page_title: 1996
section_title: March
hierarchical_section_title: 1996 / Deaths / March
caption_attribution_description: English: Edmund Muskie, Maine politician
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: March 2
  Jacobo Majluta Azar, 47th President of the Dominican Republic (b. 1934)
  Lyle Talbot, American actor (b. 1902)
  March 3
  Marguerite Duras, French author and director (b. 1914)
  John Krol, American cardinal (b. 1910)
  Léo Malet, French novelist and surrealist (b. 1909)
  March 4 – Minnie Pearl, American comedian (b. 1912)
  March 5
  Khondaker Mostaq Ahmad, 5th President of Bangladesh (b. 1918)
  Whit Bissell, American actor (b. 1909)
  March 6 – Simon Cadell, English actor (b. 1950)
  March 9 – George Burns, American comedian and actor (b. 1896)
  March 10 – Ross Hunter, American film producer (b. 1926)
  March 11 – Vince Edwards, American actor (b. 1928)
  March 12 – Gyula Kállai, 48th Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1910)
  March 13
  Lucio Fulci, Italian film director, screenwriter, producer, and actor (b. 1927)
  Krzysztof Kieślowski, Polish film director (b. 1941)
  March 14
  Andreas Münzer, Austrian bodybuilder (b. 1964)
  March 17 – René Clément, French film director (b. 1913)
  March 18 – Odysseas Elytis, Greek writer (b. 1911)
  March 19
  Virginia Henderson, American nurse and theorist (b. 1897)
  Chen Jingrun, Chinese mathematician (b. 1933)
  March 22
  Claude Mauriac, French author and journalist (b. 1914)
  Robert F. Overmyer, American astronaut (b. 1936)
  March 25 – Lola Beltrán, Mexican singer, actress, and television presenter (b. 1932)
  March 26
  Edmund Muskie, American politician (b. 1914)
  David Packard, American engineer (b. 1912)
  March 31 – Jeffrey Lee Pierce, American musician (b. 1958)
caption: Edmund Muskie
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