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.[1]
 - Alan Coldham, 90, Australian tennis player.
 - Sonia Furió, 59, Spanish-Mexican actress, singer, and dancer.[2]
 - Irving Gordon, 81, American songwriter, myeloma cancer.[3]
 - Jacek Gutowski, 36, Polish weightlifter.[4]
 - James Record, 77, American politician and author.[5]
 - Jan G. Waldenström, 90, Swedish physician.
 
2
- Jules Bastin, 63, Belgian operatic bass.[6]
 - Jean Jérôme Hamer, 80, Belgian Roman Catholic cardinal.[7]
 - Mike Morgan, 54, American gridiron football player.[8]
 - Marri Chenna Reddy, 77, Indian politician.
 
3
- John Bateman, 56, American Major League baseball player.[9]
 - Georges Duby, 77, French historian, cancer.[10]
 - Norm Houser, 80, American racing driver.
 - Babrak Karmal, 67, Afghan revolutionary and President of Afghanistan, liver cancer.[11]
 - Solveig von Schoultz, 89, Finnish writer, novelist, and teacher.
 
4
- Syd Heylen, 76, Australian actor, comedian, and variety performer, stroke.
 - Azharul Islam, 52, Bangladeshi politician, cardiac arrest.
 - Willard Parker, 84, American actor, heart attack.[12]
 - Leon Polk Smith, 90, American painter.[13]
 - Albert Winsemius, 86, Dutch economist, pneumonia.
 - Ans Wortel, 67, Dutch painter, poet and writer.[14]
 - Jan Čuřík, 72, Czech cinematographer.[15]
 
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.[16]
 - Karl H. Fell, 59, German politician.
 - Cliff Mapes, 74, American baseball player.[17]
 - Carey Spicer, 87, American football and basketball player and coach.
 - Adolf Bredo Stabell, 88, Norwegian diplomat.
 
6
- Harry Babcock, 66, American gridiron football player.[18]
 - Jean Bertholle, 87, French painter.[19]
 - 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.[20]
 
7
- José Donoso, 72, Chilean writer, journalist and professor, liver cancer.[21]
 - Johnny Hall, 79, American gridiron football player.[22]
 - Ali Hatami, 52, Iranian film director, screenwriter, art director, and costume designer, pancreatic cancer.
 - Giuseppe Perego, 81, Italian comics artist.[23]
 - Phillip Reed, 88, American actor.[24]
 - Ryszard Szymczak, 51, Polish football player.[25]
 
8
- Rolf Blomberg, 84, Swedish explorer, writer, photographer and producer of documentary films.[26]
 - 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.[27]
 - Jack H. Hexter, 86, American historian.[28]
 - Tommy Lahiff, 86, Australian rules football player.
 - John Langeloth Loeb Sr., 94, American investor and executive.[29]
 - Paulene Myers, 83, American actress (Lady Sings the Blues, The Sting, My Cousin Vinny).[30]
 - Johnny Olszewski, 66, American gridiron football player.[31]
 - Howard Rollins, 46, American actor (Ragtime, In the Heat of the Night, A Soldier's Story), complications from AIDS-related lymphoma.[32]
 - Dorothy Schroeder, 68, American baseball player, intracranial aneurysm.
 - Marin Sorescu, 60, Romanian poet, playwright, and novelist, heart attack.[33]
 - Kashiwado Tsuyoshi, 58, Japanese sumo wrestler, liver failure.
 
9
- June Carlson, 72, American actress, aneurysm.[34]
 - Patty Donahue, 40, American vocalist of new wave group the Waitresses, lung cancer.
 - Li Ki-joo, 70, South Korean football player.
 - Yun Chi-young, 96, South Korean politician.
 - Mary Leakey, 83, British paleoanthropologist.[35]
 - Diana Morgan, 88, British playwright and screenwriter.[36]
 - Alain Poher, 87, French politician.[37]
 - Ivor Roberts-Jones, 83, British sculptor.
 - Raphael Samuel, 61, British Marxist historian and intellectual.[38]
 - 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.[39]
 - 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.[40]
 
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.[41]
 - 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.[42]
 
12
- Larry Gates, 81, American actor (Guiding Light, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, In the Heat of the Night).[43]
 - George Jumonville, 79, American Major League Baseball player.[44]
 - Buks Marais, 68, South African rugby player.
 - Vance Packard, 82, American journalist, social critic, and author.[45]
 
13
- Waheed Akhtar, 62, Indian poet, writer, critic, and a Muslim scholar and philosopher.
 - Mae Barnes, 89, American jazz singer, dancer and comic entertainer.[46]
 - Edward Blishen, 76, English author and broadcaster.[47]
 - James Cassels, 89, British Army officer.
 - Francesco Gabrieli, 92, Italian arabist.[48]
 - Arthur Jacobs, 74, British music critic and musicologist.
 - Eulace Peacock, 82, American sprinter, Alzheimer's disease.[49]
 - Clarence Wijewardena, 53, Sri Lankan singer, composer and musician, liver cirrhosis.[50]
 - Cao Yu, 86, Chinese playwright.[51]
 
14
- John Craven, 49, English football player, heart attack.[52]
 - Howard B. Keck, 83, American businessman and Thoroughbred racehorse owner and breeder.[53]
 - Andy McLaren, 74, Scottish football player.
 - Gaston Miron, 68, French Canadian writer.[54]
 
15
- Dawn Crosby, 33, American heavy metal singer, liver failure from substance abuse.
 - Giuseppe Dossetti, 83, Italian jurist, politician, and Catholic priest.[55]
 - Dave Kaye, 90, English pianist.[56]
 - Harry Kemelman, 88, American mystery writer and a professor of English, kidney failure.[57]
 - 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.[58]
 
16
- Quentin Bell, 86, English biographer and art historian.[59]
 - Sven Bergqvist, 82, Swedish football and ice hockey player.
 - Nokukhanya Bhengu, 92, South African women’s leader and anti-apartheid activist[60]
 - George M. Jones, 85, United States Army brigadier general.
 - Dolores Medio, 85, Spanish writer.
 - Carlo Reguzzoni, 88, Italian football player.[61]
 - Arthur Shores, 92, American civil rights attorney.[62]
 
17
- Armando, 26, American house music producer and DJ, leukemia.[63]
 - Wayne Barlow, 84, American composer of classical music.[64]
 - Li Han-hsiang, 70, Chinese film director, heart attack.[65]
 - Johannes Kaiser, 60, German sprinter.
 - Adriaan Maas, 89, Dutch sailor and Olympian.[66]
 - Lawrie Miller, 73, New Zealand cricket player.
 - Ruby Murray, 61, Northern Irish singer and actress, liver cancer.[67]
 - 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.[68]
 - Charles Deaton, 75, American architect.[69]
 - 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.[70]
 - Ted Darling, 61, Canadian sportscaster, Pick disease.
 - Ejvind Hansen, 72, Danish sprint canoeist.[71]
 - Ronald Howard, 78, English actor and writer.[72]
 - Amata Kabua, 68, President of the Marshall Islands (1979–1996).[73]
 - Yulii Borisovich Khariton, 92, Russian nuclear physicist.[74]
 - Marcello Mastroianni, 72, Italian actor (La Dolce Vita, 8½, Divorce Italian Style), pancreatic cancer.[75]
 
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.[76]
 - Carl Sagan, 62, American astronomer, astrophysicist, and author (Cosmos, Contact), pneumonia.[77]
 
21
- Kell Areskoug, 90, Swedish Olympic sprinter.[78]
 - 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.[79]
 - Margret Rey, 90, German-American children's author and illustrator, heart attack.[80]
 - Alfred Tonello, 67, French racing cyclist.[81]
 
22
- Oscar Alende, 87, Argentine politician.
 - Mária Bartuszová, 60, Slovakian sculptor.
 - Nealie Duggan, 73, Irish Gaelic football player.
 - Fred Green, 63, American baseball player.[82]
 - Chiang Hsiao-yung, 48, Taiwanese politician, esophageal cancer.
 - Don Meade, 83, American National Champion jockey.[83]
 - Igor Oberberg, 89, Russian Empire-born German cinematographer.[84]
 
23
- Aram Karamanoukian, 86, Syrian Army Lieutenant General, politician and author.
 - Rina Ketty, 85, Italian singer.[85]
 - Vicente González Lizondo, 54, Spanish politician, heart attack.[86]
 - Mića Popović, 73, Serbian artist.[87]
 - Ronnie Scott, 69, British jazz tenor saxophonist and jazz club owner, accidental overdose of barbiturate.[88]
 - Infanta Maria Cristina of Spain, 85, Spanish princess, heart attack.[89]
 - 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.[90]
 - Bobby Robinson, 46, Scottish football player.[91]
 - Nguyen Huu Tho, 86, Vietnamese revolutionary and politician.[92]
 - Milan Vasojević, 63, Serbian basketball coach.
 
25
- Lee Alexander, 69, American politician, cancer.[93]
 - Tony Dauksza, 84, American football player, film-maker, and outdoorsman.
 - Roger Duchesne, 90, French actor.[94]
 - Bill Hewitt, 68, Canadian sportscaster, heart attack.
 - Bill Osmanski, 80, American gridiron football player and coach.[95]
 - 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.[96]
 - Harry Watson, 92, New Zealand racing cyclist.[97]
 - August Wenzinger, 91, Swiss musician and conductor.[98]
 
26
- Narcís Jubany Arnau, 83, Spanish Catholic cardinal.[99]
 - Ray Bray, 79, American gridiron football player.
 - Michael Bruno, 64, Israeli economist, cancer.[100]
 - Frank Edwin Egler, 85, American plant ecologist.[101]
 - Frank Liebel, 77, American National Football League player.[102]
 - 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.[103]
 
27
- Gene Brabender, 55, American Major League Baseball pitcher, brain aneurysm.[104]
 - Mary Celine Fasenmyer, 90, American mathematician.
 - Johnny Heartsman, 60, American blues musician and songwriter, stroke.[105]
 - Gabriel Loire, 92, French French stained glass artist.
 - Julián Mateos, 58, Spanish actor and film producer, lung cancer.[106]
 - Kourkène Medzadourian, 88, Armenian activist.
 - Nicolae Militaru, 71, Romanian soldier and communist politician, cancer.
 - Neil O'Donnell, 82, American basketball player.[107]
 - Juan José Ortega, 92, Mexican film director, producer and screenwriter.[108]
 - Sarmad Sindhi, 35, Pakistani folk singer and songwriter, traffic accident.
 - Jean-Claude Tramont, 62, Belgian film director.[109]
 
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.[110]
 - Katherine Pollak Ellickson, 91, American labor economist.[111]
 - 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.[112]
 - Mireille Hartuch, 90, French singer, composer, and actress.[113]
 - Margaret Herbison, 89, Scottish politician, cancer.
 - Jerry Knight, 44, American R&B vocalist and bassist, cancer.
 - Dorothy Livesay, 87, Canadian poet.[114]
 - Daniel Mayer, 87, French politician and member of the French Resistance.[115]
 - Robert J. Morris, 82, American anti-Communist activist, heart failure.[116]
 - 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.[117]
 - Oswald Szemerényi, 83, Hungarian linguist.[118]
 
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).[119]
 - Lou Barle, 80, American basketball player.
 - Erik Heiberg, 80, Norwegian sailor and Olympic medalist.[120]
 - Jack Nance, 53, American actor (Eraserhead, Twin Peaks, Dune), subdural hematoma.[121]
 - Lev Oshanin, 84, Russian poet, playwright and writer.
 - Broome Pinniger, 94, Indian field hockey player.[122]
 - Keith A. Walker, 61, American writer, film producer, actor (The Fall Guy, The Goonies, Free Willy), cancer. [123]
 
31
- Wesley Addy, 83, American actor.[124]
 - Annie Ducaux, 88, French actress.[125]
 - Sam Narron, 83, American baseball player and coach.[126]
 - Michael Roberts, 88, British historian of early modern Sweden.[127]
 - Winston P. Wilson, 85, United States Air Force major general.[128]
 
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