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

## April 1996
### 1

* Alexandru Diordiță, 84, Soviet/Moldovan politician.
* Alfredo Nobre da Costa, 72, Portuguese politician.
* Jean Le Moyne, 83, Canadian politician.
* John McSherry, 51, American baseball umpire, heart attack.
* Léon Pétillon, 92, Belgian politician.
* Mário Viegas, 47, Portuguese actor and poetry reciter.
* Masroor Anwar, 51, Indian poet, lyricist and screenwriter.
* Myroslav Dumanskyi, 66, Ukrainian football player.

### 2

* Jean Elizabeth Hampton, 41, American political philosopher and author.
* Lindsay Hartwig, 76, Australian politician.
* Ian Mitchell, 49, Scottish football player.
* Antonio Ortiz Ramírez, 88, Spanish anarcho-syndicalist and anarchist.

### 3

* Ron Brown, 54, American government official, aircraft crash.
* Frank Doyle, 78, American comic book writer (Archie), cancer.
* Herk Harvey, 71, American actor and director, pancreatic cancer.
* Jo Privat, 76, French musician, cancer.
* Alphonse James Schladweiler, 93, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
* Carl Stokes, 68, American politician and diplomat, esophageal cancer.

### 4

* Brian Abel-Smith, 69, British economist.
* Barney Ewell, 78, American track and field athlete and Olympic champion.
* Zita Perczel, 77, Hungarian actress.
* Winifred Shotter, 91, British actress.

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* Monika Dannemann, 50, German figure skater and painter, suicide.
* Gerry L'Estrange, 78, Irish politician.
* Charlene Holt, 67, American actress (El Dorado).
* Jac Maris, 96, Dutch sculptor.
* Ahmed Mekkawi, 73, Egyptian football player.
* Herta Worell, 83, German actress.

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* John D. Bulkeley, 84, United States Navy vice admiral and Medal of Honor recipient.
* Ester Carloni, 98, Italian actress.
* Greer Garson, 91, British-American actress (Mrs. Miniver, Blossoms in the Dust, Madame Curie), Oscar winner (1943), heart failure.
* Sterling M. McMurrin, 82, American theologian.

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* Colleen Clifford, 97, Australian actress.
* Georges Géret, 71, French film actor, cancer.
* Berkely Mather, 87, British writer.
* Yelena Mazanik, 82, Soviet/Belarus partisan who assassinated Nazi official Wilhelm Kube.

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* Donald Adams, 67, English opera singer and actor, brain cancer.
* John Hudson, 77, American actor (Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, The Screaming Skull, G.I. Blues).
* George W. Jenkins, 88, American businessman and philanthropist.
* Ben Johnson, 77, American actor (The Last Picture Show, The Wild Bunch, The Sugarland Express), Oscar winner (1972), heart attack.
* León Klimovsky, 89, Argentine film director, screenwriter and actor.
* Petko Sirakov, 67, Bulgarian wrestler.
* Agron Sulaj, 44, Albanian football player and.
* José Valdivieso, 74, Argentine football player and manager.
* Petro Voinovsky, 82, Ukrainian nationalist.
* Mick Young, 59, Australian politician.

### 9

* Sandy Becker, 74, American announcer, actor, and comedian.
* Richard Condon, 81, American political novelist.
* Paul Leder, 70, American actor and film director, lung cancer.
* Otto Licha, 83, Austrian handball player.
* James Rouse, 81, American businessman and founder of The Rouse Company.

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* Moshe Davis, 80, American rabbi.
* Walter Harding, 79, American scholar and professor of English literature.
* Herman Pines, 94, Russian-American chemist.
* Jack Wilkinson, 64, English football player.

### 11

* Billy Anderson, 55, American gridiron football player (Tennessee Titans), ALS.
* Hans Beck, 84, Norwegian ski jumper.
* Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet, 89, French businessman and publicist.
* Trygve Brodahl, 90, Norwegian cross country skier.
* Mel Hill, 82, Canadian ice hockey player.
* Wanda McKay, 80, American actor and model.

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* Antonio Capua, 90, Italian politician.
* Helmut Krone, 70, American art director.
* Marthe Robert, 82, French writer.
* Igor Ternov, 74, Russian physicist.

### 13

* C. Alfred "Chief" Anderson, 89, American aviator.
* George Mackay Brown, 74, Scottish poet, author and dramatist.
* James Burke, 64, American mobster and Lucchese crime family associate, lung cancer.
* D'Arcy Coulson, 88, Canadian ice hockey player.
* Vjekoslav Kaleb, 90, Croatian writer.
* Denis Sargan, 71, British econometrician.

### 14

* Waleed Al-Salam, 69, Iraqi mathematician.
* Gaylord Birch, 50, American musician.
* Marie Clotilde Bonaparte, 84, French princess of the Bonaparte dynasty.
* William K. Everson, 67, American journalist, prostate cancer.
* Mervyn Levy, 82, Welsh artist and writer on art.
* George N. Neise, 79, American actor, cancer.
* James Sargent Russell, 93, United States Navy admiral.

### 15

* Beatriz Costa, 88, Portuguese actress.
* John C. Flanagan, 90, American psychologist.
* Arthur Lelyveld, 83, American rabbi and activist.
* Stavros Niarchos, 86, Greek businessman and art collector, pneumonia.

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* George Abel, 80, Canadian ice hockey player and Olympic champion.
* Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, 67, Cuban film director and screenwriter.
* François-Régis Bastide, 69, French writer, diplomat, politician, and radio host, lung cancer.
* Kelly Anne Bates, 17, English murder victim.
* Lucille Bremer, 79, American actress and dancer, heart attack.
* Irasema Dilián, 71, Italian actress.
* Raymond Hill, 62, American tenor saxophonist, singer, and recording artist.
* Charlie Hillard, 58, American aerobatics pilot, aviation accident.

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* Paul Bleiß, 91, German politician and member of the Bundestag.
* Piet Hein, 90, Danish puzzle designer, mathematician, and poet.
* Adelaide Lambert, 88, American swimmer and Olympic champion.
* Dudley Manlove, 81, American actor and radio announcer.
* Abbot Low Moffat, 94, American politician, cancer.
* Hugh Robson, 77, New Zealand lawn bowls competitor.

### 18

* Brook Berringer, 22, American gridiron football player, plane crash.
* Bernard Edwards, 43, American bass player and record producer, pneumonia.
* Mike Leander, 54, English arranger, songwriter and record producer, cancer.
* Hubert Opperman, 91, Australian racing cyclist.

### 19

* Yukiyoshi Aoki, 61, Japanese swimmer.
* James B. Clark Jr., 39, American murderer, execution by lethal injection.
* Ken Doherty, 90, American decathlete.
* John Martin, 36, English spree killer, suicide.
* Buddy Oldfield, 84, English cricket player and umpire.

### 20

* John Barrie, 71, English snooker player.
* Hank Biasatti, 74, Canadian basketball player.
* Alexander D'Arcy, 87, Egyptian actor.
* Frans Gommers, 79, Belgian football player.
* Raúl Meraz, 69, Mexican actor.
* Christopher Robin Milne, 75, English author and bookseller.
* Steve Oneschuk, 65, Canadian football player.
* Tran Van Tra, 78, Vietnamese general and commander in the Viet Cong.

### 21

* Zora Arkus-Duntov, 86, Belgian-American engineer nicknamed the "Father of the Corvette.".
* Dzhokhar Dudayev, 52, Soviet/Russian general and Chechen leader, homicide.
* Alceo Galliera, 85, Italian conductor and composer.
* Robert Hersant, 76, French newspaper magnate.
* Abdul Hafeez Kardar, 71, Indian cricket player.
* Luigi Pistilli, 66, Italian actor, suicide.
* Paraone Reweti, 79, New Zealand politician.
* Jimmy Snyder, 77, American horse racing announcer & television sports announcer, heart attack.
* Bertel Storskrubb, 78, Finnish middle-distance runner, hurdler and Olympian.

### 22

* Erma Bombeck, 69, American humorist and writer, kidney disease.
* Helen Keane, 73, American jazz record producer, breast cancer.
* Molly Keane, 91, Irish writer.
* Jug McSpaden, 87, American golfer, and golf course architect, accidental carbon monoxide poisoning.
* Hiteswar Saikia, 62, Indian politician, kidney failure.
* Serafim Subbotin, 75, Soviet/Russian flying ace.
* John Baptist Wolf, 88, American historian, specializing in modern European history.
* Nobuo Yoneda, 66, Japanese computer scientist.

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* Jean Victor Allard, 82, Canadian general.
* Mario Luigi Ciappi, 86, Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.
* María Lavalle Urbina, 87, Mexican lawyer and politician.
* P. L. Travers, 96, Australian-British novelist (Mary Poppins), epilepsy.
* Jesús Hernández Úbeda, 36, Spanish bicycle racer.

### 24

* Donald Cammell, 62, British film director, suicide.
* Giliante D'Este, 86, Italian rower.
* Tomás de Bhaldraithe, 79, Irish language scholar and lexicographer.
* Gary Geiger, 59, American baseball player, cirrhosis.
* Preston Lockwood, 83, British actor.
* Aldo Masciotta, 86, Italian fencer.
* Rafael Orozco, 50, Spanish musician, AIDS-related complications.
* Frank Riley, 80, American writer.
* Vincenzo Torriani, 77, Italian sports executive and director of the Giro d'Italia.

### 25

* Saul Bass, 75, American graphic designer and filmmaker, lymphoma.
* John Lorne Campbell, 89, British historian.
* Althea Henley, 84, American film actress and dancer.
* Dick Wesson, 73, American actor, comedian, comedy writer, and producer, aortic aneurysm.
* Harold Alden Wheeler, 92, American electrical engineer.

### 26

* Wolfgang Franz, 90, German mathematician.
* Milt Gaston, 100, American baseball player.
* Guido Leontini, 69, Italian actor.
* Stirling Silliphant, 78, American screenwriter (In the Heat of the Night, The Towering Inferno, The Poseidon Adventure) and film producer.
* Burton Stein, 70, American Indologist.

### 27

* William Colby, 76, American intelligence agent, drowning.
* Gilles Grangier, 84, French film director and screenwriter.
* Adam Roarke, 58, American actor and film director, heart attack.
* Rudolf Schulten, 72, German physicist.
* Joan Sterndale-Bennett, 82, British actress.

### 28

* Al Hollingsworth, 88, American baseball player.
* Svea Holst, 95, Swedish film actress.
* Orville Prescott, 89, American literary critic (The New York Times).
* Tien Soeharto, 72, wife of the Indonesian president, Suharto
* Lester Sumrall, 83, American minister.

### 29

* Mario David, 68, French actor, pulmonary embolism.
* Ray Kinsella, 85, Canadian ice hockey player.
* Claude Overton, 68, American basketball player.
* François Picard, 75, French racing driver.

### 30

* Jeanne Bal, 67, American actress and model, breast cancer.
* Juan Hohberg, 69, Argentine-Uruguayan football player and coach.
* Dezső Keresztury, 91, Hungarian politician.
* Julio César Méndez Montenegro, 80, President of Guatemala.
* David Opatoshu, 78, American actor (Exodus, Torn Curtain, Dr. Kildare).
* Rosaura Revueltas, 85, Mexican actress, dancer, and author, lung cancer.