Lista de Personas Famosas que murieron en 1996

Leonard Ray Blanton was an American businessman and politician who served as Governor of Tennessee from 1975 to 1979. He also served three terms in the U.S. House of Representatives, from 1967 to 1973. Though he initiated a number of government reforms and was instrumental in bringing foreign investment to Tennessee, his term as governor was marred by scandal, namely over the selling of pardons and liquor licenses.

Elena Grigórievna Mázanik fue la partisana soviética responsable del asesinato de Wilhelm Kube, Generalkommissar de la Bielorrusia ocupada por los nazis, a quien mató colocando una pequeña bomba de relojería debajo de su cama mientras trabajaba para él como empleada doméstica. Por asesinarlo, ella y los otros conspiradores recibieron el título de Héroe de la Unión Soviética el 29 de octubre de 1943 por decreto del Sóviet Supremo de la Unión Soviética. Después de la guerra trabajó como asistente del director de la principal biblioteca de la Academia de Ciencias de Bielorrusia.

Tarō Okamoto fue un artista japonés conocido por sus pinturas y esculturas abstractas y de vanguardia.

Aruna Asaf Ali fue una educadora, activista política y escritora india, reconocida como una figura importante en el Movimiento de independencia de la India y por haber sido la primera alcaldesa de Delhi.

Neville Ness Wadia was an Indian businessman, philanthropist and a member of the Wadia family, an old Parsi family which, by the 1840s, was one of the leading forces in the Indian shipbuilding industry, having built over a hundred warships for the British and having established trading networks around the world. In addition to his successful business career, one of the Parsi community's most prominent and influential businessmen.

John Martin was an English spree killer who murdered three tourists—Gerard Lowe in Singapore, and Sheila and Darin Damude in Thailand—with another three unconfirmed victims. He posed as a tourist himself when committing the murders, for which British tabloids nicknamed him "the tourist from Hell". He cut up all his victims' bodies, using butchery skills he had acquired in prison, before disposing of them.

Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet was a French entrepreneur and advertising magnate best known as the founder of Publicis Groupe.

Abdul Hafeez Kardar pronunciation (help·info) or Abdul Kardar was a Pakistani cricketer and politician. He was the first captain of the Pakistan Test cricket team. He is one of the only three players to have played Test cricket for both India and Pakistan, the other two being Amir Elahi and Gul Mohammad.

John Neil Reagan was an American radio station manager, CBS senior producer, and senior vice president of McCann Erickson. He was the older brother of the Hollywood star and former United States President Ronald Reagan.

Ryōtarō Shiba fue un novelista japonés, seudónimo con el que se conoce a Teiichi Fukuda.