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The following is a list of notable deaths in January 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.

January 1997

1

• Prince Eugen of Bavaria, 71, German noble.
• Aenne Brauksiepe, 84, German politician.
• Asnoldo Devonish, 64, Venezuelan track and field athlete. ^[1]
• Al Eugster, 87, American animator, writer, and film director.
• Jean Feller, 77, Luxembourgian footballer. ^[2]
• Ivan Graziani, 51, Italian singer-songwriter and guitarist, colon cancer.
• Hagood Hardy, 59, Canadian composer, pianist, and vibraphonist, lymphoma. ^[3]
• Mohammed Hafez Ismail, 77, Egyptian diplomat and ambassador.
• Graham Kersey, 25, English cricketer, traffic collision. ^[4]
• Hans-Martin Majewski, 85, German composer of film scores.
• James B. Pritchard, 87, American archeologist. ^[5]
• Joan Rice, 66, English film actress.
• Franco Volpi, 75, Italian actor and voice actor, cancer.
• Townes Van Zandt, 52, American singer-songwriter, cardiac arrythmia. ^[6]
• Ladislau Zilahi, 74, Romanian football player and manager.

2

• Randy California, 45, American guitarist, singer and songwriter, drowned. ^[7]
• Samuel Carlisi, 82, American mobster, heart attack.
• Joan Coromines, 91, Spanish linguist. ^[8]
• Antonio Giordani Soika, 83, Italian entomologist and ecologist.
• Moshe Wilensky, 86, Polish-Israeli composer. ^[9]

3

• Werner Genuit, 59, German classical pianist and composer.
• Roger Goeb, 82, American composer. ^[10]
• Michel Heller, 74, Russian historian, heart attack. ^[11]
• Pieter Keuneman, 79, Sri Lankan communist politician.
• Jon Lennart Mjøen, 84, Norwegian actor, film director and screenwriter.
• Gianfranco Pandolfini, 76, Italian water polo player. ^[12]
• Marie Torre, 72, American television journalist, lung cancer. ^[13]
• Odd Øyen, 82, Norwegian physician and resistance member during World War II. ^[14]

4

• Hédi Berkhissa, 24, Tunisian footballer, heart attack.
• Akhteruzzaman Elias, 53, Bangladeshi novelist and short story writer.
• Harry Helmsley, 87, American real estate mogul, pneumonia. ^[15]
• Harry P. Jeffrey, 95, American attorney and politician.
• Bill Lancaster, 49, American screenwriter ( The Thing , The Bad News Bears ) and actor ( Moses the Lawgiver ). ^[16]
• Lucien Rebuffic, 75, French basketball player. ^[17]
• Tormod Skagestad, 76, Norwegian poet, novelist, playwright and actor. ^[18]
• Richard Taitano, 75, Guamanian politician.

5

• André Franquin, 73, Belgian comics artist, ( Spirou & Fantasio , Gaston , Marsupilami ), heart attack. ^[19]
• Peter Zack Geer, 68, American politician, cancer.
• Prince Bertil, Duke of Halland, 84, Swedish royal, third son of King Gustaf VI Adolf.
• Homer Hobbs, 73, American football player and coach. ^[20]
• Burton Lane, 84, American composer and lyricist. ^[21]
• Frans Piët, 91, Dutch comics artist ( Sjors en Sjimmie ). ^[22]
• Emil Roy, 89, American baseball player. ^[23]
• V. C. Wynne-Edwards, 90, English zoologist. ^[24]

6

• Herbert Blitzstein, 62, American mobster, shot.
• Dick Donovan, 69, American MLB baseball player, cancer. ^[25]
• Kalevi Laitinen, 78, Finnish gymnast and Olympic champion. ^[26]
• Teiichi Matsumaru, 87, Japanese football player.
• Charles Murphy, 88, Australian politician.
• Catherine Scorsese, 84, Italian-American actress ( Goodfellas ), Alzheimer's disease. ^[27]

7

• Tod Goodwin, 85, American gridiron football player. ^[28]
• Paul-Werner Hozzel, 86, Nazi Germany Luftwaffe pilot during World War II.
• Christopher Mayhew, 81, British politician. ^[29]
• Patricia McLaughlin, 80, Northern Irish politician. ^[30]
• Sándor Végh, 84, Hungarian-French, violinist and conductor. ^[31]

8

• Smiley Bates, 59, Canadian country singer, songwriter, and musician, cancer. ^[32]
• Melvin Calvin, 85, American biochemist, heart failure. ^[33]
• Paul Endacott, 94, American basketball player.
• James Fraser, 72, Scottish surgeon. ^[34]
• Harold Foote Gosnell, 100, American political scientist and author. ^[35]
• George Handy, 76, American jazz arranger, composer and pianist. ^[36]
• Phyllis Hartnoll, 90, British poet, author and editor. ^[37]
• Alfred John Markiewicz, 68, American prelate of the Catholic Church.

9

• Karol Borhy, 84, Czechoslovak football coach. ^[38]
• Ove Dahlberg, 65, Swedish ice hockey referee, heart attack.
• Angelo Drossos, 68, American basketball executive, Parkinson's disease.
• Ellen Griffin Dunne, 64, American actress and activist, multiple sclerosis.
• Muhammadu Junaidu, 91, Nigerian historian and writer.
• Shorty McWilliams, 70, American football player. ^[39]
• Edward Osóbka-Morawski, 87, Polish activist and politician. ^[40]
• Jesse White, 80, American actor and comedian, heart attack. ^[41]

10

• Mary Bancroft, 93, American novelist and spy. ^[42]
• Samuel Preston Bayard, 88, American folklorist and musicologist. ^[43]
• Emmet Reid Blake, 88, American ornithologist and museum curator.
• Gordon W. Burrows, 70, American politician, cardiac arrest. ^[44]
• André Caron, 52, member of the House of Commons of Canada from 1993 to 1997, cancer.
• Seymour Halpern, 83, American politician. ^[45]
• Elspeth Huxley, 89, English author, journalist, broadcaster, and government adviser. ^[46]
• Valentin Koptyug, 65, Soviet/Russian chemist.
• Phil Marchildon, 83, Canadian Major League Baseball player. ^[47]
• Tordis Maurstad, 95, Norwegian stage actress.
• Martin Pike, 76, British athlete. ^[48]
• Alexander R. Todd, Baron Todd, 89, Scottish biochemist and Nobel Prize laureate, heart attack. ^[49]
• Shiv Verma, 92, Indian revolutionary.
• Lee Willerman, 57, American psychologist. ^[50]
• Albert Wohlstetter, 83, American nuclear strategist. ^[51]
• George Young, 74, Scottish footballer.

11

• Arild Andersen, 68, Norwegian racing cyclist.
• Bhabatosh Datta, 85, Indian economist, academic and writer.
• Rosalind Hill, 88, English historian, heart failure. ^[52]
• Pancheti Koteswaram, 81, Indian meteorologist, hydrologist, and atmospheric physicist.
• Sheldon Leonard, 89, American actor, producer, director, and writer. ^[53]
• Stu Martin, 84, American Major League Baseball player. ^[54]
• Jerry Neudecker, 66, American MLB umpire, cancer. ^[55]
• Helen Foster Snow, 89, American journalist. ^[56]
• Jill Summers, 86, English music hall performer and comedian, kidney failure. ^[57]
• Ian White-Thomson, 92, British Anglican priest.

12

• Jean-Edern Hallier, 60, French writer, critic and editor, cerebral haemorrhage after fall, heart attack, traffic collision. ^[58]
• Jean Hoerni, 72, Swiss-American engineer. ^[59]
• Charles Brenton Huggins, 95, Canadian-American cancer researcher and Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate. ^[60]
• Ewa Larysa Krause, 22, Polish judoka, traffic collision.
• Wally Rose, 83, American jazz and ragtime pianist. ^[61]
• Jorge Suárez, 51, Salvadoran football player, cancer.

13

• Sivar Arnér, 87, Swedish novelist and playwright.
• Burton Barr, 79, American businessman and politician, kidney failure. ^[62]
• Johannes Coleman, 86, South African marathon runner and Olympian. ^[63]
• Max Kaser, 90, German academic and professor of jurisprudence. ^[64]
• Leo Margolis, 69, Canadian parasitologist, heart attack. ^[65]
• Baburaoji Parkhe, 84, Indian industrialist.
• Ruslan Stratonovich, 66, Russian physicist and engineer.
• Herman V. Wall, 91, American combat photographer during World War II.

14

• John Amdisen, 62, Danish football player. ^[66]
• Shalva Chikhladze, 84, Soviet light-heavyweight wrestler and Olympian. ^[67]
• Leonard Dodson, 84, American golfer.
• Celso Ferreira, 46, Brazilian football player.
• King Hu, 64, Chinese film director and actor, complications from angioplasty.
• Robert Irsay, 73, American football team owner. ^[68]
• Ebba Lodden, 83, Norwegian civil servant and politician.
• Roland Martin, 84, French archaeologist. ^[69]
• Dollard Ménard, 83, Canadian general.
• Knud Nellemose, 88, Danish sculptor.

15

• Oscar Auerbach, 92, American physician and pathologist. ^[70]
• Edwin Smith, 74, New Zealand rower.
• Ahmad Tafazzoli, 59, Iranian Iranist and professor of ancient Iranian languages, homicide. ^[71] (body discovered on this date)
• Kenneth V. Thimann, 92, English-American plant physiologist and microbiologist. ^[72]

16

• Romano Amerio, 91, Swiss Italian theologian. ^[73]
• Ödön Gróf, 81, Hungarian swimmer and Olympian. ^[74]
• Roy Henderson, 73, Scottish football player.
• Markus Hoffmann, 26, German actor, suicide by jumping.
• Nils Katajainen, 77, Finnish flying ace during World War II.
• Erik Källström, 88, Swedish football player. ^[75]
• Iain Mills, 56, English politician. ^[76]
• Shinobu Muraki, 73, Japanese production designer and art director ( Ran ).
• Beverly Peer, 84, American jazz double-bassist, cancer. ^[77]
• Martin Redmond, 59, British politician.
• Juan Landázuri Ricketts, 83, Peruvian catholic cardinal.
• Jeff Teale, 57, British international athlete and Olympian. ^[78]
• Rajagopala Tondaiman, 74, Indian monarch and the last Raja of Pudukkottai.
• Barbara Woodell, 86, American actress.
• Willie Yeadon, 89, British railway historian.

17

• Susanna Al-Hassan, 69, Ghanaian author and politician.
• Earl Girard, 69, American football player. ^[79]
• Robert Giraud, 75, French journalist, poet and lexicographer. ^[80]
• Björn Isfält, 54, Swedish composer, cancer.
• Bill Kardash, 84, Canadian politician.
• Bert Kelly, 84, Australian politician and government minister. ^[81]
• Amha Selassie, 80, Ethiopian Emperor-in-exile and son of Haile Selassie I.
• Clyde Tombaugh, 90, American astronomer. ^[82]
• Theo Wilson, 79, American reporter, cerebral hemorrhage. ^[83]

18

• Herbert A. Allen, Sr., 88, American stockbroker.
• Ruth Brinkmann, 62, American actress and founder of Vienna's English Theatre, ovarian cancer. ^[84]
• Adriana Caselotti, 80, American actress and singer ( Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs ), lung cancer. ^[85]
• Keith Diamond, 46, American songwriter and producer, heart attack. ^[86]
• Jean Gravelle, 69, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Henry Hermansen, 75, Norwegian cross-country skier and Olympian. ^[87]
• Ardis Krainik, 67, American mezzo-soprano opera singer. ^[88]
• Diana Lewis, 77, American film actress, pancreatic cancer. ^[89]
• Myfanwy Piper, 85, British art critic and opera librettist. ^[90]
• Gilberto Martínez Solares, 90, Mexican actor, cinematographer, screenwriter, and director.
• Darío Suro, 79, Dominican Republic art critic, diplomat and painter. ^[91]
• Paul Tsongas, 55, American politician, non-Hodgkin lymphoma. ^[92]

19

• Robert Chapatte, 75, French cyclist and sports journalist. ^[93]
• James Dickey, 73, American poet and novelist. ^[94]
• Richard E. Jennings, 75, English comics artist, pneumonia. ^[95]
• Tamara Makarova, 89, Soviet actress.
• Vasily Nalimov, 86, Russian philosopher and humanist. ^[96]
• Charles Nelson, 95, American film editor ( Picnic , Cat Ballou , A Song to Remember ), Oscar winner (1956).
• Sudhir, 75, Pakistani film actor, director and producer.

20

• Albín Brunovský, 61, Slovak painter and graphic artist. ^[97]
• Curt Flood, 59, American baseball player, pneumonia. ^[98]
• Edith Haisman, 100, South African-born RMS Titanic survivor ^[99]
• Hiram Keller, 52, American actor, liver cancer. ^[100]
• Joseph J. Loferski, 71, American physicist. ^[101]
• Ashious Melu, 39, Zambian footballer and coach.
• Konrad Püschel, 89, German architect, town planner, and university professor.
• Dennis Main Wilson, 72, British radio and television producer, lung cancer. ^[102]

21

• John Glyn-Jones, 87, British actor. ^[103]
• Hans Egon Holthusen, 83, German nazi, writer and academic. ^[104]
• Sourendra Nath Kohli, 80, Indian Navy admiral.
• Irwin Levine, 58, American songwriter. ^[105]
• Louis Miehe-Renard, 77, Danish film actor.
• Shinroku Momose, 77, Japanese aircraft/automotive engineer.
• Eduardo Morera, 91, Argentine film director.
• Colonel Tom Parker, 87, Dutch-American manager of Elvis Presley, stroke. ^[106]
• Giorgio Prosperi, 85, Italian screenwriter.
• Polly Ann Young, 88, American actress, cancer. ^[107]

22

• Ênio Andrade, 68, Brazilian football player and manager.
• L. Kijungluba AO, 90, Indian baptist missionary.
• Pilar Barbosa, 98, Puerto Rican educator, historian and political activist.
• George Dockins, 79, American baseball player. ^[108]
• Ron Holden, 57, American pop and R&B singer, heart attack. ^[109]
• Elwyn Lynn, 79, Australian artist, author and art critic. ^[110]
• Billy Mackenzie, 39, Scottish singer and songwriter, suicide by drug overdose. ^[111]
• Cornelio Reyna, 56, Mexican singer, composer and actor.
• Willard Wheatley, 81, British Virgin Islands politician and Chief Minister.
• Wally Whyton, 67, British musician, songwriter and radio and TV personality. ^[112]

23

• Richard Berry, 61, American singer, songwriter and musician, aneurysm. ^[113]
• Paul Egli, 85, Swiss road bicycle racer. ^[114]
• Randy Greenawalt, 47, American serial killer, execution by lethal injection.
• Alois Hudec, 88, Czechoslovak gymnast and World and Olympic Champion. ^[115]
• Lyudmila Marchenko, 56, Soviet film actress.
• Hardy Rafn, 66, Danish film actor.
• Roger Tayler, 67, British astronomer, cancer. ^[116]
• Rolling Thunder, 80, American hippy spiritual leader, complications of diabetes.
• David Waller, 76, English actor. ^[117]
• Bill Zuckert, 81, American actor, pneumonia. ^[118]

24

• William Alexander, 81, German painter and television host.
• Lourdino Barreto, 58, Indian musicologist and composer.
• Dr. Jerry Graham, 75, American professional wrestler, cerebrovascular disease.
• Jack Halloran, 81, American composer and choral director.
• Ida Kohlmeyer, 84, American painter. ^[119]
• Roy Sproson, 66, English footballer and manager.
• Suzy Vernon, 95, French film actress. ^[120]

25

• Werner Aspenström, 78, Swedish poet. ^[121]
• Dan Barry, 73, American cartoonist.
• Donald Beer, 61, American rower and Olympic champion, brain cancer. ^[122]
• James Boyd, 66, American boxer, cancer. ^[123]
• Manuel Tuñón de Lara, 81, Spanish historian. ^[124]
• Jeane Dixon, 93, American astrologer, heart failure. ^[125]
• Exuma, 54, Bahamian musician, artist, playwright and author, heart attack. ^[126]
• Carlton Benjamin Goodlett, 82, American physician and newspaper publisher. ^[127]
• Edith Thacher Hurd, 86, American children's author. ^[128]
• Nikola Koljević, 60, Bosnian Serb politician, essayist, and scholar, suicide by gunshot. ^[129]
• George W. Mitchell, 92, American economist. ^[130]
• Seldon Powell, 68, American jazz, music, and R&B tenor saxophonist and flautist. ^[131]
• Elizabeth Rudel Smith, 85, American politician. ^[132]
• Bill Wightkin, 69, American gridiron football player. ^[133]

26

• Sufi Barkat Ali, 85, Indian muslim sufi.
• Jack Clayton, 82, American football, basketball, and baseball coach, congestive heart failure. ^[134]
• Shūhei Fujisawa, 69, Japanese author. ^[135]
• Cornelius Herman Muller, 87, American botanist and ecologist. ^[136]
• Guy Raymond, 85, American actor. ^[137]
• Margaret Hessen und bei Rhein, 83, German princess. ^[138]
• Laurence Stoddard, 93, American rowing coxswain. ^[139]
• Donald E. Stokes, 69, American political scientist, acute leukemia. ^[140]
• Mira Zimińska, 95, Polish actress. ^[141]

27

• Bill Kennedy, 88, American actor and television show host.
• Cecil Arthur Lewis, 98, British last surviving World War I fighter ace. ^[142]
• Gerald Marks, 96, American composer. ^[143]
• Louis E. Martin, 84, American journalist, newspaper publisher and civil rights activist. ^[144]
• Zia Sarhadi, 83, Pakistani screenwriter and film director. ^[145]
• Harish Chandra Sarin, 82, Indian civil servant, writer and defence secretary of India.
• Richard X. Slattery, 71, American actor. ^[146]
• David Townsend, 84, English cricket player.
• Aleksandr Zarkhi, 88, Soviet film director, screenwriter, and playwright. ^[147]

28

• Antônio Callado, 80, Brazilian journalist, playwright, and novelist. ^[148]
• Edmond de Stoutz, 76, Swiss conductor.
• Anna Galmarini, 54, Italian figure skater. ^[149]
• Raya Garbousova, 87, Russian-American cellist. ^[150]
• Alfred Gell, 51, British social anthropologist. ^[151]
• Mikel Koliqi, 96, Albanian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. ^[152]
• Wong Shun Leung, 61, Hong Kong martial artist, stroke.
• Louis Pauwels, 76, French journalist and writer, heart attack. ^[153]
• Geoffrey Rippon, 72, British politician. ^[154]
• Pandurang Vasudeo Sukhatme, 85, Indian statistician. ^[155]

29

• Antal Benda, 86, Hungarian field handball player. ^[156]
• Irma Greta Blohm, 85, German politician.
• Ken Harada, 77, Japanese politician.
• Daniel P. Mannix, 85, American writer, journalist, animal trainer, and performer. ^[157]
• Mumtaz Mirza, 57, Indian Urdu poet.
• Clifford Richmond, 82, New Zealand lawyer and judge.
• Osvaldo Soriano, 54, Argentine journalist and writer, lung cancer. ^[158]
• Thomas Daniel Young, 77, American academic. ^[159]

30

• Charles Hargens, 103, American painter. ^[160]
• Willis Harman, 78, American engineer, futurist, and author, brain cancer.
• Duane Josephson, 54, American baseball player. ^[161]
• Nicholas Mallett, 51, British television director.
• Henry Bentinck, 11th Earl of Portland, 77, British noble and activist.
• Frank Tejeda, 51, United States Marine and politician, brain cancer. ^[162]

31

• Raymond Coxon, 100, British artist. ^[163]
• Hedy Graf, 70, Spanish-Swiss soprano.
• Eve Lister, 83, British actress.
• Seth Lover, 87, American inventor.
• Zahir Pajaziti, 34, Kosovo Albanian guerilla commander, killed in action.
• John Joseph Scanlan, 90, American catholic bishop.
• Eugenia Smith, 98, American Romanov impostor.
• Alexander Solonik, 36, Russian gangster, strangled.
• Andrzej Szczepkowski, 73, Polish actor.
• Hans Tisdall, 86, German-British artist. ^[164]

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