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Actors Who Died in September 1996

  • Sep 5 Leonard Katzman, American TV screenwriter and producer (Dallas; Petrocelli; Route 66), dies of a heart attack at 69
  • Sep 9 Ruggero Mastroianni, Italian film editor (Giulietta degli spiriti), dies at 66
  • Sep 11 Guido Aristarco, Italian film critic (Cinema Nuovo), dies at 77
  • Sep 11 Joanne Dru [LaCock], American actress (Red River, All the King's Men), dies of lymphedema at 73
  • Sep 13 Jane Baxter, British actress (We Live Again, Blossom Time), dies at 87

Tupac Shakur (1971-1996)

Sep 13 American rapper and actor (Juice, Bullet), dies of internal bleeding after a drive-by shooting at 25

  • Sep 14 Juliet Prowse, English-South African stage and screen actress and dancer (Mona McCluskey), dies of pancreatic cancer. at 59
  • Sep 15 Joan Perry [Elizabeth Rosiland Miller], American film actress, model, and singer (Hands of a Stranger), dies at 85
  • Sep 16 Gene Nelson [Leander Berg], American screenwriter, director and actor (Tea For 2, Oklahoma), dies at 76
  • Sep 22 Dorothy Lamour [Mary Kaumeyer], American actress and singer (Road to Bali; My Favorite Brunette), dies of a heart attack at 81
  • Sep 23 Fujiko F. Fujio [Hiroshi Fujimoto], Japanese manga cartoon artist (Doraemon), dies at 62
  • Sep 24 Zeki Müren, Turkish actor, singer, and composer (Game of Silence), dies of a heart attack at 64
  • Sep 26 Mark Frankel, British actor (Leon the Pig Farmer), dies in a motorcycle accident at 34
  • Sep 29 Leslie Crowther, English comedian and TV host (The pPrice is Right), dies at 63