By TIME Staff
DIED
Dario Fo, 90, Italian playwright known for works like Accidental Death of an Anarchist. He received the 1997 Nobel Prize for Literature.
• Dennis Byrd, 50, former NFL defensive lineman, in a car crash. The New York Jets player was known for recovering from a paralyzing neck injury in 1992.
• Jia Jia, 38, the world’s oldest giant panda to live in captivity.
WON
The 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature, by Bob Dylan, for creating “new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition.” He is the first musician to win the award.
ELECTED
Portugal’s former Prime Minister António Guterres, as Secretary-General of the U.N.
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