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The following is a list of notable deaths in August 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.

August 1997

1

• Kenneth W. Bilby, 78, American RCA executive, leukemia. ^[1]
• Berta Alves de Sousa, 91, Portuguese pianist and composer.
• Ngiratkel Etpison, 73, Palauan politician.
• Dame Bertha Isaacs, 97, Bahamian teacher, tennis player, politician and women's rights activist. ^[2]
• Lawrence Alexander Sidney Johnson, 72, Australian taxonomic botanist, cancer.
• Angel Acuña Lizaña, 78, Mexican Olympic basketball player (1948). ^[3]
• Norio Nagayama, 48, Japanese spree killer and novelist, execution by hanging.
• Gene Richardson, 69, American baseball player. ^[4]
• Sviatoslav Richter, 82, Ukrainian pianist, heart attack. ^[5]
• Janet G. Travell, 95, American physician and medical researcher, heart failure. ^[6]
• Hans von Luck, 86, German Wehrmacht officer during World War II. ^[7]

2

• William S. Burroughs, 83, American author ( Naked Lunch , Junkie ) and visual artist, heart attack. ^[8]
• John Churcher, 91, British army general.
• Antonis Daglis, Greek serial killer, suicide by hanging.
• Joyce Dingwell, 89, Australian writer. ^[9]
• Feim Ibrahimi, 61, Albanian composer.
• Harald Kihle, 92, Norwegian painter and illustrator. ^[10]
• James Krüss, 71, German children's author and illustrator. ^[11]
• Fela Kuti, 58, Nigerian musician and human rights activist, AIDS (disputed). ^[12]
• Russ Mosley, 79, American football player (Green Bay Packers). ^[13]
• Frank E. Smith, 79, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1951-1962), complications from strokes. ^[14]
• Ricardo Muñoz Suay, 79, Spanish film director, producer and screenwriter. ^[15]
• Michèle Pujol, 46, French intellectual, feminist, and human rights activist, cancer.
• Rhydwen Williams, 80, Welsh poet, novelist and baptist minister.

3

• Peter A. Carruthers, 62, American physicist. ^[16]
• Joan Erikson, 94, Austrian-Canadian author, educator, and dance ethnographer. ^[17]
• Mladen Koščak, 60, Croatian football player and Olympian (1956). ^[18]
• Pietro Rizzuto, 63, Canadian politician, member of the Senate of Canada (1976- ). ^[19]
• Nirmal Chandra Sinha, 85–86, Indian tibetologist and author.

4

• Horace Bristol, 88, American photographer. ^[20]
• Ces Burke, 83, New Zealand cricketer. ^[21]
• Dick Bush, 65, British cinematographer ( Tommy , Victor Victoria , Twins of Evil ). ^[22]
• Jeanne Calment, 122, French supercentenarian and the oldest person ever documented in history, senility. ^[23]
• Tom Eckersley, 82, English poster artist and teacher of design. ^[24]
• Nicholas J. Hoff, 91, Hungarian-American aeronautics and astronautic engineer. ^[25]
• Gene Johnson, 61, American gridiron football player (Philadelphia Eagles, Minnesota Vikings, New York Giants). ^[26]
• Jens Lundgaard, 86, Danish footballer. ^[27]
• Lloyd Marshall, 83, American light heavyweight boxer.
• Ariel Maughan, 74, American basketball player. ^[28]
• Ray Renfro, 67, American gridiron football player (Cleveland Browns). ^[29]
• Sidney Simon, 80, American painter, sculptor, and muralist. ^[30]
• Alexander Young, 58, Scottish musician, lung cancer.

5

• Dick Day, 77, Australian rules footballer. ^[31]
• Clarence M. Kelley, 85, American politician and director of the FBI. ^[32]
• Poul Møller, 77, Danish Conservative People's Party politician. ^[33]
• Don Steele, 61, American disc jockey, lung cancer. ^[34]
• Michael J. Tully Jr., 64, American lawyer and politician, heart attack. ^[35]

6

• Lance Barnard, 78, Australian politician and diplomat. ^[36]
• Bill Behr, 78, American basketball player. ^[37]
• Maria Antonietta Beluzzi, 67, Italian actress, infarction.
• Birendra Kumar Bhattacharya, 72, Indian writer.
• Shin Ki-ha, 56, South Korean politician, plane crash. ^[38]
• Jürgen Kuczynski, 92, German economist and communist. ^[39]
• Tom Normanton, 80, British politician.
• John Porter, 93, Canadian ice hockey player and Olympian (1928). ^[40]
• Noel Teggart, 55, Irish Olympic cyclist (1972). ^[41]
• Samuel Paul Welles, 89, American palaeontologist. ^[42]
• Bora Öztürk, 42, Turkish football player, cancer.

7

• Rudolf Blügel, 70, German politician and member of the Bundestag.
• Jules Goedhuys, 92, Belgian racing cyclist. ^[43]
• Kay Halle, 93, American journalist, author and World War II OSS operative. ^[44]
• Elisabeth Höngen, 90, German operatic mezzo-soprano and actress.
• Eugene Langenraedt, 90, Belgian Olympic sprinter (1928). ^[45]
• Robert Major, 82, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1968-1972). ^[46]
• Volker Prechtel, 55, German actor, cancer. ^[47]
• Léon Spartz, 70, Luxembourgian Olympic footballer (1952). ^[48]

8

• Joseph Aquilina, 78, Maltese author and linguist.
• Orville H. Hampton, 80, American screenwriter. ^[49]
• Dardanelle Hadley, 79, American jazz musician.
• William Lithgow, 77, English cricketer. ^[50]
• Plato Malozemoff, 87, Russian-American engineer and businessman, congestive heart failure. ^[51]
• Paul Rudolph, 78, American architect, peritoneal mesothelioma. ^[52]
• Oad Swigart, 82, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates). ^[53]

9

• Doug Adams, 47, American gridiron football player (Cincinnati Bengals). ^[54]
• Max Bloesch, 89, Swiss Olympic handball player (1936). ^[55]
• Gabriel Cattand, 73, French actor. ^[56]
• Herbert de Souza, 61, American sociologist and activist, AIDS-related complications. ^[57]
• Ilpo Koskela, 52, Finnish ice hockey player and Olympian (1968, 1972). ^[58]
• Trần Đại Nghĩa, 83, Vietnamese scientist and military engineer.

10

• Peter Braestrup, 66–67, American journalist, heart attack. ^[59]
• Valery Chaptynov, 52, Russian politician.
• Roy Chipman, 58, American basketball coach, colorectal cancer.
• Malú Gatica, 75, Chilean actress and singer.
• William Jordy, 80, American architectural historian. ^[60]
• Steve Kraftcheck, 68, Canadian ice hockey player (Boston Bruins, New York Rangers, Toronto Maple Leafs). ^[61]
• Jean-Claude Lauzon, 43, Canadian filmmaker and screenwriter, plane crash. ^[62]
• Carlton Moss, 88, American screenwriter, actor and film director. ^[63]
• Conlon Nancarrow, 84, American-Mexican composer. ^[64]
• Marie-Soleil Tougas, 27, Canadian actress and tv host, plane crash. ^[65]
• Bob Welborn, 69, American racing driver.
• George Zames, 63, Polish-Canadian control theorist and professor.

11

• Miksa Bondi, 79, Hungarian Olympic boxer (1948). ^[66]
• Bert McTaggart, 81, Australian rules footballer. ^[67]
• Frank Pearson, 77, American Negro league baseball player. ^[68]
• Jacques Robert, 76, French author, screenwriter and journalist. ^[69]

12

• Luther Allison, 57, American blues guitarist, cancer. ^[70]
• Anna Balakian, 82, Armenian-American professor of comparative literature, congestive heart failure. ^[71]
• Rex Barney, 72, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers). ^[72]
• Ambrogio Bessi, 82, Italian Olympic basketball player (1936). ^[73]
• Gösta Bohman, 86, Swedish politician. ^[74]
• Jack Delano, 83, American photographer, kidney failure. ^[75]
• Rob Denton, 89, American soccer player and Olympian (1936). ^[76]
• Keith Harper, 70, Australian rules football player.
• Robert Hetzron, 58, Hungarian-born linguist. ^[77]
• Gulshan Kumar, 46, Indian businessman and film producer, shot. ^[78]
• Dick Marx, 73, American jazz pianist and arranger, traffic collision.
• Mario Montuori, 77, Italian film cinematographer and painter.
• Abe Newborn, 77, American talent agent and theatre producer, congestive heart failure. ^[79]
• Sam Nolutshungu, 52, South African academic, cancer.
• Len Norris, 83, Canadian editorial cartoonist.
• Achilles Papapetrou, 90, Greek theoretical physicist.
• Albert L. Smith, Jr., 65, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1981-1983). ^[80]
• Conrad von Molo, 90, Austrian film producer and editor. ^[81]
• Ali Yata, 76, Moroccan communist leader.

13

• Vladimir Gribov, 67, Soviet and Russian theoretical physicist. ^[82]
• António de Herédia, 96, Portuguese Olympic sailor (1928, 1936, 1948). ^[83]
• Robert L. Leggett, 71, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1963-1979). ^[84]
• Dick Mather, 56, Canadian politician, heart attack.
• Emil Mosbacher, 75, American yachtsman and Chief of Protocol of the United States, cancer. ^[85]
• Harlow Rothert, 89, American Olympic shot putter (1928, 1932). ^[86]
• Marjorie Lynette Sigley, 68, English artist, writer, actress, choreographer and theatre director, cancer. ^[87]
• Carel Weight, 88, English painter. ^[88]

14

• John Elliot, 79, British novelist, screenwriter and television producer. ^[89]
• Charlie Fleming, 70, Scottish footballer.
• Diana E. Forsythe, 49, American anthropology researcher, hiking accident. ^[90]
• Frederick Carl Galda, 79, American attorney and politician. ^[91]
• George Pfister, 78, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers), and coach, heart attack. ^[92]
• Guido Vincenzi, 65, Italian football player and manager, A.L.S. ^[93]

15

• Ida Gerhardt, 92, Dutch writer and poet. ^[94]
• Ray Heatherton, 88, American singer, Broadway performer and television personality, Alzheimer's disease. ^[95]
• Lubka Kolessa, 95, Canadian-Ukrainian pianist and educator. ^[96]
• Lawrence Morgan, 82, Australian rules footballer, equestrian and Olympian (1960). ^[97]
• Steve Pruski, 73, Canadian football player.
• Dave Solomon, 84, Fijian-New Zealand rugby player and coach. ^[98]
• Çesk Zadeja, 70, Albanian composer. ^[99]

16

• Yanick Dupré, 24, Canadian ice hockey player (Philadelphia Flyers), leukemia. ^[100]
• Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, 48, Pakistani Qawwali musician, heart attack. ^[101]
• Robert Lang, 80, Swiss cyclist. ^[102]
• Alf Malland, 80, Norwegian actor.
• Plum Mariko, 29, Japanese female professional wrestler, wrestling accident. ^[103]
• Jacques Pollet, 75, French racing driver.
• Donn Reynolds, 76, Canadian country music singer and yodeler. ^[104]
• Hendrik van den Bergh, 82, South African police official.
• Roger Vrigny, 77, French writer. ^[105]

17

• Burnum Burnum, 61, Australian Aboriginal activist, actor, and author, heart disease. ^[106]
• Secondo Magni, 85, Italian racing cyclist. ^[107]
• Don Owens, 65, American gridiron football player (Washington Redskins, Philadelphia Eagles, St. Louis Cardinals). ^[108]
• David Schweitzer, 72, Israeli football player and manager. ^[109]
• Richard Skalak, 74, American biomedical engineering pioneer. ^[110]

18

• Praphas Charusathien, 84, Thai military officer and politician.
• Fedor Hanžeković, 84, Croatian film director. ^[111]
• Don Knight, 64, English actor ( The Apple Dumpling Gang , Swamp Thing , The Hawaiians ), stroke. ^[112]
• Ante Pivčević, 71, Croatian Olympic sailor (1960). ^[113]
• Maria Prymachenko, 89, Ukrainian folk art painter.
• Frank P. Sanders, 78, American Under Secretary of the Navy (1972–73).
• Robert Swenson, 40, American professional wrestler (WCCW) and actor ( Batman & Robin , Bulletproof ), heart failure.
• Tochiakagi Takanori, 42, Japanese sumo wrestler. ^[114]
• Harry R. Wellman, 98, American academic. ^[115]

19

• Cathleen Cordell, 82, American actress, emphysema. ^[116]
• René van Hove, 84, Dutch Olympic cyclist (1936). ^[117]
• Jim Karcher, 83, American gridiron football player (Boston/Washington Redskins). ^[118]
• Robson Lowe, 92, English philatelist, stamp dealer and stamp auctioneer.
• Petr Novák, 51, Czech rock musician, poisoned.
• Mario Velarde, 57, Mexican football player. ^[119]

20

• Scott Armstrong, 83, American basketball player. ^[120]
• Norris Bradbury, 88, American physicist, infectious disease. ^[121]
• William Humphrey, 73, American writer, cancer. ^[122]
• Leo Jaffe, 88, American film executive. ^[123]
• Bob Switzer, 83, American inventor, businessman and environmentalist, Parkinson's disease. ^[124]

21

• Misael Pastrana Borrero, 73, President of Colombia. ^[125]
• Somers Cox, 86, New Zealand Olympic rower (1932). ^[126]
• Abdul Rahim Ghafoorzai, Afghani politician and diplomat, prime minister of afghanistan (since 1997), plane crash. ^[127]
• Jean Horsley, 84, New Zealand artist.
• William Jopling, 86, Italian-British leprologist. ^[128]
• Guillermo Molina, 88, American baseball player. ^[129]
• Yuri Nikulin, 75, Soviet/Russian actor and clown, heart failure. ^[130]

22

• Prince Álvaro of Orleans, 87, Spanish noble and Infante. ^[131]
• James Edmund Jeffries, 72, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1979-1983). ^[132]
• James K. Johnson, 81, United States Air Force officer. ^[133]
• François Lachenal, 79, Swiss publisher and diplomat. ^[134]
• Eduardo Lopes, 79, Portuguese road and track cyclist, cerebral vascular accident. ^[135]
• Bill MacIntosh, 66, Canadian Olympic sailor (1952). ^[136]
• Matti Sippala, 89, Finnish athlete and Olympian (1932). ^[137]
• Robin Skelton, 71, British-Canadian academic, writer, poet, and anthologist. ^[138]
• Mary Louise Smith, 82, American politician and women's rights activist, lung cancer. ^[139]
• Brendan Smyth, 70, Northern Irish Roman Catholic priest and convicted child molester, heart attack.
• Virgil Wagner, 75, Canadian football player.
• Roy Zimmerman, 79, American gridiron football player. ^[140]

23

• Mike Calhoun, 40, American football player (Chicago Bears, San Francisco 49ers, Tampa Bay Buccaneers). ^[141]
• Guy Curtright, 84, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox). ^[142]
• Eric Gairy, 75, Prime Minister of Grenada (1974–1979).
• Jack Harris, 95, Canadian Olympic middle-distance runner (1924). ^[143]
• Buddy Hassett, 85, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers, Boston Bees/Braves, New York Yankees), bone cancer. ^[144]
• Lucy Somerville Howorth, 102, American lawyer, feminist and politician. ^[145]
• John Kendrew, 80, British molecular biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. ^[146]
• Elena Mayorova, 39, Soviet and Russian actress, burns.
• Jean Poperen, 72, French politician. ^[147]
• Jan Šejna, 70, Czechoslovak Army Major General and defector. ^[148]

24

• Werner Abrolat, 73, German actor. ^[149]
• Davide Ancilotto, 23, Italian basketball player, brain ischemia during game. ^[150]
• Hardial Bains, 58, Indian-Canadian microbiology lecturer and communist politician, cancer. ^[151]
• Rex Ellsworth, 89, American thoroughbred horse breeder.
• Louis Essen, 88, English physicist.
• Tete Montoliu, 64, Spanish jazz pianist, lung cancer. ^[152]
• Zofia Rydet, 86, Polish photographer.
• Edgar F. Shannon, Jr., 79, American university director, cancer. ^[153]
• Luigi Villoresi, 88, Italian motor racing driver.

25

• Clodomiro Almeyda, 74, Chilean politician, colon cancer. ^[154]
• Mauro Cristofani, 56, Linguist and researcher in Etruscan studies. ^[155]
• Muriel Frances Dana, 80, American silent film era child actress.
• Peter Dews, 67, British stage director. ^[156]
• James Gould, 83, New Zealand rower.
• Carl Richard Jacobi, 89, American journalist and author. ^[157]
• Füreya Koral, 87, Turkish ceramics artist. ^[158]
• Noé Murayama, 67, Mexican actor.
• Bijan Najdi, 55, Iranian writer and poet.
• Robert Pinget, 78, French avant-garde writer. ^[159]
• Camilla Spira, 91, German actress. ^[160]
• Vitaly Tulenev, 60, Soviet and Russian painter, visual artist and art teacher.

26

• Marcello Aliprandi, 63, Italian film director. ^[161]
• Peter Bakonyi, 64, Hungarian-born Canadian fencer and Olympian (1968). ^[162]
• Hone Glendinning, 85, British cinematographer.
• William Kenneth Kiernan, 81, Canadian businessman and politician.
• Brendan McCarthy, 52, American football player (Atlanta Falcons, Denver Broncos), heart attack. ^[163]

27

• Saim Arıkan, 91, Turkish Olympic wrestler (1928, 1936). ^[164]
• Sotiria Bellou, 76, Greek singer, cancer. ^[165]
• Sally Blane, 87, American actress, cancer. ^[166]
• Ing Chang-ki, 79, Chinese industrialist and Go player, cancer.
• Arthur Cutler, 84, New Zealand cricketer. ^[167]
• Johannes Edfelt, 92, Swedish writer, poet, and literary critic. ^[168]
• Noël Henderson, 69, Northern Irish rugby player.
• James Lindsay, 90, British politician.
• Dick N. Lucas, 77, American animator ( The Fox and the Hound , One Hundred and One Dalmatians , The Rescuers ).
• Samuel A. Peeples, 79, American writer, cancer. ^[169]
• Brandon Tartikoff, 48, American television executive, Hodgkin's lymphoma. ^[170]

28

• Frank Bencriscutto, 68, American concert band conductor and composer. ^[171]
• Jim Bredar, 65, American college basketball player (Illinois Fighting Illini). ^[172]
• Joyce Ebert, 64, American actress, cancer. ^[173]
• Cesar Gaudard, 82, Swiss Olympic wrestler (1936). ^[174]
• Tõnu Haljand, 52, Soviet Estonian skier and Olympian (1968). ^[175]
• Werner Mieth, 85, American gridiron football player.
• Lou Scoffic, 84, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals). ^[176]
• Peter Springett, 51, English footballer, cancer. ^[177]
• Masaru Takumi, 61, Japanese yakuza lord, shot.
• Lloyd A. Thompson, 65, Nigerian classicist and academic.

29

• Richard Cottam, 72, American political scientist, Iranist and CIA operative. ^[178]
• Osborne Cowles, 98, American basketball player and coach.
• Kansari Halder, 86, Indian politician. ^[179]
• James Latane Noel Jr., 87, American district judge (United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas). ^[180]
• Rudolf Pichlmayr, 65, German surgeon. ^[181]
• Nelly Prono, 71, Paraguayan actress, cerebrovascular disease.

30

• John D. Craig, 94, American writer, film producer, and television host. ^[182]
• Frunze Dovlatyan, 70, Armenian film director and actor. ^[183]
• Toshiya Fujita, 65, Japanese film director, film actor, and screenwriter, liver failure. ^[184]
• Dale Lewis, 64, American wrestler and Olympian (1956, 1960). ^[185]
• Ernst Wilimowski, 81, German–Polish football player.
• Veselin Đuranović, 72, Montenegrin politician.

31

• Will Hare, 81, American actor ( Back to the Future , The Rose , Silent Night, Deadly Night ), heart attack. ^[186]
• Heinz Kaufmann, 83, German rower. ^[187]
• John M. Leddy, 83, United States Department of State official. ^[188]
• Oscar Olson, 79, American basketball player. ^[189]
• Lotus Weinstock, 54, American stand-up comedian, author, musician, and actress, brain tumor. ^[190]
• People killed in the Pont de l'Alma car crash: ^[191]
  • Diana, Princess of Wales, 36, British royal and ex-wife of future King Charles III, and activist. ^[192]
  • Dodi Fayed, 42, Egyptian film producer ( Chariots of Fire , Hook ). ^[193]

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External links

• List of August 1997 deaths at IMDb