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In the year 1996
614 Notable deaths
Ademir de Menezes
Brazilian footballer.
Born November 8th, 1922 in Recife.
Died May 11th, 1996 at 73 years old in Rio de Janeiro.
César Mendoza Durán
Chilean military (1918-1996).
Born September 11th, 1918 in Santiago.
Died September 13th, 1996 at 78 years old in Santiago (pancreatic cancer).
Jacob Druckman
American composer (1928-1996).
Born June 26th, 1928 in Philadelphia. [ref]
Died May 24th, 1996 at 67 years old in New Haven (lung cancer). [ref]
Heriberto Herrera
Paraguayan-spanish footballer (1926-1996).
Born April 24th, 1926 in Guarambaré.
Died July 26th, 1996 at 70 years old in Asunción.
Pilar Lorengar
Spanish operatic soprano.
Born January 16th, 1928 in Zaragoza.
Died June 3rd, 1996 at 68 years old in Berlin (lung cancer). [ref]
Camilla Horn
German actress (1903-1996).
Born April 25th, 1903 in Frankfurt am Main. [ref]
Died August 14th, 1996 at 93 years old in Gilching. [ref]
Juan Hohberg
Uruguayan footballer.
Born October 8th, 1926 in Córdoba.
Died April 30th, 1996 at 69 years old in Lima.
Ljuba Welitsch
Bulgarian singer (1913-1996).
Born July 10th, 1913 in Slavyanovo. [ref]
Died September 2nd, 1996 at 83 years old in Vienna. [ref]
Barbara McLean
American film editor (1903-1996).
Born November 16th, 1903 in Palisades Park.
Died March 28th, 1996 at 92 years old in Newport Beach.
Maximilien Rubel
Marxist historian and council communist.
Born October 10th, 1905 in Chernivtsi. [ref]
Died February 28th, 1996 at 90 years old in Paris. [ref]
Deaths 351 to 360 of 614
Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them. George Eliot