List of Famous people who died in 2016

Sir Harold Walter Kroto, known as Harry Kroto, was an English chemist. He shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Robert Curl and Richard Smalley for their discovery of fullerenes. He was the recipient of many other honors and awards.

Wolfgang Schnur was an East German civil rights lawyer. He was closely involved with the Association of Evangelical Churches and worked on many of the cases in which the BEK's leading figures were involved. He also became well networked, on more than one level, with the country's political establishment.

Jean-Noël Rey was a Swiss manager and politician of the Social Democratic Party. He was director-general of the Swiss public post and telecommunications service (PTT) from 1990 to 1998, and a member of the National Council of Switzerland from 2003 to 2007.

María del Rosario Valdez Campos, known professionally as Chayito Valdez, was a Mexican singer and actress who was born in Guasave, Sinaloa, Mexico. She was associated with and contributed to the folk music of Mexico.

René Chamussy was a French-Lebanese Jesuit priest and academic administrator. He was the author of several books about Lebanon. He served as the rector of the Saint Joseph University in Beirut, Lebanon, from 2003 to 2012.

Carlos Gorostiza Rodríguez was an Argentine playwright, theatre director, and novelist. His seminal work El puente debuted in 1949 and he garnered numerous awards for his proceeding works. He later was Secretary of Culture between 1983-86.

Richard Arthur "Dick" Assman was a Canadian gas station employee whose name propelled him to celebrity status across North America for four months in 1995.

Iana Kasian was a Ukrainian former prosecutor who was tortured and murdered by her fiancé, Blake Leibel, soon after the birth of their daughter.

Lilia Cuntapay was a Filipina actress and former teacher whose debut role was in the Filipino horror film series Shake Rattle and Roll in 1991. Thereafter, she was dubbed the "Queen of Philippine Horror Movies" due to her roles in many subsequent horror films. She found acclaim for her first leading role, in the film Six Degrees of Separation from Lilia Cuntapay, which won her an award as Best Actress in the 2011 CinemaOne Originals Digital Film Festival. One of Cuntapay's final TV appearances was in the teleserye FPJ's Ang Probinsyano.

Marie Misamu, whose real name is Marie Misamu Ngolo, was a cantor, Congolese composer born November 16, 1974 in Kinshasa and died January 16, 2016 still in the same place.