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Deaths in January 1997
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The following is a list of notable deaths in January 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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January 1997
1
- Prince Eugen of Bavaria, 71, German noble.
- Aenne Brauksiepe, 84, German politician.
- Asnoldo Devonish, 64, Venezuelan track and field athlete.[1]
- Al Eugster, 87, American animator, writer, and film director.
- Jean Feller, 77, Luxembourgish footballer.[2]
- Ivan Graziani, 51, Italian singer-songwriter and guitarist, colon cancer.
- Hagood Hardy, 59, Canadian composer, pianist, and vibraphonist, lymphoma.[3]
- Mohammed Hafez Ismail, 77, Egyptian diplomat and ambassador.
- Graham Kersey, 25, English cricketer, traffic collision.[4]
- Hans-Martin Majewski, 85, German composer of film scores.
- James B. Pritchard, 87, American archeologist.[5]
- Joan Rice, 66, English film actress.
- Franco Volpi, 75, Italian actor and voice actor, cancer.
- Townes Van Zandt, 52, American singer-songwriter, cardiac arrhythmia.[6]
- Ladislau Zilahi, 74, Romanian football player and manager.
2
- Randy California, 45, American guitarist, singer and songwriter, drowned.[7]
- Samuel Carlisi, 82, American mobster, heart attack.
- Joan Coromines, 91, Spanish linguist.[8]
- Antonio Giordani Soika, 83, Italian entomologist and ecologist.
- Moshe Wilensky, 86, Polish-Israeli composer.[9]
3
- Werner Genuit, 59, German classical pianist and composer.
- Roger Goeb, 82, American composer.[10]
- Michel Heller, 74, Russian historian, heart attack.[11]
- Pieter Keuneman, 79, Sri Lankan communist politician.
- Jon Lennart Mjøen, 84, Norwegian actor, film director and screenwriter.
- Gianfranco Pandolfini, 76, Italian water polo player.[12]
- Marie Torre, 72, American television journalist, lung cancer.[13]
- Odd Øyen, 82, Norwegian physician and resistance member during World War II.[14]
4
- Hédi Berkhissa, 24, Tunisian footballer, heart attack.
- Akhteruzzaman Elias, 53, Bangladeshi novelist and short story writer.
- Harry Helmsley, 87, American real estate mogul, pneumonia.[15]
- Harry P. Jeffrey, 95, American attorney and politician.
- Bill Lancaster, 49, American screenwriter (The Thing, The Bad News Bears) and actor (Moses the Lawgiver).[16]
- Lucien Rebuffic, 75, French basketball player.[17]
- Tormod Skagestad, 76, Norwegian poet, novelist, playwright and actor.[18]
- Richard Taitano, 75, Guamanian politician.
5
- André Franquin, 73, Belgian comics artist, (Spirou & Fantasio, Gaston, Marsupilami), heart attack.[19]
- Peter Zack Geer, 68, American politician, cancer.
- Prince Bertil, Duke of Halland, 84, Swedish royal, third son of King Gustaf VI Adolf.
- Homer Hobbs, 73, American football player and coach.[20]
- Burton Lane, 84, American composer and lyricist.[21]
- Frans Piët, 91, Dutch comics artist (Sjors en Sjimmie).[22]
- Emil Roy, 89, American baseball player.[23]
- V. C. Wynne-Edwards, 90, English zoologist.[24]
6
- Herbert Blitzstein, 62, American mobster, shot.
- Dick Donovan, 69, American MLB baseball player, cancer.[25]
- Kalevi Laitinen, 78, Finnish gymnast and Olympic champion.[26]
- Teiichi Matsumaru, 87, Japanese football player.
- Charles Murphy, 88, Australian politician.
- Catherine Scorsese, 84, Italian-American actress (Goodfellas), Alzheimer's disease.[27]
7
- Tod Goodwin, 85, American gridiron football player.[28]
- Paul-Werner Hozzel, 86, Nazi Germany Luftwaffe pilot during World War II.
- Christopher Mayhew, 81, British politician.[29]
- Patricia McLaughlin, 80, Northern Irish politician.[30]
- Sándor Végh, 84, Hungarian-French violinist and conductor.[31]
8
- Smiley Bates, 59, Canadian country singer, songwriter, and musician, cancer.[32]
- Melvin Calvin, 85, American biochemist, heart failure.[33]
- Paul Endacott, 94, American basketball player.
- James Fraser, 72, Scottish surgeon.[34]
- Harold Foote Gosnell, 100, American political scientist and author.[35]
- George Handy, 76, American jazz arranger, composer and pianist.[36]
- Phyllis Hartnoll, 90, British poet, author and editor.[37]
- Alfred John Markiewicz, 68, American prelate of the Catholic Church.
9
- Karol Borhy, 84, Czechoslovak football coach.[38]
- Ove Dahlberg, 65, Swedish ice hockey referee, heart attack.
- Angelo Drossos, 68, American basketball executive, Parkinson's disease.
- Ellen Griffin Dunne, 64, American actress and activist, multiple sclerosis.
- Muhammadu Junaidu, 91, Nigerian historian and writer.
- Shorty McWilliams, 70, American football player.[39]
- Edward Osóbka-Morawski, 87, Polish activist and politician.[40]
- Jesse White, 79, American actor and comedian, heart attack.[41]
10
- Mary Bancroft, 93, American novelist and spy.[42]
- Samuel Preston Bayard, 88, American folklorist and musicologist.[43]
- Emmet Reid Blake, 88, American ornithologist and museum curator.
- Gordon W. Burrows, 70, American politician, cardiac arrest.[44]
- André Caron, 52, member of the House of Commons of Canada from 1993 to 1997, cancer.
- Seymour Halpern, 83, American politician.[45]
- Elspeth Huxley, 89, English author, journalist, broadcaster, and government adviser.[46]
- Valentin Koptyug, 65, Soviet/Russian chemist.
- Phil Marchildon, 83, Canadian Major League Baseball player.[47]
- Tordis Maurstad, 95, Norwegian stage actress.
- Martin Pike, 76, British athlete.[48]
- Alexander R. Todd, Baron Todd, 89, Scottish biochemist and Nobel Prize laureate, heart attack.[49]
- Shiv Verma, 92, Indian revolutionary.
- Lee Willerman, 57, American psychologist.[50]
- Albert Wohlstetter, 83, American nuclear strategist.[51]
- George Young, 74, Scottish footballer.
11
- Arild Andersen, 68, Norwegian racing cyclist.
- Bhabatosh Datta, 85, Indian economist, academic and writer.
- Rosalind Hill, 88, English historian, heart failure.[52]
- Pancheti Koteswaram, 81, Indian meteorologist, hydrologist, and atmospheric physicist.
- Sheldon Leonard, 89, American actor, producer, director, and writer.[53]
- Stu Martin, 84, American Major League Baseball player.[54]
- Jerry Neudecker, 66, American MLB umpire, cancer.[55]
- Helen Foster Snow, 89, American journalist.[56]
- Jill Summers, 86, English music hall performer and comedian, kidney failure.[57]
- Ian White-Thomson, 92, British Anglican priest.
12
- Jean-Edern Hallier, 60, French writer, critic and editor, cerebral haemorrhage after fall, heart attack, traffic collision.[58]
- Jean Hoerni, 72, Swiss-American engineer.[59]
- Charles Brenton Huggins, 95, Canadian-American cancer researcher and Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate.[60]
- Ewa Larysa Krause, 22, Polish judoka, traffic collision.
- Wally Rose, 83, American jazz and ragtime pianist.[61]
- Jorge Suárez, 51, Salvadoran football player, cancer.
13
- Sivar Arnér, 87, Swedish novelist and playwright.
- Burton Barr, 79, American businessman and politician, kidney failure.[62]
- Johannes Coleman, 86, South African marathon runner and Olympian.[63]
- Max Kaser, 90, German academic and professor of jurisprudence.[64]
- Leo Margolis, 69, Canadian parasitologist, heart attack.[65]
- Baburaoji Parkhe, 84, Indian industrialist.
- Ruslan Stratonovich, 66, Russian physicist and engineer.
- Herman V. Wall, 91, American combat photographer during World War II.
14
- John Amdisen, 62, Danish football player.[66]
- Shalva Chikhladze, 84, Soviet light-heavyweight wrestler and Olympian.[67]
- Leonard Dodson, 84, American golfer.
- Celso Ferreira, 46, Brazilian football player.
- King Hu, 64, Chinese film director and actor, complications from angioplasty.
- Robert Irsay, 73, American football team owner.[68]
- Ebba Lodden, 83, Norwegian civil servant and politician.
- Roland Martin, 84, French archaeologist.[69]
- Dollard Ménard, 83, Canadian general.
- Knud Nellemose, 88, Danish sculptor.
15
- Oscar Auerbach, 92, American physician and pathologist.[70]
- Edwin Smith, 74, New Zealand rower.
- Ahmad Tafazzoli, 59, Iranian Iranist and professor of ancient Iranian languages, homicide.[71] (body discovered on this date)
- Kenneth V. Thimann, 92, English-American plant physiologist and microbiologist.[72]
16
- Romano Amerio, 91, Swiss Italian theologian.[73]
- Ödön Gróf, 81, Hungarian swimmer and Olympian.[74]
- Roy Henderson, 73, Scottish football player.
- Markus Hoffmann, 26, German actor, suicide by jumping.
- Nils Katajainen, 77, Finnish flying ace during World War II.
- Erik Källström, 88, Swedish football player.[75]
- Iain Mills, 56, English politician.[76]
- Shinobu Muraki, 73, Japanese production designer and art director (Ran).
- Beverly Peer, 84, American jazz double-bassist, cancer.[77]
- Martin Redmond, 59, British politician.
- Juan Landázuri Ricketts, 83, Peruvian catholic cardinal.
- Jeff Teale, 57, British international athlete and Olympian.[78]
- Rajagopala Tondaiman, 74, Indian monarch and the last Raja of Pudukkottai.
- Barbara Woodell, 86, American actress.
- Willie Yeadon, 89, British railway historian.
17
- Susanna Al-Hassan, 69, Ghanaian author and politician.
- Earl Girard, 69, American football player.[79]
- Robert Giraud, 75, French journalist, poet and lexicographer.[80]
- Björn Isfält, 54, Swedish composer, cancer.
- Bill Kardash, 84, Canadian politician.
- Bert Kelly, 84, Australian politician and government minister.[81]
- Amha Selassie, 80, Ethiopian Emperor-in-exile and son of Haile Selassie I.
- Clyde Tombaugh, 90, American astronomer.[82]
- Theo Wilson, 79, American reporter, cerebral hemorrhage.[83]
18
- Herbert A. Allen, Sr., 88, American stockbroker.
- Ruth Brinkmann, 62, American actress and founder of Vienna's English Theatre, ovarian cancer.[84]
- Adriana Caselotti, 80, American actress and singer (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs), lung cancer.[85]
- Keith Diamond, 46, American songwriter and producer, heart attack.[86]
- Jean Gravelle, 69, Canadian ice hockey player.
- Henry Hermansen, 75, Norwegian cross-country skier and Olympian.[87]
- Ardis Krainik, 67, American mezzo-soprano opera singer.[88]
- Diana Lewis, 77, American film actress, pancreatic cancer.[89]
- Myfanwy Piper, 85, British art critic and opera librettist.[90]
- Gilberto Martínez Solares, 90, Mexican actor, cinematographer, screenwriter, and director.
- Darío Suro, 79, Dominican Republic art critic, diplomat and painter.[91]
- Paul Tsongas, 55, American politician, non-Hodgkin lymphoma.[92]
19
- Robert Chapatte, 75, French cyclist and sports journalist.[93]
- James Dickey, 73, American poet and novelist.[94]
- Richard E. Jennings, 75, English comics artist, pneumonia.[95]
- Tamara Makarova, 89, Soviet actress.
- Vasily Nalimov, 86, Russian philosopher and humanist.[96]
- Charles Nelson, 95, American film editor (Picnic, Cat Ballou, A Song to Remember), Oscar winner (1956).
- Sudhir, 75, Pakistani film actor, director and producer.
20
- Albín Brunovský, 61, Slovak painter and graphic artist.[97]
- Curt Flood, 59, American baseball player, pneumonia.[98]
- Edith Haisman, 100, South African-born RMS Titanic survivor[99]
- Hiram Keller, 52, American actor, liver cancer.[100]
- Joseph J. Loferski, 71, American physicist.[101]
- Ashious Melu, 39, Zambian footballer and coach.
- Konrad Püschel, 89, German architect, town planner, and university professor.
- Dennis Main Wilson, 72, British radio and television producer, lung cancer.[102]
21
- John Glyn-Jones, 87, British actor.[103]
- Hans Egon Holthusen, 83, German nazi, writer and academic.[104]
- Sourendra Nath Kohli, 80, Indian Navy admiral.
- Irwin Levine, 58, American songwriter.[105]
- Louis Miehe-Renard, 77, Danish film actor.
- Shinroku Momose, 77, Japanese aircraft/automotive engineer.
- Eduardo Morera, 91, Argentine film director.
- Colonel Tom Parker, 87, Dutch-American manager of Elvis Presley, stroke.[106]
- Giorgio Prosperi, 85, Italian screenwriter.
- Polly Ann Young, 88, American actress, cancer.[107]
22
- Ênio Andrade, 68, Brazilian football player and manager.
- L. Kijungluba AO, 90, Indian baptist missionary.
- Pilar Barbosa, 98, Puerto Rican educator, historian and political activist.
- George Dockins, 79, American baseball player.[108]
- Ron Holden, 57, American pop and R&B singer, heart attack.[109]
- Elwyn Lynn, 79, Australian artist, author and art critic.[110]
- Billy Mackenzie, 39, Scottish singer and songwriter, suicide by drug overdose.[111]
- Cornelio Reyna, 56, Mexican singer, composer and actor.
- Willard Wheatley, 81, British Virgin Islands politician and Chief Minister.
- Wally Whyton, 67, British musician, songwriter and radio and TV personality.[112]
23
- Richard Berry, 61, American singer, songwriter and musician, aneurysm.[113]
- Paul Egli, 85, Swiss road bicycle racer.[114]
- Randy Greenawalt, 47, American serial killer, execution by lethal injection.
- Alois Hudec, 88, Czechoslovak gymnast and World and Olympic Champion.[115]
- Lyudmila Marchenko, 56, Soviet film actress.
- Hardy Rafn, 66, Danish film actor.
- Roger Tayler, 67, British astronomer, cancer.[116]
- Rolling Thunder, 80, American hippy spiritual leader, complications of diabetes.
- David Waller, 76, English actor.[117]
- Bill Zuckert, 81, American actor, pneumonia.[118]
24
- William Alexander, 81, German painter and television host.
- Lourdino Barreto, 58, Indian musicologist and composer.
- Dr. Jerry Graham, 75, American professional wrestler, cerebrovascular disease.
- Jack Halloran, 81, American composer and choral director.
- Ida Kohlmeyer, 84, American painter.[119]
- Roy Sproson, 66, English footballer and manager.[120]
- Suzy Vernon, 95, French film actress.[121]
25
- Werner Aspenström, 78, Swedish poet.[122]
- Dan Barry, 73, American cartoonist.
- Donald Beer, 61, American rower and Olympic champion, brain cancer.[123]
- James Boyd, 66, American boxer, cancer.[124]
- Manuel Tuñón de Lara, 81, Spanish historian.[125]
- Jeane Dixon, 93, American astrologer, heart failure.[126]
- Exuma, 54, Bahamian musician, artist, playwright and author, heart attack.[127]
- Carlton Benjamin Goodlett, 82, American physician and newspaper publisher.[128]
- Edith Thacher Hurd, 86, American children's author.[129]
- Nikola Koljević, 60, Bosnian Serb politician, essayist, and scholar, suicide by gunshot.[130]
- George W. Mitchell, 92, American economist.[131]
- Seldon Powell, 68, American jazz, music, and R&B tenor saxophonist and flautist.[132]
- Elizabeth Rudel Smith, 85, American politician.[133]
- Bill Wightkin, 69, American gridiron football player.[134]
26
- Sufi Barkat Ali, 85, Indian muslim sufi.
- Jack Clayton, 82, American football, basketball, and baseball coach, congestive heart failure.[135]
- Shūhei Fujisawa, 69, Japanese author.[136]
- Cornelius Herman Muller, 87, American botanist and ecologist.[137]
- Guy Raymond, 85, American actor.[138]
- Margaret Hessen und bei Rhein, 83, German princess.[139]
- Laurence Stoddard, 93, American rowing coxswain.[140]
- Donald E. Stokes, 69, American political scientist, acute leukemia.[141]
- Mira Zimińska, 95, Polish actress.[142]
27
- Bill Kennedy, 88, American actor and television show host.
- Cecil Arthur Lewis, 98, British last surviving World War I fighter ace.[143]
- Gerald Marks, 96, American composer.[144]
- Louis E. Martin, 84, American journalist, newspaper publisher and civil rights activist.[145]
- Zia Sarhadi, 83, Pakistani screenwriter and film director.[146]
- Harish Chandra Sarin, 82, Indian civil servant, writer and defence secretary of India.
- Richard X. Slattery, 71, American actor.[147]
- David Townsend, 84, English cricket player.
- Aleksandr Zarkhi, 88, Soviet film director, screenwriter, and playwright.[148]
28
- Antônio Callado, 80, Brazilian journalist, playwright, and novelist.[149]
- Edmond de Stoutz, 76, Swiss conductor.
- Anna Galmarini, 54, Italian figure skater.[150]
- Raya Garbousova, 87, Russian-American cellist.[151]
- Alfred Gell, 51, British social anthropologist.[152]
- Mikel Koliqi, 96, Albanian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.[153]
- Wong Shun Leung, 61, Hong Kong martial artist, stroke.
- Louis Pauwels, 76, French journalist and writer, heart attack.[154]
- Geoffrey Rippon, 72, British politician.[155]
- Pandurang Vasudeo Sukhatme, 85, Indian statistician.[156]
29
- Antal Benda, 86, Hungarian field handball player.[157]
- Irma Greta Blohm, 85, German politician.
- Ken Harada, 77, Japanese politician.
- Daniel P. Mannix, 85, American writer, journalist, animal trainer, and performer.[158]
- Mumtaz Mirza, 57, Indian Urdu poet.
- Clifford Richmond, 82, New Zealand lawyer and judge.
- Osvaldo Soriano, 54, Argentine journalist and writer, lung cancer.[159]
- Thomas Daniel Young, 77, American academic.[160]
30
- Charles Hargens, 103, American painter.[161]
- Willis Harman, 78, American engineer, futurist, and author, brain cancer.
- Duane Josephson, 54, American baseball player.[162]
- Nicholas Mallett, 51, British television director.
- Henry Bentinck, 11th Earl of Portland, 77, British noble and activist.
- Frank Tejeda, 51, United States Marine and politician, brain cancer.[163]
31
- Raymond Coxon, 100, British artist.[164]
- Hedy Graf, 70, Spanish-Swiss soprano.
- Eve Lister, 83, British actress.[165]
- Seth Lover, 87, American inventor.
- Zahir Pajaziti, 34, Kosovo Albanian guerilla commander, killed in action.
- John Joseph Scanlan, 90, American catholic bishop.[166]
- Eugenia Smith, 98, American Romanov impostor.
- Alexander Solonik, 36, Russian gangster, strangled.
- Andrzej Szczepkowski, 73, Polish actor.
- Hans Tisdall, 86, German-British artist.[167]
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