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This page lists notable people who passed away in May 2016. It shares information about their lives and what they were known for.

May

Karel Pečko 1962
Karel Pečko
1920-2016
Kaname Harada 2010
Kaname Harada
1916-2016
Bob Bennett official portrait, 2009
Bob Bennett
1933-2016
Sine
Siné
1928-2016
Romalı Perihan (cropped)
Romalı Perihan
1942-2016
Johannes Bauer 05N2879
Hannes Bauer
1954-2016
Bundesarchiv Bild 183-Z0624-320, Margot Honecker
Margot Honecker
1927-2016
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Louis van Gasteren (1987)
Mark Lane in Ann Arbor
Mark Lane
1927-2016
Peter-Behrens-2014
Peter Behrens
1947-2016
Cauby2015 (cropped)
Cauby Peixoto
1931-2016
Guy Clark at the 2009 Newport Folk Festival (cropped)
Guy Clark
1941-2016
Luis H. Alvarez
Luis H. Álvarez
1919-2016
Marco Pannella crop
Marco Pannella
1930-2016
Morley Safer (cropped)
Morley Safer
1931-2016
Alan Young circa 1944
Alan Young
1919-2016
Jackson textbook (cropped)
Adolf Born 2 - Book World Fair 2010 Prague
Adolf Born
1930-2016
HedyEpstein
Hedy Epstein
1924-2016
Giorgio Albertazzi 1960s

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May 4

May 5

  • Sylvia Kauders, 94, an American actress. She died from a heart attack.
  • Romalı Perihan, 74, a Turkish actress and singer. She died from a heart attack.
  • Siné, 87, a French political cartoonist. He worked for Charlie Hebdo.
  • Isao Tomita, 84, a Japanese musician and composer. He died from heart failure.

May 6

May 7

  • Bernardo Ribeiro, 26, a Brazilian footballer. He died from a heart attack.
  • John Stabb, 54, an American punk singer. He died from stomach cancer.

May 8

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May 11

  • Peter Behrens, 68, a German musician from the band Trio.
  • Tony Cozier, 75, a Barbadian cricket writer and commentator.
  • Katherine Dunn, 70, an American writer. She wrote Geek Love.
  • Motiur Rahman Nizami, 73, a Bangladeshi politician. He was executed.
  • Michael Ratner, 72, an American lawyer. He died from complications of cancer.
  • Joe Temperley, 86, a Scottish saxophonist. He died from kidney failure.

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May 20

May 21

  • Gaston Berghmans, 90, a Belgian comedian and actor.
  • Akhtar Mansour, about 48, an Afghan Islamist leader of the Taliban. He died in an airstrike.
  • Nick Menza, 51, an American drummer for Megadeth. He died from heart failure.
  • Sándor Tarics, 102, a Hungarian water polo player. He won an Olympic gold medal in 1936.

May 22

May 23

  • John Brophy, 83, a Canadian ice hockey player and coach.
  • Joe Fleishaker, 62, an American actor. He died from a heart attack.
  • Zdeněk Mézl, 81, a Czech illustrator and writer. He died from a heart attack.

May 24

May 25

  • Nancy Dow, 79, an American actress and model. She was the mother of Jennifer Aniston. She died from complications of a stroke.
  • Gyula Kosice, 92, an Argentine poet and sculptor.
  • John Webster, 60, a British theologian and educator.
  • Yang Jiang, 104, a Chinese playwright, author, and translator.

May 26

May 27

May 28

  • Giorgio Albertazzi, 92, an Italian actor and director.
  • Stanley Burke, 93, a Canadian television journalist.
  • David Cañada, 41, a Spanish cyclist. He died in a race collision.
  • Bryce Dejean-Jones, 23, an American basketball player. He was shot.
  • Marion Lambert, 73, a Swiss art collector. She died in a road accident.

May 29

May 30

  • Kenne Fant, 93, a Swedish actor and director.
  • Tom Lysiak, 63, a Canadian ice hockey player. He died from leukemia.
  • Rick MacLeish, 66, a Canadian ice hockey player. He died from kidney and liver failure.

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