Deaths in June 2016

The following is a list of **notable deaths in June 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
*Roger Enrico, 71, American businessman (PepsiCo, DreamWorks), heart attack.
*Razak Khan, 62, Indian actor (*Baadshah*, *Hello Brother*, *Akhiyon Se Goli Maare*), heart attack.
*Boyce F. Martin, Jr., 80, American judge, Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit (1996–2003), brain cancer.

### 2
* Corry Brokken, 83, Dutch singer ("Net als toen", "Voorgoed voorbij", "Heel de wereld"), Eurovision Song Contest winner (1957).
* Tom Kibble, 83, British physicist (Quantum field theory) and educator (Imperial College London).
* Yevhen Lemeshko, 86, Ukrainian football coach (national team, Dynamo Khmelnytskyi, Metalist Kharkiv, stroke.
*Abderrahmane Meziani, 74, Algerian footballer (USM Alger), heart disease.
* Andrzej Niemczyk, 72, Polish volleyball player and coach (women's national team), European champion (2003, 2005), cancer.
*Freddie Wadling, 64, Swedish singer-songwriter (Blue for Two).

### 3
*Muhammad Ali, 74, American boxer, three-time WBC world heavyweight champion (1964, 1974, 1978), Olympic gold medalist (1960), septic shock.
*Jocelyn Lovell, 65, Canadian cyclist, Commonwealth (1978) and Pan American Games (1971, 1975) gold medalist.
*Sten Lundin, 84, Swedish motocross racer, world champion (1959, 1961).
*Luis Salom, 24, Spanish motorcycle rider, road collision.
*Dave Swarbrick, 75, British folk musician and singer-songwriter (Fairport Convention), emphysema. (death announced on this date)
*Adolph Cornelis van Bruggen, 86, Dutch malacologist.

### 4
*Gil Bartosh, 86, American football player and coach.
*Phyllis Curtin, 94, American soprano, non-communicable disease.
*Sulabha Deshpande, 79, Indian actress (*Bhumika*, *Arvind Desai Ki Ajeeb Dastaan*, *Gaman*).
*István Halász, 64, Hungarian footballer (Tatabánya, Vasas, national team).
*Antti Hyry, 84, Finnish writer.
*Carmen Pereira, 79, Bissau-Guinean politician, acting President (1984).

### 5
*Manohar Aich, 104, Indian bodybuilder.
*Gianluca Buonanno, 50, Italian politician, MEP (since 2014), traffic collision.
*Jerome Bruner, 100, American psychologist.
*Jarbas Passarinho, 96, Brazilian politician, President of the Senate (1981–1983), Governor of Pará (1964–1966).

### 6
*Ayaz Jani, 48, Pakistani poet and journalist, heart attack.
*Viktor Korchnoi, 85, Russian-born Swiss chess player, complications from a stroke.
*Steve Pisanos, 96, American air force officer, heart failure.
*Theresa Saldana, 61, American actress (*Raging Bull*, *The Commish*, *I Wanna Hold Your Hand*).
*Sir Peter Shaffer, 90, British playwright (*Black Comedy*, *Equus*, *Amadeus*) and screenwriter.
*Kimbo Slice, 42, Bahamian-born American mixed martial artist (Bellator, UFC) and actor (*Merry Christmas, Drake & Josh*), heart failure.

### 7
*Johnny Brooks, 84, English footballer (Tottenham Hotspur, Chelsea, Brentford), vascular dementia.
*Amber Gurung, 78, Nepalese musician and composer (national anthem), esophageal cancer.
*Thomas J. Perkins, 84, American businessman (Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers).
*Sean Rooks, 46, American basketball player (Dallas Mavericks, Los Angeles Lakers, Los Angeles Clippers), and assistant coach (Philadelphia 76ers), heart disease.

### 8
*Pierre Aubert, 89, Swiss politician, President (1983, 1987).
*Stephen Keshi, 54, Nigerian football player (Anderlecht, Strasbourg) and manager (national team), heart attack.
*Sascha Lewandowski, 44, German football manager (Bayer Leverkusen, Union Berlin).
*Qahhor Mahkamov, 84, Tajik politician, President (1990–1991).
*Marina Malfatti, 83, Italian actress (*The Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave*, *The Red Queen Kills Seven Times*, *Black Killer*).

### 9
*Hamza Ali, 20, English cricketer (Hampshire), drowning.

### 10
*Mary Feik, 92, American aviator, cancer.
*Alexander Gorlov, 85, Russian mechanical engineer.
*Alex Govan, 86, Scottish footballer (Plymouth Argyle, Birmingham City). (death announced on this date)
*Habib, 63, Iranian singer, heart attack.
*Gopal Gurung, 80, Nepali politician and author.
*Gordie Howe, 88, Canadian Hall of Fame ice hockey player (Detroit Red Wings), complications from a stroke.
*Mimmo Palmara, 87, Italian actor (*A Fistful of Dollars*, ''Bullets Don't Argue*, *For One Thousand Dollars Per Day*).
*Alfred Oftedal Telhaug, 81, Norwegian educationalist.
*Giuseppe Virgili, 80, Italian footballer (Fiorentina, national team).

### 11
*Rudi Altig, 79, German cyclist, winner of the 1962 Vuelta a España, world champion (1966), cancer.
*Shaibu Amodu, 58, Nigerian football manager (national team), heart attack.
*Asghar Bichareh, 89, Iranian photographer and actor, laryngeal cancer.
*Christina Grimmie, 22, American singer-songwriter (*Find Me*) and talent show participant (*The Voice*), shot.
*Bryan Robinson, 41, American football player (Chicago Bears, Cincinnati Bengals, Arizona Cardinals).
*Lars Skytøen, 86, Norwegian politician, Minister of Industry (1979–1981).

### 12
*Donald Carr, 89, English cricketer (Derbyshire, Oxford, national team).
*Vladimir Dolgopolov, 54, Soviet-born Russian football player (FC Zenit Saint Petersburg).
*Omar Mateen, 29, American mass shooter (2016 Orlando nightclub shooting), shot.
*Alfonso Portugal, 82, Mexican footballer (national team).
*George Voinovich, 79, American politician, Senator from Ohio (1999–2011), Governor of Ohio (1991–1998), Mayor of Cleveland (1980–1989).
*Janet Waldo, 96, American voice actress (*The Jetsons*, *The Flintstones*, *Wacky Races''), brain cancer.

### 13
*Ofelya Hambardzumyan, 91, Armenian folk singer.
*Randy Jones, 72, British-born American jazz musician (Chet Baker, Dave Brubeck, Maynard Ferguson), heart failure.
*Oleg Karavaychuk, 88, Soviet-born Russian composer.
*Chips Moman, 79, American songwriter ("(Hey Won't You Play) Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song") and record producer (Elvis Presley, Bobby Womack), Grammy winner (1976), complications from emphysema.

### 14
*Ronnie Claire Edwards, 83, American actress (*The Waltons*).
*Anatoli Grishin, 76, Russian sprint canoeist, Olympic gold medalist (1964).
*Ann Morgan Guilbert, 87, American actress (*The Dick Van Dyke Show*), cancer of unknown primary origin.
*Gertrude Kerbis, 89, American architect (O'Hare International Airport), liver cancer.
*Gilles Lamontagne, 97, Canadian politician, Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (1984–1990), MP (1977–1984).
*Henry McCullough, 72, Northern Irish guitarist (Spooky Tooth, Paul McCartney & Wings, The Grease Band).
*Gregory Rabassa, 94, American literary translator (*One Hundred Years of Solitude*).
*Irma Roy, 84, Argentine actress (*Simplemente María*, *Mi marido y mi novio*, *Alguien como usted*) and politician, member of the Argentine Chamber of Deputies (1995–2005), complications from a fall.
* Robert T. Paine, 83, American ecologist (Keystone species), acute myeloid leukemia.

### 15
*Claude Confortès, 88, French actor (*War of the Buttons*).
*Lois Duncan, 82, American writer (*I Know What You Did Last Summer*, *Hotel for Dogs*, *Who Killed My Daughter?*), complications from a stroke.

### 16
*Bill Berkson, 76, American poet and art critic, heart attack.
*Jo Cox, 41, British politician, MP for Batley and Spen (since 2015), shot and stabbed.
*Irving Moskowitz, 88, American businessman and philanthropist.
*Pat Suggate, 94, British-born New Zealand geologist.
*Jerome Teasley, 67, American drummer (Junior Walker and the All Stars), complications from lung and liver cancer.

### 17
*Rubén Aguirre, 82, Mexican actor (*El Chavo del Ocho*, *El Chapulín Colorado*, *Chespirito*), complications from pneumonia.
*Attrell Cordes, 46, American rhythm and blues singer (P.M. Dawn), kidney disease.
*Ron Lester, 45, American actor (*Varsity Blues*, *Popular*, *Good Burger*), liver and kidney failure.
*David Morgenthaler, 96, American businessman (Morgenthaler Ventures).

### 18
*Paul Cox, 76, Dutch-born Australian movie director (*My First Wife*, ''A Woman's Tale*, *Exile*), liver cancer.
*William J. Livsey, 85, American army general, heart attack.
*Vittorio Merloni, 83, Italian entrepreneur and industrialist, founder of Indesit Company.
*Wu Jianmin, 77, Chinese diplomat, Ambassador to France and the Netherlands (1998–2003), traffic collision.

### 19
*Nicolás García Uriburu, 78, Argentine artist and landscape architect. 
*Sverre Kjelsberg, 69, Norwegian musician (The Pussycats).
*Ricardo Obregón Cano, 99, Argentine politician, Governor of Córdoba (1973–1974).
*Götz George, 77, German actor (*Tatort*).
*Victor Stănculescu, 88, Romanian general and politician, Minister of National Defence.
*Anton Yelchin, 27, Soviet-born American actor (*Star Trek*, *Alpha Dog*, *Fright Night*), blunt traumatic asphyxia.

### 20
*Frank Chapot, 84, American equestrian, Olympic silver medalist (1960, 1972).
*Benoîte Groult, 96, French journalist, writer and feminist activist.
*Ernesto Maceda, 81, Filipino politician, Senate President (1996–1998), Senator (1971–1972, 1987–1998) and columnist, multiple organ failure.
*Rich Olive, 66, American politician, member of the Iowa Senate (2007–2011), cancer.
*Edgard Pisani, 97, French politician, philosopher and writer.
*Chayito Valdez, 71, Mexican-born American folk singer and actress (*Zacazonapan*), complications from a cerebral hemorrhage.

### 21
*Kunio Hatoyama, 67, Japanese politician.
*Henk Hofland, 88, Dutch journalist, columnist and writer.
*Al Howie, 70, Canadian long distance runner, complications from diabetes.

### 22
*Joan Acker, 92, American sociologist.
*John William Ashe, 61, Antiguan diplomat, President of the United Nations General Assembly (2013–2014), heart attack.
*Vasily Bochkaryov, 67, Russian politician.
*Jim Boyd, 60, American singer-songwriter.
*Marc Allan Feldman, 56, American physician and politician.
*David J. Hickson, 85, British organizational theorist.
*Yaşar Nuri Öztürk, 71, Turkish theologian and politician, stomach cancer.
*Harry Rabinowitz, 100, British music composer (*Reilly, Ace of Spies*) and conductor (*Chariots of Fire*, *Cats*).
*Samir Roychoudhury, 82, Indian writer (Hungry Generation).
*Amjad Sabri, 45, Pakistani qawwali singer, shot.

### 23
*James Green, 71, American historian, leukemia.
*Stanley Mandelstam, 87, American theoretical physicist.
*Ralph Stanley, 89, American bluegrass musician and member of The Stanley Brothers, Grammy winner (2002), skin cancer.

### 24
*Bernie Worrell, 72, American musician (Parliament-Funkadelic), lung cancer.

### 25
*Nicole Courcel, 84, French actress (*Rendezvous in July*, *Sundays and Cybele*).
*Bill Cunningham, 87, American fashion photographer (*The New York Times*), complications from a stroke.
*Giuseppe Ferrara, 83, Italian movie director (*The Moro Affair''), cardiac arrest.
*Bur’i Mohamed Hamza, 70s, Somali politician, injuries sustained in Hotel Naso-Hablod attack.
*Patrick Mayhew, 86, Northern Irish-born British barrister and politician, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (1992-1997), complications from Parkinson's disease.
*Mohapatra Nilamani Sahoo, 89, Indian writer (*Akasha Patala*, *Abhisapta Gandharba*), multiple organ failure.

### 26
*Austin Clarke, 81, Canadian novelist (*The Polished Hoe*).
*Barbara Goldsmith, 85, American author (*Little Gloria*), heart failure.
*Ryan Jimmo, 34, Canadian mixed martial artist (UFC, MFC), traffic collision.
*Kim Sung-min, 43, South Korean actor (*Miss Mermaid*, *Time*, *The Weight*), suicide by hanging.
*Kavalam Narayana Panicker, 88, Indian dramatist, theatre director and poet, respiratory failure.
*Rostislav Yankovsky, 86, Belarusian actor, People's Artist of the USSR (1978).

### 27
*Elmer Cravalho, 90, American politician, Speaker of the Hawaii House of Representatives (1959–1967), Mayor of Maui (1969–1979).
*Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen, 83, Danish composer, cancer.
*Harry Halbreich, 85, Belgian musicologist.
*Simon Ramo, 103, American engineer, businessman and author.
*Mack Rice, 82, American songwriter ("Mustang Sally", "Respect Yourself") and singer, complications of Alzheimer's disease.
*Bud Spencer, 86, Italian actor (*They Call Me Trinity*, ''Watch Out, We're Mad!*, *A Friend Is a Treasure*) and Olympic swimmer.
*Alvin Toffler, 87, American writer and futurist (*Future Shock*, *The Third Wave*).

### 28
*Scotty Moore, 84, American guitarist (Elvis Presley).
*Buddy Ryan, 85, American football head coach (Philadelphia Eagles, Arizona Cardinals) and defensive coordinator (Chicago Bears, Houston Oilers), cancer.
*Pat Summitt, 64, American basketball coach (Tennessee Lady Volunteers), dementia.
*Zurlon Tipton, 26, American football player (Indianapolis Colts), accidental gunshot wound.

### 29
*Inocente Carreño, 96, Venezuelan composer, complications from pneumonia.
*Gunnar Garbo, 92, Norwegian politician, MP (1958–1973).
*Ojo Maduekwe, 71, Nigerian politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs (2007–2010).
*Vasyl Slipak, 42, Ukrainian opera singer, shot.
*Xu Jiatun, 100, Chinese politician and dissident, Governor of Jiangsu (1977–1979).

### 30
*Don Friedman, 81, American jazz pianist.
*Juan Habichuela, 83, Spanish flamenco guitarist.
*Geoffrey Hill, 84, British poet.
*Martin Lundström, 98, Swedish cross-country skier, Olympic champion (1948).
*Gordon Murray, 95, British puppeteer and television producer (*Trumpton*, *Camberwick Green*, *Chigley*).

## 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