page_title: 2016
section_title: October
hierarchical_section_title: 2016 / Deaths / October
caption_attribution_description: Polski: Zdjęcie zrobione podczas premiery zrekonstruowanej cyfrowo „Ziemi Obiecanej”, podczas festiwalu filmowego OFF Plus Camera.
context_page_description: 2016 was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2016th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 16th year of the 3rd millennium, the 16th year of the 21st century, and the 7th year of the 2010s decade.
  2016 was designated as:
  International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly.
  International Year of Global Understanding by the International Council for Science, the International Social Science Council, and the International Council for Philosophy and Human Sciences.
context_section_description: 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 15 – Bruce Marshall, American ice hockey coach (b. 1962)
  October 16
  Kigeli V, King of Rwanda (b. 1936)
  Viktor Zubkov, Russian basketball player (b. 1937)
  October 20 – Junko Tabei, Japanese mountaineer (b. 1939)
  October 23 – Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani, Emir of Qatar (b. 1932)
  October 24
  Jorge Batlle, 38th President of Uruguay (b. 1927)
  Benjamin Creme, Scottish artist, author and esotericist (b. 1922)
  Reinhard Häfner, German footballer (b. 1952)
  Bobby Vee, American pop singer (b. 1943)
  October 25 – Carlos Alberto Torres, Brazilian footballer (b. 1944)
  October 27 – Takahito, Prince Mikasa (b. 1915)
  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)
caption: Andrzej Wajda
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