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Franklin Edvard Denholm (November 29, 1923 – April 7, 2016) was an American politician. He was a member of the United States House of Representatives from South Dakota. He served in congress from 1971 through 1975. He was born in Scotland Township of Day County, South Dakota. Denholm died on April 7, 2016, at the age of 92 in Brookings, South Dakota.
Carlo Monti (24 March 1920 – 7 April 2016) was an Italian athlete. He competed mainly in the 100 metres. He won two medals, one individual and one relay, in international athletics competitions. Monte competed for an Italy in the 1948 Summer Olympics held in London, Great Britain in the 4 x 100 metre relay where he won the bronze medal with his team mates Michele Tito, Enrico Perucconi and Antonio Siddi. In 1946 in the European Championships Monti won the bronze medal in the 100 metres.
Richard Herbert Alban (January 17, 1929 – April 8, 2016) was an American football defensive back. He played eight seasons for the Washington Redskins and Pittsburgh Steelers in the National Football League (NFL). Alban played college football at Northwestern University, where he was used at halfback and on defense. Alban was drafted in the ninth round of the 1952 NFL Draft and started all 12 games for the Redskins his rookie year. His best season came in 1954, where he finished second in the league in interceptions with nine and was selected to his only Pro Bowl. He was traded to the Steelers in 1956 and retired after the 1959 campaign.
Edward Malcolm Snider (January 6, 1933 – April 11, 2016), known as Ed Snider, was an American sportsperson. He was the chairman of Comcast Spectacor, a Philadelphia-based sports and entertainment company. He formerly owned the Philadelphia 76ers of the National Basketball Association. Snider died in Montecito, California from bladder cancer on April 11, 2016, aged 83.
Choix des plus belles fleurs ('Selection of the most beautiful flowers') is a book of watercolour paintings by French botanical artist Pierre-Joseph Redouté (10 July 1759 – 19 June 1840). The full title is "Choix des plus belles fleurs et de quelques branches des plus beaux fruits. Dédié à LL. AA. RR. les princesses Louise et Marie d'Orléans (1827)" in French. English translation of the title is: "Selection of the most beautiful flowers and some branches of the finest fruits". A folio edition with colour pages was printed in Paris in 1827. From May 1827 to June 1833, 144 special pages with pictures were printed. The work was in 36 parts. Each part had four pictures of flowers, flowering trees, or fruit. Printing colour images. The printing method for such works in the 18th and early 19th century was engraving on copperplate. It is a form of intaglio printing.  Different colours could be got by running the plates through once for each colour, so building up the final picture. Fine colour works could also be hand-coloured by teams of women who were experts at the job. What this means is that every illustration in a book was coloured by hand. They had the artist's original in front of their eyes as they worked. The copper engraving gave the outline and any other black lines or areas. In 1796, Redouté used a way to make prints which used both these methods. First, an engraver made an engraving from the painting, with small dots instead of lines. Then the colours were put on the engraved plate before each printing. After printing, each print was finished by hand with more colour. Redouté claimed to have invented this method. He was challenged in the courts, but he won the case.
Nera D. White (November 15, 1935 – April 13, 2016) was an American basketball player. White played in the AAU national tournaments for the Nashville Business College team. Later, she led the United States national women's basketball team to their victory in the 1957 FIBA World Championship.  Career and recognitions. Throughout her career, she was honored many times and won many awards. She is in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame and the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame. White played at a time when there were no major professional women's basketball leagues in the U.S. She was called one of the greatest female basketball players in history. Talented in multiple sports, she also was distinguished as an All-World player by the Amateur Softball Association. White died on April 13, 2016 at a hospital in Gallatin, Tennessee from complications of pneumonia, at the age of 80.
Mircea Albulescu (; real name Iorgu Constantin Albulescu; 4 October 1934 – 8 April 2016) was a Romanian actor, university professor (Doctor of Arts), journalist, poet, and writer. He was a member of the Writers' Union of Romania ("Uniunea Scriitorilor"). He was known for his roles in "Michael the Brave", "Capcana mercenarilor", and "Semne în pustiu". He was born in Bucharest. He graduated from the Secondary School of Architecture in 1952, and in 1956 he graduated from the Institute of Theatrical and Cinematographic Art in Bucharest. Albulescu died on 8 April 2016 in Bucharest, Romania from heart failure, aged 81.
Wei Chueh (, 1928 – April 8, 2016) was a Chinese bhikkhu (Buddhist monk) in Taiwan. He was the founder of the Chung Tai Shan monastery and Buddhist order. Wei Chueh is often credited for reviving the traditional teachings of Chan Buddhism. Chueh was born in 1928 in Xikang (modern Sichuan).  Chueh died at the age of 88 on April 8, 2016.
Anne Gould Hauberg (November 13, 1917 – April 11, 2016) was an American civic activist, philanthropist and patroness of the arts. She was born in Seattle, Washington. Hauberg's philanthropic career began when two of her three children proved to be mentally disabled. The Haubergs gave funds for the creation of the Pilot School for Neurologically Impaired Children which opened in 1960. In 2007, the University of Washington Libraries' Artist Images Award was renamed the Anne Gould Hauberg Artist Images Award in her honor. Hauberg died on April 11, 2016 in Seattle, Washington at the age of 98.
Hans Koschnick (2 April 1929 in Bremen – 21 April 2016 in Bremen) was a German politician and elder statesman. He was a member of the SPD. He was the 4th President of the Senate and Mayor of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen from 1967 to 1985. He was the 22nd and 33rd President of the Bundesrat in 1970/71 and 1981/82. He served as a member of the Bundestag, the German federal parliament, from 1987 to 1998. Between 1994 and 1996, Koschnick was the EU administrator of Mostar. Koschnick died from complications of pneumonia, aged 87.
Guy Hamilton (16 September 1922 – 20 April 2016) was an English movie director. He directed 22 movies from the 1950s to the 1980s, including four James Bond movies first being "Goldfinger" (1964).  He also directed 'An Inspector Calls' (1954), with Alastair Sim, the musical comedy "Charley Moon" (1956) "Manuela" (1957), and "Battle of Britain" (1969). In the late 1980s, Hamilton was also asked to direct "Batman" (1989), but declined. Hamilton died at the age of 93 on 20 April 2016 at his home in Majorca, Spain.
Anne Grommerch (11 December 1970 – 15 April 2016) was a French politician. She was a member of the National Assembly of France. She was born in Thionville. She represented the Moselle department, and was a member of the Union for a Popular Movement. She replaced Jean-Marie Demange. Grommerch was also elected Mayor of Thionville in 2014.  Grommerch developed breast cancer in 2007. She died as a result of the disease on 15 April 2016 at the age of 45.
Estelle Balet (19 December 1994 – 19 April 2016) was a Swiss freeride snowboarder and two-time world champion in 2015 and 2016 at the Freeride World Tour.  Balet started skiing early in her childhood. At the age of ten she transitioned from skiing to snowboarding. Balet specialized particularly in switch, frontside 180, frontside 360 and jib. In 2015, Balet became the youngest ever Freeride World Tour champion when she won the women's snowboarding event. She won the same event in 2016. On 19 April 2016, Balet died in an avalanche while snowboarding in Orsières. She was filming a snowboard segment for a film called "Exploring the Known" on Le Portalet in southwestern Switzerland. Despite swift action from emergency services and attendance from Air Glaciers, she died from her injuries.
Ronit Elkabetz (27 November 1964 – 19 April 2016) was an Israeli actress and movie director. She worked in both Israeli and French cinema. She won three Ophir Awards and received a total of seven nominations. She was born in Beersheba. In 1994 she starred in "Sh'Chur". In 2008 she and Shlomi finished their second movie, "Shiva" ("Seven Days"), which won the Wolgin Award for Best Feature Film at the 2008 Jerusalem Film Festival. She died of lung cancer on 19 April 2016, aged 51.
Mehrdad Oladi (, May 25, 1985 – April 19, 2016) was an Iranian footballer. He recently played for Malavan in the Iran Pro League. He usually played in the striker position. He joined Malavan in the summer of 2009. Alongside Pejman Nouri, they had two great seasons with Malavan, reaching the final of the Hazfi Cup. He was the top scorer for Malavan with 15 goals in the 2010–11 season. In four games played in the Hazfi Cup, he scored five times. He joined Esteghlal on 11 November 2013, with a one and half year contract. Oladi was released by Esteghlal in June 2014 and signed a contract with Malavan.
Duane Ramsdell "Dewey" Clarridge (April 16, 1932 – April 9, 2016) was an American senior operations officer for the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and supervisor for more than 30 years. Clarridge was the chief of the Latin American division from 1981 to 1987 and a key figure in the Iran-Contra Affair. Clarridge died at the age of 83, a week short of his 84th birthday in Leesburg, Virginia on April 9, 2016 from complications of esophageal cancer.
Anthony Schmaltz "Tony" Conrad (March 7, 1940 – April 9, 2016) was an American avant-garde video artist, experimental filmmaker, musician, composer, sound artist, teacher and writer. His career began in the early 1960s. He was a pioneer of both structural movie and drone music. Support for Conrad's work came from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, the State University of New York, The Rockefeller Foundation, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. Conrad had been a faculty member in the State University of New York at Buffalo since 1976. He continued to teach there in the Department of Media Study as well as work on many notable B&amp;W film image projects with Princess G. St. Mary until his death in 2016. Conrad died in Cheektowaga, New York on April 9, 2016 at age 76 after fighting prostate cancer.
Juris Ekmanis, (2 December 1941 – 9 April 2016) was a Latvian educator and physicist. He was the President of Latvian Academy of Sciences from 2004 through 2012. He was appointed Junior Research Associate at the Riga Polytechnical Institute from 1961 to 1986, and Professor from 1986 to 1994. He was visiting professor at Cornell University (Ithaca), Iowa State University (Ames), University of California, Berkeley, USA in 1974 and at Manchester University in 1993. In 1976 he became a Visiting Scientist at McGill University (Montreal). In 1990 he became the Director of the Institute of the Physical Energetics at the Latvian Academy of Sciences. Ekmanis died of complications from a stroke in Riga, Latvia on 9 April 2016, aged 74.
William Raymond Smith III (July 4, 1981 – April 9, 2016) was an American football defensive end in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for Ohio State and was drafted by the New Orleans Saints in the first round of the 2004 NFL draft, where he played for the entirety of his career. Smith was shot and killed in New Orleans, Louisiana by Cardell Hayes after he crashed into Hayes's car. Smith was with his wife who was also injured. Smith was 34 years old.
Milton Steven "Milt" Pappas (May 11, 1939 – April 19, 2016) was an American professional baseball pitcher. Pappas, nicknamed "Gimpy", pitched for the Baltimore Orioles (1957–1965), Cincinnati Reds (1966–1968), Atlanta Braves (1968–1970) and Chicago Cubs (1970–1973). Pappas was born to Greek parents in Detroit, Michigan, and his birth name was Miltiades Stergios Papastergios. Pappas pitched in 520 games, starting 465, with 209 wins, 164 losses, 43 shutouts, 1,728 strikeouts and a 3.40 ERA in 3,186 innings pitched. Pappas died of natural causes on April 19, 2016 in Beecher, Illinois, aged 76.
Billy Redmayne (6 February 1991 – 19 April 2016) was a Manx soldier and motorcycle racer. was a Manx soldier and motorcycle racer. He was born Laxey. He served in the Parachute Regiment in the War in Afghanistan. By 2013 he was able to devote all of his time to racing. He won the Newcomers Manx Grand Prix in 2014 and the Junior Manx Grand Prix a year later. On 17 April 2016 he was hit from behind by another competitor in a crash at the Oliver's Mount Spring Cup in Scarborough, North Yorkshire. He was airlifted to James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough. His brain injuries were too severe for him to recover, and his partner and family made a decision for his life support to be switched off and his organs donated. He died two days after the accident on 19 April at the age of 25.
Louis I. Gladstone (May 22, 1927 – April 10, 2016) was an American politician. He was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Gladstone served on the City Council of Bridgeport, first elected in 1955, serving as minority leader. He was elected to the state senate in 1958 while still serving on the Common Council, as president. In the state senate, he served on the Public Utilities Commission and Cities, Boroughs, Roads and Bridges Committee. During his time in the state senate he also served a term as majority leader. Gladstone also served as Comptroller of Connecticut from 1967 to 1970. Gladstone died in Bridgeport, Connecticut on April 10, 2016 at the age of 88.
Dennis Howard Marks (13 August 1945 – 10 April 2016) was a Welsh drug smuggler turned author. He was known as an international cannabis smuggler through high-profile court cases. At his peak he smuggled as much as 30 tons, and was connected with groups as diverse as the CIA, the IRA, MI6, and the Mafia.  He was eventually convicted by the American Drug Enforcement Administration and handed a 25-year sentence to be served at Terre Haute; he was released in April 1995 after serving seven years. Though he had up to 43 different aliases, he became known as "Mr Nice" after he bought a passport from convicted murderer Donald Nice. After his release from prison, he published a best-selling autobiography, "Mr Nice", and campaigned publicly for changes in drugs legislation. On 25 January 2015, it was announced that Marks had inoperable colorectal cancer. He died of the disease on 10 April 2016, at the age of 70.
Henryk Średnicki (17 January 1955 – 10 April 2016) was a Polish amateur boxer. He represented his native country twice at the Summer Olympics, starting in 1976 (Montreal, Canada). Średnicki was best known for winning the world title at the second World Amateur Boxing Championships in 1978, beating Cuba's Héctor Ramírez in the final.
Captain Sir John Leslie, 4th Baronet (John Norman Ide Leslie, 6 December 1916 – 18 April 2016), known locally as Jack Leslie, was an Irish aristocrat and media personality. He was the eldest son of Shane Leslie (Sir John Randolph Leslie, 3rd Baronet) and Marjorie Ide. He became the fourth baronet when his father died in 1971. He was the owner of Castle Leslie in Glaslough. Leslie died at the age of 99 in Ireland on 18 April 2016.
Kerima (born February 10, 1925) is a French movie actress. She was best known for her role in "Outcast of the Islands". She was born in Toulouse, France to French parents. She studied medicine before finding success in acting.  Kermia was active in movies throughout the 1950s and early 1960s, working with Italian and American directors including Joseph Mankiewicz and Howard Hawks. Her last known work were minor parts in 1972, the last being a bellydancer in one episode of "The Adventurer", a British TV series.
Eva Henning (born Eva Wetlesen; 10 May 1920 – 18 April 2016) was a Swedish stage and movie actress. She was known for her roles in "Elvira Madigan" (1943), "Flickan från tredje raden" (1949), and in "The Firebird" (1952). She was born in Newark, New York to Swedish parents. Henning died in Oslo, Norway on 18 April 2016, aged 95.
Cornelia "Cox" Habbema (21 March 1944 – 18 April 2016) was a Dutch movie and television actress. From 1968 to 1984 she played in movies for the East-German filmproduction DEFA. She was known for her roles in "To Grab the Ring" (1968), "Eolomea" (1972), "The Incorrigible Barbara" (1977), "Apprehension" (1982) and "A Question of Silence" (1982). She was born in Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands. Habbema died of cancer in Amsterdam on 18 April 2016, aged 72.
Yuri Alexandrovich Bychkov (; September 1, 1931, Lopasnya – April 18, 2016, Moscow) was a Russian art historian. He was a member of the Union of Artists and the Union of Theatre Workers of the Russian Federation. He was director of writer's house museum in Melikhovo from 1994 through 2004. He graduated from the Moscow Aviation Institute. He was one of the founders VOOPIK (All-Russian Society for Historic Preservation and Cultural Organization). Bychkov died in Moscow on April 18, 2016, aged 84.
Peter Mociulski von Remenyk (September 3, 1945 – April 16, 2016), known by his stage name Peter Rock, was a Chilean rock and roll and nueva ola musician. He sang in Festival de Viña del Mar and in Bierfest Valdivia. In 2014, he appeared in a Chilean movie titled "Blood Sugar Baby". He was born near Vienna in 1945, shortly after the death of his father. His mother remarried and the family emigrated to Chile in 1955. In October 2014, he was diagnosed with ALS, which kept him in a wheelchair. He died on Viña del Mar on 16 April, 2016.
Louis Pilot (11 November 1940 – 16 April 2016) was a Luxembourgian football player and manager. Pilot started his footballing career at his home town club CS Fola Esch, before signing for Belgian team Standard Liège at the age of 20. In November 2003, to celebrate UEFA's jubilee, he was selected by the Luxembourg Football Federation as the country's Golden Player - the greatest player of the last 50 years.
Muldene "Dene" Smuts (July 13, 1949 – April 21, 2016) was a South African politician. She was a member of Parliament for the Democratic Alliance, serving in many capacities, including as Shadow Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development. Smuts was editor of "Fair Lady" magazine, managing editor of "Leadership", and was a prize-winning author. Smuts was Broadcasting and Telecoms spokesperson for both the Democratic Party (DP) and Democratic Alliance (DA) from 1994 and 1996. In 1992, Smuts became South Africa’s first female whip in Parliament and served as DP party chairperson from 1994 to 1997.
Rollin Augustus "Rod" Daniel III (August 4, 1942 – April 16, 2016) was an American television and movie director. He directed the movies "Teen Wolf" (1985), "Like Father Like Son" (1987), "K-9" (1989), "The Super" (1991), "Beethoven's 2nd" (1993) and "Home Alone 4: Taking Back The House" (2002). Daniel died at his home in Chicago, Illinois on April 16, 2016 from Parkinson's disease, aged 73.
Johanna Margaret Jeanette Bonnier, (January 23, 1934 – April 16, 2016), was a Swedish media proprietor, journalist and author. She was the daughter of the publisher Albert Bonnier Jr. and Birgit Flodquist and the sister of Charlotte Bonnier. She was known because she held one of the largest stakes of the Bonnier Group. She was a journalist for "Expressen". Bonnier died in Stockholm, Sweden from heart failure on April 16, 2016, aged 82.
Banharn Silpa-archa (parts of his name also spelt variously Banhan, Silapa-, Sinlapa-, and -acha; , , , 19 August 1932 – 23 April 2016) was a Thai politician. He was the Prime Minister of Thailand from 1995 to 1996. Banharn made a fortune in the construction business before he became a Member of Parliament. He represented his home province of Suphanburi. He held different cabinet posts in several governments. In 1994, he became the leader of the Thai Nation Party. In 2008, the party was dissolved by the Constitutional Court and Banharn has been banned from politics for five years. Banharn died from an asthma attack on 23 April 2016 at Siriraj Hospital in Bangkok at the age of 83.
Sir David John Cameron MacKay, FRS, FInstP, FICE (22 April 1967 – 14 April 2016) was a British physicist, mathematician, and academic. He was the Regius Professor of Engineering in the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge and from 2009 to 2014 was Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC). Before being appointed to the DECC, MacKay was most well known as author of the book "Sustainable Energy – Without the Hot Air". MacKay died of stomach cancer in Cambridge, England on 14 April 2016, aged 48.
Sir Arnold Wesker FRSL (24 May 1932 – 12 April 2016) was a British dramatist. He was known for his works in drama. He was the author of 50 plays, four volumes of short stories, two volumes of essays, a book on journalism, a children's book, extensive journalism, poetry and other assorted writings.  His plays have been translated into up to 20 different languages and performed worldwide. Wesker died of complications from Parkinson's disease on 12 April 2016 in Brighton, England, aged 83.
David Alan Gest (May 11, 1953 – April 12, 2016) was an American entertainer, comedian, producer and television personality. Gest produced the highest-rated musical television special in history, "" in 2001.  Gest appeared on the 2006 series of the British reality television show "I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!" He became the first American to have three prime-time series in the UK. Gest appeared in series 17 of "Celebrity Big Brother" in the UK in 2016 but due to illness had to leave after 13 days.  He was married to actress Liza Minnelli from 2002 until they divorced in 2007. On April 12, 2016, Gest was found dead in his room at the Four Seasons Hotel in East London's Canary Wharf district, at the age of 62. His death was described by police as involving no suspicious circumstances. It was soon reported Gest died of a stroke.
Gianroberto Casaleggio (; 14 August 1954 – 12 April 2016) was an Italian entrepreneur and political activist. He was co-founder and chairman of Casaleggio Associati srl and editor of Beppe Grillo's blog. He was also co-founder, with Beppe Grillo, of the Five Star Movement, of which he was sometimes called "guru". Casaleggio promoted the Web in Italy as a medium for political communication. Casaleggio died on 12 April 2016 at the age of 61, after a long-illness.
Paul Carey (March 15, 1928 – April 12, 2016) was an American broadcaster and sportscaster. He broadcast professionally in six different decades. He is a member of the Michigan Sports Hall of Fame. He was known for broadcasting the Detroit Tigers games and for producing the Detroit Tigers Radio Network from 1964 to 1971. Carey died on April 12, 2016 in Rochester, Michigan from complications of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), at the age of 88.