List of Famous people who died in 2016

Farajollah Salahshoor was an Iranian film director. He directed several popular religious films and TV series including Yousuf e Payambar (film), The Men of Angelos. He had a conservative view and believed in Islamic cinema. He died of lung cancer on 27 February 2016.

Fernando Torres Vignoli, professionally known as Vignoli, was a Brazilian painter and sculptor. He began his career in 1982 creating canvases in oil on canvas, where he applies his own technique, which, according to him, allows a perfect balance in the distribution of the elements, leading the viewer to come across texture, plasticity and creation, in perfect Harmony within the history of each painting. The style of Vignoli is a fusion between Surrealism and Expressionism, hence the declared influence by the Spanish master Salvador Dalí. By 2013, Vignoli work had been exhibited in more than 20 nations.

Zhou Xiaoyan was a Chinese vocal pedagogue and classical soprano. Dubbed by The New York Times as "China's First Lady of Opera", she was considered to be the first important instructor of Western opera in China.