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.

April 1996[]

1[]

2[]

3[]

  • Ron Brown, 54, American government official, aircraft crash.[4]
  • Frank Doyle, 78, American comic book writer (Archie), cancer.
  • Herk Harvey, 71, American actor and director, pancreatic cancer.[5]
  • 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.[6]

4[]

  • Brian Abel-Smith, 69, British economist.[7]
  • Barney Ewell, 78, American track and field athlete and Olympic champion.[8]
  • Zita Perczel, 77, Hungarian actress.
  • Winifred Shotter, 91, British actress.

5[]

  • Monika Dannemann, 50, German figure skater and painter, suicide.
  • Charlene Holt, 67, American actress (El Dorado).
  • Gerry L'Estrange, 78, Irish politician.
  • Herta Worell, 83, German actress.[9]

6[]

  • Marlin Barnes, 22, linebacker for the University of Miami Hurricanes.
  • John D. Bulkeley, 84, United States Navy vice admiral and Medal of Honor recipient.[10]
  • Ester Carloni, 98, Italian actress.
  • Greer Garson, 91, British-American actress (Mrs. Miniver, Blossoms in the Dust, Madame Curie), Oscar winner (1943), heart failure.[11]
  • Sterling M. McMurrin, 82, American theologian.[12]

7[]

  • Colleen Clifford, 97, Australian actress.
  • Georges Géret, 71, French film actor, cancer.[13]
  • Yelena Mazanik, 82, Soviet/Belarus partisan who assassinated Nazi official Wilhelm Kube.

8[]

  • Donald Adams, 67, English opera singer and actor, brain cancer.[14]
  • 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.[15]
  • Ben Johnson, 77, American actor (The Last Picture Show, The Wild Bunch, The Sugarland Express), Oscar winner (1972), heart attack.[16]
  • León Klimovsky, 89, Argentine film director, screenwriter and actor.[17]
  • Petko Sirakov, 67, Bulgarian wrestler.[18]
  • Agron Sulaj, 44, Albanian football player and.[19]
  • 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.[20]
  • Richard Condon, 81, American political novelist.[21]
  • Paul Leder, 70, American actor and film director, lung cancer.[22]
  • Otto Licha, 83, Austrian handball player.[23]
  • James Rouse, 81, American businessman and founder of The Rouse Company.[24]

10[]

  • Moshe Davis, 80, American rabbi.
  • Walter Harding, 79, American scholar and professor of English literature.[25]
  • Herman Pines, 94, Russian-American chemist.[26]
  • Jack Wilkinson, 64, English football player.

11[]

  • Billy Anderson, 55, American gridiron football player (Tennessee Titans), ALS.
  • Hans Beck, 84, Norwegian ski jumper.[27]
  • Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet, 89, French businessman and publicist.[28]
  • Trygve Brodahl, 90, Norwegian cross country skier.[29]
  • Mel Hill, 82, Canadian ice hockey player.[30]
  • Wanda McKay, 80, American actor and model.

12[]

  • Helmut Krone, 70, American art director.[31]
  • Marthe Robert, 82, French writer.[32]
  • Igor Ternov, 74, Russian physicist.

13[]

  • C. Alfred "Chief" Anderson, 89, American aviator.
  • George Mackay Brown, 74, Scottish poet, author and dramatist.[33]
  • James Burke, 64, American mobster and Lucchese crime family associate, lung cancer.
  • Vjekoslav Kaleb, 90, Croatian writer.
  • Denis Sargan, 71, British econometrician.

14[]

  • Waleed Al-Salam, 69, Iraqi mathematician.
  • Gaylord Birch, 50, American musician.[34]
  • Marie Clotilde Bonaparte, 84, French princess of the Bonaparte dynasty.
  • William K. Everson, 67, American journalist, prostate cancer.[35]
  • George N. Neise, 79, American actor, cancer.
  • James Sargent Russell, 93, United States Navy admiral.[36]

15[]

  • Beatriz Costa, 88, Portuguese actress.[37]
  • John C. Flanagan, 90, American psychologist.[38]
  • Stavros Niarchos, 86, Greek businessman and art collector, pneumonia.[39]

16[]

17[]

  • Paul Bleiß, 91, German politician and member of the Bundestag.
  • Piet Hein, 90, Danish puzzle designer, mathematician, and poet.[45]
  • Adelaide Lambert, 88, American swimmer and Olympic champion.[46]
  • Dudley Manlove, 81, American actor and radio announcer.
  • Abbot Low Moffat, 94, American politician, cancer.[47]
  • Hugh Robson, 77, New Zealand lawn bowls competitor.

18[]

  • Brook Berringer, 22, American gridiron football player, plane crash.[48]
  • Bernard Edwards, 43, American bass player and record producer, pneumonia.[49]
  • Mike Leander, 54, English arranger, songwriter and record producer, cancer.
  • Hubert Opperman, 91, Australian racing cyclist.[50]

19[]

  • Yukiyoshi Aoki, 61, Japanese swimmer.[51]
  • James B. Clarke Jr., 39, American murderer, execution by lethal injection.[52]
  • Ken Doherty, 90, American decathlete.[53]
  • John Martin, 36, English spree killer, suicide.
  • Buddy Oldfield, 84, English cricket player and umpire.

20[]

21[]

  • Zora Arkus-Duntov, 86, Belgian-American engineer nicknamed the "Father of the Corvette.".
  • Dzhokhar Dudayev, 52, Soviet/Russian general and Chechen leader, homicide.[59]
  • Alceo Galliera, 85, Italian conductor and composer.[60]
  • Robert Hersant, 76, French newspaper magnate.[61]
  • Abdul Hafeez Kardar, 71, Indian cricket player.
  • Luigi Pistilli, 66, Italian actor, suicide.[62]
  • Paraone Reweti, 79, New Zealand politician and rātana morehu.
  • Jimmy Snyder, 77, American horse racing announcer & television sports announcer, heart attack.
  • Bertel Storskrubb, 78, Finnish middle-distance runner and hurdler.

22[]

  • Erma Bombeck, 69, American humorist and writer, kidney disease.[63]
  • Helen Keane, 73, American jazz record producer, breast cancer.
  • Molly Keane, 91, Irish writer.[64]
  • Jug McSpaden, 87, American golfer, and golf course architect, accidental carbon monoxide poisoning.
  • 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.
  • P. L. Travers, 96, Australian-British novelist (Mary Poppins), epilepsy.[65]
  • Jesús Hernández Úbeda, 36, Spanish bicycle racer.[66]

24[]

25[]

  • Saul Bass, 75, American graphic designer and filmmaker, lymphoma.[73]
  • John Lorne Campbell, 89, British historian.
  • 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.[74]

26[]

27[]

  • William Colby, 76, American intelligence agent, drowning.[77]
  • Gilles Grangier, 84, French film director and screenwriter.[78]
  • Adam Roarke, 58, American actor and film director, heart attack.[79]
  • Rudolf Schulten, 72, German physicist.
  • Joan Sterndale-Bennett, 82, British actress.[80]

28[]

  • Al Hollingsworth, 88, American baseball player.[81]
  • Svea Holst, 95, Swedish film actress.
  • Orville Prescott, 89, American literary critic (The New York Times).[82]
  • Tien Soeharto, 72, wife of the Indonesian president, Suharto
  • Lester Sumrall, 83, American minister.

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30[]

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