List of Famous people who are 96

Pegeen Vail Guggenheim was a Swiss-born American painter. Her painting combines two different artistic styles: surrealism and naïve art.

Cara Williams is an American film and television actress. She is best known for her role as "Billy's Mother" in The Defiant Ones (1958), for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, and for her role as Gladys Porter on the 1960–62 CBS television series Pete and Gladys, for which she was nominated for the Emmy Award for Best Lead Actress in a Comedy. Williams is one of the last surviving actors from the Golden Age of Hollywood.

George Henry Vanderbilt Cecil was an American businessman who was the owner and chairman of Biltmore Farms.

Charles Henry Plumb, Baron Plumb, is a British farmer who went into politics as a leader of the National Farmers Union. He later became active in the Conservative Party and was elected as a Member of the European Parliament. He served as an MEP from 1979 to 1999, serving as President of the European Parliament from 1987 to 1989, the only Briton to hold the post.

Thomas S. Murphy is an American broadcast executive, and was chair and chief executive officer of Capital Cities / ABC, Inc. until 1996. Together with fellow Capital Cities executive Daniel Burke, Murphy engineered the 1986 acquisition of the American Broadcasting Company in 1986 for $3.5 billion. Murphy and Burke, who served as President and Chief Executive of ABC until 1994, are credited with increasing the profitability and efficiency of ABC.

Hsu Sheng-fa was a Taiwanese businessman and politician. He served on the Legislative Yuan as a member of the Kuomintang from 1981 to 1990.

Laurent de Brunhoff is a French author and illustrator, known primarily for continuing the Babar the Elephant series of children's books, created by his father, Jean de Brunhoff.