Deaths in August 1996

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.

1

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

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.
 * 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.
 * Obdulio Varela, 78, Uruguayan football player.
 * Kazumi Watanabe, 48, Japanese sport shooter.

3

 * Guido Alberti, 87, Italian actor and entrepreneur.
 * Jørgen Garde, 57, Danish admiral.
 * Dankwart Rustow, 71, American political scientist.
 * Luciano Tajoli, 76, Italian actor and singer.
 * Bill Wright, 82, American baseball player.

4

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

5

 * Abdulrahman Mohamed Babu, 71, Zanzibari marxist revolutionary.
 * Claudio Barigozzi, 87, Italian geneticist and biologist.
 * Frank Marcus, 68, British playwright.
 * Havelock Nelson, 79, Irish composer.

6

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

8

 * Queta Carrasco, 83, Mexican actress.
 * Michio Hoshino, 43, Japanese photographer, bear attack.
 * Herbert Huncke, 81, American writer and poet.
 * 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.
 * Joseph Asajirō Satowaki, 92, Japanese Catholic Bishop.
 * Julian Stryjkowski, 91, Polish journalist.

9

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

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.
 * Edward Whitfield, 85, English cricket player.

11

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

12

 * Victor Ambartsumian, 87, Soviet/Armenian astrophysicist.
 * Robert Gravel, 51, Canadian actor.
 * Mark Gruenwald, 43, American comic book writer, editor, and penciler, myocardial infarction.
 * Stephan Kuttner, 89, American legal scholar.
 * Guy Nosbaum, 66, French rower.
 * Anthony Parsons, 73, British diplomat, cancer.

13

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

14

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

15

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

16

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

18

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

19

 * Tatyana Mavrina, 93, Russian painter and children's writer.
 * Claire Rommer, 91, German actress.
 * Guerrino Rossi, 62, Italian football player and coach.
 * 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.
 * Carlos Jáuregui, 38, Argentinean LGBT activist, AIDS-related complications.
 * Rio Reiser, 46, German rock musician.
 * Beverley Whitfield, 42, Australian swimmer, Olympic gold medallist.

21

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

22

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

23

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

24

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

25

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

26

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

27

 * Martin Disler, 47, Swiss artist, cerebrovascular disease.
 * Bert Fortell, 71, Austrian actor.
 * Abram Games, 82, British graphic designer.
 * 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.
 * Wayne D. Overholser, 89, American Western writer.
 * Aliye Rona, 74, Turkish actress, cardiovascular disease.
 * Yair Rosenblum, 52, Israeli composer, esophageal cancer.
 * Gordon Stein, 55, American physiologist.
 * Waldo Rudolph Wedel, 87, American archaeologist.

28

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

29

 * Norm Bright, 86, American runner, mountaineer, and teacher, pneumonia.
 * J. B. Jackson, 86, American writer.
 * Charles O'Neal, 92, American writer.
 * Tera de Marez Oyens, 64, Dutch composer.

30

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