The following is a list of notable deaths in September 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.
September 1996
1
Jimmy Duncanson, 76, Scottish football player. Vagn Holmboe, 86, Danish composer and teacher. Andrew Hughes, 88, Turkish-Japanese film actor and business executive. Karl Kehrle, 98, German-British Benedictine monk and bee breeding authority. Ion Oblemenco, 51, Romanian football striker, heart attack. Nyi Pu, 95, Burmese actor and film director. Hugo Scheltema, 78, Dutch diplomat and ambassador. Ljuba Welitsch, 83, Bulgarian singer.
2
André Chastagnol, 76, French historian. Karl Frenzel, 85, German Nazi war criminal. Georgi Georgiev-Getz, 69, Bulgarian film and stage actor, stroke. Paddy Clift, 43, Zimbabwean cricket player, bone marrow cancer. Charles Kirbo, 79, American lawyer and longtime advisor to Jimmy Carter. Wes Livengood, 86, American baseball player, scout and manager. Otto Luening, 96, German-American composer and conductor. Aleksandr Markin, 46, Soviet football player, accident. Aldo Montano, 85, Italian fencer.
3
Veniamin Basner, 71, Soviet/Russian composer. Robert Brown, 75, English politician, born 1921. Walter Forster, 79, Brazilian actor, heart attack. Emily Kngwarreye, 86, Aboriginal Australian artist from Utopia, Northern Territory. Valeri Kravchenko, 57, Soviet/Russian volleyball player. Julian Amery, Baron Amery of Lustleigh, 77, British politician. Og Mandino, 72, American author. Alba Roballo, 88, Uruguayan lawyer, poet, and politician. Hugh Torney, 42, Irish National Liberation Army paramilitary leader, shot. Edward Turkington, 97, American rugby union player.
4
Victor Aaron, 39, American actor (Geronimo: An American Legend, King of the Hill, Sunchaser), traffic collision. Joan Clarke, 79, English cryptanalyst and numismatist. Babe Dahlgren, 84, American baseball player. Ilus W. Davis, 79, American mayor. George Huebner, 85, American executive engineer (Chrysler Corporation), pulmonary edema. Jeanne Juilla, 86, French model and actress. Bill MacPhail, 76, American television executive. Julio Musimessi, 72, Argentine football player. Wee Willie Smith, 86, American football player.
5
Leonard Katzman, 69, American film and television producer, writer and director, heart attack. Anthony Mendleson, 81, British costume designer. Anselm Strauss, 79, American medical sociologist. Clem Thomas, 67, Welsh rugby player. John White, 71, Canadian politician. Misa Yamamura, 62, Japanese novelist and a mystery writer, heart failure.
6
Ginette Martenot, 94, French musician. Barney McCosky, 79, American Major League Baseball player. Darío Espina Pérez, 75, Cuban banker, lawyer, and writer. Salman Shah, 24, Bangladeshi actor, suicide. Daniel Shanks, 79, American mathematician. Ester Soré, 81, Chilean singer, Diabetic coma. Michael Torrence, 35, American serial killer, execution by lethal injection. Douglas Franklin Wright, 56, American serial killer, execution by lethal injection.
7
Bibi Besch, 54, Austrian-American actress (Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Steel Magnolias, Tremors), breast cancer. Joseph Biroc, 93, American cinematographer (The Towering Inferno, It's a Wonderful Life, Airplane!), Oscar winner (1975). Arda Bowser, 97, American gridiron football player. Niccolò Castiglioni, 64, Italian musician. Bruno Corbucci, 64, Italian film director. Arthur Sherwood Flemming, 91, American government official, renal failure. Keith Forbes, 90, Australian rules football player. Gilda, 34, Argentine singer, traffic collision. Willy Miranda, 70, Cuban-American baseball player. Vyacheslav Solovyov, 71, Soviet/Russian football player and coach.
8
Semyon Aranovich, 62, Soviet/Russian film director, cancer. Eyre de Lanux, 102, American artist, writer, and art deco designer. Onib Olmedo, 59, Filipino painter. Jacques Schmidt, 63, French costume designer.
9
Raúl Calvo, 79, Argentinian basketball player. Harry Hanebrink, 68, American baseball player, aneurysm. Shiva Nath Katju, 86, Indian lawyer, judge and an Indian National Congress politician. Ruggero Mastroianni, 66, Italian film editor, heart attack. Bill Monroe, 84, American "father of bluegrass" music, stroke. Robert Nisbet, 82, American sociologist. John W. Tuthill, 85, American diplomat.