List of Famous people who died in 2016

Mohamed Hassanein Heikal was an Egyptian journalist. For 17 years (1957–1974), he was editor-in-chief of the Cairo newspaper Al-Ahram and was a commentator on Arab affairs for more than 50 years.

Daphne Odjig,, was a Canadian First Nations artist of Odawa-Potawatomi-English heritage. Her painting is often characterized as Woodlands Style or as the pictographic style.

Commander Graham James Bond was an officer in the Royal Australian Navy. He was best known for having discovered and charted a new deep-water shipping channel through the Great Barrier Reef, the Hydrographers Passage, which was 250 miles shorter than the previous route.

María Elena Santonja Esquivias was a Spanish TV presenter and occasional actress.

John Royer "Jack" Garman was a computer engineer, former senior NASA executive and noted key figure of the Apollo 11 lunar landing. As a young specialist on duty during the final descent stage on 20 July 1969 he dealt with a series of computer alarms which could have caused the mission to be aborted.

Ivo Hélcio Jardim de Campos Pitanguy was a plastic surgeon based in Rio de Janeiro.

Hans Reffert was a German musician and composer.

Paul Ryan was an American comic artist. Ryan worked extensively for Marvel Comics and DC Comics on a number of super-hero comic book titles. He is best known for his 1991 to 1996 run as penciler on Fantastic Four, which represents his longest association with an individual comic book series. From 2005 until his death in 2016, Ryan penciled and inked the daily newspaper comic strip The Phantom for King Features Syndicate.

Farid Mustafevich Seiful-Mulyukov was a Soviet Russian and international journalist, writer, orientalist, Arabist, a leading television Central Television and honored Artist of Russia (1995). He was also the author of numerous reports from around the world on one of Russia's leading television programs In The World Today and for the international Panorama

Adrian Hardiman was an Irish judge who served as a Judge of the Supreme Court from 2000 to 2016.