User:Mill 1/tst

January 1996

1

• Malladihalli Sri Raghavendra Swamiji, founder of Anatha Sevashrama Trust, Malladihalli (b. 1890)
• Moshe Aryeh Freund, Chief Rabbi (av beis din) of the Edah HaChareidis in Jerusalem (b. 1894)
• Leopoldo Benites, 28th President of the United Nations General Assembly
• Gertrude Blanch, American mathematician (b. 1897)
• Lionel Boulet, Canadian engineer, academic, and utilities executive (b. 1919)
• Arleigh Burke, U.S Navy Admiral and Chief of Naval Operations (b. 1901)
• Fulvio Nesti, Italian footballer (b. 1925)
• Arthur Rudolph, German rocket engineer (b. 1906)

2

• Thornton Leigh Page, American astronomer (b. 1913)
• Karl Targownik, Hungarian psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor (b. 1915)

3

• Teddy Andrulewicz, American football fullback/halfback (b. 1905)

4

• Vasily Afonin, Soviet air ace who fought in the German-Soviet War (b. 1919)
• Tino Bianchi, Italian actor (b. 1905)
• Zhou Mingzhen, Chinese palaeontologist (b. 1918)

5

• Yahya Ayyash, Palestinian bombmaker (b. 1966)
• Gus Bivona, American reed player (b. 1915)
• Lincoln Kirstein, American writer and impresario (b. 1907)
• Richard Versalle, American operatic tenor (b. 1932)

6

• Stanley Atkins, Anglican bishop (b. 1912)
• Ulrich Biel, German politician and representative of the German Christian Democratic Union (b. 1907)

7

• Benjamin Batson, American mathematician (b. 1942)
• Sir Rae McKaig, British admiral (b. 1922)
• Tarō Okamoto, Japanese artist (b. 1911)

8

• Carmen Conde Abellán, Spanish poet, narrative writer and teacher (b. 1907)
• Harvey Hancock, American business executive, journalist and political consultant (b. 1900)
• François Mitterrand, President of France and Co-Prince of Andorra (b. 1916)

9

• Moe Becker, American basketball player (b. 1917)
• Ronnie Bell, British physical chemist (b. 1907)
• Fearless Nadia, Indian actress and stuntwoman (b. 1908)
• Sultan Rahi, Pakistani film actor (b. 1938)

10

• Raymond H. Fogler, American centenarian and Assistant Secretary of the Navy (b. 1892)
• Alamgir M. A. Kabir, Bangladeshi police officer (b. 1911)

11

• Harold Walter Bailey, English scholar of Khotanese, Sanskrit, and the comparative study of Iranian languages (b. 1899)
• Tato Bores, Argentine film, theatre and television comedian (b. 1927)
• Eric Hebborn, art forger (b. 1934)

12

• Thomas Anderson, American stage and television actor (b. 1905)
• Garnett Blair, African-American baseball pitcher (b. 1921)
• Eduard Haken, Czech opera singer (b. 1910)
• Sir Edmund Happold, British structural engineer (b. 1930)
• John Howard Purnell, British chemist (b. 1925)
• Bartel Leendert van der Waerden, Dutch mathematician (b. 1903)

13

• Philip Dunleavy, Welsh politician (b. 1915)
• Dean Kelley, American basketball player (b. 1931)
• Ester Krumbachová, Czech screenwriter and costume designer (b. 1923)

14

• Myron Daciuk, Canadian Ukrainian Greek Catholic hierarch, Bishop of Edmonton (since 1991) (b. 1919)
• Casey Elliott, American stock car racing driver (b. 1974)

15

• Don Bauer, Australian rules footballer (b. 1922)
• Les Baxter, American musician and composer (b. 1922)
• Arthur Biggs, English professional footballer (b. 1915)
• Manfred Börner, German physicist (b. 1929)
• Paramount Chief Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho (b. 1938)

16

• Pieter Kasteleyn, Dutch physicist famous for his contributions to the field of Statistical Mechanics (b. 1924)

17

• Arnold Anderson, New Zealand track and field athlete (b. 1912)
• William O. Aydelotte, American historian (b. 1910)
• Barbara Jordan, American politician (b. 1936)
• Robert C. Zimmerman, American politician, Secretary of State of Wisconsin (b. 1910)

18

• Leonor Fini, Argentine artist (b. 1908)
• Endel Puusepp, Soviet Estonian World War II pilot (b. 1909)
• Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao, Indian (Telugu) film actor (b. 1923)
• Rudolf Wanderone, American pocket billiards player also known as Minnesota Fats (b. 1913)

19

• Upendranath Ashk, Indian novelist, short story writer and playwright (b. 1910)
• Bernard Baily, American comic book artist (b. 1916)
• A. G. Gaston, American businessman (b. 1892)
• Don Simpson, American film producer (b. 1943)

20

• Buster Benton, American blues guitarist and singer (b. 1932)
• Gerry Mulligan, American musician (b. 1927)

21

• Kaj Birksted, Danish flying ace during World War II (b. 1915)
• Luther Boyd Eubanks, American judge, Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma (b. 1917)
• Ban Tetsugyu Soin, Japanese Zen master (b. 1910)
• Henry Serrano Villard, American diplomat and author (b. 1900)

22

• William Cantrell, American power boat and IndyCar driver (b. 1908)
• Reynell Taylor, British army general (b. 1928)

23

• Norman MacCaig, Scottish poet and teacher (b. 1910)
• Art White, American football offensive lineman in the NFL (b. 1915)

24

• Yelizaveta Bagryantseva, Russian discus thrower and Olympic silver medalist (b. 1929)

25

• Billy Bailey, American murderer (b. 1947)
• Ruth Berghaus, German choreographer and opera and theatre director (b. 1927)
• Jonathan Larson, American composer and playwright (b. 1960)

26

• Gerrit Cornelis Berkouwer, Dutch theologian (b. 1903)
• Harold Brodkey, American fiction writer (b. 1930)
• Jiří Kotalík, Czech art historian and museum director (b. 1920)
• Georg Alexander, Duke of Mecklenburg, head of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (b. 1921)

27

• Elizabeth Monroe Boggs, American policy maker and scholar (b. 1913)
• Niño Rivera, Cuban songwriter, guitarist and bandleader (b. 1919)

28

• Roland J. Barnick, American military pilot and general (b. 1917)
• Devakanta Barua, President of the Indian National Congress (b. 1914)
• Joseph Brodsky, Russian-born poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1940)
• Janet McCarter Woolley, American bacteriologist (b. 1906)
• Jerry Siegel, American cartoonist (b. 1914)

29

• Stuart Olof Agrell, English geologist and mineralogist (b. 1913)

30

• Friedrich Benfer, German film actor (b. 1905)

31

• Julian Phelps Allan, English sculptor (b. 1892)
• Florieda Batson, American Olympic hurdler (b. 1900)
• Morris Bialis, American labor leader (b. 1897)
• Anneliese Bläsing, German politician (b. 1923)
• Gustave Solomon, American mathematician and engineer (b. 1930)
• Sir Peter Tait, New Zealand politician and businessman (b.1915)