Deaths in August 1996

• Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship, reason for notability, cause of death, and reference.

August 1996

1

• Frida Boccara, 55, French singer, respiratory disease.
• Frank Glassman, 88, American football player.
• Stig Hedberg, 80, Swedish Olympic sailor.
• Ayo Gabriel Irikefe, 74, Nigerian Jurist and Chief Justice of Nigeria.
• Tadeusz Reichstein, 99, Polish chemist.
• Lucille Teasdale-Corti, 67, Canadian medical doctor and surgeon, AIDS-related complications.
• Charles van Rooy, 84, Dutch politician.
• Franz Wenninger, 85, Austrian Olympic water polo player.

2

• Mohamed Farrah Aidid, 61, Somalian military officer.
• Brian Briggs, 62, English rugby player.
• James Joseph Byrne, 88, American Catholic archbishop.
• Michel Debré, 84, Prime Minister of France, Parkinson's disease.
• Miguel Alvarez del Toro, 78, Mexican biologist.
• Sergey Golovkin, 36, Soviet/Russian serial killer and rapist and last Russian executee, execution.
• Alexander Nudelman, 83, Soviet/Russian engineer, aircraft guns designer.
• Bob Reinhard, 75, American gridiron football player.
• Lloyd Robinson, 83, Welsh cricketer.
• Zbigniew Syka, 60, Polish Olympic sprinter.
• Obdulio Varela, 78, Uruguayan football player.
• Kazumi Watanabe, 48, Japanese Olympic sport shooter.

3

• Guido Alberti, 87, Italian actor and entrepreneur.
• Jørgen Garde, 57, Danish admiral.
• Günther Knödler, 71, German Olympic fencer.
• Dankwart Rustow, 71, American political scientist.
• Luciano Tajoli, 76, Italian actor and singer.
• Bill Wright, 82, American baseball player.

4

• Kiyoshi Atsumi, 68, Japanese actor, lung cancer.
• Willard Brown, 81, American Hall of Fame baseball player.
• Lev Lemke, 64, Soviet/Russian actor.
• Vladimir Liberzon, 59, Israeli chess player.
• Alan Osborne, 62, Australian rules footballer.
• André Trochut, 64, French road bicycle racer.

5

• Agustín Argote, 70, Spanish Olympic boxer.
• Abdulrahman Mohamed Babu, 71, Zanzibari marxist revolutionary.
• Claudio Barigozzi, 87, Italian geneticist and biologist.
• Jan Holleman, 77, Dutch footballer.
• Frank Marcus, 68, British playwright.
• Havelock Nelson, 79, Irish composer.

6

• Muhammad al-Badr, 70, Yemeni imam and politician.
• Ossie Clark, 54, British fashion designer, stabbing.
• Len Coldwell, 63, British cricket player.
• Bobby Enriquez, 53, Filipino jazz pianist.
• Gerry Gomez, 76, Trinidad and Tobago football player and cricketer.
• Charles Hadfield, 87, British historian.
• Joe Hanly, 71, Irish Olympic rower.
• Floyd Simmons, 71, American gridiron football player.
• Bud Svendsen, 81, American gridiron football player, and coach.
• Emilio Zapico, 52, Spanish racing driver, aviation accident.
• Hernán Siles Zuazo, 82, Bolivian politician.

7

• Benjamin Halevy, 86, Israeli politician.
• Bill Hanrahan, 77, American broadcaster.
• Anne Kristen, 59, Scottish actress, pancreatic cancer.
• Herbert Kubly, 81, American journalist.
• Helen W. Nies, 71, American judge.
• Brian Oddie, 91, British long-distance runner and Olympian.
• Loret Miller Ruppe, 60, American diplomat, ovarian cancer.

8

• Queta Carrasco, 83, Mexican actress.
• Michio Hoshino, 43, Japanese photographer, bear attack.
• Herbert Huncke, 81, American writer and poet.
• Philip Lucock, 80, Australian politician.
• James McLamore, 70, American businessman.
• Francesco Molinari-Pradelli, 85, Italian conductor and art collector.
• Sir Nevill Mott, 90, English physicist, Nobel prize winner.
• Joseph Asajirō Satowaki, 92, Japanese Catholic Bishop.
• Julian Stryjkowski, 91, Polish journalist.
• Sir Frank Whittle, 89, British Royal Air Force officer, lung cancer.

9

• Tokiharu Abe, 85, Japanese ichthyologist, cerebral hemorrhage.
• May Ayim, 36, German poet, suicide.
• Lionel Emmett, 83, Indian physician and Olympic field hockey player.
• John W. King, 77, American politician.
• Derek Smith, 34, American basketball player, myocardial infarction.

10

• Alex Lee, 88, Australian rules footballer.
• Walter MacNutt, 86, Canadian organist, choir director, and composer.
• Doris Spiegel, 95, American artist.
• Bunleua Sulilat, 64, Thai Buddhist leader.
• Rex Tucker, 83, British television director.
• Edward Whitfield, 85, English cricket player.

11

• Rafael Kubelík, 82, Czech conductor, violinist, composer and director conductor of Czech philharmony.
• Kathleen Mills, 72, Irish camogie player.
• Ambrosio Padilla, 85, Filipino basketball player, Olympian, and senator.
• David Ricketts, 76, British cyclist and Olympian.
• Mel Taylor, 62, American musician, myocardial infarction.
• Ted Thomas, 74, Australian rules footballer.
• Baba Vanga, 84, Bulgarian psychic, breast cancer.

12

• Victor Ambartsumian, 87, Soviet/Armenian astrophysicist.
• Robert Gravel, 51, Canadian actor.
• Mark Gruenwald, 43, American comic book writer, editor, and penciler, myocardial infarction.
• Stephan Kuttner, 89, American legal scholar.
• Raymond Langlois, 60, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada.
• Guy Nosbaum, 66, French rower and Olympian.
• Anthony Parsons, 73, British diplomat, cancer.
• George Parsons, 85, Canadian Olympic sailor.

13

• Alfred Borda, 82, Maltese Olympic sailor.
• Albert Sherman Christensen, 91, American district judge.
• António de Spínola, 86, President of Portugal, pulmonary embolism.
• Richard M. Goodwin, 83, American academic.
• Willi Heeks, 74, German racecar driver.
• T. John Lesinski, 71, American politician.
• Bill Owen, 60, Australian rugby league footballer.
• Ray Shore, 75, American baseball player, and coach.
• Louise Talma, 89, American composer.
• David Tudor, 70, American pianist and composer.

14

• Sergiu Celibidache, 84, Romanian conductor.
• Al Cleveland, 66, American songwriter.
• Uzo Egonu, 64, Nigerian artist.
• Camilla Horn, 93, German actress.
• Tom Mees, 46, American sportscaster, drowned.
• Albert Neuberger, 88, British biochemist and academic.
• Amrit Rai, 74, Indian writer, poet and biographer.
• Ernst Rufli, 86, Swiss rower and Olympian.

15

• Rey Cuenco, 36, Filipino basketball player, cirrhosis.
• Lisskulla Jobs, 90, Swedish actress.
• Sven Lasta, 71, Croatian actor.
• Tania Leon, 51, South African feminist.
• Masao Maruyama, 82, Japanese political scientist.
• Dally O'Brien, 77, Australian rules footballer.
• Albert Osswald, 77, German politician.
• Jack Portland, 84, Canadian ice hockey player, and Olympic jumper.
• Joe Seneca, 77, American actor, singer, and songwriter, asthma.
• George Starbuck, 65, American poet.
• Max Thurian, 74, Swiss ecumenical monastic community subprior.

16

• Miles Goodman, 46, American film composer, heart attack.
• Fred Jinks, 87, Australian cricketer.
• Maurice Natanson, 71, American philosopher, prostate cancer.
• Pino Rucher, 72, Italian musician.
• Ediriweera Sarachchandra, 82, Sri Lankan academic and writer.
• Sadako Sawamura, 87, Japanese actress, myocardial infarction.

17

• E. Digby Baltzell, 80, American sociologist.
• Rob D'Alton, 73, Irish Olympic sailor.
• Catherine Shipe East, 80, American government researcher and feminist.
• Eric Evans, 68, British Anglican priest.
• Don McVilly, 76, Australian rules footballer.
• Frans Reyniers, 68, Belgian footballer.
• Witold Urbanowicz, 88, Polish flying ace during World War II and general.

18

• Al Bertino, 84, American animator.
• Geoffrey Dearmer, 103, British poet.
• Hugo Gryn, 66, British rabbi, brain cancer.
• Charles Mitchel, 75, Irish actor and broadcaster.
• Isabel Morgan, 84, American virologist.
• Alfredo Varelli, 81, Italian actor.

19

• Tatyana Mavrina, 93, Russian painter and children's writer.
• Claire Rommer, 91, German actress.
• Guerrino Rossi, 62, Italian football player and coach.
• Joffre Soares, 77, Brazilian film actor.
• Owen Zinko, 51, Australian rules footballer.

20

• Abílio Duarte, 65, Cape Verdean politician.
• Paul Galloway, 52, Australian cricketer.
• Les Hart, 79, English football manager.
• André-Georges Haudricourt, 85, French academic.
• Carlos Jáuregui, 38, Argentinean LGBT activist, AIDS-related complications.
• Rio Reiser, 46, German rock musician.
• Beverley Whitfield, 42, Australian swimmer, Olympic gold medallist.

21

• Jack Adams, 77, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Mary Two-Axe Earley, 84, Indigenous Canadian women's rights activist, respiratory disease.
• Johan Rathje, 80, Danish Olympic sailor.
• Irene Vorrink, 78, Dutch politician.
• Richard S. Westfall, 72, American historian.

22

• Anandatissa de Alwis, 77, Sri Lankan journalist, marketeer and politician.
• Kjell Borgen, 56, Norwegian politician.
• Mareo Ishiketa, 79, Japanese composer.
• Erwin Leiser, 73, German film director.
• Oliver Lynn, 69, American American talent manager, diabetes.
• Ern O'Regan, 89, Australian rules footballer.

23

• Jurriaan Andriessen, 70, Dutch composer.
• Jeff Batters, 25, Canadian ice hockey defenceman, car accident.
• Gordon S. Brown, 88, American electrical engineering professor.
• Wiley Griggs, 71, American baseball player.
• David Halfyard, 65, English cricket player.
• Øivind Holmsen, 84, Norwegian football player and Olympian.
• Brendon O'Donnell, 79, Australian rules footballer.
• Audrey Patterson, 69, American sprinter and Olympian.
• Margaret Tucker, 92, Indigenous Australian activist and writer.
• Zulfiya, 81, Uzbek poet.

24

• Jean Aurel, 70, French screenwriter and film director.
• Zainab Biisheva, 88, Soviet/Russian writer.
• Ethel Boyce, 79, Canadian baseball player.
• Roy Degoregore, 74, Nauruan politician.
• Eric Heaton, 75, British priest and scholar.
• Ben Joelson, 70, American producer and screenwriter.
• Hristo Mladenov, 68, Bulgarian football player.
• Lev Vlasenko, 67, Soviet/Russian musician.
• Jack Wratten, 90, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada.

25

• Fred Adison, 87, French conductor.
• Erskine Barton Childers, 67, Irish writer, correspondent and United Nations civil servant.
• Cynthia Eager, 59, Hong Kong Olympic swimmer.
• Sylvia Fisher, 86, Australian operatic soprano.
• Caroline Glachan, 14, Scottish murder victim.
• Reinhard Libuda, 52, German football player, cancer.
• Salvatore Mastroieni, 82, Italian long-distance runner and Olympian.

26

• Nikolay Baskakov, 91, Russian Turkologist.
• Alejandro Agustín Lanusse, 77, President of the Argentine Republic.
• Mario Maskareli, 77, Montenegrin painter.
• Khalida Riyasat, 43, Pakistani television actress.
• Sven Stolpe, 91, Swedish journalist.

27

• Martin Disler, 47, Swiss artist, cerebrovascular disease.
• Bert Fortell, 71, Austrian actor.
• Abram Games, 82, British graphic designer.
• Eliakim Khumalo, 56, South African football player, homicide.
• Akiji Kobayashi, 65, Japanese actor, lung cancer.
• Agnieszka Kotlarska, 24, Polish fashion model and beauty queen, stab wound.
• Greg Morris, 62, American actor, brain cancer.
• Wayne D. Overholser, 89, American Western writer.
• Aliye Rona, 74, Turkish actress, cardiovascular disease.
• Yair Rosenblum, 52, Israeli composer, esophageal cancer.
• Gordon Stein, 55, American physiologist.
• Waldo Rudolph Wedel, 87, American archaeologist.

28

• Nancy Archibald, 84, Canadian Olympic fencer.
• Dulcina de Moraes, 88, Brazilian stage actress and director.
• Gevork Kotiantz, 86, Russian artist.
• José dos Santos Lopes, 85, Brazilian football player.
• Phyllis Pearsall, 89, British cartographer and typographer, cancer.
• John Service, 65, British swimmer and Olympian.
• Marion Stamps, 51, American activist.
• Al Zarilla, 77, American baseball player.

29

• Rune Bjurström, 83, Swedish Olympic racewalker.
• Norm Bright, 86, American runner, mountaineer, and teacher, pneumonia.
• J. B. Jackson, 86, American writer.
• Charles O'Neal, 92, American writer.
• Tera de Marez Oyens, 64, Dutch composer.

30

• Laura Adani, 82, Italian actress.
• Modesto Bria, 74, Paraguayan football player.
• Alfredo B. Crevenna, 82, Mexican film director and screenwriter, cancer.
• Mel Embree, 69, American football player.
• Dunc Gray, 90, Australian racing cyclist and Olympian.
• I Gusti Putu Oka Mona, 66, Indonesian Olympic high jumper.
• José Toribio Merino, 80, Chilean politician and admiral.
• Josef Müller-Brockmann, 82, Swiss graphic designer.
• Christine Pascal, 42, French actress, screenwriter and director, suicide.
• Goliarda Sapienza, 72, Italian actress and writer, fall.
• José Sasía, 62, Uruguayan football player.

31

• Richard E. Cross, 86, American businessman, lawyer, and civic leader.
• Gil English, 87, American baseball player.
• Blaine Johnson, 34, American racing driver, racing accident.
• Milt Larkin, 85, American musician.