Deaths in 1996

The following is a list of notable deaths in 1996. Names are listed under the date of death and not the date it was announced. Names under each date are listed in alphabetical order by family name.

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Deaths of notable animals (that is, those with their own Wikipedia articles) are also reported here.

A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:

• Name, age, country of citizenship and reason for notability, established cause of death, reference (and language of reference, if not English).

January 1996

1

• Malladihalli Sri Raghavendra Swamiji, founder of Anatha Sevashrama Trust, Malladihalli (b. 1890)
• Moshe Aryeh Freund, Chief Rabbi (av beis din) of the Edah HaChareidis in Jerusalem (b. 1894)
• Leopoldo Benites, 28th President of the United Nations General Assembly
• Gertrude Blanch, American mathematician (b. 1897)
• Lionel Boulet, Canadian engineer, academic, and utilities executive (b. 1919)
• Arleigh Burke, U.S Navy Admiral and Chief of Naval Operations (b. 1901)
• Fulvio Nesti, Italian footballer (b. 1925)
• Arthur Rudolph, German rocket engineer (b. 1906)

2

• Thornton Leigh Page, American astronomer (b. 1913)
• Karl Targownik, Hungarian psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor (b. 1915)

3

• Teddy Andrulewicz, American football fullback/halfback (b. 1905)

4

• Vasily Afonin, Soviet air ace who fought in the German-Soviet War (b. 1919)
• Tino Bianchi, Italian actor (b. 1905)
• Zhou Mingzhen, Chinese palaeontologist (b. 1918)

5

• Yahya Ayyash, Palestinian bombmaker (b. 1966)
• Gus Bivona, American reed player (b. 1915)
• Lincoln Kirstein, American writer and impresario (b. 1907)
• Richard Versalle, American operatic tenor (b. 1932)

6

• Stanley Atkins, Anglican bishop (b. 1912)
• Ulrich Biel, German politician and representative of the German Christian Democratic Union (b. 1907)

7

• Benjamin Batson, American mathematician (b. 1942)
• Sir Rae McKaig, British admiral (b. 1922)
• Tarō Okamoto, Japanese artist (b. 1911)

8

• Carmen Conde Abellán, Spanish poet, narrative writer and teacher (b. 1907)
• Harvey Hancock, American business executive, journalist and political consultant (b. 1900)
• François Mitterrand, President of France and Co-Prince of Andorra (b. 1916)

9

• Moe Becker, American basketball player (b. 1917)
• Ronnie Bell, British physical chemist (b. 1907)
• Fearless Nadia, Indian actress and stuntwoman (b. 1908)
• Sultan Rahi, Pakistani film actor (b. 1938)

10

• Raymond H. Fogler, American centenarian and Assistant Secretary of the Navy (b. 1892)
• Alamgir M. A. Kabir, Bangladeshi police officer (b. 1911)

11

• Harold Walter Bailey, English scholar of Khotanese, Sanskrit, and the comparative study of Iranian languages (b. 1899)
• Tato Bores, Argentine film, theatre and television comedian (b. 1927)
• Eric Hebborn, art forger (b. 1934)

12

• Thomas Anderson, American stage and television actor (b. 1905)
• Garnett Blair, African-American baseball pitcher (b. 1921)
• Eduard Haken, Czech opera singer (b. 1910)
• Sir Edmund Happold, British structural engineer (b. 1930)
• Bartel Leendert van der Waerden, Dutch mathematician (b. 1903)

13

• Philip Dunleavy, Welsh politician (b. 1915)
• Dean Kelley, American basketball player (b. 1931)
• Ester Krumbachová, Czech screenwriter and costume designer (b. 1923)

14

• Myron Daciuk, Canadian Ukrainian Greek Catholic hierarch, Bishop of Edmonton (since 1991) (b. 1919)
• Casey Elliott, American stock car racing driver (b. 1974)

15

• Don Bauer, Australian rules footballer (b. 1922)
• Les Baxter, American musician and composer (b. 1922)
• Arthur Biggs, English professional footballer (b. 1915)
• Manfred Börner, German physicist (b. 1929)
• Paramount Chief Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho (b. 1938)

16

• Pieter Kasteleyn, Dutch physicist famous for his contributions to the field of Statistical Mechanics (b. 1924)

17

• Arnold Anderson, New Zealand track and field athlete (b. 1912)
• William O. Aydelotte, American historian (b. 1910)
• Barbara Jordan, American politician (b. 1936)
• Robert C. Zimmerman, American politician, Secretary of State of Wisconsin (b. 1910)

18

• Leonor Fini, Argentine artist (b. 1908)
• Endel Puusepp, Soviet Estonian World War II pilot (b. 1909)
• Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao, Indian (Telugu) film actor (b. 1923)
• Rudolf Wanderone, American pocket billiards player also known as Minnesota Fats (b. 1913)

19

• Upendranath Ashk, Indian novelist, short story writer and playwright (b. 1910)
• Bernard Baily, American comic book artist (b. 1916)
• A. G. Gaston, American businessman (b. 1892)
• Don Simpson, American film producer (b. 1943)

20

• Buster Benton, American blues guitarist and singer (b. 1932)
• Gerry Mulligan, American musician (b. 1927)

21

• Kaj Birksted, Danish flying ace during World War II (b. 1915)
• Luther Boyd Eubanks, American judge, Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma (b. 1917)
• Ban Tetsugyu Soin, Japanese Zen master (b. 1910)
• Henry Serrano Villard, American diplomat and author (b. 1900)

22

• William Cantrell, American power boat and IndyCar driver (b. 1908)
• Reynell Taylor, British army general (b. 1928)

23

• Norman MacCaig, Scottish poet and teacher (b. 1910)
• Art White, American football offensive lineman in the NFL (b. 1915)

24

• Yelizaveta Bagryantseva, Russian discus thrower and Olympic silver medalist (b. 1929)

25

• Billy Bailey, American murderer (b. 1947)
• Ruth Berghaus, German choreographer and opera and theatre director (b. 1927)
• Jonathan Larson, American composer and playwright (b. 1960)

26

• Gerrit Cornelis Berkouwer, Dutch theologian (b. 1903)
• Harold Brodkey, American fiction writer (b. 1930)
• Jiří Kotalík, Czech art historian and museum director (b. 1920)
• Georg Alexander, Duke of Mecklenburg, head of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (b. 1921)

27

• Elizabeth Monroe Boggs, American policy maker and scholar (b. 1913)
• Niño Rivera, Cuban songwriter, guitarist and bandleader (b. 1919)

28

• Roland J. Barnick, American military pilot and general (b. 1917)
• Devakanta Barua, President of the Indian National Congress (b. 1914)
• Joseph Brodsky, Russian-born poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1940)
• Janet McCarter Woolley, American bacteriologist (b. 1906)
• Jerry Siegel, American cartoonist (b. 1914)

29

• Stuart Olof Agrell, English geologist and mineralogist (b. 1913)

30

• Friedrich Benfer, German film actor (b. 1905)

31

• Julian Phelps Allan, English sculptor (b. 1892)
• Florieda Batson, American Olympic hurdler (b. 1900)
• Morris Bialis, American labor leader (b. 1897)
• Anneliese Bläsing, German politician (b. 1923)
• Gustave Solomon, American mathematician and engineer (b. 1930)
• Sir Peter Tait, New Zealand politician and businessman (b.1915)

February 1996

1

• Adel Adham, Egyptian actor (b. 1928)
• Sergey Aganov, Soviet military leader (b. 1917)

2

• Roderick Barclay, British diplomat who was ambassador to Denmark and Belgium (b. 1909)
• Fred S. Keller, pioneer in experimental psychology (b. 1899)
• Gene Kelly, American actor and dancer (b. 1912)
• Müfide İlhan, first Turkish female city mayor (in Mersin) (b. 1911)

3

• Edward Adamson, British artist (b. 1911)
• Audrey Meadows, American actress (b. 1926)

4

• Gunnar Andreasen, Danish boxer who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics (b. 1914)
• Sara C. Bisel, American physical anthropologist and classical archaeologist (b. 1932)
• Gerry Brand, South African rugby union footballer (b. 1906)
• Willard S. Curtin, American politician (b. 1905)

5

• Taylor Benson, American politician (b. 1922)

6

• Knut Blom, Norwegian Supreme Court Justice (b. 1916)
• Guy Madison, American actor (b. 1922)
• Douglas Wellesley Morrell, British electrical engineer (b. 1917)

7

• Friedrich Anding, German military officer (b. 1915)
• Boris Alexandrovich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer (b. 1925)

8

• Lydia Chukovskaya, Soviet writer and dissident (b. 1907)
• Felice Schwartz, American writer, advocate, and feminist (b. 1925)

9

• Albert Jean Amateau, Turkish rabbi, businessman, lawyer and social activist (b. 1889)
• Adolf Borchers, German former Luftwaffe fighter ace (b. 1913)
• Adolf Galland, German general and World War II fighter ace (b. 1912)
• Gerald Savory, English playwright and screenwriter (b. 1909)

10

• Louis Ward, American businessman (b. 1920)

11

• Olle Åhlund, Swedish footballer (b. 1920)
• Thecla Boesen, Danish film actress (b. 1910)
• Kebby Musokotwane, Prime Minister of Zambia (b. 1946)
• Cyril Poole, English cricketer (b. 1921)
• Phil Regan, American actor (b. 1906)
• Amelia Rosselli, Italian poet (b. 1930)

12

• Andrea Barbato, Italian journalist, politician, author and screenwriter (b. 1934)
• J. C. Beckett, Northern Irish historian (b. 1912)
• Hans-Joachim Bellinger, German military officer (b. 1917)
• Lawrence Biedenharn, American theoretical nuclear physicist and mathematical physicist (b. 1922)
• Don Bollweg, American first baseman in Major League Baseball (b. 1921)
• Gina Falckenberg, German actress (b. 1907)
• Bob Shaw, Irish science fiction writer (b. 1931)
• Ryōtarō Shiba, Japanese novelist (b. 1923)

13

• Martin Balsam, American actor (b. 1919)
• Scott Beach, American actor, writer, and disc jockey (b. 1931)

14

• Lady Caroline Blackwood, British writer and model (b. 1931)
• Eva Hart, British survivor of RMS Titanic (b. 1905)
• Hong Il Kim, Korean shooting victim (b. 1968)
• Bob Paisley, English football manager (b. 1919)

15

• Lucio Agostini, Italian-born composer, arranger, and conductor (b. 1913)
• Peter Gardner, Australian Olympic athlete (b. 1925)
• Tommy Rettig, American actor (b. 1941)
• McLean Stevenson, American actor (b. 1929)
• Sybren Valkema, Dutch glass artist (b. 1916)

16

• Ruth E. Adomeit, American author, editor, collector of miniature books and philanthropist (b. 1910)
• Roberto Aizenberg, Argentine painter and sculptor (b. 1928)
• Pat Brown, Governor of California (b. 1905)
• Brownie McGhee, American musician (b. 1915)
• Roger Bowen, American comedic actor and novelist (b. 1932)

17

• Billy Anderson, American football quarterback (b. 1941)
• Noel Bayliss, Australian chemist (b. 1906)
• Hervé Bazin, French novelist (b. 1911)
• Evelyn Laye, British actress (b. 1900)

18

• Anthony Joseph Murphy, Canadian athlete and politician (b. 1913)
• Herbert J. Wallenstein, Assistant New York State Attorney General (b. 1917)

19

• Sehba Akhtar, Pakistani poet and songwriter (b. 1931)

20

• Walter Marshall, Baron Marshall of Goring, 63, British physicist and businessman (b. 1932)
• Audrey Munson, American artist's model and film actress (b. 1891)
• Tōru Takemitsu, Japanese composer (b. 1930)

21

• Terence Edward Armstrong, British polar geographer, sea ice specialist, writer, and expert on the Russian Arctic (b. 1920)
• Priscilla Bonner, American silent film actress (b. 1899)
• Morton Gould, American musician and composer (b. 1913)

22

• George Christopher Archibald, British economist (b. 1926)
• Yahya Ayyash, chief bombmaker of Hamas and the leader of the West Bank battalion of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades (b. 1966)
• Karl Boo, Swedish politician (b. 1918)

23

• Joseph W. Barr, American businessman and politician (b. 1918)
• Douglas Baulch, Australian artist (b. 1917)
• William Bonin, American serial killer (b. 1947)
• Elisa Cegani, Italian actress (b. 1911)
• Helmut Schön, German football player and manager (b. 1915)

24

• Billy Lothridge, American football Punter, Safety and Quarterback in the National Football League (b. 1942)

25

• Caio Fernando Abreu, Brazilian writer (b. 1948)
• Haing S. Ngor, Cambodian actor (b. 1940)
• Charles E. Palm, American entomologist (b. 1911)

26

• Ali Antsukhskiy, Azerbaijani politician (b. 1947)
• Alberto Alvarado Arámburo, Mexican politician who served as the Governor of Baja California Sur (b. 1925)
• John Dalrymple, 13th Earl of Stair, British aristocrat and public servant (b. 1906)
• Hank Vasconcellos, American football coach (b. 1911)
• Mieczysław Weinberg, Polish composer (b. 1919)

27

• Iain Murray, 10th Duke of Atholl, Scottish peer and landowner (b. 1931)
• Toni Benetton, Italian sculptor (b. 1910)
• Gerrit Berkhoff, Dutch chemist (b. 1901)
• Sarah Palfrey Cooke, American tennis player (b. 1912)
• Pat Smythe, British showjumper and author (b. 1928)

28

• Sylvia Williams, American museum director, curator, art historian and scholar of African art (b. 1936)

29

• Federico Barbaro, Italian missionary in Japan (b. 1913)
• Wes Farrell, American songwriter and record producer, cancer (b. 1939)

March 1996

1

• Philip K. Allen, American politician and educator (b. 1910)
• Harold Baim, British film producer, director and writer (b. 1914)

2

• Lyle Talbot, American actor (b. 1902)

3

• Marguerite Duras, French author and director (b. 1914)

4

• Minnie Pearl, American comedian (b. 1912)
• John Sauer, American football player and coach (b. 1925)

5

• Khondaker Mostaq Ahmad, Bangladeshi politician who served as the President of Bangladesh (b. 1918)
• Whit Bissell, American actor (b. 1909)

6

• Jack Abel, American comic book artist (b. 1927)
• Stanley Booth-Clibborn, British Anglican bishop (b. 1924)
• Nicolás Cotoner y Cotoner, Spanish general, aristocrat and Chief of Royal Household (b. 1905)

7

• Pinchas Menachem Alter, Polish Orthodox rabbi (b. 1926)
• Helmut Bastian, German military officer (b. 1916)
• Jacques Bobet, French filmmaker (b. 1919)

8

• Bill Nicholson, right fielder in Major League Baseball (b. 1914)

9

• Ronald Ernest Aitchison, Australian physicist (b. 1921)
• Elman Ali Ahmed, Somalian activist (b. ?)
• Harold Baigent, New Zealand theatre director, actor and arts manager (b. 1916)
• George Burns, American actor and singer (b. 1896)
• Gustave Gingras, Canadian physician (b. 1918)
• Imre Kovács, 74, Hungarian Olympic football player (1952 gold medal).[1]

10

• Ross Hunter, American film producer (b. 1926)
• Butch Laswell, American motorcycle stunt rider (b. 1958)

11

• Barry Appleby, British cartoonist (b. 1909)
• Granville Beynon, Welsh physicist (b. 1914)
• Vince Edwards, American actor (b. 1928)
• Ludwig Fellermaier, German politician (b. 1930)
• Sir Charles Oatley, British electrical engineer (b. 1904)

12

• Archie J. Bahm (b. 1907)

13

• Henriette Alimen, French paleontologist and geologist (b. 1900)
• Alberto Assa, Colombian educator, translator and humanist (b. 1909)
• Lucio Fulci, Italian film director (b. 1927)
• Krzysztof Kieślowski, Polish film director (b. 1941)

14

• Dewi Bebb, Welsh rugby union player (b. 1938)
• Norman H. Boke, American plant anatomist (b. 1913)

15

• Ed Beach, American basketball player (b. 1929)
• Olga Rudge, American violinist (b. 1895)

16

• Hugo Alfaro, Uruguayan journalist (b. 1917)
• Charlie Barnett, American comedian (b. 1954)

17

• René Clément, French film director (b. 1913)
• Elsa Respighi, Italian composer (b. 1894)

18

• Odysseas Elytis, Greek writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)

19

• Chen Jingrun, Chinese mathematician (b. 1933)
• Virginia Henderson, American nurse, researcher, theorist and author (b. 1897)
• W. H. Murray, Scottish mountaineer and writer (b. 1913)

20

• Claude Bourdet, French writer, journalist, polemist, and politician (b. 1909)
• Vladimir Brezhnev, Russian ice hockey player (b. 1935)

21

• Walter Bietila, American Olympic ski jumper (b. 1916)

22

• Balot, Filipino comedian (b. 1926)
• Don Murray, American drummer (b. 1945)

23

• J. D. "Jay" Miller, American record producer, musician and songwriter (b. 1922)

24

• Marvin Albert, American writer of mystery, crime and adventure novels (b. 1924)
• Aldon Junior Anderson, United States federal judge (b. 1917)
• Lola Beltrán, Mexican recording artist, actress, and television presenter (b. 1932)

25

• Mary Lavin, Irish writer (b. 1912)
• John Snagge, British radio personality (b. 1904)

26

• Robert Bradshaw, American figure skater (b. 1954)
• Edmund Muskie, American politician (b. 1914)
• David Packard, American engineer (b. 1912)

27

• Julian Amery, British politician (b. 1919)
• Joan Sterndale-Bennett, British actress (b. 1914)

28

• Hans Blumenberg, German philosopher and intellectual historian (b. 1920)
• Barbara McLean, American film editor (b. 1903)
• Mohamed Sedki Sulayman, Egyptian politician, Prime Minister (1966–1967) (b. 1919)

29

• Frank Daniel, Czech-born writer, director, producer, teacher (b. 1926)

30

• Charles A. Agemian, American banker (b. 1909)

31

• Dario Bellezza, Italian poet, author and playwright (b. 1944)
• Raphael Blau, American screenwriter (b. 1912)
• Nino Borsari, Italian cyclist (b. 1911)
• Jeffrey Lee Pierce, American musician (b. 1958)

April 1996

1

• John McSherry, American umpire in Major League Baseball (b. 1944)

2

• Booba Barnes, American Delta blues guitar player and vocalist (b. 1936)

3

• Walter Beckett, Irish composer, teacher and music critic (b. 1914)
• Herk Harvey, American film director (b. 1924)
• Carl Stokes, American politician (b. 1927)
• Joe Wilson, English footballer (b. 1911)

4

• Brian Abel-Smith, British economist, 68 (b. 1926)
• Barney Ewell, American athlete, 77 (b. 1918)
• Ernie Newton, American actor, 70 (b. 1925)

5

• Robert Anderson, American Foreign Service officer who served as the United States Ambassador to Dahomey, Morocco, and the Dominican Republic

6

• John D. Bulkeley, U.S. Navy Vice Admiral, and Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1911)
• Greer Garson, British-born American actress (b. 1904)
• Ilka Tanya Payán, Dominican actress and HIV activist (b. 1943)

7

• Luis Aloma, Cuban baseball player (b. 1923)
• Colleen Clifford, British-born Australian actress (b. 1898)

8

• Donald Adams, English opera singer and actor (b. 1928)
• George W. Jenkins, American businessman and founder of Publix (b. 1907)
• Rush Limbaugh, Sr., American ambassador, lawyer, legislator, jurist and grandfather of Rush Limbaugh (b. 1891)
• Agron Sulaj, Albanian football player and manager (b. 1952)

9

• Sandy Becker, American television announcer, actor, and comedian (b. 1922)
• Phyllis Benjamin, Australian Labor Party politician (b. 1907)
• André Bourguignon, French psychiatrist and psychoanalis (b. 1920)
• Fazlul Halim Chowdhury, Bangladeshi chemist and academic administrator (b. 1930)

10

• Bud Annand, Australian rules footballer (b. 1933)
• Hans Beck, Norwegian ski jumper and Olympic medalist (b. 1911)

11

• Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet, French advertising magnate (b. 1906)
• Jessica Dubroff died in a plane crash while attempting to be the youngest person to fly across the United States (b. 1988)
• Jimmy Watson, Scottish international footballer (b. 1924)

12

• Fred Alexander (historian), Australian historian (b. 1899)

13

• C. Alfred "Chief" Anderson, American aviator (b. 1907)
• János Bencze, Hungarian footballer, goalkeeper (b. 1952)

14

• Gaylord Birch, American drummer (b. 1946)
• Marie Clotilde Bonaparte, French princess of the Bonaparte dynasty, the eldest child of Victor, Prince Napoléon and his wife Princess Clémentine of Belgium (b. 1912)
• Rinus van den Bosch, Dutch artist, who worked as sculptor, photographer, installation artist, painter, and draftsman (b. 1938)
• David Brand, Lord Brand, Scottish lawyer and judge (b. 1923)

15

• Beatriz Costa, Portuguese actress (b.1907)
• John C. Flanagan, American psychologist most known for developing the Critical Incident Technique (b. 1906)

16

• George Abel, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1916)
• Zoltán Berkes, Hungarian field hockey player (b. 1916)
• Nikolay Bobarenko, Soviet cyclist (b. 1931)
• Madeleine Bourdouxhe, Belgian author (b. 1906)
• Lucille Bremer, American actress and dancer (b. 1917)
• François-Régis Bastide, French writer, diplomat, politician, and radio host (b. 1926)

17

• Elio Filippo Accrocca, Italian poet, author, and translator (b. 1923)

18

• Robert Bauer, German military officer (b. 1907)
• Ernest Bender, Professor of Indo-Aryan languages and literature at the University of Pennsylvania (b. 1919)
• Brook Berringer, American quarterback for the University of Nebraska football team (b. 1973)
• Ronald Davies, American judge (b. 1904)

19

• Yukiyoshi Aoki, Japanese Olympic swimmer (b. 1934)

20

• John Barrie, English professional billiards and snooker player (b. 1924)
• Hank Biasatti, Italian-Canadian National Basketball Association player and a Major League Baseball first baseman (b. 1922)
• Russell Beichly, American basketball coach (b. 1902)
• Christopher Robin Milne, English author and bookseller (b. 1920)

21

• Zora Arkus-Duntov, Belgian-born American engineer (b. 1909)
• Dzhokhar Dudayev, Soviet-born Chechen politician and President of Ichkeria (1991–1996) (b. 1944)
• Sir John Fiennes, 85, British lawyer and parliamentary draftsman.

22

• Erma Bombeck, American humorist and writer (b. 1927)
• Bob Brady, American professional baseball player and Major League catcher (b. 1922)
• Hiteswar Saikia, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Assam (b. 1936)
• Nobuo Yoneda, Japanese mathematician and computer scientist (b. 1930)

23

• Jean Victor Allard, Canadian General (b. 1913)
• A. C. Anderson, Canadian pharmacist and politician (b. 1909)
• Edvard Kaurin Barth, Norwegian zoologist and photographer (b. 1913)
• P. L. Travers, Australian-born British actress, journalist, novelist and writer (b. 1899)

24

• Mel Bleeker, American football player (b. 1920)

25

• Trevor Barker, Australian rules footballer (b. 1956)
• Saul Bass, American graphic designer (b. 1920)

26

• Jack Boyd, Australian rules footballer (b. 1906)
• Milt Gaston, American baseball player (b. 1896)
• Stirling Silliphant, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1918)

27

• Adam Roarke, American actor and film director (b. 1937)
• Rudolf Schulten, German physicist (b. 1923)

28

• Pieter Beets, Dutch Olympic cyclist (b. 1900)
• T. H. Clark, Canadian geologist (b. 1893)
• Siti Hartinah, Indonesian First Lady (b. 1923)

29

• George Batson, Australian rules footballer (b. 1912)

30

• Jeanne Bal, American actress (b. 1928)

May 1996

1

• Francisco Alcaraz, a Mexican League umpire (b. 1920)
• Kenneth Bolton, Canadian politician (b. 1907)
• David M. Kennedy, American politician and businessman (b. 1905)

2

• Moyra Allen, Canadian nurse and academic (b. 1921)
• Queen Mother Moore, African-American civil rights leader and a black nationalist (b. 1898)

3

• Jack Weston, American actor (b. 1924)

4

• Gus Keriazakos, American professional baseball player (b. 1931)

5

• Ai Qing, Chinese poet (b. 1910)
• Harry From, Romanian film director ( b. 1934)

6

• Tony Nesbit, Australian rules footballer (b. 1938)
• Suzanne Ridgeway, American film actress (b. 1918)

7

• Don McNeill, American radio personality (b. 1907)
• Sir Howard Smith, British diplomat and intelligence officer (b.1919)

8

• Larry Levis, American poet (b. 1946)

9

• Redd Boggs, American science fiction fanzine writer, editor and publisher (b. 1921)
• Gustave Gingras, Canadian physician and founder of the Montreal Institute of Rehabilitation (b. 1918)

10

• Jože Babič, Slovenian film, theatre and television director (b. 1917)
• Poul Borum, Danish writer, poet and critic (b. 1934)
• Tsewang Paljor, Indian mountaineer. (b. 1968)
• Sir Christopher Welby-Everard, British army general (b. 1909)

11

• Nnamdi Azikiwe, President of Nigeria (b. 1904)
• Fred Borgman, Dutch politician (b. 1946)
• Bruce Boyce, Canadian-born American baritone singer of opera, oratorio and lieder (b. 1910)
• Rob Hall, New Zealand mountaineer (b. 1961)
• Ademir Marques de Menezes, Brazilian footballer (b. 1922)

12

• Ghazaleh Alizadeh, Iranian poet and writer (b. 1947)

13

• Fred Barnes, Australian rules footballer (b. 1921)

14

• José Antonio Aguiriano, Spanish socialist politician (b. 1932)
• Aung Khin, Burmese painter (b. 1921)
• Marian Barone, American Olympic gymnast (b. 1924)

15

• Bernard Benson, British inventor, author and writer (b. 1922)
• Charles B. Fulton, American judge (b. 1910)
• Virgil Ross, American animator (b. 1907)

16

• Danilo Alvim, Brazilian footballer (b. 1920)
• Jeremy Michael Boorda, United States Navy admiral who served as the 25th Chief of Naval Operations (b. 1939)

17

• Barry Alderette, American politician (b. 1939)
• Archibald G. M. Batten, British insurance industry executive and philatelist (b. 1902)
• Scott Brayton, American race car driver (b. 1959)

18

• Czesław Bobrowski, Polish economist (b. 1904)
• Mario Braggiotti, American pianist, composer and raconteur (b. 1905)
• Tom Forman, American cartoonist (b. 1936)
• Kevin Gilbert, 29, American musician and composer (Toy Matinee), accidental asphyxiation.[2]

19

• John Beradino, American baseball player and actor (b. 1917)

20

• Sterling Foster Black, American lawyer and politician (b. 1924)
• Bimal Bose, first-class cricket for Bihar (b. 1918)
• Jon Pertwee, British actor (b. 1919)

21

• Vladimir Belyakov, Soviet gymnast (b. 1918)
• Paul Delph, American musician and producer (b. 1957)
• Lash LaRue, American actor (b. 1917)

22

• Seymour H. Knox III, hockey team owner (b. 1926)

23

• Abu Ubaidah al-Banshiri, al-Qaeda leader (b. 1950)
• Gillian Hanson, British physician (b. 1934)
• John Haycraft, English educator (b. 1926)
• Tanju Okan, Turkish musician (b. 1938)

24

• John Abbott, English character actor (b. 1905)
• Enrique Álvarez Félix, Mexican actor (b. 1934)
• Raúl Armando Barrionuevo, Chilean farmer and politician (b. 1913)
• Charles Best (b. 1909)
• Jacob Druckman, American composer (b. 1928)
• Joseph Mitchell, American writer (b. 1908)

25

• Bill Crass, American NFL football player (b. 1911)
• Laurence Marks, British journalist (b. 1928)
• Bradley Nowell, American musician (b. 1968)

26

• Ole Berntsen, Danish sailor (b. 1915)
• Vincent Bevan, New Zealand rugby union player (b. 1921)
• Heije Schaper, Dutch military officer and politician (b. 1906)

27

• Earl P. Benditt, American pathologist (b. 1916)
• Aksel Bonde, Danish rower who competed in the 1948 Summer Olympics (b. 1918)
• George Boolos, American philosopher and a mathematical logician (b. 1940)

28

• Anthony Bourne-Arton, British Conservative Party politician (b. 1913)
• Eugenia Price, American author (b. 1916)

29

• Teresa Rothschild, British counter-intelligence officer (b. 1915)
• Tamara Toumanova, Russian dancer and actress (b. 1919)

30

• John Kahn, American rock and roll bass guitarist (b. 1947)
• Natividad Vacío, American actor (b. 1912)

31

• Cliff Holton, English footballer (b. 1929)
• Ton de Leeuw, Dutch composer (b. 1926)
• Timothy Leary, American writer, psychologist, and advocate of psychedelic drug research and use (b. 1920)

June 1996

1

• Alan Blakley, English guitarist and record producer (b. 1942)
• Alfred Bottler, German military officer (b. 1917)
• Vittorino Colombo, Italian politician (b. 1925)
• Gaetano Fichera, Italian mathematician (b. 1922)
• Don Grolnick, American jazz pianist, composer and record producer (b. 1947)
• Neelam Sanjiva Reddy, Indian statesman, 6th President of India (b. 1913)

2

• John Alton, American cinematographer (b. 1901)
• Ishmael Bernal, Filipino film, stage and television director, actor and screenwriter (b. 1938)
• Rene Bond, American pornographic actress (b. 1950)
• Ray Combs, American game show host, and comedian (b. 1956)
• Leon Garfield, English children's author (b. 1921)
• Pilar Lorengar, Spanish soprano (b. 1928)
• Amos Tversky, Israeli-born American psychologist (b. 1937)

3

• Bill Cox, American middle-distance runner (b. 1904)
• Arthur J. O. Anderson, American anthropologist (b. 1907)
• Peter Bird, British ocean rower (b. ?)
• Peter Glenville, English film director (b. 1913)
• Włodzimierz Kołos, Polish scientist (b. 1928)

4

• María Luisa Anido, Argentine classical guitarist (b. 1907)

5

• Erich Bagge, German scientist (b. 1912)
• Jack Beaton, Australian rugby league player (b. 1914)
• Sir Cyril Colquhoun, British army officer. (b. 1903)
• Vito Scotti, American character actor (b. 1918)

6

• Harry Andersson, Swedish football striker (b. 1913)
• Bruce Andrew, Australian rules footballer (b. 1908)
• Lily Auchincloss, American journalist, philanthropist, and art collector (b. 1922)
• Josef Brandner, German military officer (b. 1915)
• Kusuo Kitamura, Japanese Olympic swimmer (b. 1917)
• George Davis Snell, American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1903)
• Merle Curti, leading American historian (b. 1897)

7

• Marjorie Gross, American television writer and producer (b. 1956)

8

• Lidiano Bacchielli, 48, Italian archaeologist (b. 1947)
• William J. Baroody, Jr., American political consultant (b. 1937)
• Phyllis Stedman, Baroness Stedman of Longthorpe, British politician (b. 1916)

9

• Rafaela Aparicio, Spanish film and theatre actress (b. 1906)
• Vivian Ellis, English composer (b. 1903)
• Peter Samuel, 4th Viscount Bearsted, British peer and former Deputy Chairman of Shell Transport and Trading (b. 1911)

10

• Marie-Louise von Motesiczky, Austrian painter (b. 1906)
• Jo Van Fleet, American actress (b. 1914)

11

• Frederick Amoore, Bishop of Bloemfontein (b. 1913)
• George Hees, Canadian politician (b. 1910)
• Brigitte Helm, German actress (b. 1908)

12

• Mary Field, American film actress (b. 1909)

13

• Wendy Bagwell, American gospel singer (b. 1925)

14

• Jack Ragland, American basketball player (b. 1913)

15

• Mary Ashley, American video artist (b. 1931)
• Ella Fitzgerald, American singer (b. 1917)
• Dick Murdoch, American wrestler (b. 1946)

16

• Mel Allen, American sportscaster (b. 1913)
• Richard Barrer, New Zealand-born chemist (b. 1910)
• Élie Castor, French Guianan politician (b. 1943)

17

• George Adomian, American mathematician (b. 1922)
• Gizella Farkas, Hungarian table tennis player (b. 1925)

18

• Branko Bošnjak, Croatian philosopher (b. 1923)
• Gino Bramieri, Italian comedian and actor (b. 1928)
• Erika Dannhoff, German actress (b. 1909)
• Paul Heinemann, Belgian botanist and mycologist (b. 1916)
• Sir Maitland Mackie, British politician and Lord Lieutenant of Aberdeenshire (b. 1912)

19

• Vivian Ellis, English composer (b. 1903)
• Percy Verner Noble, Canadian politician (b. 1902)
• Hillevi Rombin, Swedish actress and beauty queen, Miss Universe 1955 (b. 1933)
• G. David Schine, American businessman (b. 1927)
• Edvin Wide, Swedish middle-distance and long-distance runner (b. 1896)

20

• Louis J. Lefkowitz, American lawyer and politician (b. 1904)

21

• Doug Bigelow, Australian rules footballer (b. 1928)

22

• Terrel Bell, Secretary of Education in the Cabinet of President Ronald Reagan (b. 1921)
• Frank Bennett, Canadian ice hockey player in the NHL (b. 1923)

23

• Fred Anderson, American journalist (b. 1936)
• Ludovico Avio, Argentine football forward (b. 1932)
• Salah Abu Seif, Egyptian film director (b. 1915)
• Andreas Papandreou, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1919)

24

• Roman Bentz, American football offensive lineman (b. 1919)

25

• Les Allen, Canadian saxophonist and vocalist (b. 1902)
• Vytautas Kavolis, Lithuanian-born American sociologist (b. 1930)

26

• Veronica Guerin, Irish journalist (b. 1958)
• Pedro Montañez, Puerto Rican boxer (b.1914)

27

• Roberto Achával, Argentinian tango violinist (b. 1930)
• Mollie Beattie, American conservationist, and director of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (b. 1947)
• Albert R. Broccoli, American film producer (b. 1909)

28

• Kwan Tak-hing, Hong Kong actor (b. 1905)
• Nándor Balaskó, Romanian sculptor (b. 1918)
• Julio Bolbochán, Argentine chess champion (b. 1920)

29

• Piotr Abraszewski, Polish painter (b. 1905)
• Jerzy Block, Polish actor and director (b. 1904)

30

• Jerry May, American professional baseball player who played as a catcher in the MLB (b. 1943)
• Lakis Petropoulos, 63, Greek football player and manager (b. 1932)

July 1996

1

• William T. Cahill, American politician (b. 1912)
• Margaux Hemingway, American fashion model and actress (b. 1954)

2

• Hal Robson, Canadian racecar driver (b. 1911)
• Stefano Sibaldi, Italian actor and voice actor (b. 1905)

3

• Herb Baumeister, American alleged serial killer from Westfield near Indianapolis, Indiana (b. 1947)
• Raaj Kumar, Indian film actor (b. 1926)
• Bernard Zehrfuss, French architect (b. 1911)

4

• Leo Avery, Roman Catholic abbot and aeronautical engineer (b. 1938)
• Genevieve Blatt, American politician and attorney from Pennsylvania (b. 1913)

5

• Abdul-Razzak Al-Adwani, Kuwaiti medical doctor and politician (b. 1928)
• Felix Arscott, British mathematician (b. 1922)
• Mohamed Seddik, Egyptian footballer (b. 1940)
• Erik Wickberg, Salvation Army general (b. 1904)

6

• Kutlu Adalı, Turkish Cypriot journalist (b. 1935)
• Kathy Ahern, American professional golfer (b. 1949)
• Evgeni Rogov, Russian football player and manager (b. 1929)

7

• Anton Bayer, German military officer (b. 1914)
• Buddy Blair, American Major League Baseball infielder (b. 1910)

8

• J. W. Alexander, American singer, musician, songwriter, record producer and entrepreneur (b. 1916)
• Jim Baumer, American professional baseball player, scout, and front office executive (b. 1931)
• Albrecht, Duke of Bavaria, the son of Rupprecht, Crown Prince of Bavaria and his first wife, Duchess Marie Gabrielle in Bavaria (b. 1905)
• Birdie Amsterdam, New York Supreme Court Justice (b. 1901)
• Ernest Armstrong, British Labour Party politician (b. 1915)

9

• Melvin Belli, American lawyer (b. 1907)
• Eno Raud, Estonian children's writer (b. 1928)
• David Smith, Rhodesian/Zimbabwean politician (b. 1922)

10

• Dénes Birkás, Hungarian field hockey player (b. 1907)
• Alex Manoogian, Armenian-born American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1901)

11

• René Abadie, French cyclist (b. 1935)

12

• John Chancellor, American journalist (b. 1927)
• Jonathan Melvoin, American musician (b. 1961)
• Nazar Mohammad, Pakistani cricketer (b. 1921)

13

• Pandro S. Berman, American film producer (b. 1905)

14

• Jim Andrew, English cricketer (b. 1937)
• Kenneth Bainbridge, American physicist (b. 1904)
• Jeff Krosnoff, American race car driver (b. 1964)

15

• Gioia Marconi Braga, American promoter of Italian culture (b. 1916)
• Dana Hill, American actress (b. 1964)

16

• Donald Barthelme, American architect (b. 1907)
• Berna Bevilacqua, Argentine pianist (b. 1950)
• John Panozzo, American drummer (b. 1948)

17

• Perseu Abramo, Brazilian journalist and writer (b. 1929)
• Fred Anhalt, American builder and contractor (b. 1896)
• Anil Kumar Bhattacharya, Indian statistician (b. 1915)
• Chas Chandler, English bass guitarist and music manager (b. 1938)
• Paul Touvier, French collaborator with the Nazis in Occupied France during World War II (b. 1915)
• Notable people killed in the crash of TWA Flight 800:
  • Michel Breistroff, French ice hockey player (b. 1971)
  • Marcel Dadi, Tunisian-French guitarist (b. 1951)
  • David Hogan, American composer (b. 1949)
  • Jed Johnson, American interior designer and director (b. 1948)

18

• José Manuel Fuente, Spanish professional road racing cyclist and noted climbing specialist (b. 1945)

19

• Mervyn Cowie, Kenyan conservationist (b. 1909)
• A. F. Lafir, Sri Lankan army officer
• E. T. Mensah, Ghanaian musician (b. 1919)

20

• Renato Archer, Brazilian naval officer and politician (b. 1922)
• Chester R. Bender, Commandant of the United States Coast Guard (b. 1914)
• Bertil Boo, Swedish singer (b. 1914)
• Stuart Clarence Graham, Australian army general (b. 1920)
• Raphael Patai, Hungarian ethnographer and anthropologist (b. 1910)
• František Plánička, Czech footballer (b. 1904)

21

• Sam Aaron, American wine merchant and writer (b. 1911)
• Luana Anders, American film and television actress (b. 1938)
• Herb Edelman, American actor (b. 1933)
• Morton Gould, American composer ansd conductor (b. 1913)
• Inger Jacobsen, Norwegian singer and actress (b. 1923)

22

• Jessica Mitford, Anglo-American author, journalist and political campaigner (b. 1917)

23

• Herb Abrams, American professional wrestling promoter (b. 1954)
• Clara Cook, 75, American baseball player (AAGPBL) (b. 1921)[3]
• Frederick Osborne, Australian politician (b. 1909)
• Aliki Vougiouklaki, Greek actress (b. 1933)

24

• Neil Campbell, Scottish chemist (b. 1903)
• Nacho Martínez, Spanish actor (b. 1952)
• Gerald R. Salancik, American organizational theorist, and Professor at Carnegie Mellon University (b. 1943)
• Jock Wallace Jr., Scottish footballer (b. 1935)

25

• Howard Vernon, Swiss actor (b. 1914)

26

• Paul Ballantyne, American actor (b. 1909)
• Lowell L. Bennion, American educator, sociologist, and humanitarian (b. 1908)
• Lucy May Boring, American psychologist (b. 1886)
• Franco Romano Calaresu, Canadian neuroscientist (b. 1931)
• Jackie Cerone, American mobster (b. 1914)

27

• Peter Adair, American LGBT activist and film maker (b. 1943)
• Dale Anderson, American politician (b. 1916)
• Horst Böhme, German chemist (b. 1908)
• Victor Borg, Norwegian physician, novelist, playwright and script writer (b. 1916)
• Paul Shepard, American environmentalist and author (b. 1925)

28

• Roger Tory Peterson, American naturalist and artist (b. 1908)

29

• Aruna Asaf Ali, Indian independence activist (b. 1909)
• Bill Green, American jazz musician (b. 1925)
• Roger Nelson, Canadian football player (b. 1932)
• Marcel-Paul Schützenberger, French mathematician (born 1920)

30

• Claudette Colbert, American actress (b. 1903)
• Arihiro Hase, Japanese actor and voice actor (b. 1965)

31

• Jack Button, American hockey executive (b. 1940)
• Howie Goss, American baseball player (b. 1934)

August 1996

1

• Chanaka Amaratunga, founder of the Liberal Party of Sri Lanka (b. 1958)
• Frida Boccara, Moroccan-born French singer of Italian descent (b. 1940)
• Ayo Gabriel Irikefe, Nigerian Jurist and former Chief Justice of Nigeria (b. 1922)
• Tadeusz Reichstein, Polish-born chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1897)

2

• Mohamed Farrah Aidid, Somali military commander and faction leader (b. 1934)
• Vili Auvinen, Finnish actor and theatre director (b. 1931)
• Jackson Bailey, American academic who was noted expert in Japanese history, culture, and Japanese-American relations (b. 1925)
• Obdulio Varela, Uruguayan footballer (b. 1917)

3

• Bill Wright, American professional baseball player (b. 1914)

4

• Kiyoshi Atsumi, Japanese film actor (b. 1928)

5

• Abdulrahman Mohamed Babu, Zanzibari revolutionary nationalist (b. 1924)
• Claudio Barigozzi, Italian biologist and geneticist (b. 1909)

6

• Muhammad al-Badr, the last king of the Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen (b. 1926)
• Gerry Gomez, Trinidadian cricketer (b. 1919)
• Gabriel Nuchelmans, Dutch philosopher (b. 1922)

7

• Bill Hanrahan, American radio and television announcer (b. 1918)

8

• Harry Angelman, British consultant paediatrician who identified Angelman Syndrome (b. 1915)
• Walter Brandorff, German-Austrian author (b. 1943)
• Sir Nevill Mott, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)

9

• Tokiharu Abe, Japanese ichthyologist (b. 1911)
• May Ayim, Afro-German poet, educator, and activist (b. 1960)

10

• Bunleua Sulilat, Thai artist (b. 1932)

11

• Rafael Kubelík, Czech-born conductor (b. 1914)
• Vanga, Bulgarian prophet, mystic, clairvoyant and herbalist (b. 1911)

12

• Victor Ambartsumian, Soviet Armenian scientist, and one of the founders of theoretical astrophysics (b. 1908)
• Sir Anthony Parsons, British diplomat (b. 1922)

13

• David Tudor, American pianist and composer (b. 1926)

14

• Philip J. Carey, American judge and politician (b. 1918)
• Camilla Horn, German actress (b. 1903)
• Ernst Rufli, Swiss Olympic rower (b. 1910)

15

• Sven Lasta, Croatian actor (b. 1925)
• Joe Seneca, American film and television actor (b. 1919)

16

• Miles Goodman, American composer for television and film (b. 1948)
• Ediriweera Sarachchandra, Sri Lankan writer (b.1914)

17

• E. Digby Baltzell (b. 1915)
• Eric Evans, British Anglican priest, Dean of St Paul's (b. 1928)

18

• Al Bertino, American animator (b. 1912)
• Geoffrey Dearmer, British poet (b. 1893)
• Charles Mitchel, Irish actor and broadcaster (b. 1920)

19

• Jurriaan Andriessen, Dutch composer (b. 1925)

20

• Guido Alberti, Italian film actor (b. 1909)
• Rio Reiser, German rock musician and singer (b. 1950)

21

• Jack Adams, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1920)
• Juergen von Huendeberg, German painter (b. 1922)

22

• Kjell Borgen, Norwegian politician (b. 1939)
• Oliver Lynn, American talent manager and country music artist (b. 1926)

23

• Miguel Alvarez del Toro, Mexican biologist (b. 1917)
• Jeff Batters, Canadian ice hockey player (St Louis Blues) (b. 1970)
• David Halfyard, English cricketer (b. 1931)

24

• Jean Aurel, 70, French film director and scriptwriter (b. 1925)
• Zainab Biisheva, 88, Bashkir poet, writer and playwright (b. 1908)
• Ethel Boyce, 79, Canadian baseball player (AAGPBL) (b. 1917)[4]

25

• Reinhard Libuda, German footballer (b. 1943)

26

• Mary Bass, American journalist, author, and executive editor of the Ladies' Home Journal (b. 1905)
• Dame Catherine Hall, British nursing administrator (b. 1922)

27

• Leon Berry, American organist (b. 1914)
• Abram Games, British graphic designer (b. 1914)
• Eliakim Khumalo, South African footballer (b. 1940)
• Greg Morris, American actor (b. 1933)

28

• Nurullah Tevfik Ağansoy, Turkish mob boss (b. 1960)
• Nancy Archibald, Canadian fencer (b. 1911)
• Tommie Bass, Appalachian herbalist (b. 1908)
• Vladimir Blok, Russian musicologist, composer and orchestrator (b. 1932)
• Phyllis Pearsall, British painter and writer. (b. 1906)

29

• Vitalija Bartkuvienė, Lithuanian painter (b. 1939)
• Albert Bloxham, English professional footballer (b. 1905)
• Aliye Rona, Turkish actress (b. 1921)

30

• Laura Adani, Italian actress (b. 1913)

31

• Qazi Abdul Majeed Abid, Pakistani politician (b. 1905)

September 1996

1

• Vagn Holmboe, Danish composer (b. 1909)
• Karl Kehrle, Benedictine monk, beekeeper (b. 1898)

2

• Karl Frenzel, Nazi war criminal (b. 1911)

3

• Veniamin Basner, Russian composer (b. 1925)

4

• Victor Aaron, Native American actor (b. 1956)

5

• Isabel Wood Holt, wife of former Governor of West Virginia Homer A. Holt (b. 1899)

6

• Salman Shah, Bangladeshi actor (b. 1971)

7

• Bibi Besch, Austrian-American actress (b. 1940)
• Joseph F. Biroc, American Academy Award-winning cinematographer (b. 1903)
• Arda Bowser, American professional football player (b. 1899)
• Vyacheslav Solovyov, Russian football player and coach (b. 1925)

8

• Semyon Aranovich, Soviet and Russian film director (b. 1934)
• Eyre de Lanux, American artist, writer, and art deco designer (b. 1894)

9

• Bill Monroe, American "father of bluegrass" music (b. 1911)

10

• Dick Bouchard, Canadian ice hockey right winger (b. 1934)
• Joanne Dru, American actress (b. 1922)
• Hans List, Austrian inventor and automotive pioneer (b. 1896)
• Juanita Wright, WWE wrestling figure (b. 1934)

11

• Guido Aristarco, Italian film critic and author (b. 1918)
• Deane Waldo Malott, American academic and administrator (b. 1898)

12

• Geoffrey Bryan Bentley, Canon of Windsor (b. 1909)
• J.B. Bobo, American magician (b. 1910)
• Ernesto Geisel, Brazilian general and statesman, former President of the Republic (b. 1907)
• James Gerald Gulliver, British businessman (b. 1930)

13

• Marvin Allen, American soccer coach and player (b. 1915)
• Jane Baxter, British actress (b. 1909)
• James F. Bonner, American molecular biologist (b. 1910)
• César Mendoza, Chilean police officer, politician and equestrian (b. 1918)
• Tupac Shakur, American rapper and actor also known as "2Pac", "Makaveli" (b. 1971)

14

• Maurice M. Black, American pathologist (b. 1918)
• Helen Cohan, American stage dancer and film actress, daughter of George M. Cohan (b. 1910)
• Juliet Prowse, American dancer and actress (b. 1936)

16

• Selwyn Baker, Australian rules footballer (b. 1911)
• Gene Nelson, American dance and actor (b. 1920)

17

• Spiro Agnew, American politician, 39th Vice President of the United States (b. 1918)
• Marianne Bachmeier, German vigilante (b. 1950)
• Billy Bowers, American outfielder in Major League Baseball (b. 1922)
• Irving Ben Cooper, American District Judge (b. 1902)

18

• Annabella, French actress (b. 1907)
• Ulrich Beiger, German actor (b. 1918)

19

• Noureddine Aba, Algerian poet and playwright (b. 1921)
• Kath Anderson, Australian politician (b. 1921)

20

• Franco Angrisano, Italian actor (b. 1926)
• Cheb Aziz, Algerian musician (b. 1968)
• Murtaza Bhutto, Pakistani politician and leader of al-Zulfiqar (b. 1954)
• Paul Erdős, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1913)
• Max Manus, Norwegian resistance fighter during World War II (b. 1914)

21

• Henri Nouwen, Dutch Catholic priest and author (b. 1932)
• Ashoke Kumar Sen, Indian politician and lawyer (b. 1913)
• Sabine Zlatin, Polish-born French Resistance member (b. 1907)

22

• Mohamed Ben Ahmed Abdelghani, Prime Minister of Algeria (b. 1927)
• Harvey Oren Banks, American civil engineer (b. 1910)
• Brook Bernacchi, British lawyer and politician in Hong Kong (b. 1922)
• Ludmilla Chiriaeff, Soviet-born Canadian ballet dancer and choreographer (b. 1924)
• Dorothy Lamour, American actress (b. 1914)
• Svetislav Valjarević, Yugoslav football player (b. 1911)
• Joanne Winter, American baseball player (b. 1924)

23

• Joe Borowski, Canadian politician and activist (b. 1933)
• Fujiko Fujio, Japanese cartoonist (b. 1933)
• Károly Kárpáti, Hungarian Jewish wrestler (b. 1906)

24

• I. E. S. Edwards, British egyptologist (b. 1909)

25

• Dick Kennedy, Australian football player (b. 1925)

26

• Pavel Sudoplatov, Russian Lieutenant General (b. 1907)
• Nicu Ceaușescu, son of Romanian leader Nicolae Ceaușescu (b. 1951)

27

• Hermine Baron, American contract bridge player (b. 1912)
• James Franklin Battin, American politician and United States federal judge (b. 1925)
• Henry Welsch, American sports player and coach (b. 1921)

28

• Albert Ayguesparse, Belgian writer (b. 1900)
• Menato Boffa, Italian former racing driver (b. 1930)
• Mohammad Najibullah, former President of Afghanistan (b. 1947)
• Maurice Valency, American playwright (b. 1903)
• Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1926)

29

• Claire Bonenfant, Québécoise politician and champion of feminist rights (b. 1925)
• Leslie Crowther, British TV comedian and game show host (b. 1933)
• Shūsaku Endō, Japanese writer (b. 1923)

30

• Charlie Adam, Scottish professional footballer (b. 1919)
• Aubrey Brabazon, Irish horse racing jockey (b. 1920)

October 1996

1

• Alexandru Andrițoiu, Romanian poet (b. 1929)
• James Beal, New Zealand boxer (b. 1929)
• Douglas Bradshaw, Canadian Air Commodore and educator (b. 1912)
• Pat McGeown, Provisional Irish Republican Army member (b. 1956)

2

• Robert Bourassa, politician in Quebec, Canada (b. 1933)
• Emiel van Lennep, Dutch diplomat and politician.(b. 1915)
• Joseph Masella, Canadian french hornist (b. 1925)

3

• Ilyas Afandiyev, Azerbaijani and Soviet writer (b. 1914)
• Peter Joseph Heald, British biochemist (b. 1925)
• George Kubler, American art historian (b. 1912)

4

• Humphrey Atkins, British politician who served in the Cabinet of Margaret Thatcher (b. 1922)
• Larry Gene Bell, American murderer (b. 1949)
• Masaki Kobayashi, Japanese film director (b. 1916)
• Silvio Piola, Italian footballer (b. 1913)

5

• Judith Allen, American film actress (b. 1911)
• Elmer Berger (rabbi), Jewish Reform rabbi widely known for his anti-Zionism (b. 1908)
• Seymour Cray, American computer scientist (b. 1925)

6

• Jessie Bernard, American sociologist and noted feminist scholar (b. 1903)
• Ted Bessell, American actor (b. 1935)

7

• José Antonio Burciaga, Chicano artist, poet, and writer (b. 1940)

8

• Mignon G. Eberhart, American author of mystery novels (b. 1899)
• Geoffrey Finsberg, Baron Finsberg, British politician (b. 1926)
• Sir Hugh Mackenzie, British admiral (b. 1913)

9

• Per Asplin, Norwegian singer, composer and actor (b. 1928)
• Marland P. Billings, American structural geologist (b. 1902)
• Sir Nigel Fisher, British politician (b. 1913)
• Walter Kerr, American writer and theater critic (b. 1913)
• Colleen Peterson, Canadian country and folk singer (b. 1950)

10

• John Hillaby, British travel writer and explorer (b. 1917)

11

• Lars Ahlfors, Finnish mathematician (b. 1907)
• Keith Boyce, Barbadian cricketer (b. 1943)
• Renato Russo, Brazilian singer, leader of Legião Urbana Brazilian rock band. (b. 1960)
• William Vickrey, Canadian economist, Nobel prize winner. (b. 1914)

12

• René Lacoste, French tennis champion (b. 1904)
• Nina Alisova, Soviet actress (b. 1918)
• David Bevan, British Conservative politician (b. 1928)
• Erik Blomberg, Finnish cinematographer, film producer, screenwriter and film director (b. 1913)
• Stefan Knapp, Polish painter and sculptor (b. 1921)
• Fred Miller, New Zealand journalist (b. 1904)

13

• Henri Nannen, German journalist (b. 1913)

14

• Marcel Bourbonnais, Canadian politician, draftsman, engineer, foreman and technician (b. 1918)
• Laura La Plante, American actress (b. 1904)

15

• Mike Balas, Major League Baseball pitcher (b. 1910)
• Alf Bentley (b. 1931)
• Beryl Reid, British actress (b. 1919)

16

• Jason Bernard, American actor (b. 1938)
• N. J. Berrill, English marine biologist (b. 1903)
• Sir Anthony Griffin, British admiral (b. 1920)
• Huang Shao-ku, Chinese politician, Vice Premier (b. 1901)

17

• Chris Acland, English musician (b. 1966)
• Bob Adams, American pitcher (b. 1901)
• Jaroslav Balík, Czechoslovak film director and screenwriter (b. 1924)

18

• Antonio Acqua, Italian actor (b. 1910)
• Sérgio Estanislau do Amaral, Brazilian geologist (b. 1925)
• Louise Bertram, Canadian pair skater (b. 1908)

19

• Hubert Alyea, American chemist and academic (b. 1903)
• Harry Bailey, Scottish footballer (b. 1919)
• Neville Robinson, British physicist (b. 1925)

20

• Luigi Rovere, Italian film producer (b. 1908)
• Bill Bedford, British test pilot and pioneered the development of V/STOL aircraft (b. 1920)
• Robert Benayoun, French film critic and author (b. 1926)
• J. Bracken Lee, American Politician (b. 1899)
• Mary Tuck, British criminologist and civil servant (b. 1928)

21

• Léon Ashkenazi, Jewish philosopher and educator (b. 1922)
• Lillian Baker, American author

22

• John Bauldie, British journalist (b. 1949)
• Edmund Black, American Olympic athlete (b. 1905)
• Jerônimo Dix-Huit Rosado, Brazilian politician (b. 1912)

23

• Diana Trilling, American literary critic and author (b. 1905)
• Ahn Doo-hee, South Korean assassin (b. 1917)
• Henry Allard, Swedish politician (b. 1911)
• Chet Blaylock, U.S. politician (b. 1924)

24

• Robert Anderson, New Zealand politician (b. 1936)
• Artur Axmann, Nazi German Hitler Youth leader (b. 1913)
• Sir Roderick Barclay, British diplomat (b. 1909)
• George P. Oslin, American reporter, executive at Western Union (b. 1899)

25

• Josef Block, German military officer (b. 1912)
• Dorothy Borg, American historian (b. 1902)
• Ennio de Giorgi, Italian mathematician (b. 1928)
• Solveig Gunbjørg Jacobsen, the first person born South of the Antarctic Convergence, in Grytviken, South Georgia (b. 1913)

26

• Arthur L. Andrews, Chief Master Sergeant in the United States Air Force (b. 1934)
• Elaine Anthony, American mixed media painter (b. 1943)
• Miquel Asins Arbó, Spanish composer (b. 1916)
• Abdelhamid ben Hadouga, Algerian writer (b. 1925)

27

• Arthur Tremblay, Canadian politician (b. 1917)

28

• Morey Amsterdam, American actor and comedian (b. 1908)
• Reuben Baetz, Canadian politician (b. 1923)
• Dick Baldwin, American film actor (b. 1911)
• Irene Cortes, Filipino lawyer, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court (b. 1921)
• Jimmy Haig, New Zealand rugby player (b. 1924)
• Robert Hankey, 2nd Baron Hankey, British diplomat and public servant (b. 1905)

29

• Ewell Blackwell (b. 1922)

30

• John Barnum, American professional golfer (b. 1911)
• Roberto Belangero, Brazilian soccer player (b. 1928)
• Eleanor Lansing Dulles, author, professor, and United States Government employee (b. 1895)

31

• Louise Bates Ames, American psychologist (b. 1908)
• João Antônio, Brazilian journalist and short story writer (b. 1937)
• Marcel Carné, French film director (b. 1909)
• Arthur Peterson Jr., American actor (b. 1912)

November 1996

1

• Maati Bouabid, Prime Minister of Morocco (b. 1927)
• Sid Cann, English football player and manager (b. 1911)
• Junius Richard Jayewardene, President of Sri Lanka (b. 1906)

2

• Eva Cassidy, American vocalist (b. 1963)
• Yan Jici, Chinese physicist and politician (b. 1901)

3

• Antonije Abramović, Archbishop of the Montenegrin Orthodox Church (b. 1919)
• Glen Alps, American printmaker and educator (b. 1914)
• Jean-Bédel Bokassa of Central African Republic/Empire (b. 1921)
• Abdullah Çatlı, Turkish nationalist (b. 1956)

4

• Grover Cleveland Alexander, American baseball player (b. 1925)
• Gerda Charles, British writer (b. 1914)
• T. Vincent Learson, IBM's chairman and chief executive officer (b. 1912)

5

• Eddie Harris, American jazz musician (b. 1934)

6

• Jim Boggio, American accordionist (b. 1939)
• Mario Savio, American political activist and a key member in the Berkeley Free Speech Movement (b. 1942)

7

• Claude Ake, Nigerian political scientist (b. 1939)
• Beauford T. Anderson, United States Army soldier who received the Medal of Honor (b. 1922)

8

• Baselios Mar Thoma Mathews I, Supreme head of the Indian Orthodox Church (b. 1907)
• Laurence Baxter, English statistician (b. 1954)

9

• Joe Ghiz, Canadian politician (b. 1945)

10

• Imam Alimsultanov, Chechen bard (b. 1957)
• Yafeu Fula (aka Yaki Kadafi), rapper from Tupac Shakur's group Outlawz (b. 1977)

11

• Janice Adair, British film actress (b. 1905)

12

• Thomas Miller Bell, Canadian politician, lawyer and barrister (b. 1923)

13

• Bill Doggett, American jazz and rhythm and blues pianist and organist (b. 1916)

14

• Jim Baxes, Major League Baseball player for the Los Angeles Dodgers and Cleveland Indians (b. 1928)
• Jacomina van den Berg, Dutch gymnast who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics (b. 1909)
• Joseph Bernardin, American Cardinal of the Catholic Church (b. 1928)
• Nell Blaine, American landscape painter and watercolorist (b. 1922)

15

• William Boddington, American field hockey player (b. 1910)
• Alger Hiss, American State Department official (b. 1904)

16

• Loretta Alvarez, Pascua Yaqui midwife from the 1920s until the 1970s (b. 1892)
• Reginald Bevins, British Conservative politician (b. 1908)
• Joe Gonzales, American baseball player (b. 1915)

17

• Michele Abruzzo, Italian actor (b. 1904)
• Sven Hörstadius, Swedish embryologist (b. 1898)
• Huo Shilian, Chinese politician (b. 1909)

18

• Bob Bearpark, Canadian soccer head coach (b. 1943)
• Zinovy Gerdt, Russian actor (b. 1916)
• Douglas Guest, British organist and conductor (b. 1916)

19

• Gabriel Alonso, Spanish footballer (b. 1923)
• Harry Anderson, American illustrator (b. 1906)
• Morris Arkin, American botanist (b. 1910)
• Ian Bancroft, Baron Bancroft, British senior civil servant (b. 1922)
• Grace Bates, American mathematician (b. 1914)

20

• Bert Achong, Trinidadian and Tobagonian scientist (b. 1928)
• Jens Boyesen, Norwegian diplomat and politician (b. 1920)
• Sir Claud Hayes, British civil servant (b. 1912)
• Franciszek Strynkiewicz, Polish sculptor (b. 1893)

21

• William Barnes, American baseball pitcher (b. 1919)
• Abdus Salam, Pakistani physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1926)
• Gail Stanton, Playboy centerfold June 1978 (b. 1954)

22

• Stephanie Bachelor, American film actress (b. 1912)
• Peter Barbour, Australian intelligence officer and diplomat (b. 1925)
• Garrett Birkhoff, American mathematician (b. 1911)
• Ray Blanton, American politician who served as Governor of Tennessee (b. 1930)
• Walter Boos, German film editor and director (b. 1928)
• María Casares, French-Spanish actress (b. 1922)
• Mark Lenard, American actor (b. 1924)
• Adeniran Ogunsanya, Nigerian lawyer and politician (b. 1918)

23

• Mohamed Amin, Kenyan photojournalist (b. 1943)
• Jean-Paul Elkann, French banker (b. 1921)

24

• Joe Bailey, Australian rules footballer (b. 1921)
• Loren Bain, Major League Baseball pitcher (b. 1922)

25

• Ricardo López Aranda, Spanish playwright (b. 1934)

26

• Michael Bentine, English comedian, comic actor and founding member of the Goons (b. 1922)
• Dame Joan Hammond, Australian operatic soprano (b. 1912)
• Paul Rand, American graphic designer (b. 1914)

27

• Gertrude Blanch, American mathematician (b. 1897)
• Nicholas L. Bissell, Jr., American attorney (b. 1947)
• Jack Penn, South African plastic surgeon and sculptor (b. 1909)

28

• Don McNeill, American tennis champion (b. 1918)

29

• Dick Bilda, American football player (b. 1919)
• Jordan Cronenweth, American cinematographer (b. 1935)

30

• Tiny Tim, American musician (b. 1932)

December 1996

1

• Knud Andersson, German-born American conductor (b. 1910)
• Sir Denis Crowley-Milling, British air marshal (b.1919)

2

• Jules Bastin, Belgian operatic bass (b. 1933)
• Victor Batiuk, Ukrainian diplomat (b. 1939)

3

• John Bateman, American Major League Baseball catcher (b. 1940)
• Babrak Karmal, President of Afghanistan (b. 1929)

4

• Rudolf Abrahamczik, Luftwaffe bomber pilot (b. 1920)
• Fernando Balderas Sánchez, Mexican journalist (b. 1952)

5

• Adolf Bredo Stabell, Norwegian diplomat

6

• Joseph Adebowale Atanda, Nigerian historian and academic (b. 1932)
• Harry Babcock, American football end in the NFL (b. 1930)
• Jean Bertholle, French painter (b. 1909)
• Ricky Owens, American singer (b. 1939)
• Pete Rozelle, American commissioner of the National Football League (b. 1926)

7

• Heinz Baurmann, German military officer (b. 1919)
• José Donoso, Chilean writer (b. 1924)

8

• Rolf Blomberg, Swedish explorer, non-fiction writer, photographer and producer of documentary films (b. 1912)
• Howard Rollins, American actor (b. 1950)

9

• June Carlson, American actress (b. 1924)
• Mary Leakey, British archaeologist (b. 1913)
• Diana Morgan, British playwright and screenwriter (b. 1908)
• James Basil Wilkie Roberton, New Zealand soldier, doctor, historian and writer (b. 1896)

10

• Richa Sharma, Indian actress. (b. 1964)
• Faron Young, American singer (b. 1932)

11

• Juan Carlos Barbieri, Argentine stage and film actor (b. 1932)
• Des Booth, Australian politician, dairy farmer and business man (b. 1920)
• Willie Rushton, English comedian, actor, and cartoonist (b. 1937)

12

• Vance Packard, American journalist, social critic, and author (b. 1914)

13

• Waheed Akhtar, Urdu poet, writer, critic, orator, and a Muslim scholar and philosopher (b. 1934)
• Edward Blishen, English author (b. 1920)
• Cao Yu, Chinese playwright (b. 1910)
• Clarence Wijewardena, Sri Lankan musician (b. 1943)

14

• Doina Cojocaru, Romanian handball player (b. 1948)
• Howard B. Keck, American businessman, a Thoroughbred racehorse owner and breeder (b. 1913)

15

• Dawn Crosby, American singer (b. 1963)

16

• Albert Alberts, Dutch writer, translator, and journalist (b. 1911)
• Quentin Bell, English biographer and art historian (b. 1910)

17

• Armando, American house-music producer and DJ (b. 1970)
• Wayne Barlow, American composer (b. 1912)
• Dame Elizabeth Hill, Russian-born British linguist (b. 1900)
• Ruby Murray, Northern Irish singer and actress (b. 1935)
• Michael Saunders, British lawyer and public servant (b. 1944)
• Stanko Todorov, Bulgarian communist politician (b. 1920)

18

• Irving Caesar, American lyricist (b. 1895)

19

• Marcello Mastroianni, Italian actor (b. 1924)

20

• Alan Graham Apley, British orthopaedic surgeon (b. 1914)
• Melio Bettina, American boxer (b. 1916)
• Carl Sagan, American astronomer (b. 1934)

21

• Kell Areskoug, Swedish Olympic sprinter (b. 1906)
• Margret Rey, American children's author and illustrator (b. 1906)

22

• Oscar Alende, Argentine politician (b. 1909)

23

• William H. Brady, American Episcopal Church bishop (b. 1912)
• Rina Ketty, Italian singer (b. 1911)
• Infanta María Cristina of Spain, Spanish princess (b. 1911)

24

• Al Adair, Canadian politician and baseball player (b. 1929)

25

• Lee Alexander, American politician (b. 1927)

26

• Morris Schapiro, American investment banker (b. 1920)

27

• Kourkène Medzadourian, Armenian activist (b. 1908)
• Gene Brabender, American Major League Baseball pitcher (b. 1941)

28

• Jean Roy, Liberal party member of the Canadian House of Commons (b. 1923)

29

• Peter Bayley, first-class cricketer from British Guiana (b. 1916)
• Maurice Bayrou, French veterinarian and politician (b. 1905)
• Alma Birk, Baroness Birk, British journalist, Labour Party politician and Government minister (b. 1917)
• Mireille Hartuch, French singer (b. 1906)
• Peggy Herbison, Scottish politician (b. 1907)

30

• Pokey Allen, American football player and coach (b. 1943)
• Lew Ayres, American actor (b. 1908)
• Jack Nance, American actor (b. 1943)

31

• George Abbott, Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender (b. 1911)
• Wesley Addy, American actor (b. 1913)

Date unknown

• Sophie Bledsoe Aberle, Native American anthropologist, physician and nutritionist (b. 1896)
• Thelma Afford, Australian costume designer, theatre performer, and fashion journalist (b. 1908)
• Adeyemi Afolayan, Nigerian film actor, director and producer (b. 1940)
• Gonzalo Aguirre Beltrán, Mexican anthropologist (b. 1908)
• Sydney Aistrup, English footballer (b. 1909)
• Vangel Ajanovski-Oče, Macedonian politician (b. 1909)
• Fred Alexander, Australian historian (b. 1899)
• Mowaffak Allaf, Syrian diplomat, and a former ambassador to the United Nations (b. 1927)
• Leo d'Almada e Castro, Barrister of Hong Kong (b. 1904)
• Loretta Alvarez, American centenarian and midwife (b. 1892)
• Abdel Moneim Amin, Egyptian military figure and politician (b. 1912)
• Caleb J. Anderson, Swedish politician (b. 1910)
• Janet M. Anderson, American illustrator (b. 1949)
• Arthur Armstrong, Irish painter (b. 1924)
• Billy Arnison, South African professional footballer (b. 1924)
• Edward Asselbergs, Dutch-Canadian food chemist (b. 1927)
• Khachatur Avetisyan, Armenian composer (b. 1926)
• Julián Ayesta, Spanish playwright and novelist (b. 1919)
• Agnar Bachen, British Merchant Navy officer (b. 1922)
• Gulab Bai, Indian stage performer of Nautanki (b. 1926)
• William Nyuon Bany, Sudanese politician (b. ?)
• Panos Bardis, Greek American sociologist (b. 1924)
• Marlin Barnes, linebacker for the University of Miami Hurricanes (b. ?)
• Tom Barrett, Canadian ice hockey coach (b. ?)
• Charles Bartley, American scientist (b. 1921)
• Giovanni Bartolomucci, Italian artist (b. 1923)
• Ronald Bassett, British writer (b. 1924)
• Angus John Bateman, English geneticist (b. 1919)
• Roberto Berdecio, Bolivian artist (b. 1910)
• Louis Berger, American civil engineer (b. 1914)
• Les Blizzard, English footballer (b. 1923)
• Godfrey Blunden, Australian journalist and writer (b. 1906}
• Frank Bokas, Scottish footballer (b. 1914)
• Richard Plant Bower, Canadian diplomat (b. 1905)
• Dorothy Boyd, English film actress (b. 1907)
• Sophie Brack, Irish camogie player (b. ?)
• Adrian Cosma, Romanian Olympic handball player (b. 1950)

See also

• Lists of deaths by year

References

1. Imre Kovács, Sports-Reference / Olympic Sports. Retrieved 2019-03-03.
2. More Than 'The Piano Player'. San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 2012-12-30.
3. "Clara Cook". All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Retrieved 2019-03-29.
4. "Ethel Boyce". All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Retrieved 2019-03-29.