Deaths in June 1996

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.

1

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

2

 * John Alton, 94, American cinematographer (An American in Paris), Oscar winner (1952).
 * 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.
 * Stewart Evans, 87, Canadian ice hockey player (Montreal Canadiens).
 * Alberto Farnese, 69, Italian actor.
 * Leon Garfield, 74, English children's writer, cancer.
 * Pilar Lorengar, 68, Spanish operatic soprano, lung cancer.
 * Amos Tversky, 59, Israeli psychologist, melanoma.
 * William Van Pelt, 91, American politician.

3

 * Arthur J. O. Anderson, 88, American anthropologist specializing in Aztec culture.
 * 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.
 * Peter Glenville, 82, English actor director and producer, myocardial infarction.
 * Ferdinand Leitner, 84, German composer and conductor.
 * Tito Okello, 82, President of Uganda.
 * Hideo Sakai, 86, Japanese association football player, pneumonia.
 * Gitchandra Tongbra, 83, Indian satirist, poet, playwright and art academic.
 * Aimo Tukiainen, 78, Finnish sculptor.

4

 * María Luisa Anido, 89, Spanish musician.
 * Cliff Holton, 67, English football player.
 * Nel Roos-Lodder, 82, Dutch discus thrower.
 * Aloha Wanderwell, 89, Canadian-American explorer, author, filmmaker, and aviator.

5

 * Erich Bagge, 84, German physicist.
 * 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 of author Jack Kerouac and Joan Haverty Kerouac.
 * Vito Scotti, 78, American actor, lung cancer.
 * Anne-Marie Ørbeck, 85, Norwegian pianist and composer.

6

 * Harry Andersson, 83, Swedish football player.
 * 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.
 * Rajmund Kupareo, 81, Croatian poet.
 * Mary Lee, 71, American actress.
 * George Davis Snell, 92, American geneticist.
 * José María Valverde, 70, Spanish philosopher.

7

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

8

 * William J. Baroody, Jr., 58, American government official, lung ailment.
 * Scoop Putnam, 83, American basketball player.
 * Phyllis Stedman, 79, British politician and life peer.
 * Henryk Trębicki, 55, Polish weightlifter.

9

 * Rafaela Aparicio, 90, Spanish actress, cerebral hemorrhage.
 * Daniel Mazia, 83, American cell biologist.
 * Salme Reek, 88, Estonian actress.
 * Walter Stokes, 98, American sport shooter.
 * Nhiek Tioulong, 87, Cambodian politician.

10

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

11

 * Ulysses Dove, 49, American dancer, AIDS-related complications.
 * Lonne Elder III, 68, American actor and dramatist.
 * George Hees, 85, Canadian politician.
 * Brigitte Helm, 90, German actress.
 * Wilson W. Wyatt, 90, American politician and lawyer.

12

 * Mary Field, 87, American film actress, stroke.
 * John Hopper, 73, American politician.
 * 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.
 * Friedrich Geiger, 88, German automobile designer of notably the Mercedes-Benz 300 SL.
 * Pran Nath, 77, Indian singer, heart failure.
 * Keith Palmer, 38, American musician, cancer.
 * Merceditas Valdés, 73, Cuban singer.

14

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

15

 * Sir Fitzroy MacLean, 1st Baronet, 85, Scottish soldier, writer and politician.
 * Allenby Chilton, 77, English football player and manager.
 * Bernard A. Clarey, 84, United States Navy admiral.
 * Ella Fitzgerald, 79, American jazz singer, sometimes referred to as the "First Lady of Song", "Queen of Jazz", and "Lady Ella", stroke.
 * 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.

16

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

17

 * George Adomian, 74, American mathematician of Armenian descent.
 * 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.
 * Thomas Kuhn, 73, American historian, physicist and philosopher, lung cancer.
 * Edmond Roudnitska, 91, French perfumer.
 * Curt Swan, 76, American comic book artist (Superman).

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.
 * Erika Dannhoff, 86, German actress.
 * Miriam Gideon, 89, American composer.
 * Glenmor, 64, French protest singer known as Emile Le Scanf.
 * 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.
 * Rif Rəis uğlı Səyetgərəyev, 35, Russian speedway rider.

19

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

20

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

21

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

22

 * George Barati, 83, American composer and conductor.
 * Terrel Bell, 74, American World War II veteran and politician, pulmonary fibrosis.
 * Norvell William Emerson, 58, American politician, lung cancer.
 * Epaminondas Samartzidis, 30, Olympic water polo player, drowning.

23

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

24

 * Harry Dowda, 73, American gridiron football player.
 * Grace Ho, 89, Mother of Bruce Lee.
 * 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.

25

 * Ray Howard-Jones, 93, English painter.
 * Vytautas Kavolis, 65, Lithuanian sociologist.
 * Siegfried Rossner, 82, German fencer and Olympian.
 * Hans Stam, 77, Dutch water polo player.

26

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

27

 * Peter Adair, 52, American filmmaker and artist, AIDS-related complications.
 * Mollie Beattie, 49, American conservationist and director of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, brain cancer.
 * 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.
 * Merze Tate, 91, American academic.

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.
 * Kwan Tak-hing, 91, Hong Kong actor, pancreatic cancer.
 * Isao Yamagata, 80, Japanese actor, tuberculosis.

29

 * Richard Krebs, 89, German sprinter.
 * Pamela Mason, 80, English actress, screenwriter.
 * Alexander George Ogston, 85, Australian biochemist.
 * Dmitri Pokrovsky, 52, Russian musician and folk music researcher.

30

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