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

## October 1996
### 1

* James Beal, 67, New Zealand boxer, leukaemia.
* Carl Fredrik Engelstad, 80, Norwegian writer, playwright, journalist, translator and theatre director.
* Patrick Jameson, 83, New Zealand Royal Air Force officer and flying ace during World War II.
* Pat McGeown, 40, Irish Provisional Irish Republican Army member, heart attack.
* Fred Meyer, 86, American gymnast.
* Herbert Seifert, 89, German mathematician.
* Bill Twomey, Jr., 69, Australian rules football player.
* Alfred Vogel, 93, Swiss herbalist, naturopath and writer.
* Deng Yuzhi, 96, Chinese activist and feminist.

### 2

* Helmut Artzinger, 84, German politician.
* Robert Bourassa, 63, Canadian politician from Quebec, melanoma.
* Peter J. Brennan, 78, American labor activist and politician, lymphatic cancer.
* Joonas Kokkonen, 74, Finnish composer.
* Emiel van Lennep, 81, Dutch diplomat and politician.
* Andrey Lukanov, 58, Bulgarian politician, assassinated.
* Banjo Matthews, 64, American NASCAR driver, car owner and builder, heart and respiratory disease.
* Les Tietje, 86, American Major League Baseball player (Chicago White Sox, St. Louis Browns).
* Rufus Youngblood, 72, United States Secret Service agent, cancer.

### 3

* Ilyas Afandiyev, 82, Soviet/Azerbaijani writer.
* Bertus Enklaar, 52, Dutch chess International Master.
* Vivienne Goonewardene, 80, Sri Lankan politician.
* George Kubler, 84, American art historian.
* Eustace Roskill, Baron Roskill, 85, British lawyer and public servant.
* István Serényi, 85, Hungarian handball player.

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* Humphrey Atkins, 74, British politician, cancer.
* Larry Gene Bell, 46, American murderer and convict, execution by electrocution.
* Stephen J. Friedman, 59, American film producer, multiple myeloma.
* Joe Hoerner, 59, American baseball player, farming accident.
* Masaki Kobayashi, 80, Japanese film director, heart attack.
* Silvio Piola, 83, Italian football player.
* Jerry Rivers, 68, American fiddle player, cancer.
* Alma Routsong, 71, American novelist, ovarian cancer.
* Randy Schultz, 52, American gridiron football player.

### 5

* Judith Allen, 85, American film actress.
* Elmer Berger, American Jewish rabbi and anti-Zionist.
* Wymberley D. Coerr, American politician and diplomat.
* Seymour Cray, 71, American computer scientist, car accident.
* Duanmu Hongliang, 84, Chinese author.
* Richard Kröll, 28, Austrian alpine skier, traffic collision.
* Akira Noguchi, 79, Japanese baseball player and manager.
* Arnold van Mill, 75, Dutch opera singer.

### 6

* Jessie Bernard, 93, American sociologist and feminist, cancer.
* Ted Bessell, 61, American actor (That Girl, Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.) and television director (The Tracey Ullman Show), aortic aneurysm.
* Ted Daffan, 84, American country musician.
* Winifred Drinkwater, 83, Scottish aviator and aeroplane engineer.
* Forrest Pogue, 84, United States Army historian during World War II.
* Marjorie Shostak, 51, American anthropologist, cancer.
* Wolfram von Soden, 88, German Assyriologist.
* Vladimir Yerokhin, 66, Russian football player.

### 7

* José Antonio Burciaga, 55/56, American Chicano artist, poet, and writer.
* Dame Diana Reader Harris, 83, English head master and public figure.
* Viktor Reimann, 81, Austrian author, journalist and politician.
* Andrew Salter, 82, American psychologist, cancer.
* Zeya, 80, Burmese actor and bodybuilder.

### 8

* Mignon G. Eberhart, 97, American author of mystery novels.
* Geoffrey Finsberg, 70, British politician.
* Francis D. Lyon, 91, American film and television director.
* David Miller, 71, Canadian ice hockey player and Olympian.
* Ferdinand Montier, 87, French racing driver.
* William Prince, 83, American actor.

### 9

* Per Asplin, 68, Norwegian actor and musician.
* Marland P. Billings, 94, American structural geologist.
* William L. DeAndrea, 44, American writer.
* Nigel Fisher, 83, British politician.
* George F. Kerr, 78, English writer.
* Walter Kerr, 83, American writer and theatre critic, congestive heart failure.
* John W. King, 79, American politician.
* Roy Lewis, 82, English writer and small press printer.
* Colleen Peterson, 45, Canadian country and folk singer, cancer.
* Aleksandar Popović, 66, Serbian writer.
* Harvey Vernon, 69, American actor.
* Harry D. Yates, 93, American banker and politician.

### 10

* Harold Cleghorn, 83, New Zealand weightlifter.
* Coya Knutson, 84, American politician.
* Bob Reynolds, 57, American gridiron football player.
* Toshio Sugie, 83, Japanese film director.
* David Viscott, 58, American psychiatrist, author, and media personality, heart failure complicated by diabetes.

### 11

* Lars Ahlfors, 89, Finnish mathematician, pneumonia.
* Keith Boyce, 53, Barbadian cricketer.
* Carlos Mancheno Cajas, 94, President of Ecuador.
* Eleanor Cameron, 84, Canadian-American children's author and critic.
* Johnny Costa, 74, American jazz pianist, aplastic anemia.
* Bernardo Grinspun, 70, Argentinian politician.
* Roger Lapébie, 85, French racing cyclist.
* Joe Morris, 83, Canadian trade unionist.
* Terry Patchett, 56, British politician, cancer.
* Edith Penrose, 81, American-British economist.
* Renato Russo, 36, Brazilian singer and songwriter, complications caused by AIDS.
* Edwin Spanier, 75, American mathematician at the University of California at Berkeley.
* William Vickrey, 82, Canadian economist, Nobel prize winner, heart failure.
* Rolf Widerøe, 94, Norwegian accelerator physicist.
* Gerald Wild, 89, Australian politician.

### 12

* Nina Alisova, 80, Soviet/Russian actress.
* Erik Blomberg, 83, Finnish cinematographer, screenwriter, film director and producer.
* Mac Holten, 74, Australian politician and sportsman.
* Helmut Hölzer, 84, German rocket engineer.
* Stefan Knapp, 75, Polish painter and sculptor.
* Eddie Kuzma, 85, American auto racing builder.
* René Lacoste, 92, French tennis champion and businessman, cancer.
* Jack Robertson, 79, English cricket player.
* Gerard Thoolen, 53, Dutch actor, AIDS.

### 13

* Carl H. Dodd, 71, United States Army soldier and a recipient of the Medal of Honor.
* Horst Kopkow, 85, German Nazi politician and SS officer, pneumonia.
* Henri Nannen, 82, German journalist.
* Beryl Reid, 77, English actress, kidney failure.
* Brad Robinson, 37-38, Australian rock musician, lymphoma.
* Jopie Roosenburg-Goudriaan, 83, Dutch painter.
* G-Slimm, 21, American rapper.

### 14

* Rex Darling, 82, American football, basketball, and tennis coach.
* William John Hooper, 80, British cartoonist.
* Václav Hovorka, 65, Czech football player.
* Ferd Johnson, 90, American comic strip cartoonist.
* Tan Chee Khoon, 77, Malaysian politician.
* Laura La Plante, 91, American film actress, Alzheimer's disease.
* Izidor Papo, 82, Yugoslav general.

### 15

* Mike Balas, 86, American Major League Baseball player.
* Leo Eitinger, 83, Czech psychiatrist.
* Tom Ferrick, 81, American Major League Baseball player, pitching coach and scout, heart failure.
* Pierre Franey, 75, French chef, stroke.
* Toma Tomas, 72, Iraqi guerilla and politician.
* Jean Adeline Morgan Wanatee, 85, Native American and women's rights activist.
* Robert F. Williams, 71, American civil rights leader and author, Hodgkin's lymphoma.

### 16

* Peter Brodie, 79, Scottish minister.
* Guy Crescent, 76, French businessman and founder of Paris Saint-Germain F.C.
* Gertrude Flynn, 87, American actress.
* Anthony Griffin, 75, British admiral.
* Eric Malpass, 85, English novelist.
* Harold J. Powers, 96, American politician.
* Hunter Rouse, 90, American physicist.
* Huang Shao-ku, 95, Chinese politician, Vice Premier.

### 17

* Chris Acland, 30, English drummer and songwriter, suicide by hanging.
* Bob Adams, 95, American baseball player and coach.
* Jaroslav Balík, 72, Czechoslovak film director and screenwriter.
* Berthold Goldschmidt, 93, German-British Jewish composer.
* Bert Hopwood, 87-88, British motorcycle designer.
* Laura Sabia, 80, Canadian social activist and feminist, Parkinson's disease.

### 18

* Jason Bernard, 58, American actor (Herman's Head, WarGames, Bird), heart attack.
* Louise Bertram, 88, Canadian figure skater.
* Luciano Durán Böger, 91, Bolivian poet, writer and politician.
* Hans Drachsler, 80, German politician.
* Elmer Klumpp, 90, American Major League Baseball player.
* Alex Motter, 83, Canadian ice hockey player.
* Simon Soloveychik, 66, Soviet/Russian writer and philosopher.
* Sheldon Vanauken, 82, American journalist, lung cancer.

### 19

* Josef Becker, 91, German politician.
* Maurice Elliott, 53, Scottish footballer, brain haemorrhage.
* Ralston Hill, 69, American actor and singer.
* John Hillaby, 79, British travel writer and explorer.
* Bobby Rackard, 69, Irish hurler.
* Shamsuddin Qasemi, 61, Bangladeshi Islamic scholar and politician.

### 20

* Robert Benayoun, 75, French film critic and author.
* J. Bracken Lee, 97, American politician.
* Sebastian Santa Maria, 37, Chilean composer.
* Yuri Neprintsev, 87, Soviet/Russian painter, graphic artist and art teacher.
* Richard M. Powell, 79, American screenwriter, prostate cancer.
* Luigi Rovere, 88, Italian film producer.

### 21

* Léon Ashkenazi, 74, Jewish spiritual leader, philosopher and educator.
* Eric Halsall, 76, English author and television presenter.
* Albert G. Hill, 86, American physcisist and pioneer in the development of radar.
* Wang Li, 74, Chinese politician, pancreatic cancer.
* Les Mead, 87, Australian rugby player and coach.
* Allie White, 81, American gridiron football player.
* Georgios Zoitakis, 86, Greek Army general and regent of Greece.
* Giovanni Zuddas, 68, Italian boxer.

### 22

* John Bauldie, 47, British journalist, helicopter crash.
* Edmund Black, 91, American Olympic athlete.
* Kathy Change, 46, Chinese-American political activist, writer, and performance artist, self-immolation.
* Shmarya Guttman, 87, Israeli archaeologist.
* Matthew Harding, 42, British businessman, helicopter crash.
* Dianne Heatherington, 48, Canadian rock singer and businesswoman, ovarian cancer.
* Noel Hilliard, 67, New Zealand novelist.
* Hermann Höfer, 62, German football player.
* Sten Rudberg, 79, Swedish geologist and geomorphologist.

### 23

* Henry Allard, 84, Swedish politician.
* Chet Blaylock, 71, American politician, heart attack.
* Kurt Freund, 82, Czech-Canadian physician and sexologist, suicide.
* Bob Grim, 66, American Major League Baseball player, heart attack.
* Harold Hughes, 74, American politician.
* Michel Kelber, 87–88, French cinematographer.
* Lin Onus, 47, Australian artist of Scottish-Aboriginal origins.
* Diana Trilling, 91, American literary critic and author.

### 24

* Robert Anderson, 60, New Zealand politician, cancer.
* Artur Axmann, 83, Nazi German Hitler Youth leader.
* Roderick Barclay, 87, British diplomat and ambassador.
* Gladwyn Jebb, 96, British civil servant, diplomat and politician.
* Hyman Minsky, 77, American economist.
* Romica Puceanu, 69, Romanian singer.
* Joe Spencer, 73, American gridiron football player and coach, cancer.

### 25

* Ennio De Giorgi, 68, Italian mathematician.
* Solveig Gunbjørg Jacobsen, 83, First person born on South Georgia.
* Maria Litto, 77, German ballet dancer, choreographer and film actress.
* Robert Racic, 32, Australian DJ and record producer, brain virus.
* Harry Shuman, 81, American Major League Baseball player.
* Brian Stacey, 49, Australian conductor.
* Roland Wilson, 92, Australian public servant and economist.

### 26

* Miquel Asins Arbó, 80, Spanish composer.
* Aurelio Chessa, 82, Italian anarchist, journalist and historian.
* Abdelhamid ben Hadouga, 71, Algerian writer.
* Hans W. Kosterlitz, 93, German-British biochemist.
* Henri Lepage, 88, French fencer.
* Derek Tangye, 84, British writer.
* Sofia Tuibayeva, 83, Soviet/Tajikistani actress.
* Wendy Wild, 40, American singer, musician, and artist, breast cancer.

### 27

* Henry Piet Drury van Asch, 85, New Zealand aviator and surveyor.
* Rewat Buddhinan, 48, Thai singer and music producer, brain cancer.
* Charlotte Jay, 76, Australian mystery writer and novelist.
* Marcello Mihalich, 89, Italian football player and manager.
* Arthur Tremblay, 79, Canadian politician.

### 28

* Morey Amsterdam, 87, American actor and comedian, heart attack.
* Reuben Baetz, 73, Canadian politician.
* Irene Cortes, 75, Filipino lawyer, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court.
* Jimmy Haig, 71, Scottish-New Zealand rugby player.
* Robert Hankey, 2nd Baron Hankey, 91, British diplomat and public servant.
* Karol Jokl, 51, Slovak football player and manager.
* Joe Samuels, 91, American baseball player.

### 29

* Ewell Blackwell, 74, American Major League Baseball player.
* J. Edward Day, 82, American lawyer and United States Postmaster General, heart attack.
* Richard Duffin, 87, American physicist.
* Eugen Kapp, 88, Estonian composer and music educator.
* Robert Levin, 84, Norwegian classical pianist and composer.
* Christophe Munzihirwa, 70, Congolese catholic prelate and Archbishop of Bukavu, murdered.
* Ralph Vince, 96, American gridiron football player (Cleveland Indians, Cleveland Bulldogs, Cleveland Panthers).

### 30

* John Barnum, 85, American golfer.
* Roberto Belangero, 68, Brazilian football player.
* John Matthew Cannella, 88, American federal judge.
* Eleanor Lansing Dulles, 101, American author, professor, and state official.
* George R. E. Shell, 88, United States Marine Corps brigadier general.
* John Young, 80, Scottish actor.

### 31

* Louise Bates Ames, 92, American psychologist.
* Marcel Carné, 90, French film director.
* Peter Doig, 85, British politician.
* Frank Kurtz, 85, American Olympic diver and aviator, complications following a fall.
* Arthur Peterson, Jr., 83, American actor, Alzheimer's disease.
* William Rosenwald, 93, American businessman and philanthropist.