The following 'celebrities' have died this year, but weren’t picked by any team this year. However, they have all been chosen by teams in previous years. Hopefully by listing them here, it will alert players to non-eligible picks & to give those who are now gone their brief moment of fame on this site. The other reason for listing them here is that the teams who chose them can rue their bad luck or decisions!!
| Name (click for biography) | Date of death |
| William Christopher | 31st December 2016 |
| Tyrus Wong | 30th December 2016 |
| Ferdinand Kübler | 29th December 2016 |
| Gill Parrondo | 24th December 2016 |
| John Gwilliam | 21st December 2016 |
| Halfdan T. Mahler | 14th December 2016 |
| Hebe Charlotte Kohlbrugge | 11th December 2016 |
| Michael Nicholson | 11th December 2016 |
| A. A. Gill | 10th December 2016 |
| Greg Lake | 7th December 2016 |
| Gisela May | 2nd December 2016 |
| Grant Tinker | 28th November 2016 |
| Margaret Rhodes | 25th November 2016 |
| Florence Henderson | 24th November 2016 |
| William Trevor | 21st November 2016 |
| Nana Afua Kobi Serwaa Ampem II | 15th November 2016 |
| Leon Russell | 13th November 2016 |
| Raoul Coutard | 8th November 2016 |
| Silvio Gazzaniga | 31st October 2016 |
| John Zacherle | 27th October 2016 |
| Pete Burns | 23rd October 2016 |
| Jack T. Chick | 23rd October 2016 |
| Simone Schaller | 20th October 2016 |
| Stylianos Pattakos | 8th October 2016 |
| Horst Solle | 6th October 2016 |
| Oscar Brand | 30th September 2016 |
| Arthur Harnden | 30th September 2016 |
| Karam Chand | 27th September 2016 |
| John D Loudermilk | 21st September 2016 |
| Peter Leo Gerety | 20th September 2016 |
| Gordon Guthrie | 19th September 2016 |
| Rose Warfman | 17th September 2016 |
| Gérard Louis-Dreyfus | 16th September 2016 |
| Rose Mofford | 15th September 2016 |
| Eric "Lord Littlebrook" Tovey | 9th September 2016 |
| Fu Suqing | 3rd September 2016 |
| Islom Karimov | 2nd September 2016 |
| John Polito | 1st September 2016 |
| Harry Fujiwara | 28th August 2016 |
| Sonia Rykiel | 25th August 2016 |
| Andrew Florent | 16th August 2016 |
| Barbara Gibb | 16th August 2016 |
| Hanif Mohammad | 11th August 2016 |
| Alphons Egli | 5th August 2016 |
| Maria Knauder | 4th August 2016 |
| Gloria DeHaven | 30th July 2016 |
| Emile Derlin Zinsou | 28th July 2016 |
| Carl-Henrik Hermansson | 26th July 2016 |
| Forrest Edward Mars Jr | 26th July 2016 |
| J. T. McNamara | 26th July 2016 |
| Alan Vega | 16th July 2016 |
| Bernardo Provenzano | 16th July 2016 |
| Scotty Moore | 28th June 2016 |
| Alan Devereux | 29th May 2016 |
| Hedy Epstein | 26th May 2016 |
| Reginald Palmer | 23rd May 2016 |
| Irving Benson | 19th May 2016 |
| Rabbit Kekai | 13th May 2016 |
| Candye Kane | 6th May 2016 |
| Maurice Siné | 5th May 2016 |
| Roger Millward | 3rd May 2016 |
| Madeleine LeBeau | 1st May 2016 |
| Barry Howard | 28th April 2016 |
| Poornima Arvind Pakvasa | 25th April 2016 |
| Tommy Kono | 24th April 2016 |
| Billy Paul | 24th April 2016 |
| (musician) Prince | 21st April 2016 |
| (wrestler) Chyna | 20th April 2016 |
| Victoria Wood | 20th April 2016 |
| Arnold Wesker | 12th April 2016 |
| Dennis Davis | 6th April 2016 |
| John Vane, 11th Baron Barnard | 3rd April 2016 |
| Cesare Maldini | 3rd April 2016 |
| Georges Cottier | 31st March 2016 |
| Imre Kertész | 31st March 2016 |
| Douglas Wilmer | 31st March 2016 |
| James Noble | 28th March 2016 |
| Ameli Duchess of Oldenburg | 26th March 2016 |
| Glen Dawson | 22nd March 2016 |
| Guido Westerwelle | 18th March 2016 |
| Bud Collins | 4th March 2016 |
| Johann Georg of Hohenzollern | 4th March 2016 |
| Mishaal bin Abdulaziz | 29th February 2016 |
| Jack Lindquist | 28th February 2016 |
| Abdul Rashid Khan | 16th February 2016 |
| Ronnie Blackman | 16th February 2016 |
| Antonin Scalia | 13th February 2016 |
| John McCafferty | 9th February 2016 |
| Zdravko Tolimir | 8th February 2016 |
| Norman Hudis | 8th February 2016 |
| Óscar Humberto Mejía Victores | 1st February 2016 |
| Ruth Rehmann | 29th January 2016 |
| Jacques Rivette | 29th January 2016 |
| Artur Fischer | 27th January 2016 |
| Marvin Minsky | 24th January 2016 |
| Jack Bannister | 22nd January 2016 |
| Gerald Williams | 21st January 2016 |
| Michel Tournier | 18th January 2016 |
| Alan Rickman | 14th January 2016 |
| Meg Mundy | 12th January 2016 |
| Robert Black | 12th January 2016 |
| Gunnel Vallquist | 11th January 2016 |
| John B. Mansbridge | 11th January 2016 |
| Bill Del Monte | 11th January 2016 |
| David Bowie | 10th January 2016 |
| Angus Scrimm | 9th January 2016 |
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