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

## August 1996
### 1

* Frida Boccara, 55, French singer, respiratory disease.
* Stig Hedberg, 80, Swedish sailor.
* Ayo Gabriel Irikefe, 74, Nigerian Jurist and Chief Justice of Nigeria.
* Tadeusz Reichstein, 99, Polish chemist.
* Lucille Teasdale-Corti, 67, Canadian medical doctor and surgeon, AIDS-related complications.
* Charles van Rooy, 84, Dutch politician.

### 2

* Mohamed Farrah Aidid, 61, Somalian military officer.
* Brian Briggs, 62, English rugby player.
* James Joseph Byrne, 88, American Catholic archbishop.
* Michel Debré, 84, Prime Minister of France, Parkinson's disease.
* Miguel Alvarez del Toro, 78, Mexican biologist.
* Sergey Golovkin, 36, Soviet/Russian serial killer and rapist and last Russian executee, execution.
* Alexander Nudelman, 83, Soviet/Russian engineer, aircraft guns designer.
* Bob Reinhard, 75, American gridiron football player.
* Obdulio Varela, 78, Uruguayan football player.
* Kazumi Watanabe, 48, Japanese sport shooter.

### 3

* Guido Alberti, 87, Italian actor and entrepreneur.
* Jørgen Garde, 57, Danish admiral.
* Dankwart Rustow, 71, American political scientist.
* Luciano Tajoli, 76, Italian actor and singer.
* Bill Wright, 82, American baseball player.

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* Kiyoshi Atsumi, 68, Japanese actor, lung cancer.
* Willard Brown, 81, American baseball player.
* Lev Lemke, 64, Soviet/Russian actor.
* Vladimir Liberzon, 59, Israeli chess player.
* André Trochut, 64, French road bicycle racer.

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* Abdulrahman Mohamed Babu, 71, Zanzibari marxist revolutionary.
* Claudio Barigozzi, 87, Italian geneticist and biologist.
* Frank Marcus, 68, British playwright.
* Havelock Nelson, 79, Irish composer.

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* Muhammad al-Badr, 70, Yemeni imam and politician.
* Ossie Clark, 54, British fashion designer, stabbing.
* Len Coldwell, 63, British cricket player.
* Bobby Enriquez, 53, Filipino jazz pianist.
* Gerry Gomez, 76, Trinidad and Tobago football player.
* Charles Hadfield, 87, British historian.
* Floyd Simmons, 71, American gridiron football player.
* Bud Svendsen, 81, American gridiron football player and coach.
* Emilio Zapico, 52, Spanish racing driver, aviation accident.
* Hernán Siles Zuazo, 82, Bolivian politician.

### 7

* Benjamin Halevy, 86, Israeli politician.
* Bill Hanrahan, 77, American broadcaster.
* Anne Kristen, 59, Scottish actress, pancreatic cancer.
* Herbert Kubly, 81, American journalist.
* Loret Miller Ruppe, 60, American diplomat, ovarian cancer.

### 8

* Queta Carrasco, 83, Mexican actress.
* Michio Hoshino, 43, Japanese photographer, bear attack.
* Herbert Huncke, 81, American writer and poet.
* Philip Lucock, 80, Australian politician.
* James McLamore, 70, American businessman.
* Francesco Molinari-Pradelli, 85, Italian conductor and art collector.
* Nevill Francis Mott, 90, English physicist, Nobel prize winner.
* Joseph Asajirō Satowaki, 92, Japanese Catholic Bishop.
* Julian Stryjkowski, 91, Polish journalist.

### 9

* Tokiharu Abe, 85, Japanese ichthyologist, cerebral hemorrhage.
* May Ayim, 36, German poet, suicide.
* Lionel Emmett, 83, Indian physician and field hockey player.
* John W. King, 77, American politician.
* Derek Smith, 34, American basketball player, myocardial infarction.
* Frank Whittle, 89, British Royal Air Force officer, lung cancer.

### 10

* Walter MacNutt, 86, Canadian organist, choir director, and composer.
* Doris Spiegel, 95, American artist.
* Bunleua Sulilat, 64, Thai Buddhist leader.
* Rex Tucker, 83, British television director.
* Edward Whitfield, 85, English cricket player.

### 11

* Rafael Kubelík, 82, Czech conductor, violinist, composer and director conductor of Czech philharmony.
* Kathleen Mills, 72, Irish camogie player.
* Ambrosio Padilla, 85, Filipino basketball player and senator.
* David Ricketts, 76, British cyclist.
* Mel Taylor, 62, American musician, myocardial infarction.
* Baba Vanga, 84, Bulgarian psychic, breast cancer.

### 12

* Victor Ambartsumian, 87, Soviet/Armenian astrophysicist.
* Robert Gravel, 51, Canadian actor.
* Mark Gruenwald, 43, American comic book writer, editor, and penciler, myocardial infarction.
* Stephan Kuttner, 89, American legal scholar.
* Guy Nosbaum, 66, French rower.
* Anthony Parsons, 73, British diplomat, cancer.

### 13

* António de Spínola, 86, President of Portugal, pulmonary embolism.
* Richard M. Goodwin, 83, American academic.
* Willi Heeks, 74, German racecar driver.
* T. John Lesinski, 71, American politician.
* Louise Talma, 89, American composer.
* David Tudor, 70, American pianist and composer.

### 14

* Sergiu Celibidache, 84, Romanian conductor.
* Al Cleveland, 66, American songwriter.
* Uzo Egonu, 64, Nigerian artist.
* Camilla Horn, 93, German actress.
* Tom Mees, 46, American sportscaster, drowned.
* Albert Neuberger, 88, British biochemist and academic.
* Amrit Rai, 74, Indian writer, poet and biographer.

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* Rey Cuenco, 36, Filipino basketball player, cirrhosis.
* Lisskulla Jobs, 90, Swedish actress.
* Sven Lasta, 71, Croatian actor.
* Tania Leon, 51, South African feminist.
* Masao Maruyama, 82, Japanese political scientist.
* Albert Osswald, 77, German politician.
* Jack Portland, 84, Canadian ice hockey player.
* Joe Seneca, 77, American actor, singer, and songwriter, asthma.
* George Starbuck, 65, American poet.
* Max Thurian, 74, Swiss ecumenical monastic community subprior.

### 16

* Maurice Natanson, 71, American philosopher, prostate cancer.
* Miles Goodman, 46, American film composer (Little Shop of Horrors, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Teen Wolf), heart attack.
* Pino Rucher, 72, Italian musician.
* Ediriweera Sarachchandra, 82, Sri Lankan academic and writer.
* Sadako Sawamura, 87, Japanese actress, myocardial infarction.

### 17

* E. Digby Baltzell, 80, American sociologist.
* Catherine Shipe East, 80, American government researcher and feminist.
* Eric Evans, 68, British Anglican priest.
* Witold Urbanowicz, 88, Polish flying ace during World War II and general.

### 18

* Al Bertino, 84, American animator.
* Geoffrey Dearmer, 103, British poet.
* Hugo Gryn, 66, British rabbi, brain cancer.
* Charles Mitchel, 75, Irish actor and broadcaster.
* Isabel Morgan, 84, American virologist.
* Alfredo Varelli, 81, Italian actor.

### 19

* Tatyana Mavrina, 93, Russian painter and children's writer.
* Claire Rommer, 91, German actress.
* Guerrino Rossi, 62, Italian football player and coach.
* Joffre Soares, 77, Brazilian film actor.

### 20

* Abílio Duarte, 65, Cape Verdean politician.
* Les Hart, 79, English football manager.
* André-Georges Haudricourt, 85, French academic.
* Carlos Jáuregui, 38, Argentinean LGBT activist, AIDS-related complications.
* Rio Reiser, 46, German rock musician.
* Beverley Whitfield, 42, Australian swimmer, Olympic gold medallist.

### 21

* Mary Two-Axe Earley, 84, Indigenous Canadian women's rights activist, respiratory disease.
* Johan Rathje, 80, Danish sailor and Olympian.
* Irene Vorrink, 78, Dutch politician.
* Richard S. Westfall, 72, American historian.

### 22

* Anandatissa de Alwis, 77, Sri Lankan journalist, marketeer and politician.
* Kjell Borgen, 56, Norwegian politician.
* Mareo Ishiketa, 79, Japanese composer.
* Erwin Leiser, 73, German film director.
* Oliver Lynn, 69, American American talent manager, diabetes.

### 23

* Jurriaan Andriessen, 70, Dutch composer.
* Jeff Batters, 25, Canadian ice hockey defenceman, car accident.
* Gordon S. Brown, 88, American electrical engineering professor.
* David Halfyard, 65, English cricket player.
* Øivind Holmsen, 84, Norwegian football player.
* Audrey Patterson, 69, American sprinter.
* Margaret Tucker, 92, Indigenous Australian activist and writer.
* Zulfiya, 81, Uzbek poet.

### 24

* Jean Aurel, 70, French screenwriter and film director.
* Zainab Biisheva, 88, Soviet/Russian writer.
* Roy Degoregore, 74, Nauruan politician.
* Eric Heaton, 75, British priest and scholar.
* Ben Joelson, 70, American producer and screenwriter.
* Hristo Mladenov, 68, Bulgarian football player.
* Lev Vlasenko, 67, Soviet/Russian musician.

### 25

* Fred Adison, 87, French conductor.
* Erskine Barton Childers, 67, Irish writer, correspondent and United Nations civil servant.
* Sylvia Fisher, 86, Australian operatic soprano.
* Caroline Glachan, 14, Scottish murder victim.
* Reinhard Libuda, 52, German football player, cancer.

### 26

* Nikolay Baskakov, 91, Russian Turkologist.
* Alejandro Agustín Lanusse, 77, President of the Argentine Republic.
* Mario Maskareli, 77, Montenegrin painter.
* Khalida Riyasat, 43, Pakistani television actress.
* Sven Stolpe, 91, Swedish journalist.

### 27

* Martin Disler, 47, Swiss artist, cerebrovascular disease.
* Bert Fortell, 71, Austrian actor.
* Abram Games, 82, British graphic designer.
* Eliakim Khumalo, 56, South African football player, homicide.
* Akiji Kobayashi, 65, Japanese actor, lung cancer.
* Agnieszka Kotlarska, 24, Polish fashion model and beauty queen, stab wound.
* Greg Morris, 62, American actor (Mission: Impossible, Vega$, The New Interns), brain cancer.
* Wayne D. Overholser, 89, American Western writer.
* Aliye Rona, 74, Turkish actress, cardiovascular disease.
* Yair Rosenblum, 52, Israeli composer, esophageal cancer.
* Gordon Stein, 55, American physiologist.
* Waldo Rudolph Wedel, 87, American archaeologist.

### 28

* Dulcina de Moraes, 88, Brazilian stage actress and director.
* Gevork Kotiantz, 86, Russian artist.
* José dos Santos Lopes, 85, Brazilian football player.
* Phyllis Pearsall, 89, British cartographer and typographer, cancer.
* Marion Stamps, 51, American activist.
* Al Zarilla, 77, American baseball player.

### 29

* Norm Bright, 86, American runner, mountaineer, and teacher, pneumonia.
* J. B. Jackson, 86, American writer.
* Charles O'Neal, 92, American writer.
* Tera de Marez Oyens, 64, Dutch composer.

### 30

* Laura Adani, 82, Italian actress.
* Modesto Bria, 74, Paraguayan football player.
* Alfredo B. Crevenna, 82, Mexican film director and screenwriter, cancer.
* Dunc Gray, 90, Australian racing cyclist.
* José Toribio Merino, 80, Chilean politician and admiral.
* Josef Müller-Brockmann, 82, Swiss graphic designer.
* Christine Pascal, 42, French actress, screenwriter and director, suicide.
* Goliarda Sapienza, 72, Italian actress and writer, fall.
* José Sasía, 62, Uruguayan football player.

### 31

* Richard E. Cross, 86, American businessman, lawyer, and civic leader.
* Gil English, 87, American baseball player.
* Blaine Johnson, 34, American racing driver, racing accident.
* Milt Larkin, 85, American musician.