Deaths in April 1996

• Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship, reason for notability, cause of death, 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.
• Ray Keeling, 80, American football player.
• Jean Le Moyne, 83, Canadian politician, member of the Senate of Canada.
• 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.
• 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.

3

• Ron Brown, 54, American government official, plane crash.
• Frank Doyle, 78, American comic book writer, cancer.
• Herk Harvey, 71, American actor and director, pancreatic cancer.
• Józef Marusarz, 70, Polish Olympic alpine skier.
• 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.
• Irma Haubold, 87, American Olympic gymnast.
• 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.
• Charlene Holt, 67, American actress.
• Jan Lipowski, 84, Polish Olympic alpine skier.
• Jac Maris, 96, Dutch sculptor.
• Ahmed Mekkawi, 73, Egyptian Olympic football player.
• Panayot Panayotov, 65, Bulgarian footballer and Olympian.
• 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, Oscar winner, heart failure.
• Sterling M. McMurrin, 82, American theologian.
• Mehmet Oktav, 78-79, Turkish Olympic wrestler.

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.
• George W. Jenkins, 88, American businessman and philanthropist.
• Ben Johnson, 77, American actor, stuntman, and world-champion rodeo cowboy, Oscar winner, heart attack.
• León Klimovsky, 89, Argentine film director, screenwriter and actor.
• Walter McGuffie, 79, British Olympic wrestler.
• Petko Sirakov, 67, Bulgarian wrestler and Olympian.
• 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.
• Paul Leder, 70, American actor and film director, lung cancer.
• Otto Licha, 83, Austrian Olympic handball player.
• Armand Pagnoulle, 94, Belgian Olympic canoeist.
• 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.
• Herman Pines, 94, Russian-American chemist.
• Jack Wilkinson, 64, English football player.

11

• Billy Anderson, 55, American gridiron football player, ALS.
• Hans Beck, 84, Norwegian Olympic ski jumper.
• Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet, 89, French businessman and publicist.
• Trygve Brodahl, 90, Norwegian cross country skier and Olympian.
• Jessica Dubroff, 7, American trainee pilot, plane crash.
• Mel Hill, 82, Canadian ice hockey player.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Kōtetsuyama Toyoya, 53, Japanese sumo wrestler.
• Ed Zeniuk, 63, Canadian ice hockey player.

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.

16

• George Abel, 80, Canadian ice hockey player and Olympic champion.
• 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.
• Nikolay Bobarenko, 65, Russian Olympic cyclist.
• 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.

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.
• 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.

18

• Brook Berringer, 22, American gridiron football player, plane crash.
• Ronald Davies, 91, American district judge.
• Bernard Edwards, 43, American bass player and record producer, pneumonia.
• Chester Gray, 82, American baseball player.
• Bill Kendall, 86, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Mike Leander, 54, English arranger, songwriter and record producer, cancer.
• Secondo De Marchi, 84, Italian Olympic boxer.
• Len Millar, 70, Australian rules footballer.
• Hubert Opperman, 91, Australian racing cyclist.
• Gino Rozzini, 79, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Leônidas da Silva, 82, Brazilian Olympic swimmer.

19

• Yukiyoshi Aoki, 61, Japanese Olympic swimmer.
• James B. Clark Jr., 39, American murderer, execution by lethal injection.
• Ken Doherty, 90, American decathlete and Olympian.
• 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.
• Alexander D'Arcy, 87, Egyptian 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.
• 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.

22

• Erma Bombeck, 69, American humorist and writer, kidney disease.
• Bob Brady, 73, American baseball player.
• Helen Keane, 73, American jazz record producer, breast cancer.
• Molly Keane, 91, Irish writer.
• Joe Lamas, 80, American football player.
• 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.
• María Lavalle Urbina, 87, Mexican lawyer and politician.
• P. L. Travers, 96, Australian-British novelist, epilepsy.
• Jesús Hernández Úbeda, 36, Spanish bicycle racer.
• Siegfried Viebahn, 84, German Olympic diver.

24

• Mel Bleeker, 75, American football player.
• Donald Cammell, 62, British film director, suicide.
• Giliante D'Este, 86, Italian rower and Olympian.
• Tomás de Bhaldraithe, 79, Irish language scholar and lexicographer.
• Gary Geiger, 59, American baseball player, cirrhosis.
• Sulo Heino, 87, Finnish Olympic hammer thrower.
• Preston Lockwood, 83, British actor.
• Aldo Masciotta, 86, Italian Olympic fencer.
• 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.
• Dick Wesson, 73, American actor, comedian, comedy writer, and producer, aortic aneurysm.
• Harold Alden Wheeler, 92, American electrical engineer.

26

• Trevor Barker, 39, Australian rules footballer.
• Jack Boyd, 90, Australian rules footballer.
• Wolfgang Franz, 90, German mathematician.
• Milt Gaston, 100, American baseball player.
• Guido Leontini, 69, Italian actor.
• Stirling Silliphant, 78, American screenwriter and film producer.
• Burton Stein, 70, American Indologist.

27

• William Colby, 76, American intelligence agent, drowning.
• John Dickey, 81, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada.
• Gilles Grangier, 84, French film director and screenwriter.
• Joe Margucci, 74, American football player.
• Adam Roarke, 58, American actor and film director, heart attack.
• Rudolf Schulten, 72, German physicist.
• Joan Sterndale-Bennett, 82, British actress.

28

• Pieter Beets, 96, Dutch Olympic cyclist.
• Johnny Bucha, 71, American baseball player.
• Hugues Frayer, 73, French Olympic athlete.
• Al Hollingsworth, 88, American baseball player.
• Svea Holst, 95, Swedish film actress.
• Orville Prescott, 89, American literary critic.
• Tien Soeharto, 72, wife of the Indonesian president, Suharto
• Lester Sumrall, 83, American minister.

29

• George Batson, 83, Australian rules footballer.
• Thomas Caterbone, 31, American football player.
• Mario David, 68, French actor, pulmonary embolism.
• Ray Kinsella, 85, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Claude Overton, 68, American basketball player.
• François Picard, 75, French racing driver.

30

• Jeanne Bal, 67, American actress and model, breast cancer.
• Raphaël Van Dorpe, 85, Belgian architect.
• Juan Hohberg, 69, Argentine-Uruguayan football player and coach.
• Dezső Keresztury, 91, Hungarian politician.
• Julio César Méndez Montenegro, 80, President of Guatemala.
• David Opatoshu, 78, American actor.
• Rosaura Revueltas, 85, Mexican actress, dancer, and author, lung cancer.