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The following is a list of notable deaths in July 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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July 1997
1
- Lester Asheim, 83, American librarian and scholar of library science.[1]
- Annie Fratellini, 64, French circus artist, film actress and clown, cancer.[2]
- Joshua Hassan, 81, Gibraltarian politician and Chief Minister of Gibraltar.
- David Martin, 81, Australian novelist, poet, playwright, journalist, and reviewer and lecturer.[3]
- Harold McQueen, Jr., 44, American convicted murderer, execution by electric chair.[4]
- Robert Mitchum, 79, American actor (The Story of G.I. Joe, Cape Fear, The Night of the Hunter), complications from lung cancer and emphysema.[5]
- Mohammad Ali Mojtahedi, 88, Iranian University professor.
- Gerhard Wiltfang, 51, German equestrian and Olympic champion.[6]
2
- George Antonio, 82, English footballer.[7]
- Chiquito, 65, Filipino actor and comedian, liver cancer.
- Flint Gregory Hunt, 38, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.[8]
- Dee Moore, 83, American Major League Baseball player.[9]
- James Stewart, 89, American actor (It's a Wonderful Life, Rear Window, Vertigo), Oscar winner (1941), heart attack as a result of pulmonary embolism.[10]
3
- Johnny Copeland, 60, American blues guitarist and singer, complications during heart surgery.[11]
- Gloster B. Current, 84, American NAACP activist, leukemia and pneumonia.[12]
- Natalia Dumitresco, 81, French-Romanian abstract painter.[13]
- Rufe Gentry, 79, American baseball player.[14]
- Michael James MacDonald, 87, Canadian politician and union leader.
- Thomas Sgovio, 80, American artist and Soviet Union Gulag inmate.[15]
- Stanley Stanczyk, 72, American weightlifter and Olympian.[16]
4
- William Cadogan, 7th Earl Cadogan, British peer and military officer.
- Bengt Danielsson, 75, Swedish anthropologist, writer, and a crew member on the Kon-Tiki raft expedition.
- Charles Kuralt, 62, American journalist, complications from lupus.[17]
- Slobodan Mišković, 52, Serbian handball coach and player.
- Miguel Najdorf, 87, Polish-Argentinian chess grandmaster.[18]
- Amado Carrillo Palomino, 40, Mexican drug lord, complications during cosmetic surgery.
- Bevis Reid, 78, British track and field athlete and Olympian.[19]
- Eddie Smith, 70, Australian racing cyclist.[20]
- John Zachary Young, 90, English zoologist and neurophysiologist.[21]
5
- Bob Dees, 67, American gridiron football player.[22]
- Jean-Marie Domenach, 75, French writer and intellectual.[23]
- Mrs. Miller, 89, American singer.[24]
- Les Norman, 83, Australian politician.[25]
- Arunasalam Thangathurai, 61, Sri Lankan Tamil politician.
6
- Chetan Anand, 76, Indian Hindi film producer, screenwriter and director.
- Gabriel Asaad, 90, Turkish-Swedish Assyrian composer and musician.
- Dorothy Buffum Chandler, 96, American cultural leader.[26]
- Stanisław Horno-Popławski, 94, Russian-Polish painter, sculptor and pedagogue.
- Gene James, 72, American basketball player.[27]
- Brun Smith, 75, New Zealand cricket player.
7
- Mate Boban, 57, Bosnian Croat politician and the only president of the Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia, stroke.[28]
- Alfons De Winter, 88, Belgian football player.
- Jerry Doggett, 80, American sportscaster.[29]
- Raffaele Dolfato, 34, Italian rugby player and entrepreneur, traffic collision.
- Henry Howell, 76, American politician, cancer.[30]
- Sven Håkansson, 87, Swedish long-distance runner and Olympian.[31]
- Jean Luciano, 76, French football player and manager.[32]
- Oku Mumeo, 101, Japanese politician and feminist.
- Luis Aguirre Pinto, 89, Chilean composer, folk musician and folklorist.
- Royston Tickner, 74, British actor.
- Rolando Tinio, 60, Filipino poet, dramatist, actor, and essayist.
- Erik Zetterström, 92, Swedish writer and playwright.
8
- Charles L. Drake, 73, American geologist, heart failure.[33]
- Dick van Dijk, 51, Dutch football player (FC Twente, Ajax Amsterdam), acute endocarditis.[34]
- Georges Gay, 71, French racing cyclist.[35]
- Guy Murchie, 90, American author and aviator.[36]
- Abu Sadat Mohammad Sayem, 81, Bangladeshi jurist and statesman.
- Charles P. B. Taylor, 65,Canadian journalist, author, and thoroughbred racehorse owner and breeder, cancer.[37]
- Tony Thomas, 69, British-American film historian, author, and producer, pneumonia.[38]
- Max E. Youngstein, 84, American film producer.[39]
9
- Carol Forman, 79, American actress.[40]
- Aurelio González, 91, Paraguayan football player.
- Walter Korn, 89, Czech-American writer of books and magazine articles about chess.
- Georgeta Năpăruș, 66, Romanian modernist painter.[41]
- David Pitblado, British principal private secretary to successive Prime Ministers.[42]
- Stan Rojek, 78, American baseball player.[43]
- Marianne Schönauer, 77, Austrian actress.[44]
10
- Ivor Allchurch, 67, Welsh football player.[45]
- Dwight Lowry, 39, American baseball player, heart attack.[46]
- Abe Okpik, 69, Canadian Inuit community leader.
- Frank R. Parker, 57, American civil rights lawyer and activist, complications from an aortic aneurysm.[47]
11
- Felix Barker, 80, British drama critic and historian.[48]
- Fred Beavis, 82, Canadian politician, pneumonia.
- Nina Bencich Woodside, 66, American public health official and college professor, plane crash.[49]
- Joe Hauser, 98, American baseball player.[50]
- Edward Lasker, 85, American businessman and thoroughbred racehorse owner.[51]
- Alfred Mellows, 75, English rower and Olympic medalist.[52]
- Jock Sturrock, 82, Australian yachtsman and Olympian.[53]
- Robert V. Whitlow, 78, American military officer, football coach, and sports club executive.
12
- Pietro Buscaglia, 86, Italian football player.[54]
- Meribeth E. Cameron, 92, American historian of China and academic.[55]
- Blas Chumacero, 92, Mexican trade union leader.
- François Furet, 70, French historian, head injury while playing tennis, heart failure.[56]
- Douglas Huebler, 72, American conceptual artist.[57]
- Steve Karrys, 73, Canadian football player.
- Vinko Nikolić, 85, Croatian writer, poet and journalist.[58]
- Frank Shuter, 54, New Zealand speedway rider, traffic collision.
- Jean Varenne, 71, French indologist.
- Miroslav Wiecek, 65, Czech football player.
13
- Garfield Barwick, 94, Australian politician, lawyer, and Chief Justice of Australia.[59]
- Miguel Ángel Blanco, 29, Spanish politician and ETA victim, executed.
- Alexandra Danilova, 93, Russian-American prima ballerina.[60]
- Rosy Gibb, 54, Irish social worker, clown, and magician, cancer.[61]
- Ekaterina Kalinchuk, 74, Soviet gymnast and Olympic champion.[62]
- Kurt Land, 84, Austrian-Argentine film director.
- Edi Rada, 74, Austrian figure skater and Olympic medalist.[63]
- Alf Tveten, 84, Norwegian sailor and Olympian.[64]
14
- Eddie Finnigan, 84, Canadian ice hockey player.[65]
- Eugene Goossen, 76, American art critic and art historian, pneumonia.[66]
- Joseph F. Holt, 73, American politician.
- Isaac Nicola, Cuban guitarist.
- Polly Shackleton, 87, American politician.[67]
- Hilda Watson, 75, Canadian politician.
15
- Alan J. Charig, 70, English palaeontologist, stroke.[68]
- Dick Chorovich, 64, American gridiron football player.[69]
- Cheryl Glass, 35, American racing driver, suicide by jumping.[70]
- Eve Greene, 91, American screenwriter.[71]
- Rosamund Greenwood, 90, British actress.
- Justinas Lagunavičius, 72, Lithuanian basketball player.[72]
- Stefan Marinov, 66, Bulgarian physicist, suicide by jumping.
- Gianni Versace, 50, Italian fashion designer and founder of the Versace fashion house, shot.[73][74]
16
- Ron Berry, 77, Welsh author and novelist.
- Dora Maar, 89, French photographer, painter, and poet.[75]
- William H. Reynolds, 87, American film editor (The Godfather, The Sound of Music, The Sting), Oscar winner (1966, 1974), cancer.[76]
- Franciszek Sulik, 88-89, Polish-Australian chess master.
17
- Bianco Bianchi, 80, Italian cyclist.[77]
- Don Bingham, 67, American gridiron football player.[78]
- R. Krishnan, 87, Indian film director.
- Thomas Mellon Evans, 86, American financier, complications following a fall.[79]
- Arthur Jepson, 82, English cricket player.
- Hugo Gunckel Lüer, 95, Chilean pharmacist and botanist.
- Dave Peterson, 66, American ice hockey coach[80]
- Birgitte Price, 63, Danish actress.
- Gene Warren, 80, American visual effects artist (The Time Machine) and television producer (Land of the Lost), Oscar winner (1961), cancer.
- Robert C. Weaver, 89, American economist and academic.[81]
18
- André Drobecq, 96, French racing cyclist.[82]
- Léon Gaultier, 82, French nazi collaborator during World War II and founding member of Front National.[83]
- James Goldsmith, 64, Anglo-French financier, tycoon, and politician, pancreatic cancer.[84]
- Igor Linchevski, Russian botanist.
- Oddvar Richardsen, 60, Norwegian football player and manager.[85]
- Eugene Merle Shoemaker, 69, American geologist and planetary science pioneer, traffic collision.[86]
- Harold Spina, 91, American composer of popular songs.
- Gregorio Weber, 81, Argentinian biochemist.[87]
19
- Frank Farrell, 50, British rock musician (Supertramp).
- Hec Gervais, 63, Canadian curler.
- John E. Hines, 86, American Episcopal Church bishop.[88]
- Jim Peebles, 76, American football player (Washington Redskins).[89]
- Tugolbay Sydykbekov, 85, Kyrgyzstani writer.
20
- Puneet Nath Datt, 24, Indian Army officer, killed in action.
- Alf Engen, 88, Norwegian-American skier.[90]
- Ed Klewicki, 85, American football player.[91]
- M. E. H. Maharoof, 58, Sri Lankan politician, gunshot wounds.
- Drummond Matthews, 66, British marine geologist and geophysicist.[92]
- Eric Charles Milner, 69, Canadian mathematician.
- Arshi Pipa, 76, Albanian-American philosopher, writer and poet.
- Linda Stirling, 75, American showgirl, model, and actress, cancer.[93]
21
- Tony Alvarez, 40, Spanish Australian actor and singer, AIDS-related cancer.
- Sjaak Alberts, 71, Dutch football player.[94]
- Paul K. Benedict, 85, American anthropologist and linguist, traffic collision.
- Roger Bowman, 69, American baseball player.[95]
- Růžena Grebeníčková, 71, Czech literary historian and theorist.
- Ernst Majonica, 76, German politician (CDU).
22
- Khalil Ahmed, 61, Pakistani composer.
- Irving Geis, 88, American artist.[96]
- Vincent Hanna, 57, Northern Irish television journalist, heart attack.[97]
- Jean-Jacques Herbulot, 88, French sailor and Olympian.[98]
- Kevin Howley, 73, English football referee.[99]
- János Mogyorósi-Klencs, 75, Hungarian gymnast and Olympian.[100]
- Sondra Rodgers, 94, American actress.
- Fritz Scheller, 82, German cyclist.[101]
23
- Walter Behrendt, 82, German politician.
- Jeff Cross, 78, American baseball player.[102]
- Andrew Cunanan, 27, American spree killer and murderer of Gianni Versace, suicide by gunshot.[103]
- Dequinha, 69, Brazilian football player.[104]
- Andrea Domburg, 74, Dutch actress.[105]
- Chūhei Nambu, 93, Japanese track and field athlete, pneumonia.[106]
- Simon Pierre Tchoungui, 80, First Prime Minister of Cameroon.
- David Warbeck, 55, New Zealand actor and model, cancer.[107]
24
- William J. Brennan, 91, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (1956–1990).[108]
- Bob Gaddy, 73, American East Coast blues and R&B pianist, singer and songwriter, lung cancer.[109]
- Edward Gardère, 88, French fencer and Olympian.[110]
- Brian Glover, 63, English actor (Alien 3, Kes, An American Werewolf in London) and writer, brain tumor, brain cancer.[111]
- László Görög, 93, Hungarian-American screenwriter.
- Saw Maung, 69, Burmese army general and statesman, heart attack.[112]
- Frank Parker, 81, American tennis player.[113]
- Bill Shine, 85, British actor.[114]
25
- Natallia Arsiennieva, 93, Belarusian playwright, poet and translator.
- Jack Bickham, 66, American novelist, lymphoma.
- Peter Carmichael, 73, British fighter pilot during World War II and the Korean War.
- Jack Davies, 80, New Zealand swimmer.
- Ralph Goldstein, 83, American épée fencer and Olympian, traffic collision.[115]
- Ben Hogan, 84, American golf champion.[116]
- David McFaull, 48, American sailor and Olympian.[117]
- Boris Novikov, 72, Soviet actor, complications from diabetes.
- Matiu Rata, 63, New Zealand Māori politician, traffic collision.[118]
26
- Jaime Milans del Bosch, 82, Spanish lieutenant general and co-leader of 1981 coup d'état, brain tumor.[119]
- Kunihiko Kodaira, 82, Japanese mathematician.[120]
- Bob Nussbaumer, 73, American gridiron football player.[121]
- Denis Smallwood, 78, British Royal Air Force senior commander.
27
- Muhammad Mahdi Al-Jawahiri, 98, Iraqi poet.[122]
- Isabel Dean, 79, English actress.[123]
- Heinrich Liebe, 89, German naval officer during World War II.
- René Persillon, 78, French football player.[124]
- K'tut Tantri, 99, Scottish American hotelier and broadcaster known as "Surabaya Sue".[125]
28
- Rosalie Crutchley, 77, British actress.[126]
- John FitzPatrick, 82, Australian politician.[127]
- Bud Hardin, 75, American baseball player.[128]
- Leo Loudenslager, 53, American aviator, traffic collision.
- Gordon McMaster, 37, Scottish politician, suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning.[129]
- Seni Pramoj, 92, Thai politician and Prime Minister, heart disease and kidney failure.[130]
29
- Jack Archer, 75, English sprinter.[131]
- Mykhailo Byelykh, 38, Soviet/Ukrainian football player and a coach, traffic collision.
- Shinsaku Himeda, 80, Japanese cinematographer (Tora! Tora! Tora!).
- Edward A. Kawānanakoa, 72, American member of the Hawaiian House of Kawānanakoa.
- John H. Ware III, 88, American politician.
- Chuck Wayne, 74, American jazz guitarist.[132]
30
- Giuseppe Anedda, 85, Italian mandolin player.[133]
- Robert Bryce, 87, Canadian civil servant.[134]
- Emil J. Husak, 66, American politician.
- Charlotte van Pallandt, 98, Dutch painter and sculptor.[135]
31
- Bảo Đại, 83, Vietnamese emperor of the Nguyễn dynasty, brain cancer.[136]
- Hepi Te Heuheu, 78, New Zealand Māori chief.[137]
- Vichit Kounavudhi, 75, Thai film director and screenwriter.
- Eddie Miller, 80, American baseball player.[138]
- Vern Riffe, 72, American politician and speaker.
- Frans Schoubben, 63, Belgian racing cyclist.[139]
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