The following is a list of notable deaths in July 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.

July 1996

1

• William Thomas Cahill, 84, American politician.^[1]
• Harold Greenberg, 66, Canadian film producer.
• Margaux Hemingway, 42, American fashion model and actress, suicide.^[2]
• Einar Hovdhaugen, 88, Norwegian politician.
• Cláudio Kano, 30, Japanese Brazilian table tennis player, traffic collision.^[3]
• Lawrence Low, 75, American sailor and Olympic champion.^[4]
• Alfred Marks, 75, British actor and comedian.^[5]
• Duke Maronic, 74, American gridiron football player.^[6]
• Steve Tesich, 53, Serbian-American screenwriter (Breaking Away, The World According to Garp), Oscar winner (1980), heart attack.^[7]

2

• Arvid Brodersen, 91, Norwegian sociologist^[8]
• Ñuflo Chávez Ortiz, 72, Bolivian politician.
• Hugh Davson, 86, English physiologist.^[9]
• Mike Parobeck, 30, American comic book artist (Batman, Justice Society of America, El Diablo), diabetes.
• Ingvar Pettersson, 70, Swedish race walker.^[10]
• Hal Robson, 84, American racing driver.
• Stefano Sibaldi, 91, Italian actor and voice actor.

3

• Herb Baumeister, 49, American serial killer, suicide.
• B. Gerald Cantor, 79, American investment banker.^[11]
• Barry Crump, 61, New Zealand writer.
• Sharon Hugueny, 52, American actress (The Young Lovers), cancer.
• Pim Jacobs, 61, Dutch musician.^[12]
• Raaj Kumar, 69, Indian actor.^[13]
• Bernard Zehrfuss, 84, French architect.^[14]

4

• Genevieve Blatt, 83, American politician^[15]
• Magnhild Hagelia, 92, Norwegian politician.^[16]
• Pierre Jaccoud, 90, Swiss lawyer.
• 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.^[17]
• Donald Adam Hartman, 66, Canadian politician.
• Predrag Ostojić, 58, Yugoslav chess player, suicide.
• Mohamed Seddik, 56, Egyptian football player.^[18]
• Clyde Wiegand, 81, American physicist, prostate cancer.^[19]

6

• Kutlu Adalı, 61, Turkish Cypriot journalist, poet, socio-political researcher, and peace advocate.
• Kathy Ahern, 47, American golfer, breast cancer.^[20]
• Armando Calvo, 70, Puerto Rican-born Spanish actor, heart failure.^[21]
• Evgeni Rogov, 67, Soviet/Russian football player and manager.

7

• David F. James, 90, American politician.
• Michael McGoldrick, 31, Northern Irish taxi driver, murdered by the Loyalist Volunteer Force.^[22]
• Vera Nedkova, 89, Bulgarian modernist painter.
• Friedrich von Stülpnagel, 82, German track and field athlete and Olympic medalist.^[23]

8

• J. W. Alexander, 80, American musician, record producer and entrepreneur.
• Ernest Armstrong, 81, British politician.^[24]
• Jim Baumer, 65, American baseball player, scout, and executive.^[25]
• Albrecht, Duke of Bavaria, 91, German prince.
• Jim Busby, 69, American Major League Baseball player and coach.^[26]
• Richard Groschopp, 90, German film director and screenwriter.^[27]
• Irene Prador, 84, Austrian-American actress and writer.
• Luis Manuel Rodríguez, 59, Cuban boxer.

9

• Melvin Mouron Belli, 88, American lawyer, author, and actor, pancreatic cancer.^[28]
• Paul Bhagwandas, 45, Suriname battalion commander known as "the executioner of Fort Zeelandia", cancer.
• Christopher Casson, 84, English-Irish actor.^[29]
• Sergey Kuryokhin, 42, Russian composer, pianist, music director, film actor and writer, cancer.
• Edward Purdy Ney, 75, American physicist.^[30]
• Aurora Redondo, 96, Spanish actress.^[31]
• David Colville Smith, 74, Rhodesian/Zimbabwean farmer and politician.

10

• Paul King, 69, American producer and screenwriter.^[32]
• Lou Lichtveld, 92, Surinamese politician, playwright, poet and resistance fighter.^[33]
• Alex Manoogian, 95, Armenian-American industrial engineer, businessman, and philanthropist.^[34]
• Fred Meyer, 76, American gridiron football player.^[35]
• Jindřich Tintěra, 95, Czech gymnast and Olympian.^[36]

11

• René Abadie, 60, French cyclist.^[37]
• Louis Gottlieb, 72, American bassist and comic spokesman for music trio The Limeliters.^[38]
• Bertil Lundell, 87, Swedish ice hockey, football and bandy player.^[39]
• Ružica Meglaj-Rimac, 55, Yugoslav and Croatian basketball player.
• Florrie Rodrigo, 102, Dutch dancer and choreographer^[40]

12

• John Chancellor, 68, American journalist, stomach cancer.^[41]
• Walter Hassan, 91, British automotive engineer.^[42]
• Jonathan Melvoin, 34, American musician, heroin overdose.
• Nazar Mohammad, 75, Pakistani cricket player.^[43]
• Gottfried von Einem, 78, Austrian composer.^[44]
• Clarence Wilkinson, 85, American politician.

13

• Pandro S. Berman, 91, American film producer, heart failure.^[45]
• Loda Halama, 84, Polish dancer and actress.^[46]
• Bill Moe, 79, American ice hockey player.
• Karen Simensen, 88, Norwegian figure skater.^[47]

14

• Kenneth Bainbridge, 91, American physicist.^[48]
• Jeff Krosnoff, 31, American race car driver, racing accident.
• Karl Paryla, 90, Austrian theater actor and director.^[49]
• Richard Ripley, 95, British athlete.^[50]
• Kathrine Taylor, 92, American author.

15

• William Dugan, 83, American rower and Olympian.^[51]
• Dana Hill, 32, American actress (National Lampoon's European Vacation, Cross Creek, Goof Troop), stroke.
• Sven Hörstadius, 98, Swedish embryologist.
• Jan Krogh Jensen, 38, Norwegian-Danish outlaw biker, gangster, homicide.^[52]

16

• Édouard Max-Robert, 91, French hurdler and Olympian.^[53]
• John Panozzo, 47, American drummer, cirrhosis.^[54]
• 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.^[55]
• Geoffrey Jellicoe, 95, English architect, town planner, landscape architect and author.^[56]
• 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.^[57]
• Paul Touvier, 81, French Nazi collaborator during World War II, prostate cancer.^[58]
• Notable people killed in the crash of TWA Flight 800:^[59]
  • Michel Breistroff, 25, French ice hockey player.
  • Marcel Dadi, 44, Tunisian-French guitarist.
  • David Hogan, 47, American composer.^[60]
  • 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.^[61]
• José Manuel Fuente, 50, Spanish road racing cyclist, pancreatitis.^[62]
• Duke Christian Louis of Mecklenburg, 83, German noble.
• Martin Summerfield, 79, American physicist and rocket scientist.^[63]

19

• Raymond Burnett, 82, American football player and coach.^[64]
• Berkeley Cole, 82, English Anglican priest and author.
• Mervyn Cowie, 87, British conservationist.^[65]
• Dan Lewandowski, 68, American baseball player.^[66]
• E. T. Mensah, 77, Ghanaian musician.
• Sverre Wilberg, 66, Norwegian actor.

20

• Anna Chandy, 91, first female judge of India.
• Eddie Jankowski, 83, American gridiron football player.^[67]
• Colin Mitchell, 70, British Army soldier and politician.^[68]
• Raphael Patai, 85, Hungarian-Jewish ethnographer, historian, orientalist and anthropologist.^[69]
• František Plánička, 92, Czech football goalkeeper.
• Arunachala Sreenivasan, 87, Indian food technologist and nutritional scientist .
• Randy Stuart, 71, American actress, lung cancer.^[70]

21

• Luana Anders, 58, American actress and screenwriter, breast cancer.^[71]
• Rafael Cepeda, 86, Puerto Rican musician, myocardial infarction.
• Herb Edelman, 62, American actor (The Golden Girls, St. Elsewhere, The Good Guys), pulmonary emphysema.^[72]
• Inger Jacobsen, 72, Norwegian singer and actress, cancer.
• Wolfe Morris, 71, English actor.^[73]
• Walt Moryn, 70, American Major League Baseball outfielder.^[74]

22

• Rob Collins, 33, English musician, car crash.^[75]
• Tamara Danz, 43, German lead singer and lyricist of the rock group Silly, breast cancer.^[76]
• Carl Goldenberg, 88, Canadian lawyer and senator.^[77]
• Maggie Kalka, 83, Finnish sprint canoeist.^[78]
• Vermont C. Royster, 82, American journalist and editor.^[79]

23

• Herb Abrams, 41, American professional wrestling promoter, cocaine overdose.
• Patriarch Parthenius III of Alexandria, 76, Greek Eastern Orthodox bishop.
• Hamilton Fish IV, 70, American politician.
• Jean Howell, 68, American actress.
• Jessica Mitford, 78, English author and one of the Mitford sisters, lung cancer.^[80]
• Jean Muir, 85, American actress and educator.^[81]
• Red Munger, 77, American baseball player.^[82]
• Frederick Osborne, 87, Australian politician and government minister.
• Eric Ridder, 78, American sailor and Olympic champion.^[83]
• Aliki Vougiouklaki, 62, Greek actress and theatrical producer, pancreatic cancer.^[84]

24

• Virginia Christine, 76, American actress, cardiovascular disease.^[85]
• Nacho Martínez, 44, Spanish actor, lung cancer.^[86]
• Oreste Plath, 88, Chilean writer and folklorist.^[87]
• Alphonso Roberts, 58, Vincentian political activist and cricket player.^[88]
• Jock Wallace, 60, Scottish football player and manager, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.^[89]

25

• Blanca Canales, 90, Puerto Rican politician and independence advocate.
• M. A. Manickavelu Naicker, 99, Indian politician.
• Mikael Tariverdiev, 64, Soviet/Armenian composer.^[90]
• Howard Vernon, 82, Swiss actor.^[91]

26

• Jackie Cerone, 82, American mobster and boss of the Chicago Outfit.
• Evelyn Danzig, 94, American songwriter and classical pianist.^[92]
• Horacio Esteves, 55, Venezuelan sprinter.^[93]
• Wesley P. Garcia, 82, Mexican-American physician, surgeon, and civil rights advocate.^[94]
• Heriberto Herrera, 70, Paraguayan-Spanish football player.^[95]

27

• Jane Drew, 85, English writer, architect and academic, cancer.^[96]
• Yordan Filipov, 50, Bulgarian association football player.
• Johann Hofstätter, 83, Austrian association football player and coach.
• Takeyuki Kanda, 52, Japanese animator, traffic collision.
• Al Rollins, 69, Canadian ice hockey player.^[97]

28

• Bryant Haliday, 68, American actor.
• Ivan V. Lalić, 65, Serbian writer and poet.^[98]
• Roger Tory Peterson, 87, American naturalist, ornithologist and writer.^[99]
• Michel Philippot, 71, French composer, mathematician, musicologist, and broadcaster.^[100]
• Jaroslav Vejvoda, 76, Czech soccer player and coach.^[101]

29

• Aruna Asaf Ali, 87, Indian independence activist.^[102]
• Georgi Dakov, 28, Bulgarian high jumper, traffic collision.^[103]
• Lauren Gale, 79, American basketball player.
• Bill Green, 71, American jazz musician (reeds).^[104]
• 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.
• Chick Reiser, 82, American basketball player and coach.^[105]
• Marcel-Paul Schützenberger, 75, French mathematician and Doctor of Medicine.^[106]
• Jason Thirsk, 28, American bass guitarist, suicide by gunshot.

30

• Claudette Colbert, 92, American actress (It Happened One Night, Since You Went Away, Private Worlds), Oscar winner (1935), stroke.^[107]
• Margaret Cousins, 91, American writer and editor.
• Carlos Droguett, 83, Chilean writer.^[108]
• Arihiro Hase, 31, Japanese voice actor and actor, suicide.
• Anthony Peck, 49, American actor, cancer.
• Magda Schneider, 87, German actress.^[109]
• Constantin Teașcă, 73, Romanian football manager.

31

• Petar Džadžić, 66, Serbian literary critic and academic.^[110]
• Howie Goss, 61, American baseball player.^[111]
• Ricardo Molinari, 98, Argentine writer.^[112]
• Seagram, 27, American rapper, shot.^[113]
• Neville Wadia, 84, Indian-British businessman.^[114]
• Jay Lee Webb, 59, American singer, pancreatic cancer.