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1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year that started on a Monday. In the Gregorian calendar, it was the 1996th year of the Common Era, or of Anno Domini; the 996th year of the 2nd millennium; the 96th year of the 20th century; and the 7th of the 1990s.

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The year 1996 was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty.

Events of 1996

January

January 1 – Arleigh Burke, U.S Navy Admiral and Chief of Naval Operations (b.1901)
January 2 – Karl Targownik, Hungarian psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor (b. 1915)
January 5 – Yahya Ayyash, Palestinian terrorist (b. 1966)
January 5 – Lincoln Kirstein, American writer and impressario (b. 1907)
January 8 – François Mitterrand, President of France (b. 1916)
January 9 – Fearless Nadia, Indian actress and stuntwoman (b. 1908)
January 9 – Sultan Rahi, Pakistani film actor (b. 1938)
January 15 – Les Baxter, American musician and composer (b. 1922)
January 15 – Paramount Chief Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho (b. 1938)
January 15 – Amber Hagerman, American murder victim and namesake for the AMBER alert system (b. 1986)
January 17 – Barbara Jordan, American politician (b. 1936)
January 18 – Leonor Fini, Argentine artist (b. 1908)
January 18 – Endel Puusepp, Soviet Estonian World War II pilot (b. 1909)
January 18 – Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao, Indian (Telugu) film actor (b. 1923)
January 19 – Don Simpson, American film producer (b. 1943)
January 20 – Gerry Mulligan, American musician (b. 1927)
January 25 – Jonathan Larson, American composer and playwright (b. 1960)
January 26 – Duke Georg Alexander of Mecklenburg, head of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (b. 1921)
January 28 – Joseph Brodsky, Russian-born poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1940)
January 28 – Jerry Siegel, American cartoonist (b. 1914)
January 31 – Gustave Solomon, American mathematician and engineer (b. 1930)

February

February 2 – Gene Kelly, American actor (b. 1912)
February 3 – Audrey Meadows, American actress (b. 1926)
February 6 – Guy Madison, American actor (b. 1922)
February 7 – Boris Alexandrovich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer (b. 1925)
February 11 – Kebby Musokotwane, Prime Minister of Zambia (b. 1946)
February 11 – Cyril Poole, English cricketer (b. 1921)
February 11 – Phil Regan, American actor (b. 1906)
February 11 – Amelia Rosselli, Italian poet (b. 1930)
February 12 – Bob Shaw, Irish writer (b. 1931)
February 13 – Martin Balsam, American actor (b. 1919)
February 14 – Eva Hart, British survivor of RMS Titanic (b. 1905)
February 14 – Bob Paisley, English football manager (b. 1919)
February 15 – Tommy Rettig, American actor (b. 1941)
February 15 – McLean Stevenson, American actor (b. 1929)
February 16 – Pat Brown, Governor of California (b. 1905)
February 16 – Brownie McGhee, American musician (b. 1915)
February 16 – Roger Bowen, American actor (b. 1932)
February 17 – Evelyn Laye, British actress (b. 1900)
February 20 – Tōru Takemitsu, Japanese composer (b. 1930)
February 21 – Morton Gould, American musician and composer (b. 1913)
February 25 – Haing S. Ngor, Cambodian actor (b. 1940)
February 26 – Mieczysław Weinberg, Polish composer (b. 1919)
February 27 – Sarah Palfrey Cooke, American tennis champion (b. 1912)
February 27 – Pat Smythe, British showjumper and author (b. 1928)