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The following is a list of notable deaths in April 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.

April 1997

1

• Milton Brunson, 67, American gospel musician and pastor.
• Jack Carroll, 66, Canadian Olympic sprinter (1952). ^[1]
• Evsey Domar, 82, Russian American economist. ^[2]
• Jolie Gabor, 100, Hungarian-American socialite. ^[3]
• John R. Hargrove Sr., 73, American attorney and district judge (United States District Court for the District of Maryland). ^[4]
• Makar Honcharenko, 84, Soviet-Ukrainian football player and coach.
• Jerry Pacht, 75, American judge, cerebral hemorrhage. ^[5]
• Franz Seltenheim, 82, Austrian Olympic swimmer (1936). ^[6]

2

• Zaki Badr, 71, Egyptian general and politician.
• Al Blanche, 87, American baseball player (Boston Braves/Bees). ^[7]
• Anthony Bushell, 92, English film actor and director. ^[8]
• Craig D. Button, 32, United States Air Force pilot, suicide by plane crash. ^[9]
• Zsolt Durkó, 62, Hungarian composer. ^[10]
• Orvis A. Kennedy, 89, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1938-1940). ^[11]
• Reg Lewis, 77, English football player.
• Yulii Meitus, 94, Ukrainian composer. ^[12]
• David Shahar, 70, Israeli fiction writer, translator, and editor. ^[13]
• Tomoyuki Tanaka, 86, Japanese film producer, stroke. ^[14]

3

• Thomas Barthel, 74, German ethnologist and epigrapher. ^[15]
• Jerome Cosentino, 65, American politician. ^[16]
• Sergei Filatov, 70, Soviet and Russian equestrian and Olympian (1956, 1960, 1964). ^[17]
• Ivor McIvor, 79, Australian rules footballer. ^[18]
• Dan Swartz, 62, American basketball player (Boston Celtics). ^[19]
• John Ugelstad, 76, Norwegian chemical engineer and inventor.
• Robert W. Ward, 67, American businessman and politician, cancer.
• Henriette Wyeth, 79, American artist. ^[20]

4

• Lawrence A. Appley, 93, American organizational theorist. ^[21]
• Kevin Coverdale, 56, Australian rules footballer. ^[22]
• Herta Ehlert, 92, German nazi camp guard during World War II.
• Billy Graham, 61, American comics artist. ^[23]
• Sugimura Haruko, 88, Japanese actress. ^[24]
• Leo Picard, 96, Israeli geologist.
• Mike Raven, 72, British radio disc jockey, actor and sculptor.
• Vladimir Soloukhin, 72, Russian poet and writer. ^[25]
• Shoichiro Takenaka, 84, Japanese Olympic long-distance runner (1932). ^[26]
• Alparslan Türkeş, 79, Turkish politician, heart attack. ^[27]
• Rudolf Ulrich, 75, German film actor. ^[28]

5

• Ignazio Buttitta, 97, Italian poet. ^[29]
• Heberto Castillo, 58, Mexican political activist. ^[30]
• Richard Clifton-Dey, 66, British artist. ^[31]
• Paul W. Cronin, 59, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1973-1975), brain cancer. ^[32]
• Paul de Bruyn, 89, German athlete and Olympian (1932, 1936). ^[33]
• Stoney Edwards, 67, American country singer, stomach cancer. ^[34]
• Allen Ginsberg, 70, American poet and writer, liver cancer. ^[35]
• Warren Godfrey, 66, Canadian ice hockey player (Boston Bruins, Detroit Red Wings). ^[36]
• August Heckscher II, 83, American public intellectual and writer, heart failure. ^[37]
• Bill Holland, 81, American baseball player (Washington Senators). ^[38]
• Aklilu Lemma, 61, Ethiopian scientist.
• John R. McKinney, 76, American soldier and recipient of the Medal of Honor.
• Riley Morris, 62-63, American football player (Oakland Raiders, Boston/New Bedford Sweepers). ^[39]
• Albino Simões Neto, 73, Portuguese Olympic rower (1948, 1952). ^[40]

6

• Max Alvarado, 68, Filipino actor, heart failure.
• Bernard Chevallier, 84, French Olympic equestrian (1948). ^[41]
• Jack Kent Cooke, 84, Canadian-American businessman, cardiac arrest, heart attack. ^[42]
• Stephan Hermlin, 81, German author. ^[43]
• Peter Jeffrey, 83, Royal Australian Air Force officer and flying ace. ^[44]
• David Keith-Lucas, 86, British aeronautical engineer. ^[45]
• Frank Kirwin, 75, Australian rules footballer. ^[46]
• Barbara Yu Ling, Singapore-British actress.
• Joaquin Mazdak Luttinger, 73, American physicist.
• Rosita Serrano, 84, Chilean singer, chronic bronchitis. ^[47]
• Pierre-Henri Teitgen, 88, French lawyer, professor and politician. ^[48]

7

• Luis Aloma, 73, Cuban baseball player (Chicago White Sox). ^[49]
• Josef Deutschmann, 76, Austrian Olympic cross-country skier (1948). ^[50]
• Aaron Kramer, 75, American poet and social activist. ^[51]
• Sam Parks, Jr., 87, American golfer.
• Georgy Shonin, 61, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 6), heart attack.

8

• Kwame Baah, 58, Ghanaian soldier and politician.
• Bob Cain, 72, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox, Detroit Tigers, St. Louis Browns), cancer. ^[52]
• Charles Hayes, 79, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1983-1993), lung cancer. ^[53]
• Laura Nyro, 49, American songwriter, singer, and pianist, ovarian cancer. ^[54]
• Homer Peel, 94, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals, Philadelphia Phillies, New York Giants), and manager. ^[55]
• Alejo Peralta, 80, Mexican baseball executive.

9

• Mae Boren Axton, 82, American songwriter and music promoter. ^[56]
• Joe Coleman, 74, American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics, Baltimore Orioles, Detroit Tigers). ^[57]
• Helene Hanff, 80, American writer, peritonitis, diabetes. ^[58]
• Geoffrey Hardy-Roberts, 89, British Army officer, politician and courtier.
• John Hollar, 74, American football player (Washington Redskins, Detroit Lions). ^[59]
• Yank Rachell, 94, American country blues musician. ^[60]
• Stevo Teodosievski, 72, Macedonian artist and humanist.
• Wu Zuoren, 88, Chinese painter.

10

• Bèto Adriana, 71, Antillean sportsman and Olympian (1960, 1972). ^[61]
• Erik Blumenfeld, 82, German politician.
• Michael Dorris, 52, American novelist and scholar, suicide. ^[62]
• Stan Eastham, 83, English footballer and Olympian (1936). ^[63]
• Fred Emery, 71, Australian psychologist. ^[64]
• Andrew Joseph Galambos, 72, Hungarian astrophysicist and philosopher.
• Alan Gibson, 73, English journalist, writer and radio broadcaster.
• Ben Gregory, 50, American football player (Buffalo Bills). ^[65]
• Gösta Johansson, 68, Swedish ice hockey player and Olympian (1952), liver cancer. ^[66]
• Marcel Maes, 52, Belgian cyclist. ^[67]
• Toshiro Mayuzumi, 68, Japanese composer. ^[68]
• Mehtab, 78, Indian actress.
• Martin Schwarzschild, 84, German-American astrophysicist. ^[69]
• Edgar Sulite, 39, Filipino martial arts teacher.
• Francis Walder, 90, Belgian writer and soldier.
• Glanville Williams, 86, Welsh legal scholar. ^[70]

11

• Castor de Andrade, 71, Brazilian mobster and bicheiro.
• Yehia Emam, 78, Egyptian footballer and Olympian (1948). ^[71]
• Muriel McQueen Fergusson, 97, Canadian activist, judge and politician. ^[72]
• Rajko Kojić, 40, Serbian/Yugoslav guitarist.
• Milt Smith, 68, American baseball player (Cincinnati Redlegs). ^[73]
• Radovan Stojičić, 46, Serbian police general, leader of the Public Security Service and acting Minister of Internal Affairs of Serbia.
• Wang Xiaobo, 44, Chinese novelist and essayist, heart attack. ^[74]
• Junzō Yoshimura, 88, Japanese architect.

12

• Kevin Belcher, 35, American football player (Los Angeles Raiders, Denver Broncos). ^[75]
• Wally Catchlove, 90, Australian cricketer. ^[76]
• Ivar Eriksson, 87, Swedish football defender. ^[77]
• Nechama Leibowitz, 91, Israeli bible scholar and commentator. ^[78]
• Moro Lorenzo, Filipino basketball player and executive.
• Dorothy Norman, 92, American photographer, writer, and arts patron. ^[79]
• Eric Pearce, 92, Australian broadcaster.
• James Ross, 85, Scottish surgeon. ^[80]
• George Wald, 90, American scientist and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. ^[81]

13

• Mustafa Amin or Mostafa Amin, 83, Egyptian columnist and journalist. ^[82]
• Madhava Ashish, 77, British-Indian spiritualist, mystic, writer and agriculturist.
• Dorothy Frooks, 101, American author, lawyer, and suffragist. ^[83]
• Josef Krejci, 86, Austrian Olympic handball player (1936). ^[84]
• David McCord, 99, American poet. ^[85]
• Shuhei Nishida, 86, Japanese Olympic pole vaulter (1932, 1936), heart failure. ^[86]
• Harry Rosenberg, 88, American baseball player (New York Giants). ^[87]
• Zbigniew Szajewski, 82, Polish Olympic wrestler (1936, 1952). ^[88]
• Voldemar Väli, 94, Estonian Greco-Roman wrestler and Olympic medalist (1924, 1928, 1936). ^[89]

14

• Gerda Christian, 83, German private secretary of Adolf Hitler during World War II, cancer.
• Count Geoffrey Potocki de Montalk, 93, New Zealand poet, polemicist and pretender to the Polish throne. ^[90]
• Kit Denton, 68, Australian writer and broadcaster.
• Gus Dugas, 90, Canadian-born baseball outfielder (Pittsburgh Pirates, Philadelphia Phillies, Washington Senators). ^[91]
• Rusty Jackson, 46, American football player (Los Angeles Rams, Buffalo Bills). ^[92]
• John Jennings, 94, English footballer.
• Michael Stroka, 58, American television actor, kidney cancer.
• Walter Taylor, 84, American anthropologist and archaeologist.
• Finn Wold, 69, Norwegian-American biochemist, cancer. ^[93]

15

• Don Bexley, 87, American actor and comedian, heart and kidney failure. ^[94]
• L. Brent Bozell, Jr., 71, American conservative activist and Roman Catholic writer. ^[95]
• David Dockendorf, 73, American sound engineer.
• Bob Friedrichs, 90, American baseball player (Washington Senators). ^[96]
• Jaime Garcia Goulart, 89, Portuguese Catholic missionary and bishop. ^[97]
• Jim Holloway, 88, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies). ^[98]
• Zdeněk Mlynář, 66, Czech politic writer, political analyst and lawyer. ^[99]
• Sam Moskowitz, 76, American writer, critic, and science fiction historian. ^[100]
• Harry Nicholas, 92, British trade unionist.
• Kō Nishimura, 74, Japanese actor. ^[101]
• Sipan Shiraz, 29, Armenian poet, sculptor and painter.
• Carlos Enrique Taboada, 67, Mexican screenwriter and director.
• Richard Tousey, 88, American astronomer, pneumonia. ^[102]

16

• Doris Angleton, 46, American socialite and murder victim, shot. ^[103]
• Jan Bruins, 56, Dutch motorcycle road racer.
• Esmeralda Arboleda Cadavid, 76, Colombian activist, politician and diplomat, kidney failure.
• John Elliott, 62, Australian Olympic wrestler (1952, 1956). ^[104]
• Thaddeus Golas, 72, American writer.
• Doug McMahon, 79, Canadian soccer player. ^[105]
• Emilio Azcárraga Milmo, 66, Mexican newspaper publisher, pancreatic cancer. ^[106]
• Roland Topor, 59, French graphic artist, author and actor, cerebral hemorrhage. ^[107]
• Claude Tresmontant, 71, French philosopher, hellenist and theologian. ^[108]

17

• Mitsu Arakawa, 69, American professional wrestler, heart failure.
• Dale Burnett, 88, American gridiron football player (New York Giants). ^[109]
• Tom Franckhauser, 59, American gridiron football player (Los Angeles Rams, Dallas Cowboys, Minnesota Vikings), heart attack. ^[110]
• Allan Francovich, 56, American film maker, heart attack. ^[111]
• Chaim Herzog, 78, Israeli politician, general, and author. ^[112]
• Henry George Lang, 78, New Zealand economist, university professor and company director.
• Gérard Lecomte, 70, French arabist.
• Biju Patnaik, 81, Indian politician, aviator and businessman. ^[113]
• Mary French Rockefeller, 86, American heiress, socialite and philanthropist.
• Hena Rodríguez, 81, Colombian sculptor.

18

• Rolf Andersson, 67, Swedish football player. ^[114]
• Edward Barker, 46, English cartoonist. ^[115]
• Bob Carpenter, 79, American basketball player (Fort Wayne Pistons, Tri-Cities Blackhawks). ^[116]
• Herbert Czaja, 82, German politician.
• Jeanne Hoban, 72, British Trotskyist, Alzheimer's disease.
• Francis Johnson, 86, American Olympic basketball player (1936). ^[117]
• Don Pietromonaco, 61, American actor and radio personality, complications from emphysema. ^[118]
• Eddie Quigley, 75, English football player and manager. ^[119]
• Juan Félix Sánchez, 95, Venezuelan folk artist.
• Georgia Schmidt, 92, American actress.

19

• Walter Gordon, 77, United States Army soldier during World War II.
• Eldon Hoke, 39, American musician, railroad accident. ^[120]
• Carl Walter Liner, 82, Swiss painter. ^[121]
• Alexander Slawik, 96, German nazi cryptographer and Japanese ethnologist.
• Maria Wittek, 97, Polish officer during World War II.

20

• Eva Blanco, 16, Spanish girl and murder victim, stabbed.
• Pai Hsiao-yen, 16, Taiwanese girl and murder victim, murdered.
• Jean Louis, 89, French-American costume designer. ^[122]
• Henry Mucci, 88, United States Army Rangers colonel, stroke. ^[123]
• Joseph Van Muylders, 73, Belgian Olympic field hockey player (1948). ^[124]
• Sun Ma Sze Tsang, 80, Cantonese opera singer and actor in Hong Kong.
• Henri Vilbert, 93, French actor.

21

• Alfred Bailey, 92, Canadian poet, anthropologist and ethno-historian. ^[125]
• Diosdado Macapagal, 86, President of the Philippines and poet, heart failure and pneumonia. ^[126]
• Thomas H. D. Mahoney, 83, American professor and politician. ^[127]
• Sayed Mekawy, 69, Egyptian singer and composer.
• József Mészáros, 74, Hungarian football player and football manager. ^[128]
• Andrés Rodríguez, 73, President of Paraguay (1989–1993), cancer. ^[129]
• Magda Staudinger, 94, Latvian biologist and botanist.
• Aníbal Tarabini, 55, Argentine football player, traffic collision.
• Nicolas Eugene Walsh, 80, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
• Herbert Zipper, 92, Austrian-American composer, conductor, and Dachau concentration camp inmate. ^[130]

22

• Jean Carlu, 96, French graphic designer. ^[131]
• Néstor Cerpa Cartolini, 43, Peruvian communist and revolutionary, killed in action.
• Moelwyn Merchant, 83, Welsh academic, novelist, sculptor, poet and Anglican priest. ^[132]
• Elliott Merrick, 91, American author. ^[133]
• Pete Petrow, 72, Canadian football player.

23

• Allan Bouch, 94, Australian rules footballer. ^[134]
• Thomas Carr, 89, American actor and film director. ^[135]
• Denis Compton, 78, English cricketer, sepsis. ^[136]
• Miklós Fodor, 88, Hungarian Olympic handball player (1936). ^[137]
• Esther Schiff Goldfrank, 100-101, American anthropologist. ^[138]
• Dorothy Hill, 89, Australian geologist and palaeontologist. ^[139]
• Jerry Nuzum, 73, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers). ^[140]
• Erwin Reimer, 82, Chilean Olympic decathlete (1936). ^[141]
• Camillo Ripamonti, 77, Italian politician and engineer.
• Beatrice Seear, Baroness Seear, 83, British social scientist and politician.
• Inge Viermetz, 89, Nazi Germany official.

24

• Abdurakhman Avtorkhanov, 88, Soviet/Chechen historian and writer. ^[142]
• John A. Brown Jr., 35, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
• Robert Erickson, 80, American composer and author, polymyositis. ^[143]
• Felice Ippolito, 81, Italian geologist and politician. ^[144]
• Bohumil Kosour, 84, Czech Olympic skier (1948). ^[145]
• Bill McArthur, 78, American football player and coach. ^[146]
• Hubert McLean, 89, New Zealand rugby player.
• Roland Prout, 77, British Olympic canoeist (1952). ^[147]
• Eugene Stoner, 74, American firearms designer, cancer. ^[148]
• Ines Vercesi, 81, Italian Olympic gymnast (1928). ^[149]

25

• Aleksejs Auziņš, 86, Latvian football, ice hockey player, and Olympian (1936). ^[150]
• Nicholas Baker, 58, British politician and minister. ^[151]
• Kay Blumetta, 73, American baseball player. ^[152]
• Lidia Istrati, 55, Moldovan writer and politician.
• Frank Joyner, 78, Scottish football player and manager.
• Brian May, 62, Australian film composer ( Mad Max ) and conductor, heart attack. ^[153]
• Pat Paulsen, 69, American comedian and satirist, complications of pneumonia and kidney failure. ^[154]
• Gino Pernice, 69, Italian actor. ^[155]
• Dudley Pope, 71, British writer . ^[156]
• Andreas Rett, 73, Austrian neurologist and author.
• Bernard Vonnegut, 82, American atmospheric scientist, cancer. ^[157]
• Joan Yarde-Buller, 89, English socialite.
• Nikolai Yegorov, 45, Russian politician, lung cancer.
• Chia-Shun Yih, 78, Chinese-American engineer and physicist, heart failure. ^[158]

26

• John Beal, 87, American actor, stroke. ^[159]
• J. J. Colledge, 89, British naval historian and author.
• Wilhelm Crinius, 76, German Luftwaffe flying ace during World War II.
• Joey Faye, American comedian and actor. ^[160]
• Hideo Fujimoto, 78, Japanese baseball pitcher, heart attack. ^[161]
• Valery Obodzinsky, 55, Soviet and Russian tenor, heart attack.
• Howard Ensign Simmons, Jr., 67, American chemist. ^[162]
• Peng Zhen, 94, Chinese politician and chairman of the NPCSC (1983–1988). ^[163]

27

• Lew Dietz, 90, American writer. ^[164]
• Gabriel Figueroa, 90, Mexican cinematographer. ^[165]
• Paul Lambert, 74, American actor. ^[166]
• Dulce María Loynaz, 94, Cuban poet, cancer. ^[167]
• Patrick O'Connor, 87, American painter. ^[168]
• Bunny Roger, 85, English couturier and socialite.
• Piotr Skrzynecki, 66, Polish choreographer, director and cabaret impresario, cancer. ^[169]
• Peter Winch, 71, British philosopher.

28

• Peter Tali Coleman, 77, Samoan Governor of American Samoa (1956–1961; 1978–1985; 1989–1993), liver cancer.
• Steve Conte, 77, Italian-American actor, Alzheimer's disease.
• Ashley Harvey-Walker, 52, English cricketer (Derbyshire County Cricket Club), murdered.
• Karl-Åke Hultberg, 81, Swedish Olympic equestrian (1948). ^[170]
• Una Johnson, 91, American curator and art historian. ^[171]
• Jan Kielas, 80, Polish Olympic middle-distance runner (1952). ^[172]
• Earl Klapstein, 75, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers), and coach. ^[173]
• Ann Petry, 88, American children's author, novelist and journalist. ^[174]
• William Percy Rogers, 82, Australian zoologist. ^[175]
• John P. Snyder, 71, American cartographer. ^[176]
• Peter Taylor, Baron Taylor of Gosforth, 66, British Lord Chief Justice of England (1992–1996), cancer.
• Doc Urich, 68, American football player and coach, heart attack. ^[177]

29

• Keith Ferguson, 50, American bass guitarist, liver failure. ^[178]
• Paul Mullins Gervais, 71, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1968-1972). ^[179]
• Georgy Klimov, 68, Russian linguist.
• Günther Laukien, 72, German physicist and entrepreneur.
• R. N. Malhotra, 71, Indian banker.
• Jaroslav Plíhal, 60, Czech Olympic shot putter (1960). ^[180]
• Mike Royko, 64, American newspaper columnist, brain aneurysm. ^[181]

30

• Miklós Fodor, 88, Hungarian field handball player and Olympian (1936). ^[182]
• Michael Harbottle, 80, British Army officer. ^[183]
• Josiah Lincoln Lowe, 92, American mycologist.
• Jorge Mondragón, 93, Mexican actor.
• Henry Gilford Picard, 90, American golfer. ^[184]
• Roohangiz Saminejad, 80, Iranian actress.
• Wolfgang Späte, 85, German Luftwaffe flying ace during World War II.
• Vladimir Sukharev, 72, Soviet sprinter and Olympian (1952, 1956). ^[185]

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External links

• List of April 1997 deaths at IMDb