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*[[Faole Bokoi]], Papua New Guinean combatant, last known of the [[Fuzzy Wuzzy Angels]] of [[Kokoda Track]].<ref>[http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-03-07/fuzzy-wuzzy-angel-faole-bokoi-dies/7226102]</ref> (death announced on this date) |
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Revision as of 02:00, 7 March 2016
This is a chronology of deaths in 2016. Names are reported under the date of death. Names under each date are reported in alphabetical order by surname or pseudonym. Deaths of non-humans are reported here if they first have their own Wikipedia article. Notable persons without an article can be listed for one month after death to prompt creation of one. A typical entry reports information in the following sequence:
- Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.
March
7
- Faole Bokoi, Papua New Guinean combatant, last known of the Fuzzy Wuzzy Angels of Kokoda Track.[1] (death announced on this date)
6
- Danny Finn, 70, British pop singer (Prima Donna, The New Seekers).[2] (death announced on this date)
- Jim Freeman, 74, American motor racetrack media relations director (Talladega, Daytona), director of the International Motorsports Hall of Fame.[3]
- Znaur Gassiev, 90, South Ossetian politician.[4] (death announced on this date)
- Kalabhavan Mani, 45, Indian actor and singer.[5]
- id, 71, Indonesian jazz guitarist, heart attack.[6]
- James Ocholi, 55, Nigerian politician, traffic collision.[7]
- Francis Pasion, 38, Filipino director (On the Wings of Love), heart attack.[8]
- Nancy Reagan, 94, American actress (The Next Voice You Hear..., Hellcats of the Navy) and First Lady (1981–1989), heart failure.[9]
- María Rostworowski, 100, Peruvian historian.[10]
5
- Hussein Aljunied, 73, Singaporean football player and coach (national team), pneumonia and heart failure.[11]
- Hassan Al-Turabi, 84, Sudanese Islamic spiritual leader, member of the National Assembly.[12]
- Antoni Asunción, 64, Spanish politician, Minister of Interior (1993–1994).[13]
- Paul Couch, 51, Australian football player (Geelong), heart attack.[14]
- Nikolaus Harnoncourt, 86, Austrian conductor and cellist (Vienna Symphony).[15]
- Alan Henry, 68, British motorsport journalist.[16] (death announced on this date)
- Joel Mareiniss, 87, American football and basketball broadcaster (Syracuse, WSYR Channel 3), Parkinson's disease.[17]
- Robert Redbird, 76, American Kiowa artist, Alzheimer's disease.[18]
- Panayiotis Tetsis, 91, Greek painter.[19]
- Ray Tomlinson, 74, American computer programmer, invented system to send first email and assigned use of @ sign, heart attack.[20]
- Al Wistert, 95, American football player (Philadelphia Eagles, Michigan Wolverines), NFL Champion (1948, 1949).[21]
4
- Taha Jabir Alalwani, 81, Iraq-born American Islamic theologian.[22]
- Harbans Amrit, 70s, Kenyan land developer, stroke.[23]
- Pirro Cuniberti, 92, Italian artist.[24]
- Bankroll Fresh, 28, American rapper, shot.[25]
- John Brooks, Baron Brooks of Tremorfa, 88, Welsh politician and boxing executive, president of the British Boxing Board of Control and Welsh Sports Hall of Fame.[26]
- Jerry Dolyn Brown, 73, American pottery artist.[27]
- Bud Collins, 86, American sports journalist.[28]
- Pat Conroy, 70, American author (The Prince of Tides, The Great Santini, The Lords of Discipline), pancreatic cancer.[29]
- Joey Feek, 40, American country singer (Joey + Rory), cervical cancer.[30]
- Vincenzo Franco, 98, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Tursi-Lagonegro (1974–1981) and Archbishop of Otranto (1981–1993).[31]
- zh, 87, Chinese actor, heart failure.[32]
- Yuri Kuznetsov, 83, Azerbaijani Soviet football player and coach (Neftchi).[33]
- Enriquito López, 60, Dominican Republic politician, member of the Senate (2000–2004).[34]
- Domenico Maselli, 82, Italian politician.[35]
- Bill Michael, 81, American football coach (UTEP, 1977–1981).[36]
- Julio Lacarte Muró, 97, Uruguayan diplomat and politician.[37]
- P. K. Nair, 82, Indian film archivist.[38]
- Ramón Palomares, 80, Venezuelan poet.[39]
- Saroop Parinda, 82, Indian comedian and actor.[40]
- Joseph Rwegasira, 81, Tanzanian diplomat, ambassador to Zambia.[41]
- P. A. Sangma, 68, Indian politician, Speaker of the Lok Sabha (1996–1998), heart attack.[42]
- Abbas Vaez-Tabasi, 80, Iranian cleric, Grand Imam of Ali al-Ridha mosque (since 1979), cancer.[43]
- tl, 82, Filipino politician, Mayor of Pasay (2007–2010), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.[44]
- Vladimir Yumin, 64, Russian Soviet wrestler, Olympic champion (1976), heart attack.[45]
- Zhou Xiaoyan, 98, Chinese vocal pedagogue and classical soprano.[46]
3
- Ralph Baruch, 92, American media mogul (Viacom).[47]
- fr, 96, Canadian actress, theatre director and cinema executive.[48]
- Per Beskow, 89, Swedish biblical scholar.[49]
- Rooney L. Bowen, 82, American politician.[50]
- Jack Buckalew, 83, American politician, member of the West Virginia Senate (1995–1998).[51]
- Berta Cáceres, 42, Honduran indigenous leader, shot.[52]
- Martin Crowe, 53, New Zealand cricketer (national team), lymphoma.[53]
- Robert Del Tufo, 82, American lawyer, New Jersey Attorney General (1990–1993).[54]
- Cyril Denis, British billionaire land developer (London Docklands) and hotelier.[55]
- Sophie Dessus, 60, French politician, member of the National Assembly for Corrèze's 1st Constituency (since 2012), cancer.[56]
- Tony Dyson, 68, British film prop designer (R2-D2).[57] (body discovered on this date)
- Gwyneth George, 95, British concert cellist and music academic.[58]
- Ashok Ghosh, 94, Indian politician, General Secretary of All India Forward Bloc (since 1946), lower respiratory tract infection.[59]
- Yves Guéna, 93, French politician, President of the Constitutional Council (2000–2004), High Commissioner of Ivory Coast (1960).[60]
- fr, 23, French racing cyclist, traffic collision.[61]
- Hayabusa, 47, Japanese professional wrestler (Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling), brain hemorrhage.[62]
- Henry R. Horsey, 91, American judge, member of the Delaware Supreme Court (1978–1994).[63]
- Gary Hutzel, 60, American visual effects designer (Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica, Spy Kids), Emmy-winner (1992, 1993).[64]
- William A. Joiner, Colombian indigenous politician, shot.[65]
- Thanat Khoman, 101, Thai politician, Foreign Minister (1959–1971).[66]
- Laura Knaperek, 60, American politician, member of the Arizona House of Representatives (1995–2006), ovarian cancer.[67]
- Natalya Krachkovskaya, 77, Russian actress (Ivan Vasilievich: Back to the Future), heart attack.[68]
- Hubert Mizell, 76, American newspaper sports journalist and editor (St. Petersburg Times, Associated Press).[69]
- de, 100, German Roman Catholic priest.[70]
- William O'Brien, 71, American police officer, Chief of Police for Miami (1998–2000), resigned after Elián González custody battle raid, throat cancer.[71]
- Tome Serafimovski, 80, Macedonian sculptor.[72]
- Kris Stefanson, 71, Canadian judge, member of the Court of Queen's Bench and Provincial Court of Manitoba.[73]
- Sarah Tait, 33, Australian rower, world champion (2005), Olympic silver medalist (2012), cervical cancer.[74]
- Jim Thistle, 61, Canadian lawyer, negotiated Atlantic Accord (1985), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.[75]
- John Thomas, 63, Welsh guitarist (Budgie).[76]
- fr, 76, Romanian politician.[77]
- Retta Ward, 62, American health official (New Mexico Department of Health).[78]
2
- Janusz Bolonek, 77, Polish Roman Catholic prelate and diplomat, Apostolic nuncio (1989–2013).[79]
- Roger Hickman, 61, Australian yachtsman, winner of the Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race (Handicap, 2014), brain cancer.[80]
- Rosemary Hinkfuss, 84, American politician, member of the Wisconsin State Assembly (1988–1994).[81]
- Prince Johann Georg of Hohenzollern, 83, German royal and art historian.[82]
- Arthur Keily, 94, British marathon runner.[83]
- Benoît Lacroix, 100, Canadian Dominican priest and historian.[84]
- Ghais Abdel Malik, 85, Egyptian Anglican prelate, Bishop of Egypt (1984–2000).[85]
- Aubrey McClendon, 56, American energy and basketball executive, CEO of Chesapeake Energy, part-owner of the Oklahoma City Thunder, traffic collision.[86]
- James Barrett McNulty, 71, American politician, Mayor of Scranton, Pennsylvania (1982–1986), cancer and cardiac disorder.[87]
- Allan Michaelsen, 68, Danish football player and coach, brain cancer.[88]
- Peng Pat, 66, Cambodian military officer and politician, member of the Senate.[89]
1
- Sam Agebi, 62, Nigerian actor.[90]
- Stuart Beck, 69, American-Palauan diplomat, Ambassador to the United Nations for Palau (2003–2013), renal cancer.[91]
- Adam Dziewonski, 79, Polish-born American geophysicist.[92]
- Ítalo Estupiñán, 64, Ecuadorian footballer.[93]
- Richard S. Frank, 84, American journal editor (National Journal), complications from an infection.[94]
- Ilir Hoti, 58, Albanian economist and banker.[95]
- Jim Kimsey, 76, American technology executive, co-founder and CEO of AOL, melanoma.[96]
- Gayle McCormick, 67, American singer (Smith), cancer.[97]
- Joseph J. McGowan, 71, American academic, President of Bellarmine University (since 1990).[98]
- Thomas R. Morley, 86, American candy executive, President and Chairman of Morley Candy Company.[99]
- Louise Plowright, 59, British actress (Mamma Mia!, EastEnders, Families), pancreatic cancer.[100]
- Georgios Tsakanikas, 81, Greek shot putter.[101]
- Tony Warren, 79, English television screenwriter and producer (Coronation Street).[102]
Earlier months
See also
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References
- ^ [1]
- ^ Kevin Finn, whose stage name was Danny Finn, died at the age of 70
- ^ Former MTSU Sports Information Officer Jim Freeman Died Sunday
- ^ Скончался патриарх югоосетинской политики Знаур Гассиев Template:Ru icon
- ^ Malayalam actor Kalabhavan Mani passes away
- ^ Legendary Jazz Musician Ireng Maulana Passes Away
- ^ Nigeria’s Minister of State for Labour, James Ocholi, dies in road crash
- ^ ‘Bwaya,’ ‘OTWOL’ director Francis Pasion found dead in QC unit
- ^ Nancy Reagan, a Stylish and Influential First Lady, Dies at 94
- ^ Falleció María Rostworowski, destacada historiadora peruana Template:Es icon
- ^ Football: Hussein, a father figure to the Lions
- ^ Sudan's opposition leader Hassan al-Turabi dies
- ^ Muere Antoni Asunción, exministro socialista del Interior, a los 64 años Template:Es icon
- ^ Paul Couch dies: Geelong Brownlow medallist suffers fatal heart attack
- ^ Austrian conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt dies aged 86
- ^ Noted Formula 1 journo dies
- ^ Joel Mareiniss, who carved out a 46-year sports media career in Syracuse, has died at 87
- ^ Robert Redbird, iconic Native American artist, dies
- ^ Πέθανε ο ζωγράφος Παναγιώτης Τέτσης Template:Gr icon
- ^ Email inventor Ray Tomlinson dies at 74
- ^ UM football legend Albert Wistert dies at 95
- ^ Dr. Taha Jabir al Alwani dead An Islamic reformist is no more
- ^ Amrit dies
- ^ Pittura: morto a Bologna Pirro Cuniberti Template:It icon
- ^ Bankroll Fresh Was Fatally Shot Outside Of Atlanta-Based Studio
- ^ Lord Jack Brooks, who laid the foundations for Cardiff's transformation, has died aged 88
- ^ Alabama pottery maker Jerry Brown dies after brief illness
- ^ Bud Collins, famed tennis historian and journalist, dies at 86
- ^ Pat Conroy dies after short battle with pancreatic cancer
- ^ Joey Feek Dead at 40
- ^ Archbishop Vincenzo Franco
- ^ 著名表演艺术家葛存壮去世 享年87岁Template:Zh icon
- ^ Умер трехкратный чемпион СССР по футболу Юрий Кузнецов Template:Ru icon
- ^ Muere ex senador PRD Enriquito López Template:Es icon
- ^ Morto l'ex deputato dell'Ulivo Domenico Maselli Template:It icon
- ^ Ex-Hog football captain dies at 81
- ^ Murió Julio Lacarte Muró Template:Es icon
- ^ Indian film archivist PK Nair passes away aged 82
- ^ Falleció el poeta Ramón Palomares Template:Es icon
- ^ Parinda of Atro-Chatro fame passes away
- ^ Magufuli mourns Ameir, Rwegasira
- ^ Former Speaker P A Sangma dies
- ^ Iranian Cleric Ayatollah Vaez Tabasi Passes Away
- ^ Former Pasay mayor Trinidad dies at 82
- ^ Олимпийский чемпион по вольной борьбе Владимир Юмин умер в возрасте 64 лет Template:Ru icon
- ^ “中国之莺”周小燕逝世Template:Zh icon
- ^ Ralph Baruch, Who Shaped Viacom’s Rise, Dies at 92
- ^ The grande dame of the Powder died
- ^ Per Beskow har avlidit Template:Se icon
- ^ Rooney L. Bowen Jr. (1933 - 2016) Obituary
- ^ Longtime public servant Col. Jack Buckalew dies at Florida home
- ^ Berta Cáceres, Indigenous Activist, Is Killed in Honduras
- ^ Martin Crowe dies in Auckland after battle with cancer
- ^ Former NJ Attorney General Robert Del Tufo Dies At 82
- ^ [2] Template:Fr
- ^ Mort de Sophie Dessus, députée de Corrèze Template:Fr icon
- ^ The creator of Star Wars droid R2-D2 has died
- ^ UK cellist Gywneth George dies aged 95 - The Strad
- ^ Veteran Forward Bloc leader Ashok Ghosh dies
- ^ Yves Guéna, ex-président du Conseil constitutionnel, est mort Template:Fr icon
- ^ Former Europcar rider Romain Guyot, 23, dies in collision with a truck in France
- ^ FMW star Hayabusa passed away at 47
- ^ Retired Del. Supreme Court Judge Dies at 91
- ^ Emmy-Winning VFX Artist Gary Hutzel Dies
- ^ William A. Joiner, Indigenous Governor in Colombia, Assassinated
- ^ Thailand's Asean co-founder Thanat Khoman dies aged 101
- ^ Former Tempe lawmaker Laura Knaperek dies after battle with ovarian cancer
- ^ Natalya Krachkovskaya dies in Moscow
- ^ Former Times sports columnist Hubert Mizell dies at 76
- ^ Theologe Franz Mußner gestorben Template:De icon
- ^ Former Miami Police Chief O'Brien dies of cancer
- ^ Umro vajar Tome Serafimovski Template:Hr icon
- ^ Manitoba Justice Kris Stefanson, 71, dies
- ^ Australian rower Sarah Tait dies aged 33
- ^ St. John's lawyer Jim Thistle dead at 61
- ^ Former BUDGIE Guitarist John Thomas Dies
- ^ A murit un fost deputat UDMR. Tokay György avea 77 de ani Template:Ro icon
- ^ SFCSO: Secretary of Health Retta Ward dead after car crash
- ^ Nie żyje arcybiskup Janusz Bolonek Template:Pl icon
- ^ Sydney to Hobart veteran Roger Hickman dies after illness
- ^ Former State Rep. Rosemary Hinkfuss dies at 84
- ^ Prinsessan Birgittas make Prins Johann Georg av Hohenzollern har avlidit Template:Sv icon
- ^ Athletics: Derby Olympian Arthur Keily dies, age 94
- ^ Le père Benoît Lacroix est mort Template:Fr icon
- ^ Statement by Archbishop Mouneer Anis on the death of Bishop Malek
- ^ Former Chesapeake CEO Aubrey McClendon has died in a car crash a day after being indicted for conspiracy
- ^ Former Scranton Mayor Jim McNulty dies
- ^ En af dansk fodbolds store profiler er død Template:Da icon
- ^ Four-Star General Peng Pat Dies at 66
- ^ One death, too many in Nollywood
- ^ Stuart J. Beck, American Champion of a Pacific Island Nation, Dies at 69
- ^ La triste scomparsa di Adam Dziewonski Template:It icon
- ^ Falleció Ítalo Estupiñán en México Template:Es icon
- ^ Richard S. Frank, who edited National Journal for two decades, dies at 84
- ^ Ndërron jetë ish-guvernatori Ilir Hoti Template:Sq icon
- ^ Popular AOL co-founder Jim Kimsey is dead at 76 and Steve Case pays tribute
- ^ Singer Gayle McCormick dies; had top-10 hits in 1969, 1971
- ^ Bellarmine president Joseph McGowan, 71, dies
- ^ Former president of Morley Candy Makers dies
- ^ Louise Plowright dies aged 59
- ^ «Φτωχότερη» η οικογένεια του στίβου, απεβίωσε ο Τσακανίκας Template:Gr icon
- ^ Coronation Street creator Warren dies