Notable deaths on January 16

American baseball player and broadcaster (1934–2025)

American filmmaker (1946–2025)

English actress (1929–2025)

President of Mali from 2013 to 2020

British news journalist and executive (1948–2021)

Venezuelan zoologist (1929–2021)

American record producer and murderer (1939–2021)

British book editor (1924–2020)

Australian musician (1956–2019)

American investor and business magnate (1929–2019)

American musician (1958–2019)

British radio presenter (born 1941)

Kosovo Serb politician

American astronaut and lunar explorer (1934–2017)

Greek-Austrian artist (1922–2016)

American football player and coach (1931–2016)

Polish-born Israeli writer, translator and Holocaust survivor (1927–2015)

Chinese singer and songwriter (1981-2015)

Canadian-born American actor (1931–2014)

Key figure in the underground comix movement

Imperial Japanese Army officer (1922–2014)

American actress (1918–2014)

French inventor

American Founder of Scientific Atlanta