The following is a list of notable deaths in April 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.
April 1996
1 Alexandru Diordiță, 84, Soviet/Moldovan politician. Alfredo Nobre da Costa, 72, Portuguese politician. Bob "Bones" Hamilton, 83, American college football player (Stanford Cardinal). Ray Keeling, 80, American football player (Philadelphia Eagles). Jean Le Moyne, 83, Canadian politician, member of the Senate of Canada (1982-1988). John McSherry, 51, American baseball umpire, heart attack. Léon Pétillon, 92, Belgian politician. Mário Viegas, 47, Portuguese actor and poetry reciter. Zoltán Zsitva, 90, Hungarian Olympic sprinter (1936). Masroor Anwar, 51, Indian poet, lyricist and screenwriter. Myroslav Dumanskyi, 66, Ukrainian football player.
2 Jean Elizabeth Hampton, 41, American political philosopher and author. Lindsay Hartwig, 76, Australian politician. Ian Mitchell, 49, Scottish football player. Antonio Ortiz Ramírez, 88, Spanish anarcho-syndicalist and anarchist. Arthur Spaenhoven, 61, Belgian Olympic wrestler (1968).
3 Ron Brown, 54, American government official, plane crash. Frank Doyle, 78, American comic book writer (Archie), cancer. Herk Harvey, 71, American actor and director, pancreatic cancer. Józef Marusarz, 70, Polish Olympic alpine skier (1948, 1952, 1956). Jo Privat, 76, French musician, cancer. Alphonse James Schladweiler, 93, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. Carl Stokes, 68, American politician and diplomat, esophageal cancer.
4 Brian Abel-Smith, 69, British economist. Francis Barnard, 93, English cricketer. Barney Ewell, 78, American track and field athlete and Olympic champion (1948). Irma Haubold, 87, American Olympic gymnast (1936). Joy Newton, 82, ballet dancer and teacher. Zita Perczel, 77, Hungarian actress. Winifred Shotter, 91, British actress.
5 Monika Dannemann, 50, German figure skater and painter, suicide. Gerry L'Estrange, 78, Irish politician. Frank "Nordy" Hoffman, 86, American college football player (Notre Dame Fighting Irish). Charlene Holt, 67, American actress (El Dorado). Jan Lipowski, 84, Polish Olympic alpine skier (1948). Jac Maris, 96, Dutch sculptor. Ahmed Mekkawi, 73, Egyptian Olympic football player (1948, 1952). Panayot Panayotov, 65, Bulgarian footballer and Olympian (1952, 1956). Herta Worell, 83, German actress.
6 John D. Bulkeley, 84, United States Navy vice admiral and Medal of Honor recipient. Ester Carloni, 98, Italian actress. Greer Garson, 91, British-American actress (Mrs. Miniver, Blossoms in the Dust, Madame Curie), Oscar winner (1943), heart failure. Sterling M. McMurrin, 82, American theologian. Mehmet Oktav, 78-79, Turkish Olympic wrestler (1948).
7 Colleen Clifford, 97, Australian actress. Georges Géret, 71, French film actor, cancer. Berkely Mather, 87, British writer. Yelena Mazanik, 82, Soviet/Belarus partisan who assassinated Nazi official Wilhelm Kube.
8 Donald Adams, 67, English opera singer and actor, brain cancer. John Hudson, 77, American actor (Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, The Screaming Skull, G.I. Blues). George W. Jenkins, 88, American businessman and philanthropist. Ben Johnson, 77, American actor (The Last Picture Show, The Wild Bunch, The Sugarland Express), stuntman, and world-champion rodeo cowboy, Oscar winner (1972), heart attack. León Klimovsky, 89, Argentine film director, screenwriter and actor. Walter McGuffie, 79, British Olympic wrestler (1948). Petko Sirakov, 67, Bulgarian wrestler and Olympian (1956). Agron Sulaj, 44, Albanian football player and. José Valdivieso, 74, Argentine football player and manager. Petro Voinovsky, 82, Ukrainian nationalist. Mick Young, 59, Australian politician.
9 Sandy Becker, 74, American announcer, actor, and comedian. Richard Condon, 81, American political novelist. Freddy Jensen, 70, Danish Olympic gymnast (1948, 1952). Paul Leder, 70, American actor and film director, lung cancer. Otto Licha, 83, Austrian Olympic handball player (1936). Armand Pagnoulle, 94, Belgian Olympic canoeist (1936). James Rouse, 81, American businessman and founder of The Rouse Company.
10 Bud Annand, 62, Australian rules footballer. Moshe Davis, 80, American rabbi. Walter Harding, 79, American scholar and professor of English literature. Gunnar Konsmo, 73, Norwegian Olympic speed skater (1948). Herman Pines, 94, Russian-American chemist. Jack Wilkinson, 64, English football player.
11 Billy Anderson, 55, American gridiron football player (Houston Oilers), ALS. Hans Beck, 84, Norwegian Olympic ski jumper (1932). Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet, 89, French businessman and publicist. Trygve Brodahl, 90, Norwegian cross country skier and Olympian (1936). Jessica Dubroff, 7, American trainee pilot, plane crash. Mel Hill, 82, Canadian ice hockey player (Boston Bruins, Brooklyn Americans, Toronto Maple Leafs). Wanda McKay, 80, American actor and model.
12 Antonio Capua, 90, Italian politician. Helmut Krone, 70, American art director. Bob Landers, 55, Australian rugby league footballer. Marthe Robert, 82, French writer. Igor Ternov, 74, Russian physicist.
13 C. Alfred "Chief" Anderson, 89, American aviator. Marguerite Bernes, 94, Algerian nun recognised as Righteous Among the Nations. George Mackay Brown, 74, Scottish poet, author and dramatist. James Burke, 64, American mobster and Lucchese crime family associate, lung cancer. D'Arcy Coulson, 88, Canadian ice hockey player (Philadelphia Quakers). Vjekoslav Kaleb, 90, Croatian writer. Denis Sargan, 71, British econometrician.
14 Waleed Al-Salam, 69, Iraqi mathematician. Gaylord Birch, 50, American musician. Marie Clotilde Bonaparte, 84, French princess of the Bonaparte dynasty. William K. Everson, 67, American journalist, prostate cancer. Larry LaPrise, 83, American songwriter.The Hokey Pokey Man Is Dead at 83 Mervyn Levy, 82, Welsh artist and writer on art. George N. Neise, 79, American actor, cancer. James Sargent Russell, 93, United States Navy admiral. Einar Söderqvist, 74, Swedish Olympic hammer thrower (1948). Kōtetsuyama Toyoya, 53, Japanese sumo wrestler. Ed Zeniuk, 63, Canadian ice hockey player (Detroit Red Wings).
15 Beatriz Costa, 88, Portuguese actress. Karl Etti, 83, Austrian composer. John C. Flanagan, 90, American psychologist. Arthur Lelyveld, 83, American rabbi and activist. Stavros Niarchos, 86, Greek businessman and art collector, pneumonia. Margit Pályi, 87, Hungarian Olympic gymnast (1928).
16 George Abel, 80, Canadian ice hockey player and Olympic champion (1952). Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, 67, Cuban film director and screenwriter. François-Régis Bastide, 69, French writer, diplomat, politician, and radio host, lung cancer. Kelly Anne Bates, 17, English murder victim. Zoltán Berkes, 79, Hungarian Olympic field hockey player (1936). Nikolay Bobarenko, 65, Russian Olympic cyclist (1952). Lucille Bremer, 79, American actress and dancer, heart attack. Irasema Dilián, 71, Italian actress. Raymond Hill, 62, American tenor saxophonist, singer, and recording artist. Charlie Hillard, 58, American aerobatics pilot, aviation accident. Mogens Venge, 84, Danish Olympic field hockey player (1936, 1948).
17 Paul Bleiß, 91, German politician and member of the Bundestag. Piet Hein, 90, Danish puzzle designer, mathematician, and poet. Adelaide Lambert, 88, American swimmer and Olympic champion (1928). Dudley Manlove, 81, American actor and radio announcer. Abbot Low Moffat, 94, American politician, cancer. Hugh Robson, 77, New Zealand lawn bowls competitor. Bill Serena, 71, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs).
18 Brook Berringer, 22, American gridiron football player, plane crash. Ronald Davies, 91, American district judge (United States District Court for the District of North Dakota). Bernard Edwards, 43, American bass player and record producer, pneumonia. Chester Gray, 82, American baseball player. Bill Kendall, 86, Canadian ice hockey player (Chicago Black Hawks, Toronto Maple Leafs). Mike Leander, 54, English arranger, songwriter and record producer, cancer. Secondo De Marchi, 84, Italian Olympic boxer (1936). Len Millar, 70, Australian rules footballer. Hubert Opperman, 91, Australian racing cyclist. Gino Rozzini, 79, Canadian ice hockey player (Boston Bruins). Leônidas da Silva, 82, Brazilian Olympic swimmer (1936).
19 Yukiyoshi Aoki, 61, Japanese Olympic swimmer (1952, 1956). James B. Clark Jr., 39, American murderer, execution by lethal injection. Ken Doherty, 90, American decathlete and Olympian (1928). Augusto Lobos, 83, Chilean footballer. John Martin, 36, English spree killer, suicide. Buddy Oldfield, 84, English cricket player and umpire.
20 John Barrie, 71, English snooker player. Hank Biasatti, 74, Canadian basketball and baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics). Alexander D'Arcy, 87, Egyptian actor. Walter D'Ávila, 84, Brazilian actor. Frans Gommers, 79, Belgian football player. Raúl Meraz, 69, Mexican actor. Christopher Robin Milne, 75, English author and bookseller. Steve Oneschuk, 65, Canadian football player. Fred Roberts, 83, Welsh cricketer and Royal Air Force officer. Tran Van Tra, 78, Vietnamese general and commander in the Viet Cong.
21 Zora Arkus-Duntov, 86, Belgian-American engineer nicknamed the "Father of the Corvette.". Walker Cress, 79, American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds). Dzhokhar Dudayev, 52, Soviet/Russian general and Chechen leader, homicide. Alceo Galliera, 85, Italian conductor and composer. Robert Hersant, 76, French newspaper magnate. Abdul Hafeez Kardar, 71, Indian cricket player. Sigvard Löfgren, 68, Swedish footballer. Luigi Pistilli, 66, Italian actor, suicide. Paraone Reweti, 79, New Zealand politician. Jimmy Snyder, 77, American horse racing announcer & television sports announcer, heart attack. Bertel Storskrubb, 78, Finnish middle-distance runner, hurdler and Olympian (1948).
22 Erma Bombeck, 69, American humorist and writer, kidney disease. Bob Brady, 73, American baseball player (Boston Braves). Helen Keane, 73, American jazz record producer, breast cancer. Molly Keane, 91, Irish writer. Joe Lamas, 80, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers). Jug McSpaden, 87, American golfer, and golf course architect, accidental carbon monoxide poisoning. Hiteswar Saikia, 62, Indian politician, kidney failure. Serafim Subbotin, 75, Soviet/Russian flying ace. John Baptist Wolf, 88, American historian, specializing in modern European history. Nobuo Yoneda, 66, Japanese computer scientist.
23 Jean Victor Allard, 82, Canadian general. Mario Luigi Ciappi, 86, Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. Jake Daniel, 85, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers). María Lavalle Urbina, 87, Mexican lawyer and politician. P. L. Travers, 96, Australian-British novelist (Mary Poppins), epilepsy. Jesús Hernández Úbeda, 36, Spanish bicycle racer. Siegfried Viebahn, 84, German Olympic diver (1936).
24 Mel Bleeker, 75, American football player (Philadelphia Eagles, Los Angeles Rams). Donald Cammell, 62, British film director, suicide. Giliante D'Este, 86, Italian rower and Olympian (1928, 1932, 1936). Tomás de Bhaldraithe, 79, Irish language scholar and lexicographer. Gary Geiger, 59, American baseball player, cirrhosis. Sulo Heino, 87, Finnish Olympic hammer thrower (1936). Preston Lockwood, 83, British actor. Aldo Masciotta, 86, Italian Olympic fencer (1936). Rafael Orozco, 50, Spanish musician, AIDS-related complications. Frank Riley, 80, American writer. Vincenzo Torriani, 77, Italian sports executive and director of the Giro d'Italia.
25 Saul Bass, 75, American graphic designer and filmmaker, lymphoma. John Lorne Campbell, 89, British historian. Althea Henley, 84, American film actress and dancer. Tommy Irwin, 83, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians).