In the year 1996
614 Notable deaths
Helmut Schön
German football player and manager (1915-1996).
Born September 15th, 1915 in Dresden.
Died February 23rd, 1996 at 80 years old in Wiesbaden.
Solveig Gunbjørg Jacobsen
First person born on south georgia.
Born October 8th, 1913 in Grytviken. [ref]
Died October 25th, 1996 at 83 years old in Buenos Aires. [ref]
Lo Wei
Chinese film director (1918-1996).
Born December 12th, 1918 in Jiangsu.
Died January 20th, 1996 at 77 years old in Hong Kong (heart failure). [ref]
Frida Boccara
French singer.
Born October 29th, 1940 in Casablanca.
Died August 1st, 1996 at 55 years old in 20th arrondissement of Paris (respiratory disease). [ref]
Walter M. Miller
American fiction writer.
Born January 23rd, 1923 in New Smyrna Beach.
Died January 9th, 1996 at 72 years old in Daytona Beach.
Jordan Cronenweth
American cinematographer.
Born February 20th, 1935 in Los Angeles. [ref]
Died November 29th, 1996 at 61 years old in Los Angeles (Parkinson's disease). [ref]
Rafael Kubelík
Czech conductor, violinist and composer.
Born June 29th, 1914 in Býchory. [ref]
Died August 11th, 1996 at 82 years old in Kastanienbaum (disease). [ref]
Anna Larina
Russian writer.
Born January 27th, 1914 in Russian Empire.
Died February 26th, 1996 at 82 years old in Moscow.
Nevill Francis Mott
English physicist, nobel prize winner.
Born September 30th, 1905 in Leeds. [ref]
Died August 8th, 1996 at 90 years old in Milton Keynes. [ref]
Lars Ahlfors
Finnish mathematician (1907-1996).
Born April 18th, 1907 in Helsinki. [ref]
Died October 11th, 1996 at 89 years old in Pittsfield (pneumonia). [ref]
Deaths 221 to 230 of 614
Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold. Ralph Waldo Emerson