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

## May 1996
### 1

* Herbert Brownell, 92, American politician, cancer.
* Billy Byers, 69, American jazz trombonist and arranger.
* François Chalais, 76, French journalist, leukemia.
* Jim Gleeson, 84, American baseball player.
* Eric Houghton, 85, English football player and manager.
* David M. Kennedy, 90, American diplomat, cardiovascular disease.
* Luana Patten, 57, American actress (Song of the South, Johnny Tremain, Joe Dakota), respiratory failure.

### 2

* Emile Habibi, 73, Palestinian-Israeli writer and communist politician, cancer.
* Danny Kamekona, 60, American actor (The Karate Kid Part II, Problem Child, Honeymoon in Vegas).
* María Luisa Ponte, 77, Spanish actress.
* Henri Rust, 90, Dutch film editor.
* Douglas Houghton, Baron Houghton of Sowerby, 97, British politician.

### 3

* Guy Casaril, 62, French film director.
* Donald G. Fink, 84, American engineer.
* Tim Gullikson, 44, American tennis player and coach, brain cancer.
* Alex Kellner, 71, American baseball player.
* Hermann Kesten, 96, German writer.
* Detlev Kittstein, 52, German field hockey player.
* Patsy Montana, 87, American country music singer-songwriter.
* Ray Stevens, 60, American professional wrestler, heart attack.
* Jack Weston, 71, American actor (Dirty Dancing, The Thomas Crown Affair, The Ritz), lymphoma.
* Keith Daniel Williams, 48, American murderer, execution by lethal injection.

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* Jean Crépin, 87, French Army officer during World War II, the First Indochina War and the Algerian War.
* Edward E. Haddock, 84, American politician.
* Gus Keriazakos, 64, American baseball player.
* Eduardo Franco Raymundo, 62, Spanish chess player.

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* Gaëtan Duval, 65, Mauritian politician.
* David Lasser, 94, American writer and political activist.
* Rodney M. Love, 87, American politician.
* Jokūbas Minkevičius, 75, Lithuanian politician.
* Ai Qing, 86, Chinese poet.
* Salli Terri, 73, Canadian-American singer and arranger.
* Charles H. Zimmerman, 88, American aeronautical engineer.

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* Donald T. Campbell, 79, American psychologist and scholar.
* Geoffrey S. Dawes, 78, British fetal physiologist.
* Ed Love, 85, American animator.
* Hamlet Mkhitaryan, 33, Soviet/Russian football player, brain cancer.
* Wally Nightingale, 40, British musician, drug-related illness.
* Suzanne Ridgeway, 78, American film actress.
* Leo Joseph Suenens, 91, Belgian Roman Catholic cardinal, thrombosis.

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* William Copley, 77, American painter, writer, and gallerist.
* Don McNeill, 88, American radio personality.
* Albert Meltzer, 76, British anarchist.
* Narciso G. Reyes, 82, Filipino diplomat and author.
* José Lázaro Robles, 72, Brazilian football player.
* Howard Smith, 76, British diplomat.

### 8

* Beryl Burton, 58, English racing cyclist, heart attack.
* Serge Chermayeff, 95, Russian-British architect, industrial designer, and writer.
* Luis Miguel Dominguín, 69, Spanish bullfighter, cerebral hemorrhage.
* Robert Geib, 84, Luxembourgish football player.
* Ludwig Hoelscher, 88, German composer, musician and music educator.
* Bill Naito, 70, American businessman, civic leader and philanthropist, cancer.
* Celedonio Romero, 83, Spanish musician.
* Karl Ullrich, 85, German SS officer during World War II.
* Garth Williams, 84, American children's illustrator.

### 9

* Khaptad Baba, 116, Nepalese spiritual saint.
* Lu Dingyi, 89, Chinese politician.
* Carl Fallberg, 80, American cartoonist and artist.
* Gustave Gingras, 78, Canadian physician.
* Calvin Waller, 58, United States Army lieutenant general, complications from a heart attack.

### 10

* Jože Babič, 79, Slovenian filmmaker.
* Poul Borum, 61, Danish poet and writer.
* Joe Holden, 82, American baseball player, manager and scout.
* Ethel Smith, 93, American organist.
* Curt Teichert, 91, German-American palaeontologist and geologist.

### 11

* Nnamdi Azikiwe, 91, President of Nigeria.
* Rodney Culver, 26, American football running back, plane crash.
* Ademir de Menezes, 73, Brazilian football player and manager.
* Øivind Johannessen, 71, Norwegian football player.
* Sam Ragan, 80, American poet.
* Vittorio Sala, 77, Italian screenwriter and film director.
* Princess Maria de los Dolores of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, 86, Sicillian princess.
* Mikheil Tumanishvili, 75, Soviet theatre director.
* Merrill B. Twining, 93, United States Marine Corps general.
* Ivan Vyshnevskyi, 39, Ukrainian football player, melanoma.
* Margaret Wright, 76, American politician and community activist.
* Notable climbers killed in the 1996 Mount Everest disaster
** Scott Fischer, 40, American mountaineer.
** Rob Hall, 35, New Zealand mountaineer.
** Yasuko Namba, 47, Japanese businesswoman.
** Andy Harris, 31, New Zealand mountain guide.

### 12

* Ghazaleh Alizadeh, 47, Iranian poet and writer, suicide.
* Richard Kendall Brooke, 66, South African ornithologist.
* Homer Keller, 81, American composer of contemporary classical music.
* Mohamed Abdel Rahman, 81, Egyptian fencer.
* Martin Roman, 86, German jazz pianist.

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* Harry Hyde, 71, American NASCAR crew chief, myocardial infarction.
* William Hughes Mulligan, 78, American judge.
* Morris Edward Opler, 89, American anthropologist.
* Chaim Menachem Rabin, 80, Israeli linguist.

### 14

* Marian Barone, 72, American gymnast and olympian.
* Vera Chapman, 98, British writer.
* Edward Gurney, 82, American attorney and politician.
* Jan Hertl, 67, Czech football player.
* Sridharan Jeganathan, 44, Sri Lankan cricket player.
* Ludwig Preiß, 85, German politician.
* Dick Randall, 70, American filmmaker.
* Adone Stellin, 75, Italian association football player.
* Kumi Sugai, 77, Japanese painter, sculptor and printmaker.
* Usilaimani, 62, Tamil actor.
* Leopold Šťastný, 84, Czechoslovak soccer player and coach.

### 15

* Nordine Ben Ali, 76, Algerian-French football player and manager.
* Javier del Granado, 83, Bolivian writer.
* Newt V. Mills, 96, American politician.
* Paul Nogier, 87, French neurologist and physician.
* Virgil Walter Ross, 88, American animator.

### 16

* Danilo Alvim, 75, Brazilian football player and manager, pneumonia.
* Jeremy Michael Boorda, 56, American admiral, suicide.
* Claude Gordon, 80, American trumpeter, band director, educator, and author, cancer.
* Olga Madar, 80, American labor unionist.

### 17

* Scott Brayton, 37, American open-wheel racing driver, racing accident.
* Willis Conover, 75, American radio producer, lung cancer.
* Mary Haas, 86, American linguist.
* Rusi Modi, 71, Indian cricket player.
* Nick Origlass, 88, Australian Trotskyist politician.
* Johnny "Guitar" Watson, 61, American musician and singer-songwriter, myocardial infarction.

### 18

* Czesław Bobrowski, 92, Polish politician and economist.
* Mario Braggiotti, 90, American pianist, composer and raconteur.
* Dawee Chullasapya, 81, Thai Air Force air marshal.
* Chet Forte, 60, American television director and sports radio talk show host, heart attack.
* Kevin Gilbert, 29, American musician, accidental asphyxiation.
* Yosef Porat, 86, German-Israeli chess player.
* T. B. Werapitiya, 71, Sri Lankan cricket player.

### 19

* John Beradino, 79, American baseball player and actor, pancreatic cancer.
* Herbert Büchs, 82, German Air Force officer.
* Jake Ford, 50, American basketball player.
* Hideji Hōjō, 93, Japanese author, novelist, and playwright.
* Janaki Ramachandran, 72, Indian actor and politician, cardiac arrest.
* Margaret Rawlings, 89, English actress.
* Charles Verlinden, 89, Belgian medievalist.
* Zygmunt Ziembiński, 75, Polish legal philosopher and logician.

### 20

* Jean-Jacques Delbo, 87, French actor.
* Dean Harens, 75, American actor.
* Jon Pertwee, 76, English actor, comedian, cabaret performer and TV presenter, heart attack.
* Janez Vidic, 73, Slovene painter and illustrator.

### 21

* Vladimir Belyakov, 78, Soviet gymnast.
* Paul Delph, 39, American musician.
* Raffaele di Paco, 87, Italian road racing cyclist.
* Karl Hoffmann, 81, German Indologist.
* Fernando Volio Jiménez, 71, Costa Rican politician.
* Lash LaRue, 78, American actor, pulmonary emphysema.
* Fritz Ligges, 57, German equestrian, heart attack.

### 22

* Robert Christie, 82, Canadian actor and director.
* Cuthbert Hurd, 85, American computer scientist and entrepreneur.
* Seymour H. Knox III, 70, American sports executive.
* Veikko Lavi, 84, Finnish singer, songwriter and writer.
* Maurice Piot, 83, French fencer and Olympic silver medalist.
* George H. Smith, 73, American writer.
* Wong Peng Soon, 78, Malaysian badminton player, pneumonia.

### 23

* Abu Ubaidah al-Banshiri, 46, Egyptian al-Qaeda leader, drowned.
* Patrick Cargill, 77, English actor, brain cancer.
* Dorothy Hyson, 81, American actress, stroke.
* Sim Iness, 65, Athletics competitor.
* Evert Karlsson, 75, Swedish ski jumper.
* Bernhard Klodt, 69, German football player, heart attack.
* Kronid Lyubarsky, 62, Soviet dissident, heart attack.
* Tanju Okan, 57, Turkish recording artist and singer, cirrhosis.
* Peter Pasetti, 79, German actor, cancer.

### 24

* John Abbott, 90, English actor.
* Jorge Bolaños, 51, Ecuadorian football player.
* Harry Campion, 91, British statistician and director.
* Thomas Connolly, 86,United States Navy admiral , aviator, gymnast and Olympic medalist.
* José Cuatrecasas, 93, Spanish-American pharmacist and botanist.
* Jacob Druckman, 67, American composer, lung cancer.
* Enrique Álvarez Félix, 62, Mexican actor, heart attack.
* Johan Kraag, 82, President of Suriname.
* Joseph Mitchell, 87, American writer.
* Kshitindramohan Naha, 64, Indian geologist and professor.
* Lois Pereiro, 38, Spanish poet and writer, AIDS-related complications.
* Norman René, 45, American director, AIDS-related complications.
* Roland Varno, 88, Dutch-American actor and secret agent.

### 25

* Renzo De Felice, 67, Italian historian.
* John Morrison, 1st Baron Margadale, 89, British politician.
* Guy Mazeline, 96, French writer.
* Bradley Nowell, 28, American musician and the lead singer and guitarist of Sublime, opioid overdose.
* Vladimir Ukhov, 72, Russian racewalker.
* Barney Wilen, 59, French saxophonist.
* Dimitar Yordanov, 66, Bulgarian football player.

### 26

* Ole Berntsen, 81, Danish sailor.
* Don Bollweg, 75, American baseball player.
* Haika Grossman, 76, Israeli politician and member of Knesset.
* Gerard Hallock, 90, American ice hockey player.
* Stefan Jędrychowski, 86, Polish journalist and communist politician.
* Ovidiu Papadima, 86, Romanian literary critic, folklorist, and essayist.
* Milan Ribar, 66, Yugoslav/Croatian football manager.
* Heije Schaper, 89, Dutch lieutenant general of the Royal Netherlands Air Force and politician.
* Mike Sharperson, 34, American baseball player, accident.

### 27

* George Boolos, 55, American philosopher and mathematical logician, pancreatic cancer.
* Pud Brown, 79, American jazz reed player.
* Aksel Bonde Hansen, 77, Danish rower.
* Philip B. Healey, 74, American politician.

### 28

* Walter Brandi, 68, Italian actor.
* Nirmala Devi, 68, Indian film actress and singer.
* George Kojac, 86, American swimmer and Olympic champion.
* Rollin Prather, 70, Canadian football player.
* Jimmy Rowles, 77, American jazz pianist, vocalist, and composer.

### 29

* Jennings Lang, 81, American actor, pneumonia.
* Isidro Maiztegui, 90, Argentinian composer.
* Antonín Mrkos, 78, Czech astronomer.
* Hrant Shahinyan, 72, Soviet/Armenian gymnast.
* Jeremy Sinden, 45, British actor, lung cancer.
* Tamara Toumanova, 77, Russian ballet dancer.

### 30

* John Cameron, Lord Cameron, 96, Scottish judge.
* Heather Canning, 63, English actress.
* William Dally, 88, American rower.
* Léon-Étienne Duval, 92, French catholic prelate and cardinal.
* François Genoud, 80, Swiss Nazi collaborator, suicide.
* John Kahn, 48, American bass guitarist.
* Alo Mattiisen, 35, Estonian composer.
* Arthur "T-Boy" Ross, 47, American singer-songwriter.
* Natividad Vacío, 83, American actor.

### 31

* Walter C. Beckham, 80, United States Army Air Forces fighter ace and nuclear scientist.
* Ton de Leeuw, 69, Dutch composer.
* Luciano Lama, 74, Italian politician and trade unionist.
* Timothy Leary, 75, American psychologist and writer, prostate cancer.
* Thomas Francis Xavier Smith, 67, American politician, cancer.