* 2001 – A federal grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia, indicts 13 Saudis and a Lebanese in the 1996 bombing of the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia that killed 19 American servicemen.

In 1996 Israel launched Operation Grapes of Wrath, blocking important Lebanese harbour cities and bombing a Syrian military base.

Al-Mughassil, Al-Houri, Al-Sayegh, Al-Qassab, and the unidentified Lebanese man bought a tanker truck in early June 1996.

Lebanese Councillors elected were Cr Elasmar in 1996, Cr Kairouz in 1998, 2002 and 2004 and Cr Asmar in 1998, 2002, 2004 and 2008.

In Lebanon in 2003, Marcel Khalife, a well-known Lebanese singer, faced up to three years in jail after Beirut's newly appointed chief investigating judge reopened a case that accused him of insulting Islam in 1996, and again in 1999, by singing a verse from the Qur ' an in one of his songs ( Ana Yussef, I am Josef ).

• He made music directed to the martyrs of the massacre ofQana, resulting from striking Israel to a United Nations school included Lebanese refugees fleeing the fighting on April 18, 1996, during which he spent a number of martyrs reached 106 and injuring a large number of innocent people in 1996.

In November 1996, following the Lebanese " Horizon 2000 " reconstruction plan, the airline took measures to modernise its operations, restructure activities and increase capital to around $ 40 million.

* Lebanese Washing Stories, New Writing 5, The British Council / Vintage 1996

* 1927 – Gerry Mulligan, American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, composer, and arranger ( d. 1996 )

* 1931 – Zeki Müren, Turkish, singer, actor, and composer ( d. 1996 )

* 1913 – Lucio Agostini, Italian-born Canadian conductor and composer ( d. 1996 )

Leading contemporary composer Philip Glass described Low as " a work of genius " in 1992, when he used it as the basis for his Symphony No. 1 " Low "; subsequently, Glass used Bowie's next album as the basis for his 1996 Symphony No. 4 " Heroes ".

* 1928 – Jacob Druckman, American composer ( d. 1996 )

* 1949 – David Hogan, American composer ( d. 1996 )

* 1895 – Irving Caesar, American songwriter and composer ( d. 1996 )

* 1912 – Vernon Elliott, English conductor and composer ( d. 1996 )

Andriessen was born in Utrecht into a musical family, the son of the composer Hendrik Andriessen ( 1892 – 1981 ), brother of composers Jurriaan Andriessen ( 1925 – 1996 ) and Caecilia Andriessen ( 1931 -), and nephew of Willem Andriessen ( 1887 – 1964 ).

* Trilogie van de Laatste Dag ( 1996 – 97 ) ( each of its three sections may be performed separately: ( i ) The Last Day ( texts by Lucebert, folksong A Woman and Her Lass ) for boy soprano, 4 male voices, orchestra ; ( ii ) TAO ( texts by Laozi, Kotaro Takamura ) for 4 female voices, piano voice, koto, small orchestra winds, 2 horns, harp, piano (+ celesta ), 2 percussion, minimum 14 strings ; ( iii ) Dancing on the Bones ( text by the composer ) for children's chorus, orchestra, 1997 )

* 1930 – Tōru Takemitsu, Japanese composer ( d. 1996 )

* 1948 – Don Grolnick, American pianist and composer ( d. 1996 )

** David Tudor, American pianist and composer ( d. 1996 )

** Morton Gould, American composer ( d. 1996 )

* December 8 – Mieczyslaw Weinberg, Polish composer ( d. 1996 )

** Jacob Druckman, American composer ( d. 1996 )

* September 10 – Boris Alexandrovich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer ( d. 1996 )

* October 8 – Tōru Takemitsu, Japanese composer ( d. 1996 )

* Irving Caesar ( 1895 – 1996 ), American lyricist and theater composer

David Eugene Tudor ( January 20, 1926 – August 13, 1996 ) was an American pianist and composer of experimental music.

George Walker was the first African American composer to win the Prize, which he received for his work Lilacs in 1996.

* Nick Monteleone – film and television composer, arranger and musician, graduated from Milton High in 1996

* Wayne Barlow, composer ( 1912 – 1996 )

Actors Lorne Greene and Lee Majors, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the USSR Leonid Brezhnev, composer John Williams, author Graham Greene, and former Mauritian QC and Politician Sir Gaetan Duval ( 1930 – 1996 ), football player Johan Cruijff, drummer Charlie Watts, Cheech Marin, Thomas Chong, television host and comedian Jay Leno, Mike Hailwood and composer John Barry musician Carlos Santana, all owned SMs.

* Arafat, Karim W. 1996, Pausanias ' Greece: Ancient Artists and Roman Rulers ( Cambridge ).

He turned professional in 1996 and in 1998 he won two ATP Challenger events in Santa Cruz, Bolivia over Luis Adrián Morejón and finished year by winning in Santiago defeating Karim Alami.

The book is dedicated to Karim Zaimović ( Strip Art Features 1996 edition, page 2 ), a young journalist and publicist killed in Sarajevo during the siege by shell launched from Serbs mortar, and in part to Ervin Rustemagić, Hermann ’ s personal friend and survivor of Sarajevo siege.

This is clearly shown in the works of Syaikh Ahmad Khatib, Syaikh Thaher Djalaluddin, Abdul Karim Amrullah, Ahmad Dahlan, Mohammad Natsir, Oemar Said Tjokroaminoto, Agus Salim, Misbach, and so forth ( Noor 1996: 37 ).

In 1996 Haddad returned to Israel to pursue his rap career.

The band performed on part of the 1996 Lollapalooza tour in the rotating Mystery Spot, with a setlist largely composed of material from their heyday between 1978 and 1982.

Many suggestions for suitable memorials were sent to Oklahoma City, but an official memorial planning committee was not set up until early 1996, when the Murrah Federal Building Memorial Task Force, composed of 350 members, was set up to formulate plans for a memorial to commemorate the victims of the bombing.

Sex, Lies, and Videotape was followed by a series of low-budget box-office disappointments: Kafka, a biopic mixing fact and Kafka's own fiction ( notably The Castle and The Trial ), written by Lem Dobbs and starring Jeremy Irons as Franz Kafka ; King of the Hill ( 1993 ), a critically acclaimed Depression-era drama ; The Underneath ( 1995 ), a remake of Robert Siodmak's 1949 film noir Criss Cross ; and Schizopolis ( 1996 ), a comedy which he starred in, wrote, composed, and shot as well as directed.

The instruments develop into an inverted minor derivation of the classic Tomb Raider motif composed by Nathan McCree in 1996.

Appleton was first introduced to Russian musicians and artists by the choral conductor / ethnologist Dmitri Pokrovsky ( 1944 – 1996 ) and this began his compositional return to instrumental and choral music, much of it composed for the pianist Julia Turkina and cellist Alexander Zagorinsky.

In 1996, he reprised his role as Rincewind for the game's sequel, and composed and sang its theme song, " That's Death ".

In 1996, Shadric Smith composed the country-western swing " Rollin ' Down That Lincoln Highway " which was recorded in 2003 by Smith and Denny Osburn.

" Edge produced two albums with guitarist Adrian Gurvitz, Kick Off Your Muddy Boots ( 1975 ) and Paradise Ballroom ( 1976 ); Hayward composed the acoustically textured Songwriter ( 1977 ), which would be followed up in later years by Night Flight ( 1980 ), Moving Mountains ( 1985 ), ( which Hayward dedicated to Peter Knight ) Classic Blue ( 1989 ), The View From The Hill ( 1996 ), and Live In San Juan Capistrano ( 1998 ); Lodge released Natural Avenue ( 1977 ); Pinder produced The Promise ( 1976 ); and Thomas collaborated on two projects with songwriter Nicky James, producing From Mighty Oaks ( 1975 ) and Hopes, Wishes and Dreams ( 1976 ).

In 1996 Callow directed Cantabile in three musical pieces ( Commuting, The Waiter's Revenge, Ricercare No. 4 ) composed by his friend Stephen Oliver.

Clint Mansell's soundtrack for the film was also well-regarded, and since their first collaboration in 1996, Mansell has composed the music to every Aronofsky film.

Dead Prez, stylized as dead prez, is a hip hop duo from the United States, composed of stic. man and M-1, formed in 1996 in New York City.

The original score for Command & Conquer: Red Alert was composed by Frank Klepacki and was voted the best video game soundtrack of 1996 by PC Gamer and Gameslice magazines.

It was composed at Cologne ( Germany ) and Mollina ( Spain ), June-July 1996, and is 20 ' 00 " in length, without text.

Plimpton appeared in the 1996 documentary When We Were Kings about the " Rumble in the Jungle " Ali-Foreman Championship fight opposite Norman Mailer crediting Muhammad Ali as a poet who composed the world's shortest poem: " Me-We ".

The 17-minute work was composed in Cologne, Germany and Saint-Germain des Angles in Évreux, France, between July 9 and July 27, 1996.

* Now composed by Sally Potter & Fred Frith, sung by Sally Potter, recorded in Paris 1996.

* Red, yellow, blue composed by Sally Potter & Fred Frith, recorded in Paris in 1996.

* Rage composed by Sally Potter & Fred Frith, sung by Sally Potter, recorded in Paris in 1996.

* Danse de cuisine composed by Sally Potter & Fred Frith, sung by Sally Potter, recorded in Paris in 1996.

* Jacob and the angel composed by Sally Potter & Fred Frith, sung by Sally Potter, recorded in Paris in 1996.

( 1996 ), another film of Burton's with music composed by Elfman.

In 1996, Evelyn Swenson composed an opera based on the first book in the Redwall series.

The university was composed of colleges until 1996, when the university was reorganised with a two-tier structure of member institutions in order to absorb the Cardiff Institute of Higher Education ( which became the University of Wales Institute, Cardiff ( UWIC )) and the Gwent College of Higher Education ( which became University of Wales College, Newport ( UWCN )).

The Kliq ( sometimes spelled as Clique ) was a backstage group in the World Wrestling Federation ( WWF, now WWE ) during the mid 1990s, composed of Shawn Michaels, Kevin Nash, Scott Hall, Sean Waltman, and Triple H. In 1996, The Kliq broke character at a house show at Madison Square Garden in an incident referred to as the " Curtain Call ", an event that affected the WWF's subsequent storylines and development.