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

## March 1996
### 1

* Marie-Hélène de Rothschild, 68, French socialite.
* Vergílio Ferreira, 80, Portuguese writer, essayist, and professor.
* David Gebhard, 68, American architectural historian.
* Khan Abdul Ghani Khan, 82, Pakistani poet, artist, writer and politician.
* Susie Sharp, 88, American jurist and first female chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court.
* Don Smith, 75, American basketball player (Minneapolis Lakers).
* Ng Wui, 82, Hong Kong film director, writer and actor.

### 2

* Jacobo Majluta Azar, 61, Vice President of the Dominican Republic, lung cancer.
* Célestin Delmer, 89, French football player.
* Naseem Hijazi, 81, Pakistani writer.
* José López Rubio, 92, Spanish film director.
* Lyle Talbot, 94, American actor, heart failure.

### 3

* Marguerite Duras, 81, French writer and film director, esophageal cancer.
* Randolph Harding, 81, Canadian politician.
* Walter Kaaden, 76, German engineer.
* John Krol, 85, American catholic cardinal.
* Léo Malet, 86, French writer.
* Meyer Schapiro, 91, American historian of Art.
* Milt Woodard, 84, American sports writer and sport executive.

### 4

* Berenger Bradford, 83, British Army officer.
* Ted Cordner, 77, Australian rules football player.
* Enrico Cucchi, 30, Italian football player, cancer.
* Minnie Pearl, 83, American comedian and country singer, stroke.
* John Sauer, 70, American gridiron football player, coach, and broadcaster.

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* Khondaker Mostaq Ahmad, 78, Bangladeshi politician and President of Bangladesh.
* Whit Bissell, 86, American actor (The Magnificent Seven, Creature from the Black Lagoon, The Time Machine), Parkinson's disease.
* Joshua Compston, 25, British art curator, drugs overdose.
* Herb Hall, 88, American musician.
* Galina Kravchenko, 91, Soviet/Russian actress.
* José Santacruz Londoño, 52, Colombian drug trafficker, homicide.
* Pithapuram Nageswara Rao, 65, Indian singer.
* Fritz Huschke von Hanstein, 85, German racecar driver.

### 6

* Jack Abel, 68, American comic book artist (Superman, Hulk, The Tomb of Dracula).
* Simon Cadell, 45, British actor (Hi-de-Hi!, Life Without George, Watership Down), lung cancer.
* Jurandir de Freitas, 55, Brazilian football player.
* Douglas Jay, Baron Jay, 88, British politician.
* José de Magalhães Pinto, 86, Brazilian lawyer, economist, banker and politician.
* Paula Winslowe, 85, American actress (Our Miss Brooks, The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, Bambi).
* Zdeněk Škrland, 82, Czechoslovak/Czech canoeist and Olympian.

### 7

* Pinchas Menachem Alter, 69, Polish Hasidic rabbi.
* Jacques Bobet, 76, French filmmaker.
* Willie Fraser, 67, Scottish football player.
* Ferdinand Panke, 73, German water polo player and Olympian.

### 8

* "Mad Jack" Churchill, 89, British Army officer and master archer.
* Bill Graber, 85, American pole vaulter and Olympian.
* Bill Nicholson, 81, American baseball player.
* Werner Schlichting, 91, German art director.

### 9

* Ronald Ernest Aitchison, 74, Australian physicist and electronics engineer.
* Akhtar-Ul-Iman, 80, Indian Urdu poet and screenwriter.
* Mohammed al-Ghazali, 78, Egyptian Islamic cleric and scholar.
* George Burns, 100, American comedian and actor (The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show, The Sunshine Boys, Oh, God!), Oscar winner (1976), heart failure.
* Merle Eugene Curti, 98, American historian.
* Imre Kovács, 74, Hungarian football player.
* Alberto Pellegrino, 65, Italian fencer.
* Richard M. Powers, 75, American science fiction illustrator.
* Alfredo Scherer, 93, German-Brazilian catholic cardinal.
* Ollie Walsh, 58, Irish hurler and hurling manager.

### 10

* Hoàng Xuân Hãn, 88, Vietnamese professor of mathematics, linguist, and historian.
* Ross Hunter, 75, American film and television producer, and actor, cancer.
* Marc de Jonge, 47, French actor, traffic collision.
* Butch Laswell, 37, American motorcycle stunt rider, motorcycle accident.
* Gyula Nagy, 71, Hungarian football player and manager.

### 11

* Elio Filippo Accrocca, 72, Italian poet, author, and translator.
* Granville Beynon, 81, Welsh physicist.
* Paul Crossley, 47, English football player, heart attack.
* Vince Edwards, 67, American actor (Ben Casey, The Devil's Brigade, The Killing), pancreatic cancer.
* Ludwig Fellermaier, 65, German politician.
* Richard G. Folsom, 89, American mechanical engineer.
* Biljana Jovanović, 43, Serbian author, peace activist and feminist.
* Rex E. Lee, 61, American lawyer, academic and Solicitor General of the United States, pancreatic cancer.
* Charles Oatley, 92, British physicist and electrical engineer.
* Thorleif Olsen, 74, Norwegian football player.
* Evangeline Walton, 88, American writer.

### 12

* Bob Forte, 73, American gridiron football player.
* Marte Harell, 89, Austrian actress.
* Otto Møller Jensen, 55, Danish actor.
* Eigil Knuth, 92, Danish explorer, archaeologist, sculptor and writer.
* Gyula Kállai, 85, Hungarian politician.

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* Henriette Alimen, 95, French paleontologist and geologist.
* Hsu Ching-chung, 88, Taiwanese politician.
* Ted Fetter, 89, American lyricist.
* Lucio Fulci, 68, Italian film director, screenwriter, producer, and actor, diabetes.
* Sándor Gellér, 70, Hungarian football player.
* Peer Guldbrandsen, 83, Danish film director.
* Shafi Inamdar, 50, Indian actor.
* Krzysztof Kieślowski, 54, Polish film director and screenwriter (Three Colours trilogy, The Double Life of Veronique, Dekalog), heart attack.
* Weston La Barre, 84, American anthropologist.
* Marcelle Mercenier, 75, Belgian piano player.
* Emilie Schenkl, 85, Austrian Hindu convert and partner of Indian nationalist Subhas Chandra Bose.

### 14

* Dewi Bebb, 57, Welsh rugby player, broadcaster and journalist.
* Wang Luobin, 82, Chinese musician, cancer.
* Lucille H. McCollough, 90, American politician, complications from a stroke.
* Andreas Münzer, 31, Austrian bodybuilder, organ failure.
* Dean Prater, 37, American gridiron football player, drowned.
* Maj Sønstevold, 78, Swedish composer.

### 15

* Gad al-Haq, 78, Egyptian Grand Imam of al-Azhar, heart attack.
* Ed Beach, 67, American basketball player.
* Helen Chadwick, 42, British sculptor, photographer and installation artist, heart attack.
* Harold Courlander, 87, American anthropologist.
* Roswell Gilpatric, 89, American lawyer and Deputy Secretary of Defense.
* Cheng Heng, 80, Cambodian politician.
* Wolfgang Koeppen, 89, German writer.
* Francis Joseph Murray, 85, American mathematician.
* Robert Pearce, 88, American wrestler and olympic champion.
* Olga Rudge, 100, American musician.

### 16

* Charlie Barnett, 41, American actor (Miami Vice) and comedian, AIDS-related complications.
* Ray S. Cline, 77, American government official, Alzheimer's disease.
* Des Fothergill, 75, Australian rules football player and cricket player.
* David Gordon, 51, American economist.
* Evan Green, 65, Australian journalist.
* Dennis Jennings, 85, English football player.

### 17

* Anil Chatterjee, 66, Indian actor.
* René Clément, 82, French film director and screenwriter.
* Thomas O. Enders, 64, American diplomat.
* Elsa Respighi, 101, Italian composer.
* Nils Sköld, 74, Swedish Army lieutenant-general.
* Terry Stafford, 54, American singer and songwriter, organ dysfunction.

### 18

* Angelico Chavez, 85, American Friar Minor, priest, historian, author, poet and painter.
* Odysseas Elytis, 84, Greek poet and art critic, heart attack.
* Jacquetta Hawkes, 85, British archaeologist.
* Enrique Jordá, 84, Spanish-American conductor.
* Maria Teresa Pelegrí i Marimón, 88, Spanish composer.
* Niní Marshall, 92, Argentine comedian.
* Robert van der Veen, 89, Dutch field hockey player.
* Shin Yung-kyoo, 53, North Korean football player.

### 19

* Virginia Henderson, 98, American nurse, researcher, and author.
* Chen Jingrun, 62, Chinese mathematician, pneumonia.
* W. H. Murray, 83, Scottish mountaineer and writer.
* Colin Pittendrigh, 77, British-American chronobiologist.
* Alan Ridout, 61, British composer and teacher.
* Walter S. Sullivan, 78, American science reporter and author.
* Lise Østergaard, 71, Danish psychologist and minister.

### 20

* Claude Bourdet, 86, French politician and writer.
* Hans Conzett, 80, Swiss publisher and politician.
* Albert Ganzenmüller, 91, German politician.
* Jim Pendleton, 72, American baseball player.

### 21

* Richard Leslie Hill, 95, English civil servant and historian.
* Robert B. Mautz, 81, American lawyer, law professor, and university administrator.
* Sverre Sørsdal, 95, Norwegian boxer.
* Nikolai Usenko, 71, Russian Ryadovoy and Hero of the Soviet Union for his actions during WWII.

### 22

* Ron Hayward, 78, British politician.
* Claude Mauriac, 81, French writer.
* Don Murray, 50, American drummer, complications following ulcer surgery.
* Václav Nelhýbel, 76, Czech composer.
* Robert F. Overmyer, 59, American test pilot and astronaut, aviation accident.
* Pete Whisenant, 66, American baseball player.
* Billy Williamson, 71, American Rock and roll musician.

### 23

* Roderic H. Davison, 78, American historian of the Middle East.
* François Fontaine, 78, French civil servant and writer.
* Margit Manstad, 93, Swedish actress.
* Pete Martin, 76, Canadian football player.
* J. D. "Jay" Miller, 73, American musician.
* Jacques Toja, 66, French actor, cancer.

### 24

* Lola Beltrán, 64, Mexican singer, actress, and television presenter, pulmonary embolism.
* Idilio Cei, 58, Italian football player.
* John Gerstner, 81, American theologian.
* Étienne Hajdú, 88, French and Hungarian sculptor.
* Liam O'Brien, 83, American screenwriter and television producer, heart attack.
* Ray Pepper, 90, American baseball player.
* Jean-Claude Piumi, 55, French football player.
* Jerry Robertson, 52, American baseball player, car accident.
* Spartaco Schergat, 75, Italian military frogman during World War II.
* Sarah Thomasson, 70, Swedish alpine skier.

### 25

* Mary Lavin, 83, Irish writer.
* Marvin Albert, 72, American author.
* Dioscoro S. Rabor, 84, Filipino ornithologist, zoologist, and conservationist.
* John Snagge, 91, British reporter, esophageal cancer.

### 26

* Robert Bradshaw, 41, American figure skater.
* William Harold Collins, 74, American gridiron football player.
* Joseph Kallinger, 60, American serial killer, heart failure.
* Edmund Muskie, 81, American statesman, political leader, and U.S. Secretary of State, heart failure.
* David Packard, 83, American electrical engineer and co-founder, with Bill Hewlett, of Hewlett-Packard.
* Käte Strobel, 88, German politician.
* Elmer Ward, 83, American gridiron football player.

### 27

* Seán Browne, 79, Irish politician.
* Bob Chambers, 90, Canadian artist.
* Ignace Kowalczyk, 82, French football player.
* André Lefevere, 50, Belgian translator and linguist, leukemia.
* Samuel Schoenbaum, 69, American Shakespearean biographer and scholar, prostate cancer.
* Charlie Timmons, 79, American gridiron football player.

### 28

* Hans Blumenberg, 75, German philosopher and intellectual historian.
* Peter Dombrovskis, 51, Australian photographer, heart attack.
* Edith Fowke, 82, Canadian folklorist.
* Shin Kanemaru, 81, Japanese politician, stroke.
* Barbara McLean, 92, American film editor.
* Siegfried Mynhardt, 90, South African actor.
* Donovan Parks, 24, American murder victim.
* Don Ross, 81, American baseball player.

### 29

* Frank Daniel, 69, Czech director, scriptwriter and university educator, heart attack.
* Bill Goldsworthy, 51, Canadian ice hockey player, AIDS-related complications.
* Ivan Kalita, 69, Soviet/Russian equestrian and Olympic champion.
* Juan Negrón, 66, Puerto Rican US Army soldier and recipient of the Medal of Honor.
* Gordon Pask, 67, British psychologist.
* Helmut von Bockelberg, 84, German politician and tax advisor.

### 30

* Frederick Miller, 84, British paediatrician.
* Richard Kress, 71, German football player.
* Ryoei Saito, 79, Japanese businessman.
* Bjørn Stiler, 84, Danish racing cyclist and Olympian.

### 31

* Dario Bellezza, 51, Italian poet, author and playwright, AIDS-related complications.
* Nino Borsari, 84, Italian cyclist.
* Dante Giacosa, 91, Italian automobile designer and engineer.
* Delia Magaña, 93, Mexican actress, dancer, and singer, pneumonia.
* Jeffrey Lee Pierce, 37, American singer, songwriter, guitarist and author, cerebral hemorrhage.