2016 Deaths

People who are famous to me.  Perhaps it's that I'm getting older so I'm aware of more people--and they're getting older too.  But it seems like 2016 has been a particularly bad year.

Jan 3 Peter Naur Computer Scientist
Jan 10 David Bowie Performance Artist, Musician
Jan 14 Alan Rickman, Actor
Jan 18 Glenn Frey, Musician, The Eagles
Jan 21 Bill Johnson, Ski Racer
Jan 24 Marvin Minsky, AI Researcher
Jan 26 Abe Vigoda, Actor
Jan 28 Paul Kantner, Musician, Jefferson Airplane
Jan 28 Signe Anderson, Musician, Jefferson Airplane
Feb 4 Maurice White, Musician, Earth Wind and Fire
Feb 4 Edgar Mitchell, Astronaut, 6th man on the moon
Feb 6 Dan Hicks Musician, Dan Hicks and his Hot Licks
Feb 13 Antonin Scalia, Supreme Court Justice
Feb 16 Boutros Boutros-Ghali, UN Secretary General
Feb 19 Umberto Eco, Novelist
Feb 19 Harper Lee, Novelist
Feb 28 George Kennedy, Actor
Mar 5  Ray Tomlinson, Computer Programmer, implemented first ARPAnet email program
Mar 6  Nancy Davis Reagan, Actress, First Lady
Mar 8 George Martin, Record Producer, 5th Beatle
Mar 10 Keith Emerson, Musician, The Nice, Emerson, Lake and Palmer
Mar 10 Ernestine Anderson, Jazz Musician
Mar 21 Bob Ebeling, Engineer, tried to explain Challenger O-Rings
Mar 21 Andrew Grove, Engineer, Semiconductor executive
Mar 24 Garry Shandling, Comedian, Actor
Mar 29 Patty Duke, Actress
Apr 6  Merle Haggard, Country Musician
Apr 13 Gareth Thomas, Actor (Blakes 7)
Apr 21 Lonnie Mack, Musician
Apr 21 Prince, Musician
May 8 William Schallert, Actor (played Patty Duke's father)
May 12 Susannah Mushatt Jones, world's oldest person, age 116 years 311 days
May 19 Morley Safer, Journalist
Jun 3 Muhammad Ali, Boxer, Activist
Jun 7  Tom Perkins, Venture Capitalist
Jun 10 Gordie Howe, Hockey player
Jun 27 Alvin Toffler, Futurist
Jun 27 Simon Ramo, Engineer, co founder TRW age 103
Jun 28 Scotty Moore, Musician
Jul 2   Elie Weisel, Concentration Camp Victim, Author, Activist
Jul 19 Garry Marshall, Director
Jul 24 Marni Nixon, Singer
Jul 31 Seymour Papert, Computer Scientist
Aug 3 Chris Amon, Racing driver
Aug 11 Glenn Yarbrough, Folksinger
Aug 15 Bobby Hutcherson, Jazz Musician
Aug 17 Arthur Hiller, Movie Director
Aug 19 John McLaughlin, TV Pundit
Aug 22 Jean-Baptiste "Toots" Thielemans, Jazz Musician
Aug 29 Gene Wilder, Actor
Sep 5   Phyllis Schlafly, Conservative
Sep 16 Edward Albee, Playwright
Sep 25 Arnold Palmer, Golfer
Sep 28 Shimon Peres, Israeli President & Prime Minister, Peacemaker
Oct 2  Neville Marriner, Musician, Conductor
Oct 5 Brock Yates, Motorsports journalist
Oct 18 David Bunnell, Computer journalist
Oct 22 Sheri Tepper, Science Fiction writer
Nov 7 Leonard Cohen Poet, Musician
Nov 7 Janet Reno, US Attorney General
Nov 7 Roy Kerth, UC Berkeley physicist
Nov 8  American Freedom and Democracy
Nov 11 Robert Vaughn, Actor
Nov 13 Leon Russell, Musician
Nov 14 Gwen Ifill, TV Journalist
Nov 15 Mose Allison, Jazz Musician
Nov 16 Melvin Laird, Politician
Nov 17 Samuel Ross Williams (Smerdyakov Flying Karamozov)
Nov 24 Florence Henderson, Actress
Nov 25 Fidel Castro, Dictator
Nov 25 Ron Glass, Actor
Nov 26 Fritz Weaver, Actor, Narrator
Dec 7 Paul Elvstrom Sailor
Dec 7  Greg Lake Musician, King Crimson, Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Dec 8 John Glenn Astronaut, Test Pilot, US Senator
Dec 17 Henry Heimlich, Physician, inventor of the Heimlich Maneuver
Dec 18 Zsa Zsa Gabor, Actress
Dec 25 Jeffrey Hayden.  TV Director, Producer, Eva Marie Saint's husband.
Dec 25 George Michael, Singer
Dec 25 Vera Rubin, Astrophysicst
Dec 27 Carrie Fisher, Actress, Author
Dec 28 Debbie Reynolds, Actress, Dancer, Carrie Fisher's mother.
Dec 30 Tyrus Wong, Cartoonist (Bambi)
Dec 31 William Christopher, Actor (Father Mulcahey on MASH)