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

## June 1996
### 1

* Vittorino Colombo, 71, Italian politician.
* Gaetano Fichera, 74, Italian mathematician.
* Michael Fox, 75, American actor, pneumonia.
* Don Grolnick, 48, American musician, lymphoma.
* Attiqur Rahman, 77, Pakistani general and military historian.
* Neelam Sanjiva Reddy, 83, Sixth President of India, pneumonia.

### 2

* John Alton, 94, American cinematographer (An American in Paris), Oscar winner (1952).
* Ishmael Bernal, 57, Filipino director, cardiovascular disease.
* Rene Bond, 45, American pornographic actress, cirrhosis.
* Ray Combs, 40, American stand-up comedian, actor, and game-show host (Family Feud), suicide by hanging.
* Stewart Evans, 87, Canadian ice hockey player (Montreal Canadiens).
* Alberto Farnese, 69, Italian actor.
* Leon Garfield, 74, English children's writer, cancer.
* Pilar Lorengar, 68, Spanish operatic soprano, lung cancer.
* Amos Tversky, 59, Israeli psychologist, melanoma.
* William Van Pelt, 91, American politician.

### 3

* Arthur J. O. Anderson, 88, American anthropologist specializing in Aztec culture.
* Veniero Colasanti, 85, Italian costume designer, set decorator and art director.
* Ben Couch, 70, New Zealand politician and rugby union player.
* William Cox, 91, American long-distance runner.
* Peter Glenville, 82, English actor director and producer, myocardial infarction.
* Ferdinand Leitner, 84, German composer and conductor.
* Tito Okello, 82, President of Uganda.
* Hideo Sakai, 86, Japanese association football player, pneumonia.
* Gitchandra Tongbra, 83, Indian satirist, poet, playwright and art academic.
* Aimo Tukiainen, 78, Finnish sculptor.

### 4

* María Luisa Anido, 89, Spanish musician.
* Cliff Holton, 67, English football player.
* Nel Roos-Lodder, 82, Dutch discus thrower.
* Aloha Wanderwell, 89, Canadian-American explorer, author, filmmaker, and aviator.

### 5

* Erich Bagge, 84, German physicist.
* Jack Beaton, 82, Australian rugby player.
* Patrick Cordier, 49, French alpinist, traffic collision.
* Hartono Rekso Dharsono, 70, Indonesian general.
* Jan Kerouac, 44, American writer and only child of author Jack Kerouac and Joan Haverty Kerouac.
* Vito Scotti, 78, American actor, lung cancer.
* Anne-Marie Ørbeck, 85, Norwegian pianist and composer.

### 6

* Harry Andersson, 83, Swedish football player.
* Bruce Andrew, 88, Australian football player.
* Hall Hibbard, 92, American aerospace engineer.
* Courtney Johnson, 56, American banjo player, lung cancer.
* Vladimír Karfík, 94, Czech architect.
* Kusuo Kitamura, 78, Japanese swimmer.
* Rajmund Kupareo, 81, Croatian poet.
* Mary Lee, 71, American actress.
* George Davis Snell, 92, American geneticist.
* José María Valverde, 70, Spanish philosopher.

### 7

* Buddy Blair, 85, American Major League Baseball player.
* Percy Edwards, 88, English entertainer and ornithologist.
* Marjorie Gross, 40, Canadian television producer, ovarian cancer.
* David Allan Hubbard, 68, American theologian and professor.
* Fumi Kojima, 79, Japanese track and field athlete.

### 8

* William J. Baroody, Jr., 58, American government official, lung ailment.
* Scoop Putnam, 83, American basketball player.
* Phyllis Stedman, 79, British politician and life peer.
* Henryk Trębicki, 55, Polish weightlifter.

### 9

* Rafaela Aparicio, 90, Spanish actress, cerebral hemorrhage.
* Daniel Mazia, 83, American cell biologist.
* Salme Reek, 88, Estonian actress.
* Walter Stokes, 98, American sport shooter.
* Nhiek Tioulong, 87, Cambodian politician.

### 10

* Aleksandr Abushakhmetov, 41, Russian fencer.
* Hugh Mitchell, 89, American politician.
* Frankie Sakai, 67, Japanese comedian, actor, and musician.
* Chiyo Uno, 98, Japanese writer, pneumonia.
* Jo Van Fleet, 80, American actress (East of Eden, Cool Hand Luke, The Rose Tattoo), Oscar winner (1956).
* Marie-Louise von Motesiczky, 89, Austrian artist.

### 11

* Ulysses Dove, 49, American dancer, AIDS-related complications.
* Lonne Elder III, 68, American actor and dramatist.
* George Hees, 85, Canadian politician.
* Brigitte Helm, 90, German actress.
* Wilson W. Wyatt, 90, American politician and lawyer.

### 12

* Mary Field, 87, American film actress, stroke.
* John Hopper, 73, American politician.
* Annie Ruth Jiagge, 77, Ghanaian jurist and women's rights activist.
* Manibhai J. Patel, 75, Indian politician.
* Lillian Yarbo, 91, American actress.

### 13

* Edward Dugmore, 81, American artist, cancer.
* Friedrich Geiger, 88, German automobile designer of notably the Mercedes-Benz 300 SL.
* Pran Nath, 77, Indian singer, heart failure.
* Keith Palmer, 38, American musician, cancer.
* Merceditas Valdés, 73, Cuban singer.

### 14

* Gesualdo Bufalino, 75, Italian writer, traffic collision.
* Noemí Gerstein, 87, Argentine artist and sculptor.
* Alexander Knyazhinsky, 60, Soviet/Russian cinematographer, noted for his work on Andrei Tarkovsky's Stalker.
* Jack Ragland, 82, American basketball player.

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* Sir Fitzroy MacLean, 1st Baronet, 85, Scottish soldier, writer and politician.
* Allenby Chilton, 77, English football player and manager.
* Bernard A. Clarey, 84, United States Navy admiral.
* Ella Fitzgerald, 79, American jazz singer, sometimes referred to as the "First Lady of Song", "Queen of Jazz", and "Lady Ella", stroke.
* Jean Gimpel, 77, French historian and medievalist.
* Robert Lamoot, 85, Belgian football player.
* Dick Murdoch, 49, American professional wrestler, myocardial infarction.
* Roosseno, 87, Indonesian politician, scholar, and engineer.
* Raymond Salles, 75, French rower.

### 16

* Mel Allen, 83, American sports announcer.
* Harold Emerson Foster, 90, American basketball player-coach.
* David Mourão-Ferreira, 69, Portuguese writer and poet.
* Richard Sylvan, 60, Australian philosopher.
* Adriano Vignoli, 88, Italian road bicycle racer.

### 17

* George Adomian, 74, American mathematician of Armenian descent.
* Madhukar Dattatraya Deoras, 80, Indian politician and third Sarsanghchalak of the RSS.
* Gizella Farkas, 70, Hungarian table tennis player.
* James Hamilton, 53, British DJ and journalist.
* Doug Harris, 77, New Zealand runner.
* Thomas Kuhn, 73, American historian, physicist and philosopher, lung cancer.
* Edmond Roudnitska, 91, French perfumer.
* Curt Swan, 76, American comic book artist (Superman).

### 18

* Florence Andrews, 83, New Zealand fencer.
* Branko Bošnjak, 73, Croatian philosopher.
* Gino Bramieri, 67, Italian actor, pancreatic cancer.
* Pierre Chany, 73, French cycling journalist.
* Erika Dannhoff, 86, German actress.
* Miriam Gideon, 89, American composer.
* Glenmor, 64, French protest singer known as Emile Le Scanf.
* Paul Heinemann, 80, Belgian botanist and mycologist.
* Endel Puusepp, 87, Soviet bomber pilot and Hero of the Soviet Union.
* Henry Regnery, 84, American newspaper publisher .
* Rif Rəis uğlı Səyetgərəyev, 35, Russian speedway rider.

### 19

* Bob Dennison, 82, English football player.
* Frank Eliscu, 83, American sculptor and art teacher.
* Vivian Ellis, 92, British musical composer.
* Eric Fisher, 71, New Zealand cricket player.
* Igor Mirenkov, 27, Soviet-Belarusian serial killer, execution by shooting.
* Hillevi Rombin, 62, Swedish model, aviation accident.
* Gerard David Schine, 68, American politician, plane crash.
* Michel Ter-Pogossian, 71, American physicist.
* Edvin Wide, 100, Swedish middle- and long distance runner.

### 20

* Renato Archer, 73, Brazilian politician.
* John Buchan, 2nd Baron Tweedsmuir, 84, British peer and son of novelist John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir.
* Herbert Gerigk, 91, German musicologist.
* Joseph Green, 96, American actor and film director.
* Wálter Guevara, 84, President of Bolivia.
* Irving P. Krick, 89-90, American meteorologist and inventor, heart failure.
* Louis Lefkowitz, 91, American politician, Parkinson's disease.

### 21

* John Wesley Fletcher, 56, American pastor, AIDS-related complications.
* Cyril Holmes, 81, English sprinter.
* Reidar Karlsen, 85, Norwegian football player.
* Mary Mead, 61, American politician, fall from horse.

### 22

* George Barati, 83, American composer and conductor.
* Terrel Bell, 74, American World War II veteran and politician, pulmonary fibrosis.
* Norvell William Emerson, 58, American politician, lung cancer.
* Epaminondas Samartzidis, 30, Olympic water polo player, drowning.

### 23

* Ludovico Avio, 63, Argentine football player.
* Pasqualino De Santis, 69, Italian cinematographer, heart attack.
* Marian Gilman, 81, American swimmer, Olympic athlete.
* Ray Lindwall, 74, Australian cricket player.
* Yasapalitha Nanayakkara, 56, Sri Lankan writer.
* Andreas Papandreou, 77, Greek politician, cardiovascular disease.
* Hazel Redick-Smith, 70, South African tennis player.
* Mariano Rojas, 23, Spanish bicycle racer, traffic collision.
* Salah Abu Seif, 81, Egyptian film director.
* Norbertas Vėlius, 58, Lithuanian folklorist specializing in Lithuanian mythology.

### 24

* Harry Dowda, 73, American gridiron football player.
* Grace Ho, 89, Mother of Bruce Lee.
* Edward Halsey Jenison, 88, American politician and newspaper publisher.
* Osman Karabegović, 84, Yugoslav politician.
* Chao Lei, 68, Hong Kong actor, pneumonia.
* Peter Thullen, 88, German mathematician.

### 25

* Ray Howard-Jones, 93, English painter.
* Vytautas Kavolis, 65, Lithuanian sociologist.
* Siegfried Rossner, 82, German fencer and Olympian.
* Hans Stam, 77, Dutch water polo player.

### 26

* Caleb J. Anderson, 85, Swedish politician.
* Veronica Guerin, 37, Irish crime reporter, homicide.
* Pedro Montañez, 82, Puerto Rican boxer.
* J. Lee Rankin, 88, American lawyer and United States Solicitor General.
* Eduard Zahariev, 57, Bulgarian film director and screenwriter.

### 27

* Peter Adair, 52, American filmmaker and artist, AIDS-related complications.
* Mollie Beattie, 49, American conservationist and director of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, brain cancer.
* Victor Borg, 80, Norwegian physician, novelist, playwright and script writer.
* Albert R. Broccoli, 87, American film producer (Dr. No, Goldfinger, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang), heart failure.
* Merze Tate, 91, American academic.

### 28

* Julio Bolbochán, 76, Argentine chess player.
* Ivan Jazbinšek, 81, Yugoslavian football player.
* Ali Said, 69, Indonesian military officer, Chief Justice, and politician.
* Ola Solum, 52, Norwegian film director, cancer.
* Kwan Tak-hing, 91, Hong Kong actor, pancreatic cancer.
* Isao Yamagata, 80, Japanese actor, tuberculosis.

### 29

* Richard Krebs, 89, German sprinter.
* Pamela Mason, 80, English actress, screenwriter.
* Alexander George Ogston, 85, Australian biochemist.
* Dmitri Pokrovsky, 52, Russian musician and folk music researcher.

### 30

* Antonio Franco Florensa, 84, Spanish football player.
* Jef Maes, 91, Belgian musician.
* Jerry May, 52, American baseball player, farming accident.
* David McCampbell, 86, United States Navy officer and Medal of Honor recipient.
* Lakis Petropoulos, 63, Greek football player.