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The following is a list of notable deaths in October 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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October 1996
1
- James Beal, 67, New Zealand boxer, leukaemia.
- Carl Fredrik Engelstad, 80, Norwegian writer, playwright, journalist, translator and theatre director.
- Patrick Jameson, 83, New Zealand Royal Air Force officer and flying ace during World War II.
- Pat McGeown, 40, Irish Provisional Irish Republican Army member, heart attack.[1]
- Fred Meyer, 86, American gymnast.[2]
- Herbert Seifert, 89, German mathematician.[3]
- Bill Twomey, Jr., 69, Australian rules football player.
- Alfred Vogel, 93, Swiss herbalist, naturopath and writer.[4]
- Deng Yuzhi, 96, Chinese activist and feminist.[5]
2
- Helmut Artzinger, 84, German politician.
- Robert Bourassa, 63, Canadian politician from Quebec, melanoma.[6]
- Peter J. Brennan, 78, American labor activist and politician, lymphatic cancer.[7]
- Joonas Kokkonen, 74, Finnish composer.
- Emiel van Lennep, 81, Dutch diplomat and politician.[8]
- Andrey Lukanov, 58, Bulgarian politician, assassinated.
- Banjo Matthews, 64, American NASCAR driver, car owner and builder, heart and respiratory disease.[9]
- Les Tietje, 86, American Major League Baseball player (Chicago White Sox, St. Louis Browns).[10]
- Rufus Youngblood, 72, United States Secret Service agent, cancer.[11]
3
- Ilyas Afandiyev, 82, Soviet/Azerbaijani writer.
- Bertus Enklaar, 52, Dutch chess International Master.
- Vivienne Goonewardene, 80, Sri Lankan politician.[12]
- George Kubler, 84, American art historian.
- Eustace Roskill, Baron Roskill, 85, British lawyer and public servant.[13]
- István Serényi, 85, Hungarian handball player.[14]
4
- Humphrey Atkins, 74, British politician, cancer.[15]
- Larry Gene Bell, 46, American murderer and convict, execution by electrocution.
- Stephen J. Friedman, 59, American film producer, multiple myeloma.[16]
- Joe Hoerner, 59, American baseball player, farming accident.[17]
- Masaki Kobayashi, 80, Japanese film director, heart attack.[18]
- Silvio Piola, 83, Italian football player.[19]
- Jerry Rivers, 68, American fiddle player, cancer.
- Alma Routsong, 71, American novelist, ovarian cancer.[20]
- Randy Schultz, 52, American gridiron football player.[21]
5
- Judith Allen, 85, American film actress.[22]
- Elmer Berger, American Jewish rabbi and anti-Zionist.[23]
- Wymberley D. Coerr, American politician and diplomat.
- Seymour Cray, 71, American computer scientist, car accident.[24]
- Duanmu Hongliang, 84, Chinese author.
- Richard Kröll, 28, Austrian alpine skier, traffic collision.
- Akira Noguchi, 79, Japanese baseball player and manager.[25]
- Arnold van Mill, 75, Dutch opera singer.
6
- Jessie Bernard, 93, American sociologist and feminist, cancer.[26]
- Ted Bessell, 61, American actor (That Girl, Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.) and television director (The Tracey Ullman Show), aortic aneurysm.[27]
- Ted Daffan, 84, American country musician.[28]
- Winifred Drinkwater, 83, Scottish aviator and aeroplane engineer.
- Forrest Pogue, 84, United States Army historian during World War II.[29]
- Marjorie Shostak, 51, American anthropologist, cancer.[30]
- Wolfram von Soden, 88, German Assyriologist.[31]
- Vladimir Yerokhin, 66, Russian football player.
7
- José Antonio Burciaga, 56, American Chicano artist, poet, and writer.
- Richard Clarkson, 92, British aeronautical engineer.[32]
- Dame Diana Reader Harris, 83, English head master and public figure.[33]
- Viktor Reimann, 81, Austrian author, journalist and politician.
- Andrew Salter, 82, American psychologist, cancer.[34]
- Zeya, 80, Burmese actor and bodybuilder.
8
- Mignon G. Eberhart, 97, American author of mystery novels.[35]
- Geoffrey Finsberg, 70, British politician.
- Francis D. Lyon, 91, American film and television director.[36]
- David Miller, 71, Canadian ice hockey player and Olympian.[37]
- Ferdinand Montier, 87, French racing driver.
- William Prince, 83, American actor.[38]
9
- Per Asplin, 68, Norwegian actor and musician.
- Marland P. Billings, 94, American structural geologist.[39]
- William L. DeAndrea, 44, American writer.[40]
- Nigel Fisher, 83, British politician.[41]
- George F. Kerr, 78, English writer.
- Walter Kerr, 83, American writer and theatre critic, congestive heart failure.[42]
- John W. King, 79, American politician.
- Roy Lewis, 82, English writer and small press printer.[43]
- Colleen Peterson, 45, Canadian country and folk singer, cancer.
- Aleksandar Popović, 66, Serbian writer.[44]
- Harvey Vernon, 69, American actor.
- Harry D. Yates, 93, American banker and politician.
10
- Harold Cleghorn, 83, New Zealand weightlifter.[45]
- Coya Knutson, 84, American politician.[46]
- Bob Reynolds, 57, American gridiron football player.[47]
- Toshio Sugie, 83, Japanese film director.
- David Viscott, 58, American psychiatrist, author, and media personality, heart failure complicated by diabetes.[48]
11
- Lars Ahlfors, 89, Finnish mathematician, pneumonia.[49]
- Keith Boyce, 53, Barbadian cricketer.
- Carlos Mancheno Cajas, 94, President of Ecuador.
- Eleanor Cameron, 84, Canadian-American children's author and critic.[50]
- Johnny Costa, 74, American jazz pianist, aplastic anemia.[51]
- Bernardo Grinspun, 70, Argentinian politician.
- Roger Lapébie, 85, French racing cyclist.
- Joe Morris, 83, Canadian trade unionist.
- Terry Patchett, 56, British politician, cancer.
- Edith Penrose, 81, American-British economist.[52]
- Renato Russo, 36, Brazilian singer and songwriter, complications caused by AIDS.[53]
- Edwin Spanier, 75, American mathematician at the University of California at Berkeley.[54]
- William Vickrey, 82, Canadian economist, Nobel prize winner, heart failure.[55]
- Rolf Widerøe, 94, Norwegian accelerator physicist.[56]
- Gerald Wild, 89, Australian politician.
12
- Nina Alisova, 80, Soviet/Russian actress.
- Erik Blomberg, 83, Finnish cinematographer, screenwriter, film director and producer.[57]
- Mac Holten, 74, Australian politician and sportsman.
- Helmut Hölzer, 84, German rocket engineer.
- Stefan Knapp, 75, Polish painter and sculptor.[58]
- Eddie Kuzma, 85, American auto racing builder.
- René Lacoste, 92, French tennis champion and businessman, cancer.[59]
- Jack Robertson, 79, English cricket player.
- Gerard Thoolen, 53, Dutch actor, AIDS.[60]
13
- Carl H. Dodd, 71, United States Army soldier and a recipient of the Medal of Honor.
- Horst Kopkow, 85, German Nazi politician and SS officer, pneumonia.
- Henri Nannen, 82, German journalist.[61]
- Beryl Reid, 77, English actress, kidney failure.[62]
- Brad Robinson, 37-38, Australian rock musician, lymphoma.
- Jopie Roosenburg-Goudriaan, 83, Dutch painter.[63]
- G-Slimm, 21, American rapper.
- Joebaar Ajoeb, 70, Indonesian writer and organizator.[64]
14
- Rex Darling, 82, American football, basketball, and tennis coach.
- William John Hooper, 80, British cartoonist.[65]
- Václav Hovorka, 65, Czech football player.
- Ferd Johnson, 90, American comic strip cartoonist.[66]
- Tan Chee Khoon, 77, Malaysian politician.
- Laura La Plante, 91, American film actress, Alzheimer's disease.[67]
- Izidor Papo, 82, Yugoslav general.
15
- Mike Balas, 86, American Major League Baseball player.[68]
- Leo Eitinger, 83, Czech psychiatrist.
- Tom Ferrick, 81, American Major League Baseball player, pitching coach and scout, heart failure.[69]
- Pierre Franey, 75, French chef, stroke.[70]
- Toma Tomas, 72, Iraqi guerilla and politician.
- Jean Adeline Morgan Wanatee, 85, Native American and women's rights activist.
- Robert F. Williams, 71, American civil rights leader and author, Hodgkin's lymphoma.[71]
16
- Peter Brodie, 79, Scottish minister.
- Guy Crescent, 76, French businessman and founder of Paris Saint-Germain F.C.
- Gertrude Flynn, 87, American actress.[72]
- Anthony Griffin, 75, British admiral.
- Eric Malpass, 85, English novelist.[73]
- Harold J. Powers, 96, American politician.
- Hunter Rouse, 90, American physicist.[74]
- Huang Shao-ku, 95, Chinese politician, Vice Premier.
17
- Chris Acland, 30, English drummer and songwriter, suicide by hanging.[75]
- Bob Adams, 95, American baseball player and coach.[76]
- Jaroslav Balík, 72, Czechoslovak film director and screenwriter.[77]
- Berthold Goldschmidt, 93, German-British Jewish composer.[78]
- Bert Hopwood, 87-88, British motorcycle designer.
- Laura Sabia, 80, Canadian social activist and feminist, Parkinson's disease.[79]
18
- Jason Bernard, 58, American actor (Herman's Head, WarGames, Bird), heart attack.[80]
- Louise Bertram, 88, Canadian figure skater.[81]
- Luciano Durán Böger, 91, Bolivian poet, writer and politician.
- Hans Drachsler, 80, German politician.
- Elmer Klumpp, 90, American Major League Baseball player.[82]
- Alex Motter, 83, Canadian ice hockey player.
- Simon Soloveychik, 66, Soviet/Russian writer and philosopher.
- Sheldon Vanauken, 82, American journalist, lung cancer.
19
- Josef Becker, 91, German politician.
- Maurice Elliott, 53, Scottish footballer, brain haemorrhage.[83]
- Ralston Hill, 69, American actor and singer.[84]
- John Hillaby, 79, British travel writer and explorer.[85]
- Bobby Rackard, 69, Irish hurler.
- Shamsuddin Qasemi, 61, Bangladeshi Islamic scholar and politician.[86]
20
- Robert Benayoun, 75, French film critic and author.[87]
- J. Bracken Lee, 97, American politician.[88]
- Sebastian Santa Maria, 37, Chilean composer.[89]
- Yuri Neprintsev, 87, Soviet/Russian painter, graphic artist and art teacher.
- Richard M. Powell, 79, American screenwriter, prostate cancer.[90]
- Luigi Rovere, 88, Italian film producer.
21
- Léon Ashkenazi, 74, Jewish spiritual leader, philosopher and educator.[91]
- Eric Halsall, 76, English author and television presenter.[92]
- Albert G. Hill, 86, American physcisist and pioneer in the development of radar.[93]
- Wang Li, 74, Chinese politician, pancreatic cancer.
- Les Mead, 87, Australian rugby player and coach.
- Allie White, 81, American gridiron football player.[94]
- Georgios Zoitakis, 86, Greek Army general and regent of Greece.
- Giovanni Zuddas, 68, Italian boxer.
22
- John Bauldie, 47, British journalist, helicopter crash.[95]
- Edmund Black, 91, American Olympic athlete.[96]
- Kathy Change, 46, Chinese-American political activist, writer, and performance artist, self-immolation.
- Shmarya Guttman, 87, Israeli archaeologist.
- Matthew Harding, 42, British businessman, helicopter crash.[97]
- Dianne Heatherington, 48, Canadian rock singer and businesswoman, ovarian cancer.
- Noel Hilliard, 67, New Zealand novelist.
- Hermann Höfer, 62, German football player.[98]
- Sten Rudberg, 79, Swedish geologist and geomorphologist.[99]
23
- Henry Allard, 84, Swedish politician.
- Chet Blaylock, 71, American politician, heart attack.[100]
- Kurt Freund, 82, Czech-Canadian physician and sexologist, suicide.[101]
- Bob Grim, 66, American Major League Baseball player, heart attack.[102]
- Harold Hughes, 74, American politician.[103]
- Michel Kelber, 87–88, French cinematographer.[104]
- Lin Onus, 47, Australian artist of Scottish-Aboriginal origins.[105]
- Diana Trilling, 91, American literary critic and author.[106]
24
- Robert Anderson, 60, New Zealand politician, cancer.
- Artur Axmann, 83, Nazi German Hitler Youth leader.[107]
- Roderick Barclay, 87, British diplomat and ambassador.
- Gladwyn Jebb, 96, British civil servant, diplomat and politician.[108]
- Hyman Minsky, 77, American economist.[109]
- Romica Puceanu, 69, Romanian singer.
- Joe Spencer, 73, American gridiron football player and coach, cancer.[110]
25
- Ennio De Giorgi, 68, Italian mathematician.[111]
- Solveig Gunbjørg Jacobsen, 83, First person born on South Georgia.
- Maria Litto, 77, German ballet dancer, choreographer and film actress.[112]
- Robert Racic, 32, Australian DJ and record producer, brain virus.
- Harry Shuman, 81, American Major League Baseball player.[113]
- Brian Stacey, 49, Australian conductor.
- Roland Wilson, 92, Australian public servant and economist.
26
- Miquel Asins Arbó, 80, Spanish composer.[114]
- Aurelio Chessa, 82, Italian anarchist, journalist and historian.
- Abdelhamid ben Hadouga, 71, Algerian writer.
- Lewis Kamas, 75, American military lieutenant and politician.[115]
- Hans W. Kosterlitz, 93, German-British biochemist.[116]
- Henri Lepage, 88, French fencer.[117]
- Derek Tangye, 84, British writer.
- Sofia Tuibayeva, 83, Soviet/Tajikistani actress.
- Wendy Wild, 40, American singer, musician, and artist, breast cancer.
27
- Henry Piet Drury van Asch, 85, New Zealand aviator and surveyor.[118]
- Rewat Buddhinan, 48, Thai singer and music producer, brain cancer.
- Charlotte Jay, 76, Australian mystery writer and novelist.[119]
- Marcello Mihalich, 89, Italian football player and manager.
- Arthur Tremblay, 79, Canadian politician.
28
- Morey Amsterdam, 87, American actor and comedian, heart attack.[120]
- Reuben Baetz, 73, Canadian politician.
- Irene Cortes, 75, Filipino lawyer, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court.
- Jimmy Haig, 71, Scottish-New Zealand rugby player.
- Robert Hankey, 2nd Baron Hankey, 91, British diplomat and public servant.[121]
- Karol Jokl, 51, Slovak football player and manager.
- Joe Samuels, 91, American baseball player.[122]
29
- Ewell Blackwell, 74, American Major League Baseball player.[123]
- J. Edward Day, 82, American lawyer and United States Postmaster General, heart attack.[124]
- Richard Duffin, 87, American physicist.[125]
- Eugen Kapp, 88, Estonian composer and music educator.[126]
- Robert Levin, 84, Norwegian classical pianist and composer.[127]
- Christophe Munzihirwa, 70, Congolese catholic prelate and Archbishop of Bukavu, murdered.
- Ralph Vince, 96, American gridiron football player (Cleveland Indians, Cleveland Bulldogs, Cleveland Panthers).[128]
30
- John Barnum, 85, American golfer.
- Roberto Belangero, 68, Brazilian football player.[129]
- John Matthew Cannella, 88, American federal judge.[130]
- Eleanor Lansing Dulles, 101, American author, professor, and state official.[131]
- George R. E. Shell, 88, United States Marine Corps brigadier general.
- John Young, 80, Scottish actor.
31
- Louise Bates Ames, 92, American psychologist.[132]
- Marcel Carné, 90, French film director.[133]
- Peter Doig, 85, British politician.
- Frank Kurtz, 85, American Olympic diver and aviator, complications following a fall.[134]
- Arthur Peterson, Jr., 83, American actor, Alzheimer's disease.
- William Rosenwald, 93, American businessman and philanthropist.[135]
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