Deaths in February 1996

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

February 1996

1

• Adel Adham, 67, Egyptian film actor, pneumonia.
• Sergey Aganov, 78, Soviet/Russian Marshal of the engineer troops.
• Benny Brown, 42, American track and field athlete and Olympic champion, traffic collision.
• Ray Crawford, 80, American fighter ace during World War II and racecar driver.
• Charles Proctor, 90, American Olympic skier.
• Kevin Williams, 38, American gridiron football player in the National Football League, train crash.

2

• Sylwester Braun, 87, Polish photographer and army officer.
• Shamus Culhane, 87, American animator and director.
• Fred S. Keller, 97, American psychologist and a pioneer in experimental psychology.
• Gene Kelly, 83, American actor and dancer, stroke.
• Vernon Nicholls, 78, British bishop.
• Li Peiyao, 62, Chinese politician, homicide.
• Minao Shibata, 79, Japanese composer and musicologist.
• Aline Towne, 76, American actress.
• Müfide İlhan, 84, Turkish mayor.

3

• Edward Adamson, 84, British artist and art collector.
• Larry Eigner, 68, American poet.
• Guy Gilles, 57, French film director, AIDS-related complications.
• Božo Grkinić, 82, Yugoslav water polo and basketball player, coach, and Olympian.
• Hal Hinte, 76, American football player.
• Audrey Meadows, 73, American actress and banker, lung cancer.

4

• Gunnar Andreasen, 81, Danish Olympic boxer.
• Gerry Brand, 89, South African rugby player.
• Willard S. Curtin, 90, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives.
• Vyacheslav Domani, 48, Russian Olympic volleyball player.
• Manolo Fábregas, 74, Spanish-Mexican actor, film director and film producer.
• John Hugo Loudon, 90, Dutch businessman and CEO of Royal Dutch Shell.
• Norris Phillips, 79, American baseball player.
• Lakshman Singh, 85, Indian scouting leader.
• Allan Strang, 74, Australian rules footballer.

5

• Max Fresson, 83, French Olympic equestrian.
• Gianandrea Gavazzeni, 86, Italian musician.
• Edward Jackson, 70, Australian rules footballer.
• Hideo Oguni, 91, Japanese screenwriter.
• Roberto Raviola, 56, Italian comic book artist, pancreatic cancer.
• Tom Re, 83, Australian rules footballer.
• Lim Chin Siong, 62, Singaporean politician, heart attack.
• Antonio Ruiz Soler, 74, Spanish dancer and choreographer.
• Ted Tyson, 86, Australian rules football player.
• Gary Zeller, 48, American basketball player.

6

• Georges de Wilde, 95, French Olympic speed skater.
• Guy Madison, 74, American actor, pulmonary emphysema.
• Bob Muncrief, 80, American baseball player.
• Renee Roberts, 87, British actress.
• Patsy Smart, 77, British actress.
• Jacques Wertheimer, 84, French businessman.
• Notable people killed in the crash of Birgenair Flight 301:
• *Zbigniew Gorzelańczyk, 51, Polish politician, member of the Sejm.
• *Marek Wielgus, 45, Polish politician, member of the Sejm.

7

• Lydia Chukovskaya, 88, Soviet/Russian writer, poet, editor, publicist, and dissident.
• Jack Cooper, 84, Australian rules footballer.
• I. K. Dairo, 65, Nigerian Jùjú musician.
• Phillip Davidson, 80, American lieutenant general.
• Barbara Hamilton, 69, Canadian actress, breast cancer.
• Lucien Maynard, 87, Canadian politician.
• Robert, Archduke of Austria-Este, 80, Austrian prince and Archduke of Austria-Este.
• Boris Tchaikovsky, 70, Soviet and Russian composer.
• Red Webb, 71, American baseball player.
• Pat West, 72, American gridiron football player.
• Ernst Würthwein, 86, German theologian.

8

• T. J. Campion, 77, American football player.
• Marcel Capelle, 91, French football player.
• Mercer Ellington, 76, American musician, composer, and arranger, heart attack.
• Del Ennis, 70, American baseball player, diabetes.
• Ri Sung Gi, 90, North Korean chemist.
• Bruno Hussar, 84, Egyptian priest.
• Siavash Kasraie, 68, Iranian poet, literary critic, and novelist.
• José Poy, 69, Argentine football player and manager.
• Felice Schwartz, 71, American feminist writer.
• Johan Van Den Steen, 67, Belgian Olympic water polo player.
• Vladimír Vaina, 86, Czech Olympic rower.
• Derek Worlock, 76, English catholic prelate and Archbishop of Liverpool, lung cancer.

9

• Chitti Babu, 59, Indian musician.
• Sir George Trevelyan, 4th Baronet, 89, British baronet and a founding father of the New Age movement.
• Adolf Borchers, 82, German Luftwaffe flying ace during World War II.
• Stephen Hope Carlill, 93, British Royal Navy admiral.
• Yun Chi-Young, 97, Korean politician.
• Alistair Cameron Crombie, 80, Australian zoologist and historian of science.
• Neil Franklin, 74, English football player and manager.
• Adolf Galland, 83, German Luftwaffe flying ace and general during World War II.
• Johanna Hall, 61, British Olympic equestrian.
• Gerald Savory, 86, English playwright and screenwriter specialising in comedies.
• Gordon D. Shirreffs, 82, American writer.
• Robin Stille, 34, American actress, suicide.

10

• Josette Bruce, 76, Polish-French novelist.
• Björn-Erik Höijer, 88, Swedish writer.
• Giovanni Pontiero, 64, British scholar.
• Klaus-Dieter Seehaus, 53, German Olympic football player.

11

• Olle Åhlund, 75, Swedish footballer and Olympian.
• Thecla Boesen, 85, Danish film actress.
• William F. Claxton, 81, American television director and television producer.
• Brian Daley, 48, American writer, pancreatic cancer.
• Charles Imbault, 86, French Olympic field hockey player.
• Kebby Musokotwane, 49, Zambian politician and Prime Minister.
• Quarentinha, 62, Brazilian football player, heart failure.
• Phil Regan, 89, American actor and singer.
• Amelia Rosselli, 65, Italian poet, suicide.
• Gertrude Sawyer, 100, American architect.
• Bob Shaw, 64, Northern Irish science fiction author and novelist, cancer.
• Pierre Edouard Leopold Verger, 93, French photographer, anthropologist, and writer.

12

• Andrea Barbato, 61, Italian journalist, writer and politician.
• Gina Falckenberg, 88, German actress.
• Alois Kuhn, 85, German Olympic ice hockey player.
• Betty Roland, 92, Australian playwright and novelist.
• Ernest Samuels, 92, American biographer and lawyer.
• Ryōtarō Shiba, 72, Japanese writer.

13

• Martin Balsam, 76, American actor, Oscar winner, heart attack.
• Scott Beach, 65, American actor and disc jockey.
• Charlie Conerly, 74, American gridiron football player.
• George Jefferson, 85, American Olympic pole vaulter.
• Léopold Langlois, 82, Canadian politician.
• Cynthia MacGregor, 31, American tennis player, complications from anorexia nervosa.
• Branko Marjanović, 86, Croatian film director and editor.
• Cy Proffitt, 84, American basketball player.
• Ugyen Rinpoche, 76, Tibetan Buddhist Lama.

14

• Ernie Barker, 82, Australian Olympic equestrian.
• Lady Caroline Blackwood, 64, British writer and journalist, cancer.
• Louis Finot, 86, French footballer.
• Helge Halkjær, 79, Danish Olympic rower.
• Fritz Hanson, 81, American-Canadian gridiron football player.
• Eva Hart, 91, British survivor of the sinking of RMS Titanic, cancer.
• Gied Jaspars, 56, Dutch television producer, colorectal cancer.
• Čeněk Kottnauer, 85, Czech-British chess master.
• Eddie Marks, 71, Irish cricketer.
• Alejandro de la Sota Martínez, 82, Spanish architect.
• Drago Matulaj, 84, Croatian Olympic rower.
• Bob Paisley, 77, English football player and manager, Alzheimer's disease.
• Francisco Tomás y Valiente, 63, Spanish jurist, historian, and writer, homicide.
• Sylvester Veitch, 85, American horse trainer.
• Mark Venturini, 35, American actor, leukemia.

15

• Lucio Agostini, 82, Italian-Canadian musician.
• Don Condon, 72, Australian rules footballer.
• Margaret Courtenay, 72, Welsh actress.
• Peter Gardner, 71, Australian hurdler and Olympian.
• Edward Madejski, 81, Polish football player and Olympian.
• Ron McCann, 82, Australian rules footballer.
• Tommy Rettig, 54, American child actor, database programmer, and author, heart attack.
• Henri Simonet, 64, Belgian politician.
• McLean Stevenson, 68, American actor and comedian, heart attack.
• Brunó Ferenc Straub, 82, Hungarian biochemist.

16

• Roberto Aizenberg, 67, Argentine painter and sculptor.
• Roger Bowen, 63, American actor, heart attack.
• Pat Brown, 90, American lawyer and politician and Governor of California.
• Nicolae Carandino, 90, Romanian writer.
• Gordon Drummond Clancy, 83, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada.
• Eleanor Clark, 82, American writer.
• Hank Gornicki, 85, American baseball player.
• Bert Iannone, 79, Canadian football player.
• Stasys Janušauskas, 93, Lithuanian Olympic footballer.
• Miloš Kopecký, 73, Czech actor.
• Jón Kristjánsson, 75, Icelandic Olympic cross-country skier.
• Brownie McGhee, 80, American folk-blues singer and guitarist, stomach cancer.
• Kenneth Robinson, 84, British politician.
• Ernst Weber, 94, Austrian-American electrical engineer, and microwave technology pioneer.

17

• Hervé Bazin, 84, French writer.
• Gus Hardin, 50, American country music singer, car accident.
• Andy Lapihuska, 73, American baseball player.
• Evelyn Laye, 95, English actress, respiratory failure.
• Michael Keith Nunes, 78, Jamaican Olympic sailor.
• Michel Pablo, 84, Greek Trotskyist leader, stroke.
• Nikolai Starostin, 93, Soviet/Russian football player and founder of Spartak Moscow.

18

• Margery Hinton, 80, English swimmer and Olympian.
• Madhaviah Krishnan, 83, Indian photographer.
• Janice Loeb, 93, American film director, screenwriter, cinematographer and film producer.
• Andy Marefos, 78, American football player.
• Josef Meinrad, 82, Austrian actor, cancer.
• Edward O'Brien, 21, Northern Irish IRA volunteer, killed.

19

• Sehba Akhtar, 65, Indian poet and songwriter, heart attack.
• Brenda Bruce, 76, British actress.
• Marco Antonio Campos, 76, Mexican actor, aortic aneurysm.
• Antonio Creus, 71, Spanish motorcycle racer and racing driver.
• Charles O. Finley, 77, American businessman.
• Douglas Livingstone, 64, South African poet.
• Ernest Manning, 87, Canadian politician.
• Dorothy Maynor, 85, American singer.
• Grant Sawyer, 77, American politician and Governor of Nevada.

20

• Solomon Asch, 88, Polish-American psychologist.
• Charles O. Finley, 77, American businessman.
• Walter Marshall, Baron Marshall of Goring, 63, British peer and scientist.
• Viktor Konovalenko, 57, Soviet Union ice hockey player and Olympian.
• Mariano Vidal Molina, 70, Argentinian actor.
• Carolyn Morris, 70, American baseball player.
• Audrey Munson, 104, American artist's model and film actress.
• Jeffrey Quill, 83, British test pilot.
• Frank Sheppard, 90, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Tōru Takemitsu, 65, Japanese composer and writer, bladder cancer.

21

• Priscilla Bonner, 97, American silent film actress.
• Rune Börjesson, 58, Swedish football player.
• Hans-Joachim Bremermann, 69, German-American mathematician and biophysicist, cancer.
• Isolina Carrillo, 88, Cuban musician.
• Vahagn Davtyan, 73, Armenian writer.
• H. L. Gold, 81, American writer.
• Morton Gould, 82, American composer, conductor, arranger, and pianist.
• Elmer Jones, 75, American football player.
• August Kammer, 83, American Olympic ice hockey player, and golfer.
• Don Laz, 66, American pole vaulter and Olympian.
• Ray Smith, 81, English cricketer.

22

• George Christopher Archibald, 69, British economist and researcher.
• Karl Boo, 77, Swedish politician.
• Elwood Henneman, 81, American neurophysiologist.
• Hans Iklé, 89, Swiss Olympic equestrian.
• Niall MacDermot, 79, British politician.

23

• Hussein Kamel al-Majid, 41, Iraqi general, politician and defector, killed.
• Joseph W. Barr, 78, American politician.
• David Berlo, 67, American communications theorist.
• William Bonin, 49, American serial killer and sex offender known as the Freeway Killer, execution by lethal injection.
• Birgit Brüel, 68, Danish actress and singer.
• Elisa Cegani, 84, Italian actress.
• Alan Dawson, 66, American musician.
• Gordon Goldsberry, 68, American baseball player.
• Dorothy Awes Haaland, 77, American lawyer and politician.
• Saddam Kamel, 35, Iraqi head of the Republican Guard and defector, killed.
• Billy Lothridge, 54, American gridiron football player, heart attack.
• Helmut Schön, 80, German football player and manager.
• Charlie Sloley, 89, Australian rules footballer.

24

• Akram al-Hawrani, 84, Syrian politician.
• Winston Chang, 54, Taiwanese academic and university president.
• Graeme Moran, 57, New Zealand rower.
• Kaarlo Niilonen, 73, Finnish football player and manager.
• Charles Edward Pratt, 84, American-Canadian architect and Olympic rower.
• James Runcieman Sutherland, 95, English literary scholar.
• Franco Zucchi, 78, Italian Olympic sailor.

25

• Caio Fernando Abreu, 47, Brazilian writer, AIDS-related complications.
• Vehbi Koç, 94, Turkish businessman and philanthropist, heart attack.
• Elvy Lissiak, 66, Italian actress.
• Haing S. Ngor, 55, Cambodian-American physician and actor, Oscar winner, shot.

26

• Jean Boisselier, 83, French archaeologist and art historian.
• Anna Larina, 82, Soviet/Russian writer.
• Don Oliver, 58, New Zealand weightlifter, fitness centre owner, and Olympian, cancer.
• José Robinson, 51, Mexican Olympic diver.
• John Dalrymple, 13th Earl of Stair, 89, Scottish Arl.
• Mieczysław Weinberg, 76, Polish-Soviet/Russian composer.
• Carlos Wilson, 83, Argentinian football player.

27

• Gerrit Berkhoff, 94, Dutch chemist and the first Rector Magnificus of the University of Twente.
• François Chaumette, 72, French actor, cancer.
• Ethlyne Clair, 91, American actress.
• Laurie Connell, 50, Australian businessman and fraudster.
• Sarah Palfrey Cooke, 83, American tennis player, lung cancer.
• Giordano De Giorgi, 77, Italian Olympic wrestler.
• Kenneth Granviel, 45, American serial killer, execution by lethal injection.
• Vic Janowicz, 66, American gridiron football and baseball player, cancer.
• Robert Kühner, 92, French mycologist.
• Iain Murray, 10th Duke of Atholl, 64, British politician.
• Willy Rist, 84, Swiss Olympic diver.
• Pat Smythe, 67, British equestrian and Olympian.
• Ilario Zannino, 75, American mobster and member of the Patriarca crime family.

28

• Daniel Chipenda, 64, Angolan politician.
• Eric Harrower, 88, Australian rules footballer.
• Jorge Mathias, 71, Portuguese Olympic equestrian.
• Maximilien Rubel, 90, Soviet-French Marxist historian.
• Bill Smith, 61, American poker player.
• Bruno von Freytag-Löringhoff, 83, German philosopher, mathematician and epistemologist.
• Sylvia Williams, 60, American museum director, curator, art historian and scholar of African art, brain aneurysm.

29

• Haydar Aşan, 89, Turkish-American athlete and Olympian.
• Frank Daniel, 69, Czech director and scriptwriter, heart attack.
• Wes Farrell, 56, American musician, songwriter and record producer, cancer.
• Helmuth Fischer, 85, German swimmer and Olympian.
• Aubrey Fowler, 75, American football player.
• Ewart John Arlington Harnum, 85, Canadian businessman and the lieutenant governor of Newfoundland.
• Shams Pahlavi, 78, Iranian royal of the Pahlavi dynasty and elder sister of the last Shah of Iran, cancer.
• James van Rensburg, 71, South African Olympic weightlifter.
• Sinclair Ross, 88, Canadian banker and writer, Parkinson's disease.
• Ralph Rowe, 71, American baseball player and manager.
• Winifred C. Stanley, 86, American politician and attorney.
• Clint Wager, 76, American gridiron football player and basketball player.
• Mario Zagari, 82, Italian journalist and politician.