The following is a list of notable deaths in June 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.

June 1996

1

• Vittorino Colombo, 71, Italian politician.
• Gaetano Fichera, 74, Italian mathematician.^[1]
• Michael Fox, 75, American actor, pneumonia.^[2]
• Don Grolnick, 48, American musician, lymphoma.^[3]
• Attiqur Rahman, 77, Pakistani general and military historian.
• Neelam Sanjiva Reddy, 83, Sixth President of India, pneumonia.^[4]

2

• John Alton, 94, American cinematographer (An American in Paris), Oscar winner (1952).^[5]
• Ishmael Bernal, 57, Filipino director, cardiovascular disease.
• Rene Bond, 45, American pornographic actress, cirrhosis.
• Ray Combs, 40, American stand-up comedian, actor, and game-show host (Family Feud), suicide by hanging.^[6]
• Stewart Evans, 87, Canadian ice hockey player (Montreal Canadiens).^[7]
• Alberto Farnese, 69, Italian actor.^[8]
• Leon Garfield, 74, English children's writer, cancer.^[9]
• Pilar Lorengar, 68, Spanish operatic soprano, lung cancer.^[10]
• Amos Tversky, 59, Israeli psychologist, melanoma.^[11]
• William Van Pelt, 91, American politician.

3

• Arthur J. O. Anderson, 88, American anthropologist specializing in Aztec culture.^[12]
• Veniero Colasanti, 85, Italian costume designer, set decorator and art director.
• Ben Couch, 70, New Zealand politician and rugby union player.
• William Cox, 91, American long-distance runner.^[13]
• Peter Glenville, 82, English actor director and producer, myocardial infarction.^[14]
• Ferdinand Leitner, 84, German composer and conductor.^[15]
• Tito Okello, 82, President of Uganda.^[16]
• Hideo Sakai, 86, Japanese association football player, pneumonia.
• Gitchandra Tongbra, 83, Indian satirist, poet, playwright and art academic.^[17]
• Aimo Tukiainen, 78, Finnish sculptor.

4

• María Luisa Anido, 89, Spanish musician.^[18]
• Cliff Holton, 67, English football player.^[19]
• Nel Roos-Lodder, 82, Dutch discus thrower.^[20]
• Aloha Wanderwell, 89, Canadian-American explorer, author, filmmaker, and aviator.

5

• Erich Bagge, 84, German physicist.^[21]
• Jack Beaton, 82, Australian rugby player.
• Patrick Cordier, 49, French alpinist, traffic collision.
• Hartono Rekso Dharsono, 70, Indonesian general.
• Jan Kerouac, 44, American writer and only child author Jack Kerouac and Joan Haverty Kerouac.^[22]
• Vito Scotti, 78, American actor, lung cancer.^[23]
• Anne-Marie Ørbeck, 85, Norwegian pianist and composer.

6

• Harry Andersson, 83, Swedish football player.^[24]
• Bruce Andrew, 88, Australian football player.
• Hall Hibbard, 92, American aerospace engineer.
• Courtney Johnson, 56, American banjo player, lung cancer.
• Vladimír Karfík, 94, Czech architect.
• Kusuo Kitamura, 78, Japanese swimmer.^[25]
• Rajmund Kupareo, 81, Croatian poet.
• Mary Lee, 71, American actress.
• George Davis Snell, 92, American geneticist.^[26]
• José María Valverde, 70, Spanish philosopher.^[27]

7

• Buddy Blair, 85, American Major League Baseball player.^[28]
• Percy Edwards, 88, English entertainer and ornithologist.
• Marjorie Gross, 40, Canadian television producer, ovarian cancer.
• David Allan Hubbard, 68, American theologian and professor.^[29]
• Fumi Kojima, 79, Japanese track and field athlete.^[30]

8

• William J. Baroody, Jr., 58, American government official, lung ailment.^[31]
• Scoop Putnam, 83, American basketball player.
• Phyllis Stedman, 79, British politician and life peer.^[32]
• Henryk Trębicki, 55, Polish weightlifter.^[33]

9

• Rafaela Aparicio, 90, Spanish actress, cerebral hemorrhage.^[34]
• Daniel Mazia, 83, American cell biologist.^[35]
• Salme Reek, 88, Estonian actress.
• Walter Stokes, 98, American sport shooter.^[36]
• Nhiek Tioulong, 87, Cambodian politician.

10

• Aleksandr Abushakhmetov, 41, Russian fencer.^[37]
• Hugh Mitchell, 89, American politician.^[38]
• Frankie Sakai, 67, Japanese comedian, actor, and musician.
• Chiyo Uno, 98, Japanese writer, pneumonia.^[39]
• Jo Van Fleet, 80, American actress (East of Eden, Cool Hand Luke, The Rose Tattoo), Oscar winner (1956).^[40]
• Marie-Louise von Motesiczky, 89, Austrian artist.^[41]

11

• Ulysses Dove, 49, American dancer, AIDS-related complications.^[42]
• Lonne Elder III, 68, American actor and dramatist.^[43]
• George Hees, 85, Canadian politician.
• Brigitte Helm, 90, German actress.^[44]
• Wilson W. Wyatt, 90, American politician and lawyer.^[45]

12

• Mary Field, 87, American film actress, stroke.^[46]
• John Hopper, 73, American politician.^[47]
• Annie Ruth Jiagge, 77, Ghanaian jurist and women's rights activist.
• Manibhai J. Patel, 75, Indian politician.
• Lillian Yarbo, 91, American actress.

13

• Edward Dugmore, 81, American artist, cancer.^[48]
• Friedrich Geiger, 88, German automobile designer of notably the Mercedes-Benz 300 SL.
• Pran Nath, 77, Indian singer, heart failure.^[49]
• Keith Palmer, 38, American musician, cancer.
• Merceditas Valdés, 73, Cuban singer.

14

• Gesualdo Bufalino, 75, Italian writer, traffic collision.^[50]
• Noemí Gerstein, 87, Argentine artist and sculptor.^[51]
• Alexander Knyazhinsky, 60, Soviet/Russian cinematographer, noted for his work on Andrei Tarkovsky's Stalker.
• Jack Ragland, 82, American basketball player.^[52]

15

• Sir Fitzroy MacLean, 1st Baronet, 85, Scottish soldier, writer and politician.^[53]
• Allenby Chilton, 77, English football player and manager.^[54]
• Bernard A. Clarey, 84, United States Navy admiral.^[55]
• Ella Fitzgerald, 79, American jazz singer, sometimes referred to as the "First Lady of Song", "Queen of Jazz", and "Lady Ella", stroke.^[56]
• Jean Gimpel, 77, French historian and medievalist.
• Robert Lamoot, 85, Belgian football player.
• Dick Murdoch, 49, American professional wrestler, myocardial infarction.
• Roosseno, 87, Indonesian politician, scholar, and engineer.
• Raymond Salles, 75, French rower.^[57]

16

• Mel Allen, 83, American sports announcer.^[58]
• Harold Emerson Foster, 90, American basketball player-coach.
• Princess Margarita, Princess of Hohenzollern, 64, German princess, suicide.^{[citation needed]}
• David Mourão-Ferreira, 69, Portuguese writer and poet.^[59]
• Richard Sylvan, 60, Australian philosopher.
• Adriano Vignoli, 88, Italian road bicycle racer.^[60]

17

• George Adomian, 74, American mathematician of Armenian descent.^[61]
• Madhukar Dattatraya Deoras, 80, Indian politician and third Sarsanghchalak of the RSS.
• Gizella Farkas, 70, Hungarian table tennis player.
• James Hamilton, 53, British DJ and journalist.
• Doug Harris, 77, New Zealand runner.^[62]
• Thomas Kuhn, 73, American historian, physicist and philosopher, lung cancer.^[63]
• Edmond Roudnitska, 91, French perfumer.^[64]
• Curt Swan, 76, American comic book artist (Superman).^[65]

18

• Florence Andrews, 83, New Zealand fencer.
• Branko Bošnjak, 73, Croatian philosopher.
• Gino Bramieri, 67, Italian actor, pancreatic cancer.
• Pierre Chany, 73, French cycling journalist.^[66]
• Erika Dannhoff, 86, German actress.^[67]
• Miriam Gideon, 89, American composer.^[68]
• Glenmor, 64, French protest singer known as Emile Le Scanf.^[69]
• Paul Heinemann, 80, Belgian botanist and mycologist.
• Endel Puusepp, 87, Soviet bomber pilot and Hero of the Soviet Union.
• Henry Regnery, 84, American newspaper publisher .^[70]
• Rif Rəis uğlı Səyetgərəyev, 35, Russian speedway rider.

19

• Bob Dennison, 82, English football player.^[71]
• Frank Eliscu, 83, American sculptor and art teacher.^[72]
• Vivian Ellis, 92, British musical composer.^[73]
• Eric Fisher, 71, New Zealand cricket player.
• Hillevi Rombin, 62, Swedish model, aviation accident.
• Gerard David Schine, 68, American politician, plane crash.^[74]
• Michel Ter-Pogossian, 71, American physicist.
• Edvin Wide, 100, Swedish middle- and long distance runner.^[75]

20

• Renato Archer, 73, Brazilian politician.^[76]
• John Buchan, 2nd Baron Tweedsmuir, 84, British peer and son of novelist John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir.^[77]
• Herbert Gerigk, 91, German musicologist.
• Joseph Green, 96, American actor and film director.^[78]
• Wálter Guevara, 84, President of Bolivia.^[79]
• Irving P. Krick, 89-90, American meteorologist and inventor, heart failure.^[80]
• Louis Lefkowitz, 91, American politician, Parkinson's disease.^[81]

21

• John Wesley Fletcher, 56, American pastor, AIDS-related complications.
• Cyril Holmes, 81, English sprinter.^[82]
• Reidar Karlsen, 85, Norwegian football player.^[83]
• Mary Mead, 61, American politician, fall from horse.

22

• George Barati, 83, American composer and conductor.^[84]
• Terrel Bell, 74, American World War II veteran and politician, pulmonary fibrosis.^[85]
• Norvell William Emerson, 58, American politician, lung cancer.^[86]
• Epaminondas Samartzidis, 30, Olympic water polo player, drowning.^[87]

23

• Ludovico Avio, 63, Argentine football player.^[88]
• Pasqualino De Santis, 69, Italian cinematographer, heart attack.
• Marian Gilman, 81, American swimmer, Olympic athlete.^[89]
• Ray Lindwall, 74, Australian cricket player.^[90]
• Yasapalitha Nanayakkara, 56, Sri Lankan writer.
• Andreas Papandreou, 77, Greek politician, cardiovascular disease.^[91]
• Hazel Redick-Smith, 70, South African tennis player.
• Mariano Rojas, 23, Spanish bicycle racer, traffic collision.^[92]
• Salah Abu Seif, 81, Egyptian film director.
• Norbertas Vėlius, 58, Lithuanian folklorist specializing in Lithuanian mythology.

24

• Harry Dowda, 73, American gridiron football player.^[93]
• Grace Ho, 89, Mother of Bruce Lee.^[94]
• Edward Halsey Jenison, 88, American politician and newspaper publisher.
• Osman Karabegović, 84, Yugoslav politician.
• Chao Lei, 68, Hong Kong actor, pneumonia.
• Peter Thullen, 88, German mathematician.^[95]

25

• Ray Howard-Jones, 93, English painter.
• Vytautas Kavolis, 65, Lithuanian sociologist.^[96]
• Siegfried Rossner, 82, German fencer and Olympian.^[97]
• Hans Stam, 77, Dutch water polo player.^[98]

26

• Caleb J. Anderson, 85, Swedish politician.
• Veronica Guerin, 37, Irish crime reporter, homicide.^[99]
• Pedro Montañez, 82, Puerto Rican boxer.
• J. Lee Rankin, 88, American lawyer and United States Solicitor General.^[100]
• Eduard Zahariev, 57, Bulgarian film director and screenwriter.

27

• Peter Adair, 52, American filmmaker and artist, AIDS-related complications.^[101]
• Mollie Beattie, 49, American conservationist and director of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, brain cancer.^[102]
• Victor Borg, 80, Norwegian physician, novelist, playwright and script writer.
• Albert R. Broccoli, 87, American film producer (Dr. No, Goldfinger, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang), heart failure.^[103]
• Merze Tate, 91, American academic.^[104]

28

• Julio Bolbochán, 76, Argentine chess player.
• Ivan Jazbinšek, 81, Yugoslavian football player.
• Ali Said, 69, Indonesian military officer, Chief Justice, and politician.
• Ola Solum, 52, Norwegian film director, cancer.^[105]
• Kwan Tak-hing, 91, Hong Kong actor, pancreatic cancer.
• Isao Yamagata, 80, Japanese actor, tuberculosis.^[106]

29

• Richard Krebs, 89, German sprinter.^[107]
• Pamela Mason, 80, English actress, screenwriter.^[108]
• Alexander George Ogston, 85, Australian biochemist.^[109]
• Dmitri Pokrovsky, 52, Russian musician and folk music researcher.^[110]

30

• Antonio Franco Florensa, 84, Spanish football player.
• Jef Maes, 91, Belgian musician.
• Jerry May, 52, American baseball player, farming accident.^[111]
• David McCampbell, 86, United States Navy officer and Medal of Honor recipient.^[112]
• Lakis Petropoulos, 63, Greek football player.^[113]