Deaths in May 2016

The following is a list of **notable deaths in May 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
*Jean-Marie Girault, 90, French politician, Mayor of Caen (1970–2001).
*Solomon W. Golomb, 83, American mathematician (pentomino), engineer and educator (University of Southern California), heart failure.
*Madeleine LeBeau, 92, French actress (*Hold Back the Dawn*, *Casablanca*, *8½*), complications from a fall.

### 2
*Mel Bartholomew, 84, American gardener and author, creator of square foot gardening, liver cancer.
*Jonathan Cainer, 58, British astrologer (*Daily Mail*), heart attack.
*John Kaye, 60, Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Council (since 2007), cancer.
*Roger Millward, 68, British rugby league player (Hull Kingston Rovers, Castleford Tigers, national team), jaw cancer. 
*Karel Pečko, 95, Slovenian artist.
*Afeni Shakur, 69, American businesswoman (Tupac Amaru Shakur Center for the Arts, Amaru Entertainment, Makaveli Branded) and political activist (Black Panthers), mother of Tupac Shakur, heart attack.

### 3
*Ian Deans, 78, Canadian politician, MP (1980–1986), Parkinson's disease.
*Abel Fernandez, 85, American actor (*The Untouchables*, *Pork Chop Hill*), lung cancer.
*Marianne Gaba, 76, American model (*Playboy*) and actress (*The Choppers*, *How to Stuff a Wild Bikini*, *Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine*), brain cancer.
*Kaname Harada, 99, Japanese World War II flying ace and anti-war activist, multiple organ failure.
*Karol Machata, 88, Slovak actor (''St. Peter's Umbrella*, *A Song About the Gray Pigeon*).
*Nicolas Noxon, 79, American filmmaker (*Secrets of the Titanic*), pancreatic cancer.
*Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd, 81, Swedish artist (*Non-Violence*), pneumonia.
*Jadranka Stojaković, 65, Bosnian singer-songwriter ("Sve smo mogli mi", "Što te nema", "Bistre vode Bosnom teku"), motor neurone disease.
*Janusz Tazbir, 87, Polish historian.

### 4
*Ángel de Andrés López, 64, Spanish actor (*What Have I Done to Deserve This?*, *800 Bullets*), heart attack.
*Jean-Baptiste Bagaza, 69, Burundian politician, President (1976–1987).
*Bob Bennett, 82, American politician, United States Senator from Utah (1993–2011), pancreatic cancer.
*Karl W. Butzer, 81, American geographer.
*Olle Ljungström, 54, Swedish singer-songwriter (Reeperbahn) and guitarist ("Venuspassagen", "Peep-Show", "Intriger").
*Rita Renoir, 82, French stripteaser and actress (*The Red Desert*, *Cannabis*, *The Angel*).
*Friedrich Schattleitner, 92, Austrian sport shooter.

### 5
*Sylvia Kauders, 94, American actress (*Inside Llewyn Davis*, *Witness*, *Predator 2*), heart attack.
*Romalı Perihan, 74, Turkish actress (*La Dolce Vita*, *Waterloo*, *Web of the Spider*) and singer, heart attack.
*Siné, 87, French political cartoonist (*L'Express*, *Charlie Hebdo*), complications from lung surgery.
*Isao Tomita, 84, Japanese musician (*Snowflakes Are Dancing'') and composer, heart failure.

### 6
*Hannes Bauer, 61, German trombonist.
*Nico de Bree, 71, Dutch footballer (N.E.C., Anderlecht), cancer.
*Patrick Ekeng, 26, Cameroonian footballer (Le Mans, Dinamo Bucuresti), heart attack.
*Reg Grundy, 92, Australian television production mogul (Reg Grundy Organisation).
*David Hall, 85, American politician, Governor of Oklahoma (1971–1975), stroke.
*Margot Honecker, 89, East German politician, Minister of People's Education (1963–1989), First Lady of East Germany (1976–1989).
*Candye Kane, 54, American blues singer-songwriter and pornographic actress, pancreatic cancer.
*Chris Mitchell, 27, Scottish footballer (Clyde).
*Valeriy Zuyev, 63, Ukrainian football player (Dynamo Kyiv) and manager.

### 7
*Bernardo Ribeiro, 26, Brazilian footballer (Skënderbeu, Newcastle Jets, IFK Mariehamn), heart attack.
*John Stabb, 54, American punk singer (Government Issue), stomach cancer.

### 8
*Philippe Beaussant, 86, French author (*Lully ou le musicien du solei*, *Héloïse*) and musicologist, member of the Académie française (since 2007).
*Tonita Castro, 63, American actress (*Dads*, *Funny People*, *The Book of Life*), stomach cancer.
*Ken Gorgal, 87, American football player (Cleveland Browns, Chicago Bears, Green Bay Packers).
*Nick Lashaway, 28, American actor (*Girls*, *In Time*, *The Last Song*), traffic collision.
*Elisa Mainardi, 85, Italian actress (*Fellini Satyricon*, *Roma*, *And the Ship Sails On*). 
*William Schallert, 93, American actor  (*The Patty Duke Show*, *Get Smart*, *In the Heat of the Night*), President of SAG (19791981), complications from peripheral neuropathy.
*Anne van den Ban, 88, Dutch agricultural economist.
*John Young, 67, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers), founder of Reviving Baseball in Inner Cities, diabetes.
*John Bradshaw, 82, American motivational speaker, writer (*Homecoming: Reclaiming and Championing Your Inner Child*) and television host (*Bradshaw On: Homecoming*), heart failure.

### 9
*Gareth Gwenlan, 79, British television producer (*Only Fools and Horses*).
*Walther Leisler Kiep, 90, German politician, member of Bundestag (1965–1967; 1980–1982), Minister of Economy (1976–1977) and Minister of Finance (1976–1980), pneumonia.
*Karl Maramorosch, 101, American virologist, entomologist and plant pathologist.
*Riki Sorsa, 63, Finnish singer ("Reggae OK"), cancer.
*John Warr, 88, English cricketer (Middlesex County Criket Club, national team).

### 10
*Mustafa Badreddine, 55, Lebanese Hezbollah military leader, airstrike.
*Louis van Gasteren, 93, Dutch movie director (*Hans: Het Leven Voor De Dood*, *De prijs van overleven*), producer, and artist.
*Gene Gutowski, 90, American movie producer (*The Pianist*, *The Fearless Vampire Killers*, *Cul-de-sac*), pneumonia.
*Ilkka Hanski, 63, Finnish ecologist.
*Mark Lane, 89, American lawyer, author (*Rush to Judgment*), and conspiracy theorist (Assassination of John F. Kennedy), heart attack.
*Kang Young-hoon, 93, South Korean politician, Prime Minister (1988–1990).

### 11
*Peter Behrens, 68, German musician (Trio), multiple organ failure.
*Tony Cozier, 75, Barbadian cricket writer and commentator.
*Katherine Dunn, 70, American writer (*Geek Love*), lung cancer.
*Motiur Rahman Nizami, 73, Bangladeshi politician, leader of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami (since 2000) and member of parliament for Pabna (1991—1996, 2001—2008), execution by hanging.
*Michael Ratner, 72, American lawyer, complications from cancer.
*Joe Temperley, 86, Scottish saxophonist (Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra), kidney failure.

### 12
*Mike Agostini, 81, Trinidadian sprinter, Commonwealth Games gold medalist (1954), pancreatic cancer.
*Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia, 91, Serbian royal.
*Susannah Mushatt Jones, 116, American supercentenarian, world's oldest living person (since June 2015).
*Julius La Rosa, 86, American pop singer ("Anywhere I Wander", "Manhattan", "Eh, Cumpari").
*Del Latta, 96, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives from Ohio (1959–1989).
*Yukio Ninagawa, 80, Japanese movie (*Ao no Honō*) and theatre director (*Hamlet*, *Titus Andronicus*, *Coriolanus*), pneumonia.
*Georges Sesia, 91, French footballer (Stade Français Paris, Nancy, national team).

### 13
*Sammy Ellis, 75, American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds), cancer.
*Rodrigo Espíndola, 26, Argentine footballer (Nueva Chicago), shot.
*David McNiven Garner, 87, New Zealand oceanographer.
*Dick McAuliffe, 76, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers), World Series winner (1968), stroke.
*Baba Hardev Singh, 62, Indian spiritual guru, head of the Sant Nirankari Mission (since 1980), traffic collision.

### 14
*Tony Barrow, 80, British press officer (The Beatles).
*Balázs Birtalan, 46, Hungarian author and activist.
*Darwyn Cooke, 53, Canadian comic book artist (*Catwoman*, *The Spirit*, *DC: The New Frontier*), lung cancer.
*Lasse Mårtenson, 81, Finnish singer ("Laiskotellen"), brain haemorrhage.
*Christy O'Connor Snr, 91, Irish golfer, uncle of Christy O'Connor Jnr.
*Monteagle Stearns, 91, American diplomat, Ambassador to Greece (1981–1985) and Ambassador to Ivory Coast (1976–1979).

### 15
*Oya Aydoğan, 59, Turkish actress (*Yedi Bela Hüsnü*), model and television presenter, aortic aneurysm.
*Erika Berger, 76, German television presenter and author.
*Clovis Maksoud, 89, American diplomat, Ambassador of the Arab League to India (1961–1966) the United Nations (1979–1990) and the United States (1979–1990), journalist (Al-Ahram) and educator (American University), cerebral hemorrhage.
*Cauby Peixoto, 85, Brazilian singer ("Maxximum") and actor (*Com Água na*), pneumonia.
*Michael Roberds, 52, Canadian actor (*The New Addams Family*, *Elf*, *Hot Tub Time Machine*), suspected heart attack.
*Marion Tournon-Branly, 91, French architect (Fleury Abbe, Manosque, Fontenelle Abbey).

### 16
*Sir Gavyn Farr Arthur, 64, British judge, Lord Mayor of London (2002–2003), heart attack.
*Giovanni Coppa, 90, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal, Apostolic Nuncio (1979–2001).
*Bobby Freeman, 82, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana (1980–1988), aneurysm.
*Romaldo Giurgola, 95, American-Australian architect (Parliament House).
*Aar de Goede, 87, Dutch politician, member of the House of Representatives (1967–1973), State Secretary of Finance (1973–1977), member of the European Parliament (1979–1984).
*Jim McMillian, 68, American basketball player (Los Angeles Lakers, Buffalo Braves, New York Knicks), NBA champion (1972), heart failure.
*Emilio Navaira, 53, American country and Tejano singer (*Life Is Good*), heart attack.
*David Rendel, 67, British politician, MP for Newbury (1993–2005), cancer.

### 17
*Seán Ardagh, 68, Irish politician, TD (1997–2011).
*Guy Clark, 74, American folk singer-songwriter ("Desperados Waiting for a Train", "Workbench Songs", "My Favorite Picture of You"), Grammy winner (2014), lymphoma.
*Benjamin de Roo, 76, Australian gymnast, complications from a stroke.
*Huguette Dreyfus, 87, French harpsichordist and educator (Schola Cantorum).
*Alexandru Lăpușan, 61, Romanian politician, member of the Chamber of Deputies (1992–1994) and Minister of Agriculture (1992–1996).
*François Maistre, 91, French actor (*Angélique, Marquise des Anges*, *The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie*).
*Yūko Mizutani, 51, Japanese voice actress (Minnie Mouse, *Black Jack*, *Tenchi Muyo!*) and singer, breast cancer.

### 18
*Luis H. Álvarez, 96, Mexican industrialist and politician, President of the National Action Party (1987–1993), complications from pneumonia.
*Boris Schnaiderman, 99, Brazilian translator, writer and essayist.
*Fritz Stern, 90, American historian.
*Lino Toffolo, 81, Italian actor (*Yuppi du*, *Brancaleone at the Crusades*, *Million Dollar Eel*) and singer.

### 19
*Alexandre Astruc, 92, French movie critic (French New Wave) and director (*The Crimson Curtain*, *La Putain respectueuse*, *Amour de poche*).
*John Berry, 52, American guitarist (Beastie Boys), complications from dementia.
*Jim Ray Hart, 74, American baseball player (San Francisco Giants, New York Yankees).
*Marco Pannella, 86, Italian politician and civil rights activist, MEP (1979–2009), lung and liver cancer.
*Morley Safer, 84, American journalist (*60 Minutes*), pneumonia.
*Alan Young, 96, Canadian-American actor (*Mister Ed*, *The Time Machine*, *Ducktales*).

### 20
*Gert Bals, 79, Dutch footballer (Eindhoven, Ajax, Vitesse).
*Patricia M. Derian, 86, American human and civil rights activist, Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs (1977–1981), Alzheimer's disease.
*Miguel de la Quadra-Salcedo, 83, Spanish journalist and athlete, founder of Aventura 92.
*Brandon Grove, Jr., 87, American diplomat, Ambassador to East Germany (1974–1977) and Ambassador to Zaire (1984–1987), complications from cancer.
*John David Jackson, 91, Canadian physicist and educator (University of California, Berkeley).
*Wheelock Whitney, Jr., 89, American businessman, sports owner (Minnesota Twins, Minnesota Vikings), educator (Carlson School of Management), philanthropist, and politician, 1964 United States senate and 1884 Governor of Minnesota Republican-nominee.

### 21
*Gaston Berghmans, 90, Belgian comedian and actor (*The Silent Hedonist*).
*Akhtar Mansour, c.48, Afghan Islamist, Minister of the Emirate for Aviation and Tourism (1996–2001), leader of the Taliban (since 2015), airstrike. 
*Nick Menza, 51, American drummer (Megadeth), heart failure.
*Sándor Tarics, 102, Hungarian water polo player, Olympic gold medalist (1936).

### 22
*Lucjan Avgustini, 52, Albanian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Sapë (since 2006), heart attack.
*Adolf Born, 85, Czech painter, filmmaker, caricaturist, illustrator and animator (*Mach a Šebestová*).
*Leonorilda Ochoa, 76, Mexican actress (*Los Beverly de Peralvillo*, *Capulina Speedy González*, *Rubí*) and comedian, Alzheimer's disease.
*Velimir Sombolac, 77, Serb football player (Partizan, Yugoslavia national football team, Olimpija Ljubljana) and manager (Kozara Gradiška, Republika Srpska).
*Bata Živojinović, 82, Serbian actor (*Walter Defends Sarajevo*) and politician, member of the Serbian Parliament (1990–2004), 2002 presidential candidate, complications from gangrene.

### 23
*John Brophy, 83, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (Birmingham Bulls, Toronto Maple Leafs, Hampton Roads Admirals), namesake of John Brophy Award.
*Joe Fleishaker, 62, American actor (''Troma's War*, *Sgt. Kabukiman N.Y.P.D.*, *Late Show with David Letterman*), heart attack.
*Zdeněk Mézl, 81, Czech illustrator and writer (*A Battle for Cathedral*, *Hey, Slavs!*), heart attack.

### 24
*Lewis Fiander, 78, Australian actor (*Pride and Prejudice*, *Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde*, *The Abdication*), stroke.
*Buck Kartalian, 93, American actor (*Planet of the Apes*, *Cool Hand Luke*, *The Rock*).
*Burt Kwouk, 85, British actor (*The Pink Panther*, *Last of the Summer Wine*, *Goldfinger*), cancer.
*Mell Lazarus, 89, American cartoonist (*Miss Peach*, *Momma''), complications from Alzheimer's disease.
*Berend Jan Udink, 90, Dutch politician, Minister of Transport, Public Works and Water Management (1972–1973), Minister of Housing and Spatial Planning (1971–1973), and Minister for Development Cooperation (1967–1971).

### 25
*Nancy Dow, 79, American actress (*The Beverley Hillbillies*, *The Wild Wild West*, *Pure*) and model, mother of Jennifer Aniston, complications from a stroke.
*Gyula Kosice, 92, Czechoslovakian-born Argentine poet and sculptor.
*John Webster, 60, British theologian (Anglican Communion) and educator (St Mary's College, St Andrews).
*Yang Jiang, 104, Chinese playwright, author, and translator (*Don Quixote*).

### 26
*Kazimierz Barburski, 73, Polish fencer, Olympic bronze medalist (1968).
*Loris Francesco Capovilla, 100, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal.
*Ted Dumitru, 76, Romanian football manager (Kaizer Chiefs, Mamelodi Sundowns), heart attack.
*Hedy Epstein, 91, German-born American Holocaust survivor and political activist (International Solidarity Movement), cancer.
*Angela Paton, 86, American actress (*Groundhog Day*, *American Wedding*, *Lolita*), heart attack.
*Arturo Pomar, 84, Spanish chess grandmaster.
*Bob Williams, 86, American football player (Chicago Bears), Parkinson's disease.

### 27
*Kai G. Henriksen, 60, Norwegian businessman (Vinmonopolet), complications from pancreatic cancer.
*František Jakubec, 60, Czech football player (Bohemians Prague, Bellinzona, Czechoslovakia national football team), heart attack.
*Marshall Jones, 75, American musician (Ohio Players).

### 28
*Giorgio Albertazzi, 92, Italian actor (*Little World of Don Camillo*, *Last Year at Marienbad*, *Some Say No*), movie director (*La governante*, *Gradiva*), screenwriter and singer (*Gli angeli del potere*).
*Stanley Burke, 93, Canadian television journalist (*The National*).
*David Cañada, 41, Spanish cyclist (ONCE, Mapei, Saunier Duval–Prodir), race collision.
*Bryce Dejean-Jones, 23, American basketball player (New Orleans Pelicans), shot.
*Marion Lambert, 73, Belgian-born Swiss art collector, road accident.

### 29
*T. Marshall Hahn, 89, American academic administrator, President of Virginia Tech (1962–1974).
*Ralph Ketner, 95, American businessman and philanthropist, co-founder of Food Lion, colon cancer.
*Don McNay, 57, American financial author and columnist (*The Huffington Post*), suspected heart attack.

### 30
*Kenne Fant, 93, Swedish actor (*Prison*) and director (*Adventures of Nils Holgersson*). (death announced on this date)
*Tom Lysiak, 63, Canadian ice hockey player (Atlanta Flames, Chicago Blackhawks, national team), leukemia.
*Rick MacLeish, 66, Canadian ice hockey player (Philadelphia Flyers), kidney and liver failure.

### 31
*Mohamed Abdelaziz, 68, Sahrawi politician, President (since 1976), lung cancer.
*Jan Crouch, 78, American televangelist and broadcasting executive (Trinity Broadcasting Network), complications from a stroke.
*Antonio Imbert Barrera, 95, Dominican politician, President (1965).
*Carla Lane, 87, English television writer (*The Liver Birds*, *Butterflies*, *Bread*) 
*Rupert Neudeck, 77, German journalist and humanitarian (Cap Anamur), complications from heart surgery.
*David Tod Roy, 83, Chinese translator, complications from ALS.

## 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