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The following is a list of notable deaths in May 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.

May 1996

1

• Herbert Brownell, 92, American politician, cancer. ^[1]
• Billy Byers, 69, American jazz trombonist and arranger. ^[2]
• François Chalais, 76, French journalist, leukemia.
• Jim Gleeson, 84, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians, Chicago Cubs, Cincinnati Reds). ^[3]
• Eric Houghton, 85, English football player and manager. ^[4]
• David M. Kennedy, 90, American diplomat, cardiovascular disease. ^[5]
• Luana Patten, 57, American actress ( Song of the South , Johnny Tremain , Joe Dakota ), respiratory failure. ^[6]

2

• Emile Habibi, 74, Palestinian-Israeli writer and communist politician, cancer. ^[7]
• Pinky Jorgensen, 81, American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds). ^[8]
• Danny Kamekona, 60, American actor ( The Karate Kid Part II , Problem Child , Honeymoon in Vegas ).
• María Luisa Ponte, 77, Spanish actress.
• Tony Romeo, 58, American football player (Dallas Texans, Boston Patriots). ^[9]
• Henri Rust, 89, Dutch film editor.
• Douglas Houghton, Baron Houghton of Sowerby, 97, British politician. ^[10]

3

• Guy Casaril, 62, French film director. ^[11]
• Jimmy Everett, 87, American baseball player. ^[12]
• Donald G. Fink, 84, American engineer. ^[13]
• Tim Gullikson, 44, American tennis player and coach, brain cancer. ^[14]
• Anna Jordaens, 68, Belgian Olympic gymnast (1948). ^[15]
• Alex Kellner, 71, American baseball player (Philadelphia/Kansas City Athletics, Cincinnati Redlegs, St. Louis Cardinals). ^[16]
• Hermann Kesten, 96, German writer. ^[17]
• Detlev Kittstein, 52, German Olympic field hockey player (1968, 1972). ^[18]
• Patsy Montana, 87, American country music singer-songwriter. ^[19]
• Ray Stevens, 60, American professional wrestler, heart attack.
• Jack Weston, 71, American actor ( Dirty Dancing , The Thomas Crown Affair , The Ritz ), lymphoma. ^[20]
• Keith Daniel Williams, 48, American murderer, execution by lethal injection. ^[21]

4

• Jean Crépin, 87, French Army officer during World War II, the First Indochina War and the Algerian War. ^[22]
• Roy Cullinan, 63, Australian rules footballer. ^[23]
• Edward E. Haddock, 84, American politician.
• Gus Keriazakos, 64, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox, Washington Senators, Kansas City Athletics). ^[24]
• Eduardo Franco Raymundo, 62, Spanish chess player. ^[25]

5

• Gaëtan Duval, 65, Mauritian politician. ^[26]
• Earl Hastings, 72, Canadian politician, member of the Senate of Canada (1966-). ^[27]
• David Lasser, 94, American writer and political activist. ^[28]
• Rodney M. Love, 87, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1965-1967). ^[29]
• Jokūbas Minkevičius, 75, Lithuanian politician.
• Roy O'Donnell, 88, Australian rules footballer. ^[30]
• Ai Qing, 86, Chinese poet. ^[31]
• Salli Terri, 73, Canadian-American singer and arranger. ^[32]
• Charles H. Zimmerman, 88, American aeronautical engineer. ^[33]

6

• Donald T. Campbell, 79, American psychologist and scholar. ^[34]
• Geoffrey S. Dawes, 78, British fetal physiologist.
• Ed Love, 85, American animator. ^[35]
• Hamlet Mkhitaryan, 33, Soviet/Russian football player, brain cancer.
• Wally Nightingale, 40, British musician, drug-related illness.
• Suzanne Ridgeway, 78, American film actress.
• Leo Joseph Suenens, 91, Belgian Roman Catholic cardinal, thrombosis. ^[36]
• Ko van Tongeren, 82, Dutch Olympic canoeist (1936). ^[37]

7

• William Copley, 77, American painter, writer, and gallerist.
• Sigurður Jónsson, 37, Icelandic Olympic alpine skier (1976, 1980). ^[38]
• Don McNeill, 88, American radio personality. ^[39]
• Albert Meltzer, 76, British anarchist. ^[40]
• Narciso G. Reyes, 82, Filipino diplomat and author.
• José Lázaro Robles, 72, Brazilian football player.
• Howard Smith, 76, British diplomat.
• Draško Vilfan, 82, Slovenian Olympic swimmer (1936). ^[41]

8

• Beryl Burton, 58, English racing cyclist, heart attack. ^[42]
• Serge Chermayeff, 95, Russian-British architect, industrial designer, and writer. ^[43]
• Luis Miguel Dominguín, 69, Spanish bullfighter, cerebral hemorrhage. ^[44]
• Robert Geib, 84, Luxembourgish Olympic football player (1936). ^[45]
• Ludwig Hoelscher, 88, German composer, musician and music educator. ^[46]
• Bill Naito, 70, American businessman, civic leader and philanthropist, cancer.
• Emy Pettersson, 87, Swedish Olympic sprinter (1928). ^[47]
• Celedonio Romero, 83, Spanish musician. ^[48]
• Karl Ullrich, 85, German SS officer during World War II.
• Garth Williams, 84, American children's illustrator. ^[49]

9

• Khaptad Baba, 116, Nepalese spiritual saint.
• Lu Dingyi, 89, Chinese politician.
• Carl Fallberg, 80, American cartoonist and artist. ^[50]
• Gustave Gingras, 78, Canadian physician.
• Calvin Waller, 58, United States Army lieutenant general, complications from a heart attack. ^[51]

10

• Jože Babič, 79, Slovenian filmmaker.
• Margaret Bell, 79, Canadian high jumper and Olympian (1936). ^[52]
• Poul Borum, 61, Danish poet and writer.
• Ronald Bush, 87, New Zealand sportsman. ^[53]
• Joe Holden, 82, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies), manager and scout. ^[54]
• Alex Newkirk, 79, American baseball player. ^[55]
• Ethel Smith, 93, American organist.
• Curt Teichert, 91, German-American palaeontologist and geologist. ^[56]

11

• Nnamdi Azikiwe, 91, President of Nigeria. ^[57]
• Ademir de Menezes, 73, Brazilian football player and manager.
• Col Geelan, 69, Australian rugby league footballer and coach. ^[58]
• Kurao Hiroshima, 67, Japanese long-distance runner and Olympian (1956, 1960). ^[59]
• Øivind Johannessen, 71, Norwegian football player.
• Bob Pfohl, 69, American football player (Baltimore Colts). ^[60]
• Sam Ragan, 80, American poet. ^[61]
• Vittorio Sala, 77, Italian screenwriter and film director. ^[62]
• Princess Maria de los Dolores of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, 86, Sicillian princess. ^[63]
• Mikheil Tumanishvili, 75, Soviet theatre director.
• Merrill B. Twining, 93, United States Marine Corps general. ^[64]
• Ivan Vyshnevskyi, 39, Ukrainian football player, melanoma. ^[65]
• Margaret Wright, 76, American politician and community activist.
• Notable Americans killed in the plane crash of ValuJet Flight 592:
  • Rodney Culver, 26, American football player (Indianapolis Colts, San Diego Chargers). ^[66]
  • Walter Hyatt, 46, singer and songwriter.
  • Candi Kubeck, 35, airline pilot. ^[67]
• Notable climbers killed in the 1996 Mount Everest disaster ^[68]
  • Scott Fischer, 40, American mountaineer.
  • Rob Hall, 35, New Zealand mountaineer.
  • Yasuko Namba, 47, Japanese businesswoman.
  • Andy Harris, 31, New Zealand mountain guide.

12

• Ghazaleh Alizadeh, 47, Iranian poet and writer, suicide.
• Richard Kendall Brooke, 66, South African ornithologist.
• Max Carlos, 60, Australian Olympic boxer (1956). ^[69]
• Chang Eun-kyung, 44, South Korean Olympic judoka (1976). ^[70]
• Homer Keller, 81, American composer of contemporary classical music. ^[71]
• Stan Priddy, 75, American Olympic ice hockey player (1948). ^[72]
• Mohamed Abdel Rahman, 81, Egyptian fencer and Olympian (1936, 1948, 1952). ^[73]
• Martin Roman, 86, German jazz pianist. ^[74]

13

• Fred Barnes, 75, Australian rules footballer. ^[75]
• Harry Hyde, 71, American NASCAR crew chief, myocardial infarction.
• William Hughes Mulligan, 78, American judge. ^[76]
• Morris Edward Opler, 89, American anthropologist. ^[77]
• Chaim Menachem Rabin, 80, Israeli linguist. ^[78]

14

• Marian Barone, 72, American gymnast and Olympian (1948, 1952). ^[79]
• Vera Chapman, 98, British writer.
• Edward Gurney, 82, American attorney and politician. ^[80]
• Jan Hertl, 67, Czech football player. ^[81]
• Sridharan Jeganathan, 44, Sri Lankan cricket player. ^[82]
• Henry Norrström, 78, Swedish Olympic long-distance runner (1952). ^[83]
• Ludwig Preiß, 85, German politician. ^[84]
• Dick Randall, 70, American filmmaker.
• Adone Stellin, 75, Italian association football player and Olympian (1948). ^[85]
• Kumi Sugai, 77, Japanese painter, sculptor and printmaker.
• Antero Tukiainen, 80, Finnish Olympic rower (1952). ^[86]
• Usilaimani, 62, Tamil actor.
• Leopold Šťastný, 84, Czechoslovak soccer player and coach.

15

• Nordine Ben Ali, 76, Algerian-French football player and manager. ^[87]
• Charles B. Fulton, 86, American district judge (United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida). ^[88]
• Javier del Granado, 83, Bolivian writer.
• Iosif Matusec, 89, Romanian Olympic gymnast (1936). ^[89]
• Newt V. Mills, 96, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1937-1943). ^[90]
• Paul Nogier, 87, French neurologist and physician. ^[91]
• Virgil Walter Ross, 88, American animator.
• Eric Thompson, 68, British cyclist and Olympian (1956, 1960). ^[92]

16

• Danilo Alvim, 75, Brazilian football player and manager, pneumonia. ^[93]
• Jeremy Michael Boorda, 56, American admiral, suicide. ^[94]
• Claude Gordon, 80, American trumpeter, band director, educator, and author, cancer. ^[95]
• Olga Madar, 80, American labor unionist. ^[96]

17

• Scott Brayton, 37, American open-wheel racing driver, racing accident.
• Willis Conover, 75, American radio producer, lung cancer. ^[97]
• Mary Haas, 86, American linguist. ^[98]
• Rusi Modi, 71, Indian cricket player.
• Nick Origlass, 88, Australian Trotskyist politician. ^[99]
• Johnny "Guitar" Watson, 61, American musician and singer-songwriter, myocardial infarction. ^[100]

18

• Czesław Bobrowski, 92, Polish politician and economist.
• Mario Braggiotti, 90, American pianist, composer and raconteur. ^[101]
• Dawee Chullasapya, 81, Thai Air Force air marshal.
• Chet Forte, 60, American television director and sports radio talk show host, heart attack. ^[102]
• Kevin Gilbert, 29, American musician, accidental asphyxiation.
• Yosef Porat, 86, German-Israeli chess player.
• T. B. Werapitiya, 71, Sri Lankan cricket player. ^[103]

19

• John Beradino, 79, American baseball player and actor, pancreatic cancer. ^[104]
• Herbert Büchs, 82, German Air Force officer.
• Jake Ford, 50, American basketball player (Seattle SuperSonics). ^[105]
• Hideji Hōjō, 93, Japanese author, novelist, and playwright.
• Janaki Ramachandran, 72, Indian actor and politician, cardiac arrest.
• Margaret Rawlings, 89, English actress. ^[106]
• Charles Verlinden, 89, Belgian medievalist.
• Zygmunt Ziembiński, 75, Polish legal philosopher and logician.

20

• Bimal Bose, 77, Indian cricketer. ^[107]
• Noè Cruciani, 33, Italian Olympic boxer (1984). ^[108]
• Jean-Jacques Delbo, 87, French actor. ^[109]
• Dean Harens, 75, American actor.
• Bill Kempling, 75, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1972-1993). ^[110]
• Filiberto Manzo, 66, Mexican Olympic basketball player (1952). ^[111]
• Jon Pertwee, 76, English actor, comedian, cabaret performer and TV presenter, heart attack. ^[112]
• Janez Vidic, 73, Slovene painter and illustrator.

21

• Vladimir Belyakov, 78, Soviet Olympic gymnast (1952). ^[113]
• Paul Delph, 39, American musician.
• Raffaele di Paco, 87, Italian road racing cyclist. ^[114]
• Karl Hoffmann, 81, German Indologist.
• Arvo Huutoniemi, 82, Finnish Olympic discus thrower (1948, 1952). ^[115]
• Fernando Volio Jiménez, 71, Costa Rican politician.
• Lash LaRue, 78, American actor, pulmonary emphysema. ^[116]
• Fritz Ligges, 57, German Olympic equestrian (1964, 1972, 1984), heart attack. ^[117]

22

• Robert Christie, 82, Canadian actor and director.
• Émile Frantz, 86, Luxembourgian Olympic wrestler (1928). ^[118]
• Cuthbert Hurd, 85, American computer scientist and entrepreneur. ^[119]
• Seymour H. Knox III, 70, American sports executive.
• Veikko Lavi, 84, Finnish singer, songwriter and writer. ^[120]
• Maurice Piot, 83, French Olympic fencer (1952). ^[121]
• Rex Rogers, 79, Australian cricketer. ^[122]
• George H. Smith, 73, American writer.
• Wong Peng Soon, 78, Malaysian badminton player, pneumonia.

23

• Abu Ubaidah al-Banshiri, 46, Egyptian al-Qaeda leader, drowned.
• Patrick Cargill, 77, English actor, brain cancer. ^[123]
• Dorothy Hyson, 81, American actress, stroke. ^[124]
• Sim Iness, 65, American Olympic discus thrower (1952). ^[125]
• Evert Karlsson, 75, Swedish ski jumper and Olympian (1948). ^[126]
• Bernhard Klodt, 69, German football player, heart attack. ^[127]
• Kronid Lyubarsky, 62, Soviet dissident, heart attack.
• Tanju Okan, 57, Turkish recording artist and singer, cirrhosis.
• Peter Pasetti, 79, German actor, cancer.
• Yevgeny Rodionov, 19, Russian soldier, execution by beheading.

24

• John Abbott, 90, English actor. ^[128]
• Jorge Bolaños, 51, Ecuadorian football player.
• Harry Campion, 91, British statistician and director.
• Thomas Connolly, 86,United States Navy admiral , aviator, gymnast and Olympic medalist (1932). ^[129]
• José Cuatrecasas, 93, Spanish-American pharmacist and botanist.
• Fred Dhu, 80, Australian rugby league footballer. ^[130]
• Jacob Druckman, 67, American composer, lung cancer. ^[131]
• Enrique Álvarez Félix, 62, Mexican actor, heart attack.
• Charley Hall, 71, American baseball player. ^[132]
• Johan Kraag, 82, President of Suriname.
• Joseph Mitchell, 87, American writer. ^[133]
• Kshitindramohan Naha, 64, Indian geologist and professor.
• Lois Pereiro, 38, Spanish poet and writer, AIDS-related complications.
• Norman René, 45, American director, AIDS-related complications. ^[134]
• Roland Varno, 88, Dutch-American actor and secret agent. ^[135]

25

• Bill Crass, 84, American football player (Chicago Cardinals). ^[136]
• Arch Dickens, 92, Australian rules footballer. ^[137]
• Renzo De Felice, 67, Italian historian. ^[138]
• John Morrison, 1st Baron Margadale, 89, British politician.
• Guy Mazeline, 96, French writer.
• Bradley Nowell, 28, American musician and the lead singer and guitarist of Sublime, opioid overdose.
• Vladimir Ukhov, 72, Russian Olympic racewalker (1952). ^[139]
• Barney Wilen, 59, French saxophonist. ^[140]
• Dimitar Yordanov, 66, Bulgarian football player.

26

• Ole Berntsen, 81, Danish Olympic sailor (1948, 1952, 1956, 1964). ^[141]
• Don Bollweg, 75, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals, New York Yankees, Philadelphia/Kansas City Athletics). ^[142]
• Frank Briante, 91, American football player. ^[143]
• Haika Grossman, 76, Israeli politician and member of Knesset.
• Gerard Hallock, 90, American Olympic ice hockey player (1932). ^[144]
• Stefan Jędrychowski, 86, Polish journalist and communist politician.
• Geraldo de Oliveira, 76, Brazilian Olympic jumper (1948, 1952). ^[145]
• Ovidiu Papadima, 86, Romanian literary critic, folklorist, and essayist. ^[146]
• Milan Ribar, 66, Yugoslav/Croatian football manager.
• Heije Schaper, 89, Dutch lieutenant general of the Royal Netherlands Air Force and politician. ^[147]
• Mike Sharperson, 34, American baseball player (Toronto Blue Jays, Los Angeles Dodgers, Atlanta Braves), accident. ^[148]

27

• George Boolos, 55, American philosopher and mathematical logician, pancreatic cancer. ^[149]
• Pud Brown, 79, American jazz reed player. ^[150]
• Aksel Bonde Hansen, 77, Danish Olympic rower (1948). ^[151]
• Philip B. Healey, 74, American politician. ^[152]
• Els van den Horn, 69, Dutch Olympic diver (1952). ^[153]

28

• Walter Brandi, 68, Italian actor.
• Nirmala Devi, 68, Indian film actress and singer.
• George Kojac, 86, American swimmer and Olympic champion (1928). ^[154]
• Pentti Paatsalo, 63, Finnish Olympic swimmer (1952). ^[155]
• Rollin Prather, 70, Canadian football player. ^[156]
• Jimmy Rowles, 77, American jazz pianist, vocalist, and composer. ^[157]

29

• Jennings Lang, 81, American actor, pneumonia. ^[158]
• Isidro Maiztegui, 90, Argentinian composer.
• Antonín Mrkos, 78, Czech astronomer.
• Robert Nichol, 72, Scottish cricketer. ^[159]
• Hrant Shahinyan, 72, Soviet/Armenian gymnast and Olympian (1952). ^[160]
• Jeremy Sinden, 45, British actor, lung cancer.
• Tamara Toumanova, 77, Russian ballet dancer. ^[161]

30

• John Cameron, Lord Cameron, 96, Scottish judge. ^[162]
• Heather Canning, 63, English actress.
• William Dally, 88, American Olympic rower (1928). ^[163]
• Léon-Étienne Duval, 92, French catholic prelate and cardinal. ^[164]
• François Genoud, 80, Swiss Nazi collaborator, suicide. ^[165]
• John Kahn, 48, American bass guitarist.
• Alo Mattiisen, 35, Estonian composer.
• Arthur "T-Boy" Ross, 47, American singer-songwriter.
• Natividad Vacío, 83, American actor.

31

• Walter C. Beckham, 80, United States Army Air Forces fighter ace and nuclear scientist.
• Don Kerley, 79, Australian rules footballer. ^[166]
• Ton de Leeuw, 69, Dutch composer. ^[167]
• Luciano Lama, 74, Italian politician and trade unionist. ^[168]
• Timothy Leary, 75, American psychologist and writer, prostate cancer. ^[169]
• Thomas Francis Xavier Smith, 67, American politician, cancer. ^[170]

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External links

• List of May 1996 deaths at IMDb