Deaths in March 1996

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

March 1996

1

• Marie-Hélène de Rothschild, 68, French socialite.
• Vergílio Ferreira, 80, Portuguese writer, essayist, and professor.
• David Gebhard, 68, American architectural historian.
• Khan Abdul Ghani Khan, 82, Pakistani poet, artist, writer and politician.
• Susie Sharp, 88, American jurist and first female chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court.
• Don Smith, 75, American basketball player.
• Thorleif Vangen, 75, Norwegian Olympic cross-country skier.
• Ng Wui, 82, Hong Kong film director, writer and actor.

2

• Jacobo Majluta Azar, 61, Vice President of the Dominican Republic, lung cancer.
• Célestin Delmer, 89, French football player.
• Naseem Hijazi, 81, Pakistani writer.
• José López Rubio, 92, Spanish film director.
• Lyle Talbot, 94, American actor, heart failure.
• Notable Brazilians killed in the 1996 Madrid Taxi Aéreo Learjet 25 crash:
• *Dinho, 24, vocalist and songwriter.
• *, 25, guitarist.
• *, 28, keyboardist.
• *, 22, bassist.
• *, 26, drummer.

3

• Marguerite Duras, 81, French writer and film director, esophageal cancer.
• Randolph Harding, 81, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada.
• Walter Kaaden, 76, German engineer.
• John Krol, 85, American catholic cardinal.
• Léo Malet, 86, French writer.
• Meyer Schapiro, 91, American historian of Art.
• Alfred Wilmore, 71, American baseball player.
• Milt Woodard, 84, American sports writer and sport executive.

4

• Berenger Bradford, 83, British Army officer.
• Ted Cordner, 77, Australian rules football player.
• Enrico Cucchi, 30, Italian football player, cancer.
• Minnie Pearl, 83, American comedian and country singer, stroke.
• John Sauer, 70, American gridiron football player, coach, and broadcaster.

5

• Khondaker Mostaq Ahmad, 78, Bangladeshi politician and President of Bangladesh.
• Whit Bissell, 86, American actor, Parkinson's disease.
• Joshua Compston, 25, British art curator, drugs overdose.
• Herb Hall, 88, American musician.
• Galina Kravchenko, 91, Soviet/Russian actress.
• José Santacruz Londoño, 52, Colombian drug trafficker, homicide.
• Pithapuram Nageswara Rao, 65, Indian singer.
• Fritz Huschke von Hanstein, 85, German racecar driver.

6

• Jack Abel, 68, American comic book artist.
• Simon Cadell, 45, British actor, lung cancer.
• Stuart Cartwright, 76, Australian rules footballer.
• Jurandir de Freitas, 55, Brazilian football player.
• Douglas Jay, Baron Jay, 88, British politician.
• José de Magalhães Pinto, 86, Brazilian lawyer, economist, banker and politician.
• Paula Winslowe, 85, American actress.
• Zdeněk Škrland, 82, Czechoslovak/Czech canoeist and Olympian.

7

• Pinchas Menachem Alter, 69, Polish Hasidic rabbi.
• Jacques Bobet, 76, French filmmaker.
• Alf Copsey, 75, Australian rules footballer.
• Willie Fraser, 67, Scottish football player.

8

• John Christensen, 80, Danish Olympic swimmer.
• "Mad Jack" Churchill, 89, British Army officer and master archer.
• Bill Graber, 85, American pole vaulter and Olympian.
• Bill Nicholson, 81, American baseball player.
• Werner Schlichting, 91, German art director.
• Carlo Vitale, 93, Italian painter.

9

• Ronald Ernest Aitchison, 74, Australian physicist and electronics engineer.
• Akhtar-Ul-Iman, 80, Indian Urdu poet and screenwriter.
• Mohammed al-Ghazali, 78, Egyptian Islamic cleric and scholar.
• George Burns, 100, American comedian and actor, Oscar winner, heart failure.
• Merle Eugene Curti, 98, American historian.
• Imre Kovács, 74, Hungarian football player and Olympian.
• Alberto Pellegrino, 65, Italian Olympic fencer.
• Richard M. Powers, 75, American science fiction illustrator.
• Alfredo Scherer, 93, German-Brazilian catholic cardinal.
• Ollie Walsh, 58, Irish hurler and hurling manager.

10

• Jean Desgranges, 66, French footballer.
• Hoàng Xuân Hãn, 88, Vietnamese professor of mathematics, linguist, and historian.
• Ross Hunter, 75, American film and television producer, and actor, cancer.
• Marc de Jonge, 47, French actor, traffic collision.
• Butch Laswell, 37, American motorcycle stunt rider, motorcycle accident.
• Gyula Nagy, 71, Hungarian football player and manager.

11

• Elio Filippo Accrocca, 72, Italian poet, author, and translator.
• Granville Beynon, 81, Welsh physicist.
• Paul Crossley, 47, English football player, heart attack.
• Vince Edwards, 67, American actor, pancreatic cancer.
• Ludwig Fellermaier, 65, German politician.
• Richard G. Folsom, 89, American mechanical engineer.
• Biljana Jovanović, 43, Serbian author, peace activist and feminist.
• Rex E. Lee, 61, American lawyer, academic and Solicitor General of the United States, pancreatic cancer.
• Charles Oatley, 92, British physicist and electrical engineer.
• Thorleif Olsen, 74, Norwegian football player and Olympian.
• Evangeline Walton, 88, American writer.

12

• Bob Forte, 73, American gridiron football player.
• Marte Harell, 89, Austrian actress.
• Otto Møller Jensen, 55, Danish actor.
• Eigil Knuth, 92, Danish explorer, archaeologist, sculptor and writer.
• Gyula Kállai, 85, Hungarian politician.
• Joe Sankey, 82, Australian cricketer.

13

• Henriette Alimen, 95, French paleontologist and geologist.
• Hsu Ching-chung, 88, Taiwanese politician.
• Ted Fetter, 89, American lyricist.
• Lucio Fulci, 68, Italian film director, screenwriter, producer, and actor, diabetes.
• Sándor Gellér, 70, Hungarian football player.
• Peer Guldbrandsen, 83, Danish film director.
• Shafi Inamdar, 50, Indian actor.
• Krzysztof Kieślowski, 54, Polish film director and screenwriter, heart attack.
• Weston La Barre, 84, American anthropologist.
• Marcelle Mercenier, 75, Belgian piano player.
• Max Messner, 57, American football player.
• Rudolf Rieger, 80, Austrian Olympic ski jumper.
• Emilie Schenkl, 85, Austrian Hindu convert and partner of Indian nationalist Subhas Chandra Bose.
• Robert Tetrick, 69, American actor.
• Dick West, 80, American baseball player.

14

• Dewi Bebb, 57, Welsh rugby player, broadcaster and journalist.
• Wang Luobin, 82, Chinese musician, cancer.
• Lucille H. McCollough, 90, American politician, complications from a stroke.
• Andreas Münzer, 31, Austrian bodybuilder, organ failure.
• Dean Prater, 37, American gridiron football player, drowned.
• Maj Sønstevold, 78, Swedish composer.

15

• Gad al-Haq, 78, Egyptian Grand Imam of al-Azhar, heart attack.
• Ed Beach, 67, American basketball player .
• Lucien Boekmans, 73, Belgian Olympic field hockey player.
• Helen Chadwick, 42, British sculptor, photographer and installation artist, heart attack.
• Harold Courlander, 87, American anthropologist.
• Roswell Gilpatric, 89, American lawyer and Deputy Secretary of Defense.
• Cheng Heng, 80, Cambodian politician.
• Dennis Johnson, 44, American football player.
• Wolfgang Koeppen, 89, German writer.
• Rita de Luna, 66, Guatemalan Olympic equestrian.
• Francis Joseph Murray, 85, American mathematician.
• Robert Pearce, 88, American wrestler and Olympic champion.
• Olga Rudge, 100, American musician.

16

• Charlie Barnett, 41, American actor and comedian, AIDS-related complications.
• Ray S. Cline, 77, American government official, Alzheimer's disease.
• Des Fothergill, 75, Australian rules football player and cricket player.
• David Gordon, 51, American economist.
• Evan Green, 65, Australian journalist.
• Dennis Jennings, 85, English football player.
• Edmond Weiskopf, 84, Hungarian-born French footballer.

17

• Anil Chatterjee, 66, Indian actor.
• René Clément, 82, French film director and screenwriter.
• Thomas O. Enders, 64, American diplomat.
• Elsa Respighi, 101, Italian composer.
• Nils Sköld, 74, Swedish Army lieutenant-general.
• Terry Stafford, 54, American singer and songwriter, organ dysfunction.
• Susan Wrigglesworth, 41, British Olympic fencer.

18

• Angelico Chavez, 85, American Friar Minor, priest, historian, author, poet and painter.
• Odysseas Elytis, 84, Greek poet and art critic, heart attack.
• Jacquetta Hawkes, 85, British archaeologist.
• Enrique Jordá, 84, Spanish-American conductor.
• Jaroslav Knotek, 83, Czech Olympic hammer thrower.
• Maria Teresa Pelegrí i Marimón, 88, Spanish composer.
• Niní Marshall, 92, Argentine comedian.
• Robert van der Veen, 89, Dutch Olympic field hockey player.
• Shin Yung-kyoo, 53, North Korean football player.

19

• Virginia Henderson, 98, American nurse, researcher, and author.
• Steinþór Jakobsson, 64, Icelandic Olympic alpine skier.
• Chen Jingrun, 62, Chinese mathematician, pneumonia.
• W. H. Murray, 83, Scottish mountaineer and writer.
• Colin Pittendrigh, 77, British-American chronobiologist.
• Alan Ridout, 61, British composer and teacher.
• Walter Schönrock, 83, German Olympic long-distance runner.
• Günther Schütt, 77, German Olympic rower.
• Walter S. Sullivan, 78, American science reporter and author.
• Lise Østergaard, 71, Danish psychologist and minister.

20

• Claude Bourdet, 86, French politician and writer.
• Hans Conzett, 80, Swiss publisher and politician.
• Albert Ganzenmüller, 91, German politician.
• Werner Loeckle, 79, German Olympic rower.
• Jim Pendleton, 72, American baseball player.
• John Vesser, 95, American football player, and coach.

21

• Walter Bietila, 80, American Olympic ski jumper.
• Richard Leslie Hill, 95, English civil servant and historian.
• Robert B. Mautz, 81, American lawyer, law professor, and university administrator.
• Sverre Sørsdal, 95, Norwegian Olympic boxer.
• Nikolai Usenko, 71, Russian Ryadovoy and Hero of the Soviet Union for his actions during WWII.

22

• Marcel Gleyre, 85, American Olympic gymnast.
• Ron Hayward, 78, British politician.
• Claude Mauriac, 81, French writer.
• Don Murray, 50, American drummer, complications following ulcer surgery.
• Václav Nelhýbel, 76, Czech composer.
• Robert F. Overmyer, 59, American test pilot and astronaut, aviation accident.
• Pete Whisenant, 66, American baseball player.
• Billy Williamson, 71, American Rock and roll musician.

23

• Roderic H. Davison, 78, American historian of the Middle East.
• François Fontaine, 78, French civil servant and writer.
• Margit Manstad, 93, Swedish actress.
• Pete Martin, 76, Canadian football player.
• J. D. "Jay" Miller, 73, American musician.
• Leo Monaghan, 79, Australian rules footballer.
• Jacques Toja, 66, French actor, cancer.

24

• Aldon J. Anderson, 79, American district judge.
• Lola Beltrán, 64, Mexican singer, actress, and television presenter, pulmonary embolism.
• Idilio Cei, 58, Italian football player.
• John Gerstner, 81, American theologian.
• Étienne Hajdú, 88, French and Hungarian sculptor.
• Joseph Jessop, 97, American Olympic sailor.
• Liam O'Brien, 83, American screenwriter and television producer, heart attack.
• Ray Pepper, 90, American baseball player.
• Jean-Claude Piumi, 55, French football player.
• Jerry Robertson, 52, American baseball player, car accident.
• Spartaco Schergat, 75, Italian military frogman during World War II.
• Sarah Thomasson, 70, Swedish alpine skier and Olympian.

25

• Mary Lavin, 83, Irish writer.
• Marvin Albert, 72, American author.
• Dioscoro S. Rabor, 84, Filipino ornithologist, zoologist, and conservationist.
• John Snagge, 91, British reporter, esophageal cancer.

26

• Robert Bradshaw, 41, American figure skater.
• William Harold Collins, 74, American gridiron football player.
• Maurice Gramain, 84, French Olympic fencer.
• Joseph Kallinger, 60, American serial killer, heart failure.
• Edmund Muskie, 81, American statesman, political leader, and U.S. Secretary of State, heart failure.
• David Packard, 83, American electrical engineer and co-founder, with Bill Hewlett, of Hewlett-Packard.
• David du Plessis, 69, South African Olympic sports shooter.
• Käte Strobel, 88, German politician.
• Elmer Ward, 83, American gridiron football player.

27

• Seán Browne, 79, Irish politician.
• Bob Chambers, 90, Canadian artist.
• Peter Chitty, 84, Australian rules footballer.
• Ignace Kowalczyk, 82, French football player.
• André Lefevere, 50, Belgian translator and linguist, leukemia.
• Samuel Schoenbaum, 69, American Shakespearean biographer and scholar, prostate cancer.
• Oliver Seth, 80, American circuit judge.
• Charlie Timmons, 79, American gridiron football player.
• Alfred Waterman, 84, English cricketer.

28

• Hans Blumenberg, 75, German philosopher and intellectual historian.
• Mike Davlin, 68, American football player.
• Peter Dombrovskis, 51, Australian photographer, heart attack.
• Edith Fowke, 82, Canadian folklorist.
• Shin Kanemaru, 81, Japanese politician, stroke.
• Barbara McLean, 92, American film editor.
• Siegfried Mynhardt, 90, South African actor.
• Donovan Parks, 24, American murder victim.
• Don Ross, 81, American baseball player.
• Ritva Salonen, 60, Finnish Olympic gymnast.

29

• Frank Daniel, 69, Czech director, scriptwriter and university educator, heart attack.
• Bill Goldsworthy, 51, Canadian ice hockey player, AIDS-related complications.
• Ivan Kalita, 69, Soviet/Russian equestrian and Olympic champion.
• Charles Merton Merrill, 88, American circuit judge.
• Juan Negrón, 66, Puerto Rican US Army soldier and recipient of the Medal of Honor.
• Gordon Pask, 67, British psychologist.
• Helmut von Bockelberg, 84, German politician and tax advisor.

30

• Frederick Miller, 84, British paediatrician.
• Richard Kress, 71, German football player.
• Ryoei Saito, 79, Japanese businessman.
• Bjørn Stiler, 84, Danish Olympic racing cyclist.

31

• Dario Bellezza, 51, Italian poet, author and playwright, AIDS-related complications.
• Nino Borsari, 84, Italian cyclist and Olympian.
• Dante Giacosa, 91, Italian automobile designer and engineer.
• Roy Lyons, 80, Australian rules footballer.
• Delia Magaña, 93, Mexican actress, dancer, and singer, pneumonia.
• Jeffrey Lee Pierce, 37, American singer, songwriter, guitarist and author, cerebral hemorrhage.