Deaths in October 1996
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The following is a list of notable deaths in October 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.
October 1996
1
- James Beal, 67, New Zealand boxer, leukaemia.
- Carl Fredrik Engelstad, 80, Norwegian writer, playwright, journalist, translator and theatre director.
- Noel Hickey, 71, Australian rules footballer.[1]
- Patrick Jameson, 83, New Zealand Royal Air Force officer and flying ace during World War II.
- Pat McGeown, 40, Irish Provisional Irish Republican Army member, heart attack.[2]
- Fred Meyer, 86, American Olympic gymnast (1932, 1936).[3]
- Herbert Seifert, 89, German mathematician.[4]
- Bill Twomey, Jr., 69, Australian rules football player.[5]
- Alfred Vogel, 93, Swiss herbalist, naturopath and writer.[6]
- Deng Yuzhi, 96, Chinese activist and feminist.[7]
2
- Helmut Artzinger, 84, German politician.
- Robert Bourassa, 63, Canadian politician from Quebec, melanoma.[8]
- Peter J. Brennan, 78, American labor activist and politician, lymphatic cancer.[9]
- Jean-Louis Dauris, 76, French Olympic sailor (1952).[10]
- Richard Arthur Gadbois Jr., 64, American district judge (United States District Court for the Central District of California).[11]
- Tom Hafey, 83, American baseball player (New York Giants, St. Louis Browns).[12]
- Joonas Kokkonen, 74, Finnish composer.
- Emiel van Lennep, 81, Dutch diplomat and politician.[13]
- Andrey Lukanov, 58, Bulgarian politician, assassinated.
- Banjo Matthews, 64, American NASCAR driver, car owner and builder, heart and respiratory disease.[14]
- Les Tietje, 86, American Major League Baseball player (Chicago White Sox, St. Louis Browns).[15]
- Rufus Youngblood, 72, United States Secret Service agent, cancer.[16]
3
- Ilyas Afandiyev, 82, Soviet/Azerbaijani writer.
- Tom Callahan, 75, American basketball player (Providence Steamrollers).[17]
- Bertus Enklaar, 52, Dutch chess International Master.
- Vivienne Goonewardene, 80, Sri Lankan politician.[18]
- George Kubler, 84, American art historian.
- Eustace Roskill, Baron Roskill, 85, British lawyer and public servant.[19]
- István Serényi, 85, Hungarian handball player.[20]
4
- Humphrey Atkins, 74, British politician, cancer.[21]
- Larry Gene Bell, 46, American murderer and convict, execution by electrocution.
- Stephen J. Friedman, 59, American film producer, multiple myeloma.[22]
- Joe Hoerner, 59, American baseball player, farming accident.[23]
- Masaki Kobayashi, 80, Japanese film director, heart attack.[24]
- Silvio Piola, 83, Italian football player.[25]
- Jerry Rivers, 68, American fiddle player, cancer.
- Alma Routsong, 71, American novelist, ovarian cancer.[26]
- Randy Schultz, 52, American gridiron football player (Cleveland Browns, New Orleans Saints).[27]
- Jack Thornton, 91, Australian rugby league footballer.[28]
5
- Judith Allen, 85, American film actress.[29]
- Julius Edgar Arp, 77, Brazilian Olympic swimmer (1936).[30]
- Elmer Berger, 88, American Jewish rabbi and anti-Zionist.[31]
- Wymberley D. Coerr, 83, American politician and diplomat.
- Seymour Cray, 71, American computer scientist, car accident.[32]
- Duanmu Hongliang, 84, Chinese author.
- Richard Kröll, 28, Austrian alpine skier, traffic collision.
- Akira Noguchi, 79, Japanese baseball player and manager.[33]
- Arnold van Mill, 75, Dutch opera singer.
- Joe Walsh, 79, American baseball player (Boston Bees).[34]
6
- Jessie Bernard, 93, American sociologist and feminist, cancer.[35]
- Ted Bessell, 61, American actor (That Girl, Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.) and television director (The Tracey Ullman Show), aortic aneurysm.[36]
- Ted Daffan, 84, American country musician.[37]
- Winifred Drinkwater, 83, Scottish aviator and aeroplane engineer.
- Jacques Kielbaey, 76, Belgian Olympic field hockey player (1948).[38]
- Guido Mazzinghi, 64, Italian boxer and Olympian (1952).[39]
- Forrest Pogue, 84, United States Army historian during World War II.[40]
- Trevor Ranson, 84, Australian rules footballer.[41]
- Marjorie Shostak, 51, American anthropologist, cancer.[42]
- Wolfram von Soden, 88, German Assyriologist.[43]
- Vladimir Yerokhin, 66, Russian football player.
7
- José Antonio Burciaga, 56, American Chicano artist, poet, and writer.
- Richard Clarkson, 92, British aeronautical engineer.[44]
- Dame Diana Reader Harris, 83, English head master and public figure.[45]
- Viktor Reimann, 81, Austrian author, journalist and politician.
- Andrew Salter, 82, American psychologist, cancer.[46]
- Zeya, 80, Burmese actor and bodybuilder.
8
- Mignon G. Eberhart, 97, American author of mystery novels.[47]
- Geoffrey Finsberg, 70, British politician.
- Francis D. Lyon, 91, American film and television director.[48]
- David Miller, 71, Canadian ice hockey player and Olympian (1952).[49]
- Ferdinand Montier, 87, French racing driver.
- William Prince, 83, American actor.[50]
9
- Per Asplin, 68, Norwegian actor and musician.
- Marland P. Billings, 94, American structural geologist.[51]
- William L. DeAndrea, 44, American writer.[52]
- Nigel Fisher, 83, British politician.[53]
- George F. Kerr, 78, English writer.
- Walter Kerr, 83, American writer and theatre critic, congestive heart failure.[54]
- John W. King, 79, American politician.
- Roy Lewis, 82, English writer and small press printer.[55]
- Josiah Majekodunmi, 69, Nigerian high jumper and Olympian (1952).[56]
- Colleen Peterson, 45, Canadian country and folk singer, cancer.
- Aleksandar Popović, 66, Serbian writer.[57]
- Harvey Vernon, 69, American actor.
- Harry D. Yates, 93, American banker and politician.
10
- Ted Bryce, 83, Australian rules footballer.[58]
- Harold Cleghorn, 83, New Zealand weightlifter and Olympian (1952).[59]
- Coya Knutson, 84, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1955-1959).[60]
- Bob Reynolds, 57, American gridiron football player (St. Louis Cardinals, New England Patriots).[61]
- Toshio Sugie, 83, Japanese film director.
- David Viscott, 58, American psychiatrist, author, and media personality, heart failure complicated by diabetes.[62]
11
- Lars Ahlfors, 89, Finnish mathematician, pneumonia.[63]
- Keith Boyce, 53, Barbadian cricketer.[64]
- Carlos Mancheno Cajas, 94, President of Ecuador.
- Eleanor Cameron, 84, Canadian-American children's author and critic.[65]
- Johnny Costa, 74, American jazz pianist, aplastic anemia.[66]
- Roberto Ferrari, 73, Italian fencer and Olympian (1952, 1956, 1960).[67]
- Bernardo Grinspun, 70, Argentinian politician.
- Roger Lapébie, 85, French racing cyclist.
- Joe Morris, 83, Canadian trade unionist.
- Terry Patchett, 56, British politician, cancer.
- Edith Penrose, 81, American-British economist.[68]
- Renato Russo, 36, Brazilian singer and songwriter, complications caused by AIDS.[69]
- Edwin Spanier, 75, American mathematician at the University of California at Berkeley.[70]
- William Vickrey, 82, Canadian economist, Nobel prize winner, heart failure.[71]
- Rolf Widerøe, 94, Norwegian accelerator physicist.[72]
- Gerald Wild, 89, Australian politician.
12
- Nina Alisova, 80, Soviet/Russian actress.
- Erik Blomberg, 83, Finnish cinematographer, screenwriter, film director and producer.[73]
- Mac Holten, 74, Australian politician and sportsman.
- Helmut Hölzer, 84, German rocket engineer.
- Stefan Knapp, 75, Polish painter and sculptor.[74]
- Eddie Kuzma, 85, American auto racing builder.
- René Lacoste, 92, French tennis champion, businessman, and Olympian (1924), cancer.[75]
- Vangelis Moiropoulos, 91, Greek Olympic sprinter (1928, 1932).[76]
- Jack Robertson, 79, English cricket player.[77]
- Gerard Thoolen, 53, Dutch actor, AIDS.[78]
13
- Carl H. Dodd, 71, United States Army soldier and a recipient of the Medal of Honor.[79]
- Horst Kopkow, 85, German Nazi politician and SS officer, pneumonia.
- Henri Nannen, 82, German journalist.[80]
- Beryl Reid, 77, English actress, kidney failure.[81]
- Brad Robinson, 37-38, Australian rock musician, lymphoma.
- Jopie Roosenburg-Goudriaan, 83, Dutch painter.[82]
14
- Marcel Bourbonnais, 78, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1958-1963).[83]
- Rex Darling, 82, American football, basketball, and tennis coach.
- Tadeusz Grzelak, 66, Polish Olympic boxer (1952).[84]
- William John Hooper, 80, British cartoonist.[85]
- Václav Hovorka, 65, Czech football player.
- Ferd Johnson, 90, American comic strip cartoonist.[86]
- Tan Chee Khoon, 77, Malaysian politician.
- Laura La Plante, 91, American film actress, Alzheimer's disease.[87]
- Jim Mitchell, 75, Australian rules footballer.[88]
- Izidor Papo, 82, Yugoslav general.
15
- Mike Balas, 86, American Major League Baseball player (Boston Bees).[89]
- Leo Eitinger, 83, Czech psychiatrist.
- Tom Ferrick, 81, American Major League Baseball player, pitching coach and scout, heart failure.[90]
- Pierre Franey, 75, French chef, stroke.[91]
- Rolando Rubalcava, 73, Mexican Olympic basketball player (1952).[92]
- Toma Tomas, 72, Iraqi guerilla and politician.
- Jean Adeline Morgan Wanatee, 85, Native American and women's rights activist.
- Robert F. Williams, 71, American civil rights leader and author, Hodgkin's lymphoma.[93]
16
- Peter Brodie, 79, Scottish minister.
- Guy Crescent, 76, French businessman and founder of Paris Saint-Germain F.C..
- Graham Drane, 80, Australian Olympic sailor (1956, 1964).[94]
- Gertrude Flynn, 87, American actress.[95]
- Anthony Griffin, 75, British admiral.
- Eric Malpass, 85, English novelist.[96]
- Harold J. Powers, 96, American politician.
- Hunter Rouse, 90, American physicist.[97]
- Huang Shao-ku, 95, Chinese politician, Vice Premier.
17
- Chris Acland, 30, English drummer and songwriter, suicide by hanging.[98]
- Bob Adams, 95, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox), and coach.[99]
- Jaroslav Balík, 72, Czechoslovak film director and screenwriter.[100]
- Guillermo Garibay, 75, Mexican baseball player.[101]
- Berthold Goldschmidt, 93, German-British Jewish composer.[102]
- Bert Hopwood, 87-88, British motorcycle designer.
- Laura Sabia, 80, Canadian social activist and feminist, Parkinson's disease.[103]
- Hans Wikne, 82, Swedish Olympic equestrian (1964).[104]
18
- Jason Bernard, 58, American actor (Herman's Head, WarGames, Bird), heart attack.[105]
- Louise Bertram, 88, Canadian figure skater.[106]
- Luciano Durán Böger, 91, Bolivian poet, writer and politician.
- Hans Drachsler, 80, German politician.
- Elmer Klumpp, 90, American Major League Baseball player (Washington Senators, Brooklyn Dodgers).[107]
- Alex Motter, 83, Canadian ice hockey player (Boston Bruins, Detroit Red Wings).[108]
- Simon Soloveychik, 66, Soviet/Russian writer and philosopher.
- Giovanni Testa, 93, Italian Olympic cross-country skier (1928).[109]
- Sheldon Vanauken, 82, American journalist, lung cancer.
19
- Josef Becker, 91, German politician.
- Maurice Elliott, 53, Scottish footballer, brain haemorrhage.[110]
- Ralston Hill, 69, American actor and singer.[111]
- John Hillaby, 79, British travel writer and explorer.[112]
- Bobby Rackard, 69, Irish hurler.
- Shamsuddin Qasemi, 61, Bangladeshi Islamic scholar and politician.[113]
20
- Robert Benayoun, 75, French film critic and author.[114]
- J. Bracken Lee, 97, American politician.[115]
- Sebastian Santa Maria, 37, Chilean composer.[116]
- Yuri Neprintsev, 87, Soviet/Russian painter, graphic artist and art teacher.
- Richard M. Powell, 79, American screenwriter, prostate cancer.[117]
- Luigi Rovere, 88, Italian film producer.
- Werner Spycher, 79, Swiss Olympic wrestler (1936).[118]
21
- Léon Ashkenazi, 74, Jewish spiritual leader, philosopher and educator.[119]
- Eric Halsall, 76, English author and television presenter.[120]
- Albert G. Hill, 86, American physcisist and pioneer in the development of radar.[121]
- Wang Li, 74, Chinese politician, pancreatic cancer.
- Les Mead, 87, Australian rugby player and coach.
- Ibrahim Sory Touré, 26, Malian footballer.[122]
- Allie White, 81, American gridiron football player (Philadelphia Eagles).[123]
- Georgios Zoitakis, 86, Greek Army general and regent of Greece.
- Giovanni Zuddas, 68, Italian Olympic boxer (1948).[124]
22
- John Bauldie, 47, British journalist, helicopter crash.[125]
- Edmund Black, 91, American Olympic hammer thrower (1928).[126]
- Kathy Change, 46, Chinese-American political activist, writer, and performance artist, self-immolation.
- Shmarya Guttman, 87, Israeli archaeologist.
- Matthew Harding, 42, British businessman, helicopter crash.[127]
- Dianne Heatherington, 48, Canadian rock singer and businesswoman, ovarian cancer.
- Noel Hilliard, 67, New Zealand novelist.
- Hermann Höfer, 62, German football player and Olympian (1956).[128]
- Howie Hoffman, 74, American basketball player.[129]
- Sten Rudberg, 79, Swedish geologist and geomorphologist.[130]
23
- Henry Allard, 84, Swedish politician.
- Chet Blaylock, 71, American politician, heart attack.[131]
- Kurt Freund, 82, Czech-Canadian physician and sexologist, suicide.[132]
- Bob Grim, 66, American Major League Baseball player, heart attack.[133]
- Harold Hughes, 74, American politician.[134]
- Michel Kelber, 87–88, French cinematographer.[135]
- J. Daniel Mahoney, 65, American circuit judge (United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit).[136]
- Lin Onus, 47, Australian artist of Scottish-Aboriginal origins.[137]
- Franc Smolej, 88, Slovenian Olympic skier (1936, 1948).[138]
- Diana Trilling, 91, American literary critic and author.[139]
24
- Robert Anderson, 60, New Zealand politician, cancer.
- Artur Axmann, 83, Nazi German Hitler Youth leader.[140]
- Roderick Barclay, 87, British diplomat and ambassador.
- Françoise Gignoux, 73, French Olympic alpine skier (1948).[141]
- Gladwyn Jebb, 96, British civil servant, diplomat and politician.[142]
- Hyman Minsky, 77, American economist.[143]
- Romica Puceanu, 69, Romanian singer.
- Joe Spencer, 73, American gridiron football player (Cleveland Browns, Green Bay Packers), and coach, cancer.[144]
25
- Ennio De Giorgi, 68, Italian mathematician.[145]
- Bill Elsworth, 60, Australian rules footballer.[146]
- Solveig Gunbjørg Jacobsen, 83, First person born on South Georgia.
- Maria Litto, 77, German ballet dancer, choreographer and film actress.[147]
- Robert Racic, 32, Australian DJ and record producer, brain virus.
- Harry Shuman, 81, American Major League Baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates, Philadelphia Phillies).[148]
- Brian Stacey, 49, Australian conductor.
- Roland Wilson, 92, Australian public servant and economist.
26
- Miquel Asins Arbó, 80, Spanish composer.[149]
- Aurelio Chessa, 82, Italian anarchist, journalist and historian.
- Abdelhamid ben Hadouga, 71, Algerian writer.
- Lewis Kamas, 75, American military lieutenant and politician.[150]
- Hans W. Kosterlitz, 93, German-British biochemist.[151]
- Henri Lepage, 88, French Olympic fencer (1948).[152]
- Derek Tangye, 84, British writer.
- Sofia Tuibayeva, 83, Soviet/Tajikistani actress.
- Adolf Turakainen, 64, Finnish Olympic sprinter (1952).[153]
- Wendy Wild, 40, American singer, musician, and artist, breast cancer.
27
- Henry Piet Drury van Asch, 85, New Zealand aviator and surveyor.[154]
- Rewat Buddhinan, 48, Thai singer and music producer, brain cancer.
- Charlotte Jay, 76, Australian mystery writer and novelist.[155]
- Marcello Mihalich, 89, Italian football player and manager.[156]
- Arthur Tremblay, 79, Canadian politician, member of the Senate of Canada (1979-1992).[157]
- Felix Ucko, 77, American Olympic field hockey player (1948, 1956).[158]
28
- Morey Amsterdam, 87, American actor and comedian, heart attack.[159]
- Reuben Baetz, 73, Canadian politician.
- Irene Cortes, 75, Filipino lawyer, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court.
- Jimmy Haig, 71, Scottish-New Zealand rugby player.[160]
- Robert Hankey, 2nd Baron Hankey, 91, British diplomat and public servant.[161]
- Karol Jokl, 51, Slovak football player and manager.
- Paul Lambert, 88, French Olympic water polo player (1936).[162]
- Joe Samuels, 91, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers).[163]
29
- Ewell Blackwell, 74, American Major League Baseball player (Cincinnati Reds, New York Yankees, Kansas City Athletics).[164]
- J. Edward Day, 82, American lawyer and United States Postmaster General, heart attack.[165]
- Richard Duffin, 87, American physicist.[166]
- Eugen Kapp, 88, Estonian composer and music educator.[167]
- Robert Levin, 84, Norwegian classical pianist and composer.[168]
- Christophe Munzihirwa, 70, Congolese catholic prelate and Archbishop of Bukavu, murdered.
- Ralph Vince, 96, American gridiron football player (Cleveland Indians, Cleveland Bulldogs, Cleveland Panthers).[169]
30
- John Barnum, 85, American golfer.
- Roberto Belangero, 68, Brazilian football player.[170]
- John Matthew Cannella, 88, American federal judge, and football player (New York Giants).[171]
- Eleanor Lansing Dulles, 101, American author, professor, and state official.[172]
- George R. E. Shell, 88, United States Marine Corps brigadier general.
- Bob Thorpe, 69, American baseball player (Boston/Milwaukee Braves).[173]
- John Young, 80, Scottish actor.
31
- Louise Bates Ames, 92, American psychologist.[174]
- Marcel Carné, 90, French film director.[175]
- Peter Doig, 85, British politician.
- Frank Kurtz, 85, American Olympic diver (1932, 1936), and aviator, complications following a fall.[176]
- Arthur Peterson, Jr., 83, American actor, Alzheimer's disease.
- William Rosenwald, 93, American businessman and philanthropist.[177]