List of Famous people who died in 1996

Sylvio Couto Coelho da Frota was a Brazilian army general and minister of the Army during the Ernesto Geisel government.

Masao Maruyama was a leading Japanese political scientist and political theorist. His expertise lay in the history of Japanese political thought, to which he made major contributions.

Carmell Jones was an American jazz trumpet player.

Barbara Olive Skelton was an English memoirist, novelist and socialite.

Mercer Kennedy Ellington was an American musician, composer, and arranger. His father was Duke Ellington, whose band Mercer led for 20 years after his father's death, and from whose musical shadow he rarely strayed.

Victor Felix Janowicz was an American football halfback in the National Football League for the Washington Redskins. He played college football at Ohio State University and was drafted in the seventh round of the 1952 NFL Draft. Janowicz was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1976.

Andrei Alexandrovich Suraikin was a Russian pair skater. With partner Liudmila Smirnova, he was the 1972 Olympic silver medalist.