List of Famous people who died at 96

Gérard Pierre Louis François Armand Lecointe was a French général de corps d'armée. He served in World War II and the Cold War and saw colonial service in French North Africa. He was the last commander of French forces in Algeria, and completed his career as commander-in-chief of the French Forces in Germany.

Mother Basilea, born Klara Schlink was a Lutheran German religious leader and writer. She was leader of the Evangelical Sisterhood of Mary, which she cofounded, from 1947 to 2001.

Maarten Krabbé was a Dutch painter and art educator.

Monique Mélinand was a French film and television actress.

Józef Czapski was a Polish artist, author, and critic, as well as an officer of the Polish Army. As a painter, he is notable for his membership in the Kapist movement, which was heavily influenced by Cézanne. Following the Polish Defensive War, he was made a prisoner of war by the Soviets and was among the very few officers to survive the Katyn massacre of 1940. Following the Sikorski-Mayski Agreement, he was an official envoy of the Polish government searching for the missing Polish officers in Russia. After World War II, he remained in exile in the Paris suburb of Maisons-Laffitte, where he was among the founders of Kultura monthly, one of the most influential Polish cultural journals of the 20th century.

Yvette Farnoux, was a French resistance fighter, and concentration camp survivor. On 15 March 1990, she was awarded the Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor, then the Grand Cross on 31 December 2008. She studied at the Lycée Molière. She worked at the unemployment office, of the Secours national. In the Resistance, she worked with Berty Albrecht; and succeeded her as national head of social services for the united movements of the Resistance. Arrested, she was deported on 29 April 1944, from the Drancy internment camp to Auschwitz, and then Ravensbrück.