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Deaths in March 1996

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 9, 2026
Entity authorityQ4475424 ↗
Source-derived summary

The following is a list of notable deaths in March 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.

March 1996

1

Marie-Hélène de Rothschild, 68, French socialite.

Vergílio Ferreira, 80, Portuguese writer, essayist, and professor.

David Gebhard, 68, American architectural historian.

Khan Abdul Ghani Khan, 82, Pakistani poet, artist, writer and politician.

Susie Sharp, 88, American jurist and first female chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court.

Don Smith, 75, American basketball player (Minneapolis Lakers).

Thorleif Vangen, 75, Norwegian Olympic cross-country skier (1948).

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The public source identifies “Deaths in March 1996” as wikimedia list article. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Deaths, March and Wikimedia.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1996, 1948—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Deaths, March and Wikimedia providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Deaths in March 1996”, the useful work is to connect “wikimedia list article” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 9, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4475424. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1996 and 1948.

Critical limits

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This entry incorporates text from “Deaths in March 1996” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.