List of Famous people who died in 1996

Aaron Stell was an American film editor with one hundred feature film credits and many additional credits for his television work. Stell worked for more than a decade at the start of his career at Columbia Pictures, which was a major Hollywood studio in that era. Among his most noted films are Touch of Evil, To Kill a Mockingbird, and Silent Running.

Peter Leeds was an American actor, who appeared on television more than 8,000 times and also had many film, Broadway, and radio credits. The majority of his work took place in the 1950s and 1960s. Working with many well-known comedians, he became popular as a straight man to their antics.

Jean Bousquet was a 20th-century French Hellenist.

Aliou Mahamidou (1947–1996) served as the Prime Minister of Niger from 2 March 1990 to 1 November 1991.

Jean Aurel was a Romanian-born French film director and scriptwriter. Notably, he co-wrote La Femme d'à côté with François Truffaut and Suzanne Schiffman.

Poul Villiam Borum was a Danish writer, poet and critic. He was editor of the influential Danish literary magazine Hvedekorn from 1968 to his death in 1996. He also initiated the Danish writers school (Forfatterskolen) in 1987, of which he was also principal. Borum was married to Danish poet Inger Christensen for 17 years; the couple had one son.

Richard Gilman Folsom was an American mechanical engineer, professor of mechanical engineering at the University of California at Berkeley, and the twelfth president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He also known as the 91st president of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in the year 1972-73.