List of Famous people who died in 1996

Isaac Montrose Taylor was an American physician and academic who served as dean of the Medical School of the University of North Carolina from 1964 until 1971. His first marriage to Gertrude Woodard produced five children who all became professional musicians: Alex (1947), James (1948), Kate (1949), Livingston (1950), and Hugh (1952). Through his second marriage to Suzanne Francis Sheats, he fathered three more children, Andrew Preston (1983), Theodore Haynes (1986), and Julia Rose (1989).

Leonor Fini was an Argentinian and Italian surrealist painter, designer, illustrator, and author, known for her depictions of powerful and erotic women.

Ginette Martenot (1902–1996) was a French pianist, and an expert and leading performer on the twentieth-century electronic instrument the ondes Martenot, which was invented by her brother Maurice. At the age of sixteen, she entered the Paris Conservatory, where she studied counterpoint and fugue with the composer Arthur Honegger. She gave the first performance as solo ondist in Messiaen's Turangalîla-Symphonie, with Yvonne Loriod taking the solo piano part.

Brigadier Berenger Colborne Bradford, known as Bill Bradford, was a British Army officer who served in the Black Watch from 1932 to 1959.