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

## November 1996
### 1

* Maati Bouabid, 68, Prime Minister of Morocco.
* Sid Cann, 85, English football player and manager.
* Lycette Darsonval, 84, French dancer.
* Edgardo Enríquez, 84, Chilean physician, academic and politician.
* Junius Richard Jayewardene, 90, President of Sri Lanka, colon cancer.
* William Johnstone, 88, American actor.
* Clyde Lynn, 60, American racing driver.
* Eric Reissner, 83, German-American civil engineer and mathematician.

### 2

* Eva Cassidy, 33, American singer and guitarist, melanoma.
* John G. Crommelin, 94, American naval officer and white supremacist politician.
* Joseph Lambert Eustace, 88, Governor-General of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
* Pierre Grimal, 83, French classical philologist.
* Kang Hyo-shil, 64, South Korean actress.
* Yan Jici, 95, Chinese physicist and politician.
* Shanti Swaroop Rana, 47, Indian military officer, killed in action.
* Laurence L. Sloss, 83, American geologist.
* Arnie Tuadles, 40, Filipino basketball player, shot.

### 3

* Jean-Bedel Bokassa, 75, 2nd President of the Central African Republic and Emperor of Central Africa, heart attack.
* William Clarke, 45, American blues harmonica player and singer.
* Ray Mansfield, 55, American gridiron football player (Philadelphia Eagles, Pittsburgh Steelers), heart attack.
* Marian Plezia, 79, Polish historian.
* Barry Porter, 57, British politician, cancer.
* Yevhen Shcherban, 50, Ukrainian businessman and politician, assassinated, homicide.
* Isaac M. Taylor, 75, American medical academic, pneumonia.
* Abdullah Çatlı, 40, Turkish nationalist and leader of the Grey Wolves, traffic accident.

### 4

* T. Vincent Learson, 84, American chairman and chief executive officer of IBM.
* Ray Linn, 76, American jazz trumpeter.
* Konstantin Loktev, 63, Russian ice hockey player, liver cirrhosis.
* Gottlieb Weber, 86, Swiss cyclist.

### 5

* Bunny Breckinridge, 93, American actor and drag queen.
* Allen Broussard, 67, American judge.
* Eddie Harris, 62, American jazz musician, congestive heart failure.
* Joaquín Monserrat, 75, Spanish comedian and host of children programs.
* Wilhelm Sturm, 56, German football player.
* John Dragon Young, 47, Hong Kong-American historian and politician.

### 6

* Harry Brophy, 80, English football player.
* Vadim Ivanov, 53, Russian football player Russian football player and manager.
* Houn Jiyu-Kennett, 72, British Rōshi.
* Dragan Kresoja, 50, Serbian film director.
* Tommy Lawton, 77, English football player and manager, pneumonia.
* Richard Nelson, 57, American theatrical lighting designer.
* Mario Savio, 53, American activist and Berkeley Free Speech Movement member, heart problems.

### 7

* Claude Ake, 57, Nigerian political scientist, plane crash.
* Beauford T. Anderson, 74, United States Army soldier and recipient of the Medal of Honor.
* Feliciano Centurión, 34, Paraguayan visual artist, AIDS-related complications.
* Bill Chisholm, 87, American athletics competitor.
* Carmell Jones, 60, American jazz trumpet player, heart failure.
* Hans Klodt, 82, German football player.
* Sverre Kolterud, 88, Norwegian Nordic combined skier.
* Salvatore Lauricella, 74, Italian politician and mayor.
* Bosh Pritchard, 77, American National Football League football player.
* Jaja Wachuku, 78, Nigerian prince, politician, diplomat and Pan-Africanist.

### 8

* Andrés Rivero Agüero, 91, Cuban politician.
* Laurence Baxter, 42, English statistician.
* Peter Fowler, 73, British physicist.
* Johannes Frömming, 86, German harness racing driver and trainer.
* Franklin Gritts, 81, Native American painter and commercial artist.
* Mathews I, 89, Indian Supreme Primate of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church.
* Tan Onuma, 78, Japanese writer.
* Sydney Selwyn, 62, British physician and medical scientist, multiple system atrophy.

### 9

* Gudmundur Arnlaugsson, 83, Icelandic chess player.
* Joe Ghiz, 51, Canadian lawyer and politician, cancer.
* Michel Mitrani, 66, French film director and screenwriter.
* Roger Makins, 1st Baron Sherfield, 92, British diplomat.
* Alvin Straight, 76, American lawn mower traveler.
* Yoshimi Ueda, 90, Japanese basketball player and administrator.

### 10

* Imam Alimsultanov, 39, Popular Chechen bard and folk singer, homicide.
* Jack Evans, 68, Canadian ice hockey player and coach, prostate cancer.
* Yaki Kadafi, 19, American rapper (Outlawz, Dramacydal), shot.
* Richard Mayo, 94, American Army general and athlete.
* Marjorie Proops, 85, British journalist.
* Manik Varma, 70, Indian classical singer.
* Gucheng Zhou, 98, Chinese politician.

### 11

* Janice Adair, 91, British film actress.
* Jo Baker, 48, American singer and songwriter, liver disease.
* Eugene Davy, 92, Irish rugby union football player and coach.
* Curt Göransson, 87, Swedish general and commander of the Army.
* Lum Harris, 81, American baseball player, coach, manager, and scout, complications of diabetes.
* Paul J. F. Lusaka, 61, Zambian politician and diplomat.
* Gober Sosebee, 81, American racecar driver, agriculture accident.

### 12

* Thomas Miller Bell, 73, Canadian politician, lawyer and barrister.
* Don Kenyon, 72, English cricket player.
* Le Nguyen Khang, 65, South Vietnamese commander.
* Peter Leeds, 79, American actor, cancer.
* Cordell Reagon, 53, American singer and activist, homicide.
* Tom Reid, 70, Irish rugby player.
* Vytautas Žalakevičius, 66, Lithuanian film director and writer.

### 13

* Bill Doggett, 80, American jazz and R&B pianist and organist, heart attack.
* June Gale, 85, American actress, pneumonia.
* James Galloway, 68, American film editor.
* Alma Kitchell, American concert singer.
* Katja Medbøe, 50, Norwegian actress, suicide.
* Swami Rama, Indian yoga guru.
* Bobbie Vaile, 37, Australian astronomer, brain cancer.

### 14

* Jim Baxes, 68, American Major League Baseball player (Los Angeles Dodgers, Cleveland Indians).
* Joseph Bernardin, 68, American Cardinal of the Catholic Church, pancreatic cancer.
* Nell Blaine, 74, American landscape painter and watercolorist.
* Virginia Cherrill, 88, American actress, stroke.
* Giuliano Giuliani, 38, Italian football player, complications of AIDS.
* Nodar Gvakhariya, 64, Soviet water polo player.
* Meridel Le Sueur, 96, American writer.
* Derek Marlowe, 58, English playwright, novelist, and painter.
* Elman Service, 81, American anthropologist.
* Jacomina van den Berg, 86, Dutch gymnast and Olympian.

### 15

* William Boddington, 85, American field hockey player and Olympian.
* Ellis Wayne Felker, 48, American man convicted of murder, execution by electric chair.
* Henri Friedlaender, 92, Israeli typographer and book designer.
* William E. Hall, 83, United States Naval Reserve officer and recipient of the Medal of Honor.
* Alger Hiss, 92, American State Department official and alleged spy.
* John J. Lenzini, Jr., 49, American horse trainer in Thoroughbred flat racing.
* Lila Shanley, 86, American stuntwoman, actress, and athlete, heart failure.
* Ahmed Zaki, 65, Prime Minister of the Maldives.

### 16

* Reginald Bevins, 88, British politician.
* Dondinho, 79, Brazilian football player and manager.
* Joe Gonzales, 81, American Major League Baseball player.
* Jens Peter Hansen, 69, Danish football player.
* Masud Karim, 60, Bangladeshi lyricist.
* Liam Naughten, 52, Irish Fine Gael politician, traffic accident.
* Jack Popplewell, 85, English writer and playwright.
* Benjamin Arthur Quarles, 92, American historian, educator, and writer, heart attack.
* Vasil Spasov, 76, Bulgarian football player and manager.

### 17

* Michele Abruzzo, 91, Italian actor.
* Gus Kyle, 73, Canadian ice hockey player.
* Karl-Heinz Moehle, 86, German U-boat commander during World War II.
* Huo Shilian, 87, Chinese politician.
* Kurt von Ruffin, 95, German actor and opera singer.

### 18

* Antonije Abramović, 77, Archbishop of the Montenegrin Orthodox Church.
* Bob Bearpark, 53, Canadian soccer coach.
* Zinovy Gerdt, 80, Soviet/Russian actor.
* Douglas Guest, 80, British organist and conductor.
* Charles Hare, 81, British tennis player.
* Raymond Harvey, 76, United States Army lieutenant colonel and recipient of the Medal of Honor.
* James Stuart Holden, 82, American attorney and judge.
* Evelyn Hooker, 89, American psychologist.
* Greer Lankton, 38, American artist and doll maker, drug overdose.
* Charlie Neal, 65, American baseball player, heart failure.
* John Vassall, 72, British civil servant and spy, heart attack.
* Étienne Wolff, 92, French biologist.
* Zhu Zuxiang, 80, Chinese educator.

### 19

* Gabriel Alonso, 73, Spanish football player.
* Harry Anderson, 90, American illustrator.
* Grace Bates, 82, American mathematician.
* Milton Carpenter, 91, American politician.
* Phil Hankinson, 45, American basketball player, suicide.
* Nicole Hassler, 55, French figure skater and Olympian.
* Véra Korène, 95, Russian-French actress and singer.

### 20

* Bert Achong, 67, Trinidadian and Tobagonian scientist, brain tumor.
* Jens Boyesen, 76, Norwegian diplomat and politician.
* Danny Dare, 91, American film director and choreographer.
* Liam Dowling, 65, Irish hurler.
* Gustl Gstettenbaur, 82, German actor.
* Bill Sayles, 79, American baseball player.
* Franciszek Strynkiewicz, 103, Polish sculptor.
* Bill Vernon, 59, American radio personality.

### 21

* Syed Mohammed Mukhtar Ashraf, Indian Sufi saint, spiritual leader and islamic scholar.
* Sandro Continenza, 76, Italian screenwriter.
* Chuck Howard, 63, American television executive, and a pioneer in television sports broadcasting, brain cancer.
* Elmo Langley, 68, American NASCAR driver and owner, heart attack.
* Liu Pang-yu, 53, Taiwanese politician, murdered.
* Bernard Rose, 80, British organist, soldier, and academic.
* Abdus Salam, 70, Pakistani physicist, Nobel Prize laureate, progressive supranuclear palsy.

### 22

* Stephanie Bachelor, 84, American film actress.
* Peter Barbour, 71, Australian intelligence officer and diplomat.
* Garrett Birkhoff, 85, American mathematician.
* Ray Blanton, 66, American businessman and politician.
* Walter Boos, 68, German film editor and director.
* María Casares, 74, Spanish-French actress, colon cancer.
* Willy Derboven, 57, Belgian road bicycle racer.
* Terence Donovan, 60, English photographer and film director, suicide.
* Robert Jaulin, 68, French ethnologist.
* Mark Lenard, 72, American actor (Star Trek), multiple myeloma.
* Adeniran Ogunsanya, 78, Nigerian lawyer and politician.
* Edmund Teske, 85, American photographer.

### 23

* Mohamed Amin, 53, Kenyan photojournalist, plane crash.
* Jean-Paul Elkann, 74, French banker.
* Ken Lane, 83, American musician.
* Charlotte Pierce, 92, American actress.
* Art Porter, Jr., 35, American jazz saxophonist, drowned.
* Eve Rimmer, 59, New Zealand paralympic athlete.
* Idries Shah, 72, Indian Sufi writer and teacher.
* Tim Wilson, 42, American gridiron football player.

### 24

* Loren Bain, 74, American baseball player.
* Edison Denisov, 67, Russian Soviet composer.
* Paulos Mar Gregorios, 74, Indian Metropolitan.
* William Johnstone, 88, American actor.
* Tupua Leupena, 74, Governor-General of Tuvalu.
* Sorley MacLean, 85, Scottish Gaelic poet.
* Louis-Frédéric Nussbaum, 73, French Indologist.
* Michael O'Hehir, 76, Irish sports commentator and journalist.
* Titus Ozon, 69, Romanian football player and manager.

### 25

* Ricardo López Aranda, 61, Spanish playwright.
* Don Dobie, 69, Australian politician.
* Hans Jura, 75, Austrian cinematographer.
* Margaret Rioch, 89, American psychotherapist.
* Charles Stokes, 94, American politician, jurist, and lawyer, cancer.

### 26

* Michael Bentine, 74, British comedian, prostate cancer.
* Norman Le Brocq, 74, British communist, trade union activist, and resistance leader during World War II.
* Isabella Henriette van Eeghen, 83, Dutch historian. Added/updated entries
* Guido Gratton, 64, Italian football player.
* Joan Hammond, 84, Australian operatic soprano.
* Philippe Hirschhorn, 50, Latvian violinist, brain cancer.
* Elrey Borge Jeppesen, 89, American aviation pioneer.
* Bill McElwain, 93, American gridiron football player and coach.
* Narinder Singh Randhawa, 69, Indian agricultural scientist and writer.
* Paul Rand, 82, American graphic designer, cancer.

### 27

* Balot, 70, Filipino comedian and actor, complications from diabetes.
* Nicholas L. Bissell, Jr., 49, American attorney and fraudster, suicide.
* Aloysio Borges, 78, Brazilian modern pentathlete.
* Vladimir Firm, 73, Croatian football player.
* Jack Penn, 87, South African plastic surgeon, sculptor and author.

### 28

* Charles Bressler, 70, American tenor.
* Harlan Hanson, 71, American educator and director of the Advanced Placement Program.
* Robert J. McCloskey, 74, American diplomat.
* John Jaffurs, 73, American football player and coach.
* Don McNeill, 78, American tennis champion.
* Anna Pollak, 84, English opera singer.

### 29

* Dick Bilda, 77, American gridiron football player.
* Jordan Cronenweth, 61, American cinematographer (Blade Runner, Peggy Sue Got Married, Altered States), Parkinson's disease.
* Dan Flavin, 63, American minimalist artist, diabetes, diabetes.
* Denis Jenkinson, 75, British motorsports journalist.
* Dragoslav Srejović, 65, Serbian archaeologist, cultural anthropologist and historian.
* Bob Steuber, 75, American gridiron football player.

### 30

* Ted Petoskey, 85, American athlete, coach in three sports and athletic director.
* Kacem Slimani, 48, Moroccan football player.
* Max Thompson, 74, United States Army soldier and recipient of the Medal of Honor.
* Tiny Tim, 64, American musician ("Tiptoe Through the Tulips", "Livin' in the Sunlight, Lovin' in the Moonlight"), heart attack.
* Peng Wan-ru, 47, Taiwanese politician, murder, homicide.
* John Williamson, 45, American basketball player, kidney failure.