page_title: 2016
section_title: May
hierarchical_section_title: 2016 / Deaths / May
caption_attribution_description: English: Su Eminencia, Loris Capovilla.
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: May 1 – Solomon W. Golomb, American mathematician (b. 1932)
  May 2 – Afeni Shakur, American music businesswoman (b. 1947)
  May 4
  Jean-Baptiste Bagaza, 2nd President of Burundi (b. 1946)
  Bob Bennett, American politician (b. 1933)
  May 5
  Siné, French political cartoonist (b. 1928)
  Isao Tomita, Japanese composer (b. 1932)
  May 6 – Margot Honecker, East German politician (b. 1927)
  May 8
  Nick Lashaway, American actor (b. 1988)
  William Schallert, American actor (b. 1922)
  May 10 – Kang Young-hoon, 21st Prime Minister of South Korea (b. 1922)
  May 12 – Giuseppe Maiani, Captain Regent of San Marino (b. 1924)
  May 16 – Giovanni Coppa, Italian cardinal (b. 1925)
  May 17
  Guy Clark, American singer-songwriter (b. 1941)
  Yūko Mizutani, Japanese voice actress (b. 1964)
  May 19
  Alexandre Astruc, French film critic and director (b. 1923)
  Marco Pannella, Italian politician (b. 1930)
  Alan Young, British-born Canadian-American actor (b. 1919)
  May 21
  Sándor Tarics, Hungarian Olympic water polo player (b. 1913)
  Nick Menza, German-born American drummer (b. 1964)
  May 22 – Bata Živojinović, Serbian actor and politician (b. 1933)
  May 25 – Yang Jiang, Chinese playwright, author, and translator (b. 1911)
  May 26
  Loris Francesco Capovilla, Italian cardinal (b. 1915)
  Arturo Pomar, Spanish chess grandmaster (b. 1931)
  May 28
  Giorgio Albertazzi, Italian actor (b. 1923)
  David Cañada, Spanish cyclist (b. 1975)
  May 31
  Mohamed Abdelaziz, 3rd Secretary-General of the Polisario Front (b. 1947)
  Corry Brokken, Dutch singer (b. 1932)
  Antonio Imbert Barrera, Dominican politician (b. 1920)
caption: Loris Francesco Capovilla
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