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The following is a list of notable deaths in February 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.

February 1997

1

• Simion Bughici, 82, Romanian politician.
• Herb Caen, 80, American journalist and columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle, lung cancer. ^[1]
• Heiner Carow, 67, German film director and screenwriter. ^[2]
• Ed Danowski, 85, American football player (New York Giants). ^[3]
• Mitchell Goodman, 73, American writer, teacher, and activist. ^[4]
• William Kintner, 81, American soldier, foreign policy analyst, and diplomat. ^[5]
• Kiki Kogelnik, 62, Austrian painter, sculptor and printmaker, cancer. ^[6]
• Thelma Moss, 79, American actress, psychologist and parapsychologist. ^[7]
• Lillian Porter, 79, American film and television actress.
• Marjorie Reynolds, 79, American actress and dancer, heart failure. ^[8]
• Bo Russell, 81, American gridiron football player (Washington Redskins). ^[9]
• Francisco Tobar García, 68, Ecuadorian poet, playwright, journalist, and diplomat, lung cancer.
• Wilcomb E. Washburn, American historian, prostate cancer. ^[10]

2

• Godfrey Baseley, 92, British radio executive. ^[11]
• Raúl de Anda, 88, Mexican actor, screenwriter, film producer and director.
• Erich Eliskases, 83, Austrian-Argentinian chess grandmaster.
• Karsten Johannesen, 77, Norwegian footballer. ^[12]
• Qin Jiwei, 82, Chinese general and member of the Politburo.
• Sanford Meisner, 91, American actor and acting teacher. ^[13]
• Art Merewether, 94, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates). ^[14]
• Martin Mussgnug, 60, German politician.
• Raimundo Saporta, 70, Spanish club basketball administrator. ^[15]
• Chico Science, 30, Brazilian singer and composer, traffic collision. ^[16]
• Theodoros Stamos, 74, Greek-American painter. ^[17]
• Seán Ó Síocháin, 82, Irish Gaelic footballer, hurler, and broadcaster.

3

• Boris de Rachewiltz, 70, Italian-Russian egyptologist and writer.
• Jerry Beit haLevi, 84, Israeli football player and manager. ^[18]
• Bohumil Hrabal, 82, Czech writer, fall. ^[19]
• Agi Jambor, 87, Hungarian-born American pianist. ^[20]
• Stan Kostka, 84, American football player (Brooklyn Dodgers), and coach. ^[21]
• Harry H. Wachtel, 79, American lawyer and civil rights activist, Parkinson's disease. ^[22]
• Mikhail Yakushin, 86, Russian football player and manager.
• Jun'ichi Yoda, 91, Japanese poet.
• Mario Zucchini, 86, Italian Olympic ice hockey player (1936). ^[23]

4

• Henry H. Barschall, 81, German-American physicist. ^[24]
• Robert Clouse, 68, American film director and producer ( Enter the Dragon ), kidney failure. ^[25]
• Artie Combes, 83, Australian cricketer. ^[26]
• Benjamin David de Jesus, 56, Philippine prelate of the Catholic Church, shot. ^[27]
• Ross Lee Finney, 90, American composer. ^[28]
• Paulo Francis, 66, Brazilian journalist, novelist and critic, heart attack. ^[29]
• Robi Ghosh, 65, Indian actor. ^[30]
• A R Mallick, 78, Bangladeshi historian and educationist.
• Alek Rapoport, 63, Russian nonconformist artist. ^[31]
• Davide Sorrenti, 20, Italian-American photographer.
• James Tattersall, 56, British tennis player.
• Cyril Toumanoff, 83, Russian-American historian.
• Darrell Tully, 79, American football player (Detroit Lions), and coach. ^[32]
• Leandy Young, 87, American baseball player. ^[33]

5

• Frederick J. Almgren, Jr., 63, American mathematician, complication following surgery. ^[34]
• Bob Brown, 58, Canadian professional wrestler ("Bulldog" Bob Brown).
• Robert Elem, 69, American blues guitarist and singer. ^[35]
• Dorothy Fosdick, 83, American foreign policy expert. ^[36]
• Pamela Harriman, 76, English-American political activist, diplomat, and socialite, cerebral hemorrhage. ^[37]
• Oren Harris, 93, American politician and district judge. ^[38]
• René Huyghe, 90, French art historian. ^[39]
• Jürgen Neukirch, 59, German mathematician. ^[40]
• Harry Trotsek, 84, American Thoroughbred racehorses trainer and owner.

6

• Ernie Anderson, 73, American disc jockey, and television and radio announcer, cancer. ^[41]
• Harry Essex, 86, American screenwriter and director. ^[42]
• Roger Laurent, 83, Belgian racing driver.
• Riza Lushta, 81, Kosovar Albanian football striker.
• Amby Murray, 83, American baseball player (Boston Bees). ^[43]
• Cliff Thompson, 78, American ice hockey player (Boston Bruins). ^[44]

7

• Nina Albright, 89, American comic book artist. ^[45]
• Owen Aspinall, 69, American politician and Governor of American Samoa.
• John Baker, 59, British musician and composer.
• Sam DeCavalcante, 84, American mobster, heart attack.
• Allan Edwall, 72, Swedish actor, author, composer and singer, prostate cancer. ^[46]
• Gérard Higny, 65, Belgian rower and Olympian (1960, 1964). ^[47]
• Maynard Pirsig, 95, American legal scholar.
• Manny Salvo, 84, American baseball player (New York Giants, Boston Bees/Braves, Philadelphia Phillies). ^[48]
• Daniil Shafran, 74, Soviet/Russian cellist. ^[49]
• Rösli Streiff, 96, Swiss alpine skier and world champion.
• Jose Garcia Villa, 88, Filipino poet, novelist, and painter. ^[50]
• Jim Walkup, 87, American baseball player (St. Louis Browns, Detroit Tigers). ^[51]
• Mary Wills, 82, American costume designer, kidney failure.

8

• Nathan Lerner, 83, American photographer. ^[52]
• Henry Margenau, 95, German-American physicist and philosopher of science. ^[53]
• Robert Ridgely, 65, American actor ( Philadelphia , Beverly Hills Cop II , Blazing Saddles ), cancer. ^[54]
• Corey Scott, 28, American motorcycle stunt rider, traffic collision. ^[55]
• Michael Voslenski, 76, Soviet and Russian writer, scientist, diplomat and dissident. ^[56]
• Hal Warnock, 85, American baseball player (St. Louis Browns). ^[57]
• Walter Wiora, 90, German musicologist and music historian.

9

• David Austick, 76, British politician and bookshop owner. ^[58]
• Taylor Drysdale, 83, American swimmer, swimming coach and Olympian (1936). ^[59]
• Barry Evans, 53, English actor. ^[60]
• Fritz Grasshoff, 83, German painter, poet and songwriter.
• Leni Junker, 91, German sprint runner and Olympian (1928). ^[61]
• Mikhail Lavrov, 69, Soviet Russian Olympic racewalker (1956). ^[62]
• Jack Owens, 92, American blues singer and guitarist. ^[63]
• Williams Sassine, 53, Guinean novelist. ^[64]
• Max Tetley, 87, Australian rules footballer.
• Luis Velásquez, 77, Guatemalan long-distance runner and Olympian (1952). ^[65]

10

• Harriet Andreassen, 71, Norwegian labour activist and politician.
• Conrad M. Arensberg, 86, American anthropologist and scholar, respiratory failure. ^[66]
• Lou Bennett, 70, American jazz organist. ^[67]
• Milton Cato, 81, Saint Vincentian politician and first Prime Minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
• Brian Connolly, 51, Scottish singer-songwriter, musician and actor.
• Jan Kramer, 83, Dutch Olympic rower (1936). ^[68]
• Robert Mallary, 79, American sculptor and computer art pioneer, leukemia. ^[69]
• Ted McCarthy, 85, Australian rules footballer. ^[70]
• Jerome Namias, 86, American meteorologist. ^[71]
• Olaf Strand, 98, Norwegian middle-distance runner and Olympian (1928). ^[72]
• Tadeusz Trojanowski, 64, Polish Olympic wrestler (1960). ^[73]

11

• Nalanda Ellawala, 29, Sri Lankan politician, shot.
• Robert A. Graham, 84, American Jesuit priest and historian. ^[74]
• Lewis Jacobs, 92, American screenwriter, film director and critic. ^[75]
• Don Porter, 84, American actor. ^[76]
• Glen Stewart, 84, American baseball player (New York Giants, Philadelphia Phillies). ^[77]
• Ray Terrell, 77, American gridiron football player. ^[78]

12

• Nora Beloff, 78, English journalist and political writer. ^[79]
• James Cossins, 63, English actor, heart disease. ^[80]
• Francis Healy, 86, American Major League Baseball player (New York Giants, St. Louis Cardinals). ^[81]
• Ruth Winifred Howard, 96, American psychologist.
• Victor Huthart, 72, British Olympic sports shooter (1960). ^[82]
• Federico Pisani, 22, Italian footballer, traffic collision. ^[83]
• Heikki Raitio, 72, Finnish Olympic fencer (1948, 1952). ^[84]

13

• Bobby Adams, 75, American baseball player. ^[85]
• John R. Bartels, 99, American district judge (United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York). ^[86]
• Thies Christophersen, 79, German neo-nazi and Holocaust denier.
• Robert Klark Graham, 90, American eugenicist and businessman.
• Robert Herman, 82, American scientist. ^[87]
• Don Jordan, 62, American boxer, complications following robbery.
• Eduardo Kapstein, 82, Chilean Olympic basketball player (1936, 1948). ^[88]
• Ernő Rubik, 86, Hungarian aircraft designer.
• Reg Ryan, 71, Irish football player. ^[89]
• Atta Shad, 57, Pakistani poet, playwright, and intellectual.

14

• Lélia Gousseau, 88, 20th-century French classical pianist. ^[90]
• Jack Matheson, 76, American gridiron football player (Detroit Lions, Chicago Bears). ^[91]
• Charles Moffett, 67, American free jazz drummer. ^[92]
• Miguel Rodriguez, 35, Filipino actor and model, pancreatitis.
• William L. Scott, 81, American politician, Alzheimer's disease. ^[93]
• Chōbyō Yara, 94, Japanese politician and teacher.
• Mohammed Yousuf, 57, Pakistani singer.

15

• Oscar W. Adams Jr., 72, American lawyer and first African-American Alabama Supreme Court justice. ^[94]
• Arne Berg, 87, Swedish Olympic road racing cyclist (1932, 1936). ^[95]
• William Dippie, 89, Scottish cricketer. ^[96]
• Philip Hershkovitz, 87, American mammalogist. ^[97]
• Billie-Jo Jenkins, 13, English murder victim.
• Mazhar-Ul-Haque Khan, 73, Pakistani hurdler and Olympian (1948). ^[98]
• Bob Lacey, 54, American football player (Minnesota Vikings). ^[99]
• Paul Page, 69, American gridiron football player (Baltimore Colts). ^[100]
• Frode Rinnan, 91, Norwegian architect and politician.
• Jack Sparling, 80, Canadian comic book artist ( Claire Voyant , Strange Adventures , Ghost Rider ). ^[101]

16

• Peter Bullock, 72, English cricketer. ^[102]
• Abd al-Fattah Abu Ghudda, 79, Syrian leader of the Muslim Brotherhood. ^[103]
• Ethel Owen, 103, American actress.
• Alvis Vītoliņš, 50, Latvian chess master, suicide by jumping.
• Jack Wilson, 82, British rower and Olympic champion (1948). ^[104]
• Chien-Shiung Wu, 84, Chinese-American experimental physicist, watershed stroke. ^[105]

17

• Spartaco Bandinelli, 75, Italian boxer and Olympian (1948). ^[106]
• Kenny Graham, 72, British jazz saxophonist, arranger and composer. ^[107]
• Leonard Ho, 72, Hong Kong film producer. ^[108]
• Ichimaru, 90, Japanese recording artist and geisha.
• Bärbel Inhelder, 83, Swiss psychologist. ^[109]
• Joe Kieyoomia, 77, American Navajo prisoner of war during World War II.
• Darcy Ribeiro, 74, Brazilian anthropologist, historian, sociologist, author and politician, cancer. ^[110]
• Georg L. Samuelsen, 87, Faroese editor and voice actor.

18

• Bozorg Alavi, 93, Iranian writer, novelist, and intellectual, heart attack.
• Enrique Peralta Azurdia, 88, President of Guatemala.
• Antonio de Almeida, 69, French conductor and musicologist, lung cancer, liver cancer. ^[111]
• Gerd Domhardt, 51, German composer.
• Eric Fenby, 90, English composer, conductor, pianist and organist. ^[112]
• Reggie Forte, 47, American activist and founding member of the Black Panther Party.
• Jnan Prakash Ghosh, 87, Indian harmonium and tabla player and musicologist. ^[113]
• Emily Hahn, 92, American journalist and author. ^[114]
• Austin Knickerbocker, 78, American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics). ^[115]
• Ingrid Larsen, 84, Danish Olympic diver (1932). ^[116]
• Geoffrey Swaebe, 86, American diplomat and ambassador, complications of pneumonia. ^[117]

19

• David Ashkenazi, 81, Russian pianist, accompanist and composer.
• Jarmil Burghauser, 75, Czech composer, conductor, and musicologist.
• Frank Delfino, 86, American actor, bone marrow cancer.
• Deng Xiaoping, 92, Chinese politician leader of the People's Republic of China, complications of lung infections. ^[118]
• Buddy Edelen, 59, American marathon runner and Olympian (1964). ^[119]
• António Gedeão, 90, Portuguese poet, essayist, writer and playwright. ^[120]
• Yutaka Haniya, 87, Japanese writer and critic.
• Karin Magnussen, 89, German nazi eugenicist, biologist, and researcher during World War II. ^[121]
• Lois Marshall, 73, Canadian soprano. ^[122]
• Leo Rosten, 78, American humorist. ^[123]
• Edsall Walker, 86, American Negro league baseball player. ^[124]

20

• Afonsinho, 82, Brazilian football player. ^[125]
• Paul Anxionnaz, 94, French politician. ^[126]
• Zachary Breaux, 36, American jazz guitarist, drowned. ^[127]
• Ruth Clark, 80, American pollster and researcher. ^[128]
• Pierre Gascar, 80, French journalist, literary critic, writer, and screenwriter. ^[129]
• Thomas G. Kavanagh, 79, American judge, Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court (1975–1979). ^[130]
• Arthur Machado, 88, Brazilian football player and manager.
• Stan Pearson, 78, English footballer. ^[131]
• Delfim José da Silva, 77, Portuguese Olympic rower (1948). ^[132]

21

• Ziya Bunyadov, 73, Azerbaijani historian and scientist, shot. ^[133]
• Luitgard Im, 67, German actress.
• Choe Kwang, 78, North Korean army general and politician, heart attack. ^[134]
• Mohamed Nasir, 81, Malaysian politician.
• Merle Pertile, 55, American model and actress.
• Josef Posipal, 69, Romanian-German footballer, heart failure. ^[135]
• Kenneth Rowntree, 81, British artist. ^[136]
• Leo Sjogren, 82, American Olympic racewalker (1952, 1956). ^[137]
• Eleanor Butler, Lady Wicklow, 82, Irish politician and architect.

22

• Joseph Aiuppa, 89, American mobster. ^[138]
• Urmila Bhatt, 62/63, Indian actress, homicide.
• William Karush, 79, American mathematician.
• James A. Lewis, 63, American Libertarian Party politician. ^[139]
• Harold Nichols, 79, American wrestler and wrestling coach.
• Albert Shanker, 68, American labor leader, bladder cancer. ^[140]
• Charlie Toogood, 69, American gridiron football player (Los Angeles Rams, Chicago Cardinals). ^[141]

23

• Abdelkader Ben Bouali, 84, French football player.
• John Currie, 65, Australian rules footballer. ^[142]
• Gordon Glisson, 66, American jockey.
• Ephraim P. Holmes, 88, United States Navy admiral. ^[143]
• Frank Launder, 91, British writer, film director and producer. ^[144]
• Oscar Lewenstein, 80, British theatre and film producer. ^[145]
• Olivier Masson, 74, French linguist. ^[146]
• Gabe Scholten, 75, Dutch sprinter and Olympian (1948). ^[147]
• Jack Slater, 69, Australian politician.
• Tony Williams, 51, American jazz drummer, heart attack. ^[148]

24

• Astrid Fagraeus, 83, Swedish immunologist. ^[149]
• Nils-Olof Franzén, 80, Swedish writer.
• Wolfgang Heinrich Johannes Fuchs, 81, British mathematician. ^[150]
• Raymond Lambert, 82, Swiss mountaineer, complications of a lung disorder. ^[151]
• Isabelle Lucas, 69, Canadian-British actress and singer, heart attack.
• Ernest C. Pollard, 90, British professor of physics and biophysics, stroke. ^[152]
• Len Vlahov, 56, Australian discus thrower, cancer.
• Ion Voicu, 73, Romanian violinist and orchestral conductor.

25

• Cal Abrams, 72, American baseball player, heart attack. ^[153]
• Hoss Allen, 74, American radio disc jockey.
• Louis Auslander, 68, American mathematician. ^[154]
• Charles Chase, 66, Canadian Olympic boxer (1952). ^[155]
• Earle Edwards, 88, American football player and coach.
• Scott Forbes, 76, British actor and screenwriter. ^[156]
• Yi Han-yong, 36, North Korean defector, shot.
• Arthur Hewlett, 89, British actor. (exact date unconfirmed)
• Väinö Huhtala, 62, Finnish Olympic rower (1960). ^[157]
• Scott Leggett, 34, American football player (Philadelphia Eagles). ^[158]
• Danielle de St. Jorre, 55, Seychellois politician, cancer.
• Ugo Poletti, 82, Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, heart attack.
• Ted Roach, 87, Australian trade unionist and member of the Communist Party of Australia. ^[159]
• Andrei Sinyavsky, 71, Russian writer and Soviet dissident. ^[160]
• John Williams, 70, Australian politician.

26

• Lynda Adams, 76, Canadian diver and Olympian (1936). ^[161]
• Ferdinando Bernini, 86, Italian Olympic sports shooter (1948). ^[162]
• Nuccio Bertone, 82, Italian automobile designer and constructor. ^[163]
• Mildred Clingerman, 78, American science fiction author.
• David Doyle, 67, American actor ( Charlie's Angels , Capricorn One , Rugrats ), heart attack. ^[164]
• Vincent Gaddis, 83, American author.
• Giovanni Ghiselli, 62, Italian sprinter and Olympian (1956). ^[165]
• Joseph Anthony Lefante, 68, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1977-1978). ^[166]
• Tom O'Connor, 78, Irish Gaelic footballer.
• Ben Raleigh, 83, American lyricist and composer.
• Wende Wagner, 55, American actress ( The Green Hornet , Rosemary's Baby , Destination Inner Space ), cancer. ^[167]

27

• Kingsley Davis, 88, American sociologist and demographer. ^[168]
• Patricia Felicien, 30, Saint Lucian cricket player.
• William Gear, 81, Scottish painter. ^[169]
• Indeevar, 73, Indian film lyricist.
• Alpo Jaakola, 67, Finnish painter and sculptor.
• Mieczysław Jagielski, 73, Polish politician and economist, heart attack.
• Kim Kwang-jin, 69, North Korean general and politician.
• Harry Love, 85, American animator, effects animator, and writer, heart attack. ^[170]
• William R. Maples, 59, American forensic anthropologist, brain cancer. ^[171]
• Edward J. McCormack, Jr., 73, American lawyer and politician, complications from lung cancer.

28

• Osvaldo Bailo, 84, Italian road cyclist. ^[172]
• Donald Carrick, 90, Canadian lawyer, politician, sportsman and Olympian (1928). ^[173]
• Norm Couper, 80, Australian rules footballer. ^[174]
• Harold Dean, 84, Australian politician.
• Mohammad Moustafa Haddara, 67, Egyptian Arabic scholar and writer.
• Josef Hantych, 86, Czech Olympic weightlifter (1936, 1952). ^[175]
• Örjan Martinsson, 60, Swedish football player.
• Giuseppe Migneco, 89, Italian painter.
• Les Munns, 88, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers, St. Louis Cardinals). ^[176]
• Larry Tillman, 88, American professional wrestler and promoter.
• Hal Turpin, 93, American baseball player. ^[177]

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External links

• List of February 1997 deaths at IMDb