List of Famous people who died at 96

Herman Ferdinandus Maria Münninghoff, was a Dutch prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He was the oldest Dutch Roman Catholic bishop.

Patrick Yu Shuk Siu was a celebrated trial and appellate lawyer in Hong Kong.

Henry Lee Giclas was an American astronomer and a discoverer of minor planets and comets.

Fumio Gotō was a Japanese politician and bureaucrat, and briefly served as interim Prime Minister of Japan in 1936.

Max Théret was the co-founder of Fnac, originally Fédération nationale d’achats des cadres, or National Purchasing Federation for Middle Managers, alongside André Essel. He was also a freemason antifascist activist and a believer in Trotskyism.

Robert Haggiag was an Italian-American film producer.

Constantin Pîrvulescu was a Romanian communist politician, one of the founders of the Romanian Communist Party (PCR), who, as time went on, became an active opponent of leader Nicolae Ceaușescu. Briefly expelled from the Party in 1960, he was re-admitted and elected to the Party Revision Committee in 1974.