page_title: 1996
section_title: February
hierarchical_section_title: 1996 / Deaths / February
caption_attribution_description: Publicity photo of Audrey Meadows from her appearance on the television program The United States Steel Hour.
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: February 2 – Gene Kelly, American actor and dancer (b. 1912)
  February 3 – Audrey Meadows, American actress (b. 1922)
  February 4 – Alfredo Nobre da Costa, 106th Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1923)
  February 6 – Guy Madison, American actor (b. 1922)
  February 7 – Boris Tchaikovsky, Russian composer (b. 1925)
  February 9 – Adolf Galland, German general (b. 1912)
  February 11 – Kebby Musokotwane, Prime Minister of Zambia (b. 1946)
  February 12
  Bob Shaw, Irish science fiction writer (b. 1931)
  Ryōtarō Shiba, Japanese novelist (b. 1923)
  February 13 – Martin Balsam, American actor (b. 1919)
  February 14
  Eva Hart, British Titanic survivor (b. 1905)
  Bob Paisley, English football manager (b. 1919)
  February 15
  Tommy Rettig, American actor (b. 1941)
  McLean Stevenson, American actor (b. 1927)
  February 16
  Roger Bowen, American actor (b. 1932)
  Pat Brown, American politician (b. 1905)
  February 20
  Solomon Asch, Polish-American psychologist (b. 1907)
  Audrey Munson, American model and actress (b. 1891)
  Toru Takemitsu, Japanese composer (b. 1930)
  February 21 – Morton Gould, American musician and composer (b. 1913)
  February 23
  William Bonin, American serial killer (b. 1947)
  Helmut Schön, German football player and manager (b. 1915)
  February 25 – Haing S. Ngor, Cambodian activist and actor (b. 1940)
  February 26 – Mieczysław Weinberg, Polish composer (b. 1919)
  February 27 – Sarah Palfrey Cooke, American tennis player (b. 1912)
caption: Audrey Meadows
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