Deaths in April 2016

The following is a list of **notable deaths in April 2016**. For notable deaths before the current month, please see "Months".  Names under each date are reported in alphabetical order by last name or pseudonym. Deaths of non-humans are reported here also if notable.

* Each listing of a death must have a source. If no reference is included, the death notice will be removed. The following are the requirements of adding a name to the list in its order: name, age, nationality, what the person is known for, cause of death (if known) and most importantly a source.
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### 1
*Pratyusha Banerjee, 24, Indian actress (*Balika Vadhu*, *Bigg Boss 7*, *Hum Hain Na*), suicide by hanging.
*Artur Górski, 46, Polish politician, member of Sejm (since 2005), leukemia.
*Emil Keres, 90, Hungarian actor (*Twenty Hours*) and theatre director.

### 2
*Gato Barbieri, 83, Argentine jazz saxophonist, pneumonia.
*Gallieno Ferri, 87, Italian comic book artist (*Zagor*, *Mister No*).
*Boris Hybner, 74, Czech actor (''I'm All Good*, *Toys in the Attic*, *Marguerite*) and mime artist.
*László Sárosi, 84, Hungarian football player (national team) and coach.

### 3
*Erik Bauersfeld, 93, American radio dramatist (KPFA) and voice actor (*Star Wars*, *A.I. Artificial Intelligence*, *Crimson Peak*).
*Don Francks, 84, Canadian jazz vocalist and actor (*La Femme Nikita*, *Inspector Gadget*, *I'm Not There''), lung cancer.
*Lars Gustafsson, 79, Swedish writer and scholar.
*Rowley Habib, 83, New Zealand writer.
*Martin Lampkin, 65, English motorcycle trials rider, cancer.
*Cesare Maldini, 84, Italian football player (national team) and manager (Foggia, Milan, national team).
*Joe Medicine Crow, 102, American Crow historian.
*Lola Novaković, 80, Serbian singer.
*Amber Rayne, 31, American pornographic actress.
*Jules Schelvis, 95, Dutch historian and Holocaust survivor.
*Clarence Clifton Young, 93, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1953–1957), Nevada Senate (1966–1980) and Nevada Supreme Court (1985–2002).

### 4
*Getatchew Mekurya, 81, Ethiopian jazz saxophonist, complications from diabetes.
*Royston Nash, 82, English conductor (D'Oyly Carte Opera Company).
*George Radosevich, 88, American football player (Baltimore Colts), congestive heart failure.
*Mike Sandlock, 100, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers).
*Abe Segal, 85, South African tennis player, cancer.

### 5
*Zyta Gilowska, 66, Polish politician, Minister of Finance (2006, 2007), Deputy Prime Minister (2006, 2007).
*Roman Gribbs, 90, American politician, Mayor of Detroit (1970–1974), cancer.
*Zena Latto, 90, American jazz saxophonist.
*E. M. Nathanson, 88, American author (*The Dirty Dozen*), heart failure.

### 6
*Merle Haggard, 79, American country music singer-songwriter ("Okie from Muskogee", "The Fightin' Side of Me", "Carolyn"), complications from pneumonia.
*Darrell Hogan, 89, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers), heart failure.

### 7
*László Bárczay, 80, Hungarian chess Grandmaster.
*Frank E. Denholm, 92, American politician, member of the House of Representatives  from South Dakota (1971–1975).
*Carlo Monti, 96, Italian athlete, Olympic bronze medalist (1948).

### 8
*Dick Alban, 87, American football player (Washington Redskins, Pittsburgh Steelers).
*Mircea Albulescu, 81, Romanian actor (*Michael the Brave*, *Capcana mercenarilor*, *Semne în pustiu*) and writer, member of the Writers' Union of Romania, heart failure.
*Wei Chueh, 88, Taiwanese Buddhist monk, founder of the Chung Tai Shan.

### 9
*Arthur Anderson, 93, American voice actor (*Courage the Cowardly Dog*), congestive heart failure.
*Duane Clarridge, 83, American spy (CIA, Eclipse Group), complications from esophageal cancer.
*Tony Conrad, 76, American avant-garde musician, composer, video artist and professor (University at Buffalo), prostate cancer.
* Juris Ekmanis, 74, Latvian academic, President of Latvian Academy of Sciences (2004–2012), complications from a stroke.
*Will Smith, 34, American football player (New Orleans Saints), Super Bowl champion (2010), shot.

### 10
*Louis Gladstone, 88, American politician.
*Howard Marks, 70, Welsh cannabis smuggler, writer and legalisation campaigner, colorectal cancer.
*Henryk Średnicki, 61, Polish boxer, amateur World Champion (1978).

### 11
*Emile Ford, 78, Saint Lucian singer ("What Do You Want to Make Those Eyes at Me For?") and sound engineer.
*Anne Gould Hauberg, 98, American arts patroness, founder of the Pilchuck Glass School.
*Ed Snider, 83, American sports executive (Comcast Spectacor, Philadelphia Flyers, Philadelphia 76ers), bladder cancer.

### 12
*Hector A. Cafferata, Jr., 86, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient.
*Paul Carey, 88, American radio broadcaster (Detroit Tigers), complications from COPD.
*Gianroberto Casaleggio, 61, Italian entrepreneur, co-founder of Five Star Movement.
*Pedro de Felipe, 71, Spanish footballer (Real Madrid, Espanyol).
*David Gest, 62, American producer and reality TV contestant (''I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!*).
*Anne Jackson, 90, American actress (*Middle of the Night*, *The Shining*, *Blinded by the Light'').
*Balls Mahoney, 44, American professional wrestler (ECW), cardiac arrest.
*Arnold Wesker, 83, British playwright, complications from Parkinson's disease.

### 13
*Mariano Mores, 98, Argentine tango composer and pianist.
*Manouchehr Sotodeh, 102, Iranian geographer, respiratory failure.
*Gareth Thomas, 71, Welsh actor (''Blake's 7*), heart failure.
*Ray Thornton, 87, American attorney and politician, member of the United States House of Representatives  from Arkansas (1973–1979, 1991–1997).
*Nera White, 80, American Hall of Fame basketball player, complications from pneumonia.

### 14
*Nguyen Anh 9, 76, Vietnamese songwriter and pianist, pneumonia and heart failure.
*Ahmed Brahim, 69, Tunisian politician.
*Ilija Ivezić, 89, Croatian movie actor (*Last of the Renegades*, *The Golden Years*, *Marshal Tito's Spirit*).
*Malick Sidibé, 80, Malian photographer, complications of diabetes. 
*Liang Sili, 91, Chinese missile control scientist and academician (Chinese Academy of Sciences), vice-president of the International Astronautical Federation.
*Sir David MacKay, 48, British author, physicist and professor (University of Cambridge), stomach cancer.

### 15
*Anne Grommerch, 45, French politician, member of the National Assembly (since 2008), Mayor of Thionville (since 2014), breast cancer.

### 16
*Rubén Mendoza Ayala, 55, Mexican politician, cardiac arrest. 
*Jeanette Bonnier, 82, Swedish media proprietor (Bonnier Group), journalist (*Expressen*) and author, heart failure.
*Rod Daniel, 73, American movie director (*Teen Wolf''), Parkinson's disease.
*William M. Gray, 86, American meteorologist.
*Charlie Hodge, 82, Canadian ice hockey player (Montreal Canadiens, Oakland Seals, Vancouver Canucks) and scout, NHL champion (1956, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1965, 1966), complications from a stroke.
*Louis Pilot, 75, Luxembourgian football player (Fola Esch, Standard Liège, Royal Antwerp) and manager (national team).
*Helmut Rohde, 90, German politician, Federal Minister of Education and Science (1974–1978).
*Peter Rock, 70, Chilean rock musician and actor (*Blood Sugar Baby*), complications from ALS.
*Kit West, 79, British special effects artist (*Raiders of the Lost Ark*, *Dragonheart*, *Enemy at the Gates*), Oscar winner (1982).

### 17
*Cyril Leonoff, 91, Canadian civil engineer and historian.
*Doris Roberts, 90, American actress (*Everybody Loves Raymond*, *Remington Steele*, *Christmas Vacation*).

### 18
*Yuri Bychkov, 84, Russian art historian.
*Cox Habbema, 72, Dutch actress (*To Grab A Ring*, *The Incorrigible Barbara*, *A Question of Silence*), cancer.
*Eva Henning, 95, Swedish actress (*Elvira Madigan*, *Flickan från tredje raden*, *The Firebird*).
*Sir John Leslie, 4th Baronet, 99, Irish aristocrat and media personality.
*Johan van Minnen, 83, Dutch journalist and politician, member of the European Parliament (1979–1984).

### 19
*Patricio Aylwin, 97, Chilean politician, President (1990–1994), respiratory failure complicated from a fall.
*Estelle Balet, 21, Swiss snowboarder, world champion (2015, 2016), avalanche.
*Ronit Elkabetz, 51, Israeli actress and movie director (*Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem*), cancer.
*Walter Kohn, 93, American theoretical physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics laureate (1998), jaw cancer.
*Mehrdad Oladi, 30, Iranian footballer (Malavan), heart attack.
*Milt Pappas, 76, American baseball player (Baltimore Orioles, Cincinnati Reds, Atlanta Braves, Chicago Cubs).
*Billy Redmayne, 25, Manx motorcycle racer, race collision.

### 20
*Chyna, 45, American professional wrestler (WWF, NJPW, TNA) and actress (*1 Night in China*, *3rd Rock from the Sun*, *Illegal Aliens*). 
*Guy Hamilton, 93, British movie director (*James Bond*, *Battle of Britain*, *Evil Under the Sun*).
*Avril Henry, 81, British academic, suicide by euthanasia. 
*Dame Leonie Kramer, 91, Australian academic, author and university administrator, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
*Harry Perkowski, 93, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs, Cincinnati Reds).
*Victoria Wood, 62, British comedienne and actress (*New Faces*, *Victoria Wood As Seen on TV*, *Dinnerladies*), cancer.

### 21
*Hans Koschnick, 87, German politician and diplomat, Bremen Senate president and mayor (1967–1985), President of the Bundesrat (1970–1971, 1981–1982), MP (1987–1998), complications from pneumonia.
*Marco Leto, 85, Italian movie and television director (*Black Holiday*, *Al piacere di rivederla*) and screenwriter.
*Lonnie Mack, 74, American singer-guitarist (*The Wham of that Memphis Man*).
*Michelle McNamara, 46, American writer.
*Prince, 57, American musician ("Purple Rain", "Little Red Corvette", "When Doves Cry") and actor (*Purple Rain*, *Under the Cherry Moon*, ''Sign o' the Times*), Oscar (1984) and Grammy winner (1984, 1986, 2004, 2007).
*Dene Smuts, 66, South African politician, MP (1989–2014).

### 22
*Jory Prum, 41, American audio engineer and video game developer (*The Walking Dead*, *The Wolf Among Us*, *Brütal Legend*), traffic collision.
*Peter Sellers, 94, New Zealand sports broadcaster.

### 23
*Ron Brace, 29, American football player (Boston College, New England Patriots), heart attack.
*Miguel Picazo, 89, Spanish movie director (*La Tía Tula*), screenwriter and actor (*The Spirit of the Beehive*, *Tesis*).
*Madeleine Sherwood, 93, Canadian actress (*Cat on a Hot Tin Roof*, *The Flying Nun*).
*Banharn Silpa-archa, 83, Thai politician, Prime Minister (1995–1996), asthma attack.

### 24
*Nina Arkhipova, 94, Russian actress (*Bountiful Summer*, *Prosnis i poy*, *Burnt by the Summer*), complications from pneumonia.
*Robert Dolan, 87, American marine geologist.
*Manuel de la Torre, 94, American golf instructor, complications from a stroke.
*Walter Jackson Freeman III, 89, American biologist, neuroscientist and philosopher, pulmonary fibrosis.
*Perry O. Hooper, Sr., 91, American jurist, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama (1995–2001).
*Inge King, 100, Australian sculptor.
*Tommy Kono, 85, American weightlifter, Olympic champion (1952, 1956), complications from liver disease.
*Thinle Lhondup, 72, Nepalese actor (*Himalaya*), stomach cancer.
*Benjamin Manglona, 78, Northern Mariana Islands politician, Lieutenant Governor (1990–1994), stroke.
*Billy Paul, 81, American R&B singer ("Me and Mrs. Jones"), pancreatic cancer.
*Klaus Siebert, 60, German biathlon athlete and coach, world champion (1978, 1979), Olympic silver medalist (1980), lymphoma.
*Papa Wemba, 66, Congolese singer and musician, seizure.

### 25
*Martin Gray, 93, Polish Holocaust survivor and writer, heart attack.
*Michal Hornstein, 95, Canadian businessman and philanthropist.
*Tom Lewis, 94, Australian politician, Premier of New South Wales (1975–1976).
*Mei Baojiu, 82, Chinese Peking opera artist, bronchospasm.

### 26
*Vincent Darius, 60, Grenadian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Saint George’s in Grenada (since 2002), cancer.
*Amanullah Khan, 82, Pakistani Kashmir separatism activist (JKLF) and writer, COPD.
*Lucy Kibaki, 75, Kenyan teacher and socialite, First Lady (2002–2013), heart attack.
*Martin Szipál, 91, Hungarian photographer, prostate cancer.
*Harry Wu, 79, American human rights activist, founded the Laogai Research Foundation, heart attack.

### 27
*Toms, 87, Indian cartoonist (*Boban and Molly*).

### 28
*Óscar Marcelino Álvarez, 67, Argentine footballer (Panathinaikos).
*Sir Edward Ashmore, 96, British officer in the Royal Navy, First Sea Lord (1974–1977).
*Conrad Burns, 81, American politician, Senator from Montana (1989–2007), complications from a stroke.
*Jenny Diski, 68, English writer (*Nothing Natural*, *Rainforest*), lung cancer.
*Igor Fesunenko, 83, Russian journalist, foreign affairs writer and teacher (MGIMO).
*René Hausman, 80, Belgian author and artist, heart failure.
*Barry Howard, 78, English actor (*Hi-de-Hi!*), blood cancer.
*Ingram Olkin, 91, American professor of statistics (Stanford University), complications from colon cancer.

### 29
*Alyson Bailes, 67, British diplomat, Ambassador to Finland (2000–2002), pancreatic cancer. 
*Renato Corona, 67, Filipino jurist, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court (2010–2012), complications from a heart attack.
*Jok Church, 66, American cartoonist (*You Can with Beakman and Jax*), heart attack.
*Dmytro Hnatyuk, 91, Ukrainian baritone opera singer.
*Chen Zhongshi, 73, Chinese writer (*White Deer Plain*), oral cancer.

### 30
*Daniel Aaron, 103, American writer and academic (Harvard University), co-founder of the Library of America, complications from pneumonia.
*Daniel Berrigan, 94, American Roman Catholic priest, poet, peace activist, and ex-convict (Catonsville Nine).
*Marisol Escobar, 85, American sculptor, pneumonia.
*Uwe Friedrichsen, 81, German actor (*Faust*, *Schwarz Rot Gold*, *Sesamstraße*), complications from pneumonia.
*Sir Harry Kroto, 76, British chemist, laureate of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1996), complications from ALS.
*Peter Thomas, 91, American narrator (*Nova*, *Forensic Files*).
*Vasily Zvyagintsev, 71, Russian science fiction author, heart attack.

## Months
* January
* February
* March
* April
* May
* June
* July
* August
* September
* October
* November
* December

## Related pages
* Deaths in 2014
* Deaths in 2015

## References
## Other websites
* *The Guardian*, UK obituaries
* Obituaries, *Los Angeles Times*
* Obituaries, *Chicago Tribune*
* *The New York Times*, US obituaries
* *The Sydney Morning Herald*, Australian obituaries
* *The Telegraph'' obituaries