List of Famous people who died in 1996

Hyman Philip Minsky was an American economist, a professor of economics at Washington University in St. Louis, and a distinguished scholar at the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College. His research attempted to provide an understanding and explanation of the characteristics of financial crises, which he attributed to swings in a potentially fragile financial system. Minsky is sometimes described as a post-Keynesian economist because, in the Keynesian tradition, he supported some government intervention in financial markets, opposed some of the financial deregulation policies popular in the 1980s, stressed the importance of the Federal Reserve as a lender of last resort and argued against the over-accumulation of private debt in the financial markets.

Ademir Marques de Menezes, best known as Ademir de Menezes, was a Brazilian footballer, regarded as one of the best centre forwards in the history of the Brazil national team. His prominent underbite earned him the nickname "Queixada", which means "jaw".

Miguel Ortega was a Mexican modern pentathlete. He competed at the 1932 Summer Olympics.

Tadeusz Reichstein was a Polish-Swiss chemist and the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate (1950).

Harry Angelman was a British consultant paediatrician who identified and named Angelman syndrome.

Jaroslav Vejvoda was a Czech footballer and football manager.

Norman René was an American theater and film director and film producer who frequently collaborated with playwright Craig Lucas.