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Deaths in August 1996
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The following is a list of notable deaths in August 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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August 1996
1
- Frida Boccara, 55, French singer, respiratory disease.[1]
- Stig Hedberg, 80, Swedish sailor.[2]
- Ayo Gabriel Irikefe, 74, Nigerian Jurist and Chief Justice of Nigeria.
- Tadeusz Reichstein, 99, Polish chemist.[3]
- Lucille Teasdale-Corti, 67, Canadian medical doctor and surgeon, AIDS-related complications.
- Charles van Rooy, 84, Dutch politician.[4]
2
- Mohamed Farrah Aidid, 61, Somalian military officer.
- Brian Briggs, 62, English rugby player.
- James Joseph Byrne, 88, American Catholic archbishop.
- Michel Debré, 84, Prime Minister of France, Parkinson's disease.[5]
- Miguel Alvarez del Toro, 78, Mexican biologist.
- Sergey Golovkin, 36, Soviet/Russian serial killer and rapist and last Russian executee, execution.
- Alexander Nudelman, 83, Soviet/Russian engineer, aircraft guns designer.
- Bob Reinhard, 75, American gridiron football player.[6]
- Obdulio Varela, 78, Uruguayan football player.[7]
- Kazumi Watanabe, 48, Japanese sport shooter.[8]
3
- Guido Alberti, 87, Italian actor and entrepreneur.[9]
- Jørgen Garde, 57, Danish admiral.
- Dankwart Rustow, 71, American political scientist.[10]
- Luciano Tajoli, 76, Italian actor and singer.[11]
- Bill Wright, 82, American baseball player.[12]
4
- Kiyoshi Atsumi, 68, Japanese actor, lung cancer.[13]
- Willard Brown, 81, American baseball player.[14]
- Lev Lemke, 64, Soviet/Russian actor.
- Vladimir Liberzon, 59, Israeli chess player.
- André Trochut, 64, French road bicycle racer.[15]
5
- Abdulrahman Mohamed Babu, 71, Zanzibari marxist revolutionary.[16]
- Claudio Barigozzi, 87, Italian geneticist and biologist.
- Frank Marcus, 68, British playwright.[17]
- Havelock Nelson, 79, Irish composer.
6
- Muhammad al-Badr, 70, Yemeni imam and politician.
- Ossie Clark, 54, British fashion designer, stabbing.[18]
- Len Coldwell, 63, British cricket player.[19]
- Bobby Enriquez, 53, Filipino jazz pianist.
- Gerry Gomez, 76, Trinidad and Tobago football player.
- Charles Hadfield, 87, British historian.[20]
- Floyd Simmons, 71, American gridiron football player.[21]
- Bud Svendsen, 81, American gridiron football player and coach.[22]
- Emilio Zapico, 52, Spanish racing driver, aviation accident.
- Hernán Siles Zuazo, 82, Bolivian politician.
7
- Benjamin Halevy, 86, Israeli politician.
- Bill Hanrahan, 77, American broadcaster.
- Anne Kristen, 59, Scottish actress, pancreatic cancer.
- Herbert Kubly, 81, American journalist.[23]
- Loret Miller Ruppe, 60, American diplomat, ovarian cancer.[24]
8
- Queta Carrasco, 83, Mexican actress.
- Michio Hoshino, 43, Japanese photographer, bear attack.
- Herbert Huncke, 81, American writer and poet.[25]
- Philip Lucock, 80, Australian politician.
- James McLamore, 70, American businessman.
- Francesco Molinari-Pradelli, 85, Italian conductor and art collector.
- Nevill Francis Mott, 90, English physicist, Nobel prize winner.[26]
- Joseph Asajirō Satowaki, 92, Japanese Catholic Bishop.
- Julian Stryjkowski, 91, Polish journalist.[27]
9
- Tokiharu Abe, 85, Japanese ichthyologist, cerebral hemorrhage.
- May Ayim, 36, German poet, suicide.[28]
- Lionel Emmett, 83, Indian physician and field hockey player.[29]
- John W. King, 77, American politician.[30]
- Derek Smith, 34, American basketball player, myocardial infarction.
- Frank Whittle, 89, British Royal Air Force officer, lung cancer.[31]
10
- Walter MacNutt, 86, Canadian organist, choir director, and composer.
- Doris Spiegel, 95, American artist.
- Bunleua Sulilat, 64, Thai Buddhist leader.
- Rex Tucker, 83, British television director.[32]
- Edward Whitfield, 85, English cricket player.[33]
11
- Rafael Kubelík, 82, Czech conductor, violinist, composer and director conductor of Czech philharmony.[34]
- Kathleen Mills, 72, Irish camogie player.
- Ambrosio Padilla, 85, Filipino basketball player and senator.
- David Ricketts, 76, British cyclist.[35]
- Mel Taylor, 62, American musician, myocardial infarction.[36]
- Baba Vanga, 84, Bulgarian psychic, breast cancer.
12
- Victor Ambartsumian, 87, Soviet/Armenian astrophysicist.[37]
- Robert Gravel, 51, Canadian actor.[38]
- Mark Gruenwald, 43, American comic book writer, editor, and penciler, myocardial infarction.[39]
- Stephan Kuttner, 89, American legal scholar.[40]
- Guy Nosbaum, 66, French rower.[41]
- Anthony Parsons, 73, British diplomat, cancer.[42]
13
- António de Spínola, 86, President of Portugal, pulmonary embolism.[43]
- Richard M. Goodwin, 83, American academic.
- Willi Heeks, 74, German racecar driver.
- T. John Lesinski, 71, American politician.
- Louise Talma, 89, American composer.[44]
- David Tudor, 70, American pianist and composer.[45]
14
- Sergiu Celibidache, 84, Romanian conductor.[46]
- Al Cleveland, 66, American songwriter.
- Uzo Egonu, 64, Nigerian artist.
- Camilla Horn, 93, German actress.[47]
- Tom Mees, 46, American sportscaster, drowned.[48]
- Albert Neuberger, 88, British biochemist and academic.[49]
- Amrit Rai, 74, Indian writer, poet and biographer.[50]
15
- Rey Cuenco, 36, Filipino basketball player, cirrhosis.
- Lisskulla Jobs, 90, Swedish actress.
- Sven Lasta, 71, Croatian actor.[51]
- Tania Leon, 51, South African feminist.
- Masao Maruyama, 82, Japanese political scientist.[52]
- Albert Osswald, 77, German politician.
- Jack Portland, 84, Canadian ice hockey player.[53]
- Joe Seneca, 77, American actor, singer, and songwriter, asthma.[54]
- George Starbuck, 65, American poet.[55]
- Max Thurian, 74, Swiss ecumenical monastic community subprior.[56]
16
- Maurice Natanson, 71, American philosopher, prostate cancer.[57]
- Miles Goodman, 46, American film composer (Little Shop of Horrors, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Teen Wolf), heart attack.[58]
- Pino Rucher, 72, Italian musician.
- Ediriweera Sarachchandra, 82, Sri Lankan academic and writer.
- Sadako Sawamura, 87, Japanese actress, myocardial infarction.
17
- E. Digby Baltzell, 80, American sociologist.[59]
- Catherine Shipe East, 80, American government researcher and feminist.[60]
- Eric Evans, 68, British Anglican priest.[61]
- Witold Urbanowicz, 88, Polish flying ace during World War II and general.[62]
18
- Al Bertino, 84, American animator.
- Geoffrey Dearmer, 103, British poet.[63]
- Hugo Gryn, 66, British rabbi, brain cancer.[64]
- Charles Mitchel, 75, Irish actor and broadcaster.[65]
- Isabel Morgan, 84, American virologist.
- Alfredo Varelli, 81, Italian actor.[66]
19
- Tatyana Mavrina, 93, Russian painter and children's writer.
- Claire Rommer, 91, German actress.[67]
- Guerrino Rossi, 62, Italian football player and coach.[68]
- Joffre Soares, 77, Brazilian film actor.
20
- Abílio Duarte, 65, Cape Verdean politician.
- Les Hart, 79, English football manager.
- André-Georges Haudricourt, 85, French academic.[69]
- Carlos Jáuregui, 38, Argentinean LGBT activist, AIDS-related complications.
- Rio Reiser, 46, German rock musician.[70]
- Beverley Whitfield, 42, Australian swimmer, Olympic gold medallist.[71]
21
- Mary Two-Axe Earley, 84, Indigenous Canadian women's rights activist, respiratory disease.
- Johan Rathje, 80, Danish sailor and Olympian.[72]
- Irene Vorrink, 78, Dutch politician.[73]
- Richard S. Westfall, 72, American historian.[74]
22
- Anandatissa de Alwis, 77, Sri Lankan journalist, marketeer and politician.
- Kjell Borgen, 56, Norwegian politician.
- Mareo Ishiketa, 79, Japanese composer.[75]
- Erwin Leiser, 73, German film director.[76]
- Oliver Lynn, 69, American American talent manager, diabetes.
23
- Jurriaan Andriessen, 70, Dutch composer.[77]
- Jeff Batters, 25, Canadian ice hockey defenceman, car accident.[78]
- Gordon S. Brown, 88, American electrical engineering professor.[79]
- David Halfyard, 65, English cricket player.[80]
- Øivind Holmsen, 84, Norwegian football player.[81]
- Audrey Patterson, 69, American sprinter.
- Margaret Tucker, 92, Indigenous Australian activist and writer.[82]
- Zulfiya, 81, Uzbek poet.
24
- Jean Aurel, 70, French screenwriter and film director.[83]
- Zainab Biisheva, 88, Soviet/Russian writer.
- Roy Degoregore, 74, Nauruan politician.[84]
- Eric Heaton, 75, British priest and scholar.[85]
- Ben Joelson, 70, American producer and screenwriter.
- Hristo Mladenov, 68, Bulgarian football player.[86]
- Lev Vlasenko, 67, Soviet/Russian musician.
25
- Fred Adison, 87, French conductor.
- Erskine Barton Childers, 67, Irish writer, correspondent and United Nations civil servant.[87]
- Sylvia Fisher, 86, Australian operatic soprano.[88]
- Caroline Glachan, 14, Scottish murder victim.[89]
- Reinhard Libuda, 52, German football player, cancer.
26
- Nikolay Baskakov, 91, Russian Turkologist.
- Alejandro Agustín Lanusse, 77, President of the Argentine Republic.[90]
- Mario Maskareli, 77, Montenegrin painter.
- Khalida Riyasat, 43, Pakistani television actress.
- Sven Stolpe, 91, Swedish journalist.[91]
27
- Martin Disler, 47, Swiss artist, cerebrovascular disease.[92]
- Bert Fortell, 71, Austrian actor.[93]
- Abram Games, 82, British graphic designer.[94]
- Eliakim Khumalo, 56, South African football player, homicide.
- Akiji Kobayashi, 65, Japanese actor, lung cancer.
- Agnieszka Kotlarska, 24, Polish fashion model and beauty queen, stab wound.
- Greg Morris, 62, American actor (Mission: Impossible, Vega$, The New Interns), brain cancer.[95]
- Wayne D. Overholser, 89, American Western writer.[96]
- Aliye Rona, 74, Turkish actress, cardiovascular disease.
- Yair Rosenblum, 52, Israeli composer, esophageal cancer.[97]
- Gordon Stein, 55, American physiologist.[98]
- Waldo Rudolph Wedel, 87, American archaeologist.[99]
28
- Dulcina de Moraes, 88, Brazilian stage actress and director.
- Gevork Kotiantz, 86, Russian artist.
- José dos Santos Lopes, 85, Brazilian football player.[100]
- Phyllis Pearsall, 89, British cartographer and typographer, cancer.[101]
- Marion Stamps, 51, American activist.
- Al Zarilla, 77, American baseball player.[102]
29
- Norm Bright, 86, American runner, mountaineer, and teacher, pneumonia.
- J. B. Jackson, 86, American writer.[103]
- Charles O'Neal, 92, American writer.[104]
- Tera de Marez Oyens, 64, Dutch composer.
30
- Laura Adani, 82, Italian actress.
- Modesto Bria, 74, Paraguayan football player.[105]
- Alfredo B. Crevenna, 82, Mexican film director and screenwriter, cancer.[106]
- Dunc Gray, 90, Australian racing cyclist.[107]
- José Toribio Merino, 80, Chilean politician and admiral.
- Josef Müller-Brockmann, 82, Swiss graphic designer.[108]
- Christine Pascal, 42, French actress, screenwriter and director, suicide.[109]
- Goliarda Sapienza, 72, Italian actress and writer, fall.
- José Sasía, 62, Uruguayan football player.
31
- Richard E. Cross, 86, American businessman, lawyer, and civic leader.
- Gil English, 87, American baseball player.[110]
- Blaine Johnson, 34, American racing driver, racing accident.
- Milt Larkin, 85, American musician.[111]
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