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List of notable deaths in a month
The following is a list of notable deaths in December 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.
December 1997
1
Julius Barnathan , 70, American broadcast engineer, lung cancer.
[1]
Stéphane Grappelli , 89, French-Italian jazz violinist.
[2]
Władysław Młynek , 67, Polish teacher, writer and poet.
Jiří Pleskot , 75, Czech actor.
Khan Ataur Rahman , 68, Bangladeshi film actor, director, and singer.
Edwin Rosario , 34, Puerto Rican boxer,
aneurysm .
[3]
2
Guido Brunner , 67, Spanish-German diplomat and politician.
[4]
Silvio Ceccato , 83, Italian philosopher and linguist.
[5]
Shirley Crabtree , 67, British wrestler known as Big Daddy , stroke.
[6]
Harald Gelhaus , 82, German
U-boat commander during World War II.
Robert A. Hall , 86, American linguist.
[7]
Steve Hamilton , 63, American basketball player,
colon cancer .
[8]
Michael Hedges , 43, American composer, guitarist and singer-songwriter, car accident.
[9]
Marge Kotlisky , 70, American actress (
Major League ,
Thief ,
Sixteen Candles ).
Endicott Peabody , 77, American gridiron football player and politician,
leukemia .
[10]
3
Stan Anderson , 58, Scottish football player.
Domenico Enrici , 88, Italian prelate of the
Catholic Church .
Benito Jacovitti , 74, Italian comic artist.
[11]
Vic Lombardi , 75, American
Major League Baseball player.
[12]
Olaf Pedersen , 77, Danish historian of science.
[13]
4
Leo August , 83, American philatelist.
[14]
Morton Bard , 73, American psychologist and author of
The Crime Victim's Book .
[15]
Buck Barry , 80, American actor and radio and television personality.
[16]
Joe Brown , 71, American boxer.
Ho Sin Hang , 97, Hong Kong entrepreneur and philanthropist.
G. S. Jayanath ,
Sri Lanka Army officer,
killed in action .
Vytautas Kazimieras Jonynas , 90, Lithuanian artist.
[17]
Alberto Manzi , 73, Italian school teacher, writer and television host.
[18]
K. A. Nizami , 71, Indian historian and diplomat.
[19]
Richard Vernon , 72, English actor (
Goldfinger ,
Gandhi ,
The Man in Room 17 ), complications from
Parkinson's disease .
[20]
Joseph Wolpe , 82, South African psychiatrist.
[21]
5
Rudolf Bahro , 62,
East Germany dissident and politician, cancer.
[22]
Forrest Burmeister , 84, American gridiron football player.
[23]
Eugen Cicero , 57, Romanian-German
jazz pianist.
[24]
Frederick Dainton, Baron Dainton , 83, British academic chemist.
[25]
Ali Forney , 22, American gay and transgender youth, murdered.
[26]
Lutz Hoffmann , 38,
East German gymnast and Olympic silver medalist,
suicide .
[27]
John E. Moss , 82, American politician.
[28]
Jakob Sverdrup , 78, Norwegian historian.
[29]
Jan Voigt , 69, Norwegian actor, dancer and museum director.
6
George Chisholm , 82, Scottish jazz trombonist and vocalist.
[30]
Lou Clinton , 60, American baseball player, pneumonia.
[31]
Eliot Daniel , 89, American songwriter and lyricist.
[32]
Gilbert Delahaye , 74, Belgian author (
Martine ).
[33]
Willy den Ouden , 79, Dutch swimmer and Olympic champion.
[34]
Jagmohan Kaur , 49, Indian singer and actress.
Peter Leventritt , 82, American bridge player.
[35]
Eddie Myers , 91, British Army officer and author.
Willie Pastrano , 62, American boxer, liver cancer.
[36]
7
Billy Bremner , 54, Scottish footballer and manager, suspected heart attack.
[37]
Barry S. Brook , 81, American musicologist.
[38]
Félix Candela , 87, Spanish architect.
[39]
Torbjörn Caspersson , 87, Swedish cytologist and geneticist.
[40]
Fernand Cornez , 90, French road bicycle racer.
[41]
Karl August Folkers , 91, American biochemist.
George R. Gardiner , 80, Canadian businessman and
philanthropist .
Annette B. Weiner , 64, American
anthropologist .
Woodrow Wyatt , 79, British politician, author and journalist.
[42]
8
Bob Bell , 75, American actor famous for his alter-ego,
Bozo the Clown .
[43]
Walter Molino , 82, Italian comics artist and illustrator.
Léon Poliakov , 87, French historian.
[44]
Carlos Rafael Rodríguez , 84, Cuban
communist politician,
Parkinson's disease .
[45]
Laurean Rugambwa , 85, Tanzanian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.
[46]
Stephen Tredre , 34, English actor and writer, bone cancer.
Armando Valente , 94, Italian track and field athlete and Olympian.
[47]
Shehu Musa Yar'Adua , 54, Nigerian army general, politician and
Vice President .
9
Tamara Geva , 91, Russian-American actress, ballet dancer, and choreographer.
[48]
Angelo Herndon , 84, American labor organizer.
[49]
K. Shivaram Karanth , 95, Indian polymath.
[50]
Michael Lee Lockhart , 37, American convicted serial killer, execution by lethal injection.
Keith W. Piper , 76, American football coach, congestive heart failure.
[51]
Stefano Ludovico Straneo , 95, Italian
entomologist and author.
John D. Winters , 80, American historian.
[52]
10
Anatoliy Banishevskiy , 51, Azerbaijani football playerer,
diabetic coma attack.
Kalmen Kaplansky , 85, Canadian
human rights and
trade union activist.
Yevgeni Mayorov , 59, Soviet ice hockey player,
A.L.S.
[53]
Eve McVeagh , 78, American actress (
High Noon ,
The Clear Horizon ,
The Glass Web ).
[54]
11
Roger Brown , 72, American social psychologist.
[55]
Eddie Chapman , 83, English criminal and spy during World War II.
Robert Cosmoc , 66, Romanian footballer.
Jorge Castañeda y Álvarez de la Rosa , 76, Mexican diplomat.
Simon Jeffes , 48, English classical guitarist, composer and arranger, brain tumor, brain cancer.
[56]
Paul Scull , 90, American football player.
12
Jim Bob Altizer , 65, American calf and steer roper.
R. Stanton Avery , 90, American inventor.
[57]
Wacław Gajewski , 86, Polish
geneticist .
Brian Deneke , 19, American
punk musician , murdered.
[58]
Evgenii Landis , 76, Soviet and Russian mathematician.
[59]
M. G. Soman , 53,
Indian Air Force officer and actor.
13
Giovanni Alberto Agnelli , 33, Italian businessman and member of the
Agnelli family , stomach cancer.
Martin Carter , 70, Guyanese poet and political activist.
Paddy DeMarco , 69, American
lightweight boxer .
Don Edward Fehrenbacher , 77, American historian and
Pulitzer Prize winner.
[60]
Harry Glaß , 67, East German ski jumper and Olympian.
[61]
Jimmy Milne , 86, Scottish football player and manager.
W. D. Mochtar , 69, Indonesian actor.
[62]
David Nicholson , 93, Australian politician.
Alexander Oppenheim , 94, British mathematician.
David Rousset , 85, French writer and political activist.
[63]
Claude Roy , 82, French poet and essayist, cancer.
[64]
14
John Adair , 84, American anthropologist.
[65]
Owen Barfield , 99, British philosopher, author, critic, and member of the
Inklings .
[66]
Frank Baumholtz , 79, American baseball and basketball player.
[67]
Marion Bell , 78, American singer and musical theatre performer.
[68]
Gerald Legge, 9th Earl of Dartmouth , 73, British peer and businessman.
Stubby Kaye , 79, American actor (
Guys and Dolls ,
Who Framed Roger Rabbit ,
Cat Ballou ), comedian and singer, lung cancer.
[69]
Edna F. Kelly , 91, American politician.
[70]
Emily Cheney Neville , 77, American author.
[71]
Torsten Nilsson , 92, American politician.
Kurt Winter , 51, Canadian guitarist and songwriter,
kidney failure .
[72]
15
Karsten Andersen , 77, Norwegian conductor.
[73]
Cosmo Campoli , 74, American sculptor.
Siegfried Flügge , 85, German theoretical physicist.
[74]
Albert Heremans , 91, Belgian football player.
[75]
Amin Ahsan Islahi , 93, Pakistani
Muslim scholar.
[76]
Borislav Mihajlović Mihiz , 75, Serbian writer and literary critic.
[77]
16
Lillian Disney , 98, American ink artist and wife of
Walt Disney , stroke.
Ralph Fasanella , 84, American painter.
[78]
Kim Hak-sun , 73, Korean
human rights activist.
Oksana Ivanenko , 91, Soviet and Ukrainian children's writer and translator.
Nicolette Larson , 45, American pop singer,
cerebral edema .
[79]
David L. McDonald , 91, American admiral,
Chief of Naval Operations .
[80]
Hu Ning , 81, Chinese physicist and writer.
William A. Smalley , 74, American linguist, heart attack.
[81]
Frans Stafleu , 76, Dutch botanist.
[82]
Richard Warwick , 52, English actor,
AIDS -related complications.
[83]
17
Juan Francisco Barraza , 62,
Salvadoran football player and manager, cardiac problems.
Paul Bindrim , 77, American psychotherapist.
Ernest Bromley , 85, American minister and
civil rights activist.
Katharine Fowler-Billings , 95, American writer, naturalist, and geologist.
[84]
Reginald Victor Jones , 86, British physicist and scientific military intelligence expert.
[85]
Karl Kainberger , 85, Austrian football (soccer) player.
Marie Gudme Leth , 102, Danish textile printer.
Mel Mazzera , 83, American baseball player.
[86]
Uzi Narkiss , 72, Israeli general.
[87]
Peter Taylor , 75, English film editor (
The Bridge on the River Kwai ,
Summertime ,
The Taming of the Shrew ),
Oscar winner (
1958 ).
[88]
Leo Turner , 69, Australian rules football player.
Hanna Walz , 79, German politician.
18
Geoff Campion , 81, British comics artist.
[89]
Chris Farley , 33, American comedian and actor (
Saturday Night Live ,
Tommy Boy ,
Black Sheep ), drug overdose.
[90]
Harriet Holter , 75, Norwegian
social psychologist .
Michel Quoist , 76, French
catholic priest, theologian and writer,
pancreatic cancer .
[91]
George Tsutakawa , 87, American painter and sculptor.
James Kemsey Wilkinson , founder of
Wilko .
Kasino Hadiwibowo , 47, Indonesian
comedian and
actor , a member of
Warkop DKI , brain tumor.
19
Michael Alldredge , 56, American actor (
Scarface ,
Iron Eagle ,
Shoot the Moon ).
Siegfried Barth , 81, German
Luftwaffe bomber pilot during World War.
David Bradley , 77, American motion picture director and actor.
[92]
Jack Bruen , 48, American basketball coach, cancer.
[93]
Bonny Hicks , 29, Singapore model and writer, airplane crash.
Sara Northrup Hollister , 73, American
occultist and second wife of author
L. Ron Hubbard .
Masaru Ibuka , 89, Japanese electronics industrialist and co-founder of
Sony , heart failure.
[94]
Patsy Lawlor , 64, Irish businesswoman and politician.
Jimmy Rogers , 73, American
blues musician, colon cancer.
[95]
David Schramm , 52, American astrophysicist, airplane crash.
[96]
Fyodor Simashev , 52, Russian cross-country skier.
Uldis Ģērmanis , 82, Latvian historian, writer and publicist.
[97]
20
Jim Gibbons , 73, Irish politician.
Richard Glazar , 77, Czech-Jewish
Holocaust survivor, suicide.
Jūzō Itami , 64, Japanese actor, screenwriter and film director, alleged suicide.
[98]
Wenceslas Kalibushi , 78, Rwandan
catholic bishop.
Denise Levertov , 74, American poet,
lymphoma .
[99]
Esther Peterson , 91, American
consumer and
women's advocate.
[100]
Dick Spooner , 77, English cricket player.
Dawn Steel , 51, American film studio executive and producer (
Cool Runnings ,
Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit ,
Honey, I Blew Up the Kid ), brain cancer.
[101]
21
Joseph Ahrens , 94, German composer and organist.
[102]
Roger Barkley , 61, American radio personality, pancreatic cancer.
[103]
Blai Bonet , 71, Spanish poet, novelist and art critic.
Johnny Coles , 71, American
jazz trumpeter, cancer.
[104]
Amie Comeaux , 21, American country music singer, car accident.
Igor Dmitriev , 56, Russian ice hockey player and coach.
Sacco van der Made , 79, Dutch actor.
[105]
Jerry Masucci , 63, American attorney and businessman.
[106]
Roxbee Cox, Baron Kings Norton , 95, British aeronautical engineer.
Sholom Schwadron , Israeli
Haredi rabbi and orator.
Józef Stefański , 89, Polish cyclist.
[107]
Bruce Woodcock , 76, English boxer.
[108]
22
Sebastian Arcos Bergnes , 66, Cuban human rights activist.
[109]
Flea Clifton , 89, American baseball player.
[110]
Francis Haar , 89, Hungarian socio-photographer.
José Oliva , 26, Dominican baseball player, traffic accident.
Hal Rice , 73, American baseball player.
[111]
Clara Lee Tanner , 92, American
anthropologist and art historian.
23
Felix Bwalya , 27, Zambian boxer and Olympian, head injuries sustained in a boxing fight.
[112]
Stanley Cortez , 89, American cinematographer, heart attack.
[113]
Les Harrison , American basketball player and coach.
[114]
Zaur Kaloyev , 66, Soviet and Georgian football player.
Thomas S. Moorman , 87,
United States Air Force officer.
[115]
Fred Page , 82, Canadian ice hockey referee and administrator.
[116]
Paula Stone , 85, American actress.
[117]
24
Fahd Ballan , 64, Syrian
druze singer and actor.
Jacques Fabbri , 72, French actor.
[118]
Vic Feller , 74, Luxembourgian football player.
[119]
Kemper Goodwin , 91, American architect.
Harry Groves , 79, English boxer.
Andy Kerr , 66, Scottish football player.
[120]
Charles Roman Koester , 82, American prelate of the
Catholic Church .
James Komack , 73, American television producer and writer (
The Courtship of Eddie's Father ,
Chico and the Man ,
Welcome Back, Kotter ), heart failure.
[121]
Toshiro Mifune , 77, Japanese actor (
Rashomon ,
Seven Samurai ,
Throne of Blood ),
multiple organ failure .
[122]
Lotte Motz , 75, Austrian-American scholar.
25
Anatoli Boukreev , 39, Russian and Kazakhstani mountaineer,
avalanche .
[123]
Anita Conti , 98, French explorer and photographer.
Yvonne Cormeau , 88, British
SOE agent during World War II.
Georgi Gavasheli , 50, Soviet/Georgian football player.
Myriam Marbe , 66, Romanian composer and pianist.
[124]
Jerry March , 68, American
organic chemist .
[125]
Paul M. O'Leary , 96, American economist and educator.
[126]
Denver Pyle , 77, American actor (
The Dukes of Hazzard ,
Bonnie and Clyde ,
The Andy Griffith Show ), lung cancer.
[127]
Kenneth Spring , 76,
British Army officer and artist.
Giorgio Strehler , 76, Italian opera and theatre director, heart attack.
[128]
26
Cahit Arf , 87, Turkish mathematician.
Cornelius Castoriadis , 75, Greek-French philosopher, social critic and economist, complications following
heart surgery .
[129]
Simone Duvalier , 84,
First Lady of Haiti as wife of
François "Papa Doc" Duvalier .
[130]
John Hinde , 81, English photographer.
Sergei Mamchur , 25, Russian football player, heart failure.
Victor Oehrn , 90, German
U-boat commander during World War II.
Karlis Osis , 80, Latvian-American
parapsychologist .
[131]
Kenneth Pitzer , 83, American physical and theoretical chemist.
[132]
Tommy Price , 86, British speedway rider.
Mircea Veroiu , 56, Romanian film director and screenwriter.
[133]
27
Ewart Abner , 74, American record company executive.
[134]
Yousef Mohamed Alghoul , 61, Libyan football referee.
Said Brahimi , 66, Algerian-French football player.
Webster Chikabala , Zambian football player and coach,
HIV/AIDS .
Brendan Gill , 83, American journalist.
[135]
James Nabrit, Jr. , 97, American civil rights attorney.
[136]
Buxton Orr , 73, British composer and teacher.
[137]
Malayattoor Ramakrishnan , 70, Indian writer, cartoonist and lawyer.
[138]
Kent Robbins , 50, American country music songwriter,
automobile accident .
Bess Whitehead Scott , 107, American journalist.
Tamara Tyshkevich , 66, Soviet
shot putter and Olympian.
[139]
Danny Wagner , 75, American basketball player.
[140]
Billy Wright , 37, Northern Irish paramilitary leader, shot.
[141]
[142]
28
Heikki A. Alikoski , 85, Finnish astronomer and
discoverer of minor planets .
Bill Anderson , 86, American producer, cerebral hemorrhage after falling.
[143]
Shaikh Ayaz , 74, Pakistani poet, heart attack.
[144]
Corneliu Baba , 91, Romanian painter.
[145]
Henry Barraud , 97, French composer.
[146]
James Lees-Milne , 89, English writer and expert on country houses.
[147]
William Martínez , 69, Uruguayan footballer.
Steve Musseau , 74, American football coach and motivational speaker, heart failure.
[148]
Vassily Solomin , 44, Soviet and Russian boxer and Olympian, lung cancer.
[149]
Wacław Wójcik , 78, Polish racing cyclist.
29
J. Richardson Dilworth , 81, American businessman.
[150]
Helen Kirkpatrick , 88, American war correspondent during World War II.
[151]
István Kiss , 70, Hungarian sculptor and politician.
André Marchand , 90, French painter.
[152]
Robert Walter Steel , 82, British
geographer .
[153]
30
Danilo Dolci , 73, Italian
social activist , sociologist and poet, heart attack.
[154]
Raymond Ericson , 82, American music critic.
[155]
Bernard Girard , 79, American screenwriter, producer and film director.
[156]
Shinichi Hoshi , 71, Japanese novelist and
science fiction writer.
Warren Mehrtens , 77, American
thoroughbred horse racing jockey.
[157]
Bernard Soysa , 83, Sri Lankan politician.
Kim Sun-ja , South Korean serial killer.
John Howard Yoder , 70, American theologian and
ethicist .
[158]
31
Jim Chambers , 70, Canadian football player.
Floyd Cramer , 64, American pianist, lung cancer.
[159]
Dominique de Menil , 89, French-American art collector and philanthropist.
[160]
Billie Dove , 94, American actress,
pneumonia .
[161]
Richard Elman , 63, American novelist, poet, and journalist.
[162]
Michael LeMoyne Kennedy , 39, American lawyer, son of
Robert F. Kennedy , skiing accident.
[163]
Liu Lantao , 87, Chinese
communist revolutionary and politician.
Sandy McPeak , 61, American actor.
[164]
Ken Olfson , 60, American actor.
[165]
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