List of Famous people who died in 1996

Saleh Morsi, born in Kafr El-Zayat in 1929, was a popular Egyptian screenwriter and novelist best known for his espionages thrillers. He died of a heart attack in Alexandria, Egypt in August 1996. The number of his books translated into Persian.

Kumi Sugai was a Japanese painter and printmaker.

David Packard was an American electrical engineer and co-founder, with Bill Hewlett, of Hewlett-Packard (1939), serving as president (1947–64), CEO (1964–68), and Chairman of the Board of HP. He served as U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense from 1969 to 1971 during the Nixon administration. Packard served as President of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU) from 1976 to 1981 and chairman of its Board of Regents from 1973 to 1982. He was a member of the Trilateral Commission. Packard was the recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1988 and is noted for many technological innovations and philanthropic endeavors.

Ruth Berghaus was a German choreographer, opera and theatre director, and artistic director.

Jacques Toja was a French actor.

Sarah Hammond Palfrey Danzig was an American tennis player whose career spanned two decades from the late 1920s until the late 1940s. She won two singles, nine women's doubles, and four mixed doubles titles at the U. S. National Championships.

Marie-Louise von Motesiczky was an Austrian painter.

José Manuel Fuente Lavandera was a professional road racing cyclist and noted climbing specialist.

Thomas Samuel Kuhn was an American philosopher of science whose 1962 book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions was influential in both academic and popular circles, introducing the term paradigm shift, which has since become an English-language idiom.

Eva Miriam Hart MBE was a British woman who was one of the last remaining survivors of the sinking of RMS Titanic on 15 April 1912.