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2016
Year
2016 (MMXVI ) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar , the 2016th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 16th year of the 3rd millennium , the 16th year of the 21st century , and the 7th year of the 2010s decade.
2016
2016 was designated as:
Events
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
September 1 – An annular solar eclipse was visible from Gabon, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Tanzania, Mozambique and Madagascar.
September 3 – The US and China, together responsible for 40% of the world's carbon emissions , both formally join the Paris global climate agreement .[37]
September 8 – NASA launches OSIRIS-REx , its first asteroid sample return mission . The probe will visit Bennu and is expected to return with samples in 2023 .[38] [39]
September 9 – The government of North Korea conducts its fifth and reportedly biggest nuclear test . World leaders condemn the act, with South Korea calling it "maniacal recklessness".[40]
September 28
International investigators conclude that Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down by a Buk missile that came from an area controlled by pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine.[41]
Global levels exceed 400 ppm at the time of year normally associated with minimum levels.[42] A 400 ppm level is believed to be higher than anything experienced in human history.[43]
September 30 – Two paintings by Vincent van Gogh with a combined value of $100 million, Seascape at Scheveningen and Congregation Leaving the Reformed Church in Nuenen , are recovered after having been stolen on December 7, 2002 from the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.[44] October
November
December
Births
Deaths
January
January 1 – Vilmos Zsigmond , Hungarian-American cinematographer (b. 1930 )
January 2
January 3
January 4 – Michel Galabru , French actor (b. 1922 )
January 5 – Pierre Boulez , French composer, conductor and writer (b. 1925 )
January 6 – Silvana Pampanini , Italian actress (b. 1925 )
January 7
January 8
January 10
January 11 – Monte Irvin , American baseball player (b. 1919 )
January 12 – Meg Mundy , English-born American actress (b. 1915 )
January 14
January 15 – Dan Haggerty , American actor (b. 1941 )
January 18
January 19 – Ettore Scola , Italian screenwriter and film director (b. 1931 )
January 23 – Jimmy Bain , Scottish musician (b. 1947 )
January 24 – Marvin Minsky , American computer scientist (b. 1927 )
January 26
January 28
January 29
January 30
January 31 – Terry Wogan , Irish-British broadcaster (b. 1938 )February
February 1 – Óscar Humberto Mejía Victores , 27th President of Guatemala (b. 1930 )
February 3 – Joe Alaskey , American voice actor (b. 1952 )
February 4
February 8 – Amelia Bence , Argentine actress (b. 1914 )
February 9 – Sushil Koirala , 37th Prime Minister of Nepal (b. 1939 )
February 13
February 15
February 16 – Boutros Boutros-Ghali , Egyptian politician and diplomat, Secretary-General of the UN (b. 1922 )
February 17
February 18 – Pantelis Pantelidis , Greek singer, songwriter and lyricist (b. 1983 )
February 19
February 22
February 23 – Donald E. Williams , American astronaut (b. 1942 )
February 24 – Peter Kenilorea , 1st Prime Minister of the Solomon Islands (b. 1943 )
February 25 – Tony Burton , American actor (b. 1937 )
February 28
February 29
March
March 2 – Berta Cáceres , Honduran environmental activist and indigenous leader (b. 1971 )
March 5
March 6 – Nancy Reagan , American actress, First Lady of the United States (b. 1921 )
March 8
March 9
March 10
March 11
March 12 – Lloyd Shapley , American Nobel mathematician (b. 1923 )
March 13 – Hilary Putnam , American philosopher, mathematician and computer scientist (b. 1926 )
March 14 – Peter Maxwell Davies , English composer and conductor (b. 1934 )
March 16 – Frank Sinatra Jr. , American singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1944 )
March 17
March 18
March 20 – Anker Jørgensen , Prime Minister of Denmark (b. 1922 )
March 21 – Andrew Grove , Hungarian-American electronic executive (b. 1936 )
March 22 – Rob Ford , Canadian politician (b. 1969 )
March 23 – Ken Howard , American actor (b. 1944 )
March 24
March 26 – Raúl Cárdenas , Mexican footballer and coach (b. 1928 )
March 29 – Patty Duke , American actress (b. 1946 )
March 31
April
April 1 – Pratyusha Banerjee , Indian television actress (b. 1991 )
April 2 – Gato Barbieri , Argentine jazz saxophonist (b. 1932 )
April 3
April 4 – Chus Lampreave , Spanish actress (b. 1930 )
April 6 – Merle Haggard , American country singer (b. 1937 )
April 8 – Erich Rudorffer , German fighter ace (b. 1917 )
April 10 – Howard Marks , Welsh drug smuggler, writer and legalisation campaigner (b. 1945 )
April 12
April 16 – Louis Pilot , Luxembourgian football player and manager (b. 1940 )
April 17 – Doris Roberts , American actress, author, and philanthropist (b. 1925 )
April 19
April 20
April 21
April 23 – Banharn Silpa-archa , 21st Prime Minister of Thailand (b. 1932 )
April 24
April 26 – Harry Wu , Chinese human rights activist (b. 1937 )
April 27 – Viktor Gavrikov , Lithuanian-Swiss chess Grandmaster (b. 1957 )
April 30 – Harry Kroto , English Nobel chemist (b. 1939 )May
June
June 2 – Tom Kibble , British physicist (b. 1932 )
June 3
June 4 – Carmen Pereira , Bissau-Guinean politician (b. 1937 )
June 5 – Jerome Bruner , American psychologist (b. 1915 )
June 6
June 7 – Stephen Keshi , Nigerian footballer and manager (b. 1962 )
June 8 – Qahhor Mahkamov , 1st President of Tajikistan (b. 1932 )
June 9 – Hassan Muhammad Makki , 10th Prime Minister of Yemen (b. 1933 )
June 10
June 11 – Rudi Altig , German road racing cyclist (b. 1937 )
June 12
June 14 – Ann Morgan Guilbert , American actress (b. 1928 )
June 16 – Jo Cox , English politician (b. 1974 )
June 17 – Rubén Aguirre , Mexican actor (b. 1934 )[importance? ]
June 18 – Vittorio Merloni , Italian entrepreneur (b. 1933 )
June 19
June 20 – Edgard Pisani , French politician (b. 1918 )
June 23
June 25 – Maurice G. Dantec , French writer (b. 1959 )
June 27
June 28
June 30 – Martin Lundström , Swedish Olympic cross country skier (b. 1918 )July
August
September
September 1 – Jon Polito , American actor (b. 1950 )
September 2
September 3
September 5
September 7
September 8
September 10 – Joy Viado , Filipino comedian and actress (b. 1959 )
September 11
September 12 – Sándor Csoóri , Hungarian poet (b. 1930 )
September 13 – Jonathan Riley-Smith , English medieval historian (b. 1938 )
September 16
September 17
September 20 – Curtis Hanson , American film director and screenwriter (b. 1945 )
September 23 – Marcel Artelesa , French footballer (b. 1938 )
September 24
September 25
September 26 – Herschell Gordon Lewis , American film director and screenwriter (b. 1929 )
September 27 – Jamshid Amouzegar , 71st Prime Minister of Iran (b. 1923 )
September 28 – Shimon Peres , 9th President and 8th Prime Minister of Israel, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (b. 1923 )
September 29 – Miriam Defensor Santiago , Filipino politician (b. 1945 )
September 30 – Tr?nh Th? Ng? , Vietnamese radio personality (b. 1931 )October
October 1 – David Herd , Scottish footballer (b. 1934 )
October 2 – Neville Marriner , British conductor (b. 1924 )
October 4 – Brigitte Hamann , German-Austrian historian and author (b. 1940 )
October 5 – Michal Ková? , 1st President of Slovakia (b. 1930 )
October 8
October 9
October 11 – Teatao Teannaki , 2nd President of Kiribati (b. 1936 )
October 12 – Thomas Mikal Ford , American actor and comedian (b. 1964 )
October 13
October 14 – Klim Churyumov , Soviet-Ukrainian astronomer (b. 1937 )
October 15 – Bruce Marshall , American ice hockey coach (b. 1962 )
October 16
October 23 – Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani , Emir of Qatar (b. 1932 )
October 24
October 25 – Carlos Alberto Torres , Brazilian footballer (b. 1944 )
October 27 – Takahito, Prince Mikasa (b. 1915 )
October 28 – Nicholas Brathwaite , 3rd Prime Minister of Grenada (b. 1925 )
October 29
October 31 – Silvio Gazzaniga , Italian sculptor (b. 1921 )November
November 1 – Bap Kennedy , Northern Irish singer-songwriter (b. 1962 )
November 2 – Oleg Popov , Soviet and Russian clown (b. 1930 )
November 4
November 5 – Marek Svato? , Slovak ice hockey player (b. 1982 )
November 6 – Zoltán Kocsis , Hungarian pianist, conductor and composer (b. 1952 )
November 7
November 11
November 12 – Lupita Tovar , Mexican-American actress (b. 1910 )
November 13
November 14 – Gardnar Mulloy , American tennis player (b. 1913 )
November 15
November 16
November 17 – Whitney Smith , American vexillologist (b. 1940 )
November 18
November 20
November 22 - M. Balamuralikrishna , Indian musician, multi-instrumentalist, singer and composer (b. 1930 )
November 23
November 24
November 25
November 27 – Ioannis Grivas , 176th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1923 )
November 28
November 29 – Luis Alberto Monge , 39th President of Costa Rica (b. 1925 )
November 30 – Erdal Tosun , Turkish actor (b. 1963 )December
December 2 – Sammy Lee , American Olympic diver (b. 1920 )
December 4 – Gotlib , French comic artist (b. 1934 )
December 5
December 6 – Peter Vaughan , British actor (b. 1923 )
December 7
December 8
December 10 – Esma Red?epova , Macedonian-Romani singer (b. 1943 )
December 12
December 13
December 14
December 16 – Faina Melnik , Ukrainian-born Russian Olympic discus thrower (b. 1945 )
December 17 – Henry Heimlich , American physician (b. 1920 )
December 18 – Zsa Zsa Gabor , Hungarian-American actress and socialite (b. 1917 )
December 19 – Andrei Karlov , Russian diplomat (b. 1954 )
December 20 – Michèle Morgan , French actress (b. 1920 )
December 22
December 23
December 24
December 25
December 26 – Ashot Anastasian , Armenian chess grandmaster (b. 1964 )
December 27
December 28
December 29
December 30 – Tyrus Wong , Chinese-born American artist (b. 1910 )
December 31
Nobel Prizes
New English words
See also
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