The following is a list of notable deaths in July 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.
1
- William Thomas Cahill, 84, American politician.[1]
- Harold Greenberg, 66, Canadian film producer.
- Margaux Hemingway, 42, American fashion model and actress, suicide.[2]
- Einar Hovdhaugen, 88, Norwegian politician.
- Cláudio Kano, 30, Japanese Brazilian table tennis player, traffic collision.[3]
- Lawrence Low, 75, American sailor and Olympic champion.[4]
- Alfred Marks, 75, British actor and comedian.[5]
- Duke Maronic, 74, American gridiron football player.[6]
- Steve Tesich, 53, Serbian-American screenwriter (Breaking Away, The World According to Garp), Oscar winner (1980), heart attack.[7]
2
- Arvid Brodersen, 91, Norwegian sociologist[8]
- Ñuflo Chávez Ortiz, 72, Bolivian politician.
- Hugh Davson, 86, English physiologist.[9]
- Mike Parobeck, 30, American comic book artist (Batman, Justice Society of America, El Diablo), diabetes.
- Ingvar Pettersson, 70, Swedish race walker.[10]
- Hal Robson, 84, American racing driver.
- Stefano Sibaldi, 91, Italian actor and voice actor.
3
- Herb Baumeister, 49, American serial killer, suicide.
- B. Gerald Cantor, 79, American investment banker.[11]
- Barry Crump, 61, New Zealand writer.
- Sharon Hugueny, 52, American actress (The Young Lovers), cancer.
- Pim Jacobs, 61, Dutch musician.[12]
- Raaj Kumar, 69, Indian actor.[13]
- Bernard Zehrfuss, 84, French architect.[14]
4
- Genevieve Blatt, 83, American politician[15]
- Magnhild Hagelia, 92, Norwegian politician.[16]
- Pierre Jaccoud, 90, Swiss lawyer.
- James O. Plinton Jr., 81, U.S. Army Air Corps pilot and member of the Tuskegee Airmen.
- Yagya Dutt Sharma, 73, Indian politician.
5
- Fred Davis, 74, Canadian broadcaster, stroke.
- Harold LeBruce Gilmore, 84, American politician.[17]
- Donald Adam Hartman, 66, Canadian politician.
- Predrag Ostojić, 58, Yugoslav chess player, suicide.
- Mohamed Seddik, 56, Egyptian football player.[18]
- Clyde Wiegand, 81, American physicist, prostate cancer.[19]
6
- Kutlu Adalı, 61, Turkish Cypriot journalist, poet, socio-political researcher, and peace advocate.
- Kathy Ahern, 47, American golfer, breast cancer.[20]
- Armando Calvo, 70, Puerto Rican-born Spanish actor, heart failure.[21]
- Evgeni Rogov, 67, Soviet/Russian football player and manager.
8
- J. W. Alexander, 80, American musician, record producer and entrepreneur.
- Ernest Armstrong, 81, British politician.[24]
- Jim Baumer, 65, American baseball player, scout, and executive.[25]
- Albrecht, Duke of Bavaria, 91, German prince.
- Jim Busby, 69, American Major League Baseball player and coach.[26]
- Richard Groschopp, 90, German film director and screenwriter.[27]
- Irene Prador, 84, Austrian-American actress and writer.
- Luis Manuel Rodríguez, 59, Cuban boxer.
9
- Melvin Mouron Belli, 88, American lawyer, author, and actor, pancreatic cancer.[28]
- Paul Bhagwandas, 45, Suriname battalion commander known as "the executioner of Fort Zeelandia", cancer.
- Christopher Casson, 84, English-Irish actor.[29]
- Sergey Kuryokhin, 42, Russian composer, pianist, music director, film actor and writer, cancer.
- Edward Purdy Ney, 75, American physicist.[30]
- Aurora Redondo, 96, Spanish actress.[31]
- David Colville Smith, 74, Rhodesian/Zimbabwean farmer and politician.
10
- Paul King, 69, American producer and screenwriter.[32]
- Lou Lichtveld, 92, Surinamese politician, playwright, poet and resistance fighter.[33]
- Alex Manoogian, 95, Armenian-American industrial engineer, businessman, and philanthropist.[34]
- Fred Meyer, 76, American gridiron football player.[35]
- Jindřich Tintěra, 95, Czech gymnast and Olympian.[36]
11
- René Abadie, 60, French cyclist.[37]
- Louis Gottlieb, 72, American bassist and comic spokesman for music trio The Limeliters.[38]
- Bertil Lundell, 87, Swedish ice hockey, football and bandy player.[39]
- Ružica Meglaj-Rimac, 55, Yugoslav and Croatian basketball player.
- Florrie Rodrigo, 102, Dutch dancer and choreographer[40]
12
- John Chancellor, 68, American journalist, stomach cancer.[41]
- Walter Hassan, 91, British automotive engineer.[42]
- Jonathan Melvoin, 34, American musician, heroin overdose.
- Nazar Mohammad, 75, Pakistani cricket player.[43]
- Gottfried von Einem, 78, Austrian composer.[44]
- Clarence Wilkinson, 85, American politician.
14
- Kenneth Bainbridge, 91, American physicist.[48]
- Jeff Krosnoff, 31, American race car driver, racing accident.
- Karl Paryla, 90, Austrian theater actor and director.[49]
- Richard Ripley, 95, British athlete.[50]
- Kathrine Taylor, 92, American author.
15
- William Dugan, 83, American rower and Olympian.[51]
- Dana Hill, 32, American actress (National Lampoon's European Vacation, Cross Creek, Goof Troop), stroke.
- Sven Hörstadius, 98, Swedish embryologist.
- Jan Krogh Jensen, 38, Norwegian-Danish outlaw biker, gangster, homicide.[52]
16
- Édouard Max-Robert, 91, French hurdler and Olympian.[53]
- John Panozzo, 47, American drummer, cirrhosis.[54]
- Iosif Prut, 95, Soviet/Russian playwright and screenwriter.
- Adolf von Thadden, 75, German far-right politician.
- Djamel Zitouni, 32, Algerian Islamist terrorist group leader, killed.
17
- Charles Bartley, 74, American scientist.
- Chas Chandler, 57, English musician, record producer and manager, heart failure.[55]
- Geoffrey Jellicoe, 95, English architect, town planner, landscape architect and author.[56]
- John Joubert, 33, American serial killer, execution by electrocution.
- Bratko Kreft, 91, Slovenian playwright, writer, literary historian and director.
- Alan McGilvray, 86, Australian cricket player.[57]
- Paul Touvier, 81, French Nazi collaborator during World War II, prostate cancer.[58]
- Notable people killed in the crash of TWA Flight 800:[59]
- Michel Breistroff, 25, French ice hockey player.
- Marcel Dadi, 44, Tunisian-French guitarist.
- David Hogan, 47, American composer.[60]
- Jed Johnson, 47, American interior designer and director.
- Pam Lychner, 37, American crime victims' rights advocate.
- Rico Puhlmann, 62, German fashion photographer.
18
- Stephen Donaldson, 49, American bisexual rights activist, and political activist, AIDS-related complications.[61]
- José Manuel Fuente, 50, Spanish road racing cyclist, pancreatitis.[62]
- Duke Christian Louis of Mecklenburg, 83, German noble.
- Martin Summerfield, 79, American physicist and rocket scientist.[63]
19
- Raymond Burnett, 82, American football player and coach.[64]
- Berkeley Cole, 82, English Anglican priest and author.
- Mervyn Cowie, 87, British conservationist.[65]
- Dan Lewandowski, 68, American baseball player.[66]
- E. T. Mensah, 77, Ghanaian musician.
- Sverre Wilberg, 66, Norwegian actor.
20
- Anna Chandy, 91, first female judge of India.
- Eddie Jankowski, 83, American gridiron football player.[67]
- Colin Mitchell, 70, British Army soldier and politician.[68]
- Raphael Patai, 85, Hungarian-Jewish ethnographer, historian, orientalist and anthropologist.[69]
- František Plánička, 92, Czech football goalkeeper.
- Arunachala Sreenivasan, 87, Indian food technologist and nutritional scientist .
- Randy Stuart, 71, American actress, lung cancer.[70]
21
- Luana Anders, 58, American actress and screenwriter, breast cancer.[71]
- Rafael Cepeda, 86, Puerto Rican musician, myocardial infarction.
- Herb Edelman, 62, American actor (The Golden Girls, St. Elsewhere, The Good Guys), pulmonary emphysema.[72]
- Inger Jacobsen, 72, Norwegian singer and actress, cancer.
- Wolfe Morris, 71, English actor.[73]
- Walt Moryn, 70, American Major League Baseball outfielder.[74]
22
- Rob Collins, 33, English musician, car crash.[75]
- Tamara Danz, 43, German lead singer and lyricist of the rock group Silly, breast cancer.[76]
- Carl Goldenberg, 88, Canadian lawyer and senator.[77]
- Maggie Kalka, 83, Finnish sprint canoeist.[78]
- Vermont C. Royster, 82, American journalist and editor.[79]
23
- Herb Abrams, 41, American professional wrestling promoter, cocaine overdose.
- Patriarch Parthenius III of Alexandria, 76, Greek Eastern Orthodox bishop.
- Hamilton Fish IV, 70, American politician.
- Jean Howell, 68, American actress.
- Jessica Mitford, 78, English author and one of the Mitford sisters, lung cancer.[80]
- Jean Muir, 85, American actress and educator.[81]
- Red Munger, 77, American baseball player.[82]
- Frederick Osborne, 87, Australian politician and government minister.
- Eric Ridder, 78, American sailor and Olympic champion.[83]
- Aliki Vougiouklaki, 62, Greek actress and theatrical producer, pancreatic cancer.[84]
24
- Virginia Christine, 76, American actress, cardiovascular disease.[85]
- Nacho Martínez, 44, Spanish actor, lung cancer.[86]
- Oreste Plath, 88, Chilean writer and folklorist.[87]
- Alphonso Roberts, 58, Vincentian political activist and cricket player.[88]
- Jock Wallace, 60, Scottish football player and manager, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.[89]
26
- Jackie Cerone, 82, American mobster and boss of the Chicago Outfit.
- Evelyn Danzig, 94, American songwriter and classical pianist.[92]
- Horacio Esteves, 55, Venezuelan sprinter.[93]
- Wesley P. Garcia, 82, Mexican-American physician, surgeon, and civil rights advocate.[94]
- Heriberto Herrera, 70, Paraguayan-Spanish football player.[95]
27
- Jane Drew, 85, English writer, architect and academic, cancer.[96]
- Yordan Filipov, 50, Bulgarian association football player.
- Johann Hofstätter, 83, Austrian association football player and coach.
- Takeyuki Kanda, 52, Japanese animator, traffic collision.
- Al Rollins, 69, Canadian ice hockey player.[97]
28
- Bryant Haliday, 68, American actor.
- Ivan V. Lalić, 65, Serbian writer and poet.[98]
- Roger Tory Peterson, 87, American naturalist, ornithologist and writer.[99]
- Michel Philippot, 71, French composer, mathematician, musicologist, and broadcaster.[100]
- Jaroslav Vejvoda, 76, Czech soccer player and coach.[101]
29
- Aruna Asaf Ali, 87, Indian independence activist.[102]
- Georgi Dakov, 28, Bulgarian high jumper, traffic collision.[103]
- Lauren Gale, 79, American basketball player.
- Bill Green, 71, American jazz musician (reeds).[104]
- Roger Nelson, 64, American and Canadian football player.
- Muhammad Osimi, 75, Soviet/Tajik philosopher, soldier, poet, and academic, killed in action.
- Hilary Pritchard, 54, British actress.
- Chick Reiser, 82, American basketball player and coach.[105]
- Marcel-Paul Schützenberger, 75, French mathematician and Doctor of Medicine.[106]
- Jason Thirsk, 28, American bass guitarist, suicide by gunshot.
30
- Claudette Colbert, 92, American actress (It Happened One Night, Since You Went Away, Private Worlds), Oscar winner (1935), stroke.[107]
- Margaret Cousins, 91, American writer and editor.
- Carlos Droguett, 83, Chilean writer.[108]
- Arihiro Hase, 31, Japanese voice actor and actor, suicide.
- Anthony Peck, 49, American actor, cancer.
- Magda Schneider, 87, German actress.[109]
- Constantin Teașcă, 73, Romanian football manager.
31
- Petar Džadžić, 66, Serbian literary critic and academic.[110]
- Howie Goss, 61, American baseball player.[111]
- Ricardo Molinari, 98, Argentine writer.[112]
- Seagram, 27, American rapper, shot.[113]
- Neville Wadia, 84, Indian-British businessman.[114]
- Jay Lee Webb, 59, American singer, pancreatic cancer.
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