Deaths in March 1996

The following is a list of notable deaths in March 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

 * Marie-Hélène de Rothschild, 68, French socialite.
 * Vergílio Ferreira, 80, Portuguese writer, essayist, and professor.
 * David Gebhard, 68, American architectural historian.
 * Khan Abdul Ghani Khan, 82, Pakistani poet, artist, writer and politician.
 * Susie Sharp, 88, American jurist and first female chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court.
 * Don Smith, 75, American basketball player (Minneapolis Lakers).
 * Ng Wui, 82, Hong Kong film director, writer and actor.

2

 * Jacobo Majluta Azar, 61, Vice President of the Dominican Republic, lung cancer.
 * Célestin Delmer, 89, French football player.
 * Naseem Hijazi, 81, Pakistani writer.
 * José López Rubio, 92, Spanish film director.
 * Lyle Talbot, 94, American actor, heart failure.

3

 * Marguerite Duras, 81, French writer and film director, esophageal cancer.
 * Randolph Harding, 81, Canadian politician.
 * Walter Kaaden, 76, German engineer.
 * John Krol, 85, American catholic cardinal.
 * Léo Malet, 86, French writer.
 * Meyer Schapiro, 91, American historian of Art.
 * Milt Woodard, 84, American sports writer and sport executive.

4

 * Berenger Bradford, 83, British Army officer.
 * Ted Cordner, 77, Australian rules football player.
 * Enrico Cucchi, 30, Italian football player, cancer.
 * Minnie Pearl, 83, American comedian and country singer, stroke.
 * John Sauer, 70, American gridiron football player, coach, and broadcaster.

5

 * Khondaker Mostaq Ahmad, 78, Bangladeshi politician and President of Bangladesh.
 * Whit Bissell, 86, American actor (The Magnificent Seven, Creature from the Black Lagoon, The Time Machine), Parkinson's disease.
 * Joshua Compston, 25, British art curator, drugs overdose.
 * Herb Hall, 88, American musician.
 * Galina Kravchenko, 91, Soviet/Russian actress.
 * José Santacruz Londoño, 52, Colombian drug trafficker, homicide.
 * Pithapuram Nageswara Rao, 65, Indian singer.
 * Fritz Huschke von Hanstein, 85, German racecar driver.

6

 * Jack Abel, 68, American comic book artist (Superman, Hulk, The Tomb of Dracula).
 * Simon Cadell, 45, British actor (Hi-de-Hi!, Life Without George, Watership Down), lung cancer.
 * Jurandir de Freitas, 55, Brazilian football player.
 * Douglas Jay, Baron Jay, 88, British politician.
 * José de Magalhães Pinto, 86, Brazilian lawyer, economist, banker and politician.
 * Paula Winslowe, 85, American actress (Our Miss Brooks, The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, Bambi).
 * Zdeněk Škrland, 82, Czechoslovak/Czech canoeist and Olympian.

7

 * Pinchas Menachem Alter, 69, Polish Hasidic rabbi.
 * Jacques Bobet, 76, French filmmaker.
 * Willie Fraser, 67, Scottish football player.
 * Ferdinand Panke, 73, German water polo player and Olympian.

8

 * "Mad Jack" Churchill, 89, British Army officer and master archer.
 * Bill Graber, 85, American pole vaulter and Olympian.
 * Bill Nicholson, 81, American baseball player.
 * Werner Schlichting, 91, German art director.

9

 * Ronald Ernest Aitchison, 74, Australian physicist and electronics engineer.
 * Akhtar-Ul-Iman, 80, Indian Urdu poet and screenwriter.
 * Mohammed al-Ghazali, 78, Egyptian Islamic cleric and scholar.
 * George Burns, 100, American comedian and actor (The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show, The Sunshine Boys, Oh, God!), Oscar winner (1976), heart failure.
 * Merle Eugene Curti, 98, American historian.
 * Imre Kovács, 74, Hungarian football player.
 * Alberto Pellegrino, 65, Italian fencer.
 * Richard M. Powers, 75, American science fiction illustrator.
 * Alfredo Scherer, 93, German-Brazilian catholic cardinal.
 * Ollie Walsh, 58, Irish hurler and hurling manager.

10

 * Hoàng Xuân Hãn, 88, Vietnamese professor of mathematics, linguist, and historian.
 * Ross Hunter, 75, American film and television producer, and actor, cancer.
 * Marc de Jonge, 47, French actor, traffic collision.
 * Butch Laswell, 37, American motorcycle stunt rider, motorcycle accident.
 * Gyula Nagy, 71, Hungarian football player and manager.

11

 * Elio Filippo Accrocca, 72, Italian poet, author, and translator.
 * Granville Beynon, 81, Welsh physicist.
 * Paul Crossley, 47, English football player, heart attack.
 * Vince Edwards, 67, American actor (Ben Casey, The Devil's Brigade, The Killing), pancreatic cancer.
 * Ludwig Fellermaier, 65, German politician.
 * Richard G. Folsom, 89, American mechanical engineer.
 * Biljana Jovanović, 43, Serbian author, peace activist and feminist.
 * Rex E. Lee, 61, American lawyer, academic and Solicitor General of the United States, pancreatic cancer.
 * Charles Oatley, 92, British physicist and electrical engineer.
 * Thorleif Olsen, 74, Norwegian football player.
 * Evangeline Walton, 88, American writer.

12

 * Bob Forte, 73, American gridiron football player.
 * Marte Harell, 89, Austrian actress.
 * Otto Møller Jensen, 55, Danish actor.
 * Eigil Knuth, 92, Danish explorer, archaeologist, sculptor and writer.
 * Gyula Kállai, 85, Hungarian politician.

13

 * Hsu Ching-chung, 88, Taiwanese politician.
 * Ted Fetter, 85, American lyricist.
 * Lucio Fulci, 68, Italian film director, screenwriter, producer, and actor, diabetes.
 * Sándor Gellér, 70, Hungarian football player.
 * Peer Guldbrandsen, 83, Danish film director.
 * Shafi Inamdar, 50, Indian actor.
 * Krzysztof Kieślowski, 54, Polish film director and screenwriter (Three Colours trilogy, The Double Life of Veronique, Dekalog), heart attack.
 * Weston La Barre, 84, American anthropologist.
 * Marcelle Mercenier, 75, Belgian piano player.
 * Emilie Schenkl, 85, Austrian Hindu convert and partner of Indian nationalist Subhas Chandra Bose.

14

 * Dewi Bebb, 57, Welsh rugby player, broadcaster and journalist.
 * Wang Luobin, 82, Chinese musician, cancer.
 * Lucille H. McCollough, 90, American politician, complications from a stroke.
 * Andreas Münzer, 31, Austrian bodybuilder, organ failure.
 * Dean Prater, 37, American gridiron football player, drowned.
 * Maj Sønstevold, 78, Swedish composer.

15

 * Gad al-Haq, 78, Egyptian Grand Imam of al-Azhar, heart attack.
 * Ed Beach, 67, American basketball player.
 * Helen Chadwick, 42, British sculptor, photographer and installation artist, heart attack.
 * Harold Courlander, 87, American anthropologist.
 * Roswell Gilpatric, 89, American lawyer and Deputy Secretary of Defense.
 * Cheng Heng, 80, Cambodian politician.
 * Wolfgang Koeppen, 89, German writer.
 * Francis Joseph Murray, 85, American mathematician.
 * Robert Pearce, 88, American wrestler and olympic champion.
 * Olga Rudge, 100, American musician.

16

 * Charlie Barnett, 41, American actor (Miami Vice) and comedian, AIDS-related complications.
 * Ray S. Cline, 77, American government official, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Des Fothergill, 75, Australian rules football player and cricket player.
 * David Gordon, 51, American economist.
 * Evan Green, 65, Australian journalist.
 * Dennis Jennings, 85, English football player.

17

 * Anil Chatterjee, 66, Indian actor.
 * René Clément, 82, French film director and screenwriter.
 * Thomas O. Enders, 64, American diplomat.
 * Elsa Respighi, 101, Italian composer.
 * Nils Sköld, 74, Swedish Army lieutenant-general.
 * Terry Stafford, 54, American singer and songwriter, organ dysfunction.

18

 * Angelico Chavez, 85, American Friar Minor, priest, historian, author, poet and painter.
 * Odysseas Elytis, 84, Greek poet and art critic, heart attack.
 * Jacquetta Hawkes, 85, British archaeologist.
 * Enrique Jordá, 84, Spanish-American conductor.
 * Maria Teresa Pelegrí i Marimón, 88, Spanish composer.
 * Niní Marshall, 92, Argentine comedian.
 * Robert van der Veen, 89, Dutch field hockey player.
 * Shin Yung-kyoo, 53, North Korean football player.

19

 * Virginia Henderson, 98, American nurse, researcher, and author.
 * Chen Jingrun, 62, Chinese mathematician, pneumonia.
 * W. H. Murray, 83, Scottish mountaineer and writer.
 * Colin Pittendrigh, 77, British-American chronobiologist.
 * Alan Ridout, 61, British composer and teacher.
 * Walter S. Sullivan, 78, American science reporter and author.
 * Lise Østergaard, 71, Danish psychologist and minister.

20

 * Claude Bourdet, 86, French politician and writer.
 * Hans Conzett, 80, Swiss publisher and politician.
 * Albert Ganzenmüller, 91, German politician.
 * Jim Pendleton, 72, American baseball player.

21

 * Richard Leslie Hill, 95, English civil servant and historian.
 * Robert B. Mautz, 81, American lawyer, law professor, and university administrator.
 * Sverre Sørsdal, 95, Norwegian boxer.
 * Nikolai Usenko, 71, Russian Ryadovoy and Hero of the Soviet Union for his actions during WWII.

22

 * Ron Hayward, 78, British politician.
 * Claude Mauriac, 81, French writer.
 * Don Murray, 50, American drummer, complications following ulcer surgery.
 * Václav Nelhýbel, 76, Czech composer.
 * Robert F. Overmyer, 59, American test pilot and astronaut, aviation accident.
 * Pete Whisenant, 66, American baseball player.
 * Billy Williamson, 71, American Rock and roll musician.

23

 * Roderic H. Davison, 78, American historian of the Middle East.
 * François Fontaine, 78, French civil servant and writer.
 * Margit Manstad, 93, Swedish actress.
 * Pete Martin, 76, Canadian football player.
 * J. D. "Jay" Miller, 73, American musician.
 * Jacques Toja, 66, French actor, cancer.

24

 * Lola Beltrán, 64, Mexican singer, actress, and television presenter, pulmonary embolism.
 * Idilio Cei, 58, Italian football player.
 * John Gerstner, 81, American theologian.
 * Étienne Hajdú, 88, French and Hungarian sculptor.
 * Liam O'Brien, 83, American screenwriter and television producer, heart attack.
 * Ray Pepper, 90, American baseball player.
 * Jean-Claude Piumi, 55, French football player.
 * Jerry Robertson, 52, American baseball player, car accident.
 * Spartaco Schergat, 75, Italian military frogman during World War II.
 * Sarah Thomasson, 70, Swedish alpine skier.

25

 * Mary Lavin, 83, Irish writer.
 * Marvin Albert, 72, American author.
 * Dioscoro S. Rabor, 84, Filipino ornithologist, zoologist, and conservationist.
 * John Snagge, 91, British reporter, esophageal cancer.

26

 * Robert Bradshaw, 41, American figure skater.
 * William Harold Collins, 74, American gridiron football player.
 * Joseph Kallinger, 60, American serial killer, heart failure.
 * Edmund Muskie, 81, American statesman, political leader, and U.S. Secretary of State, heart failure.
 * David Packard, 83, American electrical engineer and co-founder, with Bill Hewlett, of Hewlett-Packard.
 * Käte Strobel, 88, German politician.
 * Elmer Ward, 83, American gridiron football player.

27

 * Seán Browne, 79, Irish politician.
 * Bob Chambers, 90, Canadian artist.
 * Ignace Kowalczyk, 82, French football player.
 * André Lefevere, 50, Belgian translator and linguist, leukemia.
 * Samuel Schoenbaum, 69, American Shakespearean biographer and scholar, prostate cancer.
 * Charlie Timmons, 79, American gridiron football player.

28

 * Hans Blumenberg, 75, German philosopher and intellectual historian.
 * Peter Dombrovskis, 51, Australian photographer, heart attack.
 * Edith Fowke, 82, Canadian folklorist.
 * Shin Kanemaru, 81, Japanese politician, stroke.
 * Barbara McLean, 92, American film editor.
 * Siegfried Mynhardt, 90, South African actor.
 * Don Ross, 81, American baseball player.

29

 * Frank Daniel, 69, Czech director, scriptwriter and university educator, heart attack.
 * Bill Goldsworthy, 51, Canadian ice hockey player, AIDS-related complications.
 * Ivan Kalita, 69, Soviet/Russian equestrian and Olympic champion.
 * Juan Negrón, 66, Puerto Rican US Army soldier and recipient of the Medal of Honor.
 * Gordon Pask, 67, British psychologist.
 * Helmut von Bockelberg, 84, German politician and tax advisor.

30

 * Frederick Miller, 84, British paediatrician.
 * Richard Kress, 71, German football player.
 * Ryoei Saito, 79, Japanese businessman.
 * Bjørn Stiler, 84, Danish racing cyclist and Olympian.

31

 * Dario Bellezza, 51, Italian poet, author and playwright, AIDS-related complications.
 * Nino Borsari, 84, Italian cyclist.
 * Dante Giacosa, 91, Italian automobile designer and engineer.
 * Delia Magaña, 93, Mexican actress, dancer, and singer, pneumonia.
 * Jeffrey Lee Pierce, 37, American singer, songwriter, guitarist and author, cerebral hemorrhage.