page_title: 1996
section_title: September
hierarchical_section_title: 1996 / Deaths / September
caption_attribution_description: English: Publicity photo of Dorothy Lamour
context_page_description: 1996 was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1996th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 996th year of the 2nd millennium, the 96th year of the 20th century, and the 7th year of the 1990s decade.
  1996 was designated as:
  International Year for the Eradication of Poverty
  1996 was also the year of Fire Rat according to Chinese Zodiac.
context_section_description: September 1
  Vagn Holmboe, Danish composer (b. 1909)
  Karl Kehrle, Benedictine monk and beekeeper (b. 1898)
  September 7 – Bibi Besch, American actress (b. 1940)
  September 9
  Ruggero Mastroianni, Italian film editor (b. 1929)
  Bill Monroe, American musician (b. 1911)
  September 10 – Joanne Dru, American actress (b. 1922)
  September 12
  Ernesto Geisel, Brazilian general, 29th President of Brazil (b. 1907)
  Ricardo López, Uruguayan-American pest control worker (b. 1975)
  September 13 – Tupac Shakur, American rapper (assassinated)(b. 1971)
  September 14 – Juliet Prowse, American dancer and actress (b. 1936)
  September 16
  McGeorge Bundy, American academic (b. 1919)
  Gene Nelson, American dancer and actor (b. 1920)
  September 17 – Spiro Agnew, 39th Vice President of the United States (b. 1918)
  September 18 – Annabella, French actress (b. 1907)
  September 20
  Murtaza Bhutto, Pakistani politician (b. 1954)
  Paul Erdős, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1913)
  Max Manus, Norwegian resistance fighter (b. 1914)
  Paul Weston, American pianist and composer (b. 1912)
  September 21 – Henri Nouwen, Dutch priest and author (b. 1932)
  September 22
  Mohamed Ben Ahmed Abdelghani, 1st Prime Minister of Algeria (b. 1927)
  Dorothy Lamour, American actress (b. 1914)
  September 23 – Fujiko F. Fujio, Japanese cartoonist (b. 1933)
  September 24
  Mark Frankel, British actor (b. 1962)
  Zeki Müren, Turkish singer, composer, songwriter, actor and poet (b. 1931)
  September 26
  Nicu Ceaușescu, Romanian politician (b. 1951)
  Pavel Sudoplatov, Soviet spy (b. 1907)
  Geoffrey Wilkinson, English Nobel chemist (b. 1921)
  September 27 – Mohammad Najibullah, President of Afghanistan (b. 1947)
  September 29 – Shūsaku Endō, Japanese author (b. 1923)
  September 30 – Moneta Sleet Jr., American press photographer (b. 1926)
caption: Dorothy Lamour
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