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.
From 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
Sir George Martin
Anker Jørgensen
Johan Cruyff
Patty Duke
Merle Haggard
Patricio Aylwin
Prince
Marco Pannella
Bata Živojinović
Yang Jiang
Mohamed Abdelaziz
Muhammad Ali
Gordie Howe
Rubén Aguirre
Anton Yelchin
Alvin Toffler
Elie Wiesel
Zygmunt Zimowski
Ursula Franklin
Piet de Jong
Fazil Iskander
Queen Anne of Romania
Françoise Mallet-Joris
Mohammad Ali Samatar
Walter Scheel
Gene Wilder
Islam Karimov
Phyllis Schlafly
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
Shimon Peres
Andrzej Wajda
King Bhumibol Adulyadej (Rama IX) of Thailand
Kigeli V of Rwanda
Leonard Cohen
Sixto Durán Ballén
Konstantinos Stephanopoulos
Fidel Castro
Luis Alberto Monge
John Glenn
Thomas Schelling
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Andrei Karlov
George Michael
Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds