Notable Deaths of 2016 (60 images)

Gwen Ifill, co-anchor of The PBS NewsHour and moderator of PBS's Washington Week, died Monday, November 14, 2016, at age 61 after a battle with cancer. Ms. Ifill is seen here moderating the 2008 vice-presidential debate. Photo by Brian Kersey/UPI

Singer-poet Leonard Cohen has passed away according to a post on his official Facebook page. Cohen is seen here during his induction into the 2008 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Photo by Ezio Peterson/UPI

Janet Reno, the first female Attorney General, passed away at 78 from complications of Parkinson’s disease. Reno is seen here in the Rose Garden of the White House with U.S. President Bill Clinton (R) and Vice President Al Gore on February 11, 1993. UPI

A file handout photo dated, July 17, 1986, provided by the Israeli Government Press Office, shows Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres at a parade of Air Force cadets in southern Israel. The elder statesman Shimon Peres died at the age 93 on September 28, 2016, at a Tel Aviv hospital. Peres was Israel's ninth president, defense minister, foreign minister and Nobel Peace Prize laureate and was known as a man of vision and action. Photo by file photo Israeli Government Press Office