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

## February 1996
### 1

* Adel Adham, 67, Egyptian film actor, pneumonia.
* Sergey Aganov, 78, Soviet/Russian Marshal of the engineer troops.
* Benny Brown, 42, American track and field athlete and olympic champion, traffic collision.
* Ray Crawford, 80, American fighter ace during World War II and racecar driver.
* Kevin Williams, 38, American gridiron football player in the National Football League, train crash.

### 2

* Sylwester Braun, 87, Polish photographer and army officer.
* Shamus Culhane, 87, American animator and director.
* Fred S. Keller, 97, American psychologist and a pioneer in experimental psychology.
* Gene Kelly, 83, American actor (Singin' in the Rain, An American in Paris, Anchors Aweigh) and dancer, stroke.
* Vernon Nicholls, 78, British bishop.
* Li Peiyao, 62, Chinese politician, homicide.
* Minao Shibata, 79, Japanese composer and musicologist.
* Aline Towne, 76, American actress.
* Müfide İlhan, 84, Turkish mayor.

### 3

* Edward Adamson, 84, British artist and art collector.
* Larry Eigner, 68, American poet.
* Guy Gilles, 57, French film director, AIDS-related complications.
* Božo Grkinić, 82, Yugoslav water polo and basketball player and coach.
* Audrey Meadows, 73, American actress and banker, lung cancer.

### 4

* Gerry Brand, 89, South African rugby player.
* Willard S. Curtin, 90, American politician.
* Manolo Fábregas, 74, Spanish-Mexican actor, film director and film producer.
* John Hugo Loudon, 90, Dutch businessman and CEO of Royal Dutch Shell.
* Lakshman Singh, 85, Indian scouting leader.

### 5

* Gianandrea Gavazzeni, 86, Italian musician.
* Hideo Oguni, 91, Japanese screenwriter.
* Roberto Raviola, 56, Italian comic book artist, pancreatic cancer.
* Lim Chin Siong, 62, Singaporean politician, heart attack.
* Antonio Ruiz Soler, 74, Spanish dancer and choreographer.
* Ted Tyson, 86, Australian rules football player.
* Gary Zeller, 48, American basketball player.

### 6

* Rutherford H. Adkins, 71, American military aviator and member of the Tuskegee Airmen during World War II.
* Guy Madison, 74, American actor (The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok), pulmonary emphysema.
* Bob Muncrief, 80, American baseball player.
* Renee Roberts, 87, British actress.
* Patsy Smart, 77, British actress.
* Jacques Wertheimer, 84, French businessman.

### 7

* Lydia Chukovskaya, 88, Soviet/Russian writer, poet, editor, publicist, and dissident.
* I. K. Dairo, 65, Nigerian Jùjú musician.
* Phillip Davidson, 80, American lieutenant general.
* Barbara Hamilton, 69, Canadian actress, breast cancer.
* Lucien Maynard, 87, Canadian politician.
* Robert, Archduke of Austria-Este, 80, Austrian prince and Archduke of Austria-Este.
* Boris Tchaikovsky, 70, Soviet and Russian composer.
* Pat West, 72, American gridiron football player.
* Ernst Würthwein, 86, German theologian.

### 8

* T. J. Campion, 77, American football player.
* Marcel Capelle, 91, French football player.
* Mercer Ellington, 76, American musician, composer, and arranger, heart attack.
* Del Ennis, 70, American baseball player, diabetes.
* Ri Sung Gi, 90, North Korean chemist.
* Bruno Hussar, 84, Egyptian priest.
* Siavash Kasraie, 68, Iranian poet, literary critic, and novelist.
* José Poy, 69, Argentine football player and manager.
* Felice Schwartz, 71, American feminist writer.
* Derek Worlock, 76, English catholic prelate and Archbishop of Liverpool, lung cancer.

### 9

* Chitti Babu, 59, Indian musician.
* Sir George Trevelyan, 4th Baronet, 89, British baronet and a founding father of the New Age movement.
* Adolf Borchers, 82, German Luftwaffe flying ace during World War II.
* Stephen Hope Carlill, 93, British Royal Navy admiral.
* Yun Chi-Young, 97, Korean politician.
* Alistair Cameron Crombie, 80, Australian zoologist and historian of science.
* Neil Franklin, 74, English football player and manager.
* Adolf Galland, 83, German Luftwaffe flying ace and general during World War II.
* Gerald Savory, 86, English playwright and screenwriter specialising in comedies.
* Gordon D. Shirreffs, 82, American writer.
* Robin Stille, 34, American actress (The Slumber Party Massacre), suicide.

### 10

* Josette Bruce, 76, Polish-French novelist.
* Björn-Erik Höijer, 88, Swedish writer.
* Giovanni Pontiero, 64, British scholar.
* Klaus-Dieter Seehaus, 53, East German football player.

### 11

* Thecla Boesen, 85, Danish film actress.
* William F. Claxton, 81, American television director and television producer.
* Brian Daley, 48, American writer, pancreatic cancer.
* Kebby Musokotwane, 49, Zambian politician and Prime Minister.
* Quarentinha, 62, Brazilian football player, heart failure.
* Phil Regan, 89, American actor and singer.
* Amelia Rosselli, 65, Italian poet, suicide.
* Gertrude Sawyer, 100, American architect.
* Bob Shaw, 64, Northern Irish science fiction author and novelist, cancer.
* Pierre Edouard Leopold Verger, 93, French photographer, anthropologist, and writer.
* Olle Åhlund, 75, Swedish football player and manager.

### 12

* Andrea Barbato, 61, Italian journalist, writer and politician.
* Gina Falckenberg, 88, German actress.
* Betty Roland, 92, Australian playwright and novelist.
* Ernest Samuels, 92, American biographer and lawyer.
* Ryōtarō Shiba, 72, Japanese writer.

### 13

* Martin Balsam, 76, American actor (A Thousand Clowns, 12 Angry Men, Psycho), Oscar winner (1966), heart attack.
* Scott Beach, 65, American actor (American Graffiti, Stand by Me, The Right Stuff) and disc jockey.
* Charlie Conerly, 74, American gridiron football player.
* George Jefferson, 85, American pole vaulter.
* Léopold Langlois, 82, Canadian politician.
* Cynthia MacGregor, 31, American tennis player, complications from anorexia nervosa.
* Branko Marjanović, 86, Croatian film director and editor.
* Ugyen Rinpoche, 76, Tibetan Buddhist Lama.

### 14

* Lady Caroline Blackwood, 64, British writer and journalist, cancer.
* Fritz Hanson, 81, American-Canadian gridiron football player.
* Eva Hart, 91, British survivor of the sinking of RMS Titanic, cancer.
* Gied Jaspars, 56, Dutch television producer, colorectal cancer.
* Čeněk Kottnauer, 85, Czech-British chess master.
* Alejandro de la Sota Martínez, 82, Spanish architect.
* Bob Paisley, 77, English football player and manager, Alzheimer's disease.
* Francisco Tomás y Valiente, 63, Spanish jurist, historian, and writer, homicide.
* Sylvester Veitch, 85, American horse trainer.
* Mark Venturini, 35, American actor (Friday the 13th: A New Beginning, The Return of the Living Dead, Mikey), leukemia.

### 15

* Lucio Agostini, 82, Italian-Canadian musician.
* Margaret Courtenay, 72, Welsh actress.
* Peter Gardner, 71, Australian hurdler.
* Edward Madejski, 81, Polish football player.
* Tommy Rettig, 54, American child actor (Lassie), database programmer, and author, heart attack.
* Henri Simonet, 64, Belgian politician.
* McLean Stevenson, 68, American actor (M*A*S*H, Hello, Larry, The Doris Day Show) and comedian, heart attack.
* Brunó Ferenc Straub, 82, Hungarian biochemist.

### 16

* Roberto Aizenberg, 67, Argentine painter and sculptor.
* Roger Bowen, 63, American actor (M*A*S*H, Arnie, Tunnel Vision), heart attack.
* Pat Brown, 90, American lawyer and politician and Governor of California.
* Nicolae Carandino, 90, Romanian writer.
* Eleanor Clark, 82, American writer.
* Bert Iannone, 79, Canadian football player.
* Miloš Kopecký, 73, Czech actor.
* Brownie McGhee, 80, American folk-blues singer and guitarist, stomach cancer.
* Kenneth Robinson, 84, British politician.
* Ernst Weber, 94, Austrian-American electrical engineer, and microwave technology pioneer.

### 17

* Hervé Bazin, 84, French writer.
* Gus Hardin, 50, American country music singer, car accident.
* Evelyn Laye, 95, English actress, respiratory failure.
* Michel Pablo, 84, Greek Trotskyist leader, stroke.
* Nikolai Starostin, 93, Soviet/Russian football player and founder of Spartak Moscow.

### 18

* Madhaviah Krishnan, 83, Indian photographer.
* Janice Loeb, 93, American film director, screenwriter, cinematographer and film producer.
* Josef Meinrad, 82, Austrian actor, cancer.
* Edward O'Brien, 21, Northern Irish IRA volunteer, killed.

### 19

* Sehba Akhtar, 65, Indian poet and songwriter, heart attack.
* Brenda Bruce, 76, British actress.
* Marco Antonio Campos, 76, Mexican actor, aortic aneurysm.
* Antonio Creus, 71, Spanish motorcycle racer and racing driver.
* Charles O. Finley, 77, American businessman.
* Douglas Livingstone, 64, South African poet.
* Ernest Manning, 87, Canadian politician.
* Dorothy Maynor, 85, American singer.
* Grant Sawyer, 77, American politician and Governor of Nevada.

### 20

* Solomon Asch, 88, Polish-American psychologist.
* Charles O. Finley, 77, American businessman.
* Walter Marshall, Baron Marshall of Goring, 63, British peer and scientist.
* Viktor Konovalenko, 57, Soviet Union ice hockey player.
* Mariano Vidal Molina, 70, Argentinian actor.
* Carolyn Morris, 70, American baseball player.
* Audrey Munson, 104, American artist's model and film actress.
* Jeffrey Quill, 83, British test pilot.
* Tōru Takemitsu, 65, Japanese composer and writer, bladder cancer.

### 21

* Priscilla Bonner, 97, American silent film actress.
* Rune Börjesson, 58, Swedish football player.
* Hans-Joachim Bremermann, 69, German-American mathematician and biophysicist, cancer.
* Isolina Carrillo, 88, Cuban musician.
* Vahagn Davtyan, 73, Armenian writer.
* H. L. Gold, 81, American writer.
* Morton Gould, 82, American composer, conductor, arranger, and pianist.
* August Kammer, 83, American ice hockey player.
* Don Laz, 66, American pole vaulter.

### 22

* George Christopher Archibald, 69, British economist and researcher.
* Karl Boo, 77, Swedish politician.
* Elwood Henneman, 81, American neurophysiologist.
* Niall MacDermot, 79, British politician.

### 23

* Hussein Kamel al-Majid, 41, Iraqi general, politician and defector, killed.
* Joseph W. Barr, 78, American politician.
* David Berlo, 67, American communications theorist.
* William Bonin, 49, American serial killer and sex offender known as the Freeway Killer, execution by lethal injection.
* Birgit Brüel, 68, Danish actress and singer.
* Elisa Cegani, 84, Italian actress.
* Alan Dawson, 66, American musician.
* Dorothy Awes Haaland, 77, American lawyer and politician.
* Saddam Kamel, 35, Iraqi head of the Republican Guard and defector, killed.
* Billy Lothridge, 54, American gridiron football player, heart attack.
* Helmut Schön, 80, German football player and manager.

### 24

* Akram al-Hawrani, 84, Syrian politician.
* Winston Chang, 54, Taiwanese academic and university president.
* Graeme Moran, 57, New Zealand rower.
* Kaarlo Niilonen, 73, Finnish football player and manager.
* James Runcieman Sutherland, 95, English literary scholar.

### 25

* Caio Fernando Abreu, 47, Brazilian writer, AIDS-related complications.
* Vehbi Koç, 94, Turkish businessman and philanthropist, heart attack.
* Elvy Lissiak, 66, Italian actress.
* Haing S. Ngor, 55, Cambodian-American physician and actor (The Killing Fields, Heaven & Earth, My Life), Oscar winner (1985), shot.

### 26

* Jean Boisselier, 83, French archaeologist and art historian.
* Anna Larina, 82, Soviet/Russian writer.
* Don Oliver, 58, New Zealand weightlifter and fitness centre owner, cancer.
* John Dalrymple, 13th Earl of Stair, 89, Scottish Arl.
* Mieczysław Weinberg, 76, Polish-Soviet/Russian composer.
* Carlos Wilson, 83, Argentinian football player.

### 27

* Gerrit Berkhoff, 94, Dutch chemist and the first Rector Magnificus of the University of Twente.
* François Chaumette, 72, French actor, cancer.
* Ethlyne Clair, 91, American actress.
* Laurie Connell, 50, Australian businessman and fraudster.
* Sarah Palfrey Cooke, 83, American tennis player, lung cancer.
* Kenneth Granviel, 45, American serial killer, execution by lethal injection.
* Vic Janowicz, 66, American gridiron football player, cancer.
* Robert Kühner, 92, French mycologist.
* Iain Murray, 10th Duke of Atholl, 64, British politician.
* Pat Smythe, 67, British equestrian.
* Ilario Zannino, 75, American mobster and member of the Patriarca crime family.

### 28

* Daniel Chipenda, 64, Angolan politician.
* Maximilien Rubel, 90, Soviet-French Marxist historian.
* Bill Smith, 61, American poker player.
* Bruno von Freytag-Löringhoff, 83, German philosopher, mathematician and epistemologist.
* Sylvia Williams, 60, American museum director, curator, art historian and scholar of African art, brain aneurysm.

### 29

* Frank Daniel, 69, Czech director and scriptwriter, heart attack.
* Wes Farrell, 56, American musician, songwriter and record producer, cancer.
* Ewart John Arlington Harnum, 85, Canadian businessman and the lieutenant governor of Newfoundland.
* Shams Pahlavi, 78, Iranian royal of the Pahlavi dynasty and elder sister of the last Shah of Iran, cancer.
* Sinclair Ross, 88, Canadian banker and writer, Parkinson's disease.
* Ralph Rowe, 71, American baseball player and manager.
* Winifred C. Stanley, 86, American politician and attorney.
* Clint Wager, 76, American gridiron football player and basketball player.
* Mario Zagari, 82, Italian journalist and politician.