List of Famous people who died in 2016

Marjet Joan Ockels was a Dutch politician. She was a member of the House of Representatives between 1991 and 1994. She started as member of the Labour Party, but left in 1993 and continued as an independent.

Solomon Feferman was an American philosopher and mathematician who worked in mathematical logic.

Sally Vanessa Beauman was an English journalist and writer, author of eight widely translated and best-selling novels.

Dale Leon Bumpers was an American politician who served as the 38th Governor of Arkansas (1971–1975) and in the United States Senate (1975–1999). He was a member of the Democratic Party. Prior to his death, he was counsel at the Washington, D.C. office of law firm Arent Fox LLP, where his clients included Riceland Foods and the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.

Braj Bihari Kachru was an Indian linguist. He was Jubilee Professor of Linguistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He coined the term "World English" and also published studies on the Kashmiri language.