List of Famous people who died in 1996
Laura La Plante
Laura La Plante was an American film actress, whose more notable performances were in the silent era.
Henry Austin Traill
Raine Tredwell
Élisabeth Gille
Élisabeth Gille was a French translator and writer. She is the younger daughter of the French-Russian-Jewish writer Irène Némirovsky and Michel Epstein. She is the author of Le Mirador, a biography of her mother.
Goliarda Sapienza
Goliarda Sapienza was an Italian actress and writer.
Edison Denisov
Edison Vasilievich Denisov was a Russian composer in the so-called "Underground", "alternative" or "nonconformist" division of Soviet music.
Eleanor Hyde Watts
Marcus Nigel Pelly
Odysseas Elytis
Odysseus Elytis was a Greek poet, essayist and translator, regarded as a major exponent of romantic modernism in Greece and the world. He is one of the most praised poets of the second half of the twentieth century. In 1979, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.