1996 deaths
Category: 1996 deaths

Tim Heaney
South African cricketer

Dorothy Drain
Australian journalist, columnist, war correspondent, editor and poet

John Govan
Australian cricketer

Les Dixon
Australian cricketer

Chester Gray
American baseball player

Josefina Guerrero
Filipina-American spy

John Auld
British painter

Catherine J. Ellis
Australian ethnomusicologist

John Henry Clavell Smythe

Wiley Griggs
American baseball player

June Weybright
American composer

Leopoldina Ferreira Paulo
Portuguese physical or biological anthropologist

Charlotte Manson
American actress

Jewel Simon
African American mathematics teacher, poet, and internationally-acclaimed artist

Elvira Chaudoir
Double-agent for the British during World War II.

Philippe El Khazen
Lebanese politician

Alfred Wilmore
American baseball player

Velma Hopkins
American labor organizer

Lenny Goodman
American jockeys' agent

Judith Sims
American journalist, music critic and magazine editor

Si-Lan Chen
Dancer, choreographer, and activist

Mario Tosato
Italian cyclist

George Sirochman
American football guard

Heinrich Spuhler
Swiss cyclist

Clare Berryhill
American politician

Molly Le Bas
British sculptor

Larry Knorr
American football end

Velma S. Salabiye
Navajo librarian

Verna Patronella Johnston
Ojibwa community activist

Leonard Michael
Australian cricketer

Antonio Biggi
Italian sculptor

Pinetta Colonna-Gamero
Italian painter

Robert E. Nichols
American journalist

Juanita L. Learned
First female chair of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes

Emma Lewis Lipps
American botanist and botanical collector

Frank Cedervall

AKM Aszad
Bangladeshi politician

T. T. Rajah
Lawyer who joined the People's Action Party in 1954 and was elected its Secretary-General in 1957

Willie Hughes

Frank Glassman
American football player