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Deaths in April 1996
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The following is a list of notable deaths in April 1996.
Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
- Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.
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April 1996
1
- Alexandru Diordiță, 84, Soviet/Moldovan politician.
- Alfredo Nobre da Costa, 72, Portuguese politician.
- Jean Le Moyne, 83, Canadian politician.
- John McSherry, 51, American baseball umpire, heart attack.[1]
- Léon Pétillon, 92, Belgian politician.[2]
- Mário Viegas, 47, Portuguese actor and poetry reciter.[3]
- Masroor Anwar, 51, Indian poet, lyricist and screenwriter.[4]
- Myroslav Dumanskyi, 66, Ukrainian football player.
2
- Jean Elizabeth Hampton, 41, American political philosopher and author.[5]
- Lindsay Hartwig, 76, Australian politician.
- Ian Mitchell, 49, Scottish football player.
- Antonio Ortiz Ramírez, 88, Spanish anarcho-syndicalist and anarchist.[6]
3
- Ron Brown, 54, American government official, plane crash.[7]
- Frank Doyle, 78, American comic book writer (Archie), cancer.
- Herk Harvey, 71, American actor and director, pancreatic cancer.[8]
- Jo Privat, 76, French musician, cancer.
- Alphonse James Schladweiler, 93, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
- Carl Stokes, 68, American politician and diplomat, esophageal cancer.[9]
4
- Brian Abel-Smith, 69, British economist.[10]
- Barney Ewell, 78, American track and field athlete and Olympic champion.[11]
- Zita Perczel, 77, Hungarian actress.
- Winifred Shotter, 91, British actress.[12]
5
- Monika Dannemann, 50, German figure skater and painter, suicide.
- Gerry L'Estrange, 78, Irish politician.
- Charlene Holt, 67, American actress (El Dorado).
- Jac Maris, 96, Dutch sculptor.[13]
- Ahmed Mekkawi, 73, Egyptian football player.[14]
- Herta Worell, 83, German actress.[15]
6
- John D. Bulkeley, 84, United States Navy vice admiral and Medal of Honor recipient.[16]
- Ester Carloni, 98, Italian actress.
- Greer Garson, 91, British-American actress (Mrs. Miniver, Blossoms in the Dust, Madame Curie), Oscar winner (1943), heart failure.[17]
- Sterling M. McMurrin, 82, American theologian.[18]
7
- Colleen Clifford, 97, Australian actress.
- Georges Géret, 71, French film actor, cancer.[19]
- Berkely Mather, 87, British writer.[20]
- Yelena Mazanik, 82, Soviet/Belarus partisan who assassinated Nazi official Wilhelm Kube.
8
- Donald Adams, 67, English opera singer and actor, brain cancer.[21]
- John Hudson, 77, American actor (Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, The Screaming Skull, G.I. Blues).
- George W. Jenkins, 88, American businessman and philanthropist.[22]
- Ben Johnson, 77, American actor (The Last Picture Show, The Wild Bunch, The Sugarland Express), Oscar winner (1972), heart attack.[23]
- León Klimovsky, 89, Argentine film director, screenwriter and actor.[24]
- Petko Sirakov, 67, Bulgarian wrestler.[25]
- Agron Sulaj, 44, Albanian football player and.[26]
- José Valdivieso, 74, Argentine football player and manager.
- Petro Voinovsky, 82, Ukrainian nationalist.
- Mick Young, 59, Australian politician.
9
- Sandy Becker, 74, American announcer, actor, and comedian.[27]
- Richard Condon, 81, American political novelist.[28]
- Paul Leder, 70, American actor and film director, lung cancer.[29]
- Otto Licha, 83, Austrian handball player.[30]
- James Rouse, 81, American businessman and founder of The Rouse Company.[31]
10
- Moshe Davis, 80, American rabbi.
- Walter Harding, 79, American scholar and professor of English literature.[32]
- Herman Pines, 94, Russian-American chemist.[33]
- Jack Wilkinson, 64, English football player.
11
- Billy Anderson, 55, American gridiron football player (Tennessee Titans), ALS.
- Hans Beck, 84, Norwegian ski jumper.[34]
- Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet, 89, French businessman and publicist.[35]
- Trygve Brodahl, 90, Norwegian cross country skier.[36]
- Jessica Dubroff, 7, American trainee pilot, plane crash.[37]
- Mel Hill, 82, Canadian ice hockey player.[38]
- Wanda McKay, 80, American actor and model.
12
- Antonio Capua, 90, Italian politician.
- Helmut Krone, 70, American art director.[39]
- Marthe Robert, 82, French writer.[40]
- Igor Ternov, 74, Russian physicist.
13
- C. Alfred "Chief" Anderson, 89, American aviator.
- Marguerite Bernes, 94, Algerian nun recognised as Righteous Among the Nations.[41]
- George Mackay Brown, 74, Scottish poet, author and dramatist.[42]
- James Burke, 64, American mobster and Lucchese crime family associate, lung cancer.
- D'Arcy Coulson, 88, Canadian ice hockey player.[43]
- Vjekoslav Kaleb, 90, Croatian writer.
- Denis Sargan, 71, British econometrician.[44]
14
- Waleed Al-Salam, 69, Iraqi mathematician.
- Gaylord Birch, 50, American musician.[45]
- Marie Clotilde Bonaparte, 84, French princess of the Bonaparte dynasty.
- William K. Everson, 67, American journalist, prostate cancer.[46]
- Mervyn Levy, 82, Welsh artist and writer on art.[47]
- George N. Neise, 79, American actor, cancer.
- James Sargent Russell, 93, United States Navy admiral.[48]
15
- Beatriz Costa, 88, Portuguese actress.[49]
- John C. Flanagan, 90, American psychologist.[50]
- Arthur Lelyveld, 83, American rabbi and activist.[51]
- Stavros Niarchos, 86, Greek businessman and art collector, pneumonia.[52]
16
- George Abel, 80, Canadian ice hockey player and Olympic champion.[53]
- Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, 67, Cuban film director and screenwriter.[54]
- François-Régis Bastide, 69, French writer, diplomat, politician, and radio host, lung cancer.[55]
- Kelly Anne Bates, 17, English murder victim.
- Lucille Bremer, 79, American actress and dancer, heart attack.[56]
- Irasema Dilián, 71, Italian actress.[57]
- Raymond Hill, 62, American tenor saxophonist, singer, and recording artist.
- Charlie Hillard, 58, American aerobatics pilot, aviation accident.
17
- Paul Bleiß, 91, German politician and member of the Bundestag.
- Piet Hein, 90, Danish puzzle designer, mathematician, and poet.[58]
- Adelaide Lambert, 88, American swimmer and Olympic champion.[59]
- Dudley Manlove, 81, American actor and radio announcer.
- Abbot Low Moffat, 94, American politician, cancer.[60]
- Hugh Robson, 77, New Zealand lawn bowls competitor.
18
- Brook Berringer, 22, American gridiron football player, plane crash.[61]
- Bernard Edwards, 43, American bass player and record producer, pneumonia.[62]
- Mike Leander, 54, English arranger, songwriter and record producer, cancer.[63]
- Hubert Opperman, 91, Australian racing cyclist.[64]
19
- Yukiyoshi Aoki, 61, Japanese swimmer.[65]
- James B. Clark Jr., 39, American murderer, execution by lethal injection.[66]
- Ken Doherty, 90, American decathlete.[67]
- John Martin, 36, English spree killer, suicide.
- Buddy Oldfield, 84, English cricket player and umpire.[68]
20
- John Barrie, 71, English snooker player.
- Hank Biasatti, 74, Canadian basketball player.[69]
- Alexander D'Arcy, 87, Egyptian actor.[70]
- Frans Gommers, 79, Belgian football player.[71]
- Raúl Meraz, 69, Mexican actor.
- Christopher Robin Milne, 75, English author and bookseller.[72]
- Steve Oneschuk, 65, Canadian football player.
- Tran Van Tra, 78, Vietnamese general and commander in the Viet Cong.[73]
21
- Zora Arkus-Duntov, 86, Belgian-American engineer nicknamed the "Father of the Corvette.".
- Dzhokhar Dudayev, 52, Soviet/Russian general and Chechen leader, homicide.[74]
- Alceo Galliera, 85, Italian conductor and composer.[75]
- Robert Hersant, 76, French newspaper magnate.[76]
- Abdul Hafeez Kardar, 71, Indian cricket player.
- Luigi Pistilli, 66, Italian actor, suicide.[77]
- Paraone Reweti, 79, New Zealand politician.
- Jimmy Snyder, 77, American horse racing announcer & television sports announcer, heart attack.
- Bertel Storskrubb, 78, Finnish middle-distance runner, hurdler and Olympian.[78]
22
- Erma Bombeck, 69, American humorist and writer, kidney disease.[79]
- Helen Keane, 73, American jazz record producer, breast cancer.[80]
- Molly Keane, 91, Irish writer.[81]
- Jug McSpaden, 87, American golfer, and golf course architect, accidental carbon monoxide poisoning.[82]
- Hiteswar Saikia, 62, Indian politician, kidney failure.
- Serafim Subbotin, 75, Soviet/Russian flying ace.
- John Baptist Wolf, 88, American historian, specializing in modern European history.
- Nobuo Yoneda, 66, Japanese computer scientist.
23
- Jean Victor Allard, 82, Canadian general.
- Mario Luigi Ciappi, 86, Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.
- María Lavalle Urbina, 87, Mexican lawyer and politician.[83]
- P. L. Travers, 96, Australian-British novelist (Mary Poppins), epilepsy.[84]
- Jesús Hernández Úbeda, 36, Spanish bicycle racer.[85]
24
- Donald Cammell, 62, British film director, suicide.[86]
- Giliante D'Este, 86, Italian rower.[87]
- Tomás de Bhaldraithe, 79, Irish language scholar and lexicographer.
- Gary Geiger, 59, American baseball player, cirrhosis.[88]
- Preston Lockwood, 83, British actor.[89]
- Aldo Masciotta, 86, Italian fencer.[90]
- Rafael Orozco, 50, Spanish musician, AIDS-related complications.[91]
- Frank Riley, 80, American writer.
- Vincenzo Torriani, 77, Italian sports executive and director of the Giro d'Italia.
25
- Saul Bass, 75, American graphic designer and filmmaker, lymphoma.[92]
- John Lorne Campbell, 89, British historian.[93]
- Althea Henley, 84, American film actress and dancer.
- Dick Wesson, 73, American actor, comedian, comedy writer, and producer, aortic aneurysm.
- Harold Alden Wheeler, 92, American electrical engineer.[94]
26
- Wolfgang Franz, 90, German mathematician.
- Milt Gaston, 100, American baseball player.[95]
- Guido Leontini, 69, Italian actor.
- Stirling Silliphant, 78, American screenwriter (In the Heat of the Night, The Towering Inferno, The Poseidon Adventure) and film producer.[96]
- Burton Stein, 70, American Indologist.
27
- William Colby, 76, American intelligence agent, drowning.[97]
- Gilles Grangier, 84, French film director and screenwriter.[98]
- Adam Roarke, 58, American actor and film director, heart attack.[99]
- Rudolf Schulten, 72, German physicist.
- Joan Sterndale-Bennett, 82, British actress.[100]
28
- Al Hollingsworth, 88, American baseball player.[101]
- Svea Holst, 95, Swedish film actress.
- Orville Prescott, 89, American literary critic (The New York Times).[102]
- Tien Soeharto, 72, wife of the Indonesian president, Suharto
- Lester Sumrall, 83, American minister.
29
- Mario David, 68, French actor, pulmonary embolism.[103]
- Ray Kinsella, 85, Canadian ice hockey player.[104]
- Claude Overton, 68, American basketball player.[105]
- François Picard, 75, French racing driver.[106]
30
- Jeanne Bal, 67, American actress and model, breast cancer.[107]
- Juan Hohberg, 69, Argentine-Uruguayan football player and coach.[108]
- Dezső Keresztury, 91, Hungarian politician.
- Julio César Méndez Montenegro, 80, President of Guatemala.[109]
- David Opatoshu, 78, American actor (Exodus, Torn Curtain, Dr. Kildare).[110]
- Rosaura Revueltas, 85, Mexican actress, dancer, and author, lung cancer.[111]
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