The recent death of actress and writer Caroline Aherne at the age of 52 from cancer adds to a tragic roll call that already includes David Bowie, Victoria Wood, Prince, Ronnie Corbett and Sir Terry Wogan.

Motorhead’s Lemmy Kilmister beat the calendar’s turn to 2016 by a couple of days, Natalie Cole by mere hours.

Here's a look at the famous faces we've said goodbye to in 2016:

January

Angus Scrimm - cult horror icon

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Film actor best known for his role as the Tall Man in the Phantasm horror movies, died aged 89.

David Bowie - singer, songwriter, actor and record producer​

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One of the world's best selling recording artists, whose career was marked by reinvention and visual presentation, died following an 18-month secret battle with cancer, aged 69. 

Dale Griffin - musician 

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The drummer and founder member of 70s rock group, Mott the Hoople died aged 67.

The band achieved chart success with hits including All The Young Dudes and Roll Away the Stone - written by David Bowie.

David Margulies - actor

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A versatile character actor who performed in scores of supporting stage, film and television roles. Best remembered for playing the common-sense mayor in Ghostbusters and Tony Soprano’s sleazy lawyer. He died from cancer, aged 78. 

Rene Angelil - music manager

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The Husband and manager of award-winning Canadian singer Celine Dion, died aged 73 after a long battle with cancer.

Alan Rickman - actor

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Known for his distinctive voice, the much-loved actor has been a fixture on the big screen since his breakthrough role as Hans Gruber in 1988's Die Hard and gained legions of fans for his role as Professor Severus Snape in the Harry Potter films. He died from cancer, aged 69.

Colin Vearncombe - musician 

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The singer, from Liverpool, had a global hit in 1987 with Wonderful Life, suffered swelling on his brain after a car crash near Cork Airport in Ireland on January 10, and died 16 days later. He was 53. 

Dan Haggerty - actor

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He went from working on films as an animal trainer and stunt performer to starring as the gentle frontier woodsman in the popular 1970s television series The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams. He died from cancer, aged 74.

Clarence Reid - musician 

Hip-hop figure better known as funk/R&B singer Blowfly, died aged 76.

He wrote and produced tracks for artists like Sam & Dave and KC & the Sunshine Band, and his often R-rated solo songs were sampled by rappers like Snoop Dogg and Jurassic 5.

Glenn Frey - musician

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The Eagles guitarist and co-founder, died aged 67. 

Frey and Eagles drummer Don Henley wrote and sang most of the band’s hits including Best of My Love and Desperado. Frey also co-wrote the rock classic Take It Easy, with Jackson Browne.

Abe Vigoda - actor

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Character actor best known for his role as the earnest mobster Tessio in The Godfather and the dyspeptic Detective Phil Fish on the hit television sitcom Barney Miller, died aged 94.

Paul Kantner - musician 

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The guitarist and songwriter was an original member of seminal 1960s rock band Jefferson Airplane and the eventual leader of successor group Jefferson Starship, he died aged 74.

Signe Anderson - musician 

The original Jefferson Airplane singer who was replaced by Grace Slick, died aged 74 on the same day as band mate Paul Kantner. 

Frank Finlay - actor 

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Star of stage and screen, Oscar nominated for his role as Iago in Laurence Olivier's, Othello, died aged 89.

Sir Terry Wogan - broadcaster

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One of the most skilled, popular and enduring broadcasters of his generation, with more than 40 years at the top of his profession, died aged 77. 

February

Maurice White - musician 

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Founding member of Earth, Wind & Fire, whose horn-driven band sold more than 90 million albums and produced hits including September, Shining Star and Boogie Wonderland, died aged 74.

Dan Hicks - musician 

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The singer, songwriter and band leader of Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks, died aged 74 after a two-year battle with throat and liver cancer.

Daniel Gerson - screenwriter

He co-wrote several Walt Disney animated films including Monsters, Inc. and Big Hero 6. he died of brain cancer aged 49.

Harper Lee - author

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Pulitzer Prize-winning author of To Kill a Mockingbird, one of the biggest selling novels of all time, died aged 89. 

Gorge Kennedy - actor

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Tough-guy character actor who won an Academy Award for his portrayal of a savage chain-gang convict in the 1960s classic Cool Hand Luke, died aged 91.

Frank Kelly - actor 

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Irish actor best known for his role as Father Jack Hackett on Father Ted, was also a veteran of stage and screen in a career lasting 60 years. He had more recent roles in Emmerdale and Mrs Brown's Boys D'Movie. He was 77.

March

Tony Warren - writer and creator of Corontation Street

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One of the most remarkable and influential figures in British television, not only because he created the longest-running show in the world at the age of 24, but because he convinced Granada to make the first episode in the face of considerable scepticism and snobbery. He died aged 79.

Pat Conroy - author

He used his tortured family life and the scenic marshlands of coastal South Carolina as unending sources of inspiration for his fiction, notably the novels The Great Santini, The Lords of Discipline and The Prince of Tides. He died aged 70.

Nancy Reagan - former first lady and actress

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Former American First Lady, wife of late President Ronald Reagan, died aged 94.

Sir George Martin - record producer

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The "Fifth Beatle" best known as a producer for The Beatles also worked with artists including Gerry and the Pacemakers, Dame Shirley Bassey and Cilla Black. He was 90.

Richard Davalos - actor 

Best known for his role as James Dean’s brother Aron in Elia Kazan’s 1955 film East of Eden, and as convict Blind Dick in the 1967 classic Cool Hand Luke, starring Paul Newman. He was 85.

Paul Daniels - entertainer

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 The magician and television personality died after being diagnosed with a brain tumour. He was 77.

Keith Emerson musician

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Founder and keyboardist of the progressive-rock band Emerson, Lake and Palmer, died aged 71.

Denise Robertson - television personality

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This Morning's resident agony aunt, died of pancreatic cancer aged 83. 

Sylvia Anderson - producer and writer

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Thunderbirds co-creator and voice of the Lady Penelope puppet character, died aged 88.

Frank Sinatra Jr. - musician

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Singer and son of Ol' Blue Eyes, died unexpectedly of cardiac arrest while on tour in Florida aged 72.

Joe Santos - actor

Best known as Lt. Dennis Becker on popular American television show The Rockford Files, died aged 84.

Sir Peter Maxwell Davies - composer

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As well as a composer he was an experienced conductor, holding the position of Associate Conductor/Composer at both the BBC Philharmonic and Royal Philharmonic orchestras for 10 years, and guest-conducting orchestras such as the San Francisco Symphony, Leipzig Gewandhaus and Philharmonia. He died at his Orkney home after suffering from leukaemia aged 81. 

Ken Howard - actor 

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He became famous for his role as Ken Reeves in The White Shadow, a US drama in which he played a retired NBA player now coaching high school players. He also appeared in Dynasty, Melrose Place and Crossing Jordan. He also served as president of the Screen Actors Guild‐American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA). He died aged 71.

Garry Shandling - comedian and actor

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The award-winning comic, who created It’s Garry Shandling’s Show and The Larry Sanders Show, pioneered a form of docudrama comedy which influenced Ricky Gervais, among others. He died aged 66. 

Jim Harrison - author 

A novelist and essayist considered to be one of the great writers in contemporary American fiction who wrote Legends of the Fall, died aged 78.

Patty Duke - actress

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Oscar and Emmy-winning actress, former child star and mother of Lord of the Rings actor Sean Astin, died of sepsis from a ruptured intestine aged 69.

Johan Cruyff - football legend 

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One of football’s most iconic players, won three consecutive European Cups with Ajax from 1971, coached Barcelona to their first European Cup triumph in 1992 and helped the Dutch reach the 1974 World Cup final, where they lost 2-1 to West Germany. He was 68.

Ronnie Corbett - entertainer 

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One of the nation's best-loved entertainers, best known for his partnership with Ronnie Barker in the Two Ronnies, was born in Edinburgh. He was 85.

Dame Zaha Hadid - architect

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Best known for her designs such as the London Aquatics Centre for the 2012 Olympic Games and the Riverside museum in Glasgow, died from a heart attack aged 65.

April

Douglas Wilmer - actor

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Sherlock Holmes actor who donned the famous deerstalker and picked up the clay pipe in the mid-1960s to play Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s famous creation. 

In 2012, at the very end of his acting career, he made a special cameo appearance in an episode of Sherlock as an irate old man at The Diogenes Club alongside current Sherlock, Benedict Cumberbatch. He died aged 96.

Merle Haggard - musician

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A giant of country music who celebrated outlaws and underdogs in bit hits such as Okie From Muskogee and Sing Me Back Home. 

A masterful guitarist, fiddler and songwriter as well as singer, he recorded for more than 40 years, releasing dozens of albums and number one hits. Hied form pneumonia aged 79. 

David Gest - Music producer and reality TV star

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He once made his living as a music producer and promoter, but was really famous for being the archetypal modern celebrity known for who he was married to (Liza Minnelli) and the reality shows he starred in (among them I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here and Big Brother) as well as his extensive plastic surgery. He died at 62. 

Gareth Thomas - actor 

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Best known for playing intergalactic resistance leader Roj Blake in the 1970s BBC show, Blake's 7, died of heart failure aged 71. 

Brian Asawa - Countertenor

One of the world’s foremost countertenors, whose repertoire ran from the Renaissance to Rorem, died from heart failure after a long illness aged 49.

Doris Roberts - actress

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An award-winning actress who became well-known for her matriarchal roles on television in the 1980s, but reached the peak of her fame in 1996 with one particular role: the manipulative, interfering, mother on the sit-com Everybody Loves Raymond. She died aged 90. 

Victoria Wood - comedian, actress and writer

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Much loved for sketches, sit-coms and songs that delighted in the silliness of ordinary life.

She also created a long line of eccentric characters brought to life by her team of regular co-stars such as Celia Imrie and Julie Walters – characters like the scatty tea lady Mrs Overall and the sexually frustrated Freda, who would sing to her boyfriend Barry. She died after a short battle with cancer aged 62.

Chyna - WWE star

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The WWE icon, whose real name was Joan Marie Laurer, was one of the most popular female professional wrestlers in the late 1990s. She died aged 45.

Guy Hamilton - film director 

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Best known for directing Bond favourites Goldfinger, Diamonds Are Forever, Live And Let Die and The Man With The Golden Gun. He died aged 93.

Prince - musician 

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Singer, songwriter, producer, one-man studio band and consummate showman, died aged 57. 

Prince sold more than 100 million records, won seven Grammys and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2004. He died aged 57. 

Morag Siller - actress

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Best known for her role as Reverend Esther Warren in Coronation Street, died aged 46.

Billy Paul - musician

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The jazz and soul singer best known for the chart-topping ballad Me And Mrs Jones, died from pancreatic cancer aged 80.

May

Jonathan Cainer - astrologer 

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A hugely successful astrologer who, through his website, books, phonelines, television appearances, and columns in the Daily Mail, Daily Express and Daily Mirror, built up a considerable business with a turnover of £2m a year and a staff of 30. He died of a heart attack aged 58. 

Kristian Ealey - actor

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Best known for his character Matt Musgrove, who appeared in Brookside between 1998 and 2000, and also Hollyoaks from 2000 to 2004, as well as the spin-off Hollyoaks: After Hours. He died aged 38.

Gordon Strachan - rugby international 

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He is best-known for the five Scotland caps he won, as a Jordanhill College player, between 1971 and 1973, he was a brilliant sporting all-rounder, ultra-competitive on park, court or course. He died aged 68 after a lengthy battle against heart disease.

Reg Grundy - television mogul 

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 A media and television mogul who created the Australian soap opera Neighbours, which became a global hit in the 1980s and made stars of Kylie Minogue and Jason Donovan. He died aged 92. 

John Berry  - musician

The Beastie Boys musician, who is cited as the person who came up with the name for the band, died at a hospice in Danvers, Massachusetts aged 52.