Deaths in September 1996

The following is a list of notable deaths in September 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.

September 1996

1 Jimmy Duncanson, 76, Scottish football player. Vagn Holmboe, 86, Danish composer and teacher. Andrew Hughes, 88, Turkish-Japanese film actor and business executive. Karl Kehrle, 98, German-British Benedictine monk and bee breeding authority. Dick Logan, 90, Australian rules footballer. Arnold Mettler, 91, Swiss Olympic equestrian (1936). Ion Oblemenco, 51, Romanian football striker, heart attack. Nyi Pu, 95, Burmese actor and film director. Hugo Scheltema, 78, Dutch diplomat and ambassador. Wally Spencer, 72, Australian rules footballer. Ljuba Welitsch, 83, Bulgarian singer.

2 André Chastagnol, 76, French historian. Paddy Clift, 43, Zimbabwean cricketer, bone marrow cancer. Karl Frenzel, 85, German Nazi war criminal. Georgi Georgiev-Getz, 69, Bulgarian film and stage actor, stroke. Charles Kirbo, 79, American lawyer and longtime advisor to Jimmy Carter. Wes Livengood, 86, American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds), scout and manager. Otto Luening, 96, German-American composer and conductor. Aleksandr Markin, 46, Soviet football player, accident. Aldo Montano, 85, Italian Olympic fencer (1936, 1948).

3 Veniamin Basner, 71, Soviet/Russian composer. Robert Brown, 75, English politician. Walter Forster, 79, Brazilian actor, heart attack. Philip Kedward, 87, English cricketer. Emily Kngwarreye, 86, Aboriginal Australian artist from Utopia, Northern Territory. Valeri Kravchenko, 57, Soviet/Russian Olympic volleyball player (1968, 1972). Julian Amery, Baron Amery of Lustleigh, 77, British politician. Og Mandino, 72, American author. Alba Roballo, 88, Uruguayan lawyer, poet, and politician. Hugh Torney, 42, Irish National Liberation Army paramilitary leader, shot. Edward Turkington, 97, American Olympic rugby union player (1924).

4 Victor Aaron, 39, American actor (Geronimo: An American Legend, King of the Hill, Sunchaser), traffic collision. Joan Clarke, 79, English cryptanalyst and numismatist. Babe Dahlgren, 84, American baseball player. Ilus W. Davis, 79, American mayor. Jeanne Juilla, 86, French model and actress. Bill MacPhail, 76, American television executive. Julio Musimessi, 72, Argentine football player. Wee Willie Smith, 86, American football player (New York Giants).

5 Leonard Katzman, 69, American film and television producer, writer and director, heart attack. Anthony Mendleson, 81, British costume designer. Anselm Strauss, 79, American medical sociologist. Clem Thomas, 67, Welsh rugby player. John White, 71, Canadian politician. Misa Yamamura, 62, Japanese novelist and a mystery writer, heart failure.

6 Ginette Martenot, 94, French musician. Barney McCosky, 79, American Major League Baseball player. Darío Espina Pérez, 75, Cuban banker, lawyer, and writer. Salman Shah, 24, Bangladeshi actor, suicide. Daniel Shanks, 79, American mathematician. Ester Soré, 81, Chilean singer, Diabetic coma. Michael Torrence, 35, American serial killer, execution by lethal injection. Douglas Franklin Wright, 56, American serial killer, execution by lethal injection.

7 Bibi Besch, 54, Austrian-American actress (Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Steel Magnolias, Tremors), breast cancer. Joseph Biroc, 93, American cinematographer (The Towering Inferno, It's a Wonderful Life, Airplane!), Oscar winner (1975). Arda Bowser, 97, American gridiron football player. Niccolò Castiglioni, 64, Italian musician. Bruno Corbucci, 64, Italian film director. Teddy Falda, 76, American basketball player. Arthur Sherwood Flemming, 91, American government official, renal failure. Elvio Flores, 62, Argentine Olympic equestrian (1964). Keith Forbes, 90, Australian rules football player. Gilda, 34, Argentine singer, traffic collision. Einar Kristjánsson, 62, Icelandic Olympic alpine skier (1956). Ernie Martin, 93, Australian rules footballer. Willy Miranda, 70, Cuban-American baseball player. Vyacheslav Solovyov, 71, Soviet/Russian football player and coach.

8 Semyon Aranovich, 62, Soviet/Russian film director, cancer. Richard Bishop, 86, American Olympic gymnast (1932). Eyre de Lanux, 102, American artist, writer, and art deco designer. Onib Olmedo, 59, Filipino painter. Jacques Schmidt, 63, French costume designer.

9 Raúl Calvo, 79, Argentine Olympic basketball player (1948). Harry Hanebrink, 68, American baseball player (Milwaukee Braves, Philadelphia Phillies), aneurysm. Shiva Nath Katju, 86, Indian lawyer, judge and an Indian National Congress politician. Charles Kenny, 67, English cricketer. Ruggero Mastroianni, 66, Italian film editor, heart attack. Bill Monroe, 84, American "father of bluegrass" music, stroke. Robert Nisbet, 82, American sociologist. Johnny Pramesa, 71, American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds, Chicago Cubs). John W. Tuthill, 85, American diplomat.

10 Latifa al-Zayyat, 73, Egyptian activist and writer, cancer. Ray Coleman, 59, British journalist and writer. Joanne Dru, 74, American actress, edema. Plantagenet Somerset Fry, 65, British historian and author, suicide. Charlie Gainor, 79, American football player (Chicago Cardinals). Hans List, 100, Austrian automotive pioneer. Julia Morton, 84, American author and botanist. Stig Norén, 88, Swedish general and commander of the air force. Sapphire, 61, American professional wrestler and manager, heart attack. Pete Stout, 73, American National Football League player (Washington Redskins).

11 Guido Aristarco, 77, Italian film critic and author. Dante Bertoli, 83, Italian Olympic wrestler (1936). Bráz, 75, Brazilian basketball player and Olympian (1948, 1952). Bill Chivell, 63, South African Olympic sprinter (1952). Klára Fehér, 74, Hungarian writer. Louise Fitch, 81, American actress. Brenda Forbes, 87, British-American actress, cancer. Dan Mahoney, 87, Australian politician. Deane Waldo Malott, 98, American academic and administrator. Thomas J. O'Connor, 71, American politician. Koichi Oita, 82, Japanese football player, manager, and Olympian (1936), heart failure.

12 Nikolay Avkhimovich, 89, Soviet and Belarusian politician. Frank Christie, 69, Scottish football player and manager. Eleazar de Carvalho, 84, Brazilian conductor and composer. Ernesto Geisel, 89, Brazilian general and former president of Brazil, cancer. Robin Hanley, 28, English cricketer. Ricardo López, 21, Uruguayan-American stalker of musician Björk, suicide by gunshot. James Scott-Elliot, 93, British Army officer.

13 Marvin Allen, 81, American soccer coach. Jane Baxter, 87, British actress, stomach cancer. James F. Bonner, 86, American molecular biologist. Jan Brooijmans, 66, Dutch footballer. César Mendoza Durán, 78, Chilean police officer, Olympic equestrian (1952), and member of the Government Junta, pancreatic cancer. Tupac Shakur, 25, American rapper ("California Love", "Dear Mama") and actor (Poetic Justice), shot. Marion Shirley, 74, American football player (New York Yankees). Wang Shoudao, 90, Chinese politician. Xosé Filgueira Valverde, 89, Spanish writer, intellectual, and researcher. William Ayres Ward, 68, American Egyptologist. Leni Wylliams, 35, American dancer, choreographer, and teacher, murdered.

14 Helen Cohan, 86, American stage dancer and film actress. Jock Cordner, 86, Australian rules football player. Edred John Henry Corner, 90, English botanist and a mycologist. Douglas Everett, 91, American ice hockey player and Olympian (1932). Joe E. Martin, 80, American boxing coach. Rose Ouellette, 93, Quebec actress, comedian, and theatre manager. Juliet Prowse, 59, dancer and actress, pancreatic cancer.

15 Phil Farbman, 72, American basketball player (Philadelphia Warriors, Boston Celtics). Joe Maniaci, 82, American football player (Brooklyn Dodgers, Chicago Bears), and coach. Agnes Mongan, 91, American art historian. Erling Nielsen, 61, Danish football player. Tom Payne, 81, Brazilian film director, screenwriter and actor. Andy Pilney, 83, American gridiron football player and coach, baseball player (Boston Bees). Ottis Toole, 49, American drifter and serial killer, cirrhosis. Georgios Vafopoulos, 93, Greek poet, author, and journalist.

16 Selwyn Baker, 85, Australian rules footballer. McGeorge Bundy, 77, American academic, heart attack. Karl Dröse, 82, German Olympic field hockey player (1936). Rolf Graae, 79, Danish architect and organ designer. Gene Nelson, 76, American actor, dancer, screenwriter, and director, cancer. Joan Perry, 85, American film actress, model, and singer, emphysema.

17 Spiro Agnew, 77, American politician, 39th Vice President of the United States, leukemia. Marianne Bachmeier, 46, German vigilante, pancreatic cancer. Billy Bowers, 74, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox). Irving Ben Cooper, 94, American district judge (United States District Court for the Southern District of New York). Teodoro Fernández, 83, Peruvian footballer and Olympian (1936). Jessie Hill, 63, American R&B and Louisiana blues singer and songwriter, heart and renal failure. Douglas Hogarth, 69, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1968-1972). Paul J. Krebs, 84, American labor union official and politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1965-1967). Arnold Peters, 74, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1957-1980). Henk Schijvenaar, 78, Dutch Olympic footballer (1948).

18 Annabella, 89, French cinema actress, heart attack. Ulrich Beiger, 78, German actor. Luciano Cozzi, 87, Italian Olympic diver (1928). Corrie Laddé, 80, Dutch Olympic swimmer (1932). Ronald McNicoll, 90, Australian Army general. Kalevi Mononen, 76, Finnish Olympic cross-country skier (1952). Raymond Lee Stewart, 44, American spree killer, execution by lethal injection. Bai Yang, 76, Chinese actress.

19 Noureddine Aba, 75, Algerian poet and playwright. Nanny Fernandez, 77, American baseball player (Boston Braves, Pittsburgh Pirates). Helmut Heißenbüttel, 75, German novelist and poet, pneumonia. George Hunt, 86, English footballer, Alzheimer's disease. Douglas Hyde, 85, English political journalist and writer. Irene Mann, 67, German dancer, actress and choreographer. Dudley Mattingly, 68, Australian rules footballer. Ștefan Mihăilescu-Brăila, 71, Romanian actor, Alzheimer's disease. Czesław Petelski, 73, Polish film director and screenwriter. Lloyd Rice, 68, Canadian Olympic canoeist (1956). Hiawatha Shelby, 74, American baseball player. Edilberto K. Tiempo, 83, Filipino professor, writer.

20 Franco Angrisano, 70, Italian actor, heart attack. Murtaza Bhutto, 42, Pakistani politician and militant leader. S. F. Brownrigg, 58, American film director and producer. Paul Draper, 86, American tap dancer and choreographer, pulmonary emphysema. Paul Erdős, 83, Hungarian mathematician, heart attack. Krešo Golik, 74, Croatian film and television director and screenwriter. Reuben Kamanga, 67, Zambian politician. Max Manus, 81, Norwegian resistance fighter during World War II. Alan Muir, 74, Australian rules footballer. Dagdu Maruti Pawar, 61, Indian writer. Ted Platt, 75, English football player. Jože Vadnov, 84, Slovenian Olympic gymnast (1936). William S. Vaughn, 92, American businessman and philanthropist. Paul Weston, 84, American pianist, arranger, composer, and conductor.

21 Juan Adarraga, 72, Spanish Olympic middle-distance runner (1948). Erika Cremer, 96, German chemist. Paolo De Poli, 91, Italian enameller and painter. Lamar Dodd, 87, American artist. Claus Holm, 78, German film actor. Leo Isacson, 86, American attorney and politician, cancer. Vern Lamprell, 85, Australian rules footballer. Henri Nouwen, 64, Dutch Catholic priest, writer and theologian, heart attack.