# Deaths in January 1996
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The following is a list of notable deaths in January 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.

## January 1996
### 1

* Arleigh Burke, 94, United States Navy admiral.
* Dori Dorika, 82, Russian-Italian actress.
* Alifa Rifaat, 65, Egyptian author.
* Arthur Rudolph, 89, German rocket engineer.
* Jessie Vihrog, 89, South African-born German film actress.
* Virgil W. Vogel, 76, American television and film director.
* Sergei Yakovlev, 70, Soviet/Russian actor.

### 2

* Michel Berto, 56, French actor.
* Viatcheslav Nazarov, 43, Russian musician, traffic collision.
* Karl Rappan, 90, Austrian football player and coach.
* Julià Reig Ribó, 84, Andorran politician.
* Efua Theodora Sutherland, 71, Ghanaian writer.

### 3

* Aníbal Pinto Santa Cruz, 76-77, Chilean economist, heart attack.
* Terence Cuneo, 88, British artist.
* Paul Lipson, 82, American stage actor.
* Connie Ryan, 75, American baseball player and coach.
* Ričardas Vaitkevičius, 62, Soviet/Lithuanian rower and Olympian.

### 4

* Anna Amalie Abert, 89, German musicologist.
* Tino Bianchi, 90, Italian actor, pneumonia.
* Jean Feyte, 92, French film editor.
* Bob Flanagan, 43, American writer, performance artist, poet, musician, and comic, cystic fibrosis.
* Zhou Mingzhen, 77, Chinese paleontologist.
* Steve Raines, 79, American actor (Rawhide).
* Ramón Vinay, 84, Chilean opera singer.

### 5

* Yahya Ayyash, 29, Palestinian chief bombmaker of Hamas, homicide.
* Gus Bivona, 80, American musician.
* Václav David, 85, Czechoslovak politician.
* Lincoln Kirstein, 88, American writer, impresario, art connoisseur, and philanthropist.
* Knut Løfsnes, 77, Norwegian resistance member during World War II and politician.
* Thung Sin Nio, 93, Indonesian-Dutch women's rights activist, physician, economist and politician.
* Elmer Singleton, 77, American baseball player.

### 6

* Henry Hopkinson, 1st Baron Colyton, 94, British politician.
* Jan Willem de Pous, 75, Dutch politician and economist.
* William J. Dyess, 66, American diplomat, cancer.
* Duane Hanson, 70, American sculptor.
* Johnnie Johnston, 80, American actor and singer.
* Maude Kegg, 91, American Ojibwe traditionalist, bead artist, and author.
* John Philipps Kenyon, 68, British historian.
* Kim Kwang-seok, 31, South Korean musician, suicide.
* Kurt Schmücker, 76, German politician.
* Chubby Wise, 80, American bluegrass fiddler.

### 7

* William H. Clothier, 92, American cinematographer.
* John A. Gronouski, 76, American diplomat.
* Károly Grósz, 65, Hungarian politician, kidney cancer.
* V. Kumar, 61, India film score composer.
* Seton Lloyd, 93, British archaeologist.
* Harold Norman Moldenke, 86, American botanist and taxonomist.
* Tarō Okamoto, 84, Japanese artist, art theorist, and writer, Parkinson's disease.
* Bienvenido Santos, 84, Filipino writer.
* Heinrich Scheel, 80, German historian of modern age.
* Aaron Stell, 84, American film and television editor.

### 8

* Paul Cleary, 73, American gridiron football player.
* Carmen Conde, 88, Spanish poet, novelist, literary critic, Alzheimer's disease.
* Teobaldo Depetrini, 81, Italian football player and coach.
* John Hargreaves, 50, Australian actor, AIDS-related complications.
* Fernand Leblanc, 78, Canadian politician.
* Joyce McCartan, 65, Northern Irish community worker and peace activist.
* Norrie McCathie, 34, Scottish football player, carbon monoxide poisoning.
* Michiya Mihashi, 65, Japanese singer, multiple organ dysfunction syndrome.
* Harlan Mills, 76, American computer scientist and academic.
* François Mitterrand, 79, French statesman and President of France, prostate cancer.
* Howard Taubman, 88, American theatre critic.
* Paul Vialar, 97, French writer.
* Sadao Watanabe, 83, Japanese printmaker.

### 9

* Abdullah al-Qasemi, 89, Saudi Arabian writer and intellectual, cancer.
* Moe Becker, 78, American basketball player.
* Ronnie Bell, 88, British physical chemist.
* Howie Braun, 83, American basketball player and coach.
* Roger Freed, 49, American baseball player, heart problems.
* Félix González-Torres, 38, American artist, AIDS-related complications.
* Metin Göktepe, 27, Turkish photojournalist, beaten to death.
* M. Larry Lawrence, 69, American diplomat.
* Walter M. Miller, 72, American fiction writer, suicide.
* Fearless Nadia, 88, Australian-Indian actress and stuntwoman.
* Sultan Rahi, 57, Pakistani actor, producer and screenwriter, ballistic trauma.
* Özdemir Sabancı, 54, Turkish businessman, murdered.
* Jack Smith, 79, American journalist, author, and newspaper columnist.
* Mike Synar, 45, American politician, brain cancer.
* Louis William Tordella, 84, American mathematician and deputy director of the National Security Agency.
* Danni Xtravaganza, 34, American member of the ballroom scene, AIDS-related complications.

### 10

* Ivan Deryugin, 67, Soviet/Russian modern pentathlete and Olympic champion.
* Raymond H. Fogler, 103, American politician.
* Dean McAdams, 78, American gridiron football player.
* Egidio Ortona, 85, Italian diplomat.
* Don Richardson, 77, American television director (Lost in Space, The Adventures of Ellery Queen, Bonanza).
* Joseph Charles Schultz Jr., 77, American baseball player, manager, and coach.

### 11

* Harold Walter Bailey, 96, British scholar of Asian languages.
* Tato Bores, 70, Argentine actor.
* Roger Crozier, 53, Canadian ice hockey player, cancer.
* Eric Hebborn, 61, English painter, draughtsman, art forger and author, homicide.
* Ike Isaacs, 76, Burmese-English jazz guitarist.

### 12

* Eduard Haken, 85, Czech actor, doctor and opera singer.
* Edmund Happold, 65, British engineer and activist.
* Jonas Jonsson, 92, Swedish sport shooter.
* Joseph Kuzmin, 85, Russian politician.
* Jon Pattis, American engineer imprisoned in Iran, congestive heart failure.
* John Howard Purnell, 70, Welsh chemist.
* Fouad Sedki, 70, Egyptian football player.
* Bartel Leendert van der Waerden, 92, Dutch mathematician and mathematics historian.
* Dai Ward, 61, Welsh football player.

### 13

* Denise Grey, 99, Italian-French actress.
* Mark Herron, 67, American actor, cancer.
* Dean Kelley, 64, American basketball player.
* Ester Krumbachová, 72, Czech filmmaker.
* Bobby Langton, 77, English football player and manager.
* Aliou Mahamidou, 48, Nigerien politician and Prime Minister.
* Sam Merwin, Jr., 85, American writer.
* Elina Pohjanpää, 62, Finnish actress, oral cancer.
* Jorge Sapelli, 70, Uruguayan politician.

### 14

* Annie Broadbent, 87, British artistic gymnast.
* Umberto Drei, 70, Italian racing cyclist.
* Jacques Lebrun, 85, French sailor.
* Onno Tunç, 47, Turkish composer, plane crash.

### 15

* Les Baxter, 73, American musician, singer, and composer.
* Richard Cobb, 78, British historian, essayist, and professor.
* Gerhard Huttula, 93, German cinematographer and film director.
* Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho, 57, King of Lesotho, traffic collision.
* Edward Makula, 65, Polish aviator.
* Mohsin Naqvi, 48, Pakistani poet, murdered.
* Max Varnel, 70, French film director.
* Rudolf Wanderone, 82, American pool player.

### 16

* Marcia Davenport, 92, American author and music critic.
* Richard Kermode, 49, American keyboardist.
* Harry Potts, 75, English football player and manager.
* Kurt Svanström, 80, Swedish football player.

### 17

* Arnold Anderson, 83, New Zealand sprinter.
* Barbara Jordan, 59, American politician, pneumonia.
* Charles Madge, 83, English poet, journalist and sociologist.
* Harry Robertson, 63, Scottish musician, bandleader, and composer.
* Juan Luis Segundo, 70, Uruguayan priest and theologian.
* Xuefan Zhu, 90, Chinese politician.

### 18

* Osro Cobb, 91, American lawyer and politician.
* Leonor Fini, 87, Argentine painter, designer and writer.
* John Hope, 1st Baron Glendevon, 83, British politician.
* N. T. Rama Rao, 72, Indian actor, producer, director, and politician, heart attack.
* Alberto Ruschel, 77, Brazilian actor, producer, and director.

### 19

* Upendranath Ashk, 85, Indian novelist, short story writer and playwright.
* Bernard Baily, 79, American comic book artist.
* A. G. Gaston, 103, American businessman.
* Kasım Gülek, 91, Turkish politician.
* Byron Keith, 78, American actor (77 Sunset Strip, Batman, The Stranger), heart attack.
* Anton Myrer, 73, American author, leukemia.
* Donny Schmit, 29, American motorcycle racer, aplastic anemia.
* Don Simpson, 52, American film producer (Top Gun, Beverly Hills Cop, The Rock), heart failure.
* Lucien Theys, 68, Belgian long-distance and steeplechase runner.
* Harold Wolpe, 70, South African political economist.

### 20

* Buster Benton, 63, American blues guitarist and singer, diabetes.
* Tom Dimitroff, Sr., 60, American and Canadian football player and coach.
* Sidney Korshak, 88, American lawyer and "fixer" for the Chicago Mafia.
* Joseph Mermans, 73, Belgian football player.
* Gerry Mulligan, 68, American jazz baritone saxophonist, arranger and composer, liver cancer.
* Lo Wei, 77, Chinese film director, heart failure.

### 21

* Jordan Christopher, 55, American actor (Secrets of Midland Heights) and singer.
* Roman Cieślewicz, 66, Polish artist, laryngeal cancer.
* Herbert McEver, 89, American sportsman and coach.
* Peter Stadlen, 85, British pianist.
* Henry Serrano Villard, 95, American diplomat and author, pneumonia.

### 22

* William Cantrell, 87, American powerboat and racecar driver.
* Israel Eldad, 85, Israeli philosopher.
* Dick Rand, 64, American baseball player.
* Petro Shelest, 87, Soviet/Ukrainian politician.

### 23

* Cliff Griffith, 79, American racecar driver.
* Norman MacCaig, 85, Scottish poet and teacher.
* Richard Sakakida, 75, American intelligence agent.
* Horst Wende, 76, German musician.
* Art White, 80, American gridiron football player.

### 24

* Jimmy Davidson, 70, Scottish football player.
* Sándor Iharos, 65, Hungarian long-distance runner.
* Tom Tracy, 61, American gridiron football player.
* Wim Umboh, 62, Indonesian film director.
* Seigo Yamaguchi, 71, Japanese aikido instructor and Aikikai teacher.

### 25

* Billy Bailey, 49, American murderer, execution by hanging.
* Ruth Berghaus, 68, German stage director of opera, cancer.
* Antonio Buenaventura, 91, Filipino composer and musician.
* Ángel García, 76, Cuban sprinter.
* Jack Haden, 81, American gridiron football player.
* Mian Shaukat Hussain, 67, Pakistani tabla player.
* Jonathan Larson, 35, American composer and playwright (Rent, Tick, Tick... Boom!), aortic dissection.
* Yuri Levitansky, 74, Russian poet and writer.

### 26

* Gerrit Cornelis Berkouwer, 92, Dutch theologian.
* Harold Brodkey, 65, American short-story writer and novelist, AIDS-related complications.
* Saul Goodman, 88, American timpanist.
* Yawara Hata, 85, Japanese politician and lawyer.
* Frank Howard, 86, American gridiron football player and coach.
* Charles Jewtraw, 95, American speed skater.
* Jiří Kotalík, 75, Czech art historian and gallery director.
* Henry Lewis, 63, American conductor, heart attack.
* Georg Alexander, Duke of Mecklenburg, 74, German noble.
* Bob Pastor, 82, American boxer.
* Allan Robert Phillips, 81, American ornithologist, cancer.
* Stevie Plunder, 32, Australian guitarist and singer-songwriter, suicide.
* Dave Schultz, 36, American wrestler and murder victim, shot.
* Hormasji Maneckji Seervai, 89, Indian lawyer.
* John Albert Taylor, 36, American murderer, execution by firing squad.
* Dimitri Zaitz, 78, American shot putter.

### 27

* Olga Havlová, 62, Czech activist and first wife of president Václav Havel, cancer.
* Vyacheslav Lemeshev, 43, Olympic boxer.
* Patrick Ludlow, 92, British actor.
* Thomas Mitchell, 93, English cricket player.
* Vsevolod Sanayev, 83, Russian/Soviet actor.
* Barbara Skelton, 79, English memoirist, novelist and socialite.
* Ralph Yarborough, 92, American politician and lawyer.

### 28

* Dev Kant Baruah, 81, Indian politician.
* Joseph Brodsky, 55, Russian-American poet, heart attack.
* Burne Hogarth, 84, American cartoonist.
* Piero Palermini, 70, Italian actor.
* Jerry Siegel, 81, American comic book artist, co-creator of Superman, heart attack.
* Geo Widengren, 88, Swedish historian and academic.
* San Yu, 77, Burmese general, politician, and president of Myanmar.

### 29

* Julius Posener, 91, German architectural historian and author.
* Terence Reese, 82, British bridge player and writer.
* Bill Sorensen, 63, New Zealand rugby player, coach and administrator.
* Jamie Uys, 74, South African film director, film producer, and screenwriter, heart attack.

### 30

* Friedrich Benfer, 90, German actor.
* Guy Doleman, 72, New Zealand actor (Thunderball, The Ipcress File, Funeral in Berlin), lung cancer.
* Gino Gallagher, 33, Irish republican and member of the Irish National Liberation Army, shot.
* Bob Thiele, 73, American record producer and music executive, kidney failure.

### 31

* E. C. L. During Caspers, 61, Dutch archaeologist.
* Olle Hallberg, 92, Swedish long jumper and Olympian.
* Rufus G. Herring, 74, United States Navy Medal of Honor recipient.
* Wolf Karni, 84, Finnish football referee.
* Gustave Solomon, 65, American mathematician and electrical engineer.