List of Famous people who died in 1996

Benjamin "Son" Johnson Jr. was an American film and television actor, stuntman, and world champion rodeo cowboy. Tall and laconic, Johnson brought authenticity to many roles in Westerns with his expert horsemanship.

An Amber Alert or a child abduction emergency alert is a message distributed by a child abduction alert system to ask the public for help in finding abducted children. It originated in the United States in 1996.

Georges Géret was a French film actor. He appeared in over 80 films between 1954 and 1992. He was born in Lyon, France.

Mauricio Borensztein, known by the stage name Tato Bores, was an Argentine film, theatre and television comedian, who specialized in political humor. His ironic TV monologues, delivered at a fast pace, became a reference point for generations of Argentines.

Özdemir Sabancı was a Turkish businessman and a second generation member of the Sabancı family.

Beatriz Costa was a Portuguese actress, the best-known actress of the golden age of Portuguese cinema. She was the author of several books.

Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Rodionov was a Russian soldier who was taken prisoner of war by Chechen rebels in the First Chechen War and later executed in captivity. He has gained much admiration throughout Russia for the circumstances of his death, as his execution allegedly resulted from his refusal to convert to Islam and defect to the enemy side. Despite widespread popular veneration he has not been glorified by the Russian Orthodox Church as a New Martyr due to lack of evidence about his death. Still, icons depicting him are installed in many churches across Russia, in St. Valery church in Chișinău, and in a church of Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute in Ukraine.

Sadako Sawamura was a Japanese actress. She appeared in more than 140 films between 1935 and 1985. Her brothers were the actors Daisuke Katō and Kunitarō Sawamura. Her autobiography, My Asakusa, has been translated into English. Sawamura married fellow Japanese actor Kamatari Fujiwara in 1936. They divorced 10 years later.

Gillian Coysh Hanson FRCP FRCA was a British physician who specialised in intensive care and the treatment of diabetes mellitus. She established and led the intensive care unit at Whipps Cross Hospital from 1968 to 1993.

Aloha Wanderwell was a American-Canadian Internationalist explorer, author, filmmaker, and aviator. In the 1920s, while still a teenager, she traveled 380,000 miles across 80 countries, becoming the first woman to circumnavigate the globe in a Ford 1918 Model T. Beginning when she was just 16 years old, the journey took the five years 1922–1927 to complete.