Deaths in October 1996

The following is a list of notable deaths in October 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

 * James Beal, 67, New Zealand boxer, leukaemia.
 * Carl Fredrik Engelstad, 80, Norwegian writer, playwright, journalist, translator and theatre director.
 * Patrick Jameson, 83, New Zealand Royal Air Force officer and flying ace during World War II.
 * Pat McGeown, 40, Irish Provisional Irish Republican Army member, heart attack.
 * Fred Meyer, 86, American gymnast.
 * Herbert Seifert, 89, German mathematician.
 * Bill Twomey, Jr., 69, Australian rules football player.
 * Alfred Vogel, 93, Swiss herbalist, naturopath and writer.
 * Deng Yuzhi, 96, Chinese activist and feminist.

2

 * Helmut Artzinger, 84, German politician.
 * Robert Bourassa, 63, Canadian politician from Quebec, melanoma.
 * Peter J. Brennan, 78, American labor activist and politician, lymphatic cancer.
 * Joonas Kokkonen, 74, Finnish composer.
 * Emiel van Lennep, 83, Dutch diplomat and politician.
 * Andrey Lukanov, 58, Bulgarian politician, assassinated.
 * Banjo Matthews, 64, American NASCAR driver, car owner and builder, heart and respiratory disease.
 * Les Tietje, 86, American Major League Baseball player (Chicago White Sox, St. Louis Browns).
 * Rufus Youngblood, 72, United States Secret Service agent, cancer.

3

 * Ilyas Afandiyev, 82, Soviet/Azerbaijani writer.
 * Bertus Enklaar, 52, Dutch chess International Master.
 * Vivienne Goonewardene, 80, Sri Lankan politician.
 * George Kubler, 84, American art historian.
 * Eustace Roskill, Baron Roskill, 85, British lawyer and public servant.
 * István Serényi, 85, Hungarian handball player.

4

 * Humphrey Atkins, 74, British politician, cancer.
 * Larry Gene Bell, 46, American murderer and convict, execution by electrocution.
 * Stephen J. Friedman, 59, American film producer, multiple myeloma.
 * Joe Hoerner, 59, American baseball player, farming accident.
 * Masaki Kobayashi, 80, Japanese film director, heart attack.
 * Silvio Piola, 83, Italian football player.
 * Jerry Rivers, 68, American fiddle player, cancer.
 * Alma Routsong, 71, American novelist, ovarian cancer.
 * Randy Schultz, 52, American gridiron football player.

5

 * Judith Allen, 85, American film actress.
 * Elmer Berger, American Jewish rabbi and anti-Zionist.
 * Wymberley D. Coerr, 1995, American politician and diplomat.
 * Seymour Cray, 71, American computer scientist, car accident.
 * Duanmu Hongliang, 84, Chinese author.
 * Richard Kröll, 28, Austrian alpine skier, traffic collision.
 * Akira Noguchi, 79, Japanese baseball player and manager.
 * Arnold van Mill, 75, Dutch opera singer.

6

 * Jessie Bernard, 93, American sociologist and feminist, cancer.
 * Ted Bessell, 61, American actor (That Girl, Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.) and television director (The Tracey Ullman Show), aortic aneurysm.
 * Ted Daffan, 84, American country musician.
 * Winifred Drinkwater, 83, Scottish aviator and aeroplane engineer.
 * Forrest Pogue, 84, United States Army historian during World War II.
 * Marjorie Shostak, 51, American anthropologist, cancer.
 * Wolfram von Soden, 88, German Assyriologist.
 * Vladimir Yerokhin, 66, Russian football player.

7

 * José Antonio Burciaga, 55/56, American Chicano artist, poet, and writer.
 * Dame Diana Reader Harris, 83, English head master and public figure.
 * Viktor Reimann, 81, Austrian author, journalist and politician.
 * Andrew Salter, 82, American psychologist, cancer.
 * Zeya, 80, Burmese actor and bodybuilder.

8

 * Mignon G. Eberhart, 97, American author of mystery novels.
 * Geoffrey Finsberg, 70, British politician.
 * Francis D. Lyon, 91, American film and television director.
 * David Miller, 70, Canadian ice hockey player and Olympian.
 * Ferdinand Montier, 87, French racing driver.
 * William Prince, 83, American actor.

9

 * Per Asplin, 68, Norwegian actor and musician.
 * Marland P. Billings, 94, American structural geologist.
 * William L. DeAndrea, 44, American writer.
 * Nigel Fisher, 83, British politician.
 * George F. Kerr, 78, English writer.
 * Walter Kerr, 83, American writer and theatre critic, congestive heart failure.
 * John W. King, 79, American politician.
 * Roy Lewis, 82, English writer and small press printer.
 * Colleen Peterson, 45, Canadian country and folk singer, cancer.
 * Aleksandar Popović, 66, Serbian writer.
 * Harvey Vernon, 69, American actor.
 * Harry D. Yates, 93, American banker and politician.

10

 * Harold Cleghorn, 83, New Zealand weightlifter.
 * Coya Knutson, 84, American politician.
 * Bob Reynolds, 57, American gridiron football player.
 * Toshio Sugie, 83, Japanese film director.
 * David Viscott, 58, American psychiatrist, author, and media personality, heart failure complicated by diabetes.

11

 * Lars Ahlfors, 89, Finnish mathematician, pneumonia.
 * Keith Boyce, 53, Barbadian cricketer.
 * Carlos Mancheno Cajas, 94, President of Ecuador.
 * Eleanor Cameron, 84, Canadian-American children's author and critic.
 * Johnny Costa, 74, American jazz pianist, aplastic anemia, anemia.
 * Bernardo Grinspun, 70, Argentinian politician.
 * Roger Lapébie, 85, French racing cyclist.
 * Joe Morris, 83, Canadian trade unionist.
 * Terry Patchett, 56, British politician, cancer.
 * Edith Penrose, 81, American-British economist.
 * Renato Russo, 36, Brazilian singer and songwriter, complications caused by AIDS.
 * Edwin Spanier, 75, American mathematician at the University of California at Berkeley, working in algebraic topology.
 * William Vickrey, 82, Canadian economist, Nobel prize winner, heart failure.
 * Rolf Widerøe, 94, Norwegian accelerator physicist.
 * Gerald Wild, 89, Australian politician.

12

 * Nina Alisova, 80, Soviet/Russian actress.
 * Erik Blomberg, 83, Finnish cinematographer, screenwriter, film director and producer.
 * Mac Holten, 74, Australian politician and sportsman.
 * Helmut Hölzer, 84, German rocket engineer.
 * Stefan Knapp, 75, Polish painter and sculptor.
 * Eddie Kuzma, 85, American auto racing builder.
 * René Lacoste, 92, French tennis champion and businessman, cancer.
 * Jack Robertson, 79, English cricket player.
 * Gerard Thoolen, 53, Dutch actor, AIDS.

13

 * Carl H. Dodd, 71, United States Army soldier and a recipient of the Medal of Honor.
 * Horst Kopkow, 85, German Nazi politician and SS officer, pneumonia.
 * Henri Nannen, 82, German journalist.
 * Beryl Reid, 77, English actress, kidney failure.
 * Brad Robinson, 37-38, Australian rock musician, lymphoma.
 * Jopie Roosenburg-Goudriaan, 83, Dutch painter.

14

 * Rex Darling, 82, American football, basketball, and tennis coach.
 * William John Hooper, 80, British cartoonist.
 * Václav Hovorka, 65, Czech football player.
 * Ferd Johnson, 90, American comic strip cartoonist.
 * Tan Chee Khoon, 77, Malaysian politician.
 * Laura La Plante, 91, American film actress, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Izidor Papo, 82, Yugoslav general.

15

 * Mike Balas, 86, American Major League Baseball player.
 * Leo Eitinger, 83, Czech psychiatrist.
 * Tom Ferrick, 81, American Major League Baseball player, pitching coach and scout, heart failure.
 * Pierre Franey, 75, French chef, stroke.
 * Toma Tomas, 72, Iraqi guerilla and politician.
 * Jean Adeline Morgan Wanatee, 85, Native American and women's rights activist.
 * Robert F. Williams, 71, American civil rights leader and author, Hodgkin's lymphoma.

16

 * Peter Brodie, 79, Scottish minister.
 * Guy Crescent, 76, French businessman and founder of Paris Saint-Germain F.C.
 * Gertrude Flynn, 87, American actress.
 * Anthony Griffin, 75, British admiral.
 * Eric Malpass, 85, English novelist.
 * Harold J. Powers, 96, American politician.
 * Hunter Rouse, 90, American physicist.
 * Huang Shao-ku, 95, Chinese politician, Vice Premier.

17

 * Chris Acland, 30, English drummer and songwriter, suicide by hanging.
 * Bob Adams, 95, American baseball player and coach.
 * Jaroslav Balík, 72, Czechoslovak film director and screenwriter.
 * Berthold Goldschmidt, 93, German-British Jewish composer.
 * Bert Hopwood, 87-88, British motorcycle designer.
 * Laura Sabia, 80, Canadian social activist and feminist, Parkinson's disease.

18

 * Jason Bernard, 58, American actor (Herman's Head, WarGames, Bird), heart attack.
 * Louise Bertram, 88, Canadian figure skater.
 * Luciano Durán Böger, 91, Bolivian poet, writer and politician.
 * Hans Drachsler, 80, German politician.
 * Elmer Klumpp, 90, American Major League Baseball player.
 * Alex Motter, 83, Canadian ice hockey player.
 * Simon Soloveychik, 66, Soviet/Russian writer and philosopher.
 * Sheldon Vanauken, 82, American journalist, lung cancer.

19

 * Josef Becker, 91, German politician.
 * Maurice Elliott, 53, Scottish footballer, brain haemorrhage.
 * Ralston Hill, 69, American actor and singer.
 * John Hillaby, 79, British travel writer and explorer.
 * Bobby Rackard, 69, Irish hurler.
 * Shamsuddin Qasemi, 61, Bangladeshi Islamic scholar and politician.

20

 * Robert Benayoun, 75, French film critic and author.
 * J. Bracken Lee, 97, American politician.
 * Sebastian Santa Maria, 37, Chilean composer.
 * Yuri Neprintsev, 87, Soviet/Russian, painter, graphic artist and art teacher.
 * Richard M. Powell, 79, American screenwriter, prostate cancer.
 * Luigi Rovere, 88, Italian film producer.

21

 * Léon Ashkenazi, 74, Jewish spiritual leader, philosopher and educator.
 * Eric Halsall, 76, English author and television presenter.
 * Albert G. Hill, 86, American physcisist and pioneer in the development of radar.
 * Wang Li, 74, Chinese politician, pancreatic cancer.
 * Les Mead, 87, Australian rugby player and coach.
 * Allie White, 81, American gridiron football player.
 * Georgios Zoitakis, 86, Greek Army general and regent of Greece.
 * Giovanni Zuddas, 68, Italian boxer.

22

 * John Bauldie, 47, British journalist, helicopter crash.
 * Edmund Black, 91, American Olympic athlete.
 * Kathy Change, 46, Chinese-American political activist, writer, and performance artist, self-immolation.
 * Shmarya Guttman, 87, Israeli archaeologist.
 * Matthew Harding, 42, British businessman, helicopter crash.
 * Dianne Heatherington, 48, Canadian rock singer and businesswoman, ovarian cancer.
 * Noel Hilliard, 67, New Zealand novelist.
 * Hermann Höfer, 62, German football player.
 * Sten Rudberg, 79, Swedish geologist and geomorphologist.

23

 * Henry Allard, 84, Swedish politician.
 * Chet Blaylock, 71, American politician, heart attack.
 * Kurt Freund, 82, Czech-Canadian physician and sexologist, suicide.
 * Bob Grim, 66, American Major League Baseball player, heart attack.
 * Harold Hughes, 74, American politician.
 * Michel Kelber, 87–88, French cinematographer.
 * Lin Onus, 47, Australian artist of Scottish-Aboriginal origins.
 * Diana Trilling, 91, American literary critic and author.

24

 * Robert Anderson, 60, New Zealand politician, cancer.
 * Artur Axmann, 83, Nazi German Hitler Youth leader.
 * Roderick Barclay, 87, British diplomat and ambassador.
 * Gladwyn Jebb, 96, British civil servant, diplomat and politician.
 * Hyman Minsky, 77, American economist.
 * Romica Puceanu, 69, Romanian singer.
 * Joe Spencer, 73, American gridiron football player and coach, cancer.

25

 * Ennio De Giorgi, 68, Italian mathematician.
 * Solveig Gunbjørg Jacobsen, 83, First person born on South Georgia.
 * Maria Litto, 77, German ballet dancer, choreographer and film actress.
 * Robert Racic, 32, Australian DJ and record producer, brain virus.
 * Harry Shuman, 81, American Major League Baseball player.
 * Brian Stacey, 49, Australian conductor.
 * Roland Wilson, 92, Australian public servant and economist.

26

 * Miquel Asins Arbó, 80, Spanish composer.
 * Aurelio Chessa, 82, Italian anarchist, journalist and historian.
 * Abdelhamid ben Hadouga, 71, Algerian writer.
 * Hans W. Kosterlitz, 93, German-British biochemist.
 * Henri Lepage, 88, French fencer.
 * Derek Tangye, 84, British writer.
 * Sofia Tuibayeva, 83, Soviet/Tajikistani actress.
 * Wendy Wild, 40, American singer, musician, and artist, breast cancer.

27

 * Henry Piet Drury van Asch, 85, New Zealand aviator and surveyor.
 * Rewat Buddhinan, 48, Thai singer and music producer, brain cancer.
 * Charlotte Jay, 76, Australian mystery writer and novelist.
 * Marcello Mihalich, 89, Italian football player and manager.
 * Arthur Tremblay, 79, Canadian politician.

28

 * Morey Amsterdam, 87, American actor and comedian, heart attack.
 * Reuben Baetz, 73, Canadian politician.
 * Irene Cortes, 75, Filipino lawyer, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court.
 * Jimmy Haig, 71, Scottish-New Zealand rugby player.
 * Robert Hankey, 2nd Baron Hankey, 91, British diplomat and public servant.
 * Karol Jokl, 51, Slovak football player and manager.
 * Joe Samuels, 91, American baseball player.

29

 * Ewell Blackwell, 74, American Major League Baseball player.
 * J. Edward Day, 82, American lawyer and United States Postmaster General, heart attack.
 * Richard Duffin, 87, American physicist.
 * Eugen Kapp, 88, Estonian composer and music educator.
 * Robert Levin, 84, Norwegian classical pianist and composer.
 * Christophe Munzihirwa, 70, Congo catholic prelate and Archbishop of Bukavu, murdered.
 * Ralph Vince, 96, American gridiron football player (Cleveland Indians, Cleveland Bulldogs, Cleveland Panthers).

30

 * John Barnum, 85, American golfer.
 * Roberto Belangero, 68, Brazilian football player.
 * John Matthew Cannella, 88, American federal judge.
 * Eleanor Lansing Dulles, 101, American author, professor, and state official.
 * George R. E. Shell, 88, United States Marine Corps brigadier general.
 * John Young, 80, Scottish actor.

31

 * Louise Bates Ames, 92, American psychologist.
 * Marcel Carné, 90, French film director.
 * Peter Doig, 85, British politician.
 * Frank Kurtz, 85, American Olympic diver and aviator, complications following a fall.
 * Arthur Peterson, Jr., 83, American actor, Alzheimer's disease.
 * William Rosenwald, 93, American businessman and philanthropist.