- jan 10: david bowie (liver cancer)
- jan 18: glenn frey ― singer of the eagles (complicatins of intestinal surgery)
- jan 28: paul kantner & signe toly anderson ― guitarist and vocalist of jefferson airplane (complications of heart attack / chronic obstructive pulmonary disease)
- feb 04: maurice white ― founder of earth, wind & fire
- feb 19: umberto eco (pancreatic cancer)
- mar 08: george martin (not announced)
- mar 09: naná vasconcelos (lung cancer)
- mar 26: lucas gomes arcanjo ― policeman that dennounced several involvements of senator aécio neves with criminal activities (found dead hung by a tie; family rejects the suicide hypothesis)
- apr 02: gato barbieri (pneumonia)
- apr 09: phedra de córdoba (cancer)
- apr 21: prince (overdose)
- apr 24: billy paul ― soul singer, composer of "me & mrs. jones" (pancreatic cancer)
- may 15: cauby peixoto (pneumonia)
- jun 03: muhammad ali (septic shock)
- jul 02: diego machado ― student of UFRJ (LGBTfobic murder)
- jul 04: abbas kiarostami (gastrointestinal cancer)
- jul 13: héctor babenco (cardiac arrest)
- aug 16: elke maravilha (multiple organ failure)
- aug 29: gene wilder (complications of alzheimer's disease)
- oct 23: pete burns ― singer of dead or alive (cardiac arrest)
- oct 24: bobby vee (complications of alzheimer's disease)
- nov 07: leonard cohen (cancer)
- nov 13: leon russell ― musician who worked w/ joe cocker, the beach boys, the rolling stone, etc. (complications of heart surgery)
- nov 15: mose allison (natural causes)
- nov 25: fidel castro (not announced)
- nov 28: chapecoence plane crash
- dec 04: ferreira gullar (pneumonia)
- dec 14: paulo evaristo arns (pneumonia)
- dec 25: luis carlos ruas ― paulista hawker (murdered for protecting two transgender women from agression)
- dec 25: george michael (unknown)
- dec 27: carrie fisher (medical emergency on a plane)
- dec 28: debbie reynolds (stroke)
jan 2 2017 ∞
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