Deaths in July 1996

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

July 1996

1

• William Thomas Cahill, 84, American politician.
• Harold Greenberg, 66, Canadian film producer.
• Margaux Hemingway, 42, American fashion model and actress, suicide.
• Einar Hovdhaugen, 88, Norwegian politician.
• Cláudio Kano, 30, Japanese Brazilian table tennis player and Olympian, traffic collision.
• Lawrence Low, 75, American sailor and Olympic champion.
• Alfred Marks, 75, British actor and comedian.
• Duke Maronic, 74, American gridiron football player.
• Steve Tesich, 53, Serbian-American screenwriter, Oscar winner, heart attack.

2

• Arvid Brodersen, 91, Norwegian sociologist
• Ñuflo Chávez Ortiz, 72, Bolivian politician.
• Hugh Davson, 86, English physiologist.
• Jim Guyatt, 56, Australian rules footballer.
• Mcwilliam Lunguzi, 49-50, Malawian police officer, Inspector General of the Malawi Police Service, traffic collision.
• Mike Parobeck, 30, American comic book artist, diabetes.
• Ingvar Pettersson, 70, Swedish Olympic race walker.
• Hal Robson, 84, American racing driver.
• Stefano Sibaldi, 91, Italian actor and voice actor.

3

• Herb Baumeister, 49, American serial killer, suicide.
• Krzysztof Beck, 66, Polish Olympic weightlifter.
• B. Gerald Cantor, 79, American investment banker.
• Barry Crump, 61, New Zealand writer.
• Bert Hirschfeld, 67, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Sharon Hugueny, 52, American actress, cancer.
• Pim Jacobs, 61, Dutch musician.
• Raaj Kumar, 69, Indian actor.
• Dick de Man, 87, Dutch Olympic swimmer.
• Curtis Stewart, 33, American football player.
• Bernard Zehrfuss, 84, French architect.

4

• Genevieve Blatt, 83, American politician
• Francesco Gotti, 72, Italian rower and Olympian.
• Magnhild Hagelia, 92, Norwegian politician.
• Pierre Jaccoud, 90, Swiss lawyer.
• György Kunsági, 62, Hungarian swimmer and Olympian.
• James O. Plinton Jr., 81, U.S. Army Air Corps pilot and member of the Tuskegee Airmen.
• Yagya Dutt Sharma, 73, Indian politician.

5

• Fred Davis, 74, Canadian broadcaster, stroke.
• Harold LeBruce Gilmore, 84, American politician.
• Donald Adam Hartman, 66, Canadian politician.
• Predrag Ostojić, 58, Yugoslav chess player, suicide.
• Mohamed Seddik, 56, Egyptian Olympic football player.
• Piet Stam, 77, Dutch Olympic swimmer.
• Clyde Wiegand, 81, American physicist, prostate cancer.
• Zsolt Zsoldos, 29, Hungarian Olympic judoka.

6

• Kutlu Adalı, 61, Turkish Cypriot journalist, poet, socio-political researcher, and peace advocate.
• Kathy Ahern, 47, American golfer, breast cancer.
• Armando Calvo, 76, Puerto Rican-born Spanish actor, heart failure.
• Fred James Cassibry, 77, American district judge.
• Gordon Hurst, 75, English cricketer.
• Fred Oberlander, 85, Austrian-born wrestler and Olympian.
• Arnold Riegger, 75, American Olympic sports shooter.
• Evgeni Rogov, 67, Soviet/Russian football player and manager.

7

• Jim Carstairs, 66, Australian rules footballer.
• David F. James, 90, American politician.
• Michael McGoldrick, 31, Northern Irish taxi driver, murdered by the Loyalist Volunteer Force.
• Vera Nedkova, 89, Bulgarian modernist painter.
• Friedrich von Stülpnagel, 82, German track and field athlete and Olympic medalist.

8

• J. W. Alexander, 80, American musician, record producer and entrepreneur.
• Ernest Armstrong, 81, British politician.
• Carl Baer, 78, American basketball player.
• Jim Baumer, 65, American baseball player, scout, and executive.
• Albrecht, Duke of Bavaria, 91, German prince.
• Jim Busby, 69, American Major League Baseball player and coach.
• Richard Groschopp, 90, German film director and screenwriter.
• Irene Prador, 84, Austrian-American actress and writer.
• Luka Predanić, 90, Croatian Olympic middle-distance runner.
• Luis Manuel Rodríguez, 59, Cuban boxer.

9

• Melvin Belli, 88, American lawyer, author, and actor, pancreatic cancer.
• Paul Bhagwandas, 45, Suriname battalion commander known as "the executioner of Fort Zeelandia", cancer.
• Christopher Casson, 84, English-Irish actor.
• Sergey Kuryokhin, 42, Russian composer, pianist, music director, film actor and writer, cancer.
• Edward Purdy Ney, 75, American physicist.
• Aurora Redondo, 96, Spanish actress.
• József Sarlós, 87, Hungarian Olympic gymnast.
• David Colville Smith, 74, Rhodesian/Zimbabwean farmer and politician.

10

• Dénes Birkás, 89, Hungarian ice and field hockey player and Olympian.
• Bill Harrington, 82, Irish footballer.
• Paul King, 69, American producer and screenwriter.
• Lou Lichtveld, 92, Surinamese politician, playwright, poet and resistance fighter.
• Alex Manoogian, 95, Armenian-American industrial engineer, businessman, and philanthropist.
• Fred Meyer, 76, American gridiron football player.
• Jindřich Tintěra, 95, Czech Olympic gymnast.

11

• René Abadie, 60, French cyclist and Olympian.
• T. F. Gilroy Daly, 65, American district judge.
• Louis Gottlieb, 72, American bassist and comic spokesman for music trio The Limeliters.
• Czesław Kubiak, 64, Polish Olympic field hockey player.
• Bertil Lundell, 87, Swedish ice hockey, football, bandy player and Olympian.
• Ružica Meglaj-Rimac, 55, Yugoslav and Croatian basketball player.
• Florrie Rodrigo, 102, Dutch dancer and choreographer

12

• John Chancellor, 68, American journalist, stomach cancer.
• Walter Hassan, 91, British automotive engineer.
• Jonathan Melvoin, 34, American musician, heroin overdose.
• Nazar Mohammad, 75, Pakistani cricket player.
• Gottfried von Einem, 78, Austrian composer.
• Clarence Wilkinson, 85, American politician.

13

• Pandro S. Berman, 91, American film producer, heart failure.
• Anthony Gadd, 78, British Olympic bobsledder.
• Loda Halama, 84, Polish dancer and actress.
• Bill Moe, 79, American ice hockey player.
• Karen Simensen, 88, Norwegian figure skater and Olympian.

14

• Jim Andrew, 59, English cricketer.
• Kenneth Bainbridge, 91, American physicist.
• Hank Camelli, 81, American baseball player.
• Jeff Krosnoff, 31, American race car driver, racing accident.
• John Nolan, 70, American football player.
• Karl Paryla, 90, Austrian theater actor and director.
• Richard Ripley, 95, British athlete and Olympian.
• Kathrine Taylor, 92, American author.

15

• William Dugan, 83, American Olympic rower.
• Dana Hill, 32, American actress, stroke.
• Sven Hörstadius, 98, Swedish embryologist.
• Jan Krogh Jensen, 38, Norwegian-Danish outlaw biker, gangster, homicide.
• Ed Sachs, 78, American basketball player.

16

• Édouard Max-Robert, 91, French Olympic hurdler.
• John Panozzo, 47, American drummer, cirrhosis.
• Iosif Prut, 95, Soviet/Russian playwright and screenwriter.
• Adolf von Thadden, 75, German far-right politician.
• Djamel Zitouni, 32, Algerian Islamist terrorist group leader, killed.

17

• Charles Bartley, 74, American scientist.
• Chas Chandler, 57, English musician, record producer and manager, heart failure.
• Clemente Fernández, 76, Spanish footballer.
• Marvin Howe, 90, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada.
• Geoffrey Jellicoe, 95, English architect, town planner, landscape architect and author.
• Bill Jones, 61, Australian rules footballer.
• John Joubert, 33, American serial killer, execution by electrocution.
• Bratko Kreft, 91, Slovenian playwright, writer, literary historian and director.
• Alan McGilvray, 86, Australian cricket player.
• Juan Paladino, 71, Uruguayan Olympic fencer.
• Aubrey Reeve, 84, British long-distance runner and Olympian.
• Paul Touvier, 81, French Nazi collaborator during World War II, prostate cancer.
• Notable people killed in the crash of TWA Flight 800:
• *Michel Breistroff, 25, French ice hockey player.
• *Marcel Dadi, 44, Tunisian-French guitarist.
• *David Hogan, 47, American composer.
• *Jed Johnson, 47, American interior designer and director.
• *Pam Lychner, 37, American crime victims' rights advocate.
• *Rico Puhlmann, 62, German fashion photographer.

18

• Stephen Donaldson, 49, American bisexual rights activist, and political activist, AIDS-related complications.
• José Manuel Fuente, 50, Spanish road racing cyclist, pancreatitis.
• Duke Christian Louis of Mecklenburg, 83, German noble.
• Mario Maiocchi, 83, Italian Olympic ice hockey player.
• Martin Summerfield, 79, American physicist and rocket scientist.

19

• Raymond Burnett, 82, American football player, and coach.
• Berkeley Cole, 82, English Anglican priest and author.
• Mervyn Cowie, 87, British conservationist.
• Guy Hénon, 84, French Olympic field hockey player.
• Dan Lewandowski, 68, American baseball player.
• E. T. Mensah, 77, Ghanaian musician.
• Kevin Scanlan, 86, Australian rules footballer.
• Sverre Wilberg, 66, Norwegian actor.

20

• Anna Chandy, 91, first female judge of India.
• John Govan, 81, Australian cricketer.
• Eddie Jankowski, 83, American gridiron football player.
• Colin Mitchell, 70, British Army soldier and politician.
• Bernt Østerkløft, 90, Norwegian Olympic skier.
• Raphael Patai, 85, Hungarian-Jewish ethnographer, historian, orientalist and anthropologist.
• František Plánička, 92, Czech football goalkeeper.
• Arunachala Sreenivasan, 87, Indian food technologist and nutritional scientist.
• Randy Stuart, 71, American actress, lung cancer.

21

• Luana Anders, 58, American actress and screenwriter, breast cancer.
• Rafael Cepeda, 86, Puerto Rican musician, myocardial infarction.
• Herb Edelman, 62, American actor, pulmonary emphysema.
• Inger Jacobsen, 72, Norwegian singer and actress, cancer.
• Wolfe Morris, 71, English actor.
• Walt Moryn, 70, American Major League Baseball outfielder.

22

• Rob Collins, 33, English musician, car crash.
• Tamara Danz, 43, German lead singer and lyricist of the rock group Silly, breast cancer.
• Carl Goldenberg, 88, Canadian lawyer and senator.
• Maggie Kalka, 83, Finnish sprint canoeist and Olympic fencer.
• Jack Knowles, 64, Australian rules footballer.
• Vermont C. Royster, 82, American journalist and editor.

23

• Herb Abrams, 41, American professional wrestling promoter, cocaine overdose.
• Clara Cook, 75, American baseball player.
• Patriarch Parthenius III of Alexandria, 76, Greek Eastern Orthodox bishop.
• Hamilton Fish IV, 70, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives.
• Jim Forbes, 87, Australian rules footballer.
• Tone Gazzari, 84, Croatian Olympic swimmer.
• Jean Howell, 68, American actress.
• Jerry Kelly, 78, American basketball player.
• Jessica Mitford, 78, English author and one of the Mitford sisters, lung cancer.
• Jean Muir, 85, American actress and educator.
• Red Munger, 77, American baseball player.
• Frederick Osborne, 87, Australian politician and government minister.
• Victor Railton, 90, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada.
• Eric Ridder, 78, American sailor and Olympic champion.
• Aliki Vougiouklaki, 62, Greek actress and theatrical producer, pancreatic cancer.
• Ed Wineapple, 90, American baseball player.

24

• Virginia Christine, 76, American actress, cardiovascular disease.
• Frank Evans, 71, British middle-distance runner and Olympian.
• Nacho Martínez, 44, Spanish actor, lung cancer.
• Oreste Plath, 88, Chilean writer and folklorist.
• Alphonso Roberts, 58, Vincentian political activist and cricket player.
• Jock Wallace, 60, Scottish football player and manager, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

25

• Blanca Canales, 90, Puerto Rican politician and independence advocate.
• Willie Jones, 79, Welsh cricketer.
• M. A. Manickavelu Naicker, 99, Indian politician.
• Mikael Tariverdiev, 64, Soviet/Armenian composer.
• Howard Vernon, 82, Swiss actor.

26

• Jackie Cerone, 82, American mobster and boss of the Chicago Outfit.
• Evelyn Danzig, 94, American songwriter and classical pianist.
• Horacio Esteves, 55, Venezuelan sprinter and Olympian.
• Héctor P. García, 82, Mexican-American physician, surgeon, and civil rights advocate.
• Heriberto Herrera, 70, Paraguayan-Spanish football player.
• Floyd Stahl, 97, American collegiate athletic coach.
• Max Winter, 93, American businessman and sport executive.

27

• Jane Drew, 85, English writer, architect and academic, cancer.
• Yordan Filipov, 50, Bulgarian association football player.
• Johann Hofstätter, 83, Austrian association football player and coach.
• Takeyuki Kanda, 52, Japanese animator, traffic collision.
• Arthur Luke, 73, Australian rules footballer.
• Rogers Pierre, 83, American baseball player.
• Al Rollins, 69, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Antal Zirczy, 98, Hungarian Olympic fencer.

28

• Cortez Gray, 80, American basketball player.
• Bryant Haliday, 68, American actor.
• Ivan V. Lalić, 65, Serbian writer and poet.
• Roger Tory Peterson, 87, American naturalist, ornithologist and writer.
• Michel Philippot, 71, French composer, mathematician, musicologist, and broadcaster.
• Jaroslav Vejvoda, 76, Czech soccer player and coach.

29

• Aruna Asaf Ali, 87, Indian independence activist.
• Georgi Dakov, 28, Bulgarian high jumper and Olympian, traffic collision.
• Lauren Gale, 79, American basketball player.
• Bill Green, 71, American jazz musician.
• Bill Jackowski, 81, American baseball umpire.
• Roger Nelson, 64, American and Canadian football player.
• Muhammad Osimi, 75, Soviet/Tajik philosopher, soldier, poet, and academic, killed in action.
• Hilary Pritchard, 54, British actress.
• Armas Pyy, 83, Finnish footballer and Olympian.
• Chick Reiser, 82, American basketball player and coach.
• Sean Roberge, 23, Canadian actor, car accident.
• Marcel-Paul Schützenberger, 75, French mathematician and Doctor of Medicine.
• Jason Thirsk, 28, American bass guitarist, suicide by gunshot.

30

• Claudette Colbert, 92, American actress, Oscar winner, stroke.
• Margaret Cousins, 91, American writer and editor, she worked as a senior editor at Doubleday, special editor at Holt, Rinehart & Winston, and both fiction and book editor for Ladies' Home Journal
• Carlos Droguett, 83, Chilean writer.
• Arihiro Hase, 31, Japanese voice actor and actor, suicide by jumping, he jumped from his apartment's window seven stories to the ground.
• Anthony Peck, 49, American actor, cancer.
• Magda Schneider, 87, German actress.
• Constantin Teașcă, 73, Romanian football manager.

31

• Petar Džadžić, 66, Serbian literary critic and academic.
• Howie Goss, 61, American baseball player.
• Ricardo Molinari, 98, Argentine writer.
• Seagram, 26, American rapper, shot.
• Neville Wadia, 84, Indian-British businessman.
• Jay Lee Webb, 59, American singer, pancreatic cancer.