Famous Deaths for October 1996
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Months in 1996: January February March April May June July August September November December
Deaths 1 - 105 of 105
1st - Joonas Kokkonen, composer, dies at 74
1st - Patrick McGeown, politician, dies at 40
2nd - Andrey Lukanov, PM of Bulgaria (1990), assassinated at 58
2nd - Frideswide Frances Emma Knight, musician/socialist, dies at 85
2nd - Ivan Mark Waller, mountaineer, dies at 89
2nd - Robert Bourassa, PM of province of Quebec (1970-76, 85-93), dies at 63
2nd - Ronald John Bilsland Colville, businessman, dies at 79
2nd - Sybil Marion Rosenfeld, theatre historian, dies at 93
3rd - Denis Frank Owen, Natural historian, dies at 65
3rd - Eustace Wenworth Roskill, law lord, dies at 85
3rd - Tom ap Rees, botanist, dies at 65
3rd - Tony Parker, oral historian, dies at 73
4th - Martyn Harris, journalist, dies at 43
4th - Silvio Piola, footballer, dies at 83
4th - Tim N Gidal Gidalewitsch, photojournalist, dies at 87
5th - Catherine Elizabeth Pennington, personal assistant, dies at 77
5th - Seymour Cray, computer designer, dies in auto accident at 71
6th - Martyn Taylor, teacher/campaigner, dies at 57
6th - Ted Bessell, director/actor (That Girl), dies of an aneurism at 61
7th - Charles Wegg Solicitor-Prosser, dies at 86
8th - Geoffrey Finsberg, politician, dies at 70
8th - Harold Watkins Shaw, musicologist, dies at 85
8th - Joseph Roy George Ralston, pilot, dies at 81
8th - Susan Gautier TV producer-Smith, dies at 33
8th - William Prince, actor (Ken Baxter-Another World), dies at 83
9th - Alan Charles Downes, cameraman, dies at 58
9th - Harvey Vernon, actor (Jasper-Carter Country), dies at 69
9th - Nigel Thomas Loveridge Fisher, politician, dies at 83
9th - Richard Clarkson, aerodynamicist, dies at 94
10th - Dick Pickering, trade unionist, dies at 54
10th - Hugh Stirling Mackenzie, submariner, dies at 83
10th - John Hillaby, writer/traveller, dies at 79
10th - Peter Aldersley, actor/disc jockey, dies at 72
10th - Siddig El Nigoumi, ceramicist, dies at 65
11th - Arthur Walter Lucas, picture restorer, dies at 80
11th - Edith Tilton Penrose, economist, dies at 81
11th - Johnny Costa, jazz pianist (Mr Rogers), dies at 74
11th - Keith Boyce, cricketer (West Indian all-rounder 1969-76), dies
11th - Ken Boyce, cricketer, dies at 23
11th - Terry Patchett, politician, dies at 56
11th - William Vickrey, economist, dies at 82
11th - Lars Ahlfors, Finnish mathematician (b. 1907)
12th - David Gilroy Bevan, politician, dies at 86
12th - Jack Robertson, cricketer (Midsex & Eng open bat 11 Tests), dies at 79
12th - Pavel Alexandrovich Solovyov, aero-engine designer, dies at 79
12th - Trevor Illtyd williams, scientific writer, dies at 75
12th - Vernon Elliott, musician/composer, dies at 84
13th - Albert Hughes Williams, teacher/historian, dies at 89
13th - Beryl Reid, actress (Yellowbeard, Psychomania), dies at 76
13th - Henri Nannen, journalist, dies at 82
13th - Rene Lacoste, tennis player, dies at 92
14th - Laura La Plante, screen actress (Show Boat, Scandal), dies at 91
14th - William John Raff Hooper, cartoonist, dies at 80
15th - Bernard Frank, oriental scholar/writer, dies at 69
16th - Anthony Griffin, sailor, dies at 75
16th - Eric Lawson Malpass, writer, dies at 85
16th - Ismond Rosen, psychoanalyst/artist, dies at 82
16th - James Wild, music teacher, dies at 68
16th - Jason Bernard, actor (judge-Liar Liar), dies of heart attack at 58
17th - Berthold Goldschmidt, composer/conductor, dies at 93
17th - Christopher Acland, musician, dies at 30
18th - Guiseppe Panini, industrialist, dies at 71
18th - Hugh Willatt, solicitor/public servant, dies at 91
19th - Frank Neville Hosband Robinson, physicist, dies at 71
19th - Oliver Charles Anderson, novelist, dies at 84
20th - Alfred William Bill Bedford, test Pilot, dies at 75
20th - Mary Tuck, social researcher/civil servant, dies at 68
21st - Abdelhamid Benhadugah, novelist, dies at 71
21st - Eric Halsall, sheepdog trial commentator, dies at 76
21st - George Houston, land economist, dies at 74
21st - Georgios Zoitakis, leader of Greece (1967-72), dies
21st - Robert O'Neill Crossman, politician, dies at 49
21st - Wang Li, politician, dies at 78
22nd - Charles Edward Pevensey Tennant, aristocrat, dies at 39
22nd - John Bauldie, music journalist/Dylanologist, dies at 47
22nd - Matthew Harding, businessman/football supporter, dies at 42
23rd - Alexander Kelly, pianist/teacher, dies at 67
23rd - Diana Trilling, writer, dies at 91
23rd - Lin Onus, artist, dies at 47
23rd - Ronald Alfred Gardyne "Rags" Butler, sailor, dies at 68
24th - Arthur Axmann, head of Hitler Youths in (1940-45), dies at 83
24th - Bruce Matthews, newspaper executive, dies at 71
24th - Hubert Miles Gladwyn Jebb, diplomat, dies at 96
24th - Roderick Barclay, diplomat, dies at 87
24th - Sid Pye, drummer, dies at 55
25th - Eugene Polyakov, dancer, dies at 95
26th - Gordon Scarrott, engineer, dies at 80
26th - Hans Walter Kosterliz, biochemist, dies at 93
26th - Sylvia Mary Paget Chancellor, philanthropist, dies at 95
27th - Belinda Quirey, dance historian/teacher, dies at 84
27th - James Aubrey Turner, scientist, dies at 57
27th - John Gregory, dancer, dies at 82
28th - Jack Tinker, drama critic, dies at 58
28th - Morey Amsterdam, comedian (Dick Van Dyke Show), dies at 87
28th - William Downie Forrest, journalist, dies at 94
29th - James Leo Herlihy, author (Midnight Cowboy), commits suicide at 66
29th - Patricia Ticia Anne Ingrams, broadcaster, dies at 50
29th - Patrick Johnson, physicist, dies at 92
30th - Alexander d'Arbeloff, entrepreneur, dies at 101
30th - Leon Lewis, US radio talk show host (WMCA, 1970-80), dies at 81
30th - Rohan Butler, historian, dies at 79
31st - Andrew Hutchings, teachers' leader, dies at 88
31st - Granville James Leveson Gower, land owner, dies at 77
31st - John Gorman, printer/socialist historian, dies at 66
31st - Peter Muir Doig, politician, dies at 85

