Nekrolog December 2016

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December

Day	Surname	Profession known as	Age	receipt
December 31	James S. Ackerman	American architectural historian	97	[2]
December 31	William Christopher	US-American actor	84	[3]
December 31	Henning Christophersen	Danish politician	77	[4]
December 31	Peter Fernando	Indian Archbishop	77	[5]
December 31	Dmitri Romanov	Russian nobleman	90	[6]
December 31	Dietz-Werner Steck	German actor	80	[7]
December 31	Barbara Weiss	German gallery owner	56	[8th]
30th of December	Mohamed Diab al-Attar	Egyptian soccer player	90	[9]
30th of December	Wolf Barth	German mathematician	74	[10]
30th of December	Hajo stooping	German game designer	72	[11]
30th of December	Wilfried Daim	Austrian psychologist and writer	93	[12]
30th of December	Thomas Ludger Dupré	American bishop	83	[13]
30th of December	John Edmondson	American composer	83	[14]
30th of December	Alfred Günthner	Austrian soccer player	80	[15]
30th of December	George Kosana	US-American actor	81	[16]
30th of December	Josef Krainer junior	Austrian politician	86	[17]
30th of December	Jacques Kuhn	Swiss entrepreneur	97	[18]
30th of December	Max Martin	Swiss archaeologist	77	[19]
30th of December	Justo Mullor García	Spanish Archbishop	84	[20]
30th of December	Shirley Neil Pettis	American politician	92	[21]
30th of December	Jacques Schols	Dutch jazz musician	81	[22]
30th of December	Huston Smith	American scholar of religion	97	[23]
30th of December	Allan Williams	British music manager and music club owner	86	[24]
30th of December	Tire Wong	American draftsman	106	[25]
December 29th	Raymond Burki	Swiss press artist, caricaturist and illustrator	67	[26]
December 29th	Laurie Carlos	American performance artist, actress and artistic director	67	[27]
December 29th	Keion Carpenter	American football player	39	[28]
December 29th	L. Eric Cross	British-American engineer	93	[29]
December 29th	LaVell Edwards	American football player and coach	86	[30]
December 29th	Néstor Gonçalves	Uruguayan soccer player and coach	80	[31]
December 29th	Ferdy Kübler	Swiss cyclist	97	[32]
December 29th	Roger Leiner	Luxembourgish draftsman and caricaturist	61	[33]
December 29th	Maria Lindenmeier	German politician	93	[34]
December 29th	Norman Rimmington	English soccer player	93	[35]
December 29th	William Salice	Italian inventor	83	[36]
December 29th	Gustav Schmidt	German canoeists	90	[37]
December 29th	Jack L. Stahl	American politician	82	[38]
December 29th	Peter Tamm	German publishing manager	88	[39]
December 28th	Gregorio Álvarez	Uruguayan general and politician	91
December 28th	Pierre Barouh	French composer	82	[40]
December 28th	Aloys Butzkamm	German theologian, priest, psychologist and art historian	81	[41]
December 28th	Michel Déon	French author	97	[42]
December 28th	Lev Gorkov	Russian-American physicist	87	[43]
December 28th	Markus Kennerknecht	German politician	46
December 28th	Knut Kiesewetter	German songwriter and jazz musician	75	[44]
December 28th	Sunderlal Patwa	Indian politician	92	[45]
December 28th	Debbie Reynolds	US-american actress	84	[46]
December 28th	Edgar Robles	Paraguayan soccer player	39	[47]
December 28th	Jean-Christophe Victor	French political scientist and television presenter	69	[48]
December 27th	Ernst Anders	German chemist	74	[49]
December 27th	Walter Beier	German biophysicist	91	[50]
December 27th	Karl Oskar bubble	German graphic artist and university professor	91	[51]
December 27th	Anthony Cronin	Irish writer	88	[52]
December 27th	Ivo Frithjof Fischer	Austrian medic	89	[53]
December 27th	Carrie Fisher	US-american actress	60	[54]
December 27th	Claude Gensac	french actress	89	[55]
December 27th	Horst Göhlich	German engineering scientist	90	[56]
December 27th	Betty-Jean Hagen	Canadian violinist and music teacher	86	[57]
December 27th	Robert Loeffler	Austrian journalist	85	[58]
December 27th	Manuel Moreno	Spanish flamenco dancer and dance teacher	75	[59]
December 27th	Hans Tietmeyer	German economist	85	[60]
December 27th	Efthymios Warlamis	Austrian artist	74	[61]
December 27th	Ratnasiri Wickremanayake	Sri Lankan politician	83	[62]
December 26th	Ulrich Albrecht	German political scientist	75	[63]
December 26th	Kyriakos Amiridis	Greek diplomat	59	[64]
December 26th	Hans Bernheimer	Austrian neurologist	86	[65]
December 26th	Jaume Camprodon i Rovira	Spanish bishop	90	[66]
December 26th	Horst Förther	German politician	66	[67]
December 26th	Ricky Harris	US-American actor	54	[68]
December 26th	Claus-Peter Kedenburg	German pharmacist	81	[69]
December 26th	Seth J. McKee	American general	100	[70]
December 26th	Elvio Porta	Italian author and film director	71	[71]
December 26th	Barbara Tarbuck	US-american actress	74	[72]
25 December	Ashot Anastasyan	Armenian chess player	52	[73]
25 December	Sibylle Boden-Gerstner	German costume designer	96	[74]
25 December	Valery Chalilov	Russian conductor and composer	64	[75]
25 December	Sandra Giles	US-american actress	84	[76]
25 December	Elizabeth Glinka	Russian doctor	54	[77]
25 December	Roland Goeschl	Austrian artist	84	[78]
25 December	Karl Golser	Italian bishop	73	[79]
25 December	Anton Gubankow	Russian journalist and civil servant	51	[80]
25 December	Dieter Janz	German medic	96	[81]
25 December	George Michael	British singer, composer, musician and record producer	53	[82]
25 December	Alphonse Mouzon	American drummer, trombonist and composer	68	[83]
25 December	Aaron Peck	New Zealand bass player	43	[84]
25 December	Walter Röll	German Germanist	79	[85]
25 December	Vera Ruby	American astronomer	88	[86]
25 December	Klaus Schwager	German art historian	91	[87]
25 December	Léon Soulier	French bishop	92	[88]
25 December	Eliseo Subiela	Argentine film director	71	[89]
25 December	Carl Weber	German theater director and scholar	91	[90]
24th of December	Richard Adams	British writer	96	[91]
24th of December	Pape Badiane	French basketball player	36	[92]
24th of December	Joseph A. Fitzmyer	American theologian	96	[93]
24th of December	Jeffrey Hayden	American television director	90	[94]
24th of December	Felix Krivin	Ukrainian-Israeli writer	88	[95]
24th of December	Rick Parfitt	British musician	68	[96]
24th of December	Gil Parrondo	Spanish production designer	95	[97]
24th of December	Ernst Reinboth	German short film maker and painter	81	[98]
24th of December	Edwin Reinecke	American politician	92	[99]
24th of December	Trutz Rendtorff	German theologian	85	[100]
24th of December	Graham Shimmield	British oceanographer and geochemist	58	[101]
24th of December	Liz Smith	British actress	95	[102]
23rd of December	Anise Amri	Tunisian Islamist and terror suspect	24	[103]
23rd of December	Joyce Appleby	American historian	87	[104]
23rd of December	Jean Gagnon	Canadian bishop	75	[105]
23rd of December	Marika Geldmacher-von Mallinckrodt	German toxicologist	93	[106]
23rd of December	Gerd-Günther Grau	German chemist and philosopher	95	[107]
23rd of December	Robert Hinde	British behaviorist	93	[108]
23rd of December	Andrés Rivera	Argentine journalist and writer	88	[109]
23rd of December	Heinrich Schiff	Austrian cellist and conductor	65	[110]
23rd of December	Piers Sellers	American astronaut	61	[111]
23rd of December	Luba Skořepová	Czech actress	93	[112]
23rd of December	William Gunther spokesman	American orchestra conductor and composer	93	[113]
23rd of December	Vesna Vulović	Yugoslav flight attendant	66	[114]
23rd of December	Miruts Yifter	Ethiopian athlete	72	[115]
23rd of December	Mike Zane	American musician	57	[116]
December 22	Carlos Averhoff	Cuban jazz saxophonist and music teacher	69	[117]
December 22	Paul Kindle	Liechtenstein politician	86	[118]
December 22	Günter Klein	German veterinarian and microbiologist	52	[119]
December 22	Heinrich Pfeiffer	German science manager	89	[120]
December 22	Walter Ruppel	German dramaturge and theater director	89	[121]
December 22	Philip Saville	British film director	86	[122]
December 22	Jack Silver	American mathematician	74	[123]
December 22	Franca Sozzani	Italian journalist and editor	66	[124]
21st December	Uwe Bleyl	German medic	80	[125]
21st December	Deddie Davies	British actress	78	[126]
21st December	Sidney Drell	American physicist	90	[127]
21st December	Robert Leo Hulseman	American inventor	84	[128]
21st December	Patrick Jenkin, Baron Jenkin of Roding	British politician	90	[129]
21st December	Patricia Jean Lambrecht	American crime writer	70	[130]
21st December	Olle Langert	Swedish painter and sculptor	92	[131]
21st December	Welington de Melo	Brazilian mathematician	70	[132]
21st December	Hans Strack	German engineering scientist	85	[133]
21st December	Betty Loo Taylor	American jazz pianist	87	[134]
20th of December	El Hortelano	Spanish painter	62	[135]
20th of December	Klaus Dittmann	German actor and voice actor	77	[136]
20th of December	Michèle Morgan	french actress	96	[137]
20th of December	Paul Peter Porges	American cartoonist and comic artist	89	[138]
20th of December	Werner Stiller	German intelligence service and defector	69
19. December	Lionel Blue	British rabbi, author and presenter	86	[139]
19. December	Hugh Polecat	American botanist	91	[140]
19. December	Andrei Karlow	Russian diplomat	62	[141]
19. December	Annette Karmiloff-Smith	British neuroscientist	78	[142]
19. December	Mix & Remix	Swiss cartoonist and illustrator	58	[143]
19. December	Şehmus Özer	Turkish soccer player	36	[144]
19. December	Derek F. Roberts	British anthropologist and human biologist	91	[145]
19. December	Fidel Uriarte	spanish soccer player	71	[146]
19. December	Renate von Wangenheim	German actress	72	[147]
December 18th	Ken Baird	Canadian ice hockey player	65	[148]
December 18th	Karl Feldmeyer	German journalist	78	[149]
December 18th	Zsa Zsa Gabor	American-Hungarian actress	99	[150]
December 18th	Peter Konlechner	Austrian museum director	80	[151]
December 18th	Hans Otto Lenel	German economist	99	[152]
December 18th	George F. Madaus	American educationalist	82	[153]
December 18th	Léo Marjane	french singer	104	[154]
December 18th	Rachel Owen	British artist and university professor	48	[155]
December 18th	Erika Pohl-Ströher	German-Swiss entrepreneur and patron	97	[156]
December 18th	Leone Spiccia	Australian chemist	59	[157]
December 18th	Heinz Ulzheimer	German athlete	90	[158]
December 17th	Eric Defoort	Belgian politician	73	[159]
December 17th	Edmond Farhat	Lebanese diplomat of the Vatican	83	[160]
December 17th	Benjamin A. Gilman	American politician	94	[161]
December 17th	Paul J. Harrison	Canadian marine biologist	75	[162]
December 17th	Henry Heimlich	American doctor	96	[163]
December 17th	William H. Hudnut	American politician	84	[164]
December 17th	Heinz Kreutz	German painter	92	[165]
December 17th	Anne Ranasinghe	Sri Lankan writer of German origin	91	[166]
December 16	Markus Häusling	German paratriathlete	45	[167]
December 16	Andreas Jacob	German zoologist and zoo director	66	[168]
December 16	Jigme Dorje Palbar Bista	Nepalese monarch	86	[169]
December 16	Vadim Loginow	Soviet politician and diplomat	89	[170]
December 16	Faina Melnik	soviet athlete	71	[171]
December 16	Raúl Legnani	Uruguayan journalist	?	[172]
December 16	Gottfried Tröger	German politician	81	[173]
December 16	James H. Williams	American politician	90	[174]
December 16	Paul wishes	German politician	94	[175]
15th December	Chuck Allen	American football player	77	[176]
15th December	Dieter Henkel	German actor	83	[177]
15th December	Craig Sager	American sports reporter	65	[178]
15th December	Eckart Spoo	German journalist and publicist	79	[179]
December 14th	Paulo Evaristo Arns	Brazilian cardinal	95	[180]
December 14th	Susan Christopherson	American regional scientist and geographer	69	[181]
December 14th	Stephen Fienberg	Canadian-American statistician	74	[182]
December 14th	Bernard Fox	British actor	89	[183]
December 14th	Edwin L. Goldwasser	American physicist	97	[184]
December 14th	Valentina Guebuza	Mozambican businesswoman	36	[185]
December 14th	Karel Husa	Czech-American composer	95	[186]
December 14th	Ronald DS Jack	British Anglist and Medievalist	75	[187]
December 14th	Adolf Lettenbauer	German politician	93	[188]
December 14th	Halfdan T. Mahler	Danish medic	93	[189]
December 14th	Hermann-Siegfried Count of Münster	German banker	91	[190]
December 14th	Päivi Paunu	Finnish singer	70	[191]
December 14th	Jean-Paul Pier	Luxembourg mathematician	83	[192]
December 14th	Lotte Rysanek	Austrian soprano	92	[193]
December 14th	Kurt Teuscher	German painter	95	[194]
13th December	Chanoch Bartow	Israeli writer and journalist	90	[195]
13th December	Günter Clemens	German actor	75
13th December	Lawrence Colburn	American Vietnam War veteran	67	[196]
13th December	Eduard Farthmann	German surgeon	83	[197]
13th December	Harry luck	Austrian architect and set designer	91	[198]
13th December	Michael Ilg	German bank manager	51	[199]
13th December	Betsy Pecanins	Mexican-American-Spanish singer	62	[200]
13th December	Thomas Schelling	American economist	95	[201]
13th December	David Strangway	Canadian geophysicist, science organizer, and university president	82	[202]
13th December	Alan Thicke	Canadian actor	69	[203]
12th of December	ER Braithwaite	Guyanese writer and diplomat	104	[204]
12th of December	Lucila Campos	Peruvian singer	78	[205]
12th of December	Gerard Clifford	Irish auxiliary bishop	75	[206]
12th of December	Javier Echevarría	Spanish bishop	84	[207]
12th of December	Robert Gomer	American physicist and chemist	92	[208]
12th of December	Kurt Holzmann	German medic	87	[209]
12th of December	Hans-Adolf Jacobsen	German political scientist	91	[210]
12th of December	Jim Lowe	American disc jockey	93	[211]
12th of December	James Prior	British politician	89	[212]
12th of December	Konrad Reuland	American football player	29	[213]
12th of December	Claus Ryskjaer	Danish actor	71	[214]
12th of December	Hans-Otto Schultz	German soccer player	95	[215]
11th December	Sadiq al-Azm	Syrian philosopher	82	[216]
11th December	Wolfgang hero	German writer and translator	83	[217]
11th December	Gerd Kaimer	German politician	90	[218]
11th December	Bob Krasnov	American music entrepreneur	82	[219]
11th December	Lisl Cross	German painter and philanthropist	93	[220]
11th December	Trude Marzik	Austrian writer	93	[221]
11th December	Michael Nicholson	British journalist	79	[222]
11th December	Marion Pritchard	Dutch-American psychoanalyst and "Righteous Among the Nations"	96	[223]
11th December	Esma Redžepova	Macedonian singer	73	[224]
11th December	Thressa Stadtman	American biochemist	96	[225]
11th December	Walter Swinburn	British jockey	55	[226]
11th December	Chalena Vásquez	Peruvian musicologist	66	[227]
11th December	Monika Willert-Porada	German chemical engineer	61	[228]
10th of December	Peter Brabrook	English soccer player	79	[229]
10th of December	Felix Browder	American mathematician	89	[230]
10th of December	Bill Dineen	Canadian ice hockey player and coach	84	[231]
10th of December	Wolfgang Eisenmenger	German physicist	86	[232]
10th of December	AA Gill	British journalist	62	[233]
10th of December	Ken Hechler	American politician	102	[234]
10th of December	László Huzsvár	Serbian bishop	85	[235]
10th of December	Paul Shin'ichi Itonaga	Japanese bishop	88	[236]
10th of December	Ian McCaskill	British television meteorologist	78	[237]
10th of December	John Montague	Irish poet	87	[238]
10th of December	Georg Klein	Hungarian-Swedish cell biologist and cancer researcher	91	[239]
10th of December	Daweli Reinhardt	German jazz musician	84	[240]
10th of December	Alberto Seixas Santos	Portuguese film director	80	[241]
10th of December	Willie Julian Usery	American politician	92	[242]
10th of December	Alfons Weisser	Swiss architect	85	[243]
10th of December	Romano H. Zölss	Austrian organ and tamburica maker	76	[244]
9th of December	Lawrence Demmy	British figure skater	85	[245]
9th of December	Johannes Raft	German clergyman and theologian	79	[246]
9th of December	Franco Gallo	Italian ice hockey player	72	[247]
9th of December	Klaus-Dieter Grosser	German medic	83	[248]
9th of December	Alejandro González junior	mexican boxer	23	[249]
9th of December	Klaus Motschmann	German neoconservative and political scientist	82	[250]
9th of December	Robert Scholes	American literary scholar and semiotic	87	[251]
9th of December	Günther Wilke	German chemist	90	[252]
December 8th	Valdon Dowiyogo	Nauruan athlete and politician	48	[253]
December 8th	John Glenn	American astronaut and politician	95	[254]
December 8th	Lélis Lara	Brazilian bishop	90	[255]
December 8th	Joseph Mascolo	US-American actor	87	[256]
December 7th	Warren Allmand	Canadian politician	84	[257]
December 7th	Ulrich van den Berg	German soccer player	67	[258]
December 7th	Paul Elvstrøm	Danish sailor	88	[259]
December 7th	Martin Franz	German painter and art teacher	88	[260]
December 7th	Hildegard Hamm-Brücher	German politician	95	[261]
December 7th	Junaid Jamshed	Pakistani singer and preacher	52	[262]
December 7th	Alex Johnstone	British politician	55	[263]
December 7th	Greg Lake	British bass player	69	[264]
December 7th	Gabriel Jan Mincewicz	Lithuanian politician	78	[265]
December 7th	Hussain al-Mozany	Iraqi writer	62	[266]
December 7th	Vilma Neuwirth	Austrian Nazi eyewitness	88	[267]
December 7th	İsmet Sezgin	Turkish politician	88	[268]
December 7th	Allan Stewart	British politician	74	[269]
December 7th	Mohamed Tahar Fergani	Algerian singer and violinist	88	[270]
December 7th	Walter Wierich	German medic	76	[271]
December 7th	Benny Woit	Canadian ice hockey player	88	[272]
6th of December	Ehrhardt Bödecker	German lawyer, banker and author	91	[273]
6th of December	Adolf Burger	Slovak Holocaust survivor	99	[274]
6th of December	Alonzo Levister	American musician	91	[275]
6th of December	Peter Vaughan	British actor	93	[276]
December 5th	Big Syke	US-American rapper	48	[277]
December 5th	Dave Edwards	American football player	76	[278]
December 5th	J. Jayalalithaa	Indian actress and politician	68	[279]
December 5th	Detlef Joseph	German lawyer	82	[280]
December 5th	Karl-Heinrich Wulf	German medic	88	[281]
December 4th	Helmut Brackert	German Germanist	84	[282]
December 4th	Wayne Duncan	Australian pop musician	72	[283]
December 4th	Gotlib	French comic artist	82	[284]
December 4th	Ferreira Gullar	Brazilian writer	86	[285]
December 4th	Radim Hladík	Czech guitarist	69	[286]
December 4th	Gabriele Kister	German screenwriter	69	[287] [288]
December 4th	Frank Teller	German homeland researcher	51	[289]
December 4th	Horst Wünsch	Austrian lawyer and university professor	82	[290]
3rd of December	Albert Wassiljewitsch Akatow	Soviet rear admiral	86
3rd of December	Billy Chapin	US-American actor	72	[291]
3rd of December	Susan Cummings	US-american actress	86	[292]
3rd of December	Herb Hardesty	American rhythm and blues musician	91	[293]
3rd of December	Austin Hunter	British journalist	64	[294]
3rd of December	Nadine Juillard	french soccer player	62	[295]
3rd of December	Gonzalo Parra-Aranguren	Venezuelan lawyer	87	[296]
3rd of December	Giovanni Orelli	Swiss writer	88	[297]
3rd of December	Claus Roessner	German conductor and university professor	80	[298]
2. December	Marcus Ansorg	German physicist	45	[299]
2. December	Renate ax	German writer	82	[300]
2. December	Jorge Canavesi	argentinian basketball coach	96	[301]
2. December	Mark Gray	American musician and songwriter	64	[302]
2. December	Samuel Lee	American diver	96	[303]
2. December	Gisela May	German actress and singer	92	[304]
2. December	Wilhelm Salber	German psychologist	88	[305]
December 1	Don Calfa	US-American actor	76	[306]
December 1	Jacques Cohen	Israeli actor	86	[307]
December 1	Ernst Friedrich Jung	German diplomat	94	[308]
December 1	Jens Harms	German economist	72	[309]
December 1	Beata Maciejewska-Welfle	Polish karateka	31	[310]
December 1	Joe McKnight	American football player	28	[311]
December 1	Micky Fitz	British singer	60	[312]
December 1	Nijs Korevaar	Dutch water polo player	88	[313]
December 1	Tino Poza	Spanish painter and promoter of culture	57	[314]
December 1	Ousmane Sow	Senegalese sculptor	81	[315]
December 1	Zekarias Yohannes	Eritrean bishop	91

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.tagblatt.ch/nachrichten/international/Letzt-Diktator-Uruguays-tot;art253652,4865003 ( Memento from January 1, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ http://www.br.de/nachrichten/kennerkencht-memmingen-tod-100.html ( Memento from December 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ [1]