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In the year 2016
1,081 Notable deaths
Jay Wright Forrester
American operations researcher.
Born July 14th, 1918 in Anselmo. [ref]
Died November 16th, 2016 at 98 years old in Concord. [ref]
Mark Takai
American politician.
Born July 1st, 1967 in Honolulu.
Died July 20th, 2016 at 49 years old in Honolulu, Aiea (pancreatic cancer).
Joe Sutter
American engineer.
Born March 21st, 1921 in Seattle. [ref]
Died August 30th, 2016 at 95 years old in Seattle. [ref]
Victor Bailey
American musician.
Born March 27th, 1960 in Philadelphia.
Died November 11th, 2016 at 56 years old in Stafford (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis). [ref]
Joan Carroll
American stage and film actress.
Born January 18th, 1932 in Paterson.
Died November 16th, 2016 at 84 years old in Puerto Vallarta (disease). [ref]
Clyde Lovellette
American basketball player (1929-2016).
Born September 7th, 1929 in Petersburg.
Died March 9th, 2016 at 86 years old in North Manchester (cancer). [ref]
Adolf Burger
Jewish slovak typographer, memoir writer, and holocaust survivor (1917-2016).
Born August 12th, 1917 in Veľká Lomnica. [ref]
Died December 6th, 2016 at 99 years old in Prague. [ref]
Shahram Amiri
Nuclear scientist.
Born November 8th, 1977 in Kermanshah.
Died August 3rd, 2016 at 38 years old in Tehran (hanging). [ref]
Peter Naur
Danish computer scientist.
Born October 25th, 1928 in Frederiksberg.
Died January 3rd, 2016 at 87 years old in Herlev Municipality (disease). [ref]
Goran Hadžić
Croatian serb politician (1958-2016).
Born September 7th, 1958 in Vinkovci.
Died July 12th, 2016 at 57 years old in Novi Sad (brain cancer). [ref]
Deaths 351 to 360 of 1081
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