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Deaths in September 1997
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The following is a list of notable deaths in September 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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September 1997
1
- Boris Balinsky, 91, Ukrainian and South African biologist, embryologist and entomologist.
- Gordon Blake, 87, U.S. Air Force lieutenant general.[1]
- Harriet Browne, 65, American tap dancer and choreographer.[2]
- Zoltán Czibor, 68, Hungarian Olympic football player (1952 gold medal).[3]
- Joseph Abel Francis, 73, American Catholic bishop.
- Reidar Olsen, 86, Norwegian footballer.[4]
2
- George E. Allen, 85, American football player and coach.
- Sir Rudolf Bing, 95, Austrian-born opera manager, Alzheimer's disease.[5]
- Viktor Frankl, 92, Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist.[6]
- Warner T. Koiter, 83, Dutch mechanical engineer and professor.[7]
- Joseph Thomas O'Keefe, 78, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church, heart failure.
- Germán Rieckehoff, 82, Puerto Rican politician.
- Mary Sears, 92, American oceanographer.[8]
3
- Arthur Chin, 83, American pilot and World War II flying ace.
- Harold G. Dick, 90, American mechanical engineer.[9]
- Hal Goodman, 82, American producer and screenwriter.
- Hans Niclaus, 83, German basketball player.[10]
- Ernst C. Stiefel, 89, German-American jurist.[11]
4
- Khaled Abdul-Wahab, 86, Tunisian rescuer of Jews.
- Chuck Arnold, 71, American racecar driver.
- Jeffrey Bernard, 65, British journalist, renal failure.
- Dharamvir Bharati, 70, Indian poet, author and playwright, heart disease.[12]
- Pierre Chatenet, 80, French politician.[13]
- Natko Devčić, 83, Croatian composer.[14]
- Hans Eysenck, 81, German-born British psychologist, brain cancer.[15]
- Alfred Kałuziński, 44, Polish handball player and Olympian.[16]
- Ivan Nenov, 95, Bulgarian painter.[17]
- Jan Opperman, 58, American racecar driver.
- Florence Engel Randall, 79, American author.[18]
- Aldo Rossi, 66, Italian architect and designer, traffic collision.[19]
- Belle Stewart, 91, Scottish traditional singer.[20]
5
- Mildred Dein, 85, American screenwriter.[21]
- Ann Dunnigan, 87, American actress and teacher.[22]
- Leon Edel, 89, American literary critic and biographer.[23]
- Polly Lada-Mocarski, 94, American rare book scholar, educator, and bookbinder.
- Manuel Martin, 79, American soccer player-coach.[24]
- Andrej Prean Nagy, 76, Romanian-Hungarian football player and coach.
- Eddie Little Sky, 71, Native American actor, lung cancer.
- Georg Solti, 84, Hungarian conductor, heart attack.[25]
- Mother Teresa, 87, Albanian missionary and humanitarian, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, heart failure.[26]
6
- Salvador Artigas, 84, Spanish football player and manager.
- Edward H. Hurst, 80, United States Marine Corps officer.
- Roy Huskey, Jr., 40, American upright bass player, lung cancer.
- P. H. Newby, 79, English novelist.[27]
- H. W. L. Poonja, Indian sage and jivanmukta, pneumonia.[28]
- Refik Resmja, 66, Albanian footballer.
- Jean-Pierre Sudre, 75, French photographer.[29]
- Uglješa Uzelac, 59, Bosnian politician and diplomat.
7
- Abdullah al-Tariki, 78, Saudi politician and government official, heart attack.
- Mukul S. Anand, 45, Indian film director and producer, heart attack.
- Edwin Brock, 69, British poet.[30]
- Elisabeth Brooks, 46, Canadian actress (The Howling), brain cancer.
- Connie Clausen, 74, American actress, author, and literary agent, stroke.[31]
- George W. Crockett, Jr., 88, African-American attorney, jurist, and congressman.[32]
- Héctor Espino, 58, Mexican baseball player and manager.[33]
- Mark Holtz, 51, American sportscaster, leukemia.
- Edgar Kaplan, 72, American bridge player, cancer.[34]
- Mobutu Sese Seko, 66, Congolese politician and president of Zaire, prostate cancer.[35]
- Bill Strannigan, 78, American basketball coach.[36]
- Brian Whittaker, 40, Scottish football player.[37]
8
- Marie Bedford, 90, South African freestyle swimmer.
- René Bihel, 81, French football player.
- Yu Jim-yuen, 92, Chinese opera singer and actor, heart attack.
- Sabatino Moscati, 74, Italian archaeologist and linguist.[38]
- Helen Shaw, 100, American actress.
- Vladimír Sommer, 76, Czech composer.[39]
- Derek Taylor, 65, English journalist, writer and record producer, throat cancer.[40]
9
- Richie Ashburn, 70, American baseball player and broadcaster (Philadelphia Phillies) and member of the MLB Hall of Fame, heart attack.[41]
- Rowland George, 92, British rower.[42]
- John Hackett, 86, Australian-born British army general and painter.[43]
- Predrag Laković, 68, Yugoslavian/Serbian actor.
- Burgess Meredith, 89, American actor (Rocky, Batman, The Day of the Locust), Emmy winner (1977), melanoma.[44]
10
- Satish Chandra Agarwal, Indian politician.
- Abraham Akaka, 80, American clergyman.[45]
- Richard Brandt, 86, American philosopher.[46]
- Jacques Leguerney, 90, French composer.[47]
- George Schaefer, 76, American television and theatre director.[48]
- Fritz Von Erich, 68, American professional wrestler, cancer.[49]
11
- Fernando Ayala, 77, Argentine film director, screenwriter and producer.[50]
- Camille Henry, 64, Canadian ice hockey player.[51]
- Iliya Kirchev, 64, Bulgarian football player.
- Matrika Prasad Koirala, 85, Prime Minister of Nepal.
- Hugo B. Margáin, 84, Mexican economist, politician and diplomat.
- Anatoli Polosin, 62, Russian football coach.
- Margaret Scrivener, 75, Canadian politician
- Xhevdet Shaqiri, 74, Albanian football player and coach.
- Hannah Weiner, 68, American poet.[52]
12
- Stig Anderson, 66, Swedish music manager and publisher, heart attack.[53]
- Leslie E. Brown, 77, United States Marine Corps aviator.
- Elsa De Giorgi, 82, Italian actress and writer.[54]
- Leonard Maguire, 73, Scottish actor.
- Judith Merril, 74, American-Canadian science fiction writer.[55]
- Eddie O'Toole, 76, American long-distance runner, heart attack.[56]
- Heorhiy Zhylin, 72, Ukrainian rower and Olympian.[57]
13
- Anjaan, 67, Indian lyricist.
- Paul Brechler, 86, American athletic director (University of Iowa).[58]
- Roger O. Egeberg, 94, American medical educator and administrator.
- Roger Frey, 84, French politician.[59]
- Georges Guétary, 82, French singer, dancer and actor, heart attack.[60]
- Kauko Helovirta, 72, Finnish film actor.
- Giorgos Mitsibonas, 34, Greek football player, traffic collision.
- Margo Rose, 94, American puppeteer.[61]
- Donald Schön, 66, American philosopher and professor in urban planning.
- Victor Szebehely, 76, Hungarian-American physicist.[62]
- Myra Tanner Weiss, 80, American trotskyist politician.
14
- Basri Dirimlili, 68, Turkish football player.[63]
- Andrew Fountaine, 78, British far right activist.[64]
- C. Warren Hollister, 66, American author and historian.[65]
- Clyde Johnson, 80, American football player.[66]
- Donato Piazza, 67, Italian racing cyclist.[67]
15
- Aleksanteri Ahola-Valo, 97, Finnish artist and architect.
- Angel Balevski, 87, Bulgarian inventor and engineer.[68]
- Bulldog Brower, 63, American professional wrestler, complications from hip surgery.
- Edna Mae Harris, 82, American actress and singer, heart attack.[69]
- Thomas J. Parmley, 99, American physicist.[70]
- Hubert Petschnigg, 83, Austrian architect.
- Gertrude Pitzinger, 93, German contralto.[71]
16
- Terence Cooper, 64, British film actor.[72]
- James Milton Ham, 76, Canadian engineer and university official.
- Helen Jepson, 92, American lyric soprano.[73]
- William N. Oatis, 83, American journalist, Alzheimer's disease.[74]
- Gerry Turpin, 72, English cinematographer.
- José Valle, 77, Argentine football player and coach.
17
- Benjamin Atkins, 29, American serial killer and rapist, AIDS-related complications.
- Anthony Franchini, 99, American guitarist.[75]
- Nelson G. Gross, 65, American politician, slashed and bludgeoned.[76]
- Brian Hall, 59, English actor (Fawlty Towers), cancer.
- Harry Jago, 84, Australian politician.
- Meena, 56, Indian actress.
- Trevor Redmond, 70, New Zealand speedway rider.[77]
- Red Skelton, 84, American comedian (The Red Skelton Show), pneumonia.[78]
- Jan P. Syse, 66, Prime Minister of Norway (1989–1990), cerebral hemorrhage.
18
- Fernand Fayolle, 93, French racing cyclist.[79]
- Patricia Pulling, 49, American anti-role-playing games activist, lung cancer.[80]
- Walpola Rahula, 90, Sri Lankan Buddhist monk, scholar and writer.
- Yehuda Sha'ari, 77, Israeli politician.
- Ganesh Man Singh, 81, Nepali politician.
- Seigo Tada, 75, Japanese founder of Goju-Ryu Seigokan Karatedo.
- Jimmy Witherspoon, 77, American blues singer, cancer.[81]
19
- Józef Bielawski, 87, Polish Arabist and scholar of Islam.[82]
- Bill Butland, 79, American baseball pitcher (Boston Red Sox).[83]
- Moses ǁGaroëb, 55, Namibian politician and founding member of SWAPO.
- Kathy Keeton, 58, American editor and publisher of Penthouse magazine, complications from surgery.[84]
- Jack May, 75, English actor.
- Rich Mullins, 41, American Christian musician, traffic collision.[85]
- Ambar Roy, 52, Indian cricket player.
20
- Matt Christopher, 80, American children's author.[86]
- Virginia d'Albert-Lake, 87, American French Resistance agent during World War II.[87]
- Kurt Gloor, 54, Swiss film director, screenwriter and producer, suicide.[88]
- Anoop Kumar, 71, Indian film actor.
- Nick Traina, 19, American punk band singer, suicide by morphine overdose.[89]
21
- Juan Burgueño, 74, Uruguayan football player.
- Teuku Muhammad Hasan, 91, Indonesian politician.
- Jennifer Holt, 76, American actress, cancer.[90]
- Maurice Kaufmann, 70, British actor, cancer.[91]
22
- Beatrice Aitchison, 89, American mathematician, statistician, and economist.
- Deolindo Bittel, 75, Argentine politician.
- William Craig, 68, American author and historian.[92]
- Robert E. Huyser, 73, United States Air Force general.
- Karl Koopman, 77, American zoologist.[93]
- Manabu Mabe, 73, Japanese-Brazilian painter, diabetes.
- Pierre Petit, 77, French cinematographer.
- Ruth Picardie, 33, English journalist and editor, breast cancer.
- Eddie Sawyer, 87, American Major League Baseball scout.[94]
- George Thomas, 1st Viscount Tonypandy, 88, British politician.[95]
- Chiang Wei-kuo, 80, Secretary-General of the National Security Council of the Republic of China (1986–1993), diabetes.
- Shoichi Yokoi, 82, Japanese soldier, heart attack.[96]
23
- Darko Bratina, 55, Italian sociologist, film theorist and politician, heart attack.
- Dolf Brouwers, 85, Dutch comedian, singer, and television actor.
- Shirley Clarke, 77, American filmmaker, stroke.[97]
- Dick Flanagan, 69, American gridiron football player.[98]
- Abe Gibron, 72, American gridiron football player and coach.[99]
- Cary Lu, 51, American science writer, cancer.[100]
- Doug Million, 21, American baseball player, asthma.[101]
- Jonas Pipynė, 61, Lithuanian track and field runner, skier, and Olympian.[102]
- Ray Poage, 56, American gridiron football player.[103]
- Lu Sheng, 85, Chinese military officer.
- J.D. Thottan, 75, Indian director of Malayalam language films.
- Pedro de Castro van Dúnem, 55, Angolan politician.[104]
- Torgny Wickman, 86, Swedish screenwriter and film director.
24
- Anton Kehle, 49, German ice hockey goaltender, cancer.
- William M. Miley, 99, United States Army officer and a professor.[105]
- Alby Morrison, 88, Australian rules football player and coach.
- Yen Shui-long, 94, Taiwanese painter and sculptor, surgical complications after fall.
- Jai Pal Singh, 67, Indian physician and educator.
- Engalaguppe Seetharamiah Venkataramiah, 72, Chief Justice of India.
- Remy Wagner, 75, Luxembourgish football player.[106]
- Ernest Will, 84, French archaeologist and professor.[107]
25
- John Ahern, 86, Irish Roman Catholic bishop.
- Hélène Baillargeon, 81, Canadian singer, actor and folklorist.[108]
- Paul Bernard, 68, English television director and production designer.
- Guillermo Díaz, 66, Chilean football player.
- Jean Françaix, 85, French musician and composer.[109]
- Juan José Gámez, 58, Costa Rican football player and manager, cardiac arrest.
- Jim Kemmy, 61, Irish politician.[110]
- Viktor Lipsnis, 63, Soviet shot putter and Olympian.[111]
- George MacDonald, 90, Canadian rower and Olympian.[112]
- Egon Seefehlner, 85, Austrian lawyer and opera director.
- Komil Yashin, 87, Soviet and Uzbekistani poet and screenwriter.[113]
26
- Nick Carter, 95, American track and field athlete, coach and official.[114]
- Woody English, 91, American baseball player.[115]
- Richard Geoffrey Gerard, 92, New Zealand politician and cabinet minister.
- Dorothy Kingsley, 87, American screenwriter (Angels in the Outfield, Valley of the Dolls, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers), heart failure.[116]
- Egon Scheibe, 88, German aviation engineer.
- John Schubeck, 61, American television reporter and anchor, kidney and liver failure.[117]
- Samuel W. Taylor, 90, American novelist, scriptwriter, and historian.[118]
- Péter Zsoldos, 67, Hungarian science fiction author.
27
- Alex Konikowski, 69, American baseball player.[119]
- Allan MacRae, 95, American Christian theologian.
- Margot Mahler, 52, German actress.[120]
- Adriana Marines, 5, American girl of Mexican descent, shot.
- Jacques Mercanton, 87, French cinematographer.
- Mandali Venkata Krishna Rao, 71, Indian politician.
- Walter Trampler, 82, American violist.[121]
28
- Munir Bashir, 66-67, Iraqi musician, stroke.[122]
- Frank D'Agostino, 63, American gridiron football player.[123]
- David Gill, 69, British film historian, preservationist and documentarian, heart attack.[124]
- Ho Feng-Shan, 96, Chinese diplomat.
- Günther Maul, 88, German ichthyologist and taxidermist.
- Lage Thunberg, 92, Swedish Air Force officer.[125]
- Elfriede Vey, 75, German cyclist.[126]
29
- William Goddard, 84, American engineer and inventor.
- Roy Lichtenstein, 73, American pop artist, pneumonia.[127]
- Edith Ballinger Price, 100, American children's author and illustrator.[128]
- Fritz Schär, 71, Swiss cyclist.[129]
- Volodymyr Sterniuk, 90, Ukrainian Greek Catholic archbishop and the acting head of the UGCC (1972–91).
- Aaron D. Wyner, 58, American information theorist.[130]
30
- Al "Jazzbo" Collins, 78, American disc jockey and musician, pancreatic cancer.[131]
- Nobuo Fujita, Japanese pilot and warrant officer during World War II.[132]
- Pierre Granche, 49, French-Canadian sculptor, lung cancer.
- Edward L. Kessel, 93, American biologist.[133]
- Graeme MacDonald, 67, British television producer and executive.[134]
- Don Martin, 77, American basketball player.[135]
- Ernst van Heerden, 81, South African poet.[136]
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