Deaths in December 1996


Deaths in December 1996


The following is a list of notable deaths in December 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.

December 1996

1

  • Peter Bronfman, 67, Canadian businessman and entrepreneur, cancer.
  • Alan Coldham, 90, Australian tennis player.
  • Sonia Furió, 59, Spanish-Mexican actress, singer, and dancer.
  • Irving Gordon, 81, American songwriter, myeloma cancer.
  • Jacek Gutowski, 36, Polish weightlifter.
  • James Record, 77, American politician and author.
  • Jan G. Waldenström, 90, Swedish physician.

2

  • Jules Bastin, 63, Belgian operatic bass.
  • Jean Jérôme Hamer, 80, Belgian Roman Catholic cardinal.
  • Mike Morgan, 54, American gridiron football player.
  • Marri Chenna Reddy, 77, Indian politician.

3

  • John Bateman, 56, American Major League baseball player.
  • Georges Duby, 77, French historian, cancer.
  • Norm Houser, 80, American racing driver.
  • Babrak Karmal, 67, Afghan revolutionary and President of Afghanistan, liver cancer.
  • Solveig von Schoultz, 89, Finnish writer, novelist, and teacher.

4

  • Syd Heylen,76, Australian actor, comedian, and variety performer, stroke.
  • Willard Parker, 84, American actor, heart attack.
  • Leon Polk Smith, 90, American painter.
  • Albert Winsemius, 86, Dutch economist, pneumonia.
  • Ans Wortel, 67, Dutch painter, poet and writer.
  • Jan Čuřík, 72, Czech cinematographer.

5

  • Robert Brewer, 72, United States Army officer during World War II.
  • Wilf Carter, 91, Canadian Country and Western singer, songwriter, and yodeller, stomach cancer.
  • Karl H. Fell, 59, German politician.
  • Cliff Mapes, 74, American baseball player.
  • Carey Spicer, 87, American football and basketball player and coach.
  • Adolf Bredo Stabell, 88, Norwegian diplomat.

6

  • Harry Babcock, 66, American gridiron football player.
  • Jean Bertholle, 87, French painter.
  • Victor Bruns, 92, German composer and bassoonist.
  • ʿAbd al-Hamid Kishk, 63, Egyptian preacher, scholar of Islam, activist, and author.
  • Robert Lees, 74, American linguist.
  • Ricky Owens, 57, American singer.
  • Pete Rozelle, 70, American commissioner of the National Football League, brain cancer.

7

  • José Donoso, 72, Chilean writer, journalist and professor, liver cancer.
  • Johnny Hall, 79, American gridiron football player.
  • Ali Hatami, 52, Iranian film director, screenwriter, art director, and costume designer, pancreatic cancer.
  • Giuseppe Perego, 81, Italian comics artist.
  • Phillip Reed, 88, American actor.
  • Ryszard Szymczak, 51, Polish football player.

8

  • Rolf Blomberg, 84, Swedish explorer, writer, photographer and producer of documentary films.
  • Prince Eugenio, Duke of Genoa, 90, Italian prince.
  • Espanto III, 56, Mexican professional wrestler, heart attack.
  • José Luis González, 70, Puerto Rican essayist, novelist, and journalist.
  • Jack H. Hexter, 86, American historian.
  • Tommy Lahiff, 86, Australian rules football player.
  • John Langeloth Loeb Sr., 94, American investor and executive.
  • Paulene Myers, 83, American actress (Lady Sings the Blues, The Sting, My Cousin Vinny).
  • Johnny Olszewski, 66, American gridiron football player.
  • Howard Rollins, 46, American actor (Ragtime, In the Heat of the Night, A Soldier's Story), complications from AIDS-related lymphoma.
  • Dorothy Schroeder, 68, American baseball player, intracranial aneurysm.
  • Marin Sorescu, 60, Romanian poet, playwright, and novelist, heart attack.
  • Kashiwado Tsuyoshi, 58, Japanese sumo wrestler, liver failure.

9

  • June Carlson, 72, American actress, aneurysm.
  • Patty Donahue, 40, American vocalist of new wave group the Waitresses, lung cancer.
  • Li Ki-joo, 70, South Korean football player.
  • Mary Leakey, 83, British paleoanthropologist.
  • Diana Morgan, 88, British playwright and screenwriter.
  • Alain Poher, 87, French politician.
  • Ivor Roberts-Jones, 83, British sculptor.
  • Raphael Samuel, 61, British Marxist historian and intellectual.
  • Woody Woodard, 79, American gridiron football player and coach, basketball coach, track coach, college athletics administrator.

10

  • Jakov Blažević, 84, Croatian lawyer and politician.
  • John Duffey, 62, American bluegrass musician, heart attack.
  • John Price, 83, Danish film actor and director, and the father of Danish screenwriter Adam Price.
  • Richa Sharma, 32, Indian actress.
  • Eric Webber, 76, English football player and manager.
  • Faron Young, 64, American country music producer, singer and songwriter, suicide.

11

  • Juan Carlos Barbieri, 64, Argentine actor.
  • Des Booth, 76, Australian politician.
  • Charles Hamilton, 82, American paleographer, handwriting expert and author.
  • Willie Rushton, 59, English cartoonist, comedian, and actor, heart attack.
  • W. G. G. Duncan Smith, 82, British Royal Air Force flying ace during World War II.
  • Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturier, 84, French photojournalist and politician, cancer.

12

  • Larry Gates, 81, American actor (Guiding Light, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, In the Heat of the Night).
  • George Jumonville, 79, American Major League Baseball player.
  • Buks Marais, 68, South African rugby player.
  • Vance Packard, 82, American journalist, social critic, and author.

13

  • Waheed Akhtar, 62, Indian poet, writer, critic, and a Muslim scholar and philosopher.
  • Mae Barnes, 89, American jazz singer, dancer and comic entertainer.
  • Edward Blishen, 76, English author and broadcaster.
  • James Cassels, 89, British Army officer.
  • Francesco Gabrieli, 92, Italian arabist.
  • Arthur Jacobs, 74, British music critic and musicologist.
  • Eulace Peacock, 82, American sprinter, Alzheimer's disease.
  • Clarence Wijewardena, 53, Sri Lankan singer, composer and musician, liver cirrhosis.
  • Cao Yu, 86, Chinese playwright.

14

  • John Craven, 49, English football player, heart attack.
  • Howard B. Keck, 83, American businessman and Thoroughbred racehorse owner and breeder.
  • Andy McLaren, 74, Scottish football player.
  • Gaston Miron, 68, French Canadian writer.

15

  • Dawn Crosby, 33, American heavy metal singer, liver failure from substance abuse.
  • Giuseppe Dossetti, 83, Italian jurist, politician, and Catholic priest.
  • Dave Kaye, 90, English pianist.
  • Harry Kemelman, 88, American mystery writer and a professor of English, kidney failure.
  • Tristan Keuris, 50, Dutch composer.
  • Adalberto López, 73, Mexican football player.
  • Laurens van der Post, 90, South African Afrikaner author, farmer, journalist, philosopher, explorer and conservationist.

16

  • Quentin Bell, 86, English biographer and art historian.
  • Sven Bergqvist, 82, Swedish football and ice hockey player,.
  • George M. Jones, 85, United States Army brigadier general.
  • Dolores Medio, 85, Spanish writer.
  • Carlo Reguzzoni, 88, Italian football player.
  • Arthur Shores, 92, American civil rights attorney.

17

  • Armando, 26, American house music producer and DJ, leukemia.
  • Wayne Barlow, 84, American composer of classical music.
  • Li Han-hsiang, 70, Chinese film director, heart attack.
  • Johannes Kaiser, 60, German sprinter.
  • Adriaan Maas, 89, Dutch sailor and Olympian.
  • Lawrie Miller, 73, New Zealand cricket player.
  • Ruby Murray, 61, Northern Irish singer and actress, liver cancer.
  • George Pfann, 94, American gridiron football player and coach.
  • İlyas Seçkin, 78, Turkish politician.
  • Stanko Todorov, 76, Bulgarian communist politician.
  • Sun Yaoting, 92, last imperial Chinese eunuch.

18

  • Irving Caesar, 101, American lyricist and theater composer.
  • Charles Deaton, 75, American architect.
  • Gwilym Hugh Lewis, 99, British flying ace during World War I.
  • Ayşe Şan, 58, Kurdish singer.
  • Suryakantam, 72, Indian actress.

19

  • Bobby Cole, 64, American musician, heart attack.
  • Ted Darling, 61, Canadian sportscaster, Pick disease.
  • Ejvind Hansen, 72, Danish sprint canoeist.
  • Ronald Howard, 78, English actor and writer.
  • Amata Kabua, 68, President of the Marshall Islands (1979–1996).
  • Yulii Borisovich Khariton, 92, Russian nuclear physicist.
  • Marcello Mastroianni, 72, Italian actor (La Dolce Vita, 8½, Divorce Italian Style), pancreatic cancer.

20

  • Melio Bettina, 80, American boxer.
  • Osvaldo Lira, 92, Chilean priest, philosopher and theologian.
  • Thakin Lwin, 82, Burmese politician, trade unionist, writer and journalist.
  • Charles Morton, 80, American racing cyclist and Olympian.
  • Carl Sagan, 62, American astronomer, astrophysicist, and author (Cosmos, Contact), pneumonia.

21

  • Kell Areskoug, 90 Swedish Olympic sprinter.
  • Christine Brückner, 75, German writer.
  • Clarence Gosse, 84, Canadian politician.
  • Barry Gray, 80, American radio personality, known as "The father of Talk Radio".
  • Kálmán Hazai, 83, Hungarian water polo player.
  • Margret Rey, 90, German-American children's author and illustrator, heart attack.
  • Alfred Tonello, 67, French racing cyclist.

22

  • Oscar Alende, 87, Argentine politician.
  • Mária Bartuszová, 60, Slovakian sculptor.
  • Nealie Duggan, 73, Irish Gaelic football player.
  • Fred Green, 63, American baseball player.
  • Chiang Hsiao-yung, 48, Taiwanese politician, esophageal cancer.
  • Don Meade, 83, American National Champion jockey.
  • Igor Oberberg, 89, Russian Empire-born German cinematographer.

23

  • Aram Karamanoukian, 86, Syrian Army Lieutenant General, politician and author.
  • Rina Ketty, 85, Italian singer.
  • Vicente González Lizondo, 54, Spanish politician, heart attack.
  • Mića Popović, 73, Serbian artist.
  • Ronnie Scott, 69, British jazz tenor saxophonist and jazz club owner, accidental overdose of barbiturate.
  • Infanta Maria Cristina of Spain, 85, Spanish princess, heart attack.
  • Emrys Thomas, 96, Welsh socialist politician.
  • Sophie Toscan du Plantier, 39, French television producer, beaten to death.

24

  • Al Adair, 67, Canadian politician and baseball player, heart attack.
  • Takeo Doi, 92, Japanese aircraft designer.
  • Leonard Firestone, 89, American businessman, diplomat, and philanthropist.
  • Bobby Robinson, 46, Scottish football player.
  • Nguyen Huu Tho, 86, Vietnamese revolutionary and politician.
  • Milan Vasojević, 63, Serbian basketball coach.

25

  • Lee Alexander, 69, American politician, cancer.
  • Tony Dauksza, 84, American football player, film-maker, and outdoorsman.
  • Roger Duchesne, 90, French actor.
  • Bill Hewitt, 68, Canadian sportscaster, heart attack.
  • Bill Osmanski, 80, American gridiron football player and coach.
  • Al Schottelkotte, 69, American news anchor and reporter, cancer.
  • Sue Bailey Thurman, 93, American author, historian and civil rights activist.
  • Clayton Tonnemaker, 68, American gridiron football player.
  • Harry Watson, 92, New Zealand racing cyclist.
  • August Wenzinger, 91, Swiss musician and conductor.

26

  • Narcís Jubany Arnau, 83, Spanish Catholic cardinal.
  • Ray Bray, 79, American gridiron football player.
  • Michael Bruno, 64, Israeli economist, cancer.
  • Frank Edwin Egler, 85, American plant ecologist.
  • Frank Liebel, 77, American National Football League player.
  • Eleanor Lynn, 80, American actress.
  • Misha Mahowald, 33, American computational neuroscientist, suicide.
  • JonBenét Ramsey, 6, American child beauty queen, asphyxia by strangulation and craniocerebral trauma.
  • Morris Schapiro, 83, American investment banker and chess master.
  • Olle Tandberg, 78, Swedish boxer.

27

  • Gene Brabender, 55, American Major League Baseball pitcher, brain aneurysm.
  • Mary Celine Fasenmyer, 90, American mathematician.
  • Johnny Heartsman, 60, American blues musician and songwriter, stroke.
  • Gabriel Loire, 92, French French stained glass artist.
  • Julián Mateos, 58, Spanish actor and film producer, lung cancer.
  • Kourkène Medzadourian, 88, Armenian activist.
  • Nicolae Militaru, 71, Romanian soldier and communist politician, cancer.
  • Neil O'Donnell, 82, American basketball player.
  • Juan José Ortega, 92, Mexican film director, producer and screenwriter.
  • Sarmad Sindhi, 35, Pakistani folk singer and songwriter, traffic accident.
  • Jean-Claude Tramont, 62, Belgian film director.

28

  • Edward Carfagno, 89, American fencer and art director (Ben-Hur, The Bad and the Beautiful, Soylent Green), Oscar winner (1953, 1954, 1960).
  • Ferd Dreher, 83, American gridiron football player.
  • Katherine Pollak Ellickson, 91, American labor economist.
  • Edward Gerard Hettinger, 94, American Roman Catholic clergyman and bishop.
  • Annik Shefrazian, 86-87, Iranian Armenian actress.

29

  • Alma Birk, 79, British journalist and politician.
  • Pennar Davies, 85, British writer.
  • Mireille Hartuch, 90, French singer, composer, and actress.
  • Margaret Herbison, 89, Scottish politician, cancer.
  • Jerry Knight, 44, American R&B vocalist and bassist, cancer.
  • Dorothy Livesay, 87, Canadian poet.
  • Daniel Mayer, 87, French politician and member of the French Resistance.
  • Robert J. Morris, 82, American anti-Communist activist, heart failure.
  • Vasily Ilyich Mykhlik, 74, Soviet Air Forces pilot and Hero of the Soviet Union.
  • Tom Pedi, 83, American actor.
  • Gino Sinimberghi, 83, Italian opera singer.
  • Oswald Szemerényi, 83, Hungarian linguist.

30

  • Pokey Allen, 53, American gridiron football player and coach.
  • Lew Ayres, 88, American actor (All Quiet on the Western Front, Dr. Kildare, Johnny Belinda).
  • Lou Barle, 80, American basketball player.
  • Erik Heiberg, 80, Norwegian sailor and Olympic medalist.
  • Jack Nance, 53, American actor (Eraserhead, Twin Peaks, Dune), subdural hematoma.
  • Lev Oshanin, 84, Russian poet, playwright and writer.
  • Broome Pinniger, 94, Indian field hockey player.
  • Keith A. Walker, 61, American writer, film producer, actor (The Fall Guy, The Goonies, Free Willy), cancer.

31

  • Wesley Addy, 83, American actor.
  • Annie Ducaux, 88, French actress.
  • Sam Narron, 83, American baseball player and coach.
  • Michael Roberts, 88, British historian of early modern Sweden.
  • Winston P. Wilson, 85, United States Air Force major general.

References


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