January
1: DAVID LODGE, British novelist best known for his campus trilogy series, aged 89.
16: DAVID LYNCH, US director behind Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive and the cult television series Twin Peaks, aged 78.
30: MARIANNE FAITHFULL, British singer and actress, best known for her hit song As Tears Go By, aged 78.
February
18: GENE HACKMAN, Oscar-winning US actor best known for The French Connection and Unforgiven, aged 95.
April
1: VAL KILMER, Hollywood actor who shot to fame playing Iceman in the original Top Gun, aged 65.
13: MARIO VARGAS LLOSA, Peruvian writer and Nobel literature laureate in 2010, aged 89.
May
23: SEBASTIAO SALGADO, French-Brazilian photographer, famed for his large black-and-white photographs depicting wildlife, landscapes and people around the world, aged 81.
24: MARCEL OPHULS, Oscar-winning film-maker who blew the lid off the myth that France resisted its World War II Nazi occupiers in The Sorrow and the Pity, aged 97.
June
3: EDMUND WHITE, American novelist, key figure of LGBTQ literature, aged 85.
9: FREDERICK FORSYTH, British thriller writer of The Day of the Jackal fame, aged 86.
11: BRIAN WILSON, musician and co-founder of the Beach Boys, aged 82.
26: LALO SCHIFRIN, Argentina-born composer who created themes for a host of hit Hollywood films and television shows -including Mission: Impossible, aged 93.
July
22: OZZY OSBOURNE, British frontman of Black Sabbath, one of the pioneers of heavy metal, aged 76.
24: HULK HOGAN, icon of professional wrestling in the 1980s who became an actor, aged 71.
31: ROBERT WILSON, American director of original stage and opera works, aged 83.
August
17: TERENCE STAMP, British actor who was an emblem of London’s Swinging Sixties, aged 87.
September
4: GIORGIO ARMANI, Italian luxury king and fashion designer to the stars, aged 91.
6: RICK DAVIES, co-founder and lead singer of British rock band Supertramp, aged 81.
16: ROBERT REDFORD, American cinema legend in front of and behind the camera, who worked to promote independent cinema, aged 89.
23: CLAUDIA CARDINALE, Italian-French 1960s screen siren and muse of Luchino Visconti and Federico Fellini, aged 87.
October
1: JANE GOODALL, British primatologist who transformed the study of chimpanzees and one of the world’s most revered wildlife advocates, aged 91.
11: DIANE KEATON, actress, known for her Oscar-winning performance alongside Woody Allen in 1977’s Annie Hall as well as The Godfather, aged 79.
November
24: DHARMENDRA, India’s hugely popular Bollywood star, aged 89.
24: JIMMY CLIFF, Jamaican reggae star who helped transform the island’s music into a global cultural phenomenon, aged 81.
29: TOM STOPPARD, British playwright, who won an Oscar for the screenplay of the 1998 film Shakespeare In Love, aged 88.
December
5: FRANK GEHRY, Canada-born US architect, who designed the Guggenheim Bilbao and the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, aged 96.
6: MARTIN PARR, British documentary photographer, aged 73.
14: ROB REINER, 78, US director of When Harry Met Sally, and his wife, photographer Michele Singer, 68, found dead with stab wounds.
16: ANTONY PRICE, British fashion guru who designed looks for pop legends such as Mick Jagger and David Bowie, aged 80.
28: BRIGITTE BARDOT, the legendary French actress and animal rights activist, dies at 91.
30: ISIAH WHITLOCK JR, US actor famous for HBO crime drama The Wire and numerous films directed by Spike Lee, dies at 71.
