Death claimed renowned political figures in 2016, including Cuba’s revolutionary leader Fidel Castro and Israeli ex-president Shimon Peres, but also took away legendary musicians and Hollywood stars, from Prince and David Bowie to George Michael and actress Carrie Fisher. TASS remembers people we lost in 2016.
Farewells: A tribute to the ones we lost in 2016
From music to literature to politics, this year saw the deaths of an unusually long list of monumental figures
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Legendary musician David Bowie died of cancer on January 10, two days after his 69th birthday and the release of his last album, Blackstar
© AP Photo/Bob Child British actor Alan Rickman died aged 69 on January 14
© AP Photo/Alastair Grant Harper Lee, the celebrated author of To Kill A Mockingbird, died aged 89 on February 19
© AP Photo/Rob Carr Italian writer Umberto Eco died on February 19. He was 84
© A/GUIDO MONTANI Iraqi-born architect Zaha Hadid died aged 65 from heart attack on March 31
© AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito Music superstar Prince died aged 57 on April 21
© AP Photo/Chris O'Meara Heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali died on June 3. He was 74
© AP Photo/Marty Lederhandler Russian sculptor Ernst Neizvestny died at 91 on August 9
© Anatoly Semekhin/TASS Uzbek President Islam Karimov died September 2. He was 78
© AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko Nobel Peace Prize winner and former Israeli president Shimon Peres died aged 93 on September 28
© EPA/MICHAEL NELSON Oscar-winning Polish film director Andrzej Wajda died on October 9. He was 90
© EPA/JAKUB KAMINSKI Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej, the world's longest-reigning monarch, died at the age of 88 on October 13
© EPA/RUNGROJ YONGRIT Russia’s world-famous ‘sunshine clown’ Oleg Popov died at 86 on November 2
© Ruslan Shamukov/TASS Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen died on November 7. He was 82
© AP Photo/Chris Pizzello Cuba's revolutionary leader Fidel Castro died at age 90 on November 25
© AP Photo/Javier Galeano Russian ambassador to Turkey Andrei Karlov was shot dead at the opening of an exhibition at an art gallery in Ankara on December 19. He was 62
© Alexander Shcherbak/TASS 64 members of Russia's Alexandrov Ensemble, world-renowned military choir, died in Tu-154 plane crash on December 25
© Artyom Korotayev/TASS Yelizaveta Glinka, also known as Doctor Liza, cherished Russian physician, charity worker and human rights activist died in Tu-154 crash on December 25. She was 54
© Mikhail Sokolov/TASS British singer George Michael died at 53 on December 25
© AP Photo/Francois Mori US actress Carrie Fisher, best known as Princess Leia in Star Wars, died aged 60 on December 27
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