Deaths in January 1996

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

January 1996

1

• Arleigh Burke, 94, United States Navy admiral.
• Dori Dorika, 82, Russian-Italian actress.
• Sergio Ojeda, 89, Chilean Olympic boxer.
• Alifa Rifaat, 65, Egyptian author.
• Arthur Rudolph, 89, German rocket engineer.
• Jessie Vihrog, 89, South African-born German film actress.
• Virgil W. Vogel, 76, American television and film director.
• Sergei Yakovlev, 70, Soviet/Russian actor.

2

• Michel Berto, 56, French actor.
• Erwin Kroggel, 83, German Olympic fencer.
• Viatcheslav Nazarov, 43, Russian musician, traffic collision.
• Karl Rappan, 90, Austrian football player and coach.
• Julià Reig Ribó, 84, Andorran politician. 
• George Sirochman, 77, American football player.
• Efua Theodora Sutherland, 71, Ghanaian writer.

3

• Teddy Andrulewicz, 91, American football player.
• Aníbal Pinto Santa Cruz, 76-77, Chilean economist, heart attack.
• Terence Cuneo, 88, British artist.
• Paul Lipson, 82, American stage actor.
• Jean Marois, 71, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Connie Ryan, 75, American baseball player and coach.
• Ričardas Vaitkevičius, 62, Soviet/Lithuanian rower and Olympian.

4

• Anna Amalie Abert, 89, German musicologist.
• Tino Bianchi, 90, Italian actor, pneumonia.
• Jean Feyte, 92, French film editor.
• Bob Flanagan, 43, American writer, performance artist, poet, musician, and comic, cystic fibrosis.
• Zhou Mingzhen, 77, Chinese paleontologist.
• Steve Raines, 79, American actor.
• Ramón Vinay, 84, Chilean opera singer.

5

• Yahya Ayyash, 29, Palestinian chief bombmaker of Hamas, homicide.
• Gus Bivona, 80, American musician.
• Jack Church, 80, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Václav David, 85, Czechoslovak politician.
• Fritz Gazzera, 88, German Olympic fencer.
• Lincoln Kirstein, 88, American writer, impresario, art connoisseur, and philanthropist.
• Paul Lavanga, 85, French Olympic modern pentathlete.
• Knut Løfsnes, 77, Norwegian resistance member during World War II and politician.
• Thung Sin Nio, 93, Indonesian-Dutch women's rights activist, physician, economist and politician.
• Elmer Singleton, 77, American baseball player.

6

• Henry Hopkinson, 1st Baron Colyton, 94, British politician.
• Jan Willem de Pous, 75, Dutch politician and economist.
• William J. Dyess, 66, American diplomat, cancer.
• Duane Hanson, 70, American sculptor.
• Johnnie Johnston, 80, American actor and singer.
• Maude Kegg, 91, American Ojibwe traditionalist, bead artist, and author.
• John Philipps Kenyon, 68, British historian.
• Kim Kwang-seok, 31, South Korean musician, suicide.
• Rudolf Polame, 85, Czech Olympic long jumper.
• Aulis Pystynen, 68, Finnish Olympic middle-distance runner.
• Kurt Schmücker, 76, German politician.
• Chubby Wise, 80, American bluegrass fiddler.

7

• William H. Clothier, 92, American cinematographer.
• Roger D. Foley, 78, American district judge.
• John A. Gronouski, 76, American diplomat.
• Károly Grósz, 65, Hungarian politician, kidney cancer.
• V. Kumar, 61, India film score composer.
• Seton Lloyd, 93, British archaeologist.
• Harold Norman Moldenke, 86, American botanist and taxonomist.
• Tarō Okamoto, 84, Japanese artist, art theorist, and writer, Parkinson's disease.
• Bienvenido Santos, 84, Filipino writer.
• Heinrich Scheel, 80, German historian of modern age.
• Aaron Stell, 84, American film and television editor.
• Arthur Whitford, 87, British gymnast and Olympian.

8

• Paul Cleary, 73, American gridiron football player.
• Carmen Conde, 88, Spanish poet, novelist, literary critic, Alzheimer's disease.
• Teobaldo Depetrini, 81, Italian football player and coach.
• John Hargreaves, 50, Australian actor, AIDS-related complications.
• Margaret Jenkins, 92, American Olympic discus thrower.
• Okla Jones II, 50, American district judge.
• Fernand Leblanc, 78, Canadian politician.
• Dutch McCall, 75, American baseball player.
• Joyce McCartan, 65, Northern Irish community worker and peace activist.
• Norrie McCathie, 34, Scottish football player, carbon monoxide poisoning.
• Michiya Mihashi, 65, Japanese singer, multiple organ dysfunction syndrome.
• Harlan Mills, 76, American computer scientist and academic.
• François Mitterrand, 79, French statesman and President of France, prostate cancer.
• Pritam Singh, 71, Indian Olympic gymnast.
• Howard Taubman, 88, American theatre critic.
• Paul Vialar, 97, French writer.
• Sadao Watanabe, 83, Japanese printmaker.

9

• Abdullah al-Qasemi, 89, Saudi Arabian writer and intellectual, cancer.
• Moe Becker, 78, American basketball player.
• Ronnie Bell, 88, British physical chemist.
• Howie Braun, 83, American basketball player and coach.
• Roger Freed, 49, American baseball player, heart problems.
• Félix González-Torres, 38, American artist, AIDS-related complications.
• Metin Göktepe, 27, Turkish photojournalist, beaten to death.
• Maria Kusion-Bibro, 59, Polish Olympic athlete.
• M. Larry Lawrence, 69, American diplomat.
• Oskar Lory, 69, Swiss Olympic bobsledder.
• Walter M. Miller, 72, American fiction writer, suicide.
• Fearless Nadia, 88, Australian-Indian actress and stuntwoman.
• Sultan Rahi, 57, Pakistani actor, producer and screenwriter, ballistic trauma.
• Özdemir Sabancı, 54, Turkish businessman, murdered.
• Jack Smith, 79, American journalist, author, and newspaper columnist.
• Mike Synar, 45, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives, brain cancer.
• Louis William Tordella, 84, American mathematician and deputy director of the National Security Agency.
• Overton Tremper, 89, American baseball player.
• Józef Wiśniewski, 55, Polish ice hockey player and Olympian.
• Danni Xtravaganza, 34, American member of the ballroom scene, AIDS-related complications.

10

• Anders Hartington Andersen, 88, Danish Olympic long-distance runner.
• Douglas Cameron, 92, New Zealand cricketer.
• Ivan Deryugin, 67, Soviet/Russian modern pentathlete and Olympic champion.
• Raymond H. Fogler, 103, American politician.
• Dean McAdams, 78, American gridiron football player.
• Egidio Ortona, 85, Italian diplomat.
• Don Richardson, 77, American television director.
• Joseph Charles Schultz Jr., 77, American baseball player, manager, and coach.

11

• Harold Walter Bailey, 96, British scholar of Asian languages.
• Tato Bores, 70, Argentine actor.
• Roger Crozier, 53, Canadian ice hockey player, cancer.
• Eric Hebborn, 61, English painter, draughtsman, art forger and author, homicide.
• Ike Isaacs, 76, Burmese-English jazz guitarist.

12

• Garnett Blair, 74, American baseball player.
• Arthur Gallagher, 77, American Olympic rower.
• Eduard Haken, 85, Czech actor, doctor and opera singer.
• Edmund Happold, 65, British engineer and activist.
• Jonas Jonsson, 92, Swedish Olympic sport shooter.
• Joseph Kuzmin, 85, Russian politician.
• John Howard Purnell, 70, Welsh chemist.
• Rizzieri Rodeghiero, 76, Italian skier and Olympian.
• Fouad Sedki, 70, Egyptian Olympic football player.
• Bartel Leendert van der Waerden, 92, Dutch mathematician and mathematics historian.
• Dai Ward, 61, Welsh football player.

13

• Denise Grey, 99, Italian-French actress.
• Mark Herron, 67, American actor, cancer.
• Dean Kelley, 64, American basketball player and Olympian.
• Ester Krumbachová, 72, Czech filmmaker.
• Bobby Langton, 77, English football player and manager.
• Aliou Mahamidou, 48, Nigerien politician and Prime Minister.
• Sam Merwin, Jr., 85, American writer.
• Elina Pohjanpää, 62, Finnish actress, oral cancer.
• Jorge Sapelli, 70, Uruguayan politician.
• Peter Shenton, 59, English cricketer.
• Joe Zombek, 63, American football player.

14

• Annie Broadbent, 87, British Olympic artistic gymnast.
• Umberto Drei, 70, Italian racing cyclist.
• Ernst Friborg Jensen, 89, Danish Olympic rower.
• Jacques Lebrun, 85, French Olympic sailor.
• José Pastor, 89, Spanish Olympic boxer.
• Ōhikari Sadayuki, 68, Japanese sumo wrestler and coach.
• Onno Tunç, 47, Turkish composer, plane crash.

15

• Don Bauer, 73, Australian rules footballer.
• Les Baxter, 73, American musician, singer, and composer.
• Richard Cobb, 78, British historian, essayist, and professor.
• Dave Harper, 78, American baseball player.
• Gerhard Huttula, 93, German cinematographer and film director.
• Lindsey Jerman, 80, English cricketer.
• Nils Jørgensen, 84, Norwegian Olympic fencer.
• Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho, 57, King of Lesotho, traffic collision.
• Edward Makula, 65, Polish aviator.
• Mohsin Naqvi, 48, Pakistani poet, murdered.
• Max Varnel, 70, French film director.
• Rudolf Wanderone, 82, American pool player.

16

• Marcia Davenport, 92, American author and music critic.
• Richard Kermode, 49, American keyboardist.
• Harry Potts, 75, English football player and manager.
• Franz Reiner, 83, Swiss Olympic canoeist.
• Kurt Svanström, 80, Swedish football player.
• Mario Tosato, 65, Italian cyclist.

17

• Arnold Anderson, 83, New Zealand sprinter.
• Børge Enemark, 52, Danish footballer.
• Barbara Jordan, 59, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives, pneumonia.
• Charles Madge, 83, English poet, journalist and sociologist.
• Mikhail Plaksin, 66, Soviet Russian Olympic rower.
• Harry Robertson, 63, Scottish musician, bandleader, and composer.
• Juan Luis Segundo, 70, Uruguayan priest and theologian.
• Xuefan Zhu, 90, Chinese politician.

18

• Adriana Camelli, 67, Argentine Olympic swimmer.
• Osro Cobb, 91, American lawyer and politician.
• Leonor Fini, 87, Argentine painter, designer and writer.
• John Hope, 1st Baron Glendevon, 83, British politician.
• N. T. Rama Rao, 72, Indian actor, producer, director, and politician, heart attack.
• Alberto Ruschel, 77, Brazilian actor, producer, and director.

19

• Upendranath Ashk, 85, Indian novelist, short story writer and playwright.
• Bernard Baily, 79, American comic book artist.
• A. G. Gaston, 103, American businessman.
• John Groves, 81, Jamaican cricketer.
• Kasım Gülek, 91, Turkish politician.
• Byron Keith, 78, American actor, heart attack.
• Ian Mort, 58, Australian rules footballer.
• Anton Myrer, 73, American author, leukemia.
• Donny Schmit, 29, American motorcycle racer, aplastic anemia.
• Don Simpson, 52, American film producer, heart failure.
• Lucien Theys, 68, Belgian long-distance and steeplechase runner and Olympian.
• Harold Wolpe, 70, South African political economist.

20

• Buster Benton, 63, American blues guitarist and singer, diabetes.
• Tom Dimitroff, Sr., 60, American and Canadian football player, and coach.
• Thorvald Hagedorn-Olsen, 93, Danish painter.
• Sidney Korshak, 88, American lawyer and "fixer" for the Chicago Mafia.
• Joseph Mermans, 73, Belgian football player.
• Gerry Mulligan, 68, American jazz baritone saxophonist, arranger and composer, liver cancer.
• Lo Wei, 77, Chinese film director, heart failure.

21

• Jordan Christopher, 55, American actor and singer.
• Roman Cieślewicz, 66, Polish artist, laryngeal cancer.
• Luther Boyd Eubanks, 78, American district judge.
• Les Hazelwood, 75, Australian rules footballer.
• Herbert McEver, 89, American sportsman and coach.
• Dan Monzon, 49, American baseball player.
• Liliana Scaricabarozzi, 61, Italian Olympic gymnast.
• Peter Stadlen, 85, British pianist.
• Henry Serrano Villard, 95, American diplomat and author, pneumonia.
• Joe Wiehl, 85, American football player.

22

• William Cantrell, 87, American powerboat and racecar driver.
• Israel Eldad, 85, Israeli philosopher.
• Dick Rand, 64, American baseball player.
• Petro Shelest, 87, Soviet/Ukrainian politician.

23

• Carter Burden, 54, American politician, member of the New York City Council.
• Cliff Griffith, 79, American racecar driver.
• Norman MacCaig, 85, Scottish poet and teacher.
• Jim O'Brien, 59, Australian rules footballer.
• Stanisław Olczyk, 63, Polish ice hockey player and Olympian.
• Richard Sakakida, 75, American intelligence agent.
• Horst Wende, 76, German musician.
• Art White, 80, American gridiron football player.

24

• Yelizaveta Bagryantseva, 66, Russian Olympic discus thrower.
• Jimmy Davidson, 70, Scottish football player.
• André Deforge, 81, French cyclist.
• Sándor Iharos, 65, Hungarian long-distance runner and Olympian.
• Tom Tracy, 61, American gridiron football player.
• Wim Umboh, 62, Indonesian film director.
• Seigo Yamaguchi, 71, Japanese aikido instructor and Aikikai teacher.

25

• Billy Bailey, 49, American murderer, execution by hanging.
• Ruth Berghaus, 68, German stage director of opera, cancer.
• Antonio Buenaventura, 91, Filipino composer and musician.
• Mike Clark, 73, American baseball player.
• Chuck Coles, 64, American baseball player.
• Ángel García, 76, Cuban sprinter and Olympian.
• Jack Haden, 81, American gridiron football player.
• Mian Shaukat Hussain, 67, Pakistani tabla player.
• Jonathan Larson, 35, American composer and playwright, aortic dissection.
• Yuri Levitansky, 74, Russian poet and writer.
• Toshiaki Okamura, 83, Taiwanese baseball player.
• Bill Sorensen, 63, New Zealand rugby league footballer.

26

• Gerrit Cornelis Berkouwer, 92, Dutch theologian.
• Harold Brodkey, 65, American short-story writer and novelist, AIDS-related complications.
• Saul Goodman, 88, American timpanist.
• Yawara Hata, 85, Japanese politician and lawyer.
• Frank Howard, 86, American gridiron football player and coach.
• Charles Jewtraw, 95, American Olympic speed skater.
• Jiří Kotalík, 75, Czech art historian and gallery director.
• Henry Lewis, 63, American conductor, heart attack.
• Georg Alexander, Duke of Mecklenburg, 74, German noble.
• Bob Pastor, 82, American boxer.
• Allan Robert Phillips, 81, American ornithologist, cancer.
• Stevie Plunder, 32, Australian guitarist and singer-songwriter, suicide.
• Dave Schultz, 36, American wrestler, Olympian, and murder victim, shot.
• Hormasji Maneckji Seervai, 89, Indian lawyer.
• John Albert Taylor, 36, American murderer, execution by firing squad.
• Dimitri Zaitz, 78, American shot putter and Olympian.

27

• Olga Havlová, 62, Czech activist and first wife of president Václav Havel, cancer.
• Fred Heifner, 86, Australian rules footballer.
• John Killilea, 67, American basketball coach and scout.
• Vyacheslav Lemeshev, 43, Soviet Russian Olympic boxer.
• Patrick Ludlow, 92, British actor.
• Thomas Mitchell, 93, English cricket player.
• Vsevolod Sanayev, 83, Russian/Soviet actor.
• Barbara Skelton, 79, English memoirist, novelist and socialite.
• Ralph Yarborough, 92, American politician and lawyer.

28

• Dev Kant Baruah, 81, Indian politician.
• Joseph Brodsky, 55, Russian-American poet, heart attack.
• Burne Hogarth, 84, American cartoonist.
• Pedro Miró, 77, Cuban baseball player.
• Piero Palermini, 70, Italian actor.
• Jerry Siegel, 81, American comic book artist, co-creator of Superman, heart attack.
• Geo Widengren, 88, Swedish historian and academic.
• San Yu, 77, Burmese general, politician, and president of Myanmar.

29

• Jennie Caputo, 78, American Olympic gymnast.
• Charles Mersch, 88, Luxembourgian Olympic water polo player.
• Julius Posener, 91, German architectural historian and author.
• Terence Reese, 82, British bridge player and writer.
• Bill Sorensen, 63, New Zealand rugby player, coach and administrator.
• Jamie Uys, 74, South African film director, film producer, and screenwriter, heart attack.

30

• Jean Peitevin de Saint André, 83, French Olympic equestrian.
• Friedrich Benfer, 90, German actor.
• Guy Doleman, 72, New Zealand actor, lung cancer.
• Neil Ferris, 68, American football player.
• Gino Gallagher, 33, Irish republican and member of the Irish National Liberation Army, shot.
• Lajos Nagy, 71, Hungarian Olympic rower.
• Bob Thiele, 73, American record producer and music executive, kidney failure.

31

• E. C. L. During Caspers, 61, Dutch archaeologist.
• John Drysdale, 69, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada.
• Olle Hallberg, 92, Swedish long jumper and Olympian.
• Rufus G. Herring, 74, United States Navy Medal of Honor recipient.
• Wolf Karni, 84, Finnish football referee.
• Henrik Lavonius, 81, Finnish Olympic equestrian.
• Gustave Solomon, 65, American mathematician and electrical engineer.
• Jesse Williams, 72, American baseball player.