The following is a list of notable deaths in August 1996.

Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:

• Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.

August 1996

1

• Frida Boccara, 55, French singer, respiratory disease.^[1]
• Stig Hedberg, 80, Swedish sailor.^[2]
• Ayo Gabriel Irikefe, 74, Nigerian Jurist and Chief Justice of Nigeria.
• Tadeusz Reichstein, 99, Polish chemist.^[3]
• Lucille Teasdale-Corti, 67, Canadian medical doctor and surgeon, AIDS-related complications.
• Charles van Rooy, 84, Dutch politician.^[4]

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.^[5]
• 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.^[6]
• Obdulio Varela, 78, Uruguayan football player.^[7]
• Kazumi Watanabe, 48, Japanese sport shooter.^[8]

3

• Guido Alberti, 87, Italian actor and entrepreneur.^[9]
• Jørgen Garde, 57, Danish admiral.
• Dankwart Rustow, 71, American political scientist.^[10]
• Luciano Tajoli, 76, Italian actor and singer.^[11]
• Bill Wright, 82, American baseball player.^[12]

4

• Kiyoshi Atsumi, 68, Japanese actor, lung cancer.^[13]
• Willard Brown, 81, American baseball player.^[14]
• Lev Lemke, 64, Soviet/Russian actor.
• Vladimir Liberzon, 59, Israeli chess player.
• André Trochut, 64, French road bicycle racer.^[15]

5

• Abdulrahman Mohamed Babu, 71, Zanzibari marxist revolutionary.^[16]
• Claudio Barigozzi, 87, Italian geneticist and biologist.
• Frank Marcus, 68, British playwright.^[17]
• Havelock Nelson, 79, Irish composer.

6

• Muhammad al-Badr, 70, Yemeni imam and politician.
• Ossie Clark, 54, British fashion designer, stabbing.^[18]
• Len Coldwell, 63, British cricket player.^[19]
• Bobby Enriquez, 53, Filipino jazz pianist.
• Gerry Gomez, 76, Trinidad and Tobago football player.
• Charles Hadfield, 87, British historian.^[20]
• Floyd Simmons, 71, American gridiron football player.^[21]
• Bud Svendsen, 81, American gridiron football player and coach.^[22]
• 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.^[23]
• Loret Miller Ruppe, 60, American diplomat, ovarian cancer.^[24]

8

• Queta Carrasco, 83, Mexican actress.
• Michio Hoshino, 43, Japanese photographer, bear attack.
• Herbert Huncke, 81, American writer and poet.^[25]
• Philip Lucock, 80, Australian politician.
• James McLamore, 70, American businessman.
• Francesco Molinari-Pradelli, 85, Italian conductor and art collector.
• Nevill Francis Mott, 90, English physicist, Nobel prize winner.^[26]
• Joseph Asajirō Satowaki, 92, Japanese Catholic Bishop.
• Julian Stryjkowski, 91, Polish journalist.^[27]

9

• Tokiharu Abe, 85, Japanese ichthyologist, cerebral hemorrhage.
• May Ayim, 36, German poet, suicide.^[28]
• Lionel Emmett, 83, Indian physician and field hockey player.^[29]
• John W. King, 77, American politician.^[30]
• Derek Smith, 34, American basketball player, myocardial infarction.
• Frank Whittle, 89, British Royal Air Force officer, lung cancer.^[31]

10

• 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.^[32]
• Edward Whitfield, 85, English cricket player.^[33]

11

• Rafael Kubelík, 82, Czech conductor, violinist, composer and director conductor of Czech philharmony.^[34]
• Kathleen Mills, 72, Irish camogie player.
• Ambrosio Padilla, 85, Filipino basketball player and senator.
• David Ricketts, 76, British cyclist.^[35]
• Mel Taylor, 62, American musician, myocardial infarction.^[36]
• Baba Vanga, 84, Bulgarian psychic, breast cancer.

12

• Victor Ambartsumian, 87, Soviet/Armenian astrophysicist.^[37]
• Robert Gravel, 51, Canadian actor.^[38]
• Mark Gruenwald, 43, American comic book writer, editor, and penciler, myocardial infarction.^[39]
• Stephan Kuttner, 89, American legal scholar.^[40]
• Guy Nosbaum, 66, French rower.^[41]
• Anthony Parsons, 73, British diplomat, cancer.^[42]

13

• António de Spínola, 86, President of Portugal, pulmonary embolism.^[43]
• Richard M. Goodwin, 83, American academic.
• Willi Heeks, 74, German racecar driver.
• T. John Lesinski, 71, American politician.
• Louise Talma, 89, American composer.^[44]
• David Tudor, 70, American pianist and composer.^[45]

14

• Sergiu Celibidache, 84, Romanian conductor.^[46]
• Al Cleveland, 66, American songwriter.
• Uzo Egonu, 64, Nigerian artist.
• Camilla Horn, 93, German actress.^[47]
• Tom Mees, 46, American sportscaster, drowned.^[48]
• Albert Neuberger, 88, British biochemist and academic.^[49]
• Amrit Rai, 74, Indian writer, poet and biographer.^[50]

15

• Rey Cuenco, 36, Filipino basketball player, cirrhosis.
• Lisskulla Jobs, 90, Swedish actress.
• Sven Lasta, 71, Croatian actor.^[51]
• Tania Leon, 51, South African feminist.
• Masao Maruyama, 82, Japanese political scientist.^[52]
• Albert Osswald, 77, German politician.
• Jack Portland, 84, Canadian ice hockey player.^[53]
• Joe Seneca, 77, American actor, singer, and songwriter, asthma.^[54]
• George Starbuck, 65, American poet.^[55]
• Max Thurian, 74, Swiss ecumenical monastic community subprior.^[56]

16

• Maurice Natanson, 71, American philosopher, prostate cancer.^[57]
• Miles Goodman, 46, American film composer (Little Shop of Horrors, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Teen Wolf), heart attack.^[58]
• 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.^[59]
• Catherine Shipe East, 80, American government researcher and feminist.^[60]
• Eric Evans, 68, British Anglican priest.^[61]
• Witold Urbanowicz, 88, Polish flying ace during World War II and general.^[62]

18

• Al Bertino, 84, American animator.
• Geoffrey Dearmer, 103, British poet.^[63]
• Hugo Gryn, 66, British rabbi, brain cancer.^[64]
• Charles Mitchel, 75, Irish actor and broadcaster.^[65]
• Isabel Morgan, 84, American virologist.
• Alfredo Varelli, 81, Italian actor.^[66]

19

• Tatyana Mavrina, 93, Russian painter and children's writer.
• Claire Rommer, 91, German actress.^[67]
• Guerrino Rossi, 62, Italian football player and coach.^[68]
• Joffre Soares, 77, Brazilian film actor.

20

• Abílio Duarte, 65, Cape Verdean politician.
• Les Hart, 79, English football manager.
• André-Georges Haudricourt, 85, French academic.^[69]
• Carlos Jáuregui, 38, Argentinean LGBT activist, AIDS-related complications.
• Rio Reiser, 46, German rock musician.^[70]
• Beverley Whitfield, 42, Australian swimmer, Olympic gold medallist.^[71]

21

• Mary Two-Axe Earley, 84, Indigenous Canadian women's rights activist, respiratory disease.
• Johan Rathje, 80, Danish sailor and Olympian.^[72]
• Irene Vorrink, 78, Dutch politician.^[73]
• Richard S. Westfall, 72, American historian.^[74]

22

• Anandatissa de Alwis, 77, Sri Lankan journalist, marketeer and politician.
• Kjell Borgen, 56, Norwegian politician.
• Mareo Ishiketa, 79, Japanese composer.^[75]
• Erwin Leiser, 73, German film director.^[76]
• Oliver Lynn, 69, American American talent manager, diabetes.

23

• Jurriaan Andriessen, 70, Dutch composer.^[77]
• Jeff Batters, 25, Canadian ice hockey defenceman, car accident.^[78]
• Gordon S. Brown, 88, Electrical engineering professor.^[79]
• David Halfyard, 65, English cricket player.^[80]
• Øivind Holmsen, 84, Norwegian football player.^[81]
• Audrey Patterson, 69, American sprinter.
• Margaret Tucker, 92, Indigenous Australian activist and writer.^[82]
• Zulfiya, 81, Uzbek poet.

24

• Jean Aurel, 70, French screenwriter and film director.^[83]
• Zainab Biisheva, 88, Soviet/Russian writer.
• Eric Heaton, 75, British priest and scholar.^[84]
• Ben Joelson, 70, American producer and screenwriter.
• Hristo Mladenov, 68, Bulgarian football player.^[85]
• Lev Vlasenko, 67, Soviet/Russian musician.

25

• Fred Adison, 87, French conductor.
• Erskine Barton Childers, 67, Irish writer, correspondent and United Nations civil servant.^[86]
• Sylvia Fisher, 86, Australian operatic soprano.^[87]
• Caroline Glachan, 14, Scottish murder victim.^[88]
• Reinhard Libuda, 52, German football player, cancer.

26

• Nikolay Baskakov, 91, Russian Turkologist.
• Alejandro Agustín Lanusse, 77, President of the Argentine Republic.^[89]
• Mario Maskareli, 77, Montenegrin painter.
• Khalida Riyasat, 43, Pakistani television actress.
• Sven Stolpe, 91, Swedish journalist.^[90]

27

• Martin Disler, 47, Swiss artist, cerebrovascular disease.^[91]
• Bert Fortell, 71, Austrian actor.^[92]
• Abram Games, 82, British graphic designer.^[93]
• 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 (Mission: Impossible, Vega$, The New Interns), brain cancer.^[94]
• Wayne D. Overholser, 89, American Western writer.^[95]
• Aliye Rona, 74, Turkish actress, cardiovascular disease.
• Yair Rosenblum, 52, Israeli composer, esophageal cancer.^[96]
• Gordon Stein, 55, American physiologist.^[97]
• Waldo Rudolph Wedel, 87, American archaeologist.^[98]

28

• Dulcina de Moraes, 88, Brazilian stage actress and director.
• Gevork Kotiantz, 86, Russian artist.
• José dos Santos Lopes, 85, Brazilian football player.^[99]
• Phyllis Pearsall, 89, British cartographer and typographer, cancer.^[100]
• Marion Stamps, 51, American activist.
• Al Zarilla, 77, American baseball player.^[101]

29

• Norm Bright, 86, American runner, mountaineer, and teacher, pneumonia.
• J. B. Jackson, 86, American writer.^[102]
• Charles O'Neal, 92, American writer.^[103]
• Tera de Marez Oyens, 64, Dutch composer.

30

• Laura Adani, 82, Italian actress.
• Modesto Bria, 74, Paraguayan football player.^[104]
• Alfredo B. Crevenna, 82, Mexican film director and screenwriter, cancer.^[105]
• Dunc Gray, 90, Australian racing cyclist.^[106]
• José Toribio Merino, 80, Chilean politician and admiral.
• Josef Müller-Brockmann, 82, Swiss graphic designer.^[107]
• Christine Pascal, 42, French actress, screenwriter and director, suicide.^[108]
• 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.^[109]
• Blaine Johnson, 34, American racing driver, racing accident.
• Milt Larkin, 85, American musician.^[110]