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The following is a list of notable deaths in February 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.
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February 1997
1
- Simion Bughici, 82, Romanian politician.
- Herb Caen, 80, American journalist and columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle, lung cancer.[1]
- Heiner Carow, 67, German film director and screenwriter.[2]
- Ed Danowski, 85, American football player.[3]
- Mitchell Goodman, 73, American writer, teacher, and activist.[4]
- William Kintner, 81, American soldier, foreign policy analyst, and diplomat.[5]
- Kiki Kogelnik, 62, Austrian painter, sculptor and printmaker, cancer.[6]
- Thelma Moss, 79, American actress, psychologist and parapsychologist.[7]
- Lillian Porter, 79, American film and television actress.
- Marjorie Reynolds, 79, American actress and dancer, heart failure.[8]
- Bo Russell, 81, American gridiron football player.[9]
- Francisco Tobar García, 68, Ecuadorian poet, playwright, journalist, and diplomat, lung cancer.
- Wilcomb E. Washburn, American historian, prostate cancer.[10]
2
- Godfrey Baseley, 92, British radio executive.[11]
- Raúl de Anda, 88, Mexican actor, screenwriter, film producer and director.
- Erich Eliskases, 83, Austrian-Argentinian chess grandmaster.
- Qin Jiwei, 82, Chinese general and member of the Politburo.
- Sanford Meisner, 91, American actor and acting teacher.[12]
- Art Merewether, 94, American baseball player.[13]
- Martin Mussgnug, 60, German politician.
- Raimundo Saporta, 70, Spanish club basketball administrator.[14]
- Chico Science, 30, Brazilian singer and composer, traffic collision.[15]
- Theodoros Stamos, 74, Greek-American painter.[16]
- Seán Ó Síocháin, 82, Irish Gaelic footballer, hurler, and broadcaster.
3
- Boris de Rachewiltz, 70, Italian-Russian egyptologist and writer.
- Jerry Beit haLevi, 84, Israeli football player and manager.[17]
- Bohumil Hrabal, 82, Czech writer, fall.[18]
- Agi Jambor, 87, Hungarian-American pianist.[19]
- Stan Kostka, 84, American football player and coach.[20]
- Harry H. Wachtel, 79, American lawyer and civil rights activist, Parkinson's disease.[21]
- Mikhail Yakushin, 86, Russian football player and manager.
4
- Henry H. Barschall, 81, German-American physicist.[22]
- Robert Clouse, 68, American film director and producer (Enter the Dragon), kidney failure.[23]
- Benjamin David de Jesus, 56, Philippine prelate of the Catholic Church, shot.[24]
- Ross Lee Finney, 90, American composer.[25]
- Paulo Francis, 66, Brazilian journalist, novelist and critic, heart attack.[26]
- Robi Ghosh, 65, Indian actor.[27]
- A R Mallick, 78, Bangladeshi historian and educationist.
- Alek Rapoport, 63, Russian nonconformist artist.[28]
- Davide Sorrenti, 20, Italian-American photographer.
- James Tattersall, 56, British tennis player.
- Cyril Toumanoff, 83, Russian-American historian.
- Darrell Tully, 79, American football player and coach.[29]
5
- Frederick J. Almgren, Jr., 63, American mathematician, complication following surgery.[30]
- Bob Brown, 58, Canadian professional wrestler ("Bulldog" Bob Brown).
- Robert Elem, 69, American blues guitarist and singer.[31]
- Dorothy Fosdick, 83, American foreign policy expert.[32]
- Pamela Harriman, 76, English-American political activist, diplomat, and socialite, cerebral hemorrhage.[33]
- René Huyghe, 90, French art historian.[34]
- Jürgen Neukirch, 59, German mathematician.[35]
- Harry Trotsek, 84, American Thoroughbred racehorses trainer and owner.
6
- Ernie Anderson, 73, American disc jockey, and television and radio announcer, cancer.[36]
- Harry Essex, 86, American screenwriter and director.[37]
- Roger Laurent, 83, Belgian racing driver.
- Riza Lushta, 81, Kosovar Albanian football striker.
7
- Nina Albright, 89, American comic book artist.
- Owen Aspinall, 69, American politician and Governor of American Samoa.
- John Baker, 59, British musician and composer.
- Sam DeCavalcante, 84, American mobster, heart attack.
- Allan Edwall, 72, Swedish actor, author, composer and singer, prostate cancer.[38]
- Maynard Pirsig, 95, American legal scholar.
- Daniil Shafran, 74, Soviet/Russian cellist.[39]
- Rösli Streiff, 96, Swiss alpine skier and world champion.
- Jose Garcia Villa, 88, Filipino poet, novelist, and painter.[40]
- Mary Wills, 82, American costume designer, kidney failure.
8
- Nathan Lerner, 83, American photographer.[41]
- Henry Margenau, 95, German-American physicist and philosopher of science.[42]
- Robert Ridgely, 65, American actor (Philadelphia, Beverly Hills Cop II, Blazing Saddles), cancer.[43]
- Corey Scott, 28, American motorcycle stunt rider, traffic collision.[44]
- Michael Voslenski, 76, Soviet and Russian writer, scientist, diplomat and dissident.[45]
- Walter Wiora, 90, German musicologist and music historian.
9
- David Austick, 76, British politician and bookshop owner.[46]
- Taylor Drysdale, 83, American swimmer and swimming coach.[47]
- Barry Evans, 53, English actor.[48]
- Fritz Grasshoff, 83, German painter, poet and songwriter.
- Leni Junker, 91, German sprint runner and Olympian.[49]
- Jack Owens, 92, American blues singer and guitarist.[50]
- Williams Sassine, 53, Guinean novelist.[51]
- Max Tetley, 87, Australian rules footballer.
- Luis Velásquez, 77, Guatemalan long-distance runner and Olympian.[52]
10
- Harriet Andreassen, 71, Norwegian labour activist and politician.
- Conrad M. Arensberg, 86, American anthropologist and scholar, respiratory failure.[53]
- Lou Bennett, 70, American jazz organist.[54]
- Milton Cato, 81, Saint Vincentian politician and first Prime Minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
- Brian Connolly, 51, Scottish singer-songwriter, musician and actor.
- Robert Mallary, 79, American sculptor and computer art pioneer, leukemia.[55]
- Jerome Namias, 86, American meteorologist.[56]
11
- Nalanda Ellawala, 29, Sri Lankan politician, shot.
- Robert A. Graham, 84, American Jesuit priest and historian.[57]
- Lewis Jacobs, 92, American screenwriter, film director and critic.[58]
- Don Porter, 84, American actor.[59]
- Ray Terrell, 77, American gridiron football player.[60]
12
- Nora Beloff, 78, English journalist and political writer.[61]
- James Cossins, 63, English actor, heart disease.[62]
- Francis Healy, 86, American Major League Baseball player.[63]
- Ruth Winifred Howard, 96, American psychologist.
- Federico Pisani, 22, Italian footballer, traffic collision.[64]
13
- Bobby Adams, 75, American baseball player.[65]
- Thies Christophersen, 79, German neo-nazi and Holocaust denier.
- Robert Klark Graham, 90, American eugenicist and businessman.
- Robert Herman, 82, American scientist.[66]
- Don Jordan, 62, American boxer, complications following robbery.
- Ernő Rubik, 86, Hungarian aircraft designer.
- Reg Ryan, 71, Irish football player.[67]
- Atta Shad, 57, Pakistani poet, playwright, and intellectual.
14
- Lélia Gousseau, 88, 20th-century French classical pianist.[68]
- Jack Matheson, 76, American gridiron football player.[69]
- Charles Moffett, 67, American free jazz drummer.[70]
- Miguel Rodriguez, 35, Filipino actor and model, pancreatitis.
- William L. Scott, 81, American politician, Alzheimer's disease.[71]
- Chōbyō Yara, 94, Japanese politician and teacher.
- Mohammed Yousuf, 57, Pakistani singer.
15
- Oscar W. Adams Jr., 72, American lawyer and first African-American Alabama Supreme Court justice.[72]
- Arne Berg, 87, Swedish road racing cyclist.[73]
- Philip Hershkovitz, 87, American mammalogist.[74]
- Billie-Jo Jenkins, 13, English murder victim.
- Paul Page, 69, American gridiron football player.[75]
- Frode Rinnan, 91, Norwegian architect and politician.
- Jack Sparling, 80, Canadian comic book artist (Claire Voyant, Strange Adventures, Ghost Rider).[76]
16
- Abd al-Fattah Abu Ghudda, 79, Syrian leader of the Muslim Brotherhood.[77]
- Ethel Owen, 103, American actress.
- Alvis Vītoliņš, 50, Latvian chess master, suicide by jumping.
- Jack Wilson, 82, British rower and Olympic champion.[78]
- Chien-Shiung Wu, 84, Chinese-American experimental physicist, watershed stroke.[79]
17
- Spartaco Bandinelli, 75, Italian boxer and Olympian.[80]
- Kenny Graham, 72, British jazz saxophonist, arranger and composer.[81]
- Leonard Ho, 72, Hong Kong film producer.[82]
- Ichimaru, 90, Japanese recording artist and geisha.
- Bärbel Inhelder, 83, Swiss psychologist.[83]
- Joe Kieyoomia, 77, American Navajo prisoner of war during World War II.
- Darcy Ribeiro, 74, Brazilian anthropologist, historian, sociologist, author and politician, cancer.[84]
- Georg L. Samuelsen, 87, Faroese editor and voice actor.
18
- Bozorg Alavi, 93, Iranian writer, novelist, and intellectual, heart attack.
- Enrique Peralta Azurdia, 88, President of Guatemala.
- Antonio de Almeida, 69, French conductor and musicologist, lung cancer, liver cancer.[85]
- Gerd Domhardt, 51, German composer.
- Eric Fenby, 90, English composer, conductor, pianist and organist.[86]
- Reggie Forte, 47, American activist and founding member of the Black Panther Party.
- Jnan Prakash Ghosh, 87, Indian harmonium and tabla player and musicologist.[87]
- Emily Hahn, 92, American journalist and author.[88]
- Austin Knickerbocker, 78, American baseball player.[89]
- Geoffrey Swaebe, 86, American diplomat and ambassador, complications of pneumonia.[90]
19
- David Ashkenazi, 81, Russian pianist, accompanist and composer.
- Jarmil Burghauser, 75, Czech composer, conductor, and musicologist.
- Frank Delfino, 86, American actor, bone marrow cancer.
- Deng Xiaoping, 92, Chinese politician leader of the People's Republic of China, complications of lung infections.[91]
- Buddy Edelen, 59, American marathon runner.[92]
- António Gedeão, 90, Portuguese poet, essayist, writer and playwright.[93]
- Yutaka Haniya, 87, Japanese writer and critic.
- Karin Magnussen, 89, German nazi eugenicist, biologist, and researcher during World War II.[94]
- Lois Marshall, 73, Canadian soprano.[95]
- Leo Rosten, 78, American humorist.[96]
- Edsall Walker, 86, American Negro league baseball player.[97]
20
- Ruth Clark (pollster), American pollster and researcher.[98]
- Afonsinho, 82, Brazilian football player.[99]
- Paul Anxionnaz, 94, French politician.[100]
- Zachary Breaux, 36, American jazz guitarist, drowned.[101]
- Pierre Gascar, 80, French journalist, literary critic, writer, and screenwriter.[102]
- Thomas G. Kavanagh, 79, American judge, Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court (1975–1979).[103]
- Arthur Machado, 88, Brazilian football player and manager.
- Stan Pearson, 78, English footballer.[104]
21
- Ziya Bunyadov, 73, Azerbaijani historian and scientist, shot.[105]
- Luitgard Im, 67, German actress.
- Choe Kwang, 78, North Korean army general and politician, heart attack.[106]
- Mohamed Nasir, 81, Malaysian politician.
- Merle Pertile, 55, American model and actress.
- Josef Posipal, 69, Romanian-German footballer, heart failure.
- Kenneth Rowntree, 81, British artist.[107]
- Leo Sjogren, 82, American racewalker and Olympian.[108]
- Eleanor Butler, Lady Wicklow, 82, Irish politician and architect.
22
- Joseph Aiuppa, 89, American mobster.[109]
- Urmila Bhatt, 62/63, Indian actress, homicide.
- William Karush, 79, American mathematician.
- James A. Lewis, 63, American Libertarian Party politician.[110]
- Harold Nichols, 79, American wrestler and wrestling coach.
- Albert Shanker, 68, American labor leader, bladder cancer.[111]
- Charlie Toogood, 69, American gridiron football player.
23
- Abdelkader Ben Bouali, 84, French football player.
- Gordon Glisson, 66, American jockey.
- Ephraim P. Holmes, 88, United States Navy admiral.[112]
- Frank Launder, 91, British writer, film director and producer.[113]
- Oscar Lewenstein, 80, British theatre and film producer.[114]
- Olivier Masson, 74, French linguist.[115]
- Jack Slater, 69, Australian politician.
- Tony Williams, 51, American jazz drummer, heart attack.[116]
24
- Astrid Fagraeus, 83, Swedish immunologist.[117]
- Nils-Olof Franzén, 80, Swedish writer.
- Wolfgang Heinrich Johannes Fuchs, 81, British mathematician.[118]
- Raymond Lambert, 82, Swiss mountaineer, complications of a lung disorder.[119]
- Isabelle Lucas, 69, Canadian-British actress and singer, heart attack.
- Ernest C. Pollard, 90, British professor of physics and biophysics, stroke.[120]
- Len Vlahov, 56, Australian discus thrower, cancer.
- Ion Voicu, 73, Romanian violinist and orchestral conductor.
25
- Cal Abrams, 72, American baseball player, heart attack.[121]
- Hoss Allen, 74, American radio disc jockey.
- Louis Auslander, 68, American mathematician.[122]
- Earle Edwards, 88, American football player and coach.
- Scott Forbes, 76, British actor and screenwriter.[123]
- Yi Han-yong, 36, North Korean defector, shot.
- Arthur Hewlett, 89, British actor. (exact date unconfirmed)
- Danielle de St. Jorre, 55, Seychellois politician, cancer.
- Ugo Poletti, 82, Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, heart attack.
- Ted Roach, 87, Australian trade unionist and member of the Communist Party of Australia.[124]
- Andrei Sinyavsky, 71, Russian writer and Soviet dissident.[125]
- John Williams, 70, Australian politician.
26
- Nuccio Bertone, 82, Italian automobile designer and constructor.[126]
- Mildred Clingerman, 78, American science fiction author.
- David Doyle, 67, American actor (Charlie's Angels, Capricorn One, Rugrats), heart attack.[127]
- Vincent Gaddis, 83, American author.
- Giovanni Ghiselli, 62, Italian sprinter and Olympian.[128]
- Joseph Anthony Lefante, 68, American politician.[129]
- Tom O'Connor, 78, Irish Gaelic footballer.
- Ben Raleigh, 83, American lyricist and composer.
- Wende Wagner, 55, American actress (The Green Hornet, Rosemary's Baby, Destination Inner Space), cancer.[130]
27
- Kingsley Davis, 88, American sociologist and demographer.[131]
- Patricia Felicien, 30, Saint Lucian cricket player.
- William Gear, 81, Scottish painter.[132]
- Indeevar, 73, Indian film lyricist.
- Alpo Jaakola, 67, Finnish painter and sculptor.
- Mieczysław Jagielski, 73, Polish politician and economist, heart attack.
- Kim Kwang-jin, 69, North Korean general and politician.
- Harry Love, 85, American animator, effects animator, and writer, heart attack.[133]
- William R. Maples, 59, American forensic anthropologist, brain cancer.[134]
- Edward J. McCormack, Jr., 73, American lawyer and politician, complications from lung cancer.
28
- Osvaldo Bailo, 84, Italian road cyclist.[135]
- Donald Carrick, 90, Canadian lawyer, politician, sportsman and Olympian.[136]
- Harold Dean, 84, Australian politician.
- Mohammad Moustafa Haddara, 67, Egyptian Arabic scholar and writer.
- Örjan Martinsson, 60, Swedish football player.
- Giuseppe Migneco, 89, Italian painter.
- Larry Tillman, 88, American professional wrestler and promoter.
- Hal Turpin, 93, American baseball player.[137]
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