In the year 1996
650 Notable deaths
Obdulio Varela
Uruguayan footballer (1917–1996).
Born September 20th, 1917 in Montevideo.
Died August 2nd, 1996 at 78 years old in Montevideo.
Roger Tory Peterson
American naturalist, ornithologist and writer (1908–1996).
Born August 28th, 1908 in Jamestown. [ref]
Died July 28th, 1996 at 87 years old in Old Lyme. [ref]
Tarō Okamoto
Japanese artist (1911-1996).
Born February 26th, 1911 in Futago. [ref]
Died January 7th, 1996 at 84 years old in Keio University Hospital (Parkinson's disease). [ref]
Efua Theodora Sutherland
Ghanaian writer (1924-1996).
Born June 27th, 1924 in Cape Coast. [ref]
Died January 2nd, 1996 at 71 years old in Accra.
Evelyn Hooker
Psychologist famous for demonstrating homosexuality is not a mental disorder (1907-1996).
Born September 2nd, 1907 in North Platte.
Died November 18th, 1996 at 89 years old in Santa Monica.
Károly Grósz
Former general secretary of the hungarian socialist workers' party.
Born August 1st, 1930 in Miskolc.
Died January 7th, 1996 at 65 years old in Gödöllő (kidney cancer).
Fujiko F. Fujio
Japanese mangaka, fujimoto hiroshi (1933–1996), pen name since 1989.
Born December 1st, 1933 in Takaoka.
Died September 23rd, 1996 at 62 years old in Shinjuku (liver failure).
May Ayim
German poet.
Born May 3rd, 1960 in Hamburg.
Died August 9th, 1996 at 36 years old in Berlin (falling).
George Boolos
Philosopher and mathematical logician (1940-1996).
Born September 4th, 1940 in New York City.
Died May 27th, 1996 at 55 years old in Cambridge.
Hans Blumenberg
German philosopher.
Born July 13th, 1920 in Lübeck. [ref]
Died March 28th, 1996 at 75 years old in Altenberge. [ref]
Deaths 251 to 260 of 650
Death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It is life’s change agent, it clears out the old to make way for the new. Steve Jobs