The following is a list of notable deaths in April 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.
April 1996
1
Masroor Anwar, 51, Indian poet, lyricist and screenwriter. Alexandru Diordiță, 84, Soviet/Moldovan politician. Myroslav Dumanskyi, 66, Ukrainian football player. Jean Le Moyne, 83, Canadian politician. John McSherry, 51, American baseball umpire, heart attack. Alfredo Nobre da Costa, 72, Portuguese politician. Léon Pétillon, 92, Belgian politician.
2
Jean Elizabeth Hampton, 41, American political philosopher and author. Lindsay Hartwig, 76, Australian politician. Ian Mitchell, 49, Scottish football player. Antonio Ortiz Ramírez, 88, Spanish anarcho-syndicalist and anarchist.
3
Ron Brown, 54, American government official, aircraft crash. Frank Doyle, 78, American comic book writer (Archie), cancer. Herk Harvey, 71, American actor and director, pancreatic cancer. Jo Privat, 76, French musician, cancer. Alphonse James Schladweiler, 93, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. Carl Stokes, 68, American politician and diplomat, esophageal cancer.
4
Brian Abel-Smith, 69, British economist. Barney Ewell, 78, American track and field athlete and Olympic champion. Zita Perczel, 77, Hungarian actress. Winifred Shotter, 91, British actress.
5
Monika Dannemann, 50, German figure skater and painter, suicide. Gerry L'Estrange, 78, Irish politician. Charlene Holt, 67, American actress (El Dorado). Jac Maris, 96, Dutch sculptor. Ahmed Mekkawi, 73, Egyptian football player. Herta Worell, 83, German actress.
6
John D. Bulkeley, 84, United States Navy vice admiral and Medal of Honor recipient. Ester Carloni, 98, Italian actress. Greer Garson, 91, British-American actress (Mrs. Miniver, Blossoms in the Dust, Madame Curie), Oscar winner (1943), heart failure. Sterling M. McMurrin, 82, American theologian.
7
Colleen Clifford, 97, Australian actress. Georges Géret, 71, French film actor, cancer. Berkely Mather, 87, British writer. Yelena Mazanik, 82, Soviet/Belarus partisan who assassinated Nazi official Wilhelm Kube.
8
Donald Adams, 67, English opera singer and actor, brain cancer. John Hudson, 77, American actor (Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, The Screaming Skull, G.I. Blues). George W. Jenkins, 88, American businessman and philanthropist. Ben Johnson, 77, American actor (The Last Picture Show, The Wild Bunch, The Sugarland Express), Oscar winner (1972), heart attack. León Klimovsky, 89, Argentine film director, screenwriter and actor. Petko Sirakov, 67, Bulgarian wrestler. Agron Sulaj, 44, Albanian football player and. José Valdivieso, 74, Argentine football player and manager. Petro Voinovsky, 82, Ukrainian nationalist. Mick Young, 59, Australian politician.
9
Sandy Becker, 74, American announcer, actor, and comedian. Richard Condon, 81, American political novelist. Paul Leder, 70, American actor and film director, lung cancer. Otto Licha, 83, Austrian handball player. James Rouse, 81, American businessman and founder of The Rouse Company.
10
Moshe Davis, 80, American rabbi. Walter Harding, 79, American scholar and professor of English literature. Herman Pines, 94, Russian-American chemist. Jack Wilkinson, 64, English football player.
11
Billy Anderson, 55, American gridiron football player (Tennessee Titans), ALS. Hans Beck, 84, Norwegian ski jumper. Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet, 89, French businessman and publicist. Trygve Brodahl, 90, Norwegian cross country skier. Mel Hill, 82, Canadian ice hockey player. Wanda McKay, 80, American actor and model.
12
Antonio Capua, 90, Italian politician. Helmut Krone, 70, American art director. Marthe Robert, 82, French writer. Igor Ternov, 74, Russian physicist.
13
C. Alfred "Chief" Anderson, 89, American aviator. George Mackay Brown, 74, Scottish poet, author and dramatist. James Burke, 64, American mobster and Lucchese crime family associate, lung cancer. D'Arcy Coulson, 88, Canadian ice hockey player. Vjekoslav Kaleb, 90, Croatian writer. Denis Sargan, 71, British econometrician.