Deaths in December 1997
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]
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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, traffic collision.[ 9] Marge Kotlisky , 70, American actress (Major League Thief Sixteen Candles Endicott Peabody , 77, American gridiron football player and politician, leukemia .[ 10]
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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]
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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 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, shot.[ 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.
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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]
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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]
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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 .
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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]
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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 , homicide by vehicular impact.[ 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 [ 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 [ 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, plane 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, plane 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 by self-defenestration .Jūzō Itami , 64, Japanese actor, screenwriter and film director, suicide by jumping.[ 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 [ 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, traffic collision.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 collision.Hal Rice , 73, American baseball player.[ 111] Clara Lee Tanner , 92, American anthropologist and art historian.
23
Felix Bwalya , 30, 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 [ 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 [ 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, traffic collision.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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