page_title: 2016 in Europe
section_title: January
hierarchical_section_title: 2016 in Europe / Deaths / January
caption_attribution_description: English: David Bowie at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival for the apple sauce premiere of Duncan Jones's film Moon. Photographer's blog post about this event.
context_page_description: This is a list of events that took place in Europe in 2016.
context_section_description: 1 January – Vilmos Zsigmond, Hungarian-American cinematographer (b. 1930)
  2 January – Michel Delpech, French singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1946)
  3 January – Peter Naur, Danish computer scientist (b. 1928)
  4 January – Michel Galabru, French actor (b. 1922)
  5 January – Pierre Boulez, French composer, conductor, writer and pianist (b. 1925)
  6 January – Silvana Pampanini, Italian actress and director (b. 1925)
  7 January – André Courrèges, French fashion designer (b. 1923)
  8 January – Maria Teresa de Filippis, Italian racing driver (b. 1926)
  10 January – David Bowie, English singer, songwriter and producer (b. 1947)
  14 January – Alan Rickman, English actor and director (b. 1946)
  18 January – Michel Tournier, French writer (b. 1924)
  19 January – Ettore Scola, Italian screenwriter and film director (b. 1931)
  26 January – Black, English singer-songwriter (b. 1962)
  29 January – Jacques Rivette, French film director and film critic (b. 1928)
  30 January – Frank Finlay, English stage, film and television actor (b. 1926)
  31 January – Terry Wogan, Irish-British radio and television broadcaster (b. 1938)
caption: David Bowie
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