List of Famous people who died in 1996
Uładzimir Karvat
Uladzimir Mikalayevich Karvat was a pilot for the Belarusian Air Force and was the first recipient of the title Hero of Belarus.
Rafaela Aparicio
Rafaela Díaz Valiente MML better known as Rafaela Aparicio was a famous Spanish film and theatre actress.
Cristina Lemercier
Cristina Lemercier was an Argentine actress and television presenter. Her mother, a Peronist, took Lemercier to an acting audition when she was a teenager. She had two sisters, Gloria and Maria Rosa Perone. In 1968, she married the singer Freddy Tadeo, brother of Palito Ortega. They had three children, Pablo, Paula, and Julia. She died from a gunshot wound to the head.
Jessie Vihrog
Jessie Vihrog was a South African-born German film actress.
Johannes Frömming
Johannes Wilhelm Arthur "Hänschen" Frömming was a German harness racing driver and trainer. He is one of the most legendary horsemen in European harness racing.
Marie Clotilde Bonaparte
Princess Marie Clotilde Eugénie Alberte Laetitia Généviève Bonaparte was a French princess of the Bonaparte dynasty, the eldest child of Victor, Prince Napoléon and his wife, Princess Clémentine of Belgium.
Hillevi Rombin
Hillevi Rombin Schine was a Swedish actress and beauty queen who was crowned as Miss Sweden and is the fourth winner of Miss Universe in 1955. She was crowned Miss Sweden Universe 1955 by Miss Sweden Universe 1954, Ragnhild Olausson. In 1996, she became the first Miss Universe title holder to die.
Patrick Cargill
Patrick Cargill was an English actor remembered for his lead role in the British television sitcom Father, Dear Father.
Harold Brodkey
Harold Brodkey, born Aaron Roy Weintraub, was an American short-story writer and novelist.
Konstantin Kuzakov
Konstantin Stepanovich Kuzakov (1911–1996) was a Soviet journalist and politician and one of the organizers of Soviet television, radio and cinema. Kuzakov claimed that he was an illegitimate child of Joseph Stalin. Konstantin's mother was Maria Kuzakova, who was Stalin's landlady during his 1911 exile in Solvychegodsk, with whom he had an affair. According to historian Simon Sebag-Montefiore, Maria was still pregnant when Stalin left his exile.