Deaths in July 1996

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.

1

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

2

 * Arvid Brodersen, 91, Norwegian sociologist
 * Ñuflo Chávez Ortiz, 72, Bolivian politician.
 * Hugh Davson, 86, English physiologist.
 * Mike Parobeck, 30, American comic book artist (Batman, Justice Society of America, El Diablo), diabetes.
 * Ingvar Pettersson, 70, Swedish race walker.
 * 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.
 * Barry Crump, 61, New Zealand writer.
 * Sharon Hugueny, 52, American actress (The Young Lovers), cancer.
 * Pim Jacobs, 61, Dutch musician.
 * Raaj Kumar, 69, Indian actor.
 * Bernard Zehrfuss, 84, French architect.

4

 * Genevieve Blatt, 83, American politician
 * Magnhild Hagelia, 92, Norwegian politician.
 * 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.
 * Donald Adam Hartman, 66, Canadian politician.
 * Predrag Ostojić, 58, Yugoslav chess player, suicide.
 * Mohamed Seddik, 56, Egyptian football player.
 * Clyde Wiegand, 81, American physicist, prostate cancer.

6

 * Kutlu Adalı, 61, Turkish Cypriot journalist, poet, socio-political researcher, and peace advocate.
 * Kathy Ahern, 47, American golfer, breast cancer.
 * Armando Calvo, 70, Puerto Rican-born Spanish actor, heart failure.
 * 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.
 * Vera Nedkova, 89, Bulgarian modernist painter.
 * Friedrich von Stülpnagel, 82, German track and field athlete and Olympic medalist.

8

 * J. W. Alexander, 80, American musician, record producer and entrepreneur.
 * Ernest Armstrong, 81, British politician.
 * Jim Baumer, 65, American baseball player, scout, and executive.
 * Albrecht, Duke of Bavaria, 91, German prince.
 * Jim Busby, 69, American Major League Baseball player and coach.
 * Richard Groschopp, 90, German film director and screenwriter.
 * 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.
 * Paul Bhagwandas, 45, Suriname battalion commander known as "the executioner of Fort Zeelandia", cancer.
 * Christopher Casson, 84, English-Irish actor.
 * Sergey Kuryokhin, 42, Russian composer, pianist, music director, film actor and writer, cancer.
 * Edward Purdy Ney, 75, American physicist.
 * Aurora Redondo, 96, Spanish actress.
 * David Colville Smith, 74, Rhodesian/Zimbabwean farmer and politician.

10

 * Paul King, 69, American producer and screenwriter.
 * Lou Lichtveld, 92, Surinamese politician, playwright, poet and resistance fighter.
 * Alex Manoogian, 95, Armenian-American industrial engineer, businessman, and philanthropist.
 * Fred Meyer, 76, American gridiron football player.
 * Jindřich Tintěra, 95, Czech gymnast and Olympian.

11

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

12

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

13

 * Pandro S. Berman, 91, American film producer, heart failure.
 * Loda Halama, 84, Polish dancer and actress.
 * Bill Moe, 79, American ice hockey player.
 * Karen Simensen, 88, Norwegian figure skater.

14

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

15

 * William Dugan, 83, American rower and Olympian.
 * 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.

16

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

19

 * Raymond Burnett, 82, American football player and coach.
 * Berkeley Cole, 82, English Anglican priest and author.
 * Mervyn Cowie, 87, British conservationist.
 * Dan Lewandowski, 68, American baseball player.
 * 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.
 * Colin Mitchell, 70, British Army soldier and politician.
 * Raphael Patai, 85, Hungarian-Jewish ethnographer, historian, orientalist and anthropologist.
 * František Plánička, 92, Czech football goalkeeper.
 * Arunachala Sreenivasan, 87, Indian food technologist and nutritional scientist.
 * Randy Stuart, 71, American actress, lung cancer.

21

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

22

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

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.
 * Jean Muir, 85, American actress and educator.
 * Red Munger, 77, American baseball player.
 * Frederick Osborne, 87, Australian politician and government minister.
 * Eric Ridder, 78, American sailor and Olympic champion.
 * Aliki Vougiouklaki, 62, Greek actress and theatrical producer, pancreatic cancer.

24

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

25

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

26

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

27

 * Jane Drew, 85, English writer, architect and academic, cancer.
 * 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.

28

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

29

 * Aruna Asaf Ali, 87, Indian independence activist.
 * Georgi Dakov, 28, Bulgarian high jumper, traffic collision.
 * Lauren Gale, 79, American basketball player.
 * Bill Green, 71, American jazz musician (reeds).
 * 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.
 * Marcel-Paul Schützenberger, 75, French mathematician and Doctor of Medicine.
 * 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.
 * Margaret Cousins, 91, American writer and editor.
 * Carlos Droguett, 83, Chilean writer.
 * Arihiro Hase, 31, Japanese voice actor and actor, suicide.
 * Anthony Peck, 49, American actor, cancer.
 * Magda Schneider, 87, German actress.
 * Constantin Teașcă, 73, Romanian football manager.

31

 * Petar Džadžić, 66, Serbian literary critic and academic.
 * Howie Goss, 61, American baseball player.
 * Ricardo Molinari, 98, Argentine writer.
 * Seagram, 27, American rapper, shot.
 * Neville Wadia, 84, Indian-British businessman.
 * Jay Lee Webb, 59, American singer, pancreatic cancer.