List of Famous people who died at 96

Hans-Heinrich Voigt was a German astronomer who was Director of the Göttingen Observatory.

Sten Allan Olsson was a Swedish billionaire businessman, the founder, CEO and owner of Stena Sphere.

Alvin Saunders Johnson was an American economist and a co-founder and first director of The New School.

Bishop João Resende Costa, SDB was a Brazilian Roman Catholic bishop and a Salesian. He was the fifth Bishop of Ilhéus and the second Archbishop of Belo Horizonte. He was an attendee at the Second Vatican Council.

George T. Delacorte Jr. was an American magazine publisher, born in New York City.

Hugh Martin was an American musical theater and film composer, arranger, vocal coach, and playwright. He was best known for his score for the 1944 MGM musical Meet Me in St. Louis, in which Judy Garland sang three Martin songs, "The Boy Next Door," "The Trolley Song," and "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas." The last of these has become a Christmas season standard in the United States and around the English-speaking world. Martin became a close friend of Garland and was her accompanist at many of her concert performances in the 1950s, including her appearances at the Palace Theater.

Laurens "Lau" van Ravens was a Dutch international football referee, who featured at the 1970 FIFA World Cup. He officiated in the 1950s, 60s and 70s, becoming an international referee in 1966.

Giorgos Kontogeorgis was a Greek economist who became a civil servant and politician. He played a crucial role in planning Greece's accession to the European Economic Community (EEC) in 1981, and the became Greece's first European Commissioner.