2016
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2016 is the 16th year of the 3rd millennium, the 16th year of the 21st century, and the 7th year of the 2010s decade.
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Events
Arts and culture
Books
- This Brutal World by Peter Chadwick
Visual arts
- Hieronymus Bosch - Visions of Genius, exhibition in 's-Hertogenbosch.
Film
- Swiss Army Man by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert
- Arrival by Denis Villeneuve
- Nocturnal Animals by Tom Ford
- Nerve by Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman
- David Lynch: The Art Life by Jon Nguyen
- Wakefield by Robin Swicord
- The Handmaiden by Park Chan-wook
- I Am Not Your Negro by Raoul Peck
Documentary
- American Anarchist by Charlie Siskel
Music
- Hold Up by Beyoncé
- Sucker for Pain by various
Deaths
- George Michael, 53, British singer (Wham!) and songwriter ("Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go", "Careless Whisper", "Last Christmas"), heart failure.
- Zsa Zsa Gabor, 99, Hungarian-born American actress (Moulin Rouge, Touch of Evil, Lili) and socialite, heart attack.
- Colonel Abrams, 67, American musician ("Trapped").
- Fidel Castro, 90, Cuban Prime Minister.
- David Hamilton, 83, British photographer, suspected suicide.
- David Mancuso, 72, American DJ and founder of The Loft.
- Leonard Cohen, 82, Canadian singer-songwriter ("Hallelujah").
- Jean-Jacques Perrey, 87, French electronic music producer, lung cancer.
- Bobby Ellis, 84, Jamaican trumpeter, pneumonia-related illness.
- Dario Fo, 90, Italian playwright, 1997 Nobel Literature Prize laureate.
- Andrzej Wajda, 90, Polish film director (Man of Iron).
- Herschell Gordon Lewis, 87, American filmmaker.
- Edward Albee, 88, American playwright (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?).
- Prince Buster, 78, Jamaican ska musician ("One Step Beyond", "Al Capone").
- Gene Wilder, 83, American actor (Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, Young Frankenstein, The Producers), screenwriter and author, complications of Alzheimer's disease.
- Rudy Van Gelder, 91, American recording engineer.
- Headley Bennett, 85, Jamaican saxophonist.
- Toots Thielemans, 94, Belgian jazz guitarist, whistler and harmonica player.
- Alan Vega, 78, American singer and musician (Suicide).
- Héctor Babenco, 70, Argentine-born Brazilian film director, producer and screenwriter (Kiss of the Spider Woman, Ironweed, Carandiru), heart attack.
- Alvin Toffler, 87, American writer and futurist (Future Shock, The Third Wave).
- Bernie Worrell, 72, American musician (Parliament-Funkadelic), lung cancer.
- Bud Spencer, 86, Italian actor.
- Muhammad Ali, 74, American boxer.
- Isao Tomita, 84, Japanese musician and composer.
- Billy Paul, 81, American R&B singer ("Me and Mrs. Jones"), pancreatic cancer.
- Prince, 57, American musician ("Purple Rain", "Little Red Corvette").
- Umberto Eco, 84, Italian philosopher and novelist (The Name of the Rose, Foucault's Pendulum, On Ugliness), pancreatic cancer.
- Jacques Rivette, 87, French film director (Celine and Julie Go Boating, Out 1) and critic, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
- Ettore Scola, 84, Italian film director and screenwriter (A Special Day, Down and Dirty).
- David Bowie, 69, British singer and songwriter, cancer.
- André Courrèges, 92, French fashion designer.
- Pierre Boulez, 90, French composer.
See also
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