List of Famous people who died at 96

Akira Kume was a Japanese actor and voice actor.

Robert Earl Jones, sometimes credited as Earl Jones, was an American actor and prizefighter. One of the first prominent black film stars, Jones was a living link with the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and 1930s, having worked with Langston Hughes early in his career.

Madiha Yousri was an Egyptian film and television actress. She was known of her classical romance roles in the Egyptian cinema, she also participated in many Egyptian tv series playing mainly the mother or grandmother roles. Madiha was also very known of her support to Egypt's president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi and the 26 of July revolution.

Hélio Pereira Bicudo was a Brazilian jurist and politician.

Valentina Cortese was an Italian actress. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in François Truffaut's Day for Night (1973).

Licio Gelli was an Italian financier. A Fascist volunteer in his youth, he is chiefly known for his role in the Banco Ambrosiano scandal. He was revealed in 1981 as being the Venerable Master of the clandestine masonic lodge Propaganda Due (P2).

Müzeyyen Senar was a Turkish classical music performer, known as the "Diva of the Republic".

Katia Mann was the youngest child and only daughter of the German Jewish mathematician and artist Alfred Pringsheim and his wife Hedwig Pringsheim, who was an actress in Berlin before her marriage. Katia was also a granddaughter of the writer and women's rights activist Hedwig Dohm. Her twin brother Klaus Pringsheim was a conductor, composer, music writer and music pedagogue, active in Germany and Japan. She married the writer Thomas Mann.

Tenkōkō Sonoda was a Japanese politician born in Tokyo. She was a member of the Japanese Diet from 1946–1952. In 1950, she became the first woman in Japanese political history to have a baby while in office.

Squadron Leader John Leslie Munro, was a Royal New Zealand Air Force pilot during World War II and the last surviving pilot of the Dambusters Raid of May 1943.