List of Famous people who died in 2016

Raymond Conway Benjamin was a Roman Catholic bishop. Ordained to the priesthood in 1949, Benjamin served as bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Townsville, Australia from 1984 until his retirement in 2000.

Rubén Héctor Di Monte was a Roman Catholic archbishop.

Irina Yuryevna Levshakova was a Russian paleontologist, geologist, artist and musician. She is most famous for her deep involvement in the underground rock music scene in Leningrad during the 1980s and 1990s.

Joseph Velly was a French racing cyclist. He rode in the 1962 Tour de France.

Michael John Elliott OBE was a British journalist and executive, long-based in the United States. He was the president and chief executive officer of the anti-poverty advocacy organization ONE.

Ronald Crosby Davidson was a Canadian physicist, professor, and scientific administrator who worked in the United States. He served as the first director of the MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center from 1978 to 1988, and as director of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory from 1991 to 1996. He had been Professor of Astrophysical Sciences at Princeton University since 1991.