian presidential elections, in which he came second with 10.64% of the vote. He retained the honorific title of "1990 Founding President" of the party, and was a member in the Central Political Bureau of the party.

Herman Joseph Sahadat Pandoyoputro O.Carm. was a Roman Catholic bishop.

Hilarius Moa Nurak was a Roman Catholic bishop.

Núria Vilaplana i Buixons, better known as Núria Pompeia, was a Catalan Spanish cartoonist, graphic humorist, journalist in the Catalan and Castilian languages, and a Catalan writer in Catalan.

Claude Jeancolas was a French writer, art historian and journalist. He is best known for his expertise on Arthur Rimbaud.

Manouchehr Sotoudeh was an Iranian geographer and scholar of Persian literature. He wrote 60 books and nearly 300 articles. He is the first Iranian who published the first dialectal dictionary. He was also a professor of University of Tehran.

Richard Brian "Rich" Conaty was a New York City disc jockey. He was an important figure in FM broadcasting of jazz and popular music of the 1920s and 1930s. Conaty is best known for the weekly music radio show he hosted, The Big Broadcast, Conaty founded The Big Broadcast when he was a freshman at Fordham University in January 1973, and it ran for over 2200 shows over more than forty years.