- Deaths in April 1996
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The following is a list of notable deaths in April 1996.
April 1996
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- Siti Hartinah, 72, Indonesian politician, First Lady of Indonesia (1967–1996) and wife of Suharto. [1]
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- Milt Gaston, 100, American baseball player. [2]
- Stirling Silliphant, 78, American screenwriter and producer. [3]
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- P. L. Travers, 96, Australian-born British actress, journalist, novelist and writer. [5]
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- Erma Bombeck, 69, American humorist and writer, complications from Polycystic kidney disease. [6]
- Molly Keane, 91, Irish novelist. [7]
- Harold "Jug" McSpaden, 87, American professional golfer, accidental carbon monoxide poisoning. [8]
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- Dzhokhar Dudayev, 52, Soviet-born Chechen politician and President of Ichkeria (1991–1996), missile strike. [9]
- Robert Hersant, 76, French publisher. [10]
- Jimmy Snyder, 77, American sportscaster, heart attack. [11]
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- Joseph Judge, 68, American editor and writer (National Geographic (magazine)), cancer. [12]
- Christopher Robin Milne, 75, English author and bookseller, myasthenia gravis. [13]
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- Stephen Meyers, 53, American lawyer and co-founder of Jacoby & Meyers, car accident. [14]
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- Brook Berringer, 22, American football quarterback (University of Nebraska), plane crash. [15]
- Ronald Davies, 91, American judge. [16]
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- Arnold Neustadter, 85, American businessman and inventor. [17]
- Jack Wyrtzen, 82, American evangelist. [18]
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- Lucille Bremer, 79, American actress and dancer, complications after a heart attack. [19]
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- Arthur Lelyveld, 83, American rabbi, brain tumor. [20]
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- James Burke, 64, American gangster, cancer. [21]
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- Helmut Krone, 70, American art director, lung cancer. [22]
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- Billy Anderson, 55, American football quarterback, Lou Gehrig's disease.
- Jessica Dubroff, 7, American pilot trainee and daughter of Lloyd Dubroff and Lisa Blair Hathaway, plane crash. [23]
- Lloyd Dubroff, 57, American businessman and father of Jessica Dubroff, plane crash. [24]
- Joe Reid, 52, American pilot and flight instructor of Jessica Dubroff, plane crash. [25]
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- Hans Beck, 84, Norwegian ski jumper.
- Gunnar Konsmo, 73, Norwegian speed skater.
- Jack Wilkinson, 64, English footballer.
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- Sandy Becker, 74, American television announcer, heart attack. [26]
- Phyllis Benjamin, 88, Australian politician.
- Fazlul Halim Chowdhury, 65, Bangladeshi professor.
- Richard Condon, 81, American novelist.
- Leonard Dembo, 35, Zimbabwean musician.
- Clint Kimbrough, 63, American actor, pneumonia.
- Otto Licha, 83, Austrian field handball player.
- Ghulam Hassan Pinglana, 56, Indian politician, shot.
- James Rouse, 81, American businessman and founder of The Rouse Company, Lou Gehrig's disease. [27]
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- Jack Batton, 82, American businessman and politician.
- Benjamin Eisenstadt, 89, American designer, inventor and founder of Cumberland Packing Corporation and Sweet'n Low, complications from coronary artery bypass surgery.
- Peter Haden-Guest, 4th Baron Haden-Guest, 82, British diplomat.
- George W. Jenkins, 88, American businessman and founder of Publix, stroke. [28]
- Ben Johnson, 77, American actor, heart attack.
- León Klimovsky, 89, Argentine-born Spanish film director, heart attack.
- Rush Limbaugh, Sr., 104, American ambassador, lawyer, legislator, jurist and grandfather of Rush Limbaugh.
- Mick Young, 59, Australian politician, leukaemia.
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- Luis Aloma, 72, Cuban-born American relief pitcher.
- Colleen Clifford, 97, British-born Australian actress.
- Georges Géret, 71, French actor.
- Robert E. Kreutz, 74, American composer.
- Lynn O'Donnell, 43, American producer, ovarian cancer. [29]
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- John D. Bulkeley, 84, American navy officer. [30]
- Gordon Clough, 61, English radio presenter and journalist.
- Greer Garson, 91, British-born American actress, heart failure. [31]
- Sterling M. McMurrin, 82, American philosophy and theologian.
- Ilka Tanya Payán, 53, Dominican actress, complications from AIDS.
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- Robert Anderson, 74, American Foreign Service officer.
- Gerry L'Estrange, 78, Irish politician.
- Monika Dannemann, 50, German figure skater and painter.
- Frans Gommers, 78, Belgian football player.
- Frank Hoffman, 91, American football player.
- Norman Rockett, 84, American set decorator.
- Encarna Sánchez, 55, Spanish talk radio host.
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- Wade Edwards, 16, American student and son of Elizabeth Edwards and John Edwards, car accident.
- Barney Ewell, 78, American athlete. [32]
- Boone Guyton, 82, American test pilot, cancer.
- Thomas J. Hageboeck, 50, American actor.
- Larry LaPrise, 83, American songwriter, after long illness. [33]
- Don Ross, 81, American baseball player.
- Winifred Shotter, 91, British actress.
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- Ron Brown, 54, American politician, plane crash.
- James S. Free, 87, American journalist.
- Frank Doyle, 78, American writer.
- Carl Stokes, 68, American politician, cancer. [34]
- Herk Harvey, 71, American actor, film director and film producer, pancreatic cancer.
- Alphonse James Schladweiler, 93, American prelate.
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- Booba Barnes, 59, American musician.
- Jean Elizabeth Hampton, 41, American political philosopher.
- Ian Mitchell, 49, Scottish football player.
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- Florence Buchsbaum, 70, French-born Brazilian theatre director and musician.
- Alfredo Nobre da Costa, 72, Portuguese engineer and politician.
- Alexandru Diordiţă, 84, Moldavian politician.
- Bob "Bones" Hamilton, 83, American football running back (Stanford University). [35]
- Jean Le Moyne, 83, Canadian journalist, researcher, screenwriter and senator.
- John McSherry, 51, American umpire, heart attack. [36]
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