Deaths on 16 February
2000s
Billy Steinberg
2026
American songwriter (1950–2026)
Frederick Wiseman
2026
American filmmaker (1930–2026)
Viktor Antonov (artist)
2025
Bulgarian video game artist (1972–2025)
Alexei Navalny
2024
Russian opposition leader and activist (1976–2024)
Gustavo Noboa
2021
President of Ecuador from 2000 to 2003
Bruno Ganz
2019
Swiss actor (1941–2019)
Boutros Boutros-Ghali
2016
UN Secretary-General from 1992 to 1996 (1922–2016)
Lasse Braun
2015
Italian pornographer, film director, producer, screenwriter, novelist and researcher
Lesley Gore
2015
American singer (1946–2015)
R. R. Patil
2015
Indian politician (1956–2015)
Lorena Rojas
2015
Mexican actress and singer (1971–2015)
Ken Farragut
2014
American football player (1928–2014)
Kralle Krawinkel
2014
German guitarist (1947–2014)
Michael Shea (American author)
2014
American fiction author (1946–2014)
Colin Edwards (footballer)
2013
Guyanese footballer
Grigory Pomerants
2013
Lithuanian-born Russian philosopher and cultural theorist
Tony Sheridan
2013
British musician (1940–2013)
Gary Carter
2012
American baseball player, coach, and sportscaster (1954–2012)
Elyse Knox
2012
American actress (1917–2012)
John Macionis
2012
American swimmer (1916–2012)
Anthony Shadid
2012
American journalist (1968–2012)
Len Lesser
2011
American character actor (1922–2011)
Justinas Marcinkevičius
2011
Lithuanian poet and playwright
Stephen Kim Sou-hwan
2009
South Korean Roman Catholic cardinal and Servant of God
Johnny Grunge
2006
American professional wrestler (1965–2006)
Ernie Stautner
2006
American football player and coach
Doris Troy
2004
American actress and singer (1937–2004)
Rusty Magee
2003
American songwriter
Walter Winterbottom
2002
English football player and manager (1913–2002)
Howard W. Koch
2001
Film producer (1916–2001)
William Masters
2001
American gynecologist (1915–2001)
Marceline Day
2000
American actress (1908–2000)
Lila Kedrova
2000
Russian-French actress (1909–2000)
Karsten Solheim
2000
Golf club designer and businessman
1900s
Mary Amdur
1998
American toxicologist (1921–1998)
Sheu Yuan-dong
1998
Taiwanese politician (b. 1927, d. 1998)
Chien-Shiung Wu
1997
Chinese-American physicist (1912–1997)
Roberto Aizenberg
1996
Argentine painter and sculptor
Roger Bowen
1996
American actor and novelist (1932–1996)
Pat Brown
1996
Governor of California from 1959 to 1967
Brownie McGhee
1996
American folk-blues musician (1915–1996)
Angela Carter
1992
English novelist (1940–1992)
Jânio Quadros
1992
President of Brazil in 1961
Herman Wold
1992
Norwegian–Swedish statistician, economist (1908–1992)
Enrique Bermúdez
1991
Nicaraguan Contra leader (1932–1991)
Keith Haring
1990
American artist and social activist (1958–1990)
Ye Shengtao
1988
Chinese writer and politician (1894–1988)
M. A. G. Osmani
1984
Bangladeshi military general & revolutionary (1918–1984)
Erich Hückel
1980
German physical chemist and physicist (1896–1980)
Janani Luwum
1977
Ugandan archbishop (1922 - 1977)
Rózsa Péter
1977
Hungarian mathematician
Morgan Taylor
1975
American hurdler (1903–1975)
John Garand
1974
Canadian-American firearm designer (1888–1974)
Smiley Burnette
1967
American country music performer and comedic actor (1911–1967)
James M. Canty
1964
American educator, school administrator, and businessperson
Dazzy Vance
1961
American baseball player (1891–1961)
Josef Hofmann
1957
Polish-American pianist (1876–1957)
Dadasaheb Phalke
1944
Indian film producer, director and screenwriter (1870–1944)
Frida Felser
1941
German opera singer and actress (1872–1941)
Ferdinand Buisson
1932
French educational bureaucrat, pacifist and politician
Edgar Speyer
1932
British-American financier and philanthropist (1862–1932)
Eddie Foy
1928
19th and 20th-century American actor
Vera Kholodnaya
1919
Russian actress
Octave Mirbeau
1917
French writer, art critic and journalist (1848–1917)
Nicholas of Japan
1912
Russian Orthodox priest
Giosuè Carducci
1907
Italian poet and teacher (1835–1907)
1800s
Félix Faure
1899
President of France from 1895 to 1899
Thomas Bracken
1898
New Zealand poet, journalist and politician
William Pennington
1862
American politician (1796–1862)
Georg Carl von Döbeln
1820
Swedish Military Commander (1758–1820)
Before 1800
Richard Mead
1754
English physician (1673–1754)
James Craggs the Younger
1721
English politician (1686–1721)
Esprit Fléchier
1710
French preacher, author, Catholic prelate (1632–1710)
Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba (1585–1635)
1645
Spanish military leader
Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada
1579
Spanish conquistador (1509–1579)
Jean du Bellay
1560
16th-century French Catholic cardinal (1492–1560)
Johannes Stöffler
1531
German astronomer
John V Palaiologos
1391
Byzantine emperor (1332–1391)
Rupert I, Elector Palatine
1390
14th-century German elector and nobleman
Gertrude of Hohenberg
1281
Queen of Germany from 1273 to 1281
Afonso III of Portugal
1279
King of Portugal from 1248 to 1279
Henry Raspe
1247
German nobleman and throne claimant (c. 1204 – 1247)
Richard of Dover
1184
Archbishop of Canterbury from 1173 to 1184
Mary the Younger
902
Byzantine saint
Zhu Yi (Liang dynasty)
549