2016

For the number, see 2016 (number).

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.

From top 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

This article is about the year 2016. For the number, see 2016 (number). For other uses, see 2016 (disambiguation).

Millennium:	3rd millennium
Centuries:	20th century 21st century 22nd century
Decades:	1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s 2030s
Years:	2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019

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

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2016 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	2016 MMXVI
Ab urbe condita	2769
Armenian calendar	1465 ԹՎ ՌՆԿԵ
Assyrian calendar	6766
Baháʼí calendar	172–173
Balinese saka calendar	1937–1938
Bengali calendar	1423
Berber calendar	2966
British Regnal year	64 Eliz. 2 – 65 Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar	2560
Burmese calendar	1378
Byzantine calendar	7524–7525
Chinese calendar	乙未年 (Wood Goat) 4712 or 4652     — to — 丙申年 (Fire Monkey) 4713 or 4653
Coptic calendar	1732–1733
Discordian calendar	3182
Ethiopian calendar	2008–2009
Hebrew calendar	5776–5777
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	2072–2073
- Shaka Samvat	1937–1938
- Kali Yuga	5116–5117
Holocene calendar	12016
Igbo calendar	1016–1017
Iranian calendar	1394–1395
Islamic calendar	1437–1438
Japanese calendar	Heisei 28 (平成２８年)
Javanese calendar	1949–1950
Juche calendar	105
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar	4349
Minguo calendar	ROC 105 民國105年
Nanakshahi calendar	548
Thai solar calendar	2559
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 time	1451606400 – 1483228799

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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]

2016 marked the deaths of famous musicians including David Bowie, Prince, and George Michael, as well as prominent world leaders including Shimon Peres, Bhumibol Adulyadej, and Fidel Castro.

2016 was declared the "hottest year on record" by various media outlets including NASA,^[3] and NOAA.^[4]

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.^[5]
• 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.^[6]
• 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.^[7]
  • 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.^[8]
• January 28 – The World Health Organization announces an outbreak of the Zika virus.^[9]

February

• February 7 – North Korea launches a reconnaissance satellite named Kwangmyŏngsŏng-4 into space, it is condemned internationally as a long-range ballistic missile test.^[10]
• February 12 – Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill sign an Ecumenical Declaration in the first such meeting between leaders of the Catholic and Russian Orthodox Churches since their schism in 1054.^[11]

March

• March 14 – The ESA and Roscosmos launch the joint ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter on a mission to Mars.^[12]
• March 21
  • The International Criminal Court finds former Congolese Vice President Jean-Pierre Bemba guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity, the first time the ICC convicted someone of sexual violence.^[13]
  • Barack Obama visits Cuba, marking the first time a sitting US president has visited the island nation since president Calvin Coolidge visited in 1928.^[14]
• March 22 – 2016 Brussels bombings: Suicide bombing attacks at Brussels' Zaventem airport and Maalbeek metro station kill 35 people and injure 300 more.
• March 24 – Ex-Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadžić is sentenced to 40 years in prison after being found guilty of genocide and crimes against humanity committed during the Bosnian War.^[15]

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.^[16]
• 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.^[17]

May

• May 9 – Rodrigo Duterte is elected the President of the Philippines.
• May 10–14 – The Eurovision Song Contest 2016 is held in Stockholm, Sweden, and is won by Ukrainian entrant Jamala with the song "1944".
• May 19 – EgyptAir Flight 804 crashes into the Mediterranean Sea en route from Paris to Cairo, killing all 66 people on board.^[18]
• May 20 – Tsai Ing-wen is sworn in as the President of the Republic of China (Taiwan).^[19]
• May 28 - Harambe was shot and killed at the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden and becoming a meme.
• May 30 – Former Chadian President Hissène Habré is sentenced to life in prison for crimes against humanity committed during his tenure from 1982 to 1990, the first time an African Union-backed court convicted a former ruler of a country within its jurisdiction.^[20]

June

• June 1 – The Gotthard Base Tunnel, the world's longest and deepest railway tunnel, is opened following two decades of construction work.^[21]
• June 10 – July 10 – France hosts the UEFA Euro 2016 football tournament, which is won by Portugal.^[22]
• June 12 – A gunman claiming allegiance to the Islamic State opens fire at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, killing 49 people and injuring 53 others.^[23]
• June 23 – The United Kingdom votes in a referendum to leave the European Union.^[24]
• June 28 – 2016 Atatürk Airport attack: ISIL is suspected to be responsible for attacking Atatürk Airport in Istanbul, Turkey, killing 45 people and injuring around 230 others.^[25]

July

• July 1 – Latvia becomes the 35th member of the OECD.^[26]
• July 2 – 2016 Australian federal election: Malcolm Turnbull's Liberal/National Coalition Government is narrowly re-elected,^[27] defeating the Labor Party led by Bill Shorten.^[28]
• July 5 – NASA's Juno spacecraft enters orbit around Jupiter and begins a 20-month survey of the planet.^[29]
• July 6 – The augmented reality mobile game Pokémon Go is released, breaking numerous records in terms of sales and revenue.^[30]
• 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.^[31][32]
• 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.^[33]
• 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.^[34]
• July 22 – The final videocassette recorder is manufactured by the Japanese company Funai.^[35]
• July 26 – Swiss Solar Impulse 2 becomes the first solar-powered aircraft to circumnavigate the Earth.^[36]

August

 

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• August 5–21 – The 2016 Summer Olympics are held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the first time in South America.^[37]
• August 24 – A 6.2 earthquake hits central Italy, killing 299 people.
• August 31 – The Brazilian Senate votes (61–20) to impeach the President of Brazil Dilma Rousseff. The Vice President of Brazil, Michel Temer, who had assumed the presidential powers and duties as Acting President of Brazil during Rousseff's suspension, takes office for the remainder of her term.^[38]

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.^[39]

• 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.^[40][41]
• 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".^[42]
• 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.^[43]
  • Global CO₂ levels exceed 400 ppm at the time of year normally associated with minimum levels.^[44] A 400 ppm level is believed to be higher than anything experienced in human history.^[45]
• 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.^[46]

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 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

• November 1 – The number of people globally using mobile devices to access the internet overtook those using desktop computers for the first time, having been preceded by the U.S. two years prior^{[49][50][51][52][53][54]}
• November 2 – The Chicago Cubs win the World Series for the first time since 1908, ending the longest championship drought in North American sports history.^[55]
• November 6 – The Government of India announced the demonetisation of certain banknotes, causing prolonged cash shortages in the weeks that followed and significant disruption throughout the economy.^[56][57]
• November 8 – 2016 United States presidential election: Businessman and television personality Donald Trump is elected the 45th President of the United States in a surprise victory against his opponent, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.^[58]
• November 18 – The remains of Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos are buried in a private ceremony at the Libingan ng mga Bayani prompting protests throughout the Philippines.^[59][60]
• November 24 – The Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia—People's Army sign a revised peace deal, slowing the Colombian conflict.^[61]
• November 28 – LaMia Flight 2933 crashes into a mountain near Medellín, Colombia, killing 71 of the 77 people on board, including members of the Brazilian Chapecoense football squad.

December

• December 4 – A constitutional referendum is held in Italy, resulting in the resignation of the Prime Minister.
• December 19
  • Andrei Karlov, the Russian ambassador to Turkey, is assassinated by an off-duty Turkish police officer at an art exhibition in Ankara.^[62]
  • Berlin truck attack: A truck is deliberately driven into the Christmas market next to the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church at Breitscheidplatz in Berlin, leaving 12 people dead and 56 others injured.
• December 22 – A study finds the VSV-EBOV vaccine against the Ebola virus between 70 and 100% effective, and thus making it the first proven vaccine against the disease.^[63]
• December 23 – The United Nations Security Council adopts Resolution 2334 condemning "Israeli settlements in Palestinian territories occupied since 1967".^[64]
• December 25 – 2016 Russian Defence Ministry Tupolev Tu-154 crash: A Tupolev Tu-154 jetliner of the Russian Defence Ministry crashes into the Black Sea shortly after taking off from Sochi International Airport, Russia, while en route to Khmeimim Air Base, Syria. All 92 people on board, including 64 members of the Alexandrov Ensemble choir of the Russian Armed Forces, are killed.^[65]
• December 31 – Withdrawal of the majority of U.S. troops from Afghanistan after 15 years of war.^[66]

General

• Pemon conflict in Venezuela.^[67][68][69]

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

Further information: Category:2016 deaths

 

Vilmos Zsigmond

 

Ashraf Pahlavi

 

David Bowie

 

Alan Rickman

 

Boutros Boutros-Ghali

 

Umberto Eco

 

Harper Lee

 

Sir George Martin

 

Anker Jørgensen

 

Johan Cruyff

 

Patty Duke

 

Merle Haggard

 

Doris Roberts

 

Patricio Aylwin

 

Chyna

 

Prince

 

Banharn Silpa-archa

 

Nick Lashaway

 

Marco Pannella

 

Bata Živojinović

 

Yang Jiang

 

Mohamed Abdelaziz

 

Muhammad Ali

 

Gordie Howe

 

Rubén Aguirre

 

Anton Yelchin

 

Bud Spencer

 

Alvin Toffler

 

Elie Wiesel

 

Zygmunt Zimowski

 

Garry Marshall

 

Ursula Franklin

 

Piet de Jong

 

Fazil Iskander

 

Anne of Romania

 

Françoise Mallet-Joris

 

Mohammad Ali Samatar

 

Walter Scheel

 

Gene Wilder

 

Islam Karimov

 

Phyllis Schlafly

 

Carlo Azeglio Ciampi

 

Arnold Palmer

 

Shimon Peres

 

Miriam Defensor Santiago

 

Andrzej Wajda

 

Dario Fo

 

Bhumibol Adulyadej

 

Kigeli V Ndahindurwa

 

Leonard Cohen

 

Lupita Tovar

 

Sixto Durán Ballén

 

Konstantinos Stephanopoulos

 

Florence Henderson

 

Fidel Castro

 

Luis Alberto Monge

 

John Glenn

 

Thomas Schelling

 

Alan Thicke

 

Zsa Zsa Gabor

 

Andrei Karlov

 

George Michael

 

Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds

January

Main article: Deaths in January 2016

• January 1 – Vilmos Zsigmond, Hungarian-American cinematographer (b. 1930)
• January 2 – Nimr al-Nimr, Saudi Shia religious leader (b. 1959)
• January 3
  • Paul Bley, Canadian pianist (b. 1932)
  • Peter Naur, Danish computer scientist (b. 1928)
• January 4 – Michel Galabru, French actor (b. 1922)
• January 5 – Pierre Boulez, French composer, conductor and writer (b. 1925)
• January 6 – Silvana Pampanini, Italian actress (b. 1925)
• January 7
  • André Courrèges, French fashion designer (b. 1923)
  • Ashraf Pahlavi, twin sister of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (b. 1919)
• January 8
  • Otis Clay, American soul singer (b. 1942)
  • Maria Teresa de Filippis, Italian racing driver (b. 1926)
• January 10
  • David Bowie, English singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1947)
  • Yusuf Zuayyin, 51st and 53rd Prime Minister of Syria (b. 1931)
  • Michael Galeota, American actor (b. 1984)
• January 11 – Monte Irvin, American baseball player (b. 1919)
• January 14
  • René Angélil, Canadian singer and manager (b. 1942)
  • Alan Rickman, English actor and director (b. 1946)^[70]
• January 18
  • Glenn Frey, American musician (b. 1948)
  • Michel Tournier, French writer (b. 1924)
• January 19 – Ettore Scola, Italian screenwriter and film director (b. 1931)
• January 23 – Jimmy Bain, Scottish musician (b. 1947)
• January 24 – Marvin Minsky, American computer scientist (b. 1927)
• January 26
  • Black, English singer-songwriter (b. 1962)
  • Abe Vigoda, American actor (b. 1921)
• January 28 – Paul Kantner, American singer and musician (b. 1941)
• January 29
  • Jean-Marie Doré, 11th Prime Minister of Guinea (b. 1938)
  • Jacques Rivette, French film director and critic (b. 1928)
• January 30
  • Frank Finlay, English actor (b. 1926)
  • Francisco Flores Pérez, President of El Salvador (b. 1959)
• January 31 – Terry Wogan, Irish broadcaster (b. 1938)^[71]

February

Main article: Deaths in February 2016

• February 1 – Óscar Humberto Mejía Victores, 27th President of Guatemala (b. 1930)
• February 3 – Joe Alaskey, American voice actor (b. 1952)
• February 4
  • Edgar Mitchell, American astronaut (b. 1930)
  • Maurice White, American singer-songwriter (b. 1941)
• February 6 – Eddy Wally, Belgian schlager singer (b. 1932)
• February 8 – Amelia Bence, Argentine actress (b. 1914)
• February 9 – Sushil Koirala, 37th Prime Minister of Nepal (b. 1939)
• February 13
  • Trifon Ivanov, Bulgarian footballer (b. 1965)
  • Slobodan Santrač, Serbian football player and manager (b. 1946)
• February 15
  • Vanity, Canadian singer and actress (b. 1959)
  • George Gaynes, Finnish-born American actor (b. 1917)
• February 16 – Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Egyptian politician and diplomat, Secretary-General of the United Nations (b. 1922)
• February 17
  • Mohamed Hassanein Heikal, Egyptian journalist (b. 1923)
  • Andrzej Żuławski, Polish film director and writer (b. 1940)
• February 19
  • Umberto Eco, Italian writer and philosopher (b. 1932)
  • Harper Lee, American writer (b. 1926)
• February 22
  • Sonny James, American country singer (b. 1928)
  • Douglas Slocombe, British cinematographer (b. 1913)
• February 23 – Donald E. Williams, American astronaut (b. 1942)
• February 24 – Peter Kenilorea, 1st Prime Minister of the Solomon Islands (b. 1943)
• February 28
  • George Kennedy, American actor (b. 1925)
  • Frank Kelly, Irish actor (b. 1938)
• February 29 – Hannes Löhr, German footballer (b. 1942)

March

Main article: Deaths in March 2016

• March 2 – Berta Cáceres, Honduran environmental activist and indigenous leader (b. 1971)
• March 5
  • Hassan Al-Turabi, Sudanese spiritual leader (b. 1932)
  • Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Austrian conductor (b. 1929)
  • Ray Tomlinson, American computer programmer (b. 1941)
• March 6 – Nancy Reagan, American actress, First Lady of the United States (b. 1921)^[72]
• March 8
  • Sir George Martin, English record producer, composer, arranger and engineer (b. 1926)
  • Claus Ogerman, German conductor and composer (b. 1930)
• March 9 – Naná Vasconcelos, Brazilian jazz percussionist and vocalist (b. 1944)
• March 10
  • Anita Brookner, English novelist (b. 1928)^[73]
  • Keith Emerson, British musician (b. 1944)
  • Roberto Perfumo, Argentine footballer and sport commentator (b. 1942)
• March 11 – Ben Bagdikian, Armenian-American journalist, critic and political commentator (b. 1920)^[74]
• March 12 – Lloyd Shapley, American Nobel mathematician (b. 1923)
• March 13 – Hilary Putnam, American philosopher, mathematician and computer scientist (b. 1926)
• March 14 – Peter Maxwell Davies, English composer and conductor (b. 1934)
• March 17 – Meir Dagan, Israeli general and former Director of Mossad (b. 1945)
• March 18 – Guido Westerwelle, German politician, Vice-Chancellor of Germany (b. 1961)
• March 20 – Anker Jørgensen, Prime Minister of Denmark (b. 1922)
• March 21 – Andrew Grove, Hungarian-American electronic executive (b. 1936)
• March 23 – Ken Howard, American actor (b. 1944)
• March 24
  • Roger Cicero, German jazz and pop musician (b. 1970)
  • Johan Cruyff, Dutch footballer and manager (b. 1947)
  • Garry Shandling, American actor and comedian (b. 1949)
• March 26 – Raúl Cárdenas, Mexican footballer and coach (b. 1928)
• March 29 – Patty Duke, American actress (b. 1946)
• March 31
  • Ronnie Corbett, Scottish comedian (b. 1930)
  • Georges Cottier, Swiss cardinal (b. 1922)
  • Hans-Dietrich Genscher, German politician, Vice-Chancellor of Germany (b. 1927)
  • Zaha Hadid, Iraqi-British architect (b. 1950)
  • Imre Kertész, Hungarian Nobel author (b. 1929)

April

Main article: Deaths in April 2016

• 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

Main article: Deaths in May 2016

• 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

Main article: Deaths in June 2016

• 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
  • Christina Grimmie, American singer (b. 1994)
  • Gordie Howe, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1928)
• June 11 – Rudi Altig, German road racing cyclist (b. 1937)
• June 12
  • Omar Mateen, American mass murderer (b. 1986)
  • George Voinovich, American politician (b. 1936)
  • Janet Waldo, American actress (b. 1919)
• 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)^[75]
• 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

Main article: Deaths in July 2016

• 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

Main article: Deaths in August 2016

• August 1 – Anne of Romania, French-born consort of former King Michael I 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
  • S. R. Nathan, 6th President of Singapore (b. 1924)
  • Toots Thielemans, Belgian jazz musician (b. 1922)
• 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
  • Michel Butor, French writer (b. 1926)
  • Walter Scheel, 8th President of the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) (b. 1919)
  • Roger Y. Tsien, American Nobel biologist (b. 1952)
• 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

Main article: Deaths in September 2016

• September 1 – Jon Polito, American actor (b. 1950)
• September 2
  • Islam Karimov, 1st President of Uzbekistan (b. 1938)
  • Daniel Willems, Belgian cyclist (b. 1956)
• 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

Main article: Deaths in October 2016

• October 1 – David Herd, Scottish footballer (b. 1934)
• October 2 – Neville Marriner, British conductor (b. 1924)
• October 4 – Brigitte Hamann, German-Austrian historian and author (b. 1940)
• October 5 – Michal Kováč, 1st President of Slovakia (b. 1930)
• October 8
  • Gary Dubin, American actor and voice actor (b. 1959)
  • Stylianos Pattakos, Greek military officer (b. 1912)
• October 9
  • Mamadou Dembelé, 3rd Prime Minister of Mali (b. 1934)
  • Andrzej Wajda, Polish film director (b. 1926)
• October 11 – Teatao Teannaki, 2nd President of Kiribati (b. 1936)
• October 12 – Thomas Mikal Ford, American actor and comedian (b. 1964)
• October 13
  • Bhumibol Adulyadej (Rama IX), King of Thailand (b. 1927)
  • Dario Fo, Italian actor, Nobel playwright and comedian (b. 1926)
• October 14 – Klim Churyumov, Soviet-Ukrainian astronomer (b. 1937)
• October 16
  • Kigeli V, King of Rwanda (b. 1936)
  • Viktor Zubkov, Russian basketball player (b. 1937)
• October 20 – Junko Tabei, Japanese mountaineer (b. 1939)^[76]
• October 23 – Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani, Emir of Qatar (b. 1932)
• October 24
  • Jorge Batlle, 38th President of Uruguay (b. 1927)^[77]
  • Bobby Vee, American pop singer (b. 1943)^[78]
• October 25 – Carlos Alberto Torres, Brazilian footballer (b. 1944)
• October 27 – Takahito, Prince Mikasa (b. 1915)^[79]
• October 28 – Nicholas Brathwaite, 3rd Prime Minister of Grenada (b. 1925)
• October 29
  • Roland Dyens, French classical guitarist and composer (b. 1955)
  • Pen Sovan, 32nd Prime Minister of Cambodia (b. 1936)
• October 31 – Silvio Gazzaniga, Italian sculptor (b. 1921)

November

Main article: Deaths in November 2016

• 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
  • Leonard Cohen, Canadian singer, songwriter and poet (b. 1934)
  • Janet Reno, American lawyer, U.S. Attorney General (b. 1938)
• 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

Main article: Deaths in December 2016

• December 2 – Sammy Lee, American Olympic diver (b. 1920)
• December 4 – Gotlib, French comic artist (b. 1934)
• December 5
  • Geydar Dzhemal, Russian Islamic philosopher (b. 1947)
  • Jayalalithaa Jayaram, Indian politician (b. 1948)
• December 6 – Peter Vaughan, British actor (b. 1923)
• December 7
  • Junaid Jamshed, Pakistani recording artist (b. 1964)
  • Paul Elvstrøm, Danish Olympic yachtsman (b. 1928)
  • Greg Lake, British musician (b. 1947)
• December 8
  • John Glenn, American aviator, astronaut and politician (b. 1921)
  • Joseph Mascolo, American actor (b. 1929)
• December 10 – Esma Redžepova, Macedonian-Romani singer (b. 1943)
• December 12
  • E. R. Braithwaite, Guyanese-born British-American novelist, writer, teacher, and diplomat (b. 1912)
  • Javier Echevarría Rodríguez, Spanish bishop (b. 1932)
• December 13
  • Thomas Schelling, American Nobel economist (b. 1921)
  • Alan Thicke, Canadian actor and songwriter (b. 1947)
• December 14
  • Paulo Evaristo Arns, Brazilian prelate (b. 1921)
  • Bernard Fox, Welsh actor (b. 1927)
• December 16 – Faina Melnik, Ukrainian-born Russian Olympic discus thrower (b. 1945)
• December 17 – Henry Heimlich, American physician (b. 1920)
• December 18 – Zsa Zsa Gabor, Hungarian-American actress and socialite (b. 1917)
• December 19 – Andrei Karlov, Russian diplomat (b. 1954)
• December 20 – Michèle Morgan, French actress (b. 1920)
• December 22 – Miruts Yifter, Ethiopian long-distance runner (b. 1944)
• December 23
  • Heinrich Schiff, Austrian cellist (b. 1951)
  • Piers Sellers, British-American astronaut and meteorologist (b. 1955)
  • Vesna Vulović, Serbian air disaster survivor (b. 1950)
• December 24
  • Richard Adams, British author (b. 1920)
  • Rick Parfitt, British musician (b. 1948)
  • Liz Smith, British actress (b. 1921)
• December 25
  • George Michael, British singer (b. 1963)
  • Vera Rubin, American astronomer (b. 1928)
• December 26 – Ashot Anastasian, Armenian chess grandmaster (b. 1964)
• December 27
  • Carrie Fisher, American actress and writer (b. 1956)
  • Ratnasiri Wickremanayake, 12th Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (b. 1933)
• December 28
  • Gregorio Conrado Álvarez, President of Uruguay (b. 1925)
  • Michel Déon, French writer (b. 1919)
  • Debbie Reynolds, American actress, dancer, and singer (b. 1932)
• December 29
  • Néstor Gonçalves, Uruguayan footballer (b. 1936)
  • Ferdinand Kübler, Swiss racing cyclist (b. 1919)
• December 30 – Tyrus Wong, Chinese-born American artist (b. 1910)
• December 31 – Henning Christophersen, Danish politician (b. 1939)

Nobel Prizes

 

• Chemistry – Ben Feringa, Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Fraser Stoddart
• Economics – Oliver Hart, Bengt R. Holmström
• Literature – Bob Dylan
• Peace – Juan Manuel Santos
• Physics – John M. Kosterlitz, Duncan Haldane, David J. Thouless
• Physiology or Medicine – Yoshinori Ohsumi

New English words

• dark kitchen
• moscovium
• nihonium
• oganesson
• tennessine

See also

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

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