Deaths in June 2016

The following is a list of notable deaths in June 2016. For notable deaths before the current month, please see "Months".  Names under each date are reported in alphabetical order by last name or pseudonym. Deaths of non-humans are reported here also if notable.

 Each listing of a death must have a source. If no reference is included, the death notice will be removed. The following are the requirements of adding a name to the list in its order: name, age, nationality, what the person is known for, cause of death (if known) and most importantly a source.


June

1
Roger Enrico, 71, American businessman (PepsiCo, DreamWorks), heart attack.
Razak Khan, 62, Indian actor (Baadshah, Hello Brother, Akhiyon Se Goli Maare), heart attack.
Boyce F. Martin, Jr., 80, American judge, Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit (1996–2003), brain cancer.

2
 Corry Brokken, 83, Dutch singer ("Net als toen", "Voorgoed voorbij", "Heel de wereld"), Eurovision Song Contest winner (1957).
 Tom Kibble, 83, British physicist (Quantum field theory) and educator (Imperial College London).
 Yevhen Lemeshko, 86, Ukrainian football coach (national team, Dynamo Khmelnytskyi, Metalist Kharkiv, stroke.
Abderrahmane Meziani, 74, Algerian footballer (USM Alger), heart disease.
 Andrzej Niemczyk, 72, Polish volleyball player and coach (women's national team), European champion (2003, 2005), cancer.
Freddie Wadling, 64, Swedish singer-songwriter (Blue for Two).

3
Muhammad Ali, 74, American boxer, three-time WBC world heavyweight champion (1964, 1974, 1978), Olympic gold medalist (1960), septic shock.
Jocelyn Lovell, 65, Canadian cyclist, Commonwealth (1978) and Pan American Games (1971, 1975) gold medalist.
Sten Lundin, 84, Swedish motocross racer, world champion (1959, 1961).
Luis Salom, 24, Spanish motorcycle rider, road collision.
Dave Swarbrick, 75, British folk musician and singer-songwriter (Fairport Convention), emphysema. (death announced on this date)
Adolph Cornelis van Bruggen, 86, Dutch malacologist.

4
Gil Bartosh, 86, American football player and coach.
Phyllis Curtin, 94, American soprano, non-communicable disease.
Sulabha Deshpande, 79, Indian actress (Bhumika, Arvind Desai Ki Ajeeb Dastaan, Gaman).
István Halász, 64, Hungarian footballer (Tatabánya, Vasas, national team).
Antti Hyry, 84, Finnish writer.
Carmen Pereira, 79, Bissau-Guinean politician, acting President (1984).

5
Manohar Aich, 104, Indian bodybuilder.
Gianluca Buonanno, 50, Italian politician, MEP (since 2014), traffic collision.
Jerome Bruner, 100, American psychologist.
Jarbas Passarinho, 96, Brazilian politician, President of the Senate (1981–1983), Governor of Pará (1964–1966).

6
Ayaz Jani, 48, Pakistani poet and journalist, heart attack.
Viktor Korchnoi, 85, Russian-born Swiss chess player, complications from a stroke.
Steve Pisanos, 96, American air force officer, heart failure.
Theresa Saldana, 61, American actress (Raging Bull, The Commish, I Wanna Hold Your Hand).
Sir Peter Shaffer, 90, British playwright (Black Comedy, Equus, Amadeus) and screenwriter.
Kimbo Slice, 42, Bahamian-born American mixed martial artist (Bellator, UFC) and actor (Merry Christmas, Drake & Josh), heart failure.

7
Johnny Brooks, 84, English footballer (Tottenham Hotspur, Chelsea, Brentford), vascular dementia.
Amber Gurung, 78, Nepalese musician and composer (national anthem), esophageal cancer.
Thomas J. Perkins, 84, American businessman (Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers).
Sean Rooks, 46, American basketball player (Dallas Mavericks, Los Angeles Lakers, Los Angeles Clippers), and assistant coach (Philadelphia 76ers), heart disease.

8
Pierre Aubert, 89, Swiss politician, President (1983, 1987).
Stephen Keshi, 54, Nigerian football player (Anderlecht, Strasbourg) and manager (national team), heart attack.
Sascha Lewandowski, 44, German football manager (Bayer Leverkusen, Union Berlin).
Qahhor Mahkamov, 84, Tajik politician, President (1990–1991).
Marina Malfatti, 83, Italian actress (The Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave, The Red Queen Kills Seven Times, Black Killer).

9
Hamza Ali, 20, English cricketer (Hampshire), drowning.

10
Mary Feik, 92, American aviator, cancer.
Alexander Gorlov, 85, Russian mechanical engineer.
Alex Govan, 86, Scottish footballer (Plymouth Argyle, Birmingham City). (death announced on this date)
Habib, 63, Iranian singer, heart attack.
Gopal Gurung, 80, Nepali politician and author.
Gordie Howe, 88, Canadian Hall of Fame ice hockey player (Detroit Red Wings), complications from a stroke.
Mimmo Palmara, 87, Italian actor (A Fistful of Dollars, Bullets Don't Argue, For One Thousand Dollars Per Day).
Alfred Oftedal Telhaug, 81, Norwegian educationalist.
Giuseppe Virgili, 80, Italian footballer (Fiorentina, national team).

11
Rudi Altig, 79, German cyclist, winner of the 1962 Vuelta a España, world champion (1966), cancer.
Shaibu Amodu, 58, Nigerian football manager (national team), heart attack.
Asghar Bichareh, 89, Iranian photographer and actor, laryngeal cancer.
Christina Grimmie, 22, American singer-songwriter (Find Me) and talent show participant (The Voice), shot.
Bryan Robinson, 41, American football player (Chicago Bears, Cincinnati Bengals, Arizona Cardinals).
Lars Skytøen, 86, Norwegian politician, Minister of Industry (1979–1981).

12
Donald Carr, 89, English cricketer (Derbyshire, Oxford, national team).
Vladimir Dolgopolov, 54, Soviet-born Russian football player (FC Zenit Saint Petersburg).
Omar Mateen, 29, American mass shooter (2016 Orlando nightclub shooting), shot.
Alfonso Portugal, 82, Mexican footballer (national team).
George Voinovich, 79, American politician, Senator from Ohio (1999–2011), Governor of Ohio (1991–1998), Mayor of Cleveland (1980–1989).
Janet Waldo, 96, American voice actress (The Jetsons, The Flintstones, Wacky Races), brain cancer.

13
Ofelya Hambardzumyan, 91, Armenian folk singer.
Randy Jones, 72, British-born American jazz musician (Chet Baker, Dave Brubeck, Maynard Ferguson), heart failure.
Oleg Karavaychuk, 88, Soviet-born Russian composer.
Chips Moman, 79, American songwriter ("(Hey Won't You Play) Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song") and record producer (Elvis Presley, Bobby Womack), Grammy winner (1976), complications from emphysema.

14
Ronnie Claire Edwards, 83, American actress (The Waltons).
Anatoli Grishin, 76, Russian sprint canoeist, Olympic gold medalist (1964).
Ann Morgan Guilbert, 87, American actress (The Dick Van Dyke Show), cancer of unknown primary origin.
Gertrude Kerbis, 89, American architect (O'Hare International Airport), liver cancer.
Gilles Lamontagne, 97, Canadian politician, Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (1984–1990), MP (1977–1984).
Henry McCullough, 72, Northern Irish guitarist (Spooky Tooth, Paul McCartney & Wings, The Grease Band).
Gregory Rabassa, 94, American literary translator (One Hundred Years of Solitude).
Irma Roy, 84, Argentine actress (Simplemente María, Mi marido y mi novio, Alguien como usted) and politician, member of the Argentine Chamber of Deputies (1995–2005), complications from a fall.
 Robert T. Paine, 83, American ecologist (Keystone species), acute myeloid leukemia.

15
Claude Confortès, 88, French actor (War of the Buttons).
Lois Duncan, 82, American writer (I Know What You Did Last Summer, Hotel for Dogs, Who Killed My Daughter?), complications from a stroke.

16
Bill Berkson, 76, American poet and art critic, heart attack.
Jo Cox, 41, British politician, MP for Batley and Spen (since 2015), shot and stabbed.
Irving Moskowitz, 88, American businessman and philanthropist.
Pat Suggate, 94, British-born New Zealand geologist.
Jerome Teasley, 67, American drummer (Junior Walker and the All Stars), complications from lung and liver cancer.

17
Rubén Aguirre, 82, Mexican actor (El Chavo del Ocho, El Chapulín Colorado, Chespirito), complications from pneumonia.
Attrell Cordes, 46, American rhythm and blues singer (P.M. Dawn), kidney disease.
Ron Lester, 45, American actor (Varsity Blues, Popular, Good Burger), liver and kidney failure.
David Morgenthaler, 96, American businessman (Morgenthaler Ventures).

18
Paul Cox, 76, Dutch-born Australian movie director (My First Wife, A Woman's Tale, Exile), liver cancer.
William J. Livsey, 85, American army general, heart attack.
Vittorio Merloni, 83, Italian entrepreneur and industrialist, founder of Indesit Company.
Wu Jianmin, 77, Chinese diplomat, Ambassador to France and the Netherlands (1998–2003), traffic collision.

19
Nicolás García Uriburu, 78, Argentine artist and landscape architect. 
Sverre Kjelsberg, 69, Norwegian musician (The Pussycats).
Ricardo Obregón Cano, 99, Argentine politician, Governor of Córdoba (1973–1974).
Götz George, 77, German actor (Tatort).
Victor Stănculescu, 88, Romanian general and politician, Minister of National Defence.
Anton Yelchin, 27, Soviet-born American actor (Star Trek, Alpha Dog, Fright Night), blunt traumatic asphyxia.

20
Frank Chapot, 84, American equestrian, Olympic silver medalist (1960, 1972).
Benoîte Groult, 96, French journalist, writer and feminist activist.
Ernesto Maceda, 81, Filipino politician, Senate President (1996–1998), Senator (1971–1972, 1987–1998) and columnist, multiple organ failure.
Rich Olive, 66, American politician, member of the Iowa Senate (2007–2011), cancer.
Edgard Pisani, 97, French politician, philosopher and writer.
Chayito Valdez, 71, Mexican-born American folk singer and actress (Zacazonapan), complications from a cerebral hemorrhage.

21
Kunio Hatoyama, 67, Japanese politician.
Henk Hofland, 88, Dutch journalist, columnist and writer.
Al Howie, 70, Canadian long distance runner, complications from diabetes.

22
Joan Acker, 92, American sociologist.
John William Ashe, 61, Antiguan diplomat, President of the United Nations General Assembly (2013–2014), heart attack.
Vasily Bochkaryov, 67, Russian politician.
Jim Boyd, 60, American singer-songwriter.
Marc Allan Feldman, 56, American physician and politician.
David J. Hickson, 85, British organizational theorist.
Yaşar Nuri Öztürk, 71, Turkish theologian and politician, stomach cancer.
Harry Rabinowitz, 100, British music composer (Reilly, Ace of Spies) and conductor (Chariots of Fire, Cats).
Samir Roychoudhury, 82, Indian writer (Hungry Generation).
Amjad Sabri, 45, Pakistani qawwali singer, shot.

23
James Green, 71, American historian, leukemia.
Stanley Mandelstam, 87, American theoretical physicist.
Ralph Stanley, 89, American bluegrass musician and member of The Stanley Brothers, Grammy winner (2002), skin cancer.

24
Bernie Worrell, 72, American musician (Parliament-Funkadelic), lung cancer.

25
Nicole Courcel, 84, French actress (Rendezvous in July, Sundays and Cybele).
Bill Cunningham, 87, American fashion photographer (The New York Times), complications from a stroke.
Giuseppe Ferrara, 83, Italian movie director (The Moro Affair), cardiac arrest.
Bur’i Mohamed Hamza, 70s, Somali politician, injuries sustained in Hotel Naso-Hablod attack.
Patrick Mayhew, 86, Northern Irish-born British barrister and politician, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (1992-1997), complications from Parkinson's disease.
Mohapatra Nilamani Sahoo, 89, Indian writer (Akasha Patala, Abhisapta Gandharba), multiple organ failure.

26
Austin Clarke, 81, Canadian novelist (The Polished Hoe).
Barbara Goldsmith, 85, American author (Little Gloria), heart failure.
Ryan Jimmo, 34, Canadian mixed martial artist (UFC, MFC), traffic collision.
Kim Sung-min, 43, South Korean actor (Miss Mermaid, Time, The Weight), suicide by hanging.
Kavalam Narayana Panicker, 88, Indian dramatist, theatre director and poet, respiratory failure.
Rostislav Yankovsky, 86, Belarusian actor, People's Artist of the USSR (1978).

27
Elmer Cravalho, 90, American politician, Speaker of the Hawaii House of Representatives (1959–1967), Mayor of Maui (1969–1979).
Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen, 83, Danish composer, cancer.
Harry Halbreich, 85, Belgian musicologist.
Simon Ramo, 103, American engineer, businessman and author.
Mack Rice, 82, American songwriter ("Mustang Sally", "Respect Yourself") and singer, complications of Alzheimer's disease.
Bud Spencer, 86, Italian actor (They Call Me Trinity, Watch Out, We're Mad!, A Friend Is a Treasure) and Olympic swimmer.
Alvin Toffler, 87, American writer and futurist (Future Shock, The Third Wave).

28
Scotty Moore, 84, American guitarist (Elvis Presley).
Buddy Ryan, 85, American football head coach (Philadelphia Eagles, Arizona Cardinals) and defensive coordinator (Chicago Bears, Houston Oilers), cancer.
Pat Summitt, 64, American basketball coach (Tennessee Lady Volunteers), dementia.
Zurlon Tipton, 26, American football player (Indianapolis Colts), accidental gunshot wound.

29
Inocente Carreño, 96, Venezuelan composer, complications from pneumonia.
Gunnar Garbo, 92, Norwegian politician, MP (1958–1973).
Ojo Maduekwe, 71, Nigerian politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs (2007–2010).
Vasyl Slipak, 42, Ukrainian opera singer, shot.
Xu Jiatun, 100, Chinese politician and dissident, Governor of Jiangsu (1977–1979).

30
Don Friedman, 81, American jazz pianist.
Juan Habichuela, 83, Spanish flamenco guitarist.
Geoffrey Hill, 84, British poet.
Martin Lundström, 98, Swedish cross-country skier, Olympic champion (1948).
Gordon Murray, 95, British puppeteer and television producer (Trumpton, Camberwick Green, Chigley).

Months
 January
 February
 March
 April
 May
 July

Related pages
 Deaths in 2014
 Deaths in 2015

References

Other websites
 The Guardian, UK obituaries
 Obituaries, Los Angeles Times
 Obituaries, Chicago Tribune
 The New York Times, US obituaries
 The Sydney Morning Herald, Australian obituaries
 The Telegraph obituaries

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June 2016 events