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

## September 1996
### 1

* Jimmy Duncanson, 76, Scottish football player.
* Vagn Holmboe, 86, Danish composer and teacher.
* Andrew Hughes, 88, Turkish-Japanese film actor and business executive.
* Karl Kehrle, 98, German-British Benedictine monk and bee breeding authority.
* Ion Oblemenco, 51, Romanian football striker, heart attack.
* Nyi Pu, 95, Burmese actor and film director.
* Hugo Scheltema, 78, Dutch diplomat and ambassador.
* Ljuba Welitsch, 83, Bulgarian singer.

### 2

* André Chastagnol, 76, French historian.
* Karl Frenzel, 85, German Nazi war criminal.
* Georgi Georgiev-Getz, 69, Bulgarian film and stage actor, stroke.
* Paddy Clift, 43, Zimbabwean cricket player, bone marrow cancer.
* Charles Kirbo, 79, American lawyer and longtime advisor to Jimmy Carter.
* Wes Livengood, 86, American baseball player, scout and manager.
* Otto Luening, 96, German-American composer and conductor.
* Aleksandr Markin, 46, Soviet football player, accident.
* Aldo Montano, 85, Italian fencer.

### 3

* Veniamin Basner, 71, Soviet/Russian composer.
* Robert Brown, 75, English politician.
* Walter Forster, 79, Brazilian actor, heart attack.
* Emily Kngwarreye, 86, Aboriginal Australian artist from Utopia, Northern Territory.
* Valeri Kravchenko, 57, Soviet/Russian volleyball player.
* Julian Amery, Baron Amery of Lustleigh, 77, British politician.
* Og Mandino, 72, American author.
* Alba Roballo, 88, Uruguayan lawyer, poet, and politician.
* Hugh Torney, 42, Irish National Liberation Army paramilitary leader, shot.
* Edward Turkington, 97, American rugby union player.

### 4

* Victor Aaron, 39, American actor (Geronimo: An American Legend, King of the Hill, Sunchaser), traffic collision.
* Joan Clarke, 79, English cryptanalyst and numismatist.
* Babe Dahlgren, 84, American baseball player.
* Ilus W. Davis, 79, American mayor.
* Jeanne Juilla, 86, French model and actress.
* Bill MacPhail, 76, American television executive.
* Julio Musimessi, 72, Argentine football player.
* Wee Willie Smith, 86, American football player.

### 5

* Leonard Katzman, 69, American film and television producer, writer and director, heart attack.
* Anthony Mendleson, 81, British costume designer.
* Anselm Strauss, 79, American medical sociologist.
* Clem Thomas, 67, Welsh rugby player.
* John White, 71, Canadian politician.
* Misa Yamamura, 62, Japanese novelist and a mystery writer, heart failure.

### 6

* Ginette Martenot, 94, French musician.
* Barney McCosky, 79, American Major League Baseball player.
* Darío Espina Pérez, 75, Cuban banker, lawyer, and writer.
* Salman Shah, 24, Bangladeshi actor, suicide.
* Daniel Shanks, 79, American mathematician.
* Ester Soré, 81, Chilean singer, Diabetic coma.
* Michael Torrence, 35, American serial killer, execution by lethal injection.
* Douglas Franklin Wright, 56, American serial killer, execution by lethal injection.

### 7

* Bibi Besch, 54, Austrian-American actress (Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Steel Magnolias, Tremors), breast cancer.
* Joseph Biroc, 93, American cinematographer (The Towering Inferno, It's a Wonderful Life, Airplane!), Oscar winner (1975).
* Arda Bowser, 97, American gridiron football player.
* Niccolò Castiglioni, 64, Italian musician.
* Bruno Corbucci, 64, Italian film director.
* Arthur Sherwood Flemming, 91, American government official, renal failure.
* Keith Forbes, 90, Australian rules football player.
* Gilda, 34, Argentine singer, traffic collision.
* Willy Miranda, 70, Cuban-American baseball player.
* Vyacheslav Solovyov, 71, Soviet/Russian football player and coach.

### 8

* Semyon Aranovich, 62, Soviet/Russian film director, cancer.
* Eyre de Lanux, 102, American artist, writer, and art deco designer.
* Onib Olmedo, 59, Filipino painter.
* Jacques Schmidt, 63, French costume designer.

### 9

* Raúl Calvo, 79, Argentinian basketball player.
* Harry Hanebrink, 68, American baseball player, aneurysm.
* Shiva Nath Katju, 86, Indian lawyer, judge and an Indian National Congress politician.
* Ruggero Mastroianni, 66, Italian film editor, heart attack.
* Bill Monroe, 84, American "father of bluegrass" music, stroke.
* Robert Nisbet, 82, American sociologist.
* John W. Tuthill, 85, American diplomat.

### 10

* Latifa al-Zayyat, 73, Egyptian activist and writer, cancer.
* Ray Coleman, 59, British journalist and writer.
* Joanne Dru, 74, American actress, edema.
* Plantagenet Somerset Fry, 65, British historian and author, suicide.
* Hans List, 100, Austrian automotive pioneer.
* Julia Morton, 84, American author and botanist.
* Stig Norén, 88, Swedish general and commander of the air force.
* Sapphire, 61, American professional wrestler and manager, heart attack.
* Pete Stout, 73, American National Football League player (Washington Redskins).

### 11

* Guido Aristarco, 77, Italian film critic and author.
* Bráz, 75, Brazilian basketball player.
* Klára Fehér, 74, Hungarian writer.
* Louise Fitch, 81, American actress.
* Brenda Forbes, 87, British-American actress, cancer.
* Dan Mahoney, 87, Australian politician.
* Deane Waldo Malott, 98, American academic and administrator.
* Thomas J. O'Connor, 71, American politician.
* Koichi Oita, 82, Japanese football player and manager, heart failure.

### 12

* Nikolay Avkhimovich, 89, Soviet and Belarusian politician.
* Frank Christie, 69, Scottish football player and manager.
* Eleazar de Carvalho, 84, Brazilian conductor and composer.
* Ernesto Geisel, 89, Brazilian general and former president of Brazil, cancer.
* Ricardo López, 21, Uruguayan-American stalker of musician Björk, suicide by gunshot.
* James Scott-Elliot, 93, British Army officer.

### 13

* Marvin Allen, 81, American soccer coach.
* Jane Baxter, 87, British actress, stomach cancer.
* James F. Bonner, 86, American molecular biologist.
* César Mendoza Durán, 78, Chilean police officer, equestrian and member of the Government Junta, pancreatic cancer.
* Tupac Shakur, 25, American rapper ("California Love", "Dear Mama") and actor (Poetic Justice), shot.
* Wang Shoudao, 90, Chinese politician.
* Xosé Filgueira Valverde, 89, Spanish writer, intellectual, and researcher.
* William Ayres Ward, 68, American Egyptologist.
* Leni Wylliams, 35, American dancer, choreographer, and teacher, murdered.

### 14

* Helen Cohan, 86, American stage dancer and film actress.
* Jock Cordner, 86, Australian rules football player.
* Edred John Henry Corner, 90, English botanist and a mycologist.
* Douglas Everett, 91, American ice hockey player.
* Joe E. Martin, 80, American boxing coach.
* Rose Ouellette, 93, Quebec actress, comedian, and theatre manager.
* Juliet Prowse, 59, dancer and actress, pancreatic cancer.

### 15

* Phil Farbman, 72, American basketball player.
* Joe Maniaci, 82, American football player and coach.
* Agnes Mongan, 91, American art historian.
* Erling Nielsen, 61, Danish football player.
* Tom Payne, 81, Brazilian film director, screenwriter and actor.
* Andy Pilney, 83, American gridiron football player and coach, baseball player.
* Ottis Toole, 49, American drifter and serial killer, cirrhosis.
* Georgios Vafopoulos, 93, Greek poet, author, and journalist.

### 16

* McGeorge Bundy, 77, American academic, heart attack.
* Karl Dröse, 82, German field hockey player.
* Rolf Graae, 79, Danish architect and organ designer.
* Gene Nelson, 76, American actor, dancer, screenwriter, and director, cancer.
* Joan Perry, 85, American film actress, model, and singer, emphysema.

### 17

* Spiro Agnew, 77, American politician, 39th Vice President of the United States, leukemia.
* Marianne Bachmeier, 46, German vigilante, pancreatic cancer.
* Teodoro Fernández, 83, Peruvian footballer.
* Jessie Hill, 63, American R&B and Louisiana blues singer and songwriter, heart and renal failure.
* Paul J. Krebs, 84, American labor union official and politician.
* Arnold Peters, 74, Canadian politician.
* Henk Schijvenaar, 78, Dutch footballer.

### 18

* Annabella, 89, French cinema actress, heart attack.
* Ulrich Beiger, 78, German actor.
* Corrie Laddé, 80, Dutch swimmer and Olympian.
* Ronald McNicoll, 90, Australian Army general.
* Raymond Lee Stewart, 44, American spree killer, execution by lethal injection.
* Bai Yang, 76, Chinese actress.

### 19

* Noureddine Aba, 75, Algerian poet and playwright.
* Nanny Fernandez, 77, American baseball player.
* Helmut Heißenbüttel, 75, German novelist and poet, pneumonia.
* George Hunt, 86, English footballer, Alzheimer's disease.
* Douglas Hyde, 85, English political journalist and writer.
* Irene Mann, 67, German dancer, actress and choreographer.
* Ștefan Mihăilescu-Brăila, 71, Romanian actor, Alzheimer's disease.
* Czesław Petelski, 73, Polish film director and screenwriter.
* Edilberto K. Tiempo, 83, Filipino professor, writer.

### 20

* Franco Angrisano, 70, Italian actor, heart attack.
* Murtaza Bhutto, 42, Pakistani politician and militant leader.
* S. F. Brownrigg, 58, American film director and producer.
* Paul Draper, 86, American tap dancer and choreographer, pulmonary emphysema.
* Paul Erdős, 83, Hungarian mathematician, heart attack.
* Krešo Golik, 74, Croatian film and television director and screenwriter.
* Reuben Kamanga, 67, Zambian politician.
* Max Manus, 81, Norwegian resistance fighter during World War II.
* Dagdu Maruti Pawar, 61, Indian writer.
* Ted Platt, 75, English football player.
* William S. Vaughn, 92, American businessman and philanthropist.
* Paul Weston, 84, American pianist, arranger, composer, and conductor.

### 21

* Erika Cremer, 96, German chemist.
* Paolo De Poli, 91, Italian enameller and painter.
* Lamar Dodd, 87, American artist.
* Claus Holm, 78, German film actor.
* Leo Isacson, 86, American attorney and politician, cancer.
* Henri Nouwen, 64, Dutch Catholic priest, writer and theologian, heart attack.
* Franz Pfnür, 87, German alpine skier, Olympic champion and SS officer during World War II.
* Ashoke Kumar Sen, 82, Indian lawyer and politician.
* Julius Silverman, 90, British politician.
* Sabine Zlatin, 89, Polish-French Resistance member during World War II.

### 22

* Mohamed Ben Ahmed Abdelghani, 69, Algerian politician and prime Minister.
* Brook Bernacchi, 74, British lawyer and politician in Hong Kong, brain cancer.
* Ludmilla Chiriaeff, 72, Soviet-Canadian ballet dancer and choreographer.
* Dorothy Lamour, 81, American actress (Road to ...) and singer, heart attack.
* József Sir, 84, Hungarian athlete.
* Svetislav Valjarević, 85, Yugoslav football player.
* Marko Valok, 69, Serbian football player.
* Joanne Winter, 71, American baseball player and golfer.

### 23

* Bimal Kumar Bachhawat, 71, Indian neurochemist and glycobiologist.
* Joe Borowski, 62, Canadian politician and activist.
* Fujiko F. Fujio, 62, Japanese manga cartoonist, liver disease.
* Károly Kárpáti, 90, Hungarian Olympic wrestling champion.
* Jack Newman, 94, New Zealand cricket player and business executive.
* Diarmuid O'Neill, 27, Northern Irish volunteer in the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), killed.
* Stuart Piggott, 86, British archaeologist, heart attack.
* František Rauch, 86, Czech music educator and pianist.
* Silk Smitha, 35, Indian actress and dancer, suicide by hanging.

### 24

* I. E. S. Edwards, 87, British egyptologist and curator.
* Red Embree, 79, American Major League Baseball pitcher.
* Mark Frankel, 34, British actor, traffic accident.
* Zeki Müren, 64, Turkish singer, composer, songwriter, actor and poet, heart attack.
* Mário Palmério, 80, Brazilian writer.
* Pavel Sudoplatov, 89, Soviet lieutenant general and spy.
* Jannes van der Wal, 39, Dutch draughts player, leukemia.

### 25

* Red Mihalik, 80, Poliosh-American basketball player and referee.
* Richard Holt Locke, 55, American actor in gay erotic films and AIDS educator and activist, complications of AIDS.
* Helgi Skúlason, 63, Icelandic actor and stage director.
* George Veneroso, 87, American football coach.

### 26

* Nicu Ceaușescu, 45, Romanian politician, son of Nicolae Ceaușescu and Elena Ceaușescu, liver cirrhosis.
* Bob Davidson, 84, Canadian ice hockey player.
* Heinz Engelmann, 85, German actor.
* Alicja Iwańska, 78, Polish sociologist, academic and writer, lung cancer.
* Jozef Marko, 73, Slovak football player and coach.
* Lucia Valerio, 91, Italian tennis player.
* Geoffrey Wilkinson, 75, British chemist and Nobel Prize laureate.

### 27

* Hermine Baron, 83, American contract bridge.
* James Franklin Battin, 71, American politician and United States federal judge.
* Jila Hosseini, 32, Iranian poet, writer, researcher and radio announcer, car accident.
* Bruce Konopka, 77, American baseball player.
* Garland Lawing, 78, American baseball player.
* Mohammad Najibullah, 49, Afghan politician and President of Afghanistan, execution by hanging.
* Ahmad Muhammad Numan, 87, Yemeni educator, propagandist and politician.
* Lee Tit, 83, Cantonese film director.

### 28

* Giuseppe Bartolomei, 73, Italian politician.
* Menato Boffa, 66, Italian racecar driver.
* Marcos Aurelio Di Paulo, 76, Argentinian football player.
* Bob Gibson, 64, American folk singer and musician, progressive supranuclear palsy.
* August Maus, 81, German Navy officer and World War II submarine commander.
* Andrei Suraikin, 47, Russian figure skater.
* Maurice Valency, 93, American writer and playwright.

### 29

* Claire Bonenfant, 71, Canadian politician and feminist.
* Leslie Crowther, 63, English comedian, actor, TV presenter, and game show host, heart failure.
* Shusaku Endo, 73, Japanese author, complications of hepatitis.
* Bohuslav Karlík, 87, Czechoslovak canoeist and water slalomist.
* Li Qiang, 91, Chinese revolutionary, secret agent, and politician, liver cancer.
* George Rung, 80, American basketball coach.

### 30

* Charlie Adam, 77, Scottish football player.
* Aubrey Brabazon, 76, Irish horse racing jockey.
* Kenneth Muir, 89, English literary scholar and author.
* P. Jay Sidney, 81, American actor.
* Moneta Sleet, Jr., 70, American journalist, cancer.
* Sylvester William Treinen, 78, American Roman catholic bishop.