Deaths in April 1996

The following is a list of notable deaths in April 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.

1

 * Masroor Anwar, 51, Indian poet, lyricist and screenwriter.
 * Alexandru Diordiță, 84, Soviet/Moldovan politician.
 * Myroslav Dumanskyi, 66, Ukrainian football player.
 * Jean Le Moyne, 83, Canadian politician.
 * John McSherry, 51, American baseball umpire, heart attack.
 * Alfredo Nobre da Costa, 72, Portuguese politician.
 * Léon Pétillon, 92, Belgian politician.

2

 * Jean Elizabeth Hampton, 41, American political philosopher and author.
 * Lindsay Hartwig, 76, Australian politician.
 * Ian Mitchell, 49, Scottish football player.
 * Antonio Ortiz Ramírez, 88, Spanish anarcho-syndicalist and anarchist.

3

 * Ron Brown, 54, American government official, aircraft crash.
 * Frank Doyle, 78, American comic book writer (Archie), cancer.
 * Herk Harvey, 71, American actor and director, pancreatic cancer.
 * Jo Privat, 76, French musician, cancer.
 * Alphonse James Schladweiler, 93, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
 * Carl Stokes, 68, American politician and diplomat, esophageal cancer.

4

 * Brian Abel-Smith, 69, British economist.
 * Barney Ewell, 78, American track and field athlete and Olympic champion.
 * Zita Perczel, 77, Hungarian actress.
 * Winifred Shotter, 91, British actress.

5

 * Monika Dannemann, 50, German figure skater and painter, suicide.
 * Gerry L'Estrange, 78, Irish politician.
 * Charlene Holt, 67, American actress (El Dorado).
 * Jac Maris, 96, Dutch sculptor.
 * Ahmed Mekkawi, 73, Egyptian football player.
 * Herta Worell, 83, German actress.

6

 * John D. Bulkeley, 84, United States Navy vice admiral and Medal of Honor recipient.
 * Ester Carloni, 98, Italian actress.
 * Greer Garson, 91, British-American actress (Mrs. Miniver, Blossoms in the Dust, Madame Curie), Oscar winner (1943), heart failure.
 * Sterling M. McMurrin, 82, American theologian.

7

 * Colleen Clifford, 97, Australian actress.
 * Georges Géret, 71, French film actor, cancer.
 * Berkely Mather, 87, British writer.
 * Yelena Mazanik, 82, Soviet/Belarus partisan who assassinated Nazi official Wilhelm Kube.

8

 * Donald Adams, 67, English opera singer and actor, brain cancer.
 * John Hudson, 77, American actor (Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, The Screaming Skull, G.I. Blues).
 * George W. Jenkins, 88, American businessman and philanthropist.
 * Ben Johnson, 77, American actor (The Last Picture Show, The Wild Bunch, The Sugarland Express), Oscar winner (1972), heart attack.
 * León Klimovsky, 89, Argentine film director, screenwriter and actor.
 * Petko Sirakov, 67, Bulgarian wrestler.
 * Agron Sulaj, 44, Albanian football player and.
 * José Valdivieso, 74, Argentine football player and manager.
 * Petro Voinovsky, 82, Ukrainian nationalist.
 * Mick Young, 59, Australian politician.

9

 * Sandy Becker, 74, American announcer, actor, and comedian.
 * Richard Condon, 81, American political novelist.
 * Paul Leder, 70, American actor and film director, lung cancer.
 * Otto Licha, 83, Austrian handball player.
 * James Rouse, 81, American businessman and founder of The Rouse Company.

10

 * Moshe Davis, 80, American rabbi.
 * Walter Harding, 79, American scholar and professor of English literature.
 * Herman Pines, 94, Russian-American chemist.
 * Jack Wilkinson, 64, English football player.

11

 * Billy Anderson, 55, American gridiron football player (Tennessee Titans), ALS.
 * Hans Beck, 84, Norwegian ski jumper.
 * Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet, 89, French businessman and publicist.
 * Trygve Brodahl, 90, Norwegian cross country skier.
 * Mel Hill, 82, Canadian ice hockey player.
 * Wanda McKay, 80, American actor and model.

12

 * Antonio Capua, 90, Italian politician.
 * Helmut Krone, 70, American art director.
 * Marthe Robert, 82, French writer.
 * Igor Ternov, 74, Russian physicist.

13

 * C. Alfred "Chief" Anderson, 89, American aviator.
 * George Mackay Brown, 74, Scottish poet, author and dramatist.
 * James Burke, 64, American mobster and Lucchese crime family associate, lung cancer.
 * D'Arcy Coulson, 88, Canadian ice hockey player.
 * Vjekoslav Kaleb, 90, Croatian writer.
 * Denis Sargan, 71, British econometrician.

14

 * Waleed Al-Salam, 69, Iraqi mathematician.
 * Gaylord Birch, 50, American musician.
 * Marie Clotilde Bonaparte, 84, French princess of the Bonaparte dynasty.
 * William K. Everson, 67, American journalist, prostate cancer.
 * Mervyn Levy, 82, Welsh artist and writer on art.
 * George N. Neise, 79, American actor, cancer.
 * James Sargent Russell, 93, United States Navy admiral.

15

 * Beatriz Costa, 88, Portuguese actress.
 * John C. Flanagan, 90, American psychologist.
 * Arthur Lelyveld, 83, American rabbi and activist.
 * Stavros Niarchos, 86, Greek businessman and art collector, pneumonia.

16

 * George Abel, 80, Canadian ice hockey player and Olympic champion.
 * Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, 67, Cuban film director and screenwriter.
 * François-Régis Bastide, 69, French writer, diplomat, politician, and radio host, lung cancer.
 * Lucille Bremer, 79, American actress and dancer, heart attack.
 * Irasema Dilián, 71, Italian actress.
 * Raymond Hill, 62, American tenor saxophonist, singer, and recording artist.
 * Charlie Hillard, 58, American aerobatics pilot, aviation accident.

17

 * Paul Bleiß, 91, German politician and member of the Bundestag.
 * Piet Hein, 90, Danish puzzle designer, mathematician, and poet.
 * Adelaide Lambert, 88, American swimmer and Olympic champion.
 * Dudley Manlove, 81, American actor and radio announcer.
 * Abbot Low Moffat, 94, American politician, cancer.
 * Hugh Robson, 77, New Zealand lawn bowls competitor.

18

 * Brook Berringer, 22, American gridiron football player, plane crash.
 * Bernard Edwards, 43, American bass player and record producer, pneumonia.
 * Mike Leander, 54, English arranger, songwriter and record producer, cancer.
 * Hubert Opperman, 91, Australian racing cyclist.

19

 * Yukiyoshi Aoki, 61, Japanese swimmer.
 * James B. Clark Jr., 39, American murderer, execution by lethal injection.
 * Ken Doherty, 90, American decathlete.
 * John Martin, 36, English spree killer, suicide.
 * Buddy Oldfield, 84, English cricket player and umpire.

20

 * John Barrie, 71, English snooker player.
 * Hank Biasatti, 74, Canadian basketball player.
 * Alexander D'Arcy, 87, Egyptian actor.
 * Frans Gommers, 79, Belgian football player.
 * Raúl Meraz, 69, Mexican actor.
 * Christopher Robin Milne, 75, English author and bookseller.
 * Steve Oneschuk, 65, Canadian football player.
 * Tran Van Tra, 78, Vietnamese general and commander in the Viet Cong.

21

 * Zora Arkus-Duntov, 86, Belgian-American engineer nicknamed the "Father of the Corvette.".
 * Dzhokhar Dudayev, 52, Soviet/Russian general and Chechen leader, homicide.
 * Alceo Galliera, 85, Italian conductor and composer.
 * Robert Hersant, 76, French newspaper magnate.
 * Abdul Hafeez Kardar, 71, Indian cricket player.
 * Luigi Pistilli, 66, Italian actor, suicide.
 * Paraone Reweti, 79, New Zealand politician.
 * Jimmy Snyder, 77, American horse racing announcer & television sports announcer, heart attack.
 * Bertel Storskrubb, 78, Finnish middle-distance runner, hurdler and Olympian.

22

 * Erma Bombeck, 69, American humorist and writer, kidney disease.
 * Helen Keane, 73, American jazz record producer, breast cancer.
 * Molly Keane, 91, Irish writer.
 * Jug McSpaden, 87, American golfer, and golf course architect, accidental carbon monoxide poisoning.
 * Hiteswar Saikia, 62, Indian politician, kidney failure.
 * Serafim Subbotin, 75, Soviet/Russian flying ace.
 * John Baptist Wolf, 88, American historian, specializing in modern European history.
 * Nobuo Yoneda, 66, Japanese computer scientist.

23

 * Jean Victor Allard, 82, Canadian general.
 * Mario Luigi Ciappi, 86, Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.
 * María Lavalle Urbina, 87, Mexican lawyer and politician.
 * P. L. Travers, 96, Australian-British novelist (Mary Poppins), epilepsy.
 * Jesús Hernández Úbeda, 36, Spanish bicycle racer.

24

 * Donald Cammell, 62, British film director, suicide.
 * Giliante D'Este, 86, Italian rower.
 * Tomás de Bhaldraithe, 79, Irish language scholar and lexicographer.
 * Gary Geiger, 59, American baseball player, cirrhosis.
 * Preston Lockwood, 83, British actor.
 * Aldo Masciotta, 86, Italian fencer.
 * Rafael Orozco, 50, Spanish musician, AIDS-related complications.
 * Frank Riley, 80, American writer.
 * Vincenzo Torriani, 77, Italian sports executive and director of the Giro d'Italia.

25

 * Saul Bass, 75, American graphic designer and filmmaker, lymphoma.
 * John Lorne Campbell, 89, British historian.
 * Althea Henley, 84, American film actress and dancer.
 * Dick Wesson, 73, American actor, comedian, comedy writer, and producer, aortic aneurysm.
 * Harold Alden Wheeler, 92, American electrical engineer.

26

 * Wolfgang Franz, 90, German mathematician.
 * Milt Gaston, 100, American baseball player.
 * Guido Leontini, 69, Italian actor.
 * Stirling Silliphant, 78, American screenwriter (In the Heat of the Night, The Towering Inferno, The Poseidon Adventure) and film producer.
 * Burton Stein, 70, American Indologist.

27

 * William Colby, 76, American intelligence agent, drowning.
 * Gilles Grangier, 84, French film director and screenwriter.
 * Adam Roarke, 58, American actor and film director, heart attack.
 * Rudolf Schulten, 72, German physicist.
 * Joan Sterndale-Bennett, 82, British actress.

28

 * Al Hollingsworth, 88, American baseball player.
 * Svea Holst, 95, Swedish film actress.
 * Orville Prescott, 89, American literary critic (The New York Times).
 * Tien Soeharto, 72, wife of the Indonesian president, Suharto
 * Lester Sumrall, 83, American minister.

29

 * Mario David, 68, French actor, pulmonary embolism.
 * Ray Kinsella, 85, Canadian ice hockey player.
 * Claude Overton, 68, American basketball player.
 * François Picard, 75, French racing driver.

30

 * Jeanne Bal, 67, American actress and model, breast cancer.
 * Juan Hohberg, 69, Argentine-Uruguayan football player and coach.
 * Dezső Keresztury, 91, Hungarian politician.
 * Julio César Méndez Montenegro, 80, President of Guatemala.
 * David Opatoshu, 78, American actor (Exodus, Torn Curtain, Dr. Kildare).
 * Rosaura Revueltas, 85, Mexican actress, dancer, and author, lung cancer.