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Who died on 16 August?
Celebrities who died on 16 August
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Elvis Presley
American singer and actor
Babe Ruth
American baseball player
Aretha Franklin
American singer, songwriter, and pianist
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
10th Prime Minister of India
Robert Johnson
American blues musician
William Halsey
United States admiral
Margaret Mitchell
American author and journalist
Chuck Close
American artist
Peter Fonda
American actor
Bela Lugosi
Hungarian actor
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
Pakistani musician, primarily a singer of qawwali
Stewart Granger
English actor
Pete Pihos
American football player and coach
Richard Williams
Canadian-British animator
Eva-Maria Hagen
German actress and singer
João Havelange
President of FIFA
José Nápoles
Cuban-Mexican boxer
John Roseboro
American baseball player and coach
Dorival Caymmi
Singer, songwriter
Dorothy West
American writer
Vera Glagoleva
Soviet and Russian actress, film director, screenwriter and producer
John Doucette
American actor
Chetan Chauhan
cricketer and politician from India
Princess Christina of the Netherlands
Dutch princess
Felice Gimondi
Italian cyclist
Faisal Masud
Pakistani doctor
Amanda Blake
American actress
William Windom
American actor
Beppie Nooij
Dutch actress
Stanley Aronowitz
American academic and cultural critic
Hormoz Farhat
Iranian musician
Hans Peterson
Swedish writer
Joseph Delaney
British writer
Bobby Thomson
baseball player
Nikolai Gubenko
Soviet and Russian actor, film director, screenwriter, politician
Yelena Shushunova
Russian gymnast
Volodymyr Holubnychyy
Ukrainian Race Walker
David Somerset, 11th Duke of Beaufort
British peer
Wayne Yates
basketball player and coach
Donald E. Edwards
former Vermont Adjutant General/Politician
Xavier
American professional wrestler
Albert Benbrook
American football player
Claire Shulman
American politician
Deanna B. Marcum
American librarian
Mike McGee
American football player and coach, college athletics administrator
Jean Acker
actress
Kal David
blues guitarist, singer and songwriter
Abwan Jama Kadiye
Somali poet