List of Famous people who died in 1996

Teodoro Fernández Meyzán, nicknamed "Lolo", was a Peruvian football striker. He was part of the Peru national football team that reached quarter-finals in the 1936 Summer Olympics and won the 1939 Copa America, a tournament where he emerged as the top scorer and best player. He was captain of the Peru national football team from 1935 to 1947 scoring 24 goals in 32 matches.

Artur Axmann was the German Nazi national leader (Reichsjugendführer) of the Hitler Youth (Hitlerjugend) from 1940 to the war's end in 1945. He was the last living Nazi with a rank equivalent to Reichsführer.

Metin Göktepe was a Kurdish-Turkish photojournalist who was tortured and brutally murdered in police custody in Istanbul on January 8, 1996.

Stavros Spyrou Niarchos was a billionaire Greek shipping tycoon. Starting in 1952, he had the world's biggest supertankers built for his fleet. Propelled by both the Suez Crisis and an increasing demand for oil, he and rival Aristotle Onassis became giants in global petroleum shipping.

Marc Louis Maxime de Jonge was a French actor.

Danielle Frida Hélène Boccara was a French singer of Italian descent and born in Casablanca, who performed and recorded in a number of languages, including French, Spanish, English, Italian, German, Dutch and Russian.

Paul Reckzeh was a physician and Gestapo spy who at the end of 1943 betrayed the members of the Solf Circle, which he had joined while claiming to be a Swiss doctor. His betrayal led to the imprisonment and death of many Solf Circle members.

Maria Litto (1919–1996) was a German ballet dancer, choreographer and film actress. In 1970, she pioneered dance programming on German television.

Aliye Rona was a Turkish film actress starring in more than 130 movies, mostly of drama and romance genre, from 1947 until her death.

Karl August Wilhelm Frenzel was an SS non-commissioned officer in Sobibor extermination camp. After World War II, he was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for war crimes, but was ultimately released, having served 16 years in prison.