Deaths in August 1997
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The following is a list of notable deaths in August 1997.
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.
August 1997
1
- Kenneth W. Bilby, 78, American RCA executive, leukemia.[1]
- Berta Alves de Sousa, 91, Portuguese pianist and composer.
- Ngiratkel Etpison, 73, Palauan politician.
- Dame Bertha Isaacs, 97, Bahamian teacher, tennis player, politician and women's rights activist.[2]
- Lawrence Alexander Sidney Johnson, 72, Australian taxonomic botanist, cancer.
- Angel Acuña Lizaña, 78, Mexican Olympic basketball player (1948).[3]
- Norio Nagayama, 48, Japanese spree killer and novelist, execution by hanging.
- Gene Richardson, 69, American baseball player.[4]
- Sviatoslav Richter, 82, Ukrainian pianist, heart attack.[5]
- Janet G. Travell, 95, American physician and medical researcher, heart failure.[6]
- Hans von Luck, 86, German Wehrmacht officer during World War II.[7]
2
- William S. Burroughs, 83, American author (Naked Lunch, Junkie) and visual artist, heart attack.[8]
- John Churcher, 91, British army general.
- Antonis Daglis, Greek serial killer, suicide by hanging.
- Joyce Dingwell, 89, Australian writer.[9]
- Feim Ibrahimi, 61, Albanian composer.
- Harald Kihle, 92, Norwegian painter and illustrator.[10]
- James Krüss, 71, German children's author and illustrator.[11]
- Fela Kuti, 58, Nigerian musician and human rights activist, AIDS (disputed).[12]
- Russ Mosley, 79, American football player (Green Bay Packers).[13]
- Frank E. Smith, 79, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1951-1962), complications from strokes.[14]
- Ricardo Muñoz Suay, 79, Spanish film director, producer and screenwriter.[15]
- Michèle Pujol, 46, French intellectual, feminist, and human rights activist, cancer.
- Rhydwen Williams, 80, Welsh poet, novelist and baptist minister.
3
- Peter A. Carruthers, 62, American physicist.[16]
- Joan Erikson, 94, Austrian-Canadian author, educator, and dance ethnographer.[17]
- Mladen Koščak, 60, Croatian football player and Olympian (1956).[18]
- Pietro Rizzuto, 63, Canadian politician, member of the Senate of Canada (1976- ).[19]
- Nirmal Chandra Sinha, 85–86, Indian tibetologist and author.
- Pete Willett, 95, American baseball player.[20]
4
- Horace Bristol, 88, American photographer.[21]
- Ces Burke, 83, New Zealand cricketer.[22]
- Dick Bush, 65, British cinematographer (Tommy, Victor Victoria, Twins of Evil).[23]
- Jeanne Calment, 122, French supercentenarian and the oldest person ever documented in history, senility.[24]
- Tom Eckersley, 82, English poster artist and teacher of design.[25]
- Nicholas J. Hoff, 91, Hungarian-American aeronautics and astronautic engineer.[26]
- Gene Johnson, 61, American gridiron football player (Philadelphia Eagles, Minnesota Vikings, New York Giants).[27]
- Jens Lundgaard, 86, Danish footballer.[28]
- Lloyd Marshall, 83, American light heavyweight boxer.
- Ariel Maughan, 74, American basketball player.[29]
- Ray Renfro, 67, American gridiron football player (Cleveland Browns).[30]
- Sidney Simon, 80, American painter, sculptor, and muralist.[31]
- Alexander Young, 58, Scottish musician, lung cancer.
5
- Dick Day, 77, Australian rules footballer.[32]
- Clarence M. Kelley, 85, American politician and director of the FBI.[33]
- Poul Møller, 77, Danish Conservative People's Party politician.[34]
- Don Steele, 61, American disc jockey, lung cancer.[35]
- Michael J. Tully Jr., 64, American lawyer and politician, heart attack.[36]
6
- Lance Barnard, 78, Australian politician and diplomat.[37]
- Bill Behr, 78, American basketball player.[38]
- Maria Antonietta Beluzzi, 67, Italian actress, infarction.
- Birendra Kumar Bhattacharya, 72, Indian writer.
- Shin Ki-ha, 56, South Korean politician, plane crash.[39]
- Jürgen Kuczynski, 92, German economist and communist.[40]
- Tom Normanton, 80, British politician.
- John Porter, 93, Canadian ice hockey player and Olympian (1928).[41]
- Noel Teggart, 55, Irish Olympic cyclist (1972).[42]
- Samuel Paul Welles, 89, American palaeontologist.[43]
- Bora Öztürk, 42, Turkish football player, cancer.
7
- Rudolf Blügel, 70, German politician and member of the Bundestag.
- Jules Goedhuys, 92, Belgian racing cyclist.[44]
- Kay Halle, 93, American journalist, author and World War II OSS operative.[45]
- Elisabeth Höngen, 90, German operatic mezzo-soprano and actress.
- Eugene Langenraedt, 90, Belgian Olympic sprinter (1928).[46]
- Robert Major, 82, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1968-1972).[47]
- Volker Prechtel, 55, German actor, cancer.[48]
- Léon Spartz, 70, Luxembourgian Olympic footballer (1952).[49]
8
- Joseph Aquilina, 78, Maltese author and linguist.
- Orville H. Hampton, 80, American screenwriter.[50]
- Dardanelle Hadley, 79, American jazz musician.
- William Lithgow, 77, English cricketer.[51]
- Plato Malozemoff, 87, Russian-American engineer and businessman, congestive heart failure.[52]
- Paul Rudolph, 78, American architect, peritoneal mesothelioma.[53]
- Oad Swigart, 82, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates).[54]
9
- Doug Adams, 47, American gridiron football player (Cincinnati Bengals).[55]
- Max Bloesch, 89, Swiss Olympic handball player (1936).[56]
- Gabriel Cattand, 73, French actor.[57]
- Herbert de Souza, 61, American sociologist and activist, AIDS-related complications.[58]
- Ilpo Koskela, 52, Finnish ice hockey player and Olympian (1968, 1972).[59]
- Trần Đại Nghĩa, 83, Vietnamese scientist and military engineer.
10
- Peter Braestrup, 66–67, American journalist, heart attack.[60]
- Valery Chaptynov, 52, Russian politician.
- Roy Chipman, 58, American basketball coach, colorectal cancer.
- Malú Gatica, 75, Chilean actress and singer.
- William Jordy, 80, American architectural historian.[61]
- Steve Kraftcheck, 68, Canadian ice hockey player (Boston Bruins, New York Rangers, Toronto Maple Leafs).[62]
- Jean-Claude Lauzon, 43, Canadian filmmaker and screenwriter, plane crash.[63]
- Carlton Moss, 88, American screenwriter, actor and film director.[64]
- Conlon Nancarrow, 84, American-Mexican composer.[65]
- Marie-Soleil Tougas, 27, Canadian actress and tv host, plane crash.[66]
- Bob Welborn, 69, American racing driver.[67]
- George Zames, 63, Polish-Canadian control theorist and professor.
11
- Miksa Bondi, 79, Hungarian Olympic boxer (1948).[68]
- Bert McTaggart, 81, Australian rules footballer.[69]
- Frank Pearson, 77, American Negro league baseball player.[70]
- Jacques Robert, 76, French author, screenwriter and journalist.[71]
12
- Luther Allison, 57, American blues guitarist, cancer.[72]
- Anna Balakian, 82, Armenian-American professor of comparative literature, congestive heart failure.[73]
- Rex Barney, 72, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers).[74]
- Ambrogio Bessi, 82, Italian Olympic basketball player (1936).[75]
- Gösta Bohman, 86, Swedish politician.[76]
- Jack Delano, 83, American photographer, kidney failure.[77]
- Rob Denton, 89, American soccer player and Olympian (1936).[78]
- Keith Harper, 70, Australian rules football player.
- Robert Hetzron, 58, Hungarian-born linguist.[79]
- Gulshan Kumar, 46, Indian businessman and film producer, shot.[80]
- Dick Marx, 73, American jazz pianist and arranger, traffic collision.
- Mario Montuori, 77, Italian film cinematographer and painter.
- Abe Newborn, 77, American talent agent and theatre producer, congestive heart failure.[81]
- Sam Nolutshungu, 52, South African academic, cancer.
- Len Norris, 83, Canadian editorial cartoonist.
- Achilles Papapetrou, 90, Greek theoretical physicist.
- Albert L. Smith, Jr., 65, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1981-1983).[82]
- Conrad von Molo, 90, Austrian film producer and editor.[83]
- Ali Yata, 76, Moroccan communist leader.
13
- Vladimir Gribov, 67, Soviet and Russian theoretical physicist.[84]
- António de Herédia, 96, Portuguese Olympic sailor (1928, 1936, 1948).[85]
- Robert L. Leggett, 71, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1963-1979).[86]
- Dick Mather, 56, Canadian politician, heart attack.
- Emil Mosbacher, 75, American yachtsman and Chief of Protocol of the United States, cancer.[87]
- Harlow Rothert, 89, American Olympic shot putter (1928, 1932).[88]
- Marjorie Lynette Sigley, 68, English artist, writer, actress, choreographer and theatre director, cancer.[89]
- Carel Weight, 88, English painter.[90]
14
- John Elliot, 79, British novelist, screenwriter and television producer.[91]
- Charlie Fleming, 70, Scottish footballer.
- Diana E. Forsythe, 49, American anthropology researcher, hiking accident.[92]
- Frederick Carl Galda, 79, American attorney and politician.[93]
- George Pfister, 78, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers), and coach, heart attack.[94]
- Guido Vincenzi, 65, Italian football player and manager, A.L.S.[95]
15
- Ida Gerhardt, 92, Dutch writer and poet.[96]
- Ray Heatherton, 88, American singer, Broadway performer and television personality, Alzheimer's disease.[97]
- Lubka Kolessa, 95, Canadian-Ukrainian pianist and educator.[98]
- Lawrence Morgan, 82, Australian rules footballer, equestrian and Olympian (1960).[99]
- Steve Pruski, 73, Canadian football player.
- Dave Solomon, 84, Fijian-New Zealand rugby player and coach.[100]
- Çesk Zadeja, 70, Albanian composer.[101]
16
- Yanick Dupré, 24, Canadian ice hockey player (Philadelphia Flyers), leukemia.[102]
- Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, 48, Pakistani Qawwali musician, heart attack.[103]
- Robert Lang, 80, Swiss cyclist.[104]
- Alf Malland, 80, Norwegian actor.
- Plum Mariko, 29, Japanese female professional wrestler, wrestling accident.[105]
- Jacques Pollet, 75, French racing driver.
- Donn Reynolds, 76, Canadian country music singer and yodeler.[106]
- Hendrik van den Bergh, 82, South African police official.
- Roger Vrigny, 77, French writer.[107]
17
- Burnum Burnum, 61, Australian Aboriginal activist, actor, and author, heart disease.[108]
- Secondo Magni, 85, Italian racing cyclist.[109]
- Don Owens, 65, American gridiron football player (Washington Redskins, Philadelphia Eagles, St. Louis Cardinals).[110]
- David Schweitzer, 72, Israeli football player and manager.[111]
- Richard Skalak, 74, American biomedical engineering pioneer.[112]
18
- Praphas Charusathien, 84, Thai military officer and politician.
- Fedor Hanžeković, 84, Croatian film director.[113]
- Don Knight, 64, English actor (The Apple Dumpling Gang, Swamp Thing, The Hawaiians), stroke.[114]
- Ante Pivčević, 71, Croatian Olympic sailor (1960).[115]
- Maria Prymachenko, 89, Ukrainian folk art painter.
- Frank P. Sanders, 78, American Under Secretary of the Navy (1972–73).
- Robert Swenson, 40, American professional wrestler (WCCW) and actor (Batman & Robin, Bulletproof), heart failure.
- Tochiakagi Takanori, 42, Japanese sumo wrestler.[116]
- Harry R. Wellman, 98, American academic.[117]
19
- Cathleen Cordell, 82, American actress, emphysema.[118]
- René van Hove, 84, Dutch Olympic cyclist (1936).[119]
- Jim Karcher, 83, American gridiron football player (Boston/Washington Redskins).[120]
- Robson Lowe, 92, English philatelist, stamp dealer and stamp auctioneer.
- Petr Novák, 51, Czech rock musician, poisoned.
- Mario Velarde, 57, Mexican football player.[121]
20
- Scott Armstrong, 83, American basketball player.[122]
- Norris Bradbury, 88, American physicist, infectious disease.[123]
- William Humphrey, 73, American writer, cancer.[124]
- Leo Jaffe, 88, American film executive.[125]
- Bob Switzer, 83, American inventor, businessman and environmentalist, Parkinson's disease.[126]
21
- Misael Pastrana Borrero, 73, President of Colombia.[127]
- Somers Cox, 86, New Zealand Olympic rower (1932).[128]
- Abdul Rahim Ghafoorzai, Afghani politician and diplomat, prime minister of afghanistan (since 1997), plane crash.[129]
- Jean Horsley, 84, New Zealand artist.
- William Jopling, 86, Italian-British leprologist.[130]
- Guillermo Molina, 88, American baseball player.[131]
- Yuri Nikulin, 75, Soviet/Russian actor and clown, heart failure.[132]
22
- Prince Álvaro of Orleans, 87, Spanish noble and Infante.[133]
- James Edmund Jeffries, 72, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1979-1983).[134]
- James K. Johnson, 81, United States Air Force officer.[135]
- François Lachenal, 79, Swiss publisher and diplomat.[136]
- Eduardo Lopes, 79, Portuguese road and track cyclist, cerebral vascular accident.[137]
- Bill MacIntosh, 66, Canadian Olympic sailor (1952).[138]
- Matti Sippala, 89, Finnish athlete and Olympian (1932).[139]
- Robin Skelton, 71, British-Canadian academic, writer, poet, and anthologist.[140]
- Mary Louise Smith, 82, American politician and women's rights activist, lung cancer.[141]
- Brendan Smyth, 70, Northern Irish Roman Catholic priest and convicted child molester, heart attack.
- Virgil Wagner, 75, Canadian football player.
- Roy Zimmerman, 79, American gridiron football player.[142]
23
- Mike Calhoun, 40, American football player (Chicago Bears, San Francisco 49ers, Tampa Bay Buccaneers).[143]
- Guy Curtright, 84, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox).[144]
- Eric Gairy, 75, Prime Minister of Grenada (1974–1979).
- Jack Harris, 95, Canadian Olympic middle-distance runner (1924).[145]
- Buddy Hassett, 85, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers, Boston Bees/Braves, New York Yankees), bone cancer.[146]
- Lucy Somerville Howorth, 102, American lawyer, feminist and politician.[147]
- John Kendrew, 80, British molecular biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.[148]
- Elena Mayorova, 39, Soviet and Russian actress, burns.
- Jean Poperen, 72, French politician.[149]
- Jan Šejna, 70, Czechoslovak Army Major General and defector.[150]
24
- Werner Abrolat, 73, German actor.[151]
- Davide Ancilotto, 23, Italian basketball player, brain ischemia during game.[152]
- Hardial Bains, 58, Indian-Canadian microbiology lecturer and communist politician, cancer.[153]
- Rex Ellsworth, 89, American thoroughbred horse breeder.
- Louis Essen, 88, English physicist.
- Tete Montoliu, 64, Spanish jazz pianist, lung cancer.[154]
- Zofia Rydet, 86, Polish photographer.
- Edgar F. Shannon, Jr., 79, American university director, cancer.[155]
- Luigi Villoresi, 88, Italian motor racing driver.
25
- Clodomiro Almeyda, 74, Chilean politician, colon cancer.[156]
- Mauro Cristofani, 56, Linguist and researcher in Etruscan studies.[157]
- Muriel Frances Dana, 80, American silent film era child actress.
- Peter Dews, 67, British stage director.[158]
- James Gould, 83, New Zealand rower.
- Carl Richard Jacobi, 89, American journalist and author.[159]
- Füreya Koral, 87, Turkish ceramics artist.[160]
- Noé Murayama, 67, Mexican actor.
- Bijan Najdi, 55, Iranian writer and poet.
- Robert Pinget, 78, French avant-garde writer.[161]
- Camilla Spira, 91, German actress.[162]
- Vitaly Tulenev, 60, Soviet and Russian painter, visual artist and art teacher.
26
- Marcello Aliprandi, 63, Italian film director.[163]
- Peter Bakonyi, 64, Hungarian-born Canadian fencer and Olympian (1968).[164]
- Hone Glendinning, 85, British cinematographer.
- William Kenneth Kiernan, 81, Canadian businessman and politician.
- Brendan McCarthy, 52, American football player (Atlanta Falcons, Denver Broncos), heart attack.[165]
27
- Saim Arıkan, 91, Turkish Olympic wrestler (1928, 1936).[166]
- Sotiria Bellou, 76, Greek singer, cancer.[167]
- Sally Blane, 87, American actress, cancer.[168]
- Ing Chang-ki, 79, Chinese industrialist and Go player, cancer.
- Arthur Cutler, 84, New Zealand cricketer.[169]
- Johannes Edfelt, 92, Swedish writer, poet, and literary critic.[170]
- Noël Henderson, 69, Northern Irish rugby player.
- James Lindsay, 90, British politician.
- Dick N. Lucas, 77, American animator (The Fox and the Hound, One Hundred and One Dalmatians, The Rescuers).
- Samuel A. Peeples, 79, American writer, cancer.[171]
- Brandon Tartikoff, 48, American television executive, Hodgkin's lymphoma.[172]
28
- Frank Bencriscutto, 68, American concert band conductor and composer.[173]
- Jim Bredar, 65, American college basketball player (Illinois Fighting Illini).[174]
- Joyce Ebert, 64, American actress, cancer.[175]
- Cesar Gaudard, 82, Swiss Olympic wrestler (1936).[176]
- Tõnu Haljand, 52, Soviet Estonian skier and Olympian (1968).[177]
- Werner Mieth, 85, American gridiron football player.
- Lou Scoffic, 84, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals).[178]
- Peter Springett, 51, English footballer, cancer.[179]
- Masaru Takumi, 61, Japanese yakuza lord, shot.
- Lloyd A. Thompson, 65, Nigerian classicist and academic.
29
- Richard Cottam, 72, American political scientist, Iranist and CIA operative.[180]
- Osborne Cowles, 98, American basketball player and coach.
- Kansari Halder, 86, Indian politician.[181]
- James Latane Noel Jr., 87, American district judge (United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas).[182]
- Rudolf Pichlmayr, 65, German surgeon.[183]
- Nelly Prono, 71, Paraguayan actress, cerebrovascular disease.
- Ernest Ziaja, 78, Polish Olympic ice hockey player (1948).[184]
30
- John D. Craig, 94, American writer, film producer, and television host.[185]
- Frunze Dovlatyan, 70, Armenian film director and actor.[186]
- Toshiya Fujita, 65, Japanese film director, film actor, and screenwriter, liver failure.[187]
- Dale Lewis, 64, American wrestler and Olympian (1956, 1960).[188]
- Ernst Wilimowski, 81, German–Polish football player.[189]
- Veselin Đuranović, 72, Montenegrin politician.
31
- Will Hare, 81, American actor (Back to the Future, The Rose, Silent Night, Deadly Night), heart attack.[190]
- Heinz Kaufmann, 83, German rower.[191]
- John M. Leddy, 83, United States Department of State official.[192]
- Oscar Olson, 79, American basketball player.[193]
- Lotus Weinstock, 54, American stand-up comedian, author, musician, and actress, brain tumor.[194]
- People killed in the Pont de l'Alma car crash:[195]
- Diana, Princess of Wales, 36, British royal and ex-wife of future King Charles III, and activist.[196]
- Dodi Fayed, 42, Egyptian film producer (Chariots of Fire, Hook).[197]