page_title: 2016
section_title: September
hierarchical_section_title: 2016 / Deaths / September
caption_attribution_description: English: Senator Miriam Defensor Santiago talks about her priority bills during the weekly Kapihan sa Senado. Santiago said that bills such as the Reproductive Health Act which aims to guarantee universal access to methods and information on birth control and maternal care, the Anti-EPAL Bill which prohibits public officials to affix their name or image to any signage on a proposed or ongoing public works project, and the Act against the commercialization of human organs, should be given priority once the 3rd Session of the Fifteenth Congress starts.
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: 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 10 – Joy Viado, Filipino comedian and actress (b. 1959)
  September 11
  Alexis Arquette, American actress, cabaret performer, underground cartoonist, and activist (b. 1969)
  Ricky Tosso, Peruvian actor (b. 1960)
  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)
  C. Martin Croker, American animator and voice actor (b. 1962)
  Sigge Parling, Swedish footballer (b. 1930)
  September 20 – Curtis Hanson, American film director and screenwriter (b. 1945)
  September 22 - Walter Bush, American ice hockey administrator (b. 1929)
  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, 64th 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)
caption: Miriam Defensor Santiago
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