page_title: 2016 in the United States
section_title: January
hierarchical_section_title: 2016 in the United States / Deaths / January
caption_attribution_description: Photo of Abe Vigoda from the television program Barney Miller.
context_page_description: Events in the year 2016 in the United States.
context_section_description: January 1
  Lennie Bluett, actor (born 1919)
  Dale Bumpers, politician; 38th Governor of Arkansas and U.S. Senator (1975–1999) (born 1925)
  Gilbert Kaplan, businessman, publisher, and amateur conductor (born 1941)
  Tony Lane, graphic designer (born 1944)
  John Coleman Moore, mathematician (born 1923)
  Mike Oxley, politician (born 1944)
  Vilmos Zsigmond, Hungarian-born cinematographer (born 1930)
  January 2
  Brad Fuller, video game composer and audio engineer (born 1953)
  Stanley Siegel, radio reporter and talk show host (born 1936)
  Frances Cress Welsing, psychiatrist and author (born 1935)
  January 3
  Leonard Berkowitz, social psychologist (born 1926)
  Gary Flakne, politician (born 1934)
  John McDade Howell, university chancellor (born 1922)
  Raymond W. Lessard, Roman Catholic prelate (born 1930)
  Andy Maurer, football player (born 1948)
  Ted Stanley, entrepreneur and philanthropist (born 1931)
  January 4
  Robert Balser, animator (born 1927)
  Stephen W. Bosworth, diplomat; U.S. Ambassador to South Korea (1997–2001) (born 1939)
  Long John Hunter, blues musician (born 1931)
  Red Parker, football coach (born 1931)
  Joseph Ritz, author, playwright, and journalist (born 1929)
  Leo Rucka, football player (born 1931)
  January 5
  Bob Armstrong, basketball player (born 1933)
  Nicholas Caldwell, R&B singer and musician (born 1944)
  Christine Lawrence Finney, animator and painter (born 1968)
  George MacIntyre, football player and coach (born 1939)
  Jay Ritchie, baseball player (born 1936)
  January 6
  Robert D. Acland, surgeon (born 1941)
  Douglas Greer, child actor (born 1921)
  Pat Harrington Jr., actor (born 1929)
  Florence King, writer (born 1936)
  Serena Sinclair Lesley, journalist (born 1926)
  Sol Polansky, diplomat (born 1926)
  Robert D. Timm, businessman and politician (born 1921)
  January 7
  Bill Foster, basketball coach (born 1929)
  John Johnson, basketball player (born 1947)
  Kitty Kallen, singer (born 1921)
  Richard Libertini, actor (born 1933)
  Troy Shondell, singer (born 1939)
  January 8
  Otis Clay, R&B and soul singer (born 1942)
  Royal Parker, television personality (born 1929)
  Red Simpson, singer and songwriter (born 1934)
  Brett Smiley, singer and songwriter (born 1955)
  January 9
  Barbara Allyne Bennet, actress and union executive (born 1939)
  Myra Carter, actress (born 1929)
  Lawrence H. Cohn, cardiac surgeon (born 1937)
  Lance Rautzhan, baseball player (born 1952)
  Angus Scrimm, actor and author (born 1926)
  Beau St. Clair, film producer (born 1952)
  Peggy Willis-Aarnio, ballet choreographer and historian (born 1948)
  January 10
  David Bowie, English singer, songwriter and actor (b. 1947)
  Alton Brown, baseball player (born 1925)
  Ann Z. Caracristi, cryptanalyst and intelligence official (born 1921)
  Charles Congden Carpenter, naturalist and herpetologist (born 1921)
  Jeanne Córdova, German-born American LGBT activist and writer (born 1948)
  Carolyn Denning, pediatrician (born 1927)
  Michael Galeota, actor (born 1984)
  Ralph Hauenstein, business and philanthropist (born 1912)
  Francis Thomas Hurley, Roman Catholic prelate (born 1927)
  Arthur S. Obermayer, entrepreneur and philanthropist (born 1931)
  Dick Spady, restaurateur (born 1923)
  January 11
  Monte Irvin, baseball player (born 1919)
  David Margulies, actor (born 1937)
  Don Strauch, politician; Mayor of Mesa, Arizona (born 1926)
  January 12
  Meg Mundy, British-born American actress and model (born 1915)
  Andrew Smith, basketball player (born 1990)
  January 13
  Luis Arroyo, baseball player (born 1927)
  Lawrence Phillips, football player (born 1975)
  Jim Simpson, sportscaster (born 1927)
  Tera Wray, pornographic actress (born 1982)
  January 14
  George Carroll, American lawyer and politician (b. 1921)
  James Hannah, American attorney (b. 1944)
  Al Hart, American radio host (b. 1927)
  Ellen Meiksins Wood, American historian (b. 1942)
  January 15
  Noreen Corcoran, actress and dancer (born 1943)
  Dan Haggerty, actor (born 1942)
  January 16
  Bob Harkey, race car driver (born 1930)
  Gary Loizzo, singer and musician (born 1945)
  Ted Marchibroda, football player and coach (born 1931)
  Lloyd Rudolph, political scientist and author (born 1927)
  January 17
  Blowfly
caption: Abe Vigoda
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