This is a list of events that took place in Europe in 2016 .
January
David Bowie
Alan Rickman
1 January – Vilmos Zsigmond , Hungarian-American cinematographer (b. 1930)
2 January – Michel Delpech , French singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1946)
3 January – Peter Naur , Danish computer scientist (b. 1928)
4 January – Michel Galabru , French actor (b. 1922)
5 January – Pierre Boulez , French composer, conductor, writer and pianist (b. 1925)
6 January – Silvana Pampanini , Italian actress and director (b. 1925)
7 January – André Courrèges , French fashion designer (b. 1923)
8 January – Maria Teresa de Filippis , Italian racing driver (b. 1926)
10 January – David Bowie , English singer, songwriter and producer (b. 1947)
14 January – Alan Rickman , English actor and director (b. 1946)
18 January – Michel Tournier , French writer (b. 1924)
19 January – Ettore Scola , Italian screenwriter and film director (b. 1931)
26 January – Black , English singer-songwriter (b. 1962)
29 January – Jacques Rivette , French film director and film critic (b. 1928)
30 January – Frank Finlay , English stage, film and television actor (b. 1926)
31 January – Terry Wogan , Irish-British radio and television broadcaster (b. 1938)
March
Johan Cruyff
Imre Kertész
5 March – Nikolaus Harnoncourt , Austrian conductor (b. 1929)
8 March – George Martin , English record producer, arranger, composer, conductor, audio engineer and musician (b. 1926)
10 March – Keith Emerson , English keyboardist and composer (b. 1944)
11 March
14 March – Peter Maxwell Davies , English composer and conductor (b. 1934)
18 March
20 March – Anker Jørgensen , Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Denmark (b. 1922)
21 March – Andrew Grove , Hungarian-born American businessman, engineer, author and science pioneer (b. 1936)
24 March
Roger Cicero , German jazz and pop musician (b. 1970)
Johan Cruyff , Dutch professional football player and coach (b. 1947)
31 March
April
3 April – Cesare Maldini , Italian football manager and player (b. 1932)
4 April – Chus Lampreave , Spanish actress (b. 1930)
12 April – Arnold Wesker , English dramatist (b. 1932)
16 April – Louis Pilot , Luxembourgian football player and manager (b. 1940)
19 April – Walter Kohn , Austrian-born American theoretical physicist and theoretical chemist (b. 1923)
20 April – Guy Hamilton , English film director (b. 1922)
24 April – Klaus Siebert , German biathlete (b. 1955)
25 April – Martin Gray , Polish writer (b. 1922)
27 April – Viktor Gavrikov , Lithuanian-Swiss chess Grandmaster (b. 1957)
30 April – Harry Kroto , English Nobel chemist (b. 1939)
June
Anton Yelchin
Bud Spencer
2 June – Tom Kibble , British theoretical physicist (b. 1932)
3 June – Luis Salom , Spanish motorcycle racer (b. 1991)
6 June
8 June – Pierre Aubert , Swiss politician and lawyer (b. 1927)
11 June – Rudi Altig , German professional track and road racing cyclist (b. 1937)
18 June – Vittorio Merloni , Italian entrepreneur and industrialist (b. 1933)
19 June
20 June – Edgard Pisani , French statesman, philosopher, and writer (b. 1918)
25 June – Maurice G. Dantec , French science fiction writer and musician (b. 1959)
27 June – Bud Spencer , Italian actor, filmmaker, and professional swimmer (b. 1929)
28 June – André Guelfi , French racing driver (b. 1919)
July
Michel Rocard
Elie Wiesel
1 July – Yves Bonnefoy , French poet and art historian (b. 1923)
2 July
Rudolf E. Kálmán , Hungarian-born American electrical engineer, mathematician, and inventor (b. 1930)
Michel Rocard , Prime Minister of France (b. 1930)
Elie Wiesel , Romanian-born American Jewish writer, professor, political activist, Holocaust survivor, and Nobel laureate (b. 1928)
6 July – Turgay Şeren , Turkish footballer (b. 1932)
9 July – Silvano Piovanelli , Italian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church (b. 1924)
12 July
13 July – Bernardo Provenzano , member of the Sicilian Mafia (b. 1933)
14 July – Péter Esterházy , Hungarian writer (b. 1950)
20 July – Radu Beligan , Romanian actor, director, and essayist (b. 1918)
23 July – Thorbjörn Fälldin , Prime Minister of Sweden (b. 1926)
25 July – Halil İnalcık , Turkish historian (b. 1916)
27 July
October
Andrzej Wajda
Dario Fo
1 October – David Herd , Scottish footballer (b. 1934)
2 October – Neville Marriner , English conductor (b. 1924)
4 October – Brigitte Hamann , German-Austrian author and historian (b. 1940)
5 October – Michal Kováč , 1st President of Slovakia (b. 1930)
8 October – Stylianos Pattakos , Greek military officer (b. 1912)
9 October – Andrzej Wajda , Polish film and theatre director (b. 1926)
13 October – Dario Fo , Italian actor, Nobel playwright and comedian (b. 1926)
14 October – Klim Churyumov , Ukrainian astronomer (b. 1937)
16 October – Viktor Zubkov , Russian basketball player (b. 1937)
23 October – Pete Burns , English singer-songwriter and television personality (b. 1959)
24 October
29 October – Roland Dyens , French classical guitarist, composer and arranger (b. 1955)
31 October – Silvio Gazzaniga , Italian sculptor (b. 1921)
November
Konstantinos Stefanopoulos
Rita Barberá
2 November – Oleg Popov , Russian clown and circus artist (b. 1930)
5 November – Marek Svatoš , Slovak professional ice hockey winger (b. 1982)
6 November – Zoltán Kocsis , Hungarian virtuoso pianist, conductor and composer (b. 1952)
9 November - La Veneno , Spanish transsexual vedette, singer and actress (b. 1964)
11 November
13 November – Enzo Maiorca , Italian free diver (b. 1931)
16 November – Daniel Prodan , Romanian footballer (b. 1972)
20 November
23 November
Andrew Sachs , German-born British actor (b. 1930)
Rita Barberá , Spanish senator and Mayoress of Valencia (1991-2015) (b. 1948)
25 November – David Hamilton , English photographer and film director (b. 1933)
27 November – Ioannis Grivas , 176th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1923)
28 November – Mark Taimanov , Russian chess Grandmaster and concert pianist (b. 1926)