The following is a list of notabledeaths in March 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.

• Marie-Hélène de Rothschild, 68, French socialite.
• Vergílio Ferreira, 80, Portuguese writer, essayist, and professor.^[1]
• David Gebhard, 68, American architectural historian.^[2]
• Khan Abdul Ghani Khan, 82, Pakistani poet, artist, writer and politician.
• Susie Sharp, 88, American jurist andfirst female chief justice of theNorth Carolina Supreme Court.^[3]
• Don Smith, 75, American basketball player (Minneapolis Lakers).^[4]
• Ng Wui, 82, Hong Kong film director, writer and actor.

• Jacobo Majluta Azar, 61, Vice President of the Dominican Republic, lung cancer.
• Célestin Delmer, 89, French football player.
• Dinho, 24, Brazilian singer and songwriter (Mamonas Assassinas), plane crash.
• Naseem Hijazi, 81, Pakistani writer.
• José López Rubio, 92, Spanish film director.^[5]
• Lyle Talbot, 94, American actor, heart failure.^[6]

• Marguerite Duras, 81, French writer and film director, esophageal cancer.^[7]
• Randolph Harding, 81, Canadian politician.
• Walter Kaaden, 76, German engineer.
• John Krol, 85, American catholiccardinal.^[8]
• Léo Malet, 86, French writer.^[9]
• Meyer Schapiro, 91, American historian of Art.^[10]
• Milt Woodard, 84, American sports writer and sport executive.

• Berenger Bradford, 83,British Army officer.^[11]
• Ted Cordner, 77, Australian rules football player.
• Enrico Cucchi, 30, Italian football player, cancer.
• Minnie Pearl, 83, American comedian and country singer, stroke.^[12]
• John Sauer, 70, American gridiron football player, coach, and broadcaster.

• Khondaker Mostaq Ahmad, 78, Bangladeshi politician andPresident of Bangladesh.
• Whit Bissell, 86, American actor (The Magnificent Seven,Creature from the Black Lagoon,The Time Machine),Parkinson's disease.^[13]
• Joshua Compston, 25, British art curator, drugs overdose.^[14]
• Herb Hall, 88, American musician.^[15]
• Galina Kravchenko, 91, Soviet/Russian actress.
• José Santacruz Londoño, 52, Colombian drug trafficker, homicide.
• Pithapuram Nageswara Rao, 65, Indian singer.
• Fritz Huschke von Hanstein, 85, German racecar driver.

• Jack Abel, 68, American comic book artist (Superman,Hulk,The Tomb of Dracula).
• Simon Cadell, 45, British actor (Hi-de-Hi!,Life Without George,Watership Down), lung cancer.^[16]
• Jurandir de Freitas, 55, Brazilian football player.^[17]
• Douglas Jay, Baron Jay, 88, British politician.
• José de Magalhães Pinto, 86, Brazilian lawyer, economist, banker and politician.
• Paula Winslowe, 85, American actress (Our Miss Brooks,The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet,Bambi).
• Zdeněk Škrland, 82, Czechoslovak/Czech canoeist and Olympian.^[18]

• Pinchas Menachem Alter, 69, PolishHasidic rabbi.
• Jacques Bobet, 76, French filmmaker.
• Willie Fraser, 67, Scottish football player.^[19]
• Ferdinand Panke, 73, German water polo player and Olympian.^[20]

• "Mad Jack" Churchill, 89,British Army officer and master archer.
• Bill Graber, 85, Americanpole vaulter and Olympian.^[21]
• Bill Nicholson, 81, American baseball player.^[22]
• Werner Schlichting, 91, German art director.^[23]

• Ronald Ernest Aitchison, 74, Australian physicist and electronics engineer.
• Akhtar-Ul-Iman, 80, IndianUrdu poet and screenwriter.
• Mohammed al-Ghazali, 78, Egyptian Islamic cleric and scholar.^[24]
• George Burns, 100, American comedian and actor (The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show,The Sunshine Boys,Oh, God!),Oscar winner (1976), heart failure.^[25]
• Merle Eugene Curti, 98, American historian.^[26]
• Imre Kovács, 74, Hungarian football player.^[27]
• Alberto Pellegrino, 65, Italian fencer.^[28]
• Richard M. Powers, 75, Americanscience fiction illustrator.^[29]
• Alfredo Scherer, 93,German-Brazilian catholiccardinal.^[30]
• Ollie Walsh, 58, Irishhurler and hurling manager.

• Hoàng Xuân Hãn, 88, Vietnamese professor of mathematics, linguist, and historian.^[31]
• Ross Hunter, 75, American film and television producer, and actor, cancer.^[32]
• Marc de Jonge, 47, French actor, traffic collision.^[33]
• Butch Laswell, 37, American motorcycle stunt rider, motorcycle accident.^[34]
• Gyula Nagy, 71, Hungarian football player and manager.

• Elio Filippo Accrocca, 72, Italian poet, author, and translator.^[35]
• Granville Beynon, 81, Welsh physicist.
• Paul Crossley, 47, English football player, heart attack.
• Vince Edwards, 67, American actor (Ben Casey,The Devil's Brigade,The Killing), pancreatic cancer.^[36]
• Ludwig Fellermaier, 65, German politician.
• Richard G. Folsom, 89, American mechanical engineer.
• Biljana Jovanović, 43, Serbian author, peace activist and feminist.
• Rex E. Lee, 61, American lawyer, academic andSolicitor General of the United States, pancreatic cancer.^[37]
• Charles Oatley, 92, British physicist and electrical engineer.
• Thorleif Olsen, 74, Norwegian football player.^[38]
• Evangeline Walton, 88, American writer.^[39]

• Bob Forte, 73, American gridiron football player.^[40]
• Marte Harell, 89, Austrian actress.^[41]
• Otto Møller Jensen, 55, Danish actor.
• Eigil Knuth, 92, Danish explorer, archaeologist, sculptor and writer.^[42]
• Gyula Kállai, 85, Hungarian politician.^[43]

• Henriette Alimen, 95, French paleontologist and geologist.^[44]
• Hsu Ching-chung, 88, Taiwanese politician.
• Ted Fetter, 89, American lyricist.^[45]
• Lucio Fulci, 68, Italian film director, screenwriter, producer, and actor, diabetes.^[46]
• Sándor Gellér, 70, Hungarian football player.^[47]
• Peer Guldbrandsen, 83, Danish film director.
• Shafi Inamdar, 50, Indian actor.
• Krzysztof Kieślowski, 54, Polish film director and screenwriter (Three Colours trilogy,The Double Life of Veronique,Dekalog), heart attack.^[48]
• Weston La Barre, 84, Americananthropologist.
• Marcelle Mercenier, 75, Belgian piano player.
• Emilie Schenkl, 85, AustrianHindu convert and partner ofIndian nationalistSubhas Chandra Bose.

• Dewi Bebb, 57, Welsh rugby player, broadcaster and journalist.
• Wang Luobin, 82, Chinese musician, cancer.
• Lucille H. McCollough, 90, American politician, complications from a stroke.
• Andreas Münzer, 31, Austrian bodybuilder, organ failure.
• Dean Prater, 37, American gridiron football player, drowned.^[49]
• Maj Sønstevold, 78, Swedish composer.^[50]

• Gad al-Haq, 78, EgyptianGrand Imam of al-Azhar, heart attack.
• Ed Beach, 67, American basketball player.^[51]
• Helen Chadwick, 42, British sculptor, photographer and installation artist, heart attack.^[52]
• Harold Courlander, 87, American anthropologist.^[53]
• Roswell Gilpatric, 89, American lawyer andDeputy Secretary of Defense.^[54]
• Cheng Heng, 80, Cambodian politician.
• Wolfgang Koeppen, 89, German writer.^[55]
• Francis Joseph Murray, 85, American mathematician.^[56]
• Robert Pearce, 88, American wrestler and olympic champion.^[57]
• Olga Rudge, 100, American musician.^[58]

• Charlie Barnett, 41, American actor (Miami Vice) and comedian,AIDS-related complications.
• Ray S. Cline, 77, American government official,Alzheimer's disease.^[59]
• Des Fothergill, 75, Australian rules football player and cricket player.
• David Gordon, 51, American economist.^[60]
• Evan Green, 65, Australian journalist.
• Dennis Jennings, 85, English football player.^[61]

• Anil Chatterjee, 66, Indian actor.^[62]
• René Clément, 82, French film director and screenwriter.^[63]
• Thomas O. Enders, 64, American diplomat.^[64]
• Elsa Respighi, 101, Italian composer.^[65]
• Nils Sköld, 74,Swedish Army lieutenant-general.
• Terry Stafford, 54, American singer and songwriter, organ dysfunction.

• Angelico Chavez, 85, AmericanFriar Minor,priest, historian, author, poet and painter.^[66]
• Odysseas Elytis, 84, Greek poet and art critic, heart attack.^[67]
• Jacquetta Hawkes, 85, British archaeologist.^[68]
• Enrique Jordá, 84, Spanish-American conductor.^[69]
• Maria Teresa Pelegrí i Marimón, 88, Spanish composer.^[70]
• Niní Marshall, 92, Argentine comedian.
• Robert van der Veen, 89, Dutch field hockey player.^[71]
• Shin Yung-kyoo, 53, North Korean football player.

• Virginia Henderson, 98, American nurse, researcher, and author.^[72]
• Chen Jingrun, 62, Chinese mathematician, pneumonia.
• W. H. Murray, 83, Scottish mountaineer and writer.
• Colin Pittendrigh, 77, British-Americanchronobiologist.
• Alan Ridout, 61, British composer and teacher.^[73]
• Walter S. Sullivan, 78, American science reporter and author.^[74]
• Lise Østergaard, 71, Danish psychologist and minister.

• Claude Bourdet, 86, French politician and writer.^[75]
• Hans Conzett, 80, Swiss publisher and politician.
• Albert Ganzenmüller, 91, German politician.^[76]
• Jim Pendleton, 72, American baseball player.^[77]

• Richard Leslie Hill, 95, English civil servant and historian.^[78]
• Robert B. Mautz, 81, American lawyer, law professor, and university administrator.
• Sverre Sørsdal, 95, Norwegian boxer.^[79]
• Nikolai Usenko, 71, RussianRyadovoy andHero of the Soviet Union for hisactions during WWII.

• Ron Hayward, 78, British politician.
• Claude Mauriac, 81, French writer.^[80]
• Don Murray, 50, American drummer, complications followingulcer surgery.
• Václav Nelhýbel, 76, Czech composer.^[81]
• Robert F. Overmyer, 59, American test pilot and astronaut, aviation accident.^[82]
• Pete Whisenant, 66, American baseball player.^[83]
• Billy Williamson, 71, AmericanRock and roll musician.^[84]

• Roderic H. Davison, 78, American historian of the Middle East.
• François Fontaine, 78, French civil servant and writer.^[85]
• Margit Manstad, 93, Swedish actress.
• Pete Martin, 76, Canadian football player.
• J. D. "Jay" Miller, 73, American musician.^[86]
• Jacques Toja, 66, French actor, cancer.^[87]

• Lola Beltrán, 64, Mexican singer, actress, and television presenter, pulmonary embolism.^[88]
• Idilio Cei, 58, Italian football player.
• John Gerstner, 81, American theologian.^[89]
• Étienne Hajdú, 88, French and Hungarian sculptor.^[90]
• Liam O'Brien, 83, American screenwriter and television producer, heart attack.^[91]
• Ray Pepper, 90, American baseball player.^[92]
• Jean-Claude Piumi, 55, French football player.
• Jerry Robertson, 52, American baseball player, car accident.^[93]
• Spartaco Schergat, 75, Italian militaryfrogman during World War II.
• Sarah Thomasson, 70, Swedish alpine skier.^[94]

• Mary Lavin, 83, Irish writer.^[95]
• Marvin Albert, 72, American author.^[96]
• Dioscoro S. Rabor, 84, Filipinoornithologist,zoologist, and conservationist.
• John Snagge, 91, British reporter, esophageal cancer.

• Robert Bradshaw, 41, American figure skater.
• William Harold Collins, 74, American gridiron football player.
• Joseph Kallinger, 60, American serial killer, heart failure.^[97]
• Edmund Muskie, 81, American statesman, political leader, andU.S. Secretary of State, heart failure.^[98]
• David Packard, 83, American electrical engineer and co-founder, withBill Hewlett, ofHewlett-Packard.^[99]
• Käte Strobel, 88, German politician.^[100]
• Elmer Ward, 83, American gridiron football player.^[101]

• Seán Browne, 79, Irish politician.
• Bob Chambers, 90, Canadian artist.
• Ignace Kowalczyk, 82, French football player.
• André Lefevere, 50, Belgian translator and linguist,leukemia.
• Samuel Schoenbaum, 69, AmericanShakespearean biographer and scholar, prostate cancer.^[102]
• Charlie Timmons, 79, American gridiron football player.^[103]

• Hans Blumenberg, 75, German philosopher and intellectual historian.^[104]
• Peter Dombrovskis, 51, Australian photographer, heart attack.^[105]
• Edith Fowke, 82, Canadian folklorist.^[106]
• Shin Kanemaru, 81, Japanese politician, stroke.^[107]
• Barbara McLean, 92, American film editor.
• Siegfried Mynhardt, 90, South African actor.
• Donovan Parks, 24, American murder victim.
• Don Ross, 81, American baseball player.^[108]

• Frank Daniel, 69, Czech director, scriptwriter and university educator, heart attack.^[109]
• Bill Goldsworthy, 51, Canadian ice hockey player,AIDS-related complications.^[110]
• Ivan Kalita, 69, Soviet/Russian equestrian and Olympic champion.^[111]
• Juan Negrón, 66, Puerto RicanUS Army soldier and recipient of theMedal of Honor.
• Gordon Pask, 67, British psychologist.
• Helmut von Bockelberg, 84, German politician and tax advisor.

• Frederick Miller, 84, Britishpaediatrician.
• Richard Kress, 71, German football player.^[112]
• Ryoei Saito, 79, Japanese businessman.
• Bjørn Stiler, 84, Danish racing cyclist and Olympian.^[113]

• Dario Bellezza, 51, Italian poet, author and playwright,AIDS-related complications.^[114]
• Nino Borsari, 84, Italian cyclist.^[115]
• Dante Giacosa, 91, Italian automobile designer and engineer.^[116]
• Delia Magaña, 93, Mexican actress, dancer, and singer, pneumonia.
• Jeffrey Lee Pierce, 37, American singer, songwriter, guitarist and author, cerebral hemorrhage.^[117]

• List of March 1996 deaths atIMDb

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