The following is a list of notable deaths in February 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.
February 1996
1 Adel Adham, 67, Egyptian film actor, pneumonia. Sergey Aganov, 78, Soviet/Russian Marshal of the engineer troops. Benny Brown, 42, American track and field athlete and Olympic champion (1976), traffic collision. Ray Crawford, 80, American fighter ace during World War II and racecar driver. Charles Proctor, 90, American Olympic skier (1928). Kevin Williams, 38, American gridiron football player in the National Football League (Baltimore Colts), train crash.
2 Américo Astete, 28, Argentine alpine skier, plane crash.Américo Astete Sylwester Braun, 87, Polish photographer and army officer. Shamus Culhane, 87, American animator and director. Fred S. Keller, 97, American psychologist and a pioneer in experimental psychology. Gene Kelly, 83, American actor (Singin' in the Rain, An American in Paris, Anchors Aweigh) and dancer, stroke. Vernon Nicholls, 78, British bishop. Li Peiyao, 62, Chinese politician, homicide. Minao Shibata, 79, Japanese composer and musicologist. Aline Towne, 76, American actress. Müfide İlhan, 84, Turkish mayor.
3 Edward Adamson, 84, British artist and art collector. Margaret Coughlin, American politician, member of the Washington House of Representatives (1937–1939). Larry Eigner, 68, American poet. Guy Gilles, 57, French film director, AIDS-related complications. Božo Grkinić, 82, Yugoslav water polo and basketball player, coach, and Olympian (1948). Hal Hinte, 76, American football player (Green Bay Packers, Pittsburgh Steelers). Audrey Meadows, 73, American actress and banker, lung cancer.
4 Gerry Brand, 89, South African rugby player. Willard S. Curtin, 90, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1957-1967). Vyacheslav Domani, 48, Russian Olympic volleyball player (1972). Manolo Fábregas, 74, Spanish-Mexican actor, film director and film producer. John Hugo Loudon, 90, Dutch businessman and CEO of Royal Dutch Shell. Norris Phillips, 79, American baseball player. Lakshman Singh, 85, Indian scouting leader. Allan Strang, 74, Australian rules footballer.
5 Max Fresson, 83, French Olympic equestrian (1948, 1960). Gianandrea Gavazzeni, 86, Italian musician. Edward Jackson, 70, Australian rules footballer. Hideo Oguni, 91, Japanese screenwriter. Roberto Raviola, 56, Italian comic book artist, pancreatic cancer. Tom Re, 83, Australian rules footballer. Lim Chin Siong, 62, Singaporean politician, heart attack. Antonio Ruiz Soler, 74, Spanish dancer and choreographer. Ted Tyson, 86, Australian rules football player. Gary Zeller, 48, American basketball player (Baltimore Bullets, New York Nets).
6 Georges de Wilde, 95, French Olympic speed skater (1924). Guy Madison, 74, American actor (The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok), pulmonary emphysema. Bob Muncrief, 80, American baseball player. Renee Roberts, 87, British actress. Patsy Smart, 77, British actress. Jacques Wertheimer, 84, French businessman. Notable people killed in the crash of Birgenair Flight 301: Zbigniew Gorzelańczyk, 51, Polish politician, member of the Sejm (since 1993). Marek Wielgus, 45, Polish politician, member of the Sejm (since 1993).
7 Lydia Chukovskaya, 88, Soviet/Russian writer, poet, editor, publicist, and dissident. Jack Cooper, 84, Australian rules footballer. I. K. Dairo, 65, Nigerian Jùjú musician. Phillip Davidson, 80, American lieutenant general. Barbara Hamilton, 69, Canadian actress, breast cancer. Lucien Maynard, 87, Canadian politician. Robert, Archduke of Austria-Este, 80, Austrian prince and Archduke of Austria-Este. Boris Tchaikovsky, 70, Soviet and Russian composer. Red Webb, 71, American baseball player (New York Giants). Pat West, 72, American gridiron football player (Cleveland/Los Angeles Rams, Green Bay Packers). Ernst Würthwein, 86, German theologian.
8 T. J. Campion, 77, American football player (Philadelphia Eagles). Marcel Capelle, 91, French football player. Mercer Ellington, 76, American musician, composer, and arranger, heart attack. Del Ennis, 70, American baseball player, diabetes. Ri Sung Gi, 90, North Korean chemist. Bruno Hussar, 84, Egyptian priest. Siavash Kasraie, 68, Iranian poet, literary critic, and novelist. José Poy, 69, Argentine football player and manager. Felice Schwartz, 71, American feminist writer. Johan Van Den Steen, 67, Belgian Olympic water polo player (1952, 1964). Vladimír Vaina, 86, Czech Olympic rower (1936). Derek Worlock, 76, English catholic prelate and Archbishop of Liverpool, lung cancer.
9 Chitti Babu, 59, Indian musician. Sir George Trevelyan, 4th Baronet, 89, British baronet and a founding father of the New Age movement. Adolf Borchers, 82, German Luftwaffe flying ace during World War II. Stephen Hope Carlill, 93, British Royal Navy admiral. Yun Chi-Young, 97, Korean politician. Alistair Cameron Crombie, 80, Australian zoologist and historian of science. Neil Franklin, 74, English football player and manager. Adolf Galland, 83, German Luftwaffe flying ace and general during World War II. Johanna Hall, 61, British Olympic equestrian (1960, 1964, 1968). Gerald Savory, 86, English playwright and screenwriter specialising in comedies. Gordon D. Shirreffs, 82, American writer. Robin Stille, 34, American actress (The Slumber Party Massacre), suicide."Stille, Robin Rochelle" (obituary), Los Angeles Times, Tuesday, February 13, 1996. Retrieved November 28, 2021
10 Josette Bruce, 76, Polish-French novelist. Björn-Erik Höijer, 88, Swedish writer. Giovanni Pontiero, 64, British scholar. Klaus-Dieter Seehaus, 53, German Olympic football player (1964).
11 Olle Åhlund, 75, Swedish footballer and Olympian (1952). Thecla Boesen, 85, Danish film actress. William F. Claxton, 81, American television director and television producer. Brian Daley, 48, American writer, pancreatic cancer. Charles Imbault, 86, French Olympic field hockey player (1936). Kebby Musokotwane, 49, Zambian politician and Prime Minister. Quarentinha, 62, Brazilian football player, heart failure. Phil Regan, 89, American actor and singer. Amelia Rosselli, 65, Italian poet, suicide. Gertrude Sawyer, 100, American architect. Bob Shaw, 64, Northern Irish science fiction author and novelist, cancer. Pierre Edouard Leopold Verger, 93, French photographer, anthropologist, and writer.
12 Andrea Barbato, 61, Italian journalist, writer and politician. Gina Falckenberg, 88, German actress. Alois Kuhn, 85, German Olympic ice hockey player (1936). Betty Roland, 92, Australian playwright and novelist. Ernest Samuels, 92, American biographer and lawyer. Ryōtarō Shiba, 72, Japanese writer.
13 Martin Balsam, 76, American actor (A Thousand Clowns, 12 Angry Men, Psycho), Oscar winner (1966), heart attack. Scott Beach, 65, American actor (American Graffiti, Stand by Me, The Right Stuff) and disc jockey. Charlie Conerly, 74, American gridiron football player (New York Giants). George Jefferson, 85, American Olympic pole vaulter (1932). Léopold Langlois, 82, Canadian politician. Cynthia MacGregor, 31, American tennis player, complications from anorexia nervosa. Branko Marjanović, 86, Croatian film director and editor. Cy Proffitt, 84, American basketball player. Ugyen Rinpoche, 76, Tibetan Buddhist Lama.
14 Ernie Barker, 82, Australian Olympic equestrian (1956). Lady Caroline Blackwood, 64, British writer and journalist, cancer. Louis Finot, 86, French footballer. Helge Halkjær, 79, Danish Olympic rower (1948). Fritz Hanson, 81, American-Canadian gridiron football player. Eva Hart, 91, British survivor of the sinking of RMS Titanic, cancer. Gied Jaspars, 56, Dutch television producer, colorectal cancer. Čeněk Kottnauer, 85, Czech-British chess master. Eddie Marks, 71, Irish cricketer. Alejandro de la Sota Martínez, 82, Spanish architect. Drago Matulaj, 84, Croatian Olympic rower (1936). Bob Paisley, 77, English football player and manager, Alzheimer's disease. Francisco Tomás y Valiente, 63, Spanish jurist, historian, and writer, homicide. Sylvester Veitch, 85, American horse trainer. Mark Venturini, 35, American actor (Friday the 13th: A New Beginning, The Return of the Living Dead, Mikey), leukemia.
15 Lucio Agostini, 82, Italian-Canadian musician. Don Condon, 72, Australian rules footballer. Margaret Courtenay, 72, Welsh actress. Peter Gardner, 71, Australian hurdler and Olympian (1948). Edward Madejski, 81, Polish football player and Olympian (1936). Ron McCann, 82, Australian rules footballer. Tommy Rettig, 54, American child actor (Lassie), database programmer, and author, heart attack. Henri Simonet, 64, Belgian politician. McLean Stevenson, 68, American actor (M*A*S*H, Hello, Larry, The Doris Day Show) and comedian, heart attack. Brunó Ferenc Straub, 82, Hungarian biochemist.
16 Roberto Aizenberg, 67, Argentine painter and sculptor. Roger Bowen, 63, American actor (M*A*S*H, Arnie, Tunnel Vision), heart attack. Pat Brown, 90, American lawyer and politician and Governor of California. Nicolae Carandino, 90, Romanian writer. Gordon Drummond Clancy, 83, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1958-1968). Eleanor Clark, 82, American writer. Hank Gornicki, 85, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals, Chicago Cubs, Pittsburgh Pirates). Bert Iannone, 79, Canadian football player. Stasys Janušauskas, 93, Lithuanian Olympic footballer (1924). Miloš Kopecký, 73, Czech actor. Jón Kristjánsson, 75, Icelandic Olympic cross-country skier (1952, 1956). Brownie McGhee, 80, American folk-blues singer and guitarist, stomach cancer. Kenneth Robinson, 84, British politician. Ernst Weber, 94, Austrian-American electrical engineer, and microwave technology pioneer.
17 Hervé Bazin, 84, French writer. Gus Hardin, 50, American country music singer, car accident. Andy Lapihuska, 73, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies). Evelyn Laye, 95, English actress, respiratory failure. Michael Keith Nunes, 78, Jamaican Olympic sailor (1972). Michel Pablo, 84, Greek Trotskyist leader, stroke. Nikolai Starostin, 93, Soviet/Russian football player and founder of Spartak Moscow.
18 Margery Hinton, 80, English swimmer and Olympian (1928, 1932, 1936). Madhaviah Krishnan, 83, Indian photographer. Janice Loeb, 93, American film director, screenwriter, cinematographer and film producer. Andy Marefos, 78, American football player (New York Giants, Los Angeles Dons). Josef Meinrad, 82, Austrian actor, cancer. Edward O'Brien, 21, Northern Irish IRA volunteer, killed.
19 Sehba Akhtar, 65, Indian poet and songwriter, heart attack. Brenda Bruce, 76, British actress. Marco Antonio Campos, 76, Mexican actor, aortic aneurysm. Antonio Creus, 71, Spanish motorcycle racer and racing driver. Charles O. Finley, 77, American businessman. Douglas Livingstone, 64, South African poet. Ernest Manning, 87, Canadian politician. Dorothy Maynor, 85, American singer. Grant Sawyer, 77, American politician and Governor of Nevada.
20 Solomon Asch, 88, Polish-American psychologist. Charles O. Finley, 77, American businessman. Walter Marshall, Baron Marshall of Goring, 63, British peer and scientist. Viktor Konovalenko, 57, Soviet Union ice hockey player and Olympian (1964, 1968). Mariano Vidal Molina, 70, Argentinian actor. Carolyn Morris, 70, American baseball player. Audrey Munson, 104, American artist's model and film actress. Jeffrey Quill, 83, British test pilot. Frank Sheppard, 90, Canadian ice hockey player (Detroit Cougars). Tōru Takemitsu, 65, Japanese composer and writer, bladder cancer.
21 Priscilla Bonner, 97, American silent film actress. Rune Börjesson, 58, Swedish football player. Hans-Joachim Bremermann, 69, German-American mathematician and biophysicist, cancer.