Deaths in January 1996

The following is a list of notable deaths in January 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.

January 1996

1 Arleigh Burke, 94, United States Navy admiral. Dori Dorika, 82, Russian-Italian actress. Sergio Ojeda Doren, 89, Chilean politician and Olympic boxer (1928). Alifa Rifaat, 65, Egyptian author. Arthur Rudolph, 89, German rocket engineer. Jessie Vihrog, 89, South African-born German film actress. Virgil W. Vogel, 76, American television and film director. Sergei Yakovlev, 70, Soviet/Russian actor. John Rodney, 81, American actor.

2 Michel Berto, 56, French actor. Erwin Kroggel, 83, German Olympic fencer (1952). Viatcheslav Nazarov, 43, Russian musician, traffic collision. Karl Rappan, 90, Austrian football player and coach. Julià Reig Ribó, 84, Andorran politician.  George Sirochman, 77, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers, Detroit Lions). Efua Sutherland, 71, Ghanaian writer. Karl Targownik, 80, Hungarian-born American psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor.Targownik Family History Page

3 Teddy Andrulewicz, 91, American football player. Aníbal Pinto Santa Cruz, 76-77, Chilean economist, heart attack. Terence Cuneo, 88, British artist. Paul Lipson, 82, American stage actor. Jean Marois, 71, Canadian ice hockey player (Toronto Maple Leafs, Chicago Black Hawks). Connie Ryan, 75, American baseball player and coach. Ričardas Vaitkevičius, 62, Soviet/Lithuanian rower and Olympian (1964).

4 Anna Amalie Abert, 89, German musicologist. Tino Bianchi, 90, Italian actor, pneumonia. Jean Feyte, 92, French film editor. Bob Flanagan, 43, American writer, performance artist, poet, musician, and comic, cystic fibrosis. Zhou Mingzhen, 77, Chinese paleontologist. Steve Raines, 79, American actor (Rawhide). Ramón Vinay, 84, Chilean opera singer.

5 Yahya Ayyash, 29, Palestinian chief bombmaker of Hamas, homicide. Gus Bivona, 80, American musician. Jack Church, 80, Canadian ice hockey player (Toronto Maple Leafs, Brooklyn Americans, Boston Bruins). Václav David, 85, Czechoslovak politician. Fritz Gazzera, 88, German Olympic fencer (1928). Lincoln Kirstein, 88, American writer, impresario, art connoisseur, and philanthropist. Paul Lavanga, 85, French Olympic modern pentathlete (1936). Knut Løfsnes, 77, Norwegian resistance member during World War II and politician. Thung Sin Nio, 93, Indonesian-Dutch women's rights activist, physician, economist and politician. Elmer Singleton, 77, American baseball player.

6 Henry Hopkinson, 1st Baron Colyton, 94, British politician. Jan Willem de Pous, 75, Dutch politician and economist. William J. Dyess, 66, American diplomat, cancer. Duane Hanson, 70, American sculptor. Johnnie Johnston, 80, American actor and singer. Maude Kegg, 91, American Ojibwe traditionalist, bead artist, and author. John Philipps Kenyon, 68, British historian. Kim Kwang-seok, 31, South Korean musician, suicide. Rudolf Polame, 85, Czech Olympic long jumper (1936). Aulis Pystynen, 68, Finnish Olympic middle-distance runner (1952). Kurt Schmücker, 76, German politician. Chubby Wise, 80, American bluegrass fiddler.

7 William H. Clothier, 92, American cinematographer. Roger D. Foley, 78, American district judge (United States District Court for the District of Nevada). John A. Gronouski, 76, American diplomat. Károly Grósz, 65, Hungarian politician, kidney cancer. V. Kumar, 61, India film score composer. Seton Lloyd, 93, British archaeologist. Harold Norman Moldenke, 86, American botanist and taxonomist. Tarō Okamoto, 84, Japanese artist, art theorist, and writer, Parkinson's disease. Bienvenido Santos, 84, Filipino writer. Heinrich Scheel, 80, German historian of modern age. Aaron Stell, 84, American film and television editor. Arthur Whitford, 87, British gymnast and Olympian (1928).

8 Paul Cleary, 73, American gridiron football player (New York Yankees, Chicago Hornets). Carmen Conde, 88, Spanish poet, novelist, literary critic, Alzheimer's disease. Teobaldo Depetrini, 81, Italian football player and coach. John Hargreaves, 50, Australian actor, AIDS-related complications. Margaret Jenkins, 92, American Olympic discus thrower (1928, 1932). Okla Jones II, 50, American district judge (United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana). Fernand Leblanc, 78, Canadian politician. Dutch McCall, 75, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs). Joyce McCartan, 65, Northern Irish community worker and peace activist. Norrie McCathie, 34, Scottish football player, carbon monoxide poisoning. Michiya Mihashi, 65, Japanese singer, multiple organ dysfunction syndrome. Harlan Mills, 76, American computer scientist and academic. François Mitterrand, 79, French statesman and President of France, prostate cancer. Pritam Singh, 71, Indian Olympic gymnast (1956). Howard Taubman, 88, American theatre critic. Paul Vialar, 97, French writer. Sadao Watanabe, 83, Japanese printmaker.

9 Abdullah al-Qasemi, 89, Saudi Arabian writer and intellectual, cancer. Moe Becker, 78, American basketball player. Ronnie Bell, 88, British physical chemist. Howie Braun, 83, American basketball player and coach. Roger Freed, 49, American baseball player, heart problems. Félix González-Torres, 38, American artist, AIDS-related complications. Metin Göktepe, 27, Turkish photojournalist, beaten to death. Maria Kusion-Bibro, 59, Polish Olympic athlete (1956, 1960). M. Larry Lawrence, 69, American diplomat. Oskar Lory, 69, Swiss Olympic bobsledder (1964). Walter M. Miller, 72, American fiction writer, suicide. Fearless Nadia, 88, Australian-Indian actress and stuntwoman. Sultan Rahi, 57, Pakistani actor, producer and screenwriter, ballistic trauma. Özdemir Sabancı, 54, Turkish businessman, murdered. Jack Smith, 79, American journalist, author, and newspaper columnist. Mike Synar, 45, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1979-1995), brain cancer. Louis William Tordella, 84, American mathematician and deputy director of the National Security Agency. Overton Tremper, 89, American baseball player (Brooklyn Robins). Józef Wiśniewski, 55, Polish ice hockey player and Olympian (1964). Danni Xtravaganza, 34, American member of the ballroom scene, AIDS-related complications.

10 Anders Hartington Andersen, 88, Danish Olympic long-distance runner (1932, 1936). Douglas Cameron, 92, New Zealand cricketer. Ivan Deryugin, 67, Soviet/Russian modern pentathlete and Olympic champion (1956). Raymond H. Fogler, 103, American politician. Dean McAdams, 78, American gridiron football player (Brooklyn Dodgers). Egidio Ortona, 85, Italian diplomat. Don Richardson, 77, American television director (Lost in Space, The Adventures of Ellery Queen, Bonanza). Joseph Charles Schultz Jr., 77, American baseball player, manager, and coach.

11 Harold Walter Bailey, 96, British scholar of Asian languages. Tato Bores, 70, Argentine actor. Roger Crozier, 53, Canadian ice hockey player (Detroit Red Wings, Buffalo Sabres, Washington Capitals), cancer. Eric Hebborn, 61, English painter, draughtsman, art forger and author, homicide. Ike Isaacs, 76, Burmese-English jazz guitarist.

12 Garnett Blair, 74, American baseball player. Arthur Gallagher, 77, American Olympic rower (1948). Eduard Haken, 85, Czech actor, doctor and opera singer. Edmund Happold, 65, British engineer and activist. Jonas Jonsson, 92, Swedish Olympic sport shooter (1948). Joseph Kuzmin, 85, Russian politician. John Howard Purnell, 70, Welsh chemist. Rizzieri Rodeghiero, 76, Italian skier and Olympian (1948). Fouad Sedki, 70, Egyptian Olympic football player (1948, 1952). Bartel Leendert van der Waerden, 92, Dutch mathematician and mathematics historian. Dai Ward, 61, Welsh football player.

13 Denise Grey, 99, Italian-French actress. Mark Herron, 67, American actor, cancer. Dean Kelley, 64, American basketball player and Olympian (1952). Ester Krumbachová, 72, Czech filmmaker. Bobby Langton, 77, English football player and manager. Aliou Mahamidou, 48, Nigerien politician and Prime Minister. Sam Merwin, Jr., 85, American writer. Elina Pohjanpää, 62, Finnish actress, oral cancer. Jorge Sapelli, 70, Uruguayan politician. Peter Shenton, 59, English cricketer. Joe Zombek, 63, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers).

14 Annie Broadbent, 87, British Olympic artistic gymnast (1928). Umberto Drei, 70, Italian racing cyclist. Ernst Friborg Jensen, 89, Danish Olympic rower (1928). Jacques Lebrun, 85, French Olympic sailor (1932, 1936, 1948, 1952, 1960). José Pastor, 89, Spanish Olympic boxer (1924). Ōhikari Sadayuki, 68, Japanese sumo wrestler and coach. Onno Tunç, 47, Turkish composer, plane crash.

15 Don Bauer, 73, Australian rules footballer. Les Baxter, 73, American musician, singer, and composer. Richard Cobb, 78, British historian, essayist, and professor. Dave Harper, 78, American baseball player. Gerhard Huttula, 93, German cinematographer and film director. Lindsey Jerman, 80, English cricketer. Nils Jørgensen, 84, Norwegian Olympic fencer (1936). Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho, 57, King of Lesotho, traffic collision. Edward Makula, 65, Polish aviator. Mohsin Naqvi, 48, Pakistani poet, murdered. Max Varnel, 70, French film director. Rudolf Wanderone, 82, American pool player.

16 Marcia Davenport, 92, American author and music critic. Richard Kermode, 49, American keyboardist. Harry Potts, 75, English football player and manager. Franz Reiner, 83, Swiss Olympic canoeist (1948). Kurt Svanström, 80, Swedish football player. Mario Tosato, 65, Italian cyclist.

17 Arnold Anderson, 83, New Zealand sprinter. Børge Enemark, 52, Danish footballer. Barbara Jordan, 59, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1973-1979), pneumonia. Charles Madge, 83, English poet, journalist and sociologist. Mikhail Plaksin, 66, Soviet Russian Olympic rower (1952). Harry Robertson, 63, Scottish musician, bandleader, and composer. Juan Luis Segundo, 70, Uruguayan priest and theologian. Xuefan Zhu, 90, Chinese politician.

18 Adriana Camelli, 67, Argentine Olympic swimmer (1948). Osro Cobb, 91, American lawyer and politician. Leonor Fini, 87, Argentine painter, designer and writer. John Hope, 1st Baron Glendevon, 83, British politician. N. T. Rama Rao, 72, Indian actor, producer, director, and politician, heart attack. Alberto Ruschel, 77, Brazilian actor, producer, and director.

19 Upendranath Ashk, 85, Indian novelist, short story writer and playwright. Bernard Baily, 79, American comic book artist. A. G. Gaston, 103, American businessman.Gaston, Arthur George John Groves, 81, Jamaican cricketer. Kasım Gülek, 91, Turkish politician. Byron Keith, 78, American actor (77 Sunset Strip, Batman, The Stranger), heart attack. Ian Mort, 58, Australian rules footballer. Anton Myrer, 73, American author, leukemia. Donny Schmit, 29, American motorcycle racer, aplastic anemia. Don Simpson, 52, American film producer (Top Gun, Beverly Hills Cop, The Rock), heart failure. Lucien Theys, 68, Belgian long-distance and steeplechase runner and Olympian (1948, 1952). Harold Wolpe, 70, South African political economist.

20 Buster Benton, 63, American blues guitarist and singer, diabetes. Tom Dimitroff, Sr., 60, American and Canadian football player (Boston Patriots), and coach. Thorvald Hagedorn-Olsen, 93, Danish painter. Sidney Korshak, 88, American lawyer and "fixer" for the Chicago Mafia. Joseph Mermans, 73, Belgian football player. Gerry Mulligan, 68, American jazz baritone saxophonist, arranger and composer, liver cancer. Lo Wei, 77, Chinese film director, heart failure.

21 Jordan Christopher, 55, American actor (Secrets of Midland Heights) and singer. Roman Cieślewicz, 66, Polish artist, laryngeal cancer.