The following is a list of notable deaths in September 1996.

Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:

• Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.

• Jimmy Duncanson, 76, Scottish football player.^[1]
• Vagn Holmboe, 86, Danish composer and teacher.^[2]
• Andrew Hughes, 88, Turkish-Japanese film actor and business executive.
• Karl Kehrle, 98, German-British Benedictine monk and bee breeding authority.^[3]
• Ion Oblemenco, 51, Romanian football striker, heart attack.
• Nyi Pu, 95, Burmese actor and film director.
• Hugo Scheltema, 78, Dutch diplomat and ambassador.
• Ljuba Welitsch, 83, Bulgarian singer.^[4]

• André Chastagnol, 76, French historian.^[5]
• Karl Frenzel, 85, German Nazi war criminal.
• Georgi Georgiev-Getz, 69, Bulgarian film and stage actor, stroke.
• Paddy Clift, 43, Zimbabwean cricket player, bone marrow cancer.
• Charles Kirbo, 79, American lawyer and longtime advisor to Jimmy Carter.^[6]
• Wes Livengood, 86, American baseball player, scout and manager.^[7]
• Otto Luening, 96, German-American composer and conductor.^[8]
• Aleksandr Markin, 46, Soviet football player, accident.^[9]
• Aldo Montano, 85, Italian fencer.^[10]

• Veniamin Basner, 71, Soviet/Russian composer.^[11]
• Robert Brown, 75, English politician, born 1921.
• Walter Forster, 79, Brazilian actor, heart attack.
• Emily Kngwarreye, 86, Aboriginal Australian artist from Utopia, Northern Territory.^[12]
• Valeri Kravchenko, 57, Soviet/Russian volleyball player.
• Julian Amery, Baron Amery of Lustleigh, 77, British politician.^[13]
• Og Mandino, 72, American author.^[14]
• Alba Roballo, 88, Uruguayan lawyer, poet, and politician.
• Hugh Torney, 42, Irish National Liberation Army paramilitary leader, shot.
• Edward Turkington, 97, American rugby union player.

• Victor Aaron, 39, American actor (Geronimo: An American Legend, King of the Hill, Sunchaser), traffic collision.
• Joan Clarke, 79, English cryptanalyst and numismatist.
• Babe Dahlgren, 84, American baseball player.^[15]
• Ilus W. Davis, 79, American mayor.^[16]
• Jeanne Juilla, 86, French model and actress.
• Bill MacPhail, 76, American television executive.
• Julio Musimessi, 72, Argentine football player.
• Wee Willie Smith, 86, American football player.^[17]

• Leonard Katzman, 69, American film and television producer, writer and director, heart attack.^[18]
• Anthony Mendleson, 81, British costume designer.
• Anselm Strauss, 79, American medical sociologist.^[19]
• Clem Thomas, 67, Welsh rugby player.^[20]
• John White, 71, Canadian politician.
• Misa Yamamura, 62, Japanese novelist and a mystery writer, heart failure.

• Ginette Martenot, 94, French musician.
• Barney McCosky, 79, American Major League Baseball player.^[21]
• Darío Espina Pérez, 75, Cuban banker, lawyer, and writer.
• Salman Shah, 24, Bangladeshi actor, suicide.^[22]
• Daniel Shanks, 79, American mathematician.^[23]
• Ester Soré, 81, Chilean singer, Diabetic coma.
• Michael Torrence, 35, American serial killer, execution by lethal injection.^[24]
• Douglas Franklin Wright, 56, American serial killer, execution by lethal injection.^[24]

• Bibi Besch, 54, Austrian-American actress (Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Steel Magnolias, Tremors), breast cancer.^[25]
• Joseph Biroc, 93, American cinematographer (The Towering Inferno, It's a Wonderful Life, Airplane!), Oscar winner (1975).^[26]
• Arda Bowser, 97, American gridiron football player.^[27]
• Niccolò Castiglioni, 64, Italian musician.^[28]
• Bruno Corbucci, 64, Italian film director.^[29]
• Arthur Sherwood Flemming, 91, American government official, renal failure.^[30]
• Keith Forbes, 90, Australian rules football player.
• Gilda, 34, Argentine singer, traffic collision.
• Willy Miranda, 70, Cuban-American baseball player.^[31]
• Vyacheslav Solovyov, 71, Soviet/Russian football player and coach.^[32]

• Semyon Aranovich, 62, Soviet/Russian film director, cancer.
• Eyre de Lanux, 102, American artist, writer, and art deco designer.^[33]
• Onib Olmedo, 59, Filipino painter.
• Jacques Schmidt, 63, French costume designer.^[34]

• Raúl Calvo, 79, Argentinian basketball player.^[35]
• Harry Hanebrink, 68, American baseball player, aneurysm.^[36]
• Shiva Nath Katju, 86, Indian lawyer, judge and an Indian National Congress politician.
• Ruggero Mastroianni, 66, Italian film editor, heart attack.^[37]
• Bill Monroe, 84, American "father of bluegrass" music, stroke.^[38]
• Robert Nisbet, 82, American sociologist.^[39]
• John W. Tuthill, 85, American diplomat.^[40]

• Latifa al-Zayyat, 73, Egyptian activist and writer, cancer.
• Ray Coleman, 59, British journalist and writer.^[41]
• Joanne Dru, 74, American actress, edema.^[42]
• Plantagenet Somerset Fry, 65, British historian and author, suicide.^[43]
• Hans List, 100, Austrian automotive pioneer.
• Julia Morton, 84, American author and botanist.^[44]
• Stig Norén, 88, Swedish general and commander of the air force.
• Sapphire, 61, American professional wrestler and manager, heart attack.
• Pete Stout, 73, American National Football League player (Washington Redskins).^[45]

• Guido Aristarco, 77, Italian film critic and author.^[46]
• Bráz, 75, Brazilian basketball player.
• Klára Fehér, 74, Hungarian writer.
• Louise Fitch, 81, American actress.^[47]
• Brenda Forbes, 87, British-American actress, cancer.^[48]
• Dan Mahoney, 87, Australian politician.
• Deane Waldo Malott, 98, American academic and administrator.^[49]
• Thomas J. O'Connor, 71, American politician.
• Koichi Oita, 82, Japanese football player and manager, heart failure.^[50]

• Nikolay Avkhimovich, 89, Soviet and Belarusian politician.
• Frank Christie, 69, Scottish football player and manager.
• Eleazar de Carvalho, 84, Brazilian conductor and composer.^[51]
• Ernesto Geisel, 89, Brazilian general and former president of Brazil, cancer.^[52]
• Ricardo López, 21, Uruguayan-American stalker of musician Björk, suicide by gunshot.
• James Scott-Elliot, 93, British Army officer.

• Marvin Allen, 81, American soccer coach.
• Jane Baxter, 87, British actress, stomach cancer.^[53]
• James F. Bonner, 86, American molecular biologist.^[54]
• César Mendoza Durán, 78, Chilean police officer, equestrian and member of the Government Junta, pancreatic cancer.^[55]
• Tupac Shakur, 25, American rapper ("California Love", "Dear Mama") and actor (Poetic Justice), shot.^[56]
• Wang Shoudao, 90, Chinese politician.
• Xosé Filgueira Valverde, 89, Spanish writer, intellectual, and researcher, .^[57]
• William Ayres Ward, 68, American Egyptologist.
• Leni Wylliams, 35, African-American dancer/choreographer/master-teacher, murder.^[58][59]

• Helen Cohan, 86, American stage dancer and film actress.^[60]
• Jock Cordner, 86, Australian rules football player.
• Edred John Henry Corner, 90, botanist and a mycologist.^[61]
• Douglas Everett, 91, American ice hockey player.
• Joe E. Martin, 80, American boxing coach.
• Rose Ouellette, 93, Quebec actress, comedian, and theatre manager.^[62]
• Juliet Prowse, 59, dancer and actress, pancreatic cancer.^[63]

• Phil Farbman, 72, American basketball player.^[64]
• Joe Maniaci, 82, American football player and coach.^[65]
• Agnes Mongan, 91, American art historian.^[66]
• Erling Nielsen, 61, Danish football player.^[67]
• Tom Payne, 81, Brazilian film director, screenwriter and actor.^[68]
• Andy Pilney, 83, American gridiron football player and coach, baseball player.^[69]
• Ottis Toole, 49, American drifter and serial killer, cirrhosis.
• Georgios Vafopoulos, 93, Greek poet, author, and journalist.^[70]

• McGeorge Bundy, 77, American academic, heart attack.^[71]
• Karl Dröse, 82, German field hockey player.^[72]
• Rolf Graae, 79, Danish architect and organ designer.
• Gene Nelson, 76, American actor, dancer, screenwriter, and director, cancer.^[73]
• Joan Perry, 85, American film actress, model, and singer, emphysema.^[74]

• Spiro Agnew, 77, American politician, 39th Vice President of the United States, leukemia.^[75]
• Marianne Bachmeier, 46, German vigilante, pancreatic cancer.^[76]
• Teodoro Fernández, 83, Peruvian footballer.^[77]
• Jessie Hill, 63, American R&B and Louisiana blues singer and songwriter, heart and renal failure.^[78]
• Paul J. Krebs, 84, American labor union official and politician.^[79]
• Arnold Peters, 74, Canadian politician.
• Henk Schijvenaar, 78, Dutch footballer.^[80]

• Annabella, 89, French cinema actress, heart attack.
• Ulrich Beiger, 78, German actor.^[81]
• Corrie Laddé, 80, Dutch swimmer and Olympian.^[82]
• Ronald McNicoll, 90, Australian Army general.
• Raymond Lee Stewart, 44, American spree killer, execution by lethal injection.^[83]
• Bai Yang, 76, Chinese actress.^[84]

• Noureddine Aba, 75, Algerian poet and playwright.^[85]
• Nanny Fernandez, 77, American baseball player.^[86]
• Helmut Heißenbüttel, 75, German novelist and poet, pneumonia.
• George Hunt, 86, English footballer, Alzheimer's disease.^[87]
• Douglas Hyde, 85, English political journalist and writer.^[88]
• Irene Mann, 67, German dancer, actress and choreographer.
• Ștefan Mihăilescu-Brăila, 71, Romanian actor, Alzheimer's disease.
• Czesław Petelski, 73, Polish film director and screenwriter.^[89]
• Edilberto K. Tiempo, 83, Filipino professor, writer.

• Franco Angrisano, 70, Italian actor, heart attack.^[90]
• Murtaza Bhutto, 42, Pakistani politician and lmilitant leader, police encounter, homicide.
• S. F. Brownrigg, 58, American film director and producer.
• Paul Draper, 86, American tap dancer and choreographer, pulmonary emphysema.^[91]
• Paul Erdős, 83, Hungarian mathematician, heart attack.^[92]
• Krešo Golik, 74, Croatian film and television director and screenwriter.
• Reuben Kamanga, 67, Zambian politician.
• Max Manus, 81, Norwegian resistance fighter during World War II.^[93]
• Dagdu Maruti Pawar, 61, Indian writer.
• Ted Platt, 75, English football player.^[94]
• William S. Vaughn, 92, American businessman and philanthropist.^[95]
• Paul Weston, 84, American pianist, arranger, composer, and conductor.^[96]

• Erika Cremer, 96, German chemist.
• Paolo De Poli, 91, Italian enameller and painter.^[97]
• Lamar Dodd, 87, American artist.^[98]
• Claus Holm, 78, German film actor.^[99]
• Leo Isacson, 86, American attorney and politician, cancer.^[100]
• Henri Nouwen, 64, Dutch Catholic priest, writer and theologian, heart attack.^[101]
• Franz Pfnür, 87, German alpine skier, Olympic champion and SS officer during World War II.^[102]
• Ashoke Kumar Sen, 82, Indian lawyer and politician.
• Julius Silverman, 90, British politician.
• Sabine Zlatin, 89, Polish-French Resistance member during World War II.^[103]

• Mohamed Ben Ahmed Abdelghani, 69, Algerian politician and prime Minister.
• Brook Bernacchi, 74, British lawyer and politician in Hong Kong, brain cancer.^[104]
• Ludmilla Chiriaeff, 72, Soviet-Canadian ballet dancer and choreographer.^[105]
• Dorothy Lamour, 81, American actress (Road to ...) and singer, heart attack.^[106]
• József Sir, 84, Hungarian athlete.
• Svetislav Valjarević, 85, Yugoslav football player.^[107]
• Marko Valok, 69, Serbian football player.
• Joanne Winter, 71, American baseball player and golfer.

• Bimal Kumar Bachhawat, 71, Indian neurochemist and glycobiologist.
• Joe Borowski, 62, Canadian politician and activist.
• Fujiko F. Fujio, 62, Japanese manga cartoonist, liver disease.^[108]
• Károly Kárpáti, 90, Hungarian Olympic wrestling champion.^[109]
• Jack Newman, 94, New Zealand cricket player and business executive.
• Diarmuid O'Neill, 27, Northern Irish volunteer in the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), killed.
• Stuart Piggott, 86, British archaeologist, heart attack.^[110]
• František Rauch, 86, Czech music educator and pianist.
• Silk Smitha, 35, Indian actress and dancer, suicide by hanging.

• I. E. S. Edwards, 87, British egyptologist and curator.^[111]
• Red Embree, 79, American Major League Baseball pitcher.^[112]
• Mark Frankel, 34, British actor, traffic accident.^[113]
• Zeki Müren, 64, Turkish singer, composer, songwriter, actor and poet, heart attack.^[114]
• Mário Palmério, 80, Brazilian writer.^[115]
• Pavel Sudoplatov, 89, Soviet lieutenant general and spy.^[116]
• Jannes van der Wal, 39, Dutch draughts player, leukemia.

• Red Mihalik, 80, Poliosh-American basketball player and referee.^[117]
• Richard Holt Locke, 55, American actor in gay erotic films and AIDS educator and activist, complications of AIDS.
• Helgi Skúlason, 63, Icelandic actor and stage director.
• George Veneroso, 87, American football coach.^[118]

• Nicu Ceaușescu, 45, Romanian politician, son of Nicolae Ceaușescu and Elena Ceaușescu, liver cirrhosis.^[119]
• Bob Davidson, 84, Canadian ice hockey player.^[120]
• Heinz Engelmann, 85, German actor.
• Alicja Iwańska, 78, Polish sociologist, academic and writer, lung cancer.
• Jozef Marko, 73, Slovak football player and coach.^[121]
• Lucia Valerio, 91, Italian tennis player.
• Geoffrey Wilkinson, 75, British chemist and Nobel Prize laureate.^[122]

• Hermine Baron, 83, American contract bridge.^[123]
• James Franklin Battin, 71, American politician and United States federal judge.^[124]
• Jila Hosseini, 32, Iranian poet, writer, researcher and radio announcer, car accident.
• Bruce Konopka, 77, American baseball player.^[125]
• Garland Lawing, 78, American baseball player.^[126]
• Mohammad Najibullah, 49, Afghan politician and President of Afghanistan, execution by hanging.
• Ahmad Muhammad Numan, 87, Yemeni educator, propagandist and politician.
• Lee Tit, 83, Cantonese film director.

• Giuseppe Bartolomei, 73, Italian politician.
• Menato Boffa, 66, Italian racecar driver.
• Marcos Aurelio Di Paulo, 76, Argentinian football player.^[127]
• Bob Gibson, 64, American folk singer and musician, progressive supranuclear palsy.^[128]
• August Maus, 81, German Navy officer and World War II submarine commander.
• Andrei Suraikin, 47, Russian figure skater.^[129]
• Maurice Valency, 93, American writer and playwright.^[130]

• Claire Bonenfant, 71, Canadian politician and feminist.
• Leslie Crowther, 63, English comedian, actor, TV presenter, and game show host, heart failure.^[131]
• Shusaku Endo, 73, Japanese author, complications of hepatitis.^[132]
• Bohuslav Karlík, 87, Czechoslovak canoeist and water slalomist.^[133]
• Li Qiang, 91, Chinese revolutionary, secret agent, and politician, liver cancer.
• George Rung, 80, American basketball coach.

• Charlie Adam, 77, Scottish football player.
• Aubrey Brabazon, 76, Irish horse racing jockey.
• Kenneth Muir, 89, English literary scholar and author.^[134]
• P. Jay Sidney, 81, American actor.^[135]
• Moneta Sleet, Jr., 70, American journalist, cancer.^[136]
• Sylvester William Treinen, 78, American Roman catholic bishop.^[137]