Hall of Fame: Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame, 1996

Born	Wrestler	Date of Birth	Date of Death
	Abdullah The Butcher	Jan 11th 1941
	Akira Maeda	Jan 24th 1959
	Al Costello	Dec 14th 1919	Sat, Jan 22nd 2000
	Alfonso Dantes	Apr 13th 1943	Wed, Jul 30th 2008
	Andre The Giant	May 19th 1946	Wed, Jan 27th 1993
	Antonino Rocca	Apr 13th 1927	Tue, Mar 15th 1977
	Antonio Inoki	Feb 20th 1943
	Antonio Peña	Jun 13th 1951	Thu, Oct 5th 2006
	Atsushi Onita	Oct 25th 1957
	Bert Assirati	Unknown	Thu, Aug 30th 1990
	Bill Watts	May 5th 1939
	Billy Graham	Jun 7th 1943
	Billy Robinson	Sep 18th 1939	Thu, Feb 27th 2014
	Billy Sandow	Sep 4th 1884	Fri, Sep 15th 1972
	Billy Watson	Jul 25th 1915	Sun, Feb 4th 1990
	Blue Demon	Apr 24th 1922	Sat, Dec 16th 2000
	Bobby Heenan	Nov 1st 1944	Sun, Sep 17th 2017
	Bobo Brazil	Jul 10th 1924	Tue, Jan 20th 1998
	Bret Hart	Jul 2nd 1957
	Bronko Nagurski	Nov 3rd 1908	Sun, Jan 7th 1990
	Bruiser Brody	Jun 18th 1946	Sun, Jul 17th 1988
	Bruno Sammartino	Oct 6th 1935	Wed, Apr 18th 2018
	Buddy Rogers	Feb 20th 1921	Fri, Jun 26th 1992
	Cavernario Galindo	Sep 27th 1923	Mon, Jul 19th 1999
	Danny Hodge	May 12th 1932
	Danny McShain	Oct 30th 1912	Tue, Jul 14th 1992
	Dara Singh	Nov 19th 1928	Thu, Jul 12th 2012
	Devil Masami	Jan 7th 1962
	Dick Lane	May 27th 1899	Sat, Sep 4th 1982
	Dick The Bruiser	Jun 26th 1929	Sun, Nov 10th 1991
	Don Leo Jonathan	Apr 29th 1931	Sat, Oct 13th 2018
	Dory Funk, Jr.	Feb 3rd 1942
	Dory Funk, Sr.	May 13th 1919	Sat, Jun 2nd 1973
	Dump Matsumoto	Nov 11th 1960
	Dusty Rhodes	Oct 12th 1945	Thu, Jun 11th 2015
	Dynamite Kid	Dec 5th 1958
	Earl McCready	Jun 15th 1908	Fri, Dec 9th 1983
	Ed Don George	Jun 3rd 1905	Wed, Sep 18th 1985
	Ed Lewis	Jun 30th 1891	Mon, Aug 8th 1966
	Eddie Graham	Jan 15th 1930	Mon, Jan 21st 1985
	El Santo	Sep 23rd 1917	Sun, Feb 5th 1984
	El Solitario	May 21st 1946	Sat, Apr 5th 1986
	Emil Dusek	Unknown	Tue, Jul 8th 1986
	Ernie Dusek	Unknown	Sun, Apr 10th 1994
	Ernie Ladd	Nov 28th 1938	Sat, Mar 10th 2007
	Frank Gotch	Apr 26th 1877	Sun, Dec 16th 1917
	Frank Tunney	Nov 12th 1912	Thu, May 19th 1983
	Fred Kohler	Jan 6th 1903	Sun, Aug 24th 1969
	Freddie Blassie	Feb 18th 1918	Mon, Jun 2nd 2003
	Fritz Von Erich	Aug 16th 1929	Wed, Sep 10th 1997
	Gene Kiniski	Nov 23rd 1928	Tue, Apr 13th 2010
	Genichiro Tenryu	Feb 2nd 1950
	George Hackenschmidt	Aug 1st 1878	Mon, Feb 19th 1968
	Giant Baba	Jan 23rd 1938	Sun, Jan 31st 1999
	Gordon Solie	Jan 26th 1929	Thu, Jul 27th 2000
	Gorgeous George	Mar 24th 1915	Thu, Dec 26th 1963
	Gory Guerrero	Jan 11th 1921	Tue, Apr 17th 1990
	Harley Race	Apr 11th 1943
	Hisashi Shinma	Unknown
	Hulk Hogan	Aug 11th 1953
	Jack Brisco	Sep 21st 1941	Mon, Feb 1st 2010
	Jackie Fargo	Jun 25th 1930	Sun, Jun 23rd 2013
	Jackie Sato	Oct 30th 1957	Mon, Aug 9th 1999
	Jaguar Yokota	Jul 25th 1961
	Jerry Lawler	Nov 29th 1949
	Jim Barnett	Jun 9th 1924	Fri, Sep 17th 2004
	Jim Cornette	Sep 17th 1961
	Jim Londos	Jan 2nd 1897	Tue, Aug 19th 1975
	Joe Dusek	Unknown	Sat, Oct 31st 1992
	Joe Stecher	Apr 3rd 1893	Thu, Mar 28th 1974
	John Pesek	Feb 21st 1894	Sun, Mar 12th 1978
	Johnny Valentine	Sep 22nd 1928	Tue, Apr 24th 2001
	Jumbo Tsuruta	Mar 25th 1951	Sat, May 13th 2000
	Karl Gotch	Aug 3rd 1924	Sat, Jul 28th 2007
	Killer Kowalski	Oct 13th 1926	Tue, Aug 19th 2008
	Kintaro Oki	Feb 24th 1929	Thu, Oct 26th 2006
	Lance Russell	Mar 18th 1926	Tue, Oct 3rd 2017
	Leroy McGuirk	Dec 13th 1910	Fri, Sep 9th 1988
	Lou Thesz	Apr 24th 1916	Sun, Apr 28th 2002
	Mad Dog Vachon	Sep 14th 1929	Thu, Nov 21st 2013
	Mil Mascaras	Jul 15th 1942
	Mildred Burke	Aug 5th 1915	Sat, Feb 18th 1989
	Mitsuharu Misawa	Jun 17th 1962	Sat, Jun 13th 2009
	Negro Casas	Jan 10th 1960
	Nick Bockwinkel	Dec 6th 1934	Sat, Nov 14th 2015
	Nobuhiko Takada	Apr 12th 1962
	Pat O'Connor	Aug 22nd 1924	Thu, Aug 16th 1990
	Pat Patterson	Jan 19th 1941
	Paul Boesch	Oct 2nd 1912	Tue, Mar 7th 1989
	Perro Aguayo	Jan 18th 1946
	Randy Savage	Nov 15th 1952	Fri, May 20th 2011
	Ray Steele	Feb 2nd 1900	Sun, Sep 11th 1949
	Ray Stevens	Sep 5th 1935	Fri, May 3rd 1996
	Rayo de Jalisco, Sr.	Nov 22nd 1932
	Rene Guajardo	Jan 4th 1933	Mon, May 11th 1992
	Rey Mendoza	Jul 5th 1929	Wed, Apr 16th 2003
	Ric Flair	Feb 25th 1949
	Ricky Steamboat	Feb 28th 1953
	Riki Choshu	Dec 3rd 1951
	Rikidozan	Nov 14th 1924	Sun, Dec 15th 1963
	Road Warrior Animal	Jan 26th 1960
	Road Warrior Hawk	Sep 12th 1957	Sun, Oct 19th 2003
	Roddy Piper	Apr 17th 1954	Thu, Jul 30th 2015
	Roy Heffernan	Jul 12th 1925	Thu, Sep 24th 1992
	Rudy Dusek	Jan 25th 1901	Wed, Oct 27th 1971
	Salvador Lutteroth	Mar 21st 1897	Sun, Sep 6th 1987
	Sam Muchnick	Aug 22nd 1905	Wed, Dec 30th 1998
	Stan Hansen	Aug 29th 1949
	Stanislaus Zbyszko	Apr 1st 1879	Sat, Sep 23rd 1967
	Stu Hart	May 3rd 1915	Thu, Oct 16th 2003
	Tatsumi Fujinami	Dec 28th 1953
	Ted DiBiase	Jan 18th 1954
	Terry Funk	Jun 30th 1944
	The Crusher	Jul 10th 1926	Fri, Oct 21st 2005
	The Destroyer	Jul 30th 1931
	The Sheik	Jun 9th 1926	Sat, Jan 18th 2003
	Tiger Mask I	Nov 24th 1957
	Tom Jenkins	Aug 3rd 1872	Wed, Jun 19th 1957
	Toots Mondt	Jan 18th 1894	Thu, Jun 10th 1976
	Vader	May 14th 1955	Mon, Jun 18th 2018
	Verne Gagne	Feb 26th 1926	Mon, Apr 27th 2015
	Vince McMahon	Aug 24th 1945
	Vincent J. McMahon	Jul 6th 1914	Thu, May 24th 1984
	Wild Red Berry	Nov 20th 1906	Tue, Jul 24th 1973
	Yvon Robert	Oct 8th 1914	Mon, Jul 12th 1971