2016

2016 (MMXVI) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2016th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 16th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 7th year of the 2010s decade.

2016 marked the deaths of famous musicians including David Bowie, Prince, and George Michael, as well as prominent world leaders including Shimon Peres, Bhumibol Adulyadej, and Fidel Castro.

2016 was declared the "hottest year on record" by various media outlets including NASA,[3] and NOAA.[4]

2016 Turkish coup d'état attemptImpeachment of Dilma Rousseff2016 Nagorno-Karabakh conflict2016 United States presidential election2016 Summer OlympicsPokémon GoBrexit2016 Indian banknote demonetisation
From top left, clockwise: Bombed-out buildings in Ankara following the 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt; the impeachment trial of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff; Damaged houses during the 2016 Nagorno-Karabakh conflict; A scene from the opening ceremony of the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Queues outside a bank to exchange demonetized banknotes during the 2016 Indian banknote demonetisation; the UK votes to leave the EU in 2016; The Girardet bridge in Düsseldorf with its four pokéstops; Donald Trump is elected as U.S. President in 2016 during a period of intensifying political polarization in the United States
Vilmos Zsigmond
Ashraf Pahlavi
David Bowie
Alan Rickman
Boutros Boutros-Ghali
Umberto Eco
Harper Lee
Sir George Martin
Anker Jørgensen
Johan Cruyff
Patty Duke
Merle Haggard
Doris Roberts
Patricio Aylwin
Chyna
Prince
Banharn Silpa-archa
Nick Lashaway
Marco Pannella
Bata Živojinović
Yang Jiang
Mohamed Abdelaziz
Muhammad Ali
Gordie Howe
Rubén Aguirre
Anton Yelchin
Bud Spencer
Alvin Toffler
Elie Wiesel
Zygmunt Zimowski
Garry Marshall
Ursula Franklin
Piet de Jong
Fazil Iskander
Anne of Romania
Françoise Mallet-Joris
Mohammad Ali Samatar
Walter Scheel
Gene Wilder
Islam Karimov
Phyllis Schlafly
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
Arnold Palmer
Shimon Peres
Miriam Defensor Santiago
Andrzej Wajda
Dario Fo
Bhumibol Adulyadej
Kigeli V Ndahindurwa
Leonard Cohen
Lupita Tovar
Sixto Durán Ballén
Konstantinos Stephanopoulos
Florence Henderson
Fidel Castro
Luis Alberto Monge
John Glenn
Thomas Schelling
Alan Thicke
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Andrei Karlov
George Michael
Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds