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Deaths in June 1996
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The following is a list of notable deaths in June 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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June 1996
1
- Vittorino Colombo, 71, Italian politician.
- Gaetano Fichera, 74, Italian mathematician.[1]
- Michael Fox, 75, American actor, pneumonia.[2]
- Don Grolnick, 48, American musician, lymphoma.[3]
- Attiqur Rahman, 77, Pakistani general and military historian.
- Neelam Sanjiva Reddy, 83, Sixth President of India, pneumonia.[4]
2
- John Alton, 94, American cinematographer (An American in Paris), Oscar winner (1952).[5]
- Ishmael Bernal, 57, Filipino director, cardiovascular disease.
- Rene Bond, 45, American pornographic actress, cirrhosis.
- Ray Combs, 40, American stand-up comedian, actor, and game-show host (Family Feud), suicide by hanging.[6]
- Stewart Evans, 87, Canadian ice hockey player (Montreal Canadiens).[7]
- Alberto Farnese, 69, Italian actor.[8]
- Leon Garfield, 74, English children's writer, cancer.[9]
- Pilar Lorengar, 68, Spanish operatic soprano, lung cancer.[10]
- Amos Tversky, 59, Israeli psychologist, melanoma.[11]
- William Van Pelt, 91, American politician.
3
- Arthur J. O. Anderson, 88, American anthropologist specializing in Aztec culture.[12]
- Veniero Colasanti, 85, Italian costume designer, set decorator and art director.
- Ben Couch, 70, New Zealand politician and rugby union player.
- Bill Cox, 91, American long-distance runner.[13]
- Peter Glenville, 82, English actor director and producer, myocardial infarction.[14]
- Ferdinand Leitner, 84, German composer and conductor.[15]
- Tito Okello, 82, President of Uganda.[16]
- Hideo Sakai, 86, Japanese association football player, pneumonia.
- Gitchandra Tongbra, 83, Indian satirist, poet, playwright and art academic.[17]
- Aimo Tukiainen, 78, Finnish sculptor.
4
- María Luisa Anido, 89, Spanish musician.[18]
- Cliff Holton, 67, English football player.[19]
- Nel Roos-Lodder, 82, Dutch discus thrower.[20]
- Aloha Wanderwell, 89, Canadian-American explorer, author, filmmaker, and aviator.
5
- Erich Bagge, 84, German physicist.[21]
- Jack Beaton, 82, Australian rugby player.
- Patrick Cordier, 49, French alpinist, traffic collision.
- Hartono Rekso Dharsono, 70, Indonesian general.
- Jan Kerouac, 44, American writer and only child of author Jack Kerouac and Joan Haverty Kerouac.[22]
- Vito Scotti, 78, American actor, lung cancer.[23]
- Anne-Marie Ørbeck, 85, Norwegian pianist and composer.
6
- Harry Andersson, 83, Swedish football player.[24]
- Bruce Andrew, 88, Australian football player.
- Hall Hibbard, 92, American aerospace engineer.
- Courtney Johnson, 56, American banjo player, lung cancer.
- Vladimír Karfík, 94, Czech architect.
- Kusuo Kitamura, 78, Japanese swimmer.[25]
- Rajmund Kupareo, 81, Croatian poet.
- Mary Lee, 71, American actress.
- George Davis Snell, 92, American geneticist.[26]
- José María Valverde, 70, Spanish philosopher.[27]
7
- Buddy Blair, 85, American Major League Baseball player.[28]
- Percy Edwards, 88, English entertainer and ornithologist.
- Marjorie Gross, 40, Canadian television producer, ovarian cancer.
- David Allan Hubbard, 68, American theologian and professor.[29]
- Fumi Kojima, 79, Japanese track and field athlete.[30]
8
- William J. Baroody, Jr., 58, American government official, lung ailment.[31]
- Scoop Putnam, 83, American basketball player.
- Phyllis Stedman, 79, British politician and life peer.[32]
- Henryk Trębicki, 55, Polish weightlifter.[33]
9
- Rafaela Aparicio, 90, Spanish actress, cerebral hemorrhage.[34]
- Daniel Mazia, 83, American cell biologist.[35]
- Salme Reek, 88, Estonian actress.
- Walter Stokes, 98, American sport shooter.[36]
- Nhiek Tioulong, 87, Cambodian politician.
10
- Aleksandr Abushakhmetov, 41, Russian fencer.[37]
- Hugh Mitchell, 89, American politician.[38]
- Frankie Sakai, 67, Japanese comedian, actor, and musician.
- Chiyo Uno, 98, Japanese writer, pneumonia.[39]
- Jo Van Fleet, 80, American actress (East of Eden, Cool Hand Luke, The Rose Tattoo), Oscar winner (1956).[40]
- Marie-Louise von Motesiczky, 89, Austrian artist.[41]
11
- Ulysses Dove, 49, American dancer, AIDS-related complications.[42]
- Lonne Elder III, 68, American actor and dramatist.[43]
- George Hees, 85, Canadian politician.
- Brigitte Helm, 90, German actress.[44]
- Wilson W. Wyatt, 90, American politician and lawyer.[45]
12
- Mary Field, 87, American film actress, stroke.[46]
- John Hopper, 73, American politician.[47]
- Annie Ruth Jiagge, 77, Ghanaian jurist and women's rights activist.
- Manibhai J. Patel, 75, Indian politician.
- Lillian Yarbo, 91, American actress.
13
- Edward Dugmore, 81, American artist, cancer.[48]
- Friedrich Geiger, 88, German automobile designer of notably the Mercedes-Benz 300 SL.
- Pran Nath, 77, Indian singer, heart failure.[49]
- Keith Palmer, 38, American musician, cancer.
- Merceditas Valdés, 73, Cuban singer.
14
- Gesualdo Bufalino, 75, Italian writer, traffic collision.[50]
- Noemí Gerstein, 87, Argentine artist and sculptor.[51]
- Alexander Knyazhinsky, 60, Soviet/Russian cinematographer, noted for his work on Andrei Tarkovsky's Stalker.
- Jack Ragland, 82, American basketball player.[52]
15
- Sir Fitzroy MacLean, 1st Baronet, 85, Scottish soldier, writer and politician.[53]
- Allenby Chilton, 77, English football player and manager.[54]
- Bernard A. Clarey, 84, United States Navy admiral.[55]
- Ella Fitzgerald, 79, American jazz singer, sometimes referred to as the "First Lady of Song", "Queen of Jazz", and "Lady Ella", stroke.[56]
- Jean Gimpel, 77, French historian and medievalist.
- Robert Lamoot, 85, Belgian football player.
- Dick Murdoch, 49, American professional wrestler, myocardial infarction.
- Roosseno, 87, Indonesian politician, scholar, and engineer.
- Raymond Salles, 75, French rower.[57]
16
- Mel Allen, 83, American sports announcer.[58]
- Harold Emerson Foster, 90, American basketball player-coach.
- David Mourão-Ferreira, 69, Portuguese writer and poet.[59]
- Richard Sylvan, 60, Australian philosopher.
- Adriano Vignoli, 88, Italian road bicycle racer.[60]
17
- George Adomian, 74, American mathematician of Armenian descent.[61]
- Madhukar Dattatraya Deoras, 80, Indian politician and third Sarsanghchalak of the RSS.
- Gizella Farkas, 70, Hungarian table tennis player.
- James Hamilton, 53, British DJ and journalist.
- Doug Harris, 77, New Zealand runner.[62]
- Thomas Kuhn, 73, American historian, physicist and philosopher, lung cancer.[63]
- François Mercier, 79, French footballer.[64]
- Edmond Roudnitska, 91, French perfumer.[65]
- Curt Swan, 76, American comic book artist (Superman).[66]
18
- Florence Andrews, 83, New Zealand fencer.
- Branko Bošnjak, 73, Croatian philosopher.
- Gino Bramieri, 67, Italian actor, pancreatic cancer.
- Pierre Chany, 73, French cycling journalist.[67]
- Erika Dannhoff, 86, German actress.[68]
- Miriam Gideon, 89, American composer.[69]
- Glenmor, 64, French protest singer known as Emile Le Scanf.[70]
- Paul Heinemann, 80, Belgian botanist and mycologist.
- Endel Puusepp, 87, Soviet bomber pilot and Hero of the Soviet Union.
- Henry Regnery, 84, American newspaper publisher .[71]
- Rif Rəis uğlı Səyetgərəyev, 35, Russian speedway rider.
19
- Bob Dennison, 82, English football player.[72]
- Frank Eliscu, 83, American sculptor and art teacher.[73]
- Vivian Ellis, 92, British musical composer.[74]
- Eric Fisher, 71, New Zealand cricket player.
- Igor Mirenkov, 27, Soviet-Belarusian serial killer, execution by shooting.
- Hillevi Rombin, 62, Swedish model, aviation accident.
- Gerard David Schine, 68, American politician, plane crash.[75]
- Michel Ter-Pogossian, 71, American physicist.
- Edvin Wide, 100, Swedish middle- and long distance runner.[76]
20
- Muhammadu Abdullahi Wase, 47-48, Nigerian military officer, Military Administrator of Kano (since 1993), plane crash.[77]
- Renato Archer, 73, Brazilian politician.[78]
- John Buchan, 2nd Baron Tweedsmuir, 84, British peer and son of novelist John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir.[79]
- Herbert Gerigk, 91, German musicologist.
- Joseph Green, 96, American actor and film director.[80]
- Wálter Guevara, 84, President of Bolivia.[81]
- Irving P. Krick, 89-90, American meteorologist and inventor, heart failure.[82]
- Louis Lefkowitz, 91, American politician, Parkinson's disease.[83]
21
- John Wesley Fletcher, 56, American pastor, AIDS-related complications.
- Cyril Holmes, 81, English sprinter.[84]
- Reidar Karlsen, 85, Norwegian football player.[85]
- Mary Mead, 61, American politician, fall from horse.
22
- George Barati, 83, American composer and conductor.[86]
- Terrel Bell, 74, American World War II veteran and politician, pulmonary fibrosis.[87]
- Norvell William Emerson, 58, American politician, lung cancer.[88]
- Epaminondas Samartzidis, 30, Olympic water polo player, drowning.[89]
23
- Ludovico Avio, 63, Argentine football player.[90]
- Pasqualino De Santis, 69, Italian cinematographer, heart attack.
- Marian Gilman, 81, American swimmer, Olympic athlete.[91]
- Ray Lindwall, 74, Australian cricket player.[92]
- Yasapalitha Nanayakkara, 56, Sri Lankan writer.
- Andreas Papandreou, 77, Greek politician, cardiovascular disease.[93]
- Hazel Redick-Smith, 70, South African tennis player.
- Mariano Rojas, 23, Spanish bicycle racer, traffic collision.[94]
- Salah Abu Seif, 81, Egyptian film director.
- Norbertas Vėlius, 58, Lithuanian folklorist specializing in Lithuanian mythology.
24
- Harry Dowda, 73, American gridiron football player.[95]
- Grace Ho, 89, Mother of Bruce Lee.[96]
- Edward Halsey Jenison, 88, American politician and newspaper publisher.
- Osman Karabegović, 84, Yugoslav politician.
- Chao Lei, 68, Hong Kong actor, pneumonia.
- Peter Thullen, 88, German mathematician.[97]
25
- Ray Howard-Jones, 93, English painter.
- Vytautas Kavolis, 65, Lithuanian sociologist.[98]
- Siegfried Rossner, 82, German fencer and Olympian.[99]
- Hans Stam, 77, Dutch water polo player.[100]
26
- Caleb J. Anderson, 85, Swedish politician.
- Veronica Guerin, 37, Irish crime reporter, homicide.[101]
- Pedro Montañez, 82, Puerto Rican boxer.
- J. Lee Rankin, 88, American lawyer and United States Solicitor General.[102]
- Eduard Zahariev, 57, Bulgarian film director and screenwriter.
27
- Peter Adair, 52, American filmmaker and artist, AIDS-related complications.[103]
- Mollie Beattie, 49, American conservationist and director of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, brain cancer.[104]
- Victor Borg, 80, Norwegian physician, novelist, playwright and script writer.
- Albert R. Broccoli, 87, American film producer (Dr. No, Goldfinger, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang), heart failure.[105]
- Merze Tate, 91, American academic.[106]
28
- Julio Bolbochán, 76, Argentine chess player.
- Ivan Jazbinšek, 81, Yugoslavian football player.
- Ali Said, 69, Indonesian military officer, Chief Justice, and politician.
- Ola Solum, 52, Norwegian film director, cancer.[107]
- Kwan Tak-hing, 91, Hong Kong actor, pancreatic cancer.
- Isao Yamagata, 80, Japanese actor, tuberculosis.[108]
29
- Richard Krebs, 89, German sprinter.[109]
- Pamela Mason, 80, English actress, screenwriter.[110]
- Alexander George Ogston, 85, Australian biochemist.[111]
- Dmitri Pokrovsky, 52, Russian musician and folk music researcher.[112]
30
- Antonio Franco Florensa, 84, Spanish football player.[113]
- Jef Maes, 91, Belgian musician.
- Jerry May, 52, American baseball player, farming accident.[114]
- David McCampbell, 86, United States Navy officer and Medal of Honor recipient.[115]
- Lakis Petropoulos, 63, Greek football player.[116]
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