List of Famous people who died in 2016
Bob Bissonnette
Roberto "Bob" Bissonnette was a Canadian ice hockey player, as well as a singer known for his sports-themed songs and a co-owner of the Québec Capitales professional baseball team.
Karina Huff
Carrina "Karina" Huff was a British actress, showgirl and television personality, mainly active in Italy.
Ken Barrie
Leslie Hulme, known professionally as Ken Barrie, was an English voice actor and singer best known for singing the theme tune of the BBC television programmes Hi-de-Hi!, Postman Pat and Charlie Chalk; He also narrated the latter two. He was also known for providing the voices of several of the series' characters.
Ian McCaskill
Ian McCaskill was a BBC weatherman.
Bommi Baumann
Michael "Bommi" Baumann was a German author and former militant. After growing up in Berlin, he was radicalised by the police shooting of Benno Ohnesorg and founded the Movement 2 June with his best friend Georg von Rauch. After von Rauch was shot dead by the police and a bomb planted by Baumann killed a builder, Baumann fled abroad. Whilst on the run he wrote the memoir Wie alles anfing and renounced political violence. The book sold 100,000 copies. Baumann was arrested in London in 1981 and following a prison term lived in Berlin.
Goran Hadžić
Goran Hadžić was a Croatian Serb nationalist politician of the self-proclaimed Republic of Serbian Krajina, in office during the Croatian War of Independence. He was accused of crimes against humanity and of violation of the laws and customs of war by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.
Daan Myngheer
Daan Myngheer was a Belgian cyclist. He died in a hospital two days after suffering a heart attack during the first stage of the 2016 Critérium International.
Haron Din
Haron Din was a Malaysian politician and Muslim cleric. He was the 3rd Spiritual Leader of the Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS) from March 2015 after the death of his influential predecessor Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat to his own death in September 2016.
Barbara Turner
Gloria Rose "Barbara" Turner was an American screenwriter and actress. One of her daughters is the actress Jennifer Jason Leigh.
Karl-Heinz von Hassel
Karl-Heinz von Hassel was a German actor. He appeared in more than 100 films and television shows between 1960 and 2012.