2016

2016 (MMXVI) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2016th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 16th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 7th year of the 2010s decade.

2016 by topic:
Arts
Animation (Anime) – Architecture – Comics – Film (Horror, Science fiction) – Literature (Poetry) – Music (Classical, Country, Hip hop, Jazz, Latin, Metal, Rock, UK, US, Korea) – Radio – Photo – Television – Video games
Politics and government
Elections – International leaders – Sovereign states
Sovereign state leaders – Territorial governors
Science and technology
Archaeology – Biotechnology – Computing – Palaeontology – Quantum computing and communication – Senescence research – Space/Astronomy – Spaceflight – Sustainable energy research
Environment and environmental sciences
Birding/Ornithology – Climate change – Weather
Transportation
Aviation – Rail transport – Transportation technology
Sports
American football – Association football – Athletics (sport) – Badminton – Baseball – Basketball – Chess – Combat sports – Cricket – Cycling – Golf – Ice hockey – Rugby union – Swimming – Tennis – Volleyball
By place
Afghanistan – Albania – Algeria – Andorra – Angola – Antarctica – Antigua and Barbuda – Argentina – Armenia – Australia – Austria – Azerbaijan – Bangladesh – The Bahamas – Bahrain – Barbados – Belarus – Belgium – Belize – Benin – Bhutan – Bolivia – Bosnia and Herzegovina – Botswana – Brazil – Brunei – Bulgaria – Burkina Faso – Burundi – Cambodia – Cameroon – Canada – Cape Verde – Central African Republic – Chad – Chile – China – Colombia – Costa Rica – Comoros – Congo – D.R. Congo – Croatia – Cuba – Cyprus – Czech Republic – Denmark – Djibouti – Dominica – Dominican Republic – East Timor – Ecuador – Egypt – El Salvador – Eritrea – Estonia – Ethiopia – Eswatini – Equatorial Guinea – Fiji – Finland – France – Gabon – The Gambia – Georgia – Germany – Ghana – Greece – Grenada – Guatemala – Guinea – Guinea-Bissau – Guyana – Haiti – Honduras – Hong Kong – Hungary – Iceland – India – Indonesia – Iran – Iraq – Ireland – Israel – Italy – Ivory Coast – Jamaica – Japan – Jordan – Kazakhstan – Kenya – Kiribati – Kosovo – Kuwait – Kyrgyzstan – Laos – Latvia – Lebanon – Lesotho – Liberia – Liechtenstein – Libya – Lithuania – Luxembourg – Macau – Madagascar – Marshall Islands – Malawi – Malaysia – Maldives – Mali – Malta – Mauritania – Mauritius – Mexico – Micronesia – Moldova – Monaco – Mongolia – Montenegro – Morocco – Mozambique – Myanmar – Nauru – Namibia – Nepal – Netherlands – New Zealand – Nicaragua – Niger – Nigeria – North Korea – North Macedonia – Norway – Oman – Pakistan – Palau – Palestine – Panama – Papua New Guinea – Paraguay – Peru – Philippines – Poland – Portugal – Qatar – Romania – Russia – Rwanda – Saint Kitts and Nevis – Saint Lucia – Saint Vincent and the Grenadines – Samoa – San Marino – São Tomé and Príncipe – Saudi Arabia – Senegal – Serbia – Seychelles – Sierra Leone – Singapore – Slovakia – Slovenia – Somalia – Somaliland – South Africa – Solomon Islands – South Korea – South Sudan – Spain – Sri Lanka – Sudan – Suriname – Sweden – Switzerland – Syria – Taiwan – Tajikistan – Tanzania – Thailand – Togo – Tonga – Trinidad and Tobago – Tunisia – Turkey – Turkmenistan – Tuvalu – Uganda – Ukraine – United Arab Emirates – United Kingdom – United States – Uruguay – Uzbekistan – Vanuatu – Vatican City – Venezuela – Vietnam – Yemen – Zambia – Zimbabwe
Other topics
Religious leaders
Birth and death categories
Births – Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments – Disestablishments
Works and introductions categories
Works – Introductions
Works entering the public domain
2016 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar2016
MMXVI
Ab urbe condita2769
Armenian calendar1465
ԹՎ ՌՆԿԵ
Assyrian calendar6766
Baháʼí calendar172–173
Balinese saka calendar1937–1938
Bengali calendar1423
Berber calendar2966
British Regnal year64 Eliz. 2 – 65 Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar2560
Burmese calendar1378
Byzantine calendar7524–7525
Chinese calendar乙未年 (Wood Goat)
4712 or 4652
    — to —
丙申年 (Fire Monkey)
4713 or 4653
Coptic calendar1732–1733
Discordian calendar3182
Ethiopian calendar2008–2009
Hebrew calendar5776–5777
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat2072–2073
 - Shaka Samvat1937–1938
 - Kali Yuga5116–5117
Holocene calendar12016
Igbo calendar1016–1017
Iranian calendar1394–1395
Islamic calendar1437–1438
Japanese calendarHeisei 28
(平成２８年)
Javanese calendar1949–1950
Juche calendar105
Julian calendarGregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar4349
Minguo calendarROC 105
民國105年
Nanakshahi calendar548
Thai solar calendar2559
Tibetan calendar阴木羊年
(female Wood-Goat)
2142 or 1761 or 989
    — to —
阳火猴年
(male Fire-Monkey)
2143 or 1762 or 990
Unix time1451606400 – 1483228799
Wikimedia Commons has media related to 2016.
From left, clockwise: Bombed-out buildings in Ankara following the 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt; the impeachment trial of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff; Damaged houses during the 2016 Nagorno-Karabakh conflict; A scene from the opening ceremony of the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Queues outside a bank to exchange demonetized banknotes during the 2016 Indian banknote demonetisation; the UK votes to leave the EU in 2016; The Girardet bridge in Düsseldorf with its four pokéstops; Donald Trump is elected as U.S. President in 2016 during a period of intensifying political polarization in the United States

Millennium: 3rd millennium
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2016 was designated as:

  • International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly.[1]
  • International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the International Social Science Council (ISSC), and the International Council for Philosophy and Human Sciences (CIPSH).[2]

Events

January
  • January 3 – Following the fallout caused by the execution of Nimr al-Nimr, Saudi Arabia and several other countries end their diplomatic relations with Iran.[3]
  • January 8 – Joaquín Guzmán, widely regarded as the world's most powerful drug trafficker, is recaptured following his escape from a maximum security prison in Mexico.[4]
  • January 12 – Ten people are killed and 15 wounded in a bombing near the Blue Mosque in Istanbul.
  • January 16
    • The International Atomic Energy Agency announces that Iran has adequately dismantled its nuclear weapons program, allowing the United Nations to lift sanctions immediately.[5]
    • 30 people are killed and 56 injured in terrorist attacks in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, targeting a hotel and a nearby restaurant. A siege occurs and 176 hostages are released afterwards, by government forces.
    • In the general election of the Republic of China (Taiwan), the Democratic Progressive Party, led by Tsai Ing-wen, secured a majority in the Legislative Yuan, resulting in the first majority by a non-KMT party and the first majority won by the DPP. Tsai become the 14th President for Taiwan, and also become the first female leader for China.[6]
  • January 28 – The World Health Organization announces an outbreak of the Zika virus.[7]

February

March

April
  • April 1–5 – 2016 Nagorno-Karabakh clashes: Clashes occur along the Nagorno-Karabakh line of contact with the Artsakh Defense Army, backed by the Armenian Armed Forces, on one side and the Azerbaijani Armed Forces on the other. The US State Department estimates that a total of 350 people have been killed in the clashes, which have been defined as "the worst" since the 1994 ceasefire.[14]
  • April 3 – The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) and the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung publish a set of 11.5 million confidential documents from the Panamanian corporate Mossack Fonseca that provides detailed information on more than 214,000 offshore companies, including the identities of shareholders and directors including noted personalities and heads of state.[15]

May

June

July
  • July 1 – Latvia becomes the 35th member of the OECD.[25]
  • July 2 – 2016 Australian federal election: Malcolm Turnbull's Liberal/National Coalition Government is narrowly re-elected,[26] defeating the Labor Party led by Bill Shorten.[27]
  • July 5 – NASA's Juno spacecraft enters orbit around Jupiter and begins a 20-month survey of the planet.[28]
  • July 6 – The augmented reality mobile game Pokémon Go is released, breaking numerous records in terms of sales and revenue.[29]
  • July 12 – The Philippines wins the arbitration case they filed at the Permanent Court of Arbitration regarding the legality of China's "Nine-Dash Line" claim over the South China Sea under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.[30][31]
  • July 14 – 2016 Nice truck attack: 86 people are killed and more than 400 others injured in a truck attack in Nice, France, during Bastille Day celebrations.[32]
  • July 15–16 – In Turkey, a faction within the Turkish Armed Forces that organized themselves as the Peace at Home Council, unsuccessfully stages a coup against the state institutions, resulting in the deaths of at least 240 people and triggering a series of unprecedented purges throughout the country.[33]
  • July 22 – The final videocassette recorder is manufactured by the Japanese company Funai.[34]
  • July 26 – Swiss Solar Impulse 2 becomes the first solar-powered aircraft to circumnavigate the Earth.[35]

August

September
  • September 1 – An annular solar eclipse was visible from Gabon, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Tanzania, Mozambique and Madagascar.
  • September 3 – The US and China, together responsible for 40% of the world's carbon emissions, both formally join the Paris global climate agreement.[38]
  • September 8 – NASA launches OSIRIS-REx, its first asteroid sample return mission. The probe will visit Bennu and is expected to return with samples in 2023.[39][40]
  • September 9 – The government of North Korea conducts its fifth and reportedly biggest nuclear test. World leaders condemn the act, with South Korea calling it "maniacal recklessness".[41]
  • September 28
    • International investigators conclude that Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down by a Buk missile that came from an area controlled by pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine.[42]
    • Global CO2 levels exceed 400 ppm at the time of year normally associated with minimum levels.[43] A 400 ppm level is believed to be higher than anything experienced in human history.[44]
  • September 30 – Two paintings by Vincent van Gogh with a combined value of $100 million, Seascape at Scheveningen and Congregation Leaving the Reformed Church in Nuenen, are recovered after having been stolen on December 7, 2002 from the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.[45]

October
  • October 7 – Three events that played a significant role in the 2016 United States presidential election all take place on the same afternoon: (1) U.S. intelligence agencies publicly accuse the Russian government of using computer hacking to interfere with the U.S. election process; (2) The Washington Post releases a videotape showing candidate Donald Trump privately bragging about sexual improprieties; (3) WikiLeaks releases thousands of private emails from inside the political campaign of candidate Hillary Clinton.
  • October 12 - the Mannequin Challenge was started by some high school students in Jacksonville[46]
  • October 13 – The Maldives announces its decision to withdraw from the Commonwealth of Nations.[47]
  • October 15 – 150 nations meet at the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) summit in Rwanda and agree to phase out hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) as an amendment to the Montreal Protocol.[48]

November

December

General

Births
  • February 5 – Jigme Namgyel Wangchuck, heir apparent to the throne of Bhutan
  • March 2 – Prince Oscar, Duke of Skåne, third in the line of succession to the Swedish throne

Deaths
Deaths
January · February · March · April · May · June · July · August · September · October · November · December

January
Vilmos Zsigmond
Princess Ashraf Pahlavi
David Bowie
Alan Rickman

February
Boutros Boutros-Ghali
Umberto Eco
Harper Lee

March
Sir George Martin
Anker Jørgensen
Johan Cruyff
Patty Duke

April
Merle Haggard
Patricio Aylwin
Prince
  • April 1 – Pratyusha Banerjee, Indian television actress (b. 1991)
  • April 2 – Gato Barbieri, Argentine jazz saxophonist (b. 1932)
  • April 3
    • Don Francks, Canadian actor, musician and singer (b. 1932)
    • Cesare Maldini, Italian football player and manager (b. 1932)
  • April 4 – Chus Lampreave, Spanish actress (b. 1930)
  • April 6 – Merle Haggard, American country singer (b. 1937)
  • April 8 – Erich Rudorffer, German fighter ace (b. 1917)
  • April 10 – Howard Marks, Welsh drug smuggler, writer and legalisation campaigner (b. 1945)
  • April 12
    • Anne Jackson, American actress (b. 1925)
    • Balls Mahoney, American professional wrestler (b. 1972)
    • Arnold Wesker, British playwright (b. 1932)
  • April 16 – Louis Pilot, Luxembourgian football player and manager (b. 1940)
  • April 17
    • Chyna, American professional wrestler (b. 1969)
    • Doris Roberts, American actress, author, and philanthropist (b. 1925)
  • April 19
    • Patricio Aylwin, 32nd President of Chile (b. 1918)
    • Ronit Elkabetz, Israeli actress and film director (b. 1964)
    • Walter Kohn, Austrian-born American Nobel physicist (b. 1923)
  • April 20
    • Guy Hamilton, British film director (b. 1922)
    • Victoria Wood, British comedian (b. 1953)
  • April 21
    • Lonnie Mack, American singer-guitarist (b. 1941)
    • Prince, American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (b. 1958)
  • April 23 – Banharn Silpa-archa, 21st Prime Minister of Thailand (b. 1932)
  • April 24
    • Billy Paul, American soul singer (b. 1934)
    • Klaus Siebert, German Olympic biathlete (b. 1955)
    • Papa Wemba, Congolese singer and musician (b. 1949)
  • April 26 – Harry Wu, Chinese human rights activist (b. 1937)
  • April 27 – Viktor Gavrikov, Lithuanian-Swiss chess Grandmaster (b. 1957)
  • April 30 – Harry Kroto, English Nobel chemist (b. 1939)

May
Marco Pannella
Bata Živojinović
Yang Jiang
Mohamed Abdelaziz
  • May 1 – Solomon W. Golomb, American mathematician (b. 1932)
  • May 2 – Afeni Shakur, American music businesswoman (b. 1947)
  • May 4
    • Jean-Baptiste Bagaza, 2nd President of Burundi (b. 1946)
    • Bob Bennett, American politician (b. 1933)
  • May 5
    • Siné, French political cartoonist (b. 1928)
    • Isao Tomita, Japanese composer (b. 1932)
  • May 6 – Margot Honecker, East German politician (b. 1927)
  • May 8
    • Nick Lashaway, American actor (b. 1988)
    • William Schallert, American actor (b. 1922)
  • May 10 – Kang Young-hoon, 21st Prime Minister of South Korea (b. 1922)
  • May 16 – Giovanni Coppa, Italian cardinal (b. 1925)
  • May 17
    • Guy Clark, American singer-songwriter (b. 1941)
    • Yūko Mizutani, Japanese voice actress (b. 1964)
  • May 19
    • Alexandre Astruc, French film critic and director (b. 1923)
    • Marco Pannella, Italian politician (b. 1930)
    • Alan Young, British-born Canadian-American actor (b. 1919)
  • May 21
    • Akhtar Mansour, Afghan militant, Supreme leader of the Taliban
    • Sándor Tarics, Hungarian Olympic water polo player (b. 1913)
    • Nick Menza, German-born American drummer (b. 1964)
  • May 22 – Bata Živojinović, Serbian actor and politician (b. 1933)
  • May 25 – Yang Jiang, Chinese playwright, author, and translator (b. 1911)
  • May 26
    • Loris Francesco Capovilla, Italian cardinal (b. 1915)
    • Arturo Pomar, Spanish chess grandmaster (b. 1931)
  • May 28
    • Giorgio Albertazzi, Italian actor (b. 1923)
    • David Cañada, Spanish cyclist (b. 1975)
    • Harambe, endangered gorilla (b. 1999)
  • May 31
    • Mohamed Abdelaziz, 3rd Secretary-General of the Polisario Front (b. 1947)
    • Corry Brokken, Dutch singer (b. 1932)
    • Antonio Imbert Barrera, Dominican politician (b. 1920)

June
Muhammad Ali
Gordie Howe
Rubén Aguirre
Anton Yelchin
Alvin Toffler
  • June 2 – Tom Kibble, British physicist (b. 1932)
  • June 3
    • Muhammad Ali, American Olympic and professional boxer (b. 1942)
    • Luis Salom, Spanish motorcycle racer (b. 1991)
  • June 4 – Carmen Pereira, Bissau-Guinean politician (b. 1937)
  • June 5 – Jerome Bruner, American psychologist (b. 1915)
  • June 6
    • Viktor Korchnoi, Russian-born Swiss chess grandmaster (b. 1931)
    • Theresa Saldana, American actress and author (b. 1954)
    • Peter Shaffer, British playwright and screenwriter (b. 1926)
    • Kimbo Slice, Bahamian-American mixed martial artist, boxer, wrestler and actor (b. 1974)
  • June 7 – Stephen Keshi, Nigerian footballer and manager (b. 1962)
  • June 8 – Qahhor Mahkamov, 1st President of Tajikistan (b. 1932)
  • June 9 – Hassan Muhammad Makki, 10th Prime Minister of Yemen (b. 1933)
  • June 10
  • June 11 – Rudi Altig, German road racing cyclist (b. 1937)
  • June 12
  • June 14 – Ann Morgan Guilbert, American actress (b. 1928)
  • June 16 – Jo Cox, English politician (b. 1974)
  • June 17 – Rubén Aguirre, Mexican actor and comedian (b. 1934)[69]
  • June 18 – Vittorio Merloni, Italian entrepreneur (b. 1933)
  • June 19
    • Götz George, German actor (b. 1938)
    • Victor Stănculescu, Romanian general and politician (b. 1928)
    • Anton Yelchin, Russian-born American actor (b. 1989)
  • June 20 – Edgard Pisani, French politician (b. 1918)
  • June 23
    • Michael Herr, American writer, journalist and screenwriter (b. 1940)
    • Ralph Stanley, American bluegrass musician (b. 1927)
  • June 25 – Maurice G. Dantec, French writer (b. 1959)
  • June 27
    • Bud Spencer, Italian actor, swimmer, and water polo player (b. 1929)
    • Alvin Toffler, American writer and futurist (b. 1928)
  • June 28
    • Scotty Moore, American guitarist (b. 1931)
    • Pat Summitt, American basketball coach (b. 1952)
  • June 30 – Martin Lundström, Swedish Olympic cross country skier (b. 1918)

July
Elie Wiesel
Zygmunt Zimowski
Ursula Franklin
Piet de Jong
Fazil Iskander
  • July 1 – Yves Bonnefoy, French poet (b. 1923)
  • July 2
    • Michael Cimino, American screenwriter and film director (b. 1939)
    • Rudolf E. Kálmán, Hungarian-born American electrical engineer (b. 1930)
    • Patrick Manning, Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago (b. 1946)
    • Michel Rocard, Prime Minister of France (b. 1930)
    • Elie Wiesel, Romanian-born American Nobel writer and political activist (b. 1928)
    • Caroline Aherne, English actress, comedian and writer (b. 1963)
  • July 3 – Noel Neill, American actress (b. 1920)
  • July 4 – Abbas Kiarostami, Iranian film director (b. 1940)
  • July 6
    • John McMartin, American actor (b. 1929)
    • Turgay Şeren, Turkish footballer (b. 1932)
  • July 8
    • Abdul Sattar Edhi, Pakistani philanthropist, social activist, and ascetic (b. 1928)
    • William H. McNeill, Canadian-American historian and author (b. 1917)
  • July 9 – Silvano Piovanelli, Italian cardinal (b. 1924)
  • July 12 – Goran Hadžić, Serbian politician and convicted war criminal (b. 1958)
  • July 13
    • Héctor Babenco, Argentine-Brazilian film director (b. 1946)
    • Bernardo Provenzano, Italian criminal (b. 1933)
    • Zygmunt Zimowski, Polish bishop (b. 1949)
  • July 14 – Péter Esterházy, Hungarian writer (b. 1950)
  • July 16
    • Nate Thurmond, American basketball player (b. 1941)
    • Alan Vega, American vocalist and visual artist (b. 1938)
  • July 19
    • Garry Marshall, American film director, television producer and actor (b. 1934)
    • Anthony D. Smith, British historical sociologist (b. 1939)
  • July 22 – Ursula Franklin, German-born Canadian scientist (b. 1921)
  • July 23 – Thorbjörn Fälldin, 2-Time Prime Minister of Sweden (b. 1926)
  • July 25
    • Halil İnalcık, Turkish historian (b. 1916)
    • Dwight Jones, American basketball player (b. 1952)
    • Tim LaHaye, American evangelist and author (b. 1926)
  • July 27
    • Einojuhani Rautavaara, Finnish composer (b. 1928)
    • Piet de Jong, Dutch politician and naval officer, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1915)
  • July 28
    • Mahasweta Devi, Indian social activist and writer (b. 1926)
    • Vladica Kovačević, Serbian footballer (b. 1940)
    • Émile Derlin Zinsou, 4th President of Dahomey (b. 1918)
  • July 30 – Gloria DeHaven, American actress (b. 1925)
  • July 31
    • Fazil Iskander, Russian writer (b. 1929)
    • Bobbie Heine Miller, South African tennis player (b. 1909)
    • Chiyonofuji Mitsugu, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1955)
    • Seymour Papert, South African-born American mathematician and computer scientist (b. 1928)

August
Queen Anne of Romania
Françoise Mallet-Joris
Mohammad Ali Samatar
Walter Scheel
Gene Wilder
  • August 1 – Queen Anne of Romania, French-born consort of former King Michael of Romania (b. 1923)
  • August 2
    • David Huddleston, American actor (b. 1930)
    • Franciszek Macharski, Polish cardinal (b. 1927)
    • Ahmed Zewail, Egyptian-American Nobel chemist (b. 1946)
  • August 3 – Chris Amon, New Zealand motor racing driver (b. 1943)
  • August 9 – Gerald Grosvenor, 6th Duke of Westminster (b. 1951)
  • August 13
    • Kenny Baker, English actor (b. 1934)
    • Françoise Mallet-Joris, Belgian writer (b. 1930)
  • August 14
    • Hermann Kant, German writer (b. 1926)
    • Fyvush Finkel, American actor (b. 1922)
  • August 15
    • Dalian Atkinson, English footballer (b. 1968)
    • Stefan Henze, German canoeist and coach (b. 1981)
    • Bobby Hutcherson, American jazz musician (b. 1941)
  • August 16
    • Andrew Florent, Australian tennis player (b. 1970)
    • João Havelange, Brazilian athlete and football executive (b. 1916)
  • August 17 – Arthur Hiller, Canadian film director (b. 1923)
  • August 18 – Ernst Nolte, German historian (b. 1923)
  • August 19
    • Lou Pearlman, American music manager and record producer (b. 1954)
    • Nina Ponomaryova, Russian Olympic discus thrower (b. 1929)
    • Jack Riley, American actor (b. 1935)
    • Mohammad Ali Samatar, 5th Prime Minister of Somalia (b. 1931)
  • August 22
  • August 23
    • Steven Hill, American actor (b. 1922)
    • Berit Mørdre Lammedal, Norwegian cross-country skier (b. 1940)
    • Reinhard Selten, German Nobel economist (b. 1930)
  • August 24
  • August 25
    • James Cronin, American Nobel physicist (b. 1931)
    • Sonia Rykiel, French fashion designer (b. 1930)
    • Rudy Van Gelder, American recording engineer (b. 1924)
  • August 26 – Harald Grønningen, Norwegian cross country skier (b. 1934)
  • August 28
    • Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, Israeli politician and former Deputy Prime Minister (b. 1936)
    • Mr. Fuji, American professional wrestler and wrestling manager (b. 1934)
    • Juan Gabriel, Mexican singer-songwriter (b. 1950)
  • August 29 – Gene Wilder, American actor (b. 1933)
  • August 30
    • Věra Čáslavská, Czech gymnast (b. 1942)
    • Marc Riboud, French photographer (b. 1923)

September
Islam Karimov
Phyllis Schlafly
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
Shimon Peres
  • September 1 – Jon Polito, American actor (b. 1950)
  • September 2
  • September 3
    • Johnny Rebel, American white supremacist singer and songwriter (b. 1938)
    • Jean-Christophe Yoccoz, French mathematician (b. 1957)
  • September 5
    • Hugh O'Brian, American actor (b. 1925)
    • Phyllis Schlafly, American writer and political activist (b. 1924)
  • September 7
    • Joseph Keller, American mathematician (b. 1923)
    • Norbert Schemansky, American weightlifter (b. 1924)
  • September 8
    • Prince Buster, Jamaican singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1938)
    • Dragiša Pešić, 5th Prime Minister of Serbia and Montenegro (b. 1954)
  • September 11 – Alexis Arquette, American actress, cabaret performer, underground cartoonist, and activist (b. 1969)
  • September 12 – Sándor Csoóri, Hungarian poet (b. 1930)
  • September 13 – Jonathan Riley-Smith, English medieval historian (b. 1938)
  • September 16
    • Edward Albee, American playwright (b. 1928)
    • Gabriele Amorth, Italian Catholic priest and exorcist (b. 1925)
    • Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, 10th President and 49th Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1920)
    • António Mascarenhas Monteiro, 2nd President of Cape Verde (b. 1944)
    • Qiao Renliang, Chinese singer and actor (b. 1987)
  • September 17
    • Charmian Carr, American actress (b. 1942)
    • Sigge Parling, Swedish footballer (b. 1930)
  • September 20 – Curtis Hanson, American film director and screenwriter (b. 1945)
  • September 23 – Marcel Artelesa, French footballer (b. 1938)
  • September 24
    • Bill Mollison, Australian researcher, author and biologist (b. 1928)
    • Bill Nunn, American actor (b. 1953)
  • September 25
    • José Fernández, Cuban-American baseball pitcher (b. 1992)
    • David Padilla, 53rd President of Bolivia (b. 1927)
    • Arnold Palmer, American professional golfer (b. 1929)
    • Jean Shepard, American honky-tonk singer-songwriter (b. 1933)
    • Rod Temperton, English songwriter, record producer and musician (b. 1949)
  • September 26 – Herschell Gordon Lewis, American film director and screenwriter (b. 1929)
  • September 27 – Jamshid Amouzegar, 71st Prime Minister of Iran (b. 1923)
  • September 28 – Shimon Peres, 9th President and 8th Prime Minister of Israel, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (b. 1923)
  • September 29 – Miriam Defensor Santiago, Filipino politician (b. 1945)
  • September 30 – Trịnh Thị Ngọ, Vietnamese radio personality (b. 1931)

October
Andrzej Wajda
King Bhumibol Adulyadej (Rama IX) of Thailand
Kigeli V of Rwanda

November
Leonard Cohen
Sixto Durán Ballén
Konstantinos Stephanopoulos
Fidel Castro
Luis Alberto Monge
  • November 2 – Oleg Popov, Soviet and Russian clown (b. 1930)
  • November 3 – W. D. Amaradeva, Sri Lankan Musician (b. 1927)
  • November 4 – Jean-Jacques Perrey, French electronic music producer (b. 1929)
  • November 5 – Marek Svatoš, Slovak ice hockey player (b. 1982)
  • November 6 – Zoltán Kocsis, Hungarian pianist, conductor and composer (b. 1952)
  • November 7
  • November 11
    • Ilse Aichinger, Austrian writer (b. 1921)
    • Željko Čajkovski, Croatian football player (b. 1925)
    • Robert Vaughn, American actor (b. 1932)
  • November 12 – Lupita Tovar, Mexican-born American actress (b. 1910)
  • November 13
    • Enzo Maiorca, Italian free diver (b. 1931)
    • Leon Russell, American musician (b. 1942)
  • November 14
    • Gwen Ifill, American journalist (b. 1955)
    • Gardnar Mulloy, American tennis player (b. 1913)
  • November 15
    • Mose Allison, American jazz musician (b. 1927)
    • Sixto Durán Ballén, 37th President of Ecuador (b. 1921)
  • November 16
    • Jay Wright Forrester, American computer engineer (b. 1918)
    • Melvin Laird, American politician and writer (b. 1922)
    • Daniel Prodan, Romanian football player (b. 1972)
  • November 17 – Whitney Smith, American vexillologist (b. 1940)
  • November 18
    • Denton Cooley, American heart surgeon (b. 1920)
    • Sharon Jones, American soul singer (b. 1956)
  • November 20
    • Gabriel Badilla, Costa Rican footballer (b. 1984)
    • Konstantinos Stephanopoulos, 5th President of Greece (b. 1926)
    • William Trevor, Irish writer (b. 1928)
  • November 22 – M. Balamuralikrishna, Indian musician, multi-instrumentalist, singer and composer (b. 1930)
  • November 23 – Andrew Sachs, German-born British actor (b. 1930)
  • November 24
    • Florence Henderson, American actress (b. 1934)
    • Pauline Oliveros, American composer (b. 1932)
  • November 25
    • Fidel Castro, First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the State Council of Cuba (b. 1926)
    • Ron Glass, American actor (b. 1945)
    • David Hamilton, British photographer (b. 1933)
  • November 27 – Ioannis Grivas, 176th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1923)
  • November 28
    • Cléber Santana, Brazilian footballer (b. 1981)
    • Mark Taimanov, Russian chess Grandmaster and concert pianist (b. 1926)
    • Van Williams, American actor (b. 1934)
  • November 29 – Luis Alberto Monge, 39th President of Costa Rica (b. 1925)

December
John Glenn
Thomas Schelling
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Andrei Karlov
George Michael
Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds

Nobel Prizes
Nobel medal

New English words

See also
  • 2010s political history
  • List of international years
  •  2010s portal

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