Deaths in September 1996

The following is a list of notable deaths in September 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

 * Jimmy Duncanson, 76, Scottish football player.
 * Vagn Holmboe, 86, Danish composer and teacher.
 * Andrew Hughes, 88, Turkish-Japanese film actor and business executive.
 * Karl Kehrle, 98, German-British Benedictine monk and bee breeding authority.
 * Ion Oblemenco, 51, Romanian football striker, heart attack.
 * Nyi Pu, 95, Burmese actor and film director.
 * Hugo Scheltema, 78, Dutch diplomat and ambassador.
 * Ljuba Welitsch, 83, Bulgarian singer.

2

 * André Chastagnol, 76, French historian.
 * Karl Frenzel, 85, German Nazi war criminal.
 * Georgi Georgiev-Getz, 69, Bulgarian film and stage actor, stroke.
 * Paddy Clift, 43, Zimbabwean cricket player, bone marrow cancer.
 * Charles Kirbo, 79, American lawyer and longtime advisor to Jimmy Carter.
 * Wes Livengood, 86, American baseball player, scout and manager.
 * Otto Luening, 96, German-American composer and conductor.
 * Aleksandr Markin, 46, Soviet football player, accident.
 * Aldo Montano, 85, Italian fencer.

3

 * Veniamin Basner, 71, Soviet/Russian composer.
 * Robert Brown, 75, English politician, born 1921.
 * Walter Forster, 79, Brazilian actor, heart attack.
 * Emily Kngwarreye, 86, Aboriginal Australian artist from Utopia, Northern Territory.
 * Valeri Kravchenko, 57, Soviet/Russian volleyball player.
 * Julian Amery, Baron Amery of Lustleigh, 77, British politician.
 * Og Mandino, 72, American author.
 * Alba Roballo, 88, Uruguayan lawyer, poet, and politician.
 * Hugh Torney, 42, Irish National Liberation Army paramilitary leader, shot.
 * Edward Turkington, 97, American rugby union player.

4

 * Victor Aaron, 39, American actor (Geronimo: An American Legend, King of the Hill, Sunchaser), traffic collision.
 * Joan Clarke, 79, English cryptanalyst and numismatist.
 * Babe Dahlgren, 84, American baseball player.
 * Ilus W. Davis, 79, American mayor.
 * Jeanne Juilla, 86, French model and actress.
 * Bill MacPhail, 76, American television executive.
 * Julio Musimessi, 72, Argentine football player.
 * Wee Willie Smith, 86, American football player.

5

 * Leonard Katzman, 69, American film and television producer, writer and director, heart attack.
 * Anthony Mendleson, 81, British costume designer.
 * Anselm Strauss, 79, American medical sociologist.
 * Clem Thomas, 67, Welsh rugby player.
 * John White, 71, Canadian politician.
 * Misa Yamamura, 62, Japanese novelist and a mystery writer, heart failure.

6

 * Ginette Martenot, 94, French musician.
 * Barney McCosky, 79, American Major League Baseball player.
 * Darío Espina Pérez, 75, Cuban banker, lawyer, and writer.
 * Salman Shah, 24, Bangladeshi actor, suicide.
 * Daniel Shanks, 79, American mathematician.
 * Ester Soré, 81, Chilean singer, Diabetic coma.
 * Michael Torrence, 35, American serial killer, execution by lethal injection.
 * Douglas Franklin Wright, 56, American serial killer, execution by lethal injection.

7

 * Bibi Besch, 54, Austrian-American actress (Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Steel Magnolias, Tremors), breast cancer.
 * Joseph Biroc, 93, American cinematographer (The Towering Inferno, It's a Wonderful Life, Airplane!), Oscar winner (1975).
 * Arda Bowser, 97, American gridiron football player.
 * Niccolò Castiglioni, 64, Italian musician.
 * Bruno Corbucci, 64, Italian film director.
 * Arthur Sherwood Flemming, 91, American government official, renal failure.
 * Keith Forbes, 90, Australian rules football player.
 * Gilda, 34, Argentine singer, traffic collision.
 * Willy Miranda, 70, Cuban-American baseball player.
 * Vyacheslav Solovyov, 71, Soviet/Russian football player and coach.

8

 * Semyon Aranovich, 62, Soviet/Russian film director, cancer.
 * Eyre de Lanux, 102, American artist, writer, and art deco designer.
 * Onib Olmedo, 59, Filipino painter.
 * Jacques Schmidt, 63, French costume designer.

9

 * Raúl Calvo, 79, Argentinian basketball player.
 * Harry Hanebrink, 68, American baseball player, aneurysm.
 * Shiva Nath Katju, 86, Indian lawyer, judge and an Indian National Congress politician.
 * Ruggero Mastroianni, 66, Italian film editor, heart attack.
 * Bill Monroe, 84, American "father of bluegrass" music, stroke.
 * Robert Nisbet, 82, American sociologist.
 * John W. Tuthill, 85, American diplomat.

10

 * Latifa al-Zayyat, 73, Egyptian activist and writer, cancer.
 * Ray Coleman, 59, British journalist and writer.
 * Joanne Dru, 74, American actress, edema.
 * Plantagenet Somerset Fry, 65, British historian and author, suicide.
 * Hans List, 100, Austrian automotive pioneer.
 * Julia Morton, 84, American author and botanist.
 * Stig Norén, 88, Swedish general and commander of the air force.
 * Sapphire, 61, American professional wrestler and manager, heart attack.
 * Pete Stout, 73, American National Football League player (Washington Redskins).

11

 * Guido Aristarco, 77, Italian film critic and author.
 * Bráz, 75, Brazilian basketball player.
 * Klára Fehér, 74, Hungarian writer.
 * Louise Fitch, 81, American actress.
 * Brenda Forbes, 87, British-American actress, cancer.
 * Dan Mahoney, 87, Australian politician.
 * Deane Waldo Malott, 98, American academic and administrator.
 * Thomas J. O'Connor, 71, American politician.
 * Koichi Oita, 82, Japanese football player and manager, heart failure.

12

 * Nikolay Avkhimovich, 89, Soviet and Belarusian politician.
 * Frank Christie, 69, Scottish football player and manager.
 * Eleazar de Carvalho, 84, Brazilian conductor and composer.
 * Ernesto Geisel, 89, Brazilian general and former president of Brazil, cancer.
 * Ricardo López, 21, Uruguayan-American stalker of musician Björk, suicide by gunshot.
 * James Scott-Elliot, 93, British Army officer.

13

 * Marvin Allen, 81, American soccer coach.
 * Jane Baxter, 87, British actress, stomach cancer.
 * James F. Bonner, 86, American molecular biologist.
 * César Mendoza Durán, 78, Chilean police officer, equestrian and member of the Government Junta, pancreatic cancer.
 * Tupac Shakur, 25, American rapper ("California Love", "Dear Mama") and actor (Poetic Justice), shot.
 * Wang Shoudao, 90, Chinese politician.
 * Xosé Filgueira Valverde, 89, Spanish writer, intellectual, and researcher,.
 * William Ayres Ward, 68, American Egyptologist.
 * Leni Wylliams, 35, African-American dancer/choreographer/master-teacher, murder.

14

 * Helen Cohan, 86, American stage dancer and film actress.
 * Jock Cordner, 86, Australian rules football player.
 * Edred John Henry Corner, 90, botanist and a mycologist.
 * Douglas Everett, 91, American ice hockey player.
 * Joe E. Martin, 80, American boxing coach.
 * Rose Ouellette, 93, Quebec actress, comedian, and theatre manager.
 * Juliet Prowse, 59, dancer and actress, pancreatic cancer.

15

 * Phil Farbman, 72, American basketball player.
 * Joe Maniaci, 82, American football player and coach.
 * Agnes Mongan, 91, American art historian.
 * Erling Nielsen, 61, Danish football player.
 * Tom Payne, 81, Brazilian film director, screenwriter and actor.
 * Andy Pilney, 83, American gridiron football player and coach, baseball player.
 * Ottis Toole, 49, American drifter and serial killer, cirrhosis.
 * Georgios Vafopoulos, 93, Greek poet, author, and journalist.

16

 * McGeorge Bundy, 77, American academic, heart attack.
 * Karl Dröse, 82, German field hockey player.
 * Rolf Graae, 79, Danish architect and organ designer.
 * Gene Nelson, 76, American actor, dancer, screenwriter, and director, cancer.
 * Joan Perry, 85, American film actress, model, and singer, emphysema.

17

 * Spiro Agnew, 77, American politician, 39th Vice President of the United States, leukemia.
 * Marianne Bachmeier, 46, German vigilante, pancreatic cancer.
 * Teodoro Fernández, 83, Peruvian footballer.
 * Jessie Hill, 63, American R&B and Louisiana blues singer and songwriter, heart and renal failure.
 * Paul J. Krebs, 84, American labor union official and politician.
 * Arnold Peters, 74, Canadian politician.
 * Henk Schijvenaar, 78, Dutch footballer.

18

 * Annabella, 89, French cinema actress, heart attack.
 * Ulrich Beiger, 78, German actor.
 * Corrie Laddé, 80, Dutch swimmer and Olympian.
 * Ronald McNicoll, 90, Australian Army general.
 * Raymond Lee Stewart, 44, American spree killer, execution by lethal injection.
 * Bai Yang, 76, Chinese actress.

19

 * Noureddine Aba, 75, Algerian poet and playwright.
 * Nanny Fernandez, 77, American baseball player.
 * Helmut Heißenbüttel, 75, German novelist and poet, pneumonia.
 * George Hunt, 86, English footballer, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Douglas Hyde, 85, English political journalist and writer.
 * Irene Mann, 67, German dancer, actress and choreographer.
 * Ștefan Mihăilescu-Brăila, 71, Romanian actor, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Czesław Petelski, 73, Polish film director and screenwriter.
 * Edilberto K. Tiempo, 83, Filipino professor, writer.

20

 * Franco Angrisano, 70, Italian actor, heart attack.
 * Murtaza Bhutto, 42, Pakistani politician and lmilitant leader, police encounter, homicide.
 * S. F. Brownrigg, 58, American film director and producer.
 * Paul Draper, 86, American tap dancer and choreographer, pulmonary emphysema.
 * Paul Erdős, 83, Hungarian mathematician, heart attack.
 * Krešo Golik, 74, Croatian film and television director and screenwriter.
 * Reuben Kamanga, 67, Zambian politician.
 * Max Manus, 81, Norwegian resistance fighter during World War II.
 * Dagdu Maruti Pawar, 61, Indian writer.
 * Ted Platt, 75, English football player.
 * William S. Vaughn, 92, American businessman and philanthropist.
 * Paul Weston, 84, American pianist, arranger, composer, and conductor.

21

 * Erika Cremer, 96, German chemist.
 * Paolo De Poli, 91, Italian enameller and painter.
 * Lamar Dodd, 87, American artist.
 * Claus Holm, 78, German film actor.
 * Leo Isacson, 86, American attorney and politician, cancer.
 * Henri Nouwen, 64, Dutch Catholic priest, writer and theologian, heart attack.
 * Franz Pfnür, 87, German alpine skier, Olympic champion and SS officer during World War II.
 * Ashoke Kumar Sen, 82, Indian lawyer and politician.
 * Julius Silverman, 90, British politician.
 * Sabine Zlatin, 89, Polish-French Resistance member during World War II.

22

 * Mohamed Ben Ahmed Abdelghani, 69, Algerian politician and prime Minister.
 * Brook Bernacchi, 74, British lawyer and politician in Hong Kong, brain cancer.
 * Ludmilla Chiriaeff, 72, Soviet-Canadian ballet dancer and choreographer.
 * Dorothy Lamour, 81, American actress (Road to ...) and singer, heart attack.
 * József Sir, 84, Hungarian athlete.
 * Svetislav Valjarević, 85, Yugoslav football player.
 * Marko Valok, 69, Serbian football player.
 * Joanne Winter, 71, American baseball player and golfer.

23

 * Bimal Kumar Bachhawat, 71, Indian neurochemist and glycobiologist.
 * Joe Borowski, 62, Canadian politician and activist.
 * Fujiko F. Fujio, 62, Japanese manga cartoonist, liver disease.
 * Károly Kárpáti, 90, Hungarian Olympic wrestling champion.
 * Jack Newman, 94, New Zealand cricket player and business executive.
 * Diarmuid O'Neill, 27, Northern Irish volunteer in the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), killed.
 * Stuart Piggott, 86, British archaeologist, heart attack.
 * František Rauch, 86, Czech music educator and pianist.
 * Silk Smitha, 35, Indian actress and dancer, suicide by hanging.

24

 * I. E. S. Edwards, 87, British egyptologist and curator.
 * Red Embree, 79, American Major League Baseball pitcher.
 * Mark Frankel, 34, British actor, traffic accident.
 * Zeki Müren, 64, Turkish singer, composer, songwriter, actor and poet, heart attack.
 * Mário Palmério, 80, Brazilian writer.
 * Pavel Sudoplatov, 89, Soviet lieutenant general and spy.
 * Jannes van der Wal, 39, Dutch draughts player, leukemia.

25

 * Red Mihalik, 80, Poliosh-American basketball player and referee.
 * Richard Holt Locke, 55, American actor in gay erotic films and AIDS educator and activist, complications of AIDS.
 * Helgi Skúlason, 63, Icelandic actor and stage director.
 * George Veneroso, 87, American football coach.

26

 * Nicu Ceaușescu, 45, Romanian politician, son of Nicolae Ceaușescu and Elena Ceaușescu, liver cirrhosis.
 * Bob Davidson, 84, Canadian ice hockey player.
 * Heinz Engelmann, 85, German actor.
 * Alicja Iwańska, 78, Polish sociologist, academic and writer, lung cancer.
 * Jozef Marko, 73, Slovak football player.
 * Lucia Valerio, 91, Italian tennis player.
 * Geoffrey Wilkinson, 75, British chemist and Nobel Prize laureate.

27

 * Hermine Baron, 83, American contract bridge.
 * James Franklin Battin, 71, American politician and United States federal judge.
 * Jila Hosseini, 32, Iranian poet, writer, researcher and radio announcer, car accident.
 * Bruce Konopka, 77, American baseball player.
 * Garland Lawing, 78, American baseball player.
 * Mohammad Najibullah, 49, Afghan politician and President of Afghanistan, execution by hanging.
 * Ahmad Muhammad Numan, 87, Yemeni educator, propagandist and politician.
 * Lee Tit, 83, Cantonese film director.

28

 * Giuseppe Bartolomei, 73, Italian politician.
 * Menato Boffa, 66, Italian racecar driver.
 * Marcos Aurelio Di Paulo, 76, Argentinian football player.
 * Bob Gibson, 64, American folk singer and musician, progressive supranuclear palsy.
 * August Maus, 81, German Navy officer and World War II submarine commander.
 * Andrei Suraikin, 47, Russian figure skater.
 * Maurice Valency, 93, American writer and playwright.

29

 * Claire Bonenfant, 71, Canadian politician and feminist.
 * Leslie Crowther, 63, English comedian, actor, TV presenter, and game show host, heart failure.
 * Shusaku Endo, 73, Japanese author, complications of hepatitis.
 * Bohuslav Karlík, 87, Czechoslovak canoeist and water slalomist.
 * Li Qiang, 91, Chinese revolutionary, secret agent, and politician, liver cancer.
 * George Rung, 80, American basketball coach.

30

 * Charlie Adam, 77, Scottish football player.
 * Aubrey Brabazon, 76, Irish horse racing jockey.
 * Kenneth Muir, 89, English literary scholar and author.
 * P. Jay Sidney, 81, American actor.
 * Moneta Sleet, Jr., 70, American journalist, cancer.
 * Sylvester William Treinen, 78, American Roman catholic bishop.