Deaths in February 1996

The following is a list of notable deaths in February 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

 * Adel Adham, 67, Egyptian film actor, pneumonia.
 * Sergey Aganov, 78, Soviet/Russian Marshal of the engineer troops.
 * Benny Brown, 42, American track and field athlete and olympic champion, traffic collision.
 * Ray Crawford, 80, American fighter ace during World War II and racecar driver.
 * Kevin Williams, 38, American gridiron football player in the National Football League, train crash.

2

 * Sylwester Braun, 87, Polish photographer and army officer.
 * Shamus Culhane, 87, American animator and director.
 * Fred S. Keller, 97, American psychologist and a pioneer in experimental psychology.
 * Gene Kelly, 83, American actor (Singin' in the Rain, An American in Paris, Anchors Aweigh) and dancer, stroke.
 * Vernon Nicholls, 78, British bishop.
 * Li Peiyao, 62, Chinese politician, homicide.
 * Minao Shibata, 79, Japanese composer and musicologist.
 * Aline Towne, 76, American actress.
 * Müfide İlhan, 84, Turkish mayor.

3

 * Edward Adamson, 84, British artist and art collector.
 * Larry Eigner, 68, American poet.
 * Guy Gilles, 57, French film director, AIDS-related complications.
 * Božo Grkinić, 82, Yugoslav water polo and basketball player and coach.
 * Audrey Meadows, 73, American actress and banker, lung cancer.

4

 * Gerry Brand, 89, South African rugby player.
 * Willard S. Curtin, 90, American politician.
 * Manolo Fábregas, 74, Spanish-Mexican actor, film director and film producer.
 * John Hugo Loudon, 90, Dutch businessman and CEO of Royal Dutch Shell.
 * Lakshman Singh, 85, Indian scouting leader.

5

 * Gianandrea Gavazzeni, 86, Italian musician.
 * Hideo Oguni, 91, Japanese screenwriter.
 * Roberto Raviola, 56, Italian comic book artist, pancreatic cancer.
 * Lim Chin Siong, 62, Singaporean politician, heart attack.
 * Antonio Ruiz Soler, 74, Spanish dancer and choreographer.
 * Ted Tyson, 86, Australian rules football player.
 * Gary Zeller, 48, American basketball player.

6

 * Rutherford H. Adkins, 71, American military aviator and member of the Tuskegee Airmen during World War II.
 * Guy Madison, 74, American actor (The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok), pulmonary emphysema.
 * Bob Muncrief, 80, American baseball player.
 * Renee Roberts, 87, British actress.
 * Patsy Smart, 77, British actress.
 * Jacques Wertheimer, 84, French businessman.

7

 * Lydia Chukovskaya, 88, Soviet/Russian writer, poet, editor, publicist, and dissident.
 * I. K. Dairo, 65, Nigerian Jùjú musician.
 * Phillip Davidson, 80, American lieutenant general.
 * Barbara Hamilton, 69, Canadian actress, breast cancer.
 * Lucien Maynard, 87, Canadian politician.
 * Robert, Archduke of Austria-Este, 80, Austrian prince and Archduke of Austria-Este.
 * Boris Tchaikovsky, 70, Soviet and Russian composer.
 * Pat West, 72, American gridiron football player.
 * Ernst Würthwein, 86, German theologian.

8

 * T. J. Campion, 77, American football player.
 * Marcel Capelle, 91, French football player.
 * Mercer Ellington, 76, American musician, composer, and arranger, heart attack.
 * Del Ennis, 70, American baseball player, diabetes.
 * Ri Sung Gi, 90, North Korean chemist.
 * Bruno Hussar, 84, Egyptian priest.
 * Siavash Kasraie, 68, Iranian poet, literary critic, and novelist.
 * José Poy, 69, Argentine football player and manager.
 * Felice Schwartz, 71, American feminist writer.
 * Derek Worlock, 76, English catholic prelate and Archbishop of Liverpool, lung cancer.

9

 * Chitti Babu, 59, Indian musician.
 * Sir George Trevelyan, 4th Baronet, 89, British baronet and a founding father of the New Age movement.
 * Adolf Borchers, 82, German Luftwaffe flying ace during World War II.
 * Stephen Hope Carlill, 93, British Royal Navy admiral.
 * Yun Chi-Young, 97, Korean politician.
 * Alistair Cameron Crombie, 80, Australian zoologist and historian of science.
 * Neil Franklin, 74, English football player and manager.
 * Adolf Galland, 83,German Luftwaffe flying ace and general during World War II.
 * Gerald Savory, 86, English playwright and screenwriter specialising in comedies.
 * Gordon D. Shirreffs, 82, American writer.
 * Robin Stille, 34, American actress (The Slumber Party Massacre), suicide.

10

 * Josette Bruce, 76, Polish-French novelist.
 * Björn-Erik Höijer, 88, Swedish writer.
 * Giovanni Pontiero, 64, British scholar.
 * Klaus-Dieter Seehaus, 53, East German football player.

11

 * Thecla Boesen, 85, Danish film actress.
 * William F. Claxton, 81, American television director and television producer.
 * Brian Daley, 48, American writer, pancreatic cancer.
 * Kebby Musokotwane, 49, Zambian politician and Prime Minister.
 * Quarentinha, 62, Brazilian football player, heart failure.
 * Phil Regan, 89, American actor and singer.
 * Amelia Rosselli, 65, Italian poet, suicide.
 * Gertrude Sawyer, 100, American architect.
 * Bob Shaw, 64, Northern Irish science fiction author and novelist, cancer.
 * Pierre Edouard Leopold Verger, 93, French photographer, anthropologist, and writer.
 * Olle Åhlund, 75, Swedish football player and manager.

12

 * Andrea Barbato, 61, Italian journalist, writer and politician.
 * Gina Falckenberg, 88, German actress.
 * Betty Roland, 92, Australian playwright and novelist.
 * Ernest Samuels, 92, American biographer and lawyer.
 * Ryōtarō Shiba, 72, Japanese writer.

13

 * Martin Balsam, 76, American actor (A Thousand Clowns, 12 Angry Men, Psycho), Oscar winner (1966), heart attack.
 * Scott Beach, 65, American actor (American Graffiti, Stand by Me, The Right Stuff) and disc jockey.
 * Charlie Conerly, 74, American gridiron football player.
 * George Jefferson, 85, American pole vaulter.
 * Léopold Langlois, 82, Canadian politician.
 * Cynthia MacGregor, 31, American tennis player, complications from anorexia nervosa.
 * Branko Marjanović, 86, Croatian film director and editor.
 * Ugyen Rinpoche, 76, Tibetan Buddhist Lama.

14

 * Lady Caroline Blackwood, 64, British writer and journalist, cancer.
 * Fritz Hanson, 81, American-Canadian gridiron football player.
 * Eva Hart, 91, British survivor of the sinking of RMS Titanic, cancer.
 * Gied Jaspars, 56, Dutch television producer, colorectal cancer.
 * Čeněk Kottnauer, 85, Czech-British chess master.
 * Alejandro de la Sota Martínez, 82, Spanish architect.
 * Bob Paisley, 77, English football player and manager, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Francisco Tomás y Valiente, 63, Spanish jurist, historian, and writer, homicide.
 * Sylvester Veitch, 85, American horse trainer.
 * Mark Venturini, 35, American actor (Friday the 13th: A New Beginning, The Return of the Living Dead, Mikey), leukemia.

15

 * Lucio Agostini, 82, Italian-Canadian musician.
 * Margaret Courtenay, 72, Welsh actress.
 * Peter Gardner, 71, Australian hurdler.
 * Edward Madejski, 81, Polish football player.
 * Tommy Rettig, 54, American child actor (Lassie), database programmer, and author, heart attack.
 * Henri Simonet, 64, Belgian politician.
 * McLean Stevenson, 68, American actor (M*A*S*H, Hello, Larry, The Doris Day Show) and comedian, heart attack.
 * Brunó Ferenc Straub, 82, Hungarian biochemist.

16

 * Roberto Aizenberg, 67, Argentine painter and sculptor.
 * Roger Bowen, 63, American actor (M*A*S*H, Arnie, Tunnel Vision), heart attack.
 * Pat Brown, 90, American lawyer and politician and Governor of California.
 * Nicolae Carandino, 90, Romanian writer.
 * Eleanor Clark, 82, American writer.
 * Bert Iannone, 79, Canadian football player.
 * Miloš Kopecký, 73, Czech actor.
 * Brownie McGhee, 80, American folk-blues singer and guitarist, stomach cancer.
 * Kenneth Robinson, 84, British politician.
 * Ernst Weber, 94, Austrian-American electrical engineer, and microwave technology pioneer.

17

 * Hervé Bazin, 84, French writer.
 * Gus Hardin, 50, American country music singer, car accident.
 * Evelyn Laye, 95, English actress, respiratory failure.
 * Michel Pablo, 84, Greek Trotskyist leader, stroke.
 * Nikolai Starostin, 93, Soviet/Russian football player and founder of Spartak Moscow.

18

 * Madhaviah Krishnan, 83, Indian photographer.
 * Janice Loeb, 93, American film director, screenwriter, cinematographer and film producer.
 * Josef Meinrad, 82, Austrian actor, cancer.
 * Edward O'Brien, 21, Northern Irish IRA volunteer, killed.

19

 * Sehba Akhtar, 65, Indian poet and songwriter, heart attack.
 * Brenda Bruce, 76, British actress.
 * Marco Antonio Campos, 76, Mexican actor, aortic aneurysm.
 * Antonio Creus, 71, Spanish motorcycle racer and racing driver.
 * Charles O. Finley, 77, American businessman.
 * Douglas Livingstone, 64, South African poet.
 * Ernest Manning, 87, Canadian politician.
 * Dorothy Maynor, 85, American singer.
 * Grant Sawyer, 77, American politician and Governor of Nevada.

20

 * Solomon Asch, 88, Polish-American psychologist.
 * Charles O. Finley, 77, American businessman.
 * Walter Marshall, Baron Marshall of Goring, 63, British peer and scientist.
 * Viktor Konovalenko, 57, Soviet Union ice hockey player.
 * Mariano Vidal Molina, 70, Argentinian actor.
 * Carolyn Morris, 70, American baseball player.
 * Audrey Munson, 104, American artist's model and film actress.
 * Jeffrey Quill, 83, British test pilot.
 * Tōru Takemitsu, 65, Japanese composer and writer, bladder cancer.

21

 * Priscilla Bonner, 97, American silent film actress.
 * Rune Börjesson, 58, Swedish football player.
 * Hans-Joachim Bremermann, 69, German-American mathematician and biophysicist, cancer.
 * Isolina Carrillo, 88, Cuban musician.
 * Vahagn Davtyan, 73, Armenian writer.
 * H. L. Gold, 81, American writer.
 * Morton Gould, 82, American composer, conductor, arranger, and pianist.
 * August Kammer, 83, American ice hockey player.
 * Don Laz, 66, American pole vaulter.

22

 * George Christopher Archibald, 69, British economist and researcher.
 * Karl Boo, 77, Swedish politician.
 * Elwood Henneman, 81, American neurophysiologist.
 * Niall MacDermot, 79, British politician.

23

 * Hussein Kamel al-Majid, 41, Iraqi general, politician and defector, killed.
 * Joseph W. Barr, 78, American politician.
 * David Berlo, 67, American communications theorist.
 * William Bonin, 49, American serial killer and sex offender known as the Freeway Killer, execution by lethal injection.
 * Birgit Brüel, 68, Danish actress and singer.
 * Elisa Cegani, 84, Italian actress.
 * Alan Dawson, 66, American musician.
 * Dorothy Awes Haaland, 77, American lawyer and politician.
 * Saddam Kamel, 35, Iraqi head of the Republican Guard and defector, killed.
 * Billy Lothridge, 54, American gridiron football player, heart attack.
 * Helmut Schön, 80, German football player and manager.

24

 * Akram al-Hawrani, 84, Syrian politician.
 * Winston Chang, 54, Taiwanese academic and university president.
 * Graeme Moran, 57, New Zealand rower.
 * Kaarlo Niilonen, 73, Finnish football player and manager.
 * James Runcieman Sutherland, 95, English literary scholar.

25

 * Caio Fernando Abreu, 47, Brazilian writer, AIDS-related complications.
 * Vehbi Koç, 94, Turkish businessman and philanthropist, heart attack.
 * Elvy Lissiak, 66, Italian actress.
 * Haing S. Ngor, 55, Cambodian-American physician and actor (The Killing Fields, Heaven & Earth, My Life), Oscar winner (1985), shot.

26

 * Jean Boisselier, 83, French archaeologist and art historian.
 * Anna Larina, 82, Soviet/Russian writer.
 * Don Oliver, 58, New Zealand weightlifter and fitness centre owner, cancer.
 * John Dalrymple, 13th Earl of Stair, 89, Scottish Arl.
 * Mieczysław Weinberg, 76, Polish-Soviet/Russian composer.
 * Carlos Wilson, 83, Argentinian football player.

27

 * Gerrit Berkhoff, 94, Dutch chemist and the first Rector Magnificus of the University of Twente.
 * François Chaumette, 72, French actor, cancer.
 * Ethlyne Clair, 91, American actress.
 * Laurie Connell, 50, Australian businessman and fraudster.
 * Sarah Palfrey Cooke, 83, American tennis player, lung cancer.
 * Kenneth Granviel, 45, American serial killer, execution by lethal injection.
 * Vic Janowicz, 66, American gridiron football player, cancer.
 * Robert Kühner, 92, French mycologist.
 * Iain Murray, 10th Duke of Atholl, 64, British politician.
 * Pat Smythe, 67, British equestrian.
 * Ilario Zannino, 75, American mobster and member of the Patriarca crime family.

28

 * Daniel Chipenda, 64, Angolan politician.
 * Maximilien Rubel, 90, Soviet-French Marxist historian.
 * Bill Smith, 61, American poker player.
 * Bruno von Freytag-Löringhoff, 83, German philosopher, mathematician and epistemologist.
 * Sylvia Williams, 60, American museum director, curator, art historian and scholar of African art, brain aneurysm.

29

 * Frank Daniel, 69, Czech director and scriptwriter, heart attack.
 * Wes Farrell, 56, American musician, songwriter and record producer, cancer.
 * Ewart John Arlington Harnum, 85, Canadian businessman and the lieutenant governor of Newfoundland.
 * Shams Pahlavi, 78, Iranian royal of the Pahlavi dynasty and elder sister of the last Shah of Iran, cancer.
 * Sinclair Ross, 88, Canadian banker and writer, Parkinson's disease.
 * Ralph Rowe, 71, American baseball player and manager.
 * Winifred C. Stanley, 86, American politician and attorney.
 * Clint Wager, 76, American gridiron football player and basketball player.
 * Mario Zagari, 82, Italian journalist and politician.