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Who died on 16 December?
Celebrities who died on 16 December
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William Somerset Maugham
British playwright, novelist, short story writer
Jose Maria Sison
Philippine Maoist leader
Lee Van Cleef
actor
Hennadiy Kernes
Ukrainian politician
Mama Cax
American–Haitian model and disabled rights activist
Valentino Bellucci
Italian philosopher
Roy E. Disney
longtime senior executive for The Walt Disney Company
Daniela Giordano
Italian actress and Miss Italy 1966
Anna Luther
American actress
Laurens van der Post
South African writer
Sidney Olcott
Canadian actor and film director
Thelma Todd
American actress
Leticia Lee
Hong Kong pro-establishment activist
Juan L. Maldonado
American academic
Keely Smith
American singer
Anca Pop
Romanian pop singer
Aileen Pringle
American actress
Sharon Laws
British racing cyclist
Trevor Pinch
British sociologist
Stuart Adamson
Guitarist, songwriter, vocalist
Lorenzo Taliaferro
American football player
Hans Kornberg
British biochemist
Grigori Aleksandrov
Soviet film director
Sue Hardesty
American writer
Elliott H. Levitas
American politician
George Gekas
American politician
Rusmono
Indonesian military doctor
T. K. Wetherell
American politician
Moses Gunn
American actor
Alfred Ellet Hitchner
American football player and coach
Sevim Tekeli
historian of science
Lucía Hiriart
Augusto Pinochet's widow
Elia Alessandrini
Swiss footballer
Yves Dreyfus
French fencer
Silvana Mangano
Italian actress
Jean-Michel Parasiliti di Para
pretender to the throne of the Kingdom of Araucania and Patagonia
Laurier LaPierre
Canadian politician
Bill Simpson
American racecar driver
Pavle Dešpalj
musical artist
David Jones
Welsh rugby union and professional rugby league footballer, born c. 1901
Flavio Cotti
member of the Swiss Federal Council from 1987 to 1999
Madlyn Rhue
American actress
Charles Bennett
British athlete
Bill Holm
American art historian
Barry Cullen
Canadian ice hockey player
Leo Mathisen
Danish musician
Joe Hatten
American baseball player
Geeta Iyengar
Indian yoga instructor