The following is a list of notable deaths in June 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.
June 1996
1 Vittorino Colombo, 71, Italian politician. Gaetano Fichera, 74, Italian mathematician. Michael Fox, 75, American actor, pneumonia. Don Grolnick, 48, American musician, lymphoma. Jack Hemi, 81, New Zealand rugby player. Attiqur Rahman, 77, Pakistani general and military historian. Neelam Sanjiva Reddy, 83, Sixth President of India, pneumonia. Ryszard Skwarski, 66, Polish Olympic canoeist (1956, 1960).
2 John Alton, 94, American cinematographer (An American in Paris), Oscar winner (1952). Ishmael Bernal, 57, Filipino director, cardiovascular disease. Rene Bond, 45, American pornographic actress, cirrhosis. Ray Combs, 40, American stand-up comedian, actor, and game-show host (Family Feud), suicide by hanging. Stewart Evans, 87, Canadian ice hockey player (Montreal Canadiens). Alberto Farnese, 69, Italian actor. Leon Garfield, 74, English children's writer, cancer. Pilar Lorengar, 68, Spanish operatic soprano, lung cancer. Gene Snyder, 65, American baseball player (Los Angeles Dodgers). Amos Tversky, 59, Israeli psychologist, melanoma. William Van Pelt, 91, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1951-1965). James Walker, 70, Australian Olympic alpine skier (1956).
3 Arthur J. O. Anderson, 88, American anthropologist specializing in Aztec culture. Veniero Colasanti, 85, Italian costume designer, set decorator and art director. Ben Couch, 70, New Zealand politician and rugby union player. Bill Cox, 91, American Olympic long-distance runner (1924). Peter Glenville, 82, English actor director and producer, myocardial infarction. Ferdinand Leitner, 84, German composer and conductor. Tito Okello, 82, President of Uganda. Hideo Sakai, 86, Japanese association football player, pneumonia. Gitchandra Tongbra, 83, Indian satirist, poet, playwright and art academic. Aimo Tukiainen, 78, Finnish sculptor.
4 María Luisa Anido, 89, Spanish musician. Alfonso Canti, 75, Italian Olympic weightlifter (1952). Cliff Holton, 67, English football player. Nel Roos-Lodder, 82, Dutch Olympic discus thrower (1948). Harry Verdon, 86, Australian rules footballer. Aloha Wanderwell, 89, Canadian-American explorer, author, filmmaker, and aviator.
5 Erich Bagge, 84, German physicist. Jack Beaton, 82, Australian rugby player. Patrick Cordier, 49, French alpinist, traffic collision. Hartono Rekso Dharsono, 70, Indonesian general. Jan Kerouac, 44, American writer and only child of author Jack Kerouac and Joan Haverty Kerouac. Felicja Schabińska, 86, Polish Olympic hurdler (1932). Vito Scotti, 78, American actor, lung cancer. Anne-Marie Ørbeck, 85, Norwegian pianist and composer.
6 Harry Andersson, 83, Swedish football player. Bruce Andrew, 88, Australian football player. David Brodie, 86, Scottish field hockey player and Olympian (1948). Fritz Haffer, 82, Romanian Olympic handball player (1936). Hall Hibbard, 92, American aerospace engineer. Courtney Johnson, 56, American banjo player, lung cancer. Vladimír Karfík, 94, Czech architect. Kusuo Kitamura, 78, Japanese Olympic swimmer (1932). Rajmund Kupareo, 81, Croatian poet. Mary Lee, 71, American actress. Honoré Martens, 83, Belgian footballer. George Davis Snell, 92, American geneticist. José María Valverde, 70, Spanish philosopher.
7 Buddy Blair, 85, American Major League Baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics). Percy Edwards, 88, English entertainer and ornithologist. Marjorie Gross, 40, Canadian television producer, ovarian cancer. David Allan Hubbard, 68, American theologian and professor. Fumi Kojima, 79, Japanese track and field athlete and Olympian (1936). Tom Puna, 66, New Zealand cricketer. John Steele, 87, American Olympic ski jumper (1932).
8 William J. Baroody, Jr., 58, American government official, lung ailment. Gerda Bredgaard, 88, Danish Olympic swimmer (1928). Richard Boykin Kellam, 87, American district judge (United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia). Scoop Putnam, 83, American basketball player. Phyllis Stedman, 79, British politician and life peer. Henryk Trębicki, 55, Polish weightlifter and Olympian (1964, 1968, 1972).
9 Rafaela Aparicio, 90, Spanish actress, cerebral hemorrhage. Trevor Gowers, 51, Australian rules footballer. Daniel Mazia, 83, American cell biologist. Salme Reek, 88, Estonian actress. Walter Stokes, 98, American Olympic sport shooter (1924). Nhiek Tioulong, 87, Cambodian politician.
10 Aleksandr Abushakhmetov, 41, Russian Olympic fencer (1976, 1980). Catullo Ciacci, 62, Italian cyclist. Louis Gailliard, 83, French Olympic hurdler (1936). Hugh Mitchell, 89, American politician. Frankie Sakai, 67, Japanese comedian, actor, and musician. Chiyo Uno, 98, Japanese writer, pneumonia. Jo Van Fleet, 80, American actress (East of Eden, Cool Hand Luke, The Rose Tattoo), Oscar winner (1956). Marie-Louise von Motesiczky, 89, Austrian artist.
11 Ulysses Dove, 49, American dancer, AIDS-related complications. Lonne Elder III, 68, American actor and dramatist. George Hees, 85, Canadian politician. Brigitte Helm, 88, German actress. Wilson W. Wyatt, 90, American politician and lawyer.
12 Mary Field, 87, American film actress, stroke. John Hopper, 73, American politician. Annie Ruth Jiagge, 77, Ghanaian jurist and women's rights activist. Manibhai J. Patel, 75, Indian politician. Lillian Yarbo, 91, American actress.
13 Edward Dugmore, 81, American artist, cancer. Don Ellersick, 58, American football player (Los Angeles Rams). Friedrich Geiger, 88, German automobile designer of notably the Mercedes-Benz 300 SL. Frank Murdoch, 92, British Olympic sailor (1952). Pran Nath, 77, Indian singer, heart failure. Keith Palmer, 38, American musician, cancer. Al Piechota, 82, American baseball player (Boston Bees/Braves). Merceditas Valdés, 73, Cuban singer.
14 Jónas Ásgeirsson, 75, Icelandic Olympic ski jumper (1948). Gesualdo Bufalino, 75, Italian writer, traffic collision. Renato Cosentino, 86, Italian Olympic sailor (1936, 1948). Noemí Gerstein, 87, Argentine artist and sculptor. Alexander Knyazhinsky, 60, Soviet/Russian cinematographer, noted for his work on Andrei Tarkovsky's Stalker. Jack Ragland, 82, American Olympic basketball player (1936). William F. Roemer Jr., 69, FBI agent and writer.
15 Sir Fitzroy MacLean, 1st Baronet, 85, Scottish soldier, writer and politician. Allenby Chilton, 77, English football player and manager. Bernard A. Clarey, 84, United States Navy admiral. Ella Fitzgerald, 79, American jazz singer, sometimes referred to as the "First Lady of Song", "Queen of Jazz", and "Lady Ella", stroke. Jean Gimpel, 77, French historian and medievalist. Dieter Gröning, 63, Polish-born Australian Olympic wrestler (1960). Robert Lamoot, 85, Belgian football player. Dick Murdoch, 49, American professional wrestler, myocardial infarction. Roosseno, 87, Indonesian politician, scholar, and engineer. Raymond Salles, 75, French Olympic rower (1952).
16 Mel Allen, 83, American sports announcer. Harold Emerson Foster, 90, American basketball player-coach. David Mourão-Ferreira, 69, Portuguese writer and poet. Jim Oakes, 84, Australian rules footballer. Richard Sylvan, 60, Australian philosopher. Adriano Vignoli, 88, Italian road bicycle racer. Norm Webb, 75, Australian rules footballer.
17 George Adomian, 74, American mathematician of Armenian descent. Madhukar Dattatraya Deoras, 80, Indian politician and third Sarsanghchalak of the RSS. Gizella Farkas, 70, Hungarian table tennis player. James Hamilton, 53, British DJ and journalist. Doug Harris, 77, New Zealand runner and Olympian (1948). Erling Kaas, 80, Norwegian pole vaulter and Olympian (1948, 1952). Thomas Kuhn, 73, American historian, physicist and philosopher, lung cancer. François Mercier, 79, French footballer. Edmond Roudnitska, 91, French perfumer. Curt Swan, 76, American comic book artist (Superman).
18 Florence Andrews, 83, New Zealand fencer. Branko Bošnjak, 73, Croatian philosopher. Gino Bramieri, 67, Italian actor, pancreatic cancer. Bill Brittingham, 72, Australian rules footballer. Pierre Chany, 73, French cycling journalist. Erika Dannhoff, 86, German actress. Miriam Gideon, 89, American composer. Glenmor, 64, French protest singer known as Emile Le Scanf. Paul Heinemann, 80, Belgian botanist and mycologist. Endel Puusepp, 87, Soviet bomber pilot and Hero of the Soviet Union. Henry Regnery, 84, American newspaper publisher . Rif Rəis uğlı Səyetgərəyev, 35, Russian speedway rider.
19 Bob Dennison, 82, English football player. Frank Eliscu, 83, American sculptor and art teacher. Vivian Ellis, 92, British musical composer. Eric Fisher, 71, New Zealand cricket player. Julius Luipa, 48, Zambian boxer and Olympian (1968, 1972). Igor Mirenkov, 27, Soviet-Belarusian serial killer, execution by shooting. Hillevi Rombin, 62, Swedish model, aviation accident. Gerard David Schine, 68, American politician, plane crash. Michel Ter-Pogossian, 71, American physicist. Edvin Wide, 100, Swedish middle- and long distance runner and Olympian (1920, 1924, 1928).
20 Muhammadu Abdullahi Wase, 47-48, Nigerian military officer, Military Administrator of Kano (since 1993), plane crash. Renato Archer, 73, Brazilian politician. John Buchan, 2nd Baron Tweedsmuir, 84, British peer and son of novelist John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir. Jeff Gamble, 61, Australian rules footballer. Herbert Gerigk, 91, German musicologist. Joseph Green, 96, American actor and film director. Wálter Guevara, 84, President of Bolivia. Irving P. Krick, 89-90, American meteorologist and inventor, heart failure. Louis Lefkowitz, 91, American politician, Parkinson's disease.
21 Doug Bigelow, 67, Australian rules footballer. John Wesley Fletcher, 56, American pastor, AIDS-related complications. Cyril Holmes, 81, English sprinter and Olympian (1936). Reidar Karlsen, 85, Norwegian football player. Mary Mead, 61, American politician, fall from horse.
22 George Barati, 83, American composer and conductor. Terrel Bell, 74, American World War II veteran and politician, pulmonary fibrosis. Frank Bennett, 73, Canadian ice hockey player (Detroit Red Wings). Norvell William Emerson, 58, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1981-), lung cancer. Ion Jipa, 71, Romanian Olympic equestrian (1952). Epaminondas Samartzidis, 30, Greek Olympic water polo player (1988, 1992), drowning.
23 Ludovico Avio, 63, Argentine football player. Pasqualino De Santis, 69, Italian cinematographer, heart attack. Marian Gilman, 81, American Olympic swimmer (1928). Ray Lindwall, 74, Australian cricket player. Yasapalitha Nanayakkara, 56, Sri Lankan writer. Andreas Papandreou, 77, Greek politician, cardiovascular disease. Hazel Redick-Smith, 70, South African tennis player. Mariano Rojas, 23, Spanish bicycle racer, traffic collision. Salah Abu Seif, 81, Egyptian film director. Elbert Tuttle, 98, American circuit judge (United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit). Norbertas Vėlius, 58, Lithuanian folklorist specializing in Lithuanian mythology.
24 Roman Bentz, 76, American football player (New York Yankees, San Francisco 49ers). Harry Dowda, 73, American gridiron football player (Washington Redskins, Philadelphia Eagles). Grace Ho, 89, Mother of Bruce Lee. Edward Halsey Jenison, 88, American politician and newspaper publisher. Osman Karabegović, 84, Yugoslav politician. Chao Lei, 68, Hong Kong actor, pneumonia. Ángel Leyes, 66, Argentine boxer and Olympian (1952). Peter Thullen, 88, German mathematician.
25 Ray Howard-Jones, 93, English painter. Vytautas Kavolis, 65, Lithuanian sociologist. Arthur Pangman, 90, Canadian Olympic cross-country skier (1932).