The following is a list of notabledeaths in November 1996.

Entries for each day are listedalphabetically 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.

• Maati Bouabid, 68,Prime Minister of Morocco.
• Sid Cann, 85, English football player and manager.^[1]
• Lycette Darsonval, 84, French dancer.^[2]
• Edgardo Enríquez, 84, Chilean physician, academic and politician.
• Junius Richard Jayewardene, 90,President of Sri Lanka, colon cancer.^[3]
• William Johnstone, 88, American actor.
• Clyde Lynn, 60, American racing driver.
• Eric Reissner, 83, German-American civil engineer and mathematician.^[4]

• Roger Carré, 75, French footballer.^[5]
• Eva Cassidy, 33, American singer and guitarist,melanoma.^[6]
• John G. Crommelin, 94, American naval officer andwhite supremacist politician.^[7]
• Joseph Lambert Eustace, 88, Governor-General of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
• Pierre Grimal, 83, French classical philologist.^[8]
• Kang Hyo-shil, 64, South Korean actress.
• Yan Jici, 95, Chinese physicist and politician.
• Shanti Swaroop Rana, 47, Indian military officer,killed in action.
• Laurence L. Sloss, 83, American geologist.
• Arnie Tuadles, 40, Filipino basketball player, shot.

• Jean-Bedel Bokassa, 75, 2ndPresident of the Central African Republic andEmperor of Central Africa, heart attack.^[9]
• William Clarke, 45, Americanblues harmonica player and singer.^[10]
• Ray Mansfield, 55, American gridiron football player (Philadelphia Eagles,Pittsburgh Steelers), heart attack.^[11]
• Marian Plezia, 79, Polish historian.^[12]
• Barry Porter, 57, British politician, cancer.
• Yevhen Shcherban, 50, Ukrainian businessman and politician, assassinated, homicide.
• Isaac M. Taylor, 75, American medical academic, pneumonia.^[13]
• Abdullah Çatlı, 40, Turkish nationalist and leader of theGrey Wolves, traffic accident.

• T. Vincent Learson, 84, American chairman and chief executive officer ofIBM.^[14]
• Ray Linn, 76, Americanjazz trumpeter.
• Konstantin Loktev, 63, Russian ice hockey player, liver cirrhosis.^[15]
• Gottlieb Weber, 86, Swiss cyclist.^[16]

• Bunny Breckinridge, 93, American actor anddrag queen.^[17]
• Allen Broussard, 67, American judge.^[18]
• Eddie Harris, 62, American jazz musician, congestive heart failure.^[19]
• Joaquín Monserrat, 75, Spanish comedian and host of children programs.^[20]
• Wilhelm Sturm, 56, German football player.^[21]
• John Dragon Young, 47,Hong Kong-American historian and politician.

• Harry Brophy, 80, English football player.
• Vadim Ivanov, 53, Russian football player Russian football player and manager.
• Houn Jiyu-Kennett, 72, BritishRōshi.^[22]
• Dragan Kresoja, 50, Serbian film director.
• Tommy Lawton, 77, English football player and manager,pneumonia.^[23]
• Richard Nelson, 57, American theatrical lighting designer.^[24]
• Mario Savio, 53, American activist andBerkeleyFree Speech Movement member, heart problems.^[25]

• Claude Ake, 57, Nigerian political scientist,plane crash.^[26]
• Beauford T. Anderson, 74,United States Army soldier and recipient of theMedal of Honor.
• Feliciano Centurión, 34, Paraguayan visual artist,AIDS-related complications.
• Bill Chisholm, 87, American athletics competitor.^[27]
• Carmell Jones, 60, Americanjazz trumpet player, heart failure.^[28]
• Hans Klodt, 82, German football player.^[29]
• Sverre Kolterud, 88, Norwegian Nordic combined skier.^[30]
• Salvatore Lauricella, 74, Italian politician and mayor.
• Bosh Pritchard, 77, AmericanNational Football League football player.^[31]
• Jaja Wachuku, 78, Nigerian prince, politician, diplomat andPan-Africanist.

• Andrés Rivero Agüero, 91, Cuban politician.
• Laurence Baxter, 42, English statistician.
• Peter Fowler, 73, British physicist.^[32]
• Johannes Frömming, 86, Germanharness racing driver and trainer.^[33]
• Franklin Gritts, 81, Native American painter and commercial artist.
• Mathews I, 89, Indian Supreme Primate of theMalankara Orthodox Syrian Church.^[34]
• Tan Onuma, 78, Japanese writer.
• Sydney Selwyn, 62, British physician and medical scientist, multiple system atrophy.

• Gudmundur Arnlaugsson, 83, Icelandicchess player.
• Joe Ghiz, 51, Canadian lawyer and politician, cancer.
• Michel Mitrani, 66, French film director and screenwriter.^[35]
• Roger Makins, 1st Baron Sherfield, 92, British diplomat.^[36]
• Alvin Straight, 76, American lawn mower traveler.
• Yoshimi Ueda, 90, Japanese basketball player and administrator.

• Imam Alimsultanov, 39, Popular Chechen bard and folk singer, homicide.
• Jack Evans, 68, Canadian ice hockey player and coach,prostate cancer.^[37]
• Yaki Kadafi, 19, American rapper (Outlawz,Dramacydal), shot.^[38]
• Richard Mayo, 94,American Army general and athlete.
• Marjorie Proops, 85, British journalist.^[39]
• Manik Varma, 70, Indian classical singer.
• Gucheng Zhou, 98, Chinese politician.

• Janice Adair, 91, British film actress.
• Jo Baker, 48, American singer and songwriter, liver disease.^[40]
• Eugene Davy, 92, Irish rugby union football player and coach.
• Curt Göransson, 87, Swedish general and commander of the Army.
• Lum Harris, 81, American baseball player, coach, manager, and scout, complications ofdiabetes.^[41]
• Paul J. F. Lusaka, 61, Zambian politician and diplomat.
• Gober Sosebee, 81, American racecar driver, agriculture accident.^[42]

• Thomas Miller Bell, 73, Canadian politician, lawyer and barrister.
• Don Kenyon, 72, English cricket player.
• Le Nguyen Khang, 65, South Vietnamese commander.
• Peter Leeds, 79, American actor, cancer.^[43]
• Cordell Reagon, 53, American singer and activist, homicide.^[44]
• Tom Reid, 70, Irish rugby player.
• Vytautas Žalakevičius, 66, Lithuanian film director and writer.^[45]

• Bill Doggett, 80, Americanjazz andR&B pianist and organist, heart attack.^[46]
• June Gale, 85, American actress,pneumonia.^[47]
• James Galloway, 68, American film editor.
• Alma Kitchell, American concert singer.^[48]
• Katja Medbøe, 50, Norwegian actress, suicide.
• Swami Rama, Indian yoga guru.
• Bobbie Vaile, 37, Australian astronomer, brain cancer.

• Jim Baxes, 68, AmericanMajor League Baseball player (Los Angeles Dodgers,Cleveland Indians).^[49]
• Joseph Bernardin, 68, American Cardinal of the Catholic Church,pancreatic cancer.^[50]
• Nell Blaine, 74, American landscape painter and watercolorist.^[51]
• Virginia Cherrill, 88, American actress, stroke.^[52]
• Giuliano Giuliani, 38, Italian football player, complications ofAIDS.
• Nodar Gvakhariya, 64, Soviet water polo player.
• Meridel Le Sueur, 96, American writer.^[53]
• Derek Marlowe, 58, English playwright, novelist, and painter.
• Elman Service, 81, American anthropologist.^[54]
• Jacomina van den Berg, 86, Dutch gymnast and Olympian.^[55]

• William Boddington, 85, American field hockey player and Olympian.^[56]
• Ellis Wayne Felker, 48, American man convicted of murder, execution byelectric chair.^[57]
• Henri Friedlaender, 92, Israeli typographer and book designer.^[58]
• William E. Hall, 83,United States Naval Reserve officer and recipient of theMedal of Honor.
• Alger Hiss, 92, American State Department official and alleged spy.^[59]
• John J. Lenzini, Jr., 49, American horse trainer inThoroughbredflat racing.
• Lila Shanley, 86, American stuntwoman, actress, and athlete, heart failure.
• Ahmed Zaki, 65, Prime Minister of the Maldives.

• Reginald Bevins, 88, British politician.
• Dondinho, 79, Brazilian football player and manager.
• Joe Gonzales, 81, AmericanMajor League Baseball player.^[60]
• Jens Peter Hansen, 69, Danish football player.
• Masud Karim, 60, Bangladeshi lyricist.
• Liam Naughten, 52, IrishFine Gael politician, traffic accident.
• Jack Popplewell, 85, English writer and playwright.
• Benjamin Arthur Quarles, 92, American historian, educator, and writer, heart attack.^[61]
• Vasil Spasov, 76, Bulgarian football player and manager.^[62]

• Michele Abruzzo, 91, Italian actor.^[63]
• Gus Kyle, 73, Canadian ice hockey player.^[64]
• Karl-Heinz Moehle, 86, GermanU-boat commander during World War II.
• Huo Shilian, 87, Chinese politician.
• Kurt von Ruffin, 95, German actor and opera singer.

• Antonije Abramović, 77, Archbishop of theMontenegrin Orthodox Church.
• Bob Bearpark, 53, Canadian soccer coach.
• Zinovy Gerdt, 80, Soviet/Russian actor.
• Douglas Guest, 80, British organist and conductor.^[65]
• Charles Hare, 81, British tennis player.
• Raymond Harvey, 76,United States Army lieutenant colonel and recipient of theMedal of Honor.
• James Stuart Holden, 82, American attorney and judge.
• Evelyn Hooker, 89, American psychologist.^[66]
• Greer Lankton, 38, American artist and doll maker, drug overdose.^[67]
• Charlie Neal, 65, American baseball player, heart failure.^[68]
• John Vassall, 72, Britishcivil servant and spy, heart attack.^[69]
• Étienne Wolff, 92, Frenchbiologist.
• Zhu Zuxiang, 80, Chinese educator.

• Gabriel Alonso, 73, Spanish football player.^[70]
• Harry Anderson, 90, American illustrator.^[71]
• Grace Bates, 82, American mathematician.^[72]
• Milton Carpenter, 91, American politician.
• Phil Hankinson, 45, American basketball player, suicide.^[73]
• Nicole Hassler, 55, French figure skater and Olympian.^[74]
• Véra Korène, 95, Russian-French actress and singer.

• Bert Achong, 67,Trinidadian and Tobagonian scientist, brain tumor.
• Jens Boyesen, 76, Norwegian diplomat and politician.
• Danny Dare, 91, American film director and choreographer.^[75]
• Liam Dowling, 65, Irish hurler.
• Gustl Gstettenbaur, 82, German actor.^[76]
• Bill Sayles, 79, American baseball player.^[77]
• Franciszek Strynkiewicz, 103, Polish sculptor.
• Bill Vernon, 59, American radio personality.

• Syed Mohammed Mukhtar Ashraf, IndianSufi saint, spiritual leader and islamic scholar.
• Sandro Continenza, 76, Italian screenwriter.^[78]
• Chuck Howard, 63, American television executive, and a pioneer in television sports broadcasting, brain cancer.^[79]
• Elmo Langley, 68, AmericanNASCAR driver and owner, heart attack.^[80]
• Liu Pang-yu, 53, Taiwanese politician, murdered.
• Bernard Rose, 80, British organist, soldier, and academic.^[81]
• Abdus Salam, 70, Pakistani physicist,Nobel Prize laureate, progressive supranuclear palsy.^[82]

• Stephanie Bachelor, 84, American film actress.
• Peter Barbour, 71, Australian intelligence officer and diplomat.
• Garrett Birkhoff, 85, American mathematician.^[83]
• Ray Blanton, 66, American businessman and politician.
• Walter Boos, 68, German film editor and director.^[84]
• María Casares, 74, Spanish-French actress,colon cancer.^[85]
• Willy Derboven, 57, Belgian road bicycle racer.^[86]
• Terence Donovan, 60, English photographer and film director, suicide.^[87]
• Robert Jaulin, 68, French ethnologist.^[88]
• Mark Lenard, 72, American actor (Star Trek), multiple myeloma.^[89]
• Adeniran Ogunsanya, 78, Nigerian lawyer and politician.
• Edmund Teske, 85, American photographer.^[90]

• Mohamed Amin, 53, Kenyan photojournalist,plane crash.^[91]
• Jean-Paul Elkann, 74, French banker.^[92]
• Ken Lane, 83, American musician.^[93]
• Charlotte Pierce, 92, American actress.
• Art Porter, Jr., 35, American jazz saxophonist, drowned.^[94]
• Eve Rimmer, 59, New Zealand paralympic athlete.
• Idries Shah, 72, IndianSufi writer and teacher.^[95]
• Tim Wilson, 42, American gridiron football player.^[96]

• Loren Bain, 74, American baseball player.^[97]
• Edison Denisov, 67, Russian Soviet composer.^[98]
• Paulos Mar Gregorios, 74, Indian Metropolitan.
• William Johnstone, 88, American actor.
• Tupua Leupena, 74, Governor-General ofTuvalu.
• Sorley MacLean, 85,Scottish Gaelic poet.^[99]
• Louis-Frédéric Nussbaum, 73, French Indologist.^[100]
• Michael O'Hehir, 76, Irish sports commentator and journalist.
• Titus Ozon, 69, Romanian football player and manager.^[101]

• Ricardo López Aranda, 61, Spanish playwright.^[102]
• Don Dobie, 69, Australian politician.
• Hans Jura, 75, Austrian cinematographer.
• Margaret Rioch, 89, American psychotherapist.^[103]
• Charles Stokes, 94, American politician, jurist, and lawyer, cancer.^[104]

• Michael Bentine, 74, British comedian, prostate cancer.
• Norman Le Brocq, 74, British communist, trade union activist, and resistance leader during World War II.
• Isabella Henriette van Eeghen, 83, Dutch historian.^[105]
• Guido Gratton, 64, Italian football player.^[106]
• Joan Hammond, 84, Australian operatic soprano.^[107]
• Philippe Hirschhorn, 50, Latvian violinist, brain cancer.^[108]
• Elrey Borge Jeppesen, 89, American aviation pioneer.^[109]
• Bill McElwain, 93, American gridiron football player and coach.^[110]
• Narinder Singh Randhawa, 69, Indian agricultural scientist and writer.
• Paul Rand, 82, American graphic designer, cancer.^[111]

• Balot, 70, Filipino comedian and actor, complications fromdiabetes.
• Nicholas L. Bissell, Jr., 49, American attorney and fraudster, suicide.^[112]
• Aloysio Borges, 78, Brazilian modern pentathlete.^[113]
• Vladimir Firm, 73, Croatian football player.
• Jack Penn, 87, South African plastic surgeon, sculptor and author.

• Charles Bressler, 70, American tenor.^[114]
• Harlan Hanson, 71, American educator and director of theAdvanced Placement Program.^[115]
• Robert J. McCloskey, 74, American diplomat.^[116]
• John Jaffurs, 73, American football player and coach.^[117]
• Don McNeill, 78, American tennis champion.^[118]
• Anna Pollak, 84, English opera singer.^[119]
• Donald H. Reed Jr., 63, American politician.^[120]

• Dick Bilda, 77, American gridiron football player.^[121]
• Jordan Cronenweth, 61, American cinematographer (Blade Runner,Peggy Sue Got Married,Altered States),Parkinson's disease.^[122]
• Dan Flavin, 63, American minimalist artist,diabetes, diabetes.^[123]
• Denis Jenkinson, 75, Britishmotorsports journalist.
• Dragoslav Srejović, 65, Serbian archaeologist, cultural anthropologist and historian.^[124]
• Bob Steuber, 75, American gridiron football player.^[125]

• Ted Petoskey, 85, American athlete, coach in three sports andathletic director.
• Kacem Slimani, 48, Moroccan football player.
• Max Thompson, 74,United States Army soldier and recipient of theMedal of Honor.
• Tiny Tim, 64, American musician ("Tiptoe Through the Tulips", "Livin' in the Sunlight, Lovin' in the Moonlight"), heart attack.^[126]
• Peng Wan-ru, 47, Taiwanese politician, murder, homicide.
• John Williamson, 45, American basketball player,kidney failure.^[127]

• List of November 1996 deaths atIMDb

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