page_title: 2016
section_title: August
hierarchical_section_title: 2016 / Deaths / August
caption_attribution_description: English: Former Somali Vice President Mohamed Ali
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: August 1 – Queen Anne of Romania, French-born consort of former King Michael of Romania (b. 1923)
  August 2
  David Huddleston, American actor (b. 1930)
  Franciszek Macharski, Polish cardinal (b. 1927)
  Ahmed Zewail, Egyptian-American Nobel chemist (b. 1946)
  August 3
  Chris Amon, New Zealand motor racing driver (b. 1943)
  Ricci Martin, American musician and singer (b. 1953)
  August 9 – Gerald Grosvenor, 6th Duke of Westminster (b. 1951)
  August 13
  Kenny Baker, English actor (b. 1934)
  Françoise Mallet-Joris, Belgian writer (b. 1930)
  August 14
  Hermann Kant, German writer (b. 1926)
  Fyvush Finkel, American actor (b. 1922)
  August 15
  Dalian Atkinson, English footballer (b. 1968)
  Stefan Henze, German canoeist and coach (b. 1981)
  Bobby Hutcherson, American jazz musician (b. 1941)
  August 16
  Andrew Florent, Australian tennis player (b. 1970)
  João Havelange, Brazilian athlete and football executive (b. 1916)
  August 17 – Arthur Hiller, Canadian film director (b. 1923)
  August 18 – Ernst Nolte, German historian (b. 1923)
  August 19
  Lou Pearlman, American music manager and record producer (b. 1954)
  Nina Ponomaryova, Russian Olympic discus thrower (b. 1929)
  Jack Riley, American actor (b. 1935)
  Mohammad Ali Samatar, 5th Prime Minister of Somalia (b. 1931)
  August 20 – Louis Stewart, Irish jazz guitarist (b. 1944)
  August 22
  S. R. Nathan, 6th President of Singapore (b. 1924)
  Toots Thielemans, Belgian jazz musician (b. 1922)
  August 23
  Steven Hill, American film and television actor (b. 1922)
  Berit Mørdre Lammedal, Norwegian cross-country skier (b. 1940)
  Reinhard Selten, German Nobel economist (b. 1930)
  August 24
  Michel Butor, French writer (b. 1926)
  Walter Scheel, 8th President of the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) (b. 1919)
  Roger Y. Tsien, American Nobel biologist (b. 1952)
  August 25
  James Cronin, American Nobel physicist (b. 1931)
  Sonia Rykiel, French fashion designer (b. 1930)
  Rudy Van Gelder, American recording engineer (b. 1924)
  August 26 – Harald Grønningen, Norwegian cross country skier (b. 1934)
  August 28
  Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, Israeli politician and former Deputy Prime Minister (b. 1936)
  Mr. Fuji, American professional wrestler and wrestling manager (b. 1934)
  Juan Gabriel, Mexican singer-songwriter (b. 1950)
  August 29 – Gene Wilder, American actor (b. 1933)
  August 30
  Věra Čáslavská, Czech gymnast (b. 1942)
  Marc Riboud, French photographer (b. 1923)
caption: Mohammad Ali Samatar
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