Deaths in January 2016

The following is a list of **notable deaths in January 2016**. For notable deaths before the current month, please see "Previous 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
* Fazu Aliyeva, 83, Russian poet and journalist, heart failure.
* Lennie Bluett, 96, American actor (*Gone with the Wind*, *Mighty Joe Young*, *A Star Is Born*).
* Dale Bumpers, 90, American politician, Governor of Arkansas (1971–1975), Senator from Arkansas (1975–1999), complications from a fall.
* Antonio Carrizo, 89, Argentine broadcaster.
* Brian Johns, 79, Australian company director, managing director of the ABC (1995–2000), cancer.
* Gilbert Kaplan, 74, American conductor and businessman, cancer.
* Mark B, 45, British hip-hop record producer, heart failure.
* Mike Oxley, 71, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from  (1981–2007), lung cancer.
* Ian Pieris, 82, Sri Lankan cricketer.
* Jim Ross, 89, Canadian ice hockey player (New York Rangers).
* Vilmos Zsigmond, 85, Hungarian-American cinematographer (*Close Encounters of the Third Kind*, *The Deer Hunter*, *The Black Dahlia*), Oscar winner (1978).

### 2
* Marcel Barbeau, 90, Canadian painter and sculptor.
* Ardhendu Bhushan Bardhan, 91, Indian politician, General Secretary of the Communist Party of India (1996–2012), complications from a stroke.
* Michel Delpech, 69, French singer-songwriter and actor, throat cancer.
* Tim Francis, 87, New Zealand diplomat, Ambassador to the United States (1988–1991), cancer.
* Maria Garbowska-Kierczyńska, 93, Polish actress.
* Matt Hobden, 22, English cricketer (Sussex), accidental fall.
* Gisela Mota Ocampo, 33, Mexican politician, Mayor of Temixco (2016), shot.
* Nimr al-Nimr, 56, Saudi Shia religious leader, executed by beheading.
* Shigeji Kaneko, 84, Japanese boxer, progressive supranuclear palsy.
* Frances Cress Welsing, 80, American psychiatrist and author (*The Isis Papers*), complications from a stroke.
* Sabri Yirmibeşoğlu, 87, Turkish military officer, Secretary-General of the National Security Council (1988–1990), kidney failure.

### 3
* Paul Bley, 83, Canadian jazz pianist.
* Stephen W. Bosworth, 76, American diplomat, Ambassador to South Korea (1997–2001), prostate cancer.
* Amby Fogarty, 82, Irish footballer (Sunderland, Hartlepool).
* C. B. Forgotston, 70, American political blogger, suicide by gunshot.
* Demmus Hentze, 92, Faroese politician, Finance Minister (1975–1981).
* Peter Powell, 83, English kite maker, stroke.
* Bill Plager, 70, Canadian ice hockey player (St. Louis Blues).
* Peter Naur, 87, Danish computer science pioneer, Turing award winner.
* Georg Nees, 89, German academic and artist, heart failure.
* Tommy Sale, 97, English rugby league player (Leigh, Widnes).
* Igor Sergun, 58, Russian military officer, Director of the GRU (since 2011).

### 4
* Tom Allin, 28, English cricketer (Warwickshire), suicide by jumping.
* Fernando Barrachina, 68, Spanish footballer (Valencia CF).
* Rūsiņš Mārtiņš Freivalds, 73, Latvian computer scientist and mathematician, heart attack.
* Michel Galabru, 93, French actor (*Subway*, *Belle Époque*, *Asterix & Obelix Take On Caesar*).
* S. H. Kapadia, 68, Indian judge, Chief Justice (2010–2012).
* Jorge Lepra, 73, Uruguayan diplomat and politician, heart failure.
* Achim Mentzel, 69, German musician and television presenter.
* Marjorie Pizer, 95, Australian poet.
* John Roberts, 69, Welsh footballer (Arsenal, Birmingham, Wrexham).
* Andres Rodríguez, 31, Venezuelan equestrian competitor, car accident.
* Leo Rucka, 84, American football player (San Francisco 49ers).
* Robert Stigwood, 81, Australian music impresario and movie producer (*Grease*, *Saturday Night Fever*). (death announced on this date)

### 5
* María Lorenza Barreneche, 89, Argentine socialite, First Lady (1983–1989).
* Sian Blake, 42–43, British actress (*EastEnders*), head and neck injuries. (body discovered on this date)
* Pierre Boulez, 90, French composer.
* Percy Freeman, 70, English footballer (Lincoln City, West Bromwich Albion, Reading).
* Rudolf Haag, 93, German theoretical physicist and educator.
* Lev Nikolayevich Korolyov, 89, Russian computer scientist.
* Jean-Paul L'Allier, 77, Canadian politician, Mayor of Quebec City (1989–2005).
* Antônio Pompêo, 62, Brazilian actor.
* Michael Purcell, 70, Australian rugby union player.

### 6
* Alfredo "Chocolate" Armenteros, 87, Cuban trumpeter, prostate cancer.
* Pat Harrington, Jr., 86, American actor (*One Day at a Time*, *Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels*), complications from a fall and Alzheimer's disease.
* Florence King, 80, American writer.
* Christy O'Connor Jnr, 67, Irish golfer, nephew of Christy O'Connor Snr.
* Silvana Pampanini, 90, Italian actress (*The Road a Year Long*, *The City Stands Trial*, *Roman Tales*).
* Ioannis Petridis, 84, Greek politician, MP for Pieria (1985–1989).
* Sol Polansky, 89, American diplomat, Ambassador to Bulgaria (1987–1990). (death announced on this date)
* Nivaria Tejera, 86, Cuban poet and novelist, pancreatic cancer.
* Yves Vincent, 94, French actor.

### 7
* Klaas Bakker, 89, Dutch footballer (Ajax).
* Robert M. Cundick, 89, American organist and composer. 
* Kitty Kallen, 94, American singer ("Little Things Mean a Lot").
* Judith Kaye, 77, American lawyer, Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals (1993–2008), cancer.
* Richard Libertini, 82, American actor (*Fletch*, *All of Me*, *The In-Laws*), cancer.
* Ashraf Pahlavi, 96, Iranian princess.
* Mohammad Sayeed, 79, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir (2002–2005, since 2015), Minister of Home Affairs (1989–1990), multiple organ failure.
* Troy Shondell, 76, American singer, complications from Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease.
* Sergey Shustikov, 45, Russian football player (Torpedo Moscow) and manager (Solyaris Moscow).
* Anton Srholec, 86, Slovak writer and priest, lung cancer.
* Valerio Zanone, 79, Italian politician, Secretary of Italian Liberal Party (1976–1985) and Mayor of Turin (1990–1991).

### 8
* Otis Clay, 73, American R&B and soul singer ("Tryin' to Live My Life Without You", "The Only Way Is Up"), heart attack.
* Oscar Fritschi, 76, Swiss politician.
* German Moreno, 82, Philippine television host (*Walang Tulugan with the Master Showman*) and actor, cardiac arrest.
* Royal Parker, 86, American television personality, congestive heart failure.
* Red Simpson, 81, American country singer-songwriter ("I'm a Truck"), complications from a heart attack.
* Piet Steenkamp, 90, Dutch politician, President of the Senate (1983–1991).

### 9
* Merab Chigoev, 65, South Ossetian politician, Prime Minister (1998–2001), traffic collision.
* Lawrence H. Cohn, 78, American surgeon, stroke.
* Hamada Emam, 68, Egyptian footballer (Zamalek SC).
* Maria Teresa de Filippis, 89, Italian racing driver, first woman to race in Formula One.
* Peter Gavin Hall, 64, Australian mathematician and statistician, leukemia.
* John Harvard, 77, Canadian politician, Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba (2004–2009).
* Umberto Raho, 93, Italian actor (*The Bird with the Crystal Plumage*, *The Last Man on Earth*, *Superfantagenio*), complications from Alzheimer's disease.
* José María Rivas, 57, Salvadoran footballer, leukemia.
* Angus Scrimm, 89, American actor (*Phantasm*, *Alias*, *John Dies at the End*).
* Ed Stewart, 74, British broadcasting personality (*Top of the Pops*, *Crackerjack*), stroke.
* Zelimkhan Yaqub, 65, Azerbaijani poet.

### 10
* Abbas Bahri, 61, Tunisian mathematician.
* Wim Bleijenberg, 85, Dutch footballer (Ajax, national team).
* David Bowie, 69, British singer-songwriter ("Space Oddity", *Ziggy Stardust*, *Rebel Rebel*), record producer and actor (*Labyrinth*, *The Prestige*, *Arthur and the Invisibles*), liver cancer.
* Ann Z. Caracristi, 94, American cryptographer, Deputy Director of the NSA (1980–1982), complications from dementia.
* Jeanne Cordova, 67, American LGBT activist, brain cancer.
* Teofil Codreanu, 74, Romanian footballer (Rapid București).
* Kalevi Lehtovirta, 87, Finnish footballer.
* Hernán Gamboa, 69, Venezuelan musician (Serenata Guayanesa), cancer.
* Ulrich Hahnen, 63, German politician (SPD), Deputy of the Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia (since 2010), cancer.
* Ralph Hauenstein, 103, American philathropist and businessman.
* George Jonas, 80, Canadian writer, Parkinson's disease.
* Bob Oatley, 87, Australian yachtsman (*Wild Oats XI*) and winemaker (Rosemount).
* Arthur S. Obermayer, 84, American entrepreneur and philanthropist, cancer.
* Cornelis Zitman, 89, Dutch sculptor.
* Yusuf Zuayyin, 84, Syrian politician, Prime Minister (1965, 1966–1968).

### 11
* Reginaldo Araújo, 38, Brazilian footballer, heart attack.
* William Del Monte, 109, American centenarian, last known survivor of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
* Berge Furre, 78, Norwegian politician and historian.
* Alexander Hickman, 90, Canadian judge and politician. (death announced on this date)
* Monte Irvin, 96, American Hall of Fame baseball player (Newark Eagles, New York Giants, Chicago Cubs).
* Brian Johnson, 59, Australian rugby league player and coach (Warrington), Alzheimer's disease. 
* David Margulies, 78, American actor (*Ghostbusters*, *The Sopranos*, *Conversations with My Father*).
* János Radványi, 93, American political scientist and diplomat, Ambassador to the United States (1962–1967).
* Gunnel Vallquist, 97, Swedish writer and translator.

### 12
* Robert Black, 68, Scottish serial killer and kidnapper.
* Ivan Bukavshin, 20, Russian chess player, stroke.
* Rose Chibambo, 87, Malawian politician, Deputy Minister for Hospitals, Prisons and Social Welfare (1963–1964), heart attack.
* Andrew Smith, 25, American basketball player (Butler Bulldogs), non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
* Gastón Guzmán, 83, Mexican mycologist and anthropologist, heart attack.
*Meg Mundy, 101, American actress (*Fatal Attraction*, *All My Children*, *Ordinary People*).
* William Needles, 97, Canadian theater actor.
* Dave Sime, 79, American sprinter and ophthalmologist, cancer.
* Carolyn D. Wright, 67, American poet, cancer.

### 13
* Brian Bedford, 80, British actor and voice actor (*Robin Hood*, *Nixon*, *Much Ado About Nothing*), cancer.
* William Craig, 97, American philosopher and educator.
* Giorgio Gomelsky, 81, Georgian filmmaker, impresario, music manager, songwriter and record producer.
* Bern Herbolsheimer, 67, American composer, cancer.
* J. F. R. Jacob, 92, Indian military officer, pneumonia.
* Conrad Phillips, 90, British television and movie actor (*The Adventures of William Tell*).
* Lawrence Phillips, 40, American football player (University of Nebraska, St. Louis Rams) and convicted felon, apparent suicide.
* Jim Simpson, 88, American sportscaster (NBC Sports).
* Zaharije Trnavčević, 90, Serbian politician, Acting President of the National Assembly (2012).
* Ellen Meiksins Wood, 73, American historian, cancer.
* Tera Wray, 33, American pornographic actress, suicide.

### 14
* René Angélil, 73, Canadian entertainment manager (Céline Dion), heart attack complicated by throat cancer.
* George Carroll, 94, American lawyer and politician, Mayor of Richmond (1964–1965), respiratory failure.
* Franco Citti, 80, Italian actor (*Accattone*, *The Godfather*, *The Godfather Part III*).
* Alan Rickman, 69, English actor (*Harry Potter*, *Die Hard*, *Love Actually*), pancreatic cancer.
* Shaolin, 44, Brazilian humorist, heart attack.
* Rajesh Vivek, 66, Indian actor (*Lagaan*), heart attack.
* Leonid Zhabotinsky, 77, Soviet weightlifter, Olympic champion (1964, 1968).

### 15
* Francisco X. Alarcón, 61, American poet, cancer.
* Noreen Corcoran, 72, American actress (*The Girls on the Beach*, *Gidget Goes to Rome*, *Bachelor Father*), cardiopulmonary disease.
* Dan Haggerty, 74, American actor (*Easy Rider*, *The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams*, *Big Stan*), spinal cancer.
* Ken Judge, 58, Australian football player and coach (Hawthorn), cancer.
* P. J. Mara, 73, Irish public affairs consultant, Senator (1977–1981, 1982–1983).
* Oleksandr Shevchenko, 78, Ukrainian scientist, jurist and politician, member of the Verkhovna Rada (2012–2014).
* Manuel Velázquez, 72, Spanish footballer (Real Madrid).

### 16 
* Carina Jaarnek, 53, Swedish singer and Dansband artist, brain haemorrhage.
* Ted Marchibroda, 84, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers, Chicago Cardinals) and coach (Baltimore Colts, Indianapolis Colts, Baltimore Ravens).
* Rudy Migay, 87, Canadian ice hockey player (Toronto Maple Leafs).
* Jean-Noël Rey, 66, Swiss politician, CEO of Swiss Post, shot.
* Aristide von Bienefeldt, 56, Dutch writer. 
* Gary Loizzo, 70, American guitarist, singer, recording engineer, and record producer. He is best known for being the lead singer with The American Breed.

### 17
* Blowfly, 76, American musician and producer, liver cancer.
* Bob Harkey, 85, American racecar driver.
* Gottfried Honegger, 98, Swiss artist and graphic designer.
* Sudhindra Thirtha, 89, Indian Hindu religious leader, renal failure.

### 18
* Johnny Bach, 91, American basketball player (Boston Celtics) and coach (Fordham University, Penn State).
* Glenn Frey, 67, American guitarist (Eagles), songwriter ("Take It Easy", "Hotel California") and actor (*Wiseguy*, *Jerry Maguire*), complications following intestinal surgery.
* Michel Tournier, 91, French writer ("Friday, or, The Other Island", "The Erl-King").

### 19
* Robert M. Carter, 73, British-born Australian marine geologist and climate skeptic, complications from a heart attack.
* M. K. A. D. S. Gunawardana, 68, Sri Lankan politician, Minister of Land (since 2015), cancer.
* Yasutaro Koide, 112, Japanese supercentenarian, world's oldest man, heart failure and pneumonia.
* Richard Levins, 85, American mathematical ecologist and population geneticist, heart failure.
* Ettore Scola, 84, Italian movie director (*A Special Day*, *What Time Is It?*, *The Dinner*) and screenwriter (*We All Loved Each Other So Much*), pneumonia.
* Sheila Sim, Lady Attenborough, 93, English actress (*Pandora and the Flying Dutchman*, *A Canterbury Tale*, *West of Zanzibar*), dementia.
* William Y. Smith, 90, American air force general, congestive heart failure.
* Frank Sullivan, 85, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox, Philadelphia Phillies, Minnesota Twins), pneumonia.

### 20
* Edmonde Charles-Roux, 95, French writer.
* Ronald Greenwald, 82, American rabbi and activist, suspected heart attack.
* David G. Hartwell, 74, American editor, publisher and critic, injuries from a fall.

### 21
* Bogusław Kaczyński, 73, Polish classical music journalist, stroke.
* Derrick Todd Lee, 47, American convicted serial killer.
* Mrinalini Sarabhai, 97, Indian classical dancer, choreographer and instructor, respiratory failure.
* Robert Sassone, 37, French road racing cyclist, suicide.

### 22
* Homayoun Behzadi, 73, Iranian football player (Shahin F.C., Paykan F.C., national team) and coach (Persepolis F.C.).
* Kamer Genç, 75, Turkish politician, cancer.
* Cecil Parkinson, 84, British politician, cabinet minister, cancer.
* Miloslav Ransdorf, 62, Czech politician (KSČM), Member of the European Parliament (since 2004), stroke.
* Rik Wilson, 53, American ice hockey player (St. Louis Blues, Calgary Flames, Chicago Blackhawks). (death announced on this date)

### 23
* Barry Brickell, 80, New Zealand ceramic artist.
* Josip Friščić, 66, Croatian politician.
* A. C. Jose, 78, Indian politician, Speaker of Kerala Legislature (1982), member of Parliament (1996–1997, 1998–2004).
* Elisabeta Polihroniade, 80, Romanian chess Woman Grandmaster (1982) and International Arbiter.
* Dmitry Shirkov, 88, Russian theoretical physicist, heart attack.

### 24
* Jimmy Bain, 68, Scottish bassist (Rainbow, Dio), lung cancer.
* Fredrik Barth, 87, Norwegian social anthropologist. 
* Marvin Minsky, 88, American cognitive scientist and pioneer in artificial intelligence, cerebral hemorrhage.
* Henry Worsley, 55, British adventurer, multiple organ failure.
* Forouzan, 78, Iranian actress.

### 25
* Kalpana, 49, Indian actress (*Thanichalla Njan*), heart attack.
* Concepcion Picciotto, 80, Spanish-born American peace activist, complications from a fall.
* Paul Terasaki, 86, American scientist and philanthropist.

### 26
* Black, 53, British singer-songwriter ("Wonderful Life"), head injuries sustained in a traffic collision.
* Tommy Kelly, 90, American actor (*The Adventures of Tom Sawyer*, ''Peck's Bad Boy with the Circus*), congestive heart failure.
* Sahabzada Yaqub Khan, 95, Pakistani politician and diplomat, Minister of Foreign Affairs (1982–1991, 1996–1997).
* Abe Vigoda, 94, American actor (*The Godfather*, *Barney Miller*, *Joe Versus the Volcano*), complications from an illness.

### 27
* Augusto Giomo, 75, Italian basketball player (1970 FIBA World Championship), cancer.
* Carlos Loyzaga, 85, Filipino Olympic basketball player (1952, 1956), complications from a stroke.

### 28
* Signe Toly Anderson, 74, American singer (Jefferson Airplane), complications from COPD.   
* Yisroel Belsky, 77, American rabbi. 
* Buddy Cianci, 74, American politician and radio host, Mayor of Providence, Rhode Island (1975–1984, 1991–2002), colon cancer.
* Aleš Debeljak, 54, Slovenian writer, car crash.
* Paul Kantner, 74, American musician (Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson Starship, KBC Band), multiple organ failure.

### 29
* Jean-Marie Doré, 77, Guinean politician, Prime Minister (2010). 
* Gordon Goody, 86, British criminal (Great Train Robbery) and businessman, heart attack.
* Cayetano Paderanga, Jr., 67, Filipino economist, Director-General of NEDA (2010–2012), complications after heart surgery.
* Jacques Rivette, 87, French movie director (*Celine and Julie Go Boating*, *Out 1'') and movie critic, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
* John Roper, Baron Roper, 80, British politician.

### 30
* Frank Finlay, 89, British actor (*Othello*, *The Shoes of the Fisherman*, *The Three Musketeers*), heart failure.
* Francisco Flores Pérez, 56, Salvadorian politician, President (1999–2004), cerebral hemorrhage.
* T. N. Gopakumar, 58, Indian journalist, cancer. 
* Georgia Davis Powers, 92, American civil rights activist and politician, member of the Kentucky Senate (1968-1989), congestive heart failure.
* Mohammad Salimi, 78, Iranian general, Commander-in-Chief of the Army (2000–2005).

### 31
* Mere Broughton, 79, New Zealand Māori language activist and unionist, heart failure.
* Sir Terry Wogan, 77, British-Irish broadcaster (BBC), cancer.
* Benoît Violier, 44, French-born Swiss chef, suicide by gunshot.

## 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