Notable deaths on August 16

American actress and singer (1989–2026)

American sociologist (1928–2023)

English comedian and actor (1963–2021)

American actor and filmmaker (1940–2019)

Canadian and British animator (1933–2019)

American soul singer (1942–2018)

Prime Minister of India (1996; 1998–99, 1999–2004)

Japanese American playwright and writer (1924–2018)

Brazilian businessman, athlete and football administrator (1916–2016)

American journalist and political commentator (1927–2016)

British actress (1934–2015)

Mexican-Israeli physicist (1947–2015)

Croatian Serb war criminal (1947–2015)

Pakistani officer and politician (1943–2015)

Italian lawyer and politician

Nigerian politician and general

German journalist and author

Ukrainian children's writer (1930–2014)

Welsh mathematician and academic (born 1918)

Patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church from 1992 to 2012

Belgian photographer (1938–2012)

Moroccan royal

American actor (1923–2012)

Turkish socialist revolutionary