List of Famous people who died in 2016

Cheng Chieh or Zheng Jie, a death row prisoner in Taiwan. In 2014, he committed an unprovoked murder case on the Taipei MRT train, causing 4 deaths and 24 injuries. The Supreme Court of the Republic of China sentenced him to 4 death sentences for homicide and an additional 144 years and 6 months in prison.

Robert Stack Pierce was an actor who was previously a boxer and professional baseball player. His acting career began in the early 1970s with television roles in the series Arnie, Room 222, Mannix, Mission Impossible and later as Jake, the alien commander in the 1980s science fiction series V. His film roles include Night Call Nurses, Hammer, Cool Breeze, Low Blow and Weekend at Bernie's II.

Yusuf Zuayyin was a Syrian politician. A member of the Ba'ath Party, he served as Prime Minister of Syria in 1965 and again from 1966 to 1968. He was born in Abu Kamal.