People who have passed on during 2016, whose life or works have influenced me:

• Edward Albee (1928-2016), American playwright
• Myrtle Berman (1924-2016), South African political activist and resistance fighter
• Daniel Berrigan SJ (1921-2016), American priest and political activist
• Pierre Boulez (1925-2016), French composer and conductor
• Victoria Chitepo (1928-2016), Zimbabwean politician
• Harold Cohen (1928-2016), British-American artist and AI pioneer
• Ronnie Corbett (1930-2016), British comedian
• Umberto Eco (1932-2016), Italian writer
• Bob Ellis (1942-2016), Australian playwright and journalist
• Tom Hayden (1939-2016), American political activist
• Chip Heathcote (1931-2016), Australian statistician
• Bobby Hutcherson (1941-2016), American vibraphonist
• Peter Maxwell Davies (1934-2016), British composer
• Diana Mitchell (1932-2016), Zimbabwean historian
• Yukio Ninagawa (1935-2016), Japanese theatre director
• John Satterthwaite (1928-2016), Australian engineer and Bishop
• Thomas Schelling (1921-2016), American game theorist and strategist
• Garry Shandling (1949-2016), American comedian
• Lois Weisberg (1925-2016), Chicagoan connector
• Alexander Yessenin-Volpin  (1924-2016),  Russian-American poet, mathematician and dissident.