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.

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.
  • Luciano Tajoli, 76, Italian actor and singer.[10]
  • Bill Wright, 82, American baseball player.[11]

4[]

  • Kiyoshi Atsumi, 68, Japanese actor, lung cancer.[12]
  • Willard Brown, 81, American baseball player.[13]
  • Lev Lemke, 64, Soviet/Russian actor.
  • Vladimir Liberzon, 59, Israeli chess player.

5[]

  • Abdulrahman Mohamed Babu, 71, Zanzibari marxist revolutionary.[14]
  • Claudio Barigozzi, 87, Italian geneticist and biologist.
  • Frank Marcus, 68, British playwright.[15]
  • Havelock Nelson, 79, Irish composer.

6[]

  • Muhammad al-Badr, 70, Yemeni imam and politician.
  • Ossie Clark, 54, British fashion designer, stabbing.[16]
  • Len Coldwell, 63, British cricket player.
  • Bobby Enriquez, 53, Filipino jazz pianist.
  • Gerry Gomez, 76, Trinidad and Tobago football player.
  • Charles Hadfield, 87, British historian.[17]
  • Floyd Simmons, 71, American gridiron football player.[18]
  • Bud Svendsen, 81, American gridiron football player and coach.[19]
  • 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.[20]
  • Loret Miller Ruppe, 60, American diplomat, ovarian cancer.[21]

8[]

  • Queta Carrasco, 83, Mexican actress.
  • Michio Hoshino, 43, Japanese photographer, bear attack.
  • Herbert Huncke, 81, American writer and poet.[22]
  • 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.[23]
  • Joseph Asajirō Satowaki, 92, Japanese Catholic Bishop.
  • Julian Stryjkowski, 91, Polish journalist.[24]

9[]

  • Tokiharu Abe, 85, Japanese ichthyologist, cerebral hemorrhage.
  • May Ayim, 36, German poet, suicide.[25]
  • Lionel Emmett, 83, Indian physician and field hockey player.[26]
  • John W. King, 77, American politician.[27]
  • Derek Smith, 34, American basketball player, myocardial infarction.
  • Frank Whittle, 89, British Royal Air Force officer, lung cancer.[28]

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.[29]

11[]

  • Rafael Kubelík, 82, Czech conductor, violinist, composer and director conductor of Czech philharmony.[30]
  • Kathleen Mills, 72, Irish camogie player.
  • Ambrosio Padilla, 85, Filipino basketball player and senator.
  • David Ricketts, 76, British cyclist.[31]
  • Mel Taylor, 62, American musician, myocardial infarction.[32]
  • Baba Vanga, 84, Bulgarian psychic, breast cancer.

12[]

  • Victor Ambartsumian, 87, Soviet/Armenian astrophysicist.[33]
  • Robert Gravel, 51, Canadian actor.[34]
  • Mark Gruenwald, 43, American comic book writer, editor, and penciler, myocardial infarction.[35]
  • Stephan Kuttner, 89, American legal scholar.[36]
  • Guy Nosbaum, 66, French rower.[37]
  • Anthony Parsons, 73, British diplomat, cancer.[38]

13[]

14[]

  • Sergiu Celibidache, 84, Romanian conductor.[42]
  • Al Cleveland, 66, American songwriter.
  • Uzo Egonu, 64, Nigerian artist.
  • Camilla Horn, 93, German actress.[43]
  • Tom Mees, 46, American sportscaster, drowning.
  • Albert Neuberger, 88, British biochemist.
  • Amrit Rai, 74, Indian writer, poet and biographer.[44]

15[]

  • Rey Cuenco, 36, Filipino basketball player, cirrhosis.
  • Sven Lasta, 71, Croatian actor.[45]
  • Tania Leon, 51, South African feminist.
  • Masao Maruyama, 82, Japanese political scientist.[46]
  • Dally O'Brien, 77, Australian rules football player.
  • Albert Osswald, 77, German politician.
  • Joe Seneca, 77, American actor, singer, and songwriter, asthma.[47]
  • George Starbuck, 65, American poet.[48]

16[]

  • Miles Goodman, 46, American composer.[49]
  • 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.[50]
  • Catherine Shipe East, 80, American government researcher and feminist.[51]
  • Eric Evans, 68, British Anglican priest.
  • Witold Urbanowicz, 88, Polish flying ace during World War II and general.[52]

18[]

  • Al Bertino, 84, American animator.
  • Geoffrey Dearmer, 103, British poet.[53]
  • Hugo Gryn, 66, British rabbi.
  • Charles Mitchel, 75, Irish actor and broadcaster.[54]
  • Isabel Morgan, 84, American virologist.

19[]

  • Tatyana Mavrina, 93, Russian painter and children's writer.
  • Claire Rommer, 91, German actress.[55]
  • Joffre Soares, 77, Brazilian film actor.

20[]

21[]

  • Mary Two-Axe Earley, 84, Indigenous Canadian women's rights activist, respiratory disease.
  • Irene Vorrink, 78, Dutch politician.[59]
  • Richard S. Westfall, 72, American historian.[60]

22[]

  • Kjell Borgen, 56, Norwegian politician.
  • Anandatissa de Alwis, 77, Sri Lankan journalist, marketer and politician.
  • Erwin Leiser, 73, German film director.[61]
  • Oliver Lynn, 69, American American talent manager, diabetes.
  • Jack Portland, 84, Canadian ice hockey player.

23[]

  • Jurriaan Andriessen, 70, Dutch composer.[62]
  • Jeff Batters, 25, Canadian ice hockey defenceman, car accident.[63]
  • Gordon S. Brown, 88, Electrical engineering professor.[64]
  • David Halfyard, 65, English cricketer.
  • Øivind Holmsen, 84, Norwegian football player.[65]
  • Audrey Patterson, 69, American sprinter.
  • Margaret Tucker, 92, Indigenous Australian activist and writer.[66]
  • Zulfiya, 81, Uzbek poet.

24[]

  • Jean Aurel, 70, French screenwriter and film director.[67]
  • Zainab Biisheva, 88, Soviet/Russian writer.
  • Eric Heaton, 75, British priest.
  • Ben Joelson, 70, American producer and screenwriter.
  • Hristo Mladenov, 68, Bulgarian football player.[68]
  • Lev Vlasenko, 67, Soviet/Russian musician.

25[]

  • Fred Adison, 87, French conductor.
  • Erskine Barton Childers, 67, Irish writer, correspondent and United Nations civil servant.[69]
  • Sylvia Fisher, 86, Australian operatic soprano.[70]
  • Reinhard Libuda, 52, German football player, cancer.

26[]

27[]

  • Martin Disler, 47, Swiss artist, cerebrovascular disease.[73]
  • Bert Fortell, 71, Austrian actor.[74]
  • Abram Games, 82, British graphic designer.[75]
  • 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, brain cancer.[76]
  • Wayne D. Overholser, 89, American Western writer.[77]
  • Aliye Rona, 74, Turkish actress, cardiovascular disease.
  • Yair Rosenblum, 52, Israeli composer, esophageal cancer.[78]
  • Gordon Stein, 55, American physiologist.[79]
  • Waldo Rudolph Wedel, 87, American archaeologist.[80]

28[]

29[]

  • Norm Bright, 86, American runner, mountaineer, and teacher, pneumonia.
  • J. B. Jackson, 86, American writer.[84]
  • Charles O'Neal, 92, American writer.[85]
  • Tera de Marez Oyens, 64, Dutch composer.

30[]

  • Laura Adani, 82, Italian actress.
  • Modesto Bria, 74, Paraguayan football player.[86]
  • Alfredo B. Crevenna, 82, Mexican film director and screenwriter, cancer.[87]
  • Dunc Gray, 90, Australian racing cyclist.[88]
  • José Toribio Merino, 80, Chilean politician and admiral.
  • Josef Müller-Brockmann, 82, Swiss graphic designer.[89]
  • Christine Pascal, 42, French actress, screenwriter and director, suicide.[90]
  • Goliarda Sapienza, 72, Italian actress and writer, fall.
  • José Sasía, 62, Uruguayan football player.

31[]

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