Deaths in July 1996

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.

July 1996

1 William T. Cahill, 84, American politician. Harold Greenberg, 66, Canadian film producer. Margaux Hemingway, 42, American fashion model and actress, suicide. Einar Hovdhaugen, 88, Norwegian politician. Cláudio Kano, 30, Japanese Brazilian table tennis player and Olympian (1988, 1992), traffic collision. Lawrence Low, 75, American sailor and Olympic champion (1956). Alfred Marks, 75, British actor and comedian. Duke Maronic, 74, American gridiron football player (Philadelphia Eagles, New York Giants). Steve Tesich, 53, Serbian-American screenwriter (Breaking Away, The World According to Garp), Oscar winner (1980), heart attack.

2 Arvid Brodersen, 91, Norwegian sociologist Ñuflo Chávez Ortiz, 72, Bolivian politician. Hugh Davson, 86, English physiologist. Jim Guyatt, 56, Australian rules footballer. Mcwilliam Lunguzi, 49–50, Malawian police officer, Inspector General of the Malawi Police Service, traffic collision. Mike Parobeck, 30, American comic book artist (Batman, Justice Society of America, El Diablo), diabetes. Ingvar Pettersson, 70, Swedish Olympic race walker (1964). Hal Robson, 84, American racing driver. Stefano Sibaldi, 91, Italian actor and voice actor.

3 Herb Baumeister, 49, American serial killer, suicide. Krzysztof Beck, 66, Polish Olympic weightlifter (1956, 1960). B. Gerald Cantor, 79, American investment banker.Staff. "Securities Firm Founder Cantor Dies", Los Angeles Times, July 6, 1996. Accessed 18 November 2021. Barry Crump, 61, New Zealand writer. Bert Hirschfeld, 67, Canadian ice hockey player (Montreal Canadiens). Sharon Hugueny, 52, American actress (The Young Lovers), cancer. Pim Jacobs, 61, Dutch musician. Raaj Kumar, 69, Indian actor. Dick de Man, 87, Dutch Olympic swimmer (1928). Curtis Stewart, 33, American football player (Dallas Cowboys). Bernard Zehrfuss, 84, French architect.

4 Genevieve Blatt, 83, American politician Francesco Gotti, 72, Italian rower and Olympian (1948). Magnhild Hagelia, 92, Norwegian politician. Pierre Jaccoud, 90, Swiss lawyer. György Kunsági, 62, Hungarian swimmer and Olympian (1960). 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. Donald Adam Hartman, 66, Canadian politician. Chuck Meekins, 63, American racing driver. Predrag Ostojić, 58, Yugoslav chess player, suicide. Mohamed Seddik, 56, Egyptian Olympic football player (1964). Piet Stam, 77, Dutch Olympic swimmer (1936). Clyde Wiegand, 81, American physicist, prostate cancer. Zsolt Zsoldos, 29, Hungarian Olympic judoka (1992).

6 Kutlu Adalı, 61, Turkish Cypriot journalist, poet, socio-political researcher, and peace advocate. Kathy Ahern, 47, American golfer, breast cancer. Armando Calvo, 76, Puerto Rican-born Spanish actor, heart failure. Fred James Cassibry, 77, American district judge (United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana). Gordon Hurst, 75, English cricketer. Fred Oberlander, 85, Austrian-born wrestler and Olympian (1948). Arnold Riegger, 75, American Olympic sports shooter (1960). Evgeni Rogov, 67, Soviet/Russian football player and manager.

7 Jim Carstairs, 66, Australian rules footballer. David F. James, 90, American politician. Michael McGoldrick, 31, Northern Irish taxi driver, murdered by the Loyalist Volunteer Force. Vera Nedkova, 89, Bulgarian modernist painter. Friedrich von Stülpnagel, 82, German track and field athlete and Olympic medalist (1936).

8 J. W. Alexander, 80, American musician, record producer and entrepreneur. Ernest Armstrong, 81, British politician. Carl Baer, 78, American basketball player. Jim Baumer, 65, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox, Cincinnati Reds), scout, and executive. Albrecht, Duke of Bavaria, 91, German prince. Jim Busby, 69, American Major League Baseball player and coach. Richard Groschopp, 90, German film director and screenwriter. Irene Prador, 84, Austrian-American actress and writer. Luka Predanić, 90, Croatian Olympic middle-distance runner (1928). Luis Manuel Rodríguez, 59, Cuban boxer.

9 Melvin Belli, 88, American lawyer, author, and actor, pancreatic cancer. Paul Bhagwandas, 45, Suriname battalion commander known as "the executioner of Fort Zeelandia", cancer. Christopher Casson, 84, English-Irish actor. Sergey Kuryokhin, 42, Russian composer, pianist, music director, film actor and writer, cancer. Edward Purdy Ney, 75, American physicist. Aurora Redondo, 96, Spanish actress. József Sarlós, 87, Hungarian Olympic gymnast (1936). David Colville Smith, 74, Rhodesian/Zimbabwean farmer and politician.

10 Dénes Birkás, 89, Hungarian ice and field hockey player and Olympian (1936). Bill Harrington, 82, Irish footballer. Paul King, 69, American producer and screenwriter. Lou Lichtveld, 92, Surinamese politician, playwright, poet and resistance fighter. Alex Manoogian, 95, Armenian-American industrial engineer, businessman, and philanthropist. Fred Meyer, 76, American gridiron football player (Philadelphia Eagles). Jindřich Tintěra, 95, Czech Olympic gymnast (1936).

11 René Abadie, 60, French cyclist and Olympian (1956). T. F. Gilroy Daly, 65, American district judge (United States District Court for the District of Connecticut). Louis Gottlieb, 72, American bassist and comic spokesman for music trio The Limeliters. Czesław Kubiak, 64, Polish Olympic field hockey player (1960). Bertil Lundell, 87, Swedish ice hockey, football, bandy player and Olympian (1936). Ružica Meglaj-Rimac, 55, Yugoslav and Croatian basketball player. Florrie Rodrigo, 102, Dutch dancer and choreographer

12 John Chancellor, 68, American journalist, stomach cancer. Walter Hassan, 91, British automotive engineer. Jonathan Melvoin, 34, American musician, heroin overdose. Nazar Mohammad, 75, Pakistani cricket player. Gottfried von Einem, 78, Austrian composer. Clarence Wilkinson, 85, American politician.

13 Pandro S. Berman, 91, American film producer, heart failure. Anthony Gadd, 78, British Olympic bobsledder (1948). Loda Halama, 84, Polish dancer and actress. Bill Moe, 79, American ice hockey player (New York Rangers). Karen Simensen, 88, Norwegian figure skater and Olympian (1928).

14 Jim Andrew, 59, English cricketer. Kenneth Bainbridge, 91, American physicist. Hank Camelli, 81, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates, Boston Braves). Jeff Krosnoff, 31, American race car driver, racing accident. John Nolan, 70, American football player. Karl Paryla, 90, Austrian theater actor and director. Richard Ripley, 95, British athlete and Olympian (1924). Kathrine Taylor, 92, American author.

15 William Dugan, 83, American Olympic rower (1936). 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. Ed Sachs, 78, American basketball player.

16 Édouard Max-Robert, 91, French Olympic hurdler (1928). John Panozzo, 47, American drummer, cirrhosis. 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. Clemente Fernández, 76, Spanish footballer. Marvin Howe, 90, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1953–1972). Geoffrey Jellicoe, 95, English architect, town planner, landscape architect and author. Bill Jones, 61, Australian rules footballer. 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. Juan Paladino, 71, Uruguayan Olympic fencer (1948, 1960). Aubrey Reeve, 84, British long-distance runner and Olympian (1936). Paul Touvier, 81, French Nazi collaborator during World War II, prostate cancer. Notable people killed in the crash of TWA Flight 800: Michel Breistroff, 25, French ice hockey player. Marcel Dadi, 44, Tunisian-French guitarist. David Hogan, 47, American composer. 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. José Manuel Fuente, 50, Spanish road racing cyclist, pancreatitis. Duke Christian Louis of Mecklenburg, 83, German noble. Mario Maiocchi, 83, Italian Olympic ice hockey player (1936). Martin Summerfield, 79, American physicist and rocket scientist.

19 Raymond Burnett, 82, American football player (Chicago Cardinals), and coach. Berkeley Cole, 82, English Anglican priest and author. Mervyn Cowie, 87, British conservationist. Guy Hénon, 84, French Olympic field hockey player (1936). Dan Lewandowski, 68, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals). E. T. Mensah, 77, Ghanaian musician. Kevin Scanlan, 86, Australian rules footballer. Sverre Wilberg, 66, Norwegian actor.

20 Anna Chandy, 91, first female judge of India. John Govan, 81, Australian cricketer. Eddie Jankowski, 83, American gridiron football player (Green Bay Packers). Colin Mitchell, 70, British Army soldier and politician. Bernt Østerkløft, 90, Norwegian Olympic skier (1936). Raphael Patai, 85, Hungarian-Jewish ethnographer, historian, orientalist and anthropologist. František Plánička, 92, Czech football goalkeeper. Arunachala Sreenivasan, 87, Indian food technologist and nutritional scientist . Randy Stuart, 71, American actress, lung cancer.

21 Luana Anders, 58, American actress and screenwriter, breast cancer. Rafael Cepeda, 86, Puerto Rican musician, myocardial infarction. Herb Edelman, 62, American actor (The Golden Girls, St. Elsewhere, The Good Guys), pulmonary emphysema. Inger Jacobsen, 72, Norwegian singer and actress, cancer. Wolfe Morris, 71, English actor. Walt Moryn, 70, American Major League Baseball outfielder.

22 Rob Collins, 33, English musician, car crash. Tamara Danz, 43, German lead singer and lyricist of the rock group Silly, breast cancer. Carl Goldenberg, 88, Canadian lawyer and senator. Maggie Kalka, 83, Finnish sprint canoeist and Olympic fencer (1952). Jack Knowles, 64, Australian rules footballer. Vermont C. Royster, 82, American journalist and editor.

23 Herb Abrams, 41, American professional wrestling promoter, cocaine overdose. Clara Cook, 75, American baseball player. Patriarch Parthenius III of Alexandria, 76, Greek Eastern Orthodox bishop. Hamilton Fish IV, 70, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1969–1995). Jim Forbes, 87, Australian rules footballer. Tone Gazzari, 84, Croatian Olympic swimmer (1936). Jean Howell, 68, American actress. Jerry Kelly, 78, American basketball player (Boston Celtics, Providence Steamrollers). Jessica Mitford, 78, English author and one of the Mitford sisters, lung cancer. Jean Muir, 85, American actress and educator. Red Munger, 77, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals, Pittsburgh Pirates). Frederick Osborne, 87, Australian politician and government minister. Victor Railton, 90, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1972–1979). Eric Ridder, 78, American sailor and Olympic champion (1952). Aliki Vougiouklaki, 62, Greek actress and theatrical producer, pancreatic cancer. Ed Wineapple, 90, American baseball player (Washington Senators).

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