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

## July 1996
### 1

* William Thomas Cahill, 84, American politician.
* Harold Greenberg, 66, Canadian film producer.
* Margaux Hemingway, 42, American fashion model and actress, suicide.
* Einar Hovdhaugen, 88, Norwegian politician.
* Cláudio Kano, 30, Japanese Brazilian table tennis player, traffic collision.
* Lawrence Low, 75, American sailor and Olympic champion.
* Alfred Marks, 75, British actor and comedian.
* Duke Maronic, 74, American gridiron football player.
* Steve Tesich, 53, Serbian-American screenwriter (Breaking Away, The World According to Garp), Oscar winner (1980), heart attack.

### 2

* Arvid Brodersen, 91, Norwegian sociologist
* Ñuflo Chávez Ortiz, 72, Bolivian politician.
* Hugh Davson, 86, English physiologist.
* Mike Parobeck, 30, American comic book artist (Batman, Justice Society of America, El Diablo), diabetes.
* Ingvar Pettersson, 70, Swedish race walker.
* Hal Robson, 84, American racing driver.
* Stefano Sibaldi, 91, Italian actor and voice actor.

### 3

* Herb Baumeister, 49, American serial killer, suicide.
* B. Gerald Cantor, 79, American investment banker.
* Barry Crump, 61, New Zealand writer.
* Sharon Hugueny, 52, American actress (The Young Lovers), cancer.
* Pim Jacobs, 61, Dutch musician.
* Raaj Kumar, 69, Indian actor.
* Bernard Zehrfuss, 84, French architect.

### 4

* Genevieve Blatt, 83, American politician
* Magnhild Hagelia, 92, Norwegian politician.
* Pierre Jaccoud, 90, Swiss lawyer.
* James O. Plinton Jr., 81, U.S. Army Air Corps pilot and member of the Tuskegee Airmen.
* Yagya Dutt Sharma, 73, Indian politician.

### 5

* Fred Davis, 74, Canadian broadcaster, stroke.
* Harold LeBruce Gilmore, 84, American politician.
* Donald Adam Hartman, 66, Canadian politician.
* Predrag Ostojić, 58, Yugoslav chess player, suicide.
* Mohamed Seddik, 56, Egyptian football player.
* Clyde Wiegand, 81, American physicist, prostate cancer.

### 6

* Kutlu Adalı, 61, Turkish Cypriot journalist, poet, socio-political researcher, and peace advocate.
* Kathy Ahern, 47, American golfer, breast cancer.
* Armando Calvo, 76, Puerto Rican-born Spanish actor, heart failure.
* Evgeni Rogov, 67, Soviet/Russian football player and manager.

### 7

* David F. James, 90, American politician.
* Michael McGoldrick, 31, Northern Irish taxi driver, murdered by the Loyalist Volunteer Force.
* Vera Nedkova, 89, Bulgarian modernist painter.
* Friedrich von Stülpnagel, 82, German track and field athlete and Olympic medalist.

### 8

* J. W. Alexander, 80, American musician, record producer and entrepreneur.
* Ernest Armstrong, 81, British politician.
* Jim Baumer, 65, American baseball player, scout, and executive.
* Albrecht, Duke of Bavaria, 91, German prince.
* Jim Busby, 69, American Major League Baseball player and coach.
* Richard Groschopp, 90, German film director and screenwriter.
* Irene Prador, 84, Austrian-American actress and writer.
* Luis Manuel Rodríguez, 59, Cuban boxer.

### 9

* Melvin Mouron Belli, 88, American lawyer, author, and actor, pancreatic cancer.
* Paul Bhagwandas, 45, Suriname battalion commander known as "the executioner of Fort Zeelandia", cancer.
* Christopher Casson, 84, English-Irish actor.
* Sergey Kuryokhin, 42, Russian composer, pianist, music director, film actor and writer, cancer.
* Edward Purdy Ney, 75, American physicist.
* Aurora Redondo, 96, Spanish actress.
* David Colville Smith, 74, Rhodesian/Zimbabwean farmer and politician.

### 10

* Paul King, 69, American producer and screenwriter.
* Lou Lichtveld, 92, Surinamese politician, playwright, poet and resistance fighter.
* Alex Manoogian, 95, Armenian-American industrial engineer, businessman, and philanthropist.
* Fred Meyer, 76, American gridiron football player.
* Jindřich Tintěra, 95, Czech gymnast and Olympian.

### 11

* René Abadie, 60, French cyclist.
* Louis Gottlieb, 72, American bassist and comic spokesman for music trio The Limeliters.
* Bertil Lundell, 87, Swedish ice hockey, football and bandy player.
* Ružica Meglaj-Rimac, 55, Yugoslav and Croatian basketball player.
* Florrie Rodrigo, 102, Dutch dancer and choreographer

### 12

* John Chancellor, 68, American journalist, stomach cancer.
* Walter Hassan, 91, British automotive engineer.
* Jonathan Melvoin, 34, American musician, heroin overdose.
* Nazar Mohammad, 75, Pakistani cricket player.
* Gottfried von Einem, 78, Austrian composer.
* Clarence Wilkinson, 85, American politician.

### 13

* Pandro S. Berman, 91, American film producer, heart failure.
* Loda Halama, 84, Polish dancer and actress.
* Bill Moe, 79, American ice hockey player.
* Karen Simensen, 88, Norwegian figure skater.

### 14

* Kenneth Bainbridge, 91, American physicist.
* Jeff Krosnoff, 31, American race car driver, racing accident.
* Karl Paryla, 90, Austrian theater actor and director.
* Richard Ripley, 95, British athlete.
* Kathrine Taylor, 92, American author.

### 15

* William Dugan, 83, American rower and Olympian.
* Dana Hill, 32, American actress (National Lampoon's European Vacation, Cross Creek, Goof Troop), stroke.
* Sven Hörstadius, 98, Swedish embryologist.
* Jan Krogh Jensen, 38, Norwegian-Danish outlaw biker, gangster, homicide.

### 16

* Édouard Max-Robert, 91, French hurdler and Olympian.
* John Panozzo, 47, American drummer, cirrhosis.
* Iosif Prut, 95, Soviet/Russian playwright and screenwriter.
* Adolf von Thadden, 75, German far-right politician.
* Djamel Zitouni, 32, Algerian Islamist terrorist group leader, killed.

### 17

* Charles Bartley, 74, American scientist.
* Chas Chandler, 57, English musician, record producer and manager, heart failure.
* Geoffrey Jellicoe, 95, English architect, town planner, landscape architect and author.
* John Joubert, 33, American serial killer, execution by electrocution.
* Bratko Kreft, 91, Slovenian playwright, writer, literary historian and director.
* Alan McGilvray, 86, Australian cricket player.
* Paul Touvier, 81, French Nazi collaborator during World War II, prostate cancer.
* Notable people killed in the crash of TWA Flight 800:
** Michel Breistroff, 25, French ice hockey player.
** Marcel Dadi, 44, Tunisian-French guitarist.
** David Hogan, 47, American composer.
** Jed Johnson, 47, American interior designer and director.
** Pam Lychner, 37, American crime victims' rights advocate.
** Rico Puhlmann, 62, German fashion photographer.

### 18

* Stephen Donaldson, 49, American bisexual rights activist, and political activist, AIDS-related complications.
* José Manuel Fuente, 50, Spanish road racing cyclist, pancreatitis.
* Duke Christian Louis of Mecklenburg, 83, German noble.
* Martin Summerfield, 79, American physicist and rocket scientist.

### 19

* Raymond Burnett, 82, American football player and coach.
* Berkeley Cole, 82, English Anglican priest and author.
* Mervyn Cowie, 87, British conservationist.
* Dan Lewandowski, 68, American baseball player.
* E. T. Mensah, 77, Ghanaian musician.
* Sverre Wilberg, 66, Norwegian actor.

### 20

* Anna Chandy, 91, first female judge of India.
* Eddie Jankowski, 83, American gridiron football player.
* Colin Mitchell, 70, British Army soldier and politician.
* Raphael Patai, 85, Hungarian-Jewish ethnographer, historian, orientalist and anthropologist.
* František Plánička, 92, Czech football goalkeeper.
* Arunachala Sreenivasan, 87, Indian food technologist and nutritional scientist .
* Randy Stuart, 71, American actress, lung cancer.

### 21

* Luana Anders, 58, American actress and screenwriter, breast cancer.
* Rafael Cepeda, 86, Puerto Rican musician, myocardial infarction.
* Herb Edelman, 62, American actor (The Golden Girls, St. Elsewhere, The Good Guys), pulmonary emphysema.
* Inger Jacobsen, 72, Norwegian singer and actress, cancer.
* Wolfe Morris, 71, English actor.
* Walt Moryn, 70, American Major League Baseball outfielder.

### 22

* Rob Collins, 33, English musician, car crash.
* Tamara Danz, 43, German lead singer and lyricist of the rock group Silly, breast cancer.
* Carl Goldenberg, 88, Canadian lawyer and senator.
* Maggie Kalka, 83, Finnish sprint canoeist.
* Vermont C. Royster, 82, American journalist and editor.

### 23

* Herb Abrams, 41, American professional wrestling promoter, cocaine overdose.
* Patriarch Parthenius III of Alexandria, 76, Greek Eastern Orthodox bishop.
* Hamilton Fish IV, 70, American politician.
* Jean Howell, 68, American actress.
* Jessica Mitford, 78, English author and one of the Mitford sisters, lung cancer.
* Jean Muir, 85, American actress and educator.
* Red Munger, 77, American baseball player.
* Frederick Osborne, 87, Australian politician and government minister.
* Eric Ridder, 78, American sailor and Olympic champion.
* Aliki Vougiouklaki, 62, Greek actress and theatrical producer, pancreatic cancer.

### 24

* Virginia Christine, 76, American actress, cardiovascular disease.
* Nacho Martínez, 44, Spanish actor, lung cancer.
* Oreste Plath, 88, Chilean writer and folklorist.
* Alphonso Roberts, 58, Vincentian political activist and cricket player.
* Jock Wallace, 60, Scottish football player and manager, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

### 25

* Blanca Canales, 90, Puerto Rican politician and independence advocate.
* M. A. Manickavelu Naicker, 99, Indian politician.
* Mikael Tariverdiev, 64, Soviet/Armenian composer.
* Howard Vernon, 82, Swiss actor.

### 26

* Jackie Cerone, 82, American mobster and boss of the Chicago Outfit.
* Evelyn Danzig, 94, American songwriter and classical pianist.
* Horacio Esteves, 55, Venezuelan sprinter.
* Héctor P. García, 82, Mexican-American physician, surgeon, and civil rights advocate.
* Heriberto Herrera, 70, Paraguayan-Spanish football player.
* Floyd Stahl, 97, American collegiate athletic coach.

### 27

* Jane Drew, 85, English writer, architect and academic, cancer.
* Yordan Filipov, 50, Bulgarian association football player.
* Johann Hofstätter, 83, Austrian association football player and coach.
* Takeyuki Kanda, 52, Japanese animator, traffic collision.
* Al Rollins, 69, Canadian ice hockey player.

### 28

* Bryant Haliday, 68, American actor.
* Ivan V. Lalić, 65, Serbian writer and poet.
* Roger Tory Peterson, 87, American naturalist, ornithologist and writer.
* Michel Philippot, 71, French composer, mathematician, musicologist, and broadcaster.
* Jaroslav Vejvoda, 76, Czech soccer player and coach.

### 29

* Aruna Asaf Ali, 87, Indian independence activist.
* Georgi Dakov, 28, Bulgarian high jumper, traffic collision.
* Lauren Gale, 79, American basketball player.
* Bill Green, 71, American jazz musician (reeds).
* Roger Nelson, 64, American and Canadian football player.
* Muhammad Osimi, 75, Soviet/Tajik philosopher, soldier, poet, and academic, killed in action.
* Hilary Pritchard, 54, British actress.
* Chick Reiser, 82, American basketball player and coach.
* Sean Roberge, 23, Canadian actor, car accident.
* Marcel-Paul Schützenberger, 75, French mathematician and Doctor of Medicine.
* Jason Thirsk, 28, American bass guitarist, suicide by gunshot.

### 30

* Claudette Colbert, 92, American actress (It Happened One Night, Since You Went Away, Private Worlds), Oscar winner (1935), stroke.
* Margaret Cousins, 91, American writer and editor.
* Carlos Droguett, 83, Chilean writer.
* Arihiro Hase, 31, Japanese voice actor and actor, suicide.
* Anthony Peck, 49, American actor, cancer.
* Magda Schneider, 87, German actress.
* Constantin Teașcă, 73, Romanian football manager.

### 31

* Petar Džadžić, 66, Serbian literary critic and academic.
* Howie Goss, 61, American baseball player.
* Ricardo Molinari, 98, Argentine writer.
* Seagram, 26, American rapper, shot.
* Neville Wadia, 84, Indian-British businessman.
* Jay Lee Webb, 59, American singer, pancreatic cancer.