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The following is a list of notable deaths in June 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.

June 1997

1

• Florence Wysinger Allen, 84, African American artists' model. ^[1]
• Ruth Atkinson, 78, American cartoonist, cancer. ^[2]
• Garland T. Byrd, 72, American politician from Georgia.
• Giorgos P. Livanos, 70, Greek-American shipping magnate. ^[3]
• Fred Rauch, 87, Austrian singer and songwriter.
• Mickey Rocco, 81, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians). ^[4]
• Bernard Segal, 89, American lawyer civil rights activist, cancer. ^[5]
• Robert Serber, 88, American physicist, brain cancer. ^[6]
• Irvin Studer, 96, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1949-1958). ^[7]
• Nikolai Tikhonov, 92, Soviet Russian-Ukrainian statesman. ^[8]

2

• Lukas Aurednik, 79, Austrian football player and football manager. ^[9]
• Zhenya Belousov, 32, Soviet/Ukrainian pop singer, stroke.
• Martin Bronfenbrenner, 82, American economist. ^[10]
• Doc Cheatham, 91, American jazz trumpeter, singer, and bandleader. ^[11]
• Corwin Clatt, 73, American gridiron football player (Chicago Cardinals). ^[12]
• Louise Huntington, 92, American actress. ^[13]
• Helen Jacobs, 88, American tennis champion, heart failure. ^[14]
• William Alexander Levy, 87, American architect. ^[15]
• Kenneth McNaught, 78, Canadian historian.
• Nikolai Ozerov, 74, Soviet tennis player and actor.
• Eddie Thomas, 70, Welsh boxer and manager, cancer.
• Ida Turay, 89, Hungarian film actress.

3

• Pidge Browne, 68, American baseball player (Houston Colt .45s). ^[16]
• Salvatore Fiume, 81, Italian painter, sculptor, architect and writer. ^[17]
• John Holt, 73, Jamaican cricket player.
• Dennis James, 79, American television personality and philanthropist, lung cancer. ^[18]
• Meenakshi Shirodkar, 80, Indian actress.

4

• Thomas Boylston Adams, 86, American business executive and writer. ^[19]
• Katherine Esau, 99, German-American botanist. ^[20]
• Robert E. Jones Jr., 84, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1947-1977). ^[21]
• Ronnie Lane, 51, English musician, songwriter, and producer, pneumonia. ^[22]
• Johnny "Hammond" Smith, 63, American soul jazz and hard bop organist, cancer.
• Pedro Zaballa, 58, Spanish football player. ^[23]

5

• Jack Wilson Evans, 74, American politician and mayor of Dallas, Texas, cancer.
• Elaine Ryan Hedges, 69, American feminist. ^[24]
• Olga Kirsch, 72, South African and Israeli poet, brain tumor, brain cancer.
• J. Anthony Lukas, 64, American journalist and author, suicide by hanging. ^[25]
• Gustav Richter, 84, German SS officer and aide to Adolf Eichmann during World War II.

6

• Eitel Cantoni, 90, Uruguayan racecar driver.
• Jeffrey Ethell, 49-50, American author and pilot, plane crash. ^[26]
• Magda Gabor, 81, Hungarian-American actress and socialite, and sister of Zsa Zsa and Eva Gabor, kidney failure.
• Monica Golding, 94, British Army nurse and nursing administrator. ^[27]
• Jack Gravell, 83, Australian rules footballer. ^[28]
• Charles Jones, 86, Canadian-American composer of contemporary classical music. ^[29]
• Hannu Leminen, 87, Finnish film director, set designer and screenwriter. ^[30]
• Ted Nathanson, 72, American television director, lung cancer. ^[31]
• Richard Neilson, 59, British diplomat.
• Eero Salminen, 63, Finnish Olympic high jumper (1960). ^[32]
• Liao Shantao, 77, Chinese mathematician.
• Alangudi Somu, 64, Indian Tamil film lyricist.

7

• Raghu Raj Bahadur, 73, Indian statistician. ^[33]
• Lewis White Beck, 83, American philosopher and scholar of German philosophy. ^[34]
• Jacques Canetti, 88, French music executive and talent manager. ^[35]
• Victor Codron, 82, French cyclist. ^[36]
• Stan Goletz, 79, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox). ^[37]
• Paul Reade, 54, English composer. ^[38]
• Stanley Schachter, 75, American social psychologist, colon cancer. ^[39]
• Nadezhda Simonyan, 75, Soviet and Russian composer.

8

• Betty Andujar, 84, American civic activist and politician. ^[40]
• Norman Cleaveland, 96, American rugby player and Olympian (1924). ^[41]
• Ken Hunt, 62, American baseball player (New York Yankees, Los Angeles Angels, Washington Senators). ^[42]
• Park Jaesam, 64, Korean poet.
• Reid Shelton, 72, American actor, stroke. ^[43]
• George Turner, 80, Australian writer and critic. ^[44]
• Amos Tutuola, 76, Nigerian writer, diabetes. ^[45]
• Karen Wetterhahn, 48, American professor of chemistry, mercury poisoning.
• Gordon Wilson, 81, American football player. ^[46]

9

• Károly Bajkó, 52, Hungarian Olympic wrestler (1964, 1968, 1972). ^[47]
• Robert W. Hansen, 86, American lawyer and jurist.
• Ismael Huerta, 80, Chilean admiral and politician, cardiac embolism.
• Stanley Knowles, 88, Canadian politician. ^[48]
• Yevgeni Lebedev, 80, Soviet and Russian film and theater actor. ^[49]
• Thornton Lee, 90, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians, Chicago White Sox, New York Giants). ^[50]
• Witness Lee, 91-92, Chinese christian preacher and hymnist, cancer.
• V.L. Nakum, 72, Indian cricketer. ^[51]

10

• Hilton de Almeida, 64, Brazilian Olympic water polo player (1960). ^[52]
• Carolina Cotton, 71, American singer and actress, ovarian cancer. ^[53]
• Leo Fuld, 84, Dutch singer. ^[54]
• Kim Ki-soo, 57, South Korean boxing champion and Olympian (1960), liver cancer. ^[55]
• Ernst Krebs, 82, Swiss Olympic wrestler (1936). ^[56]
• Zhou Lin, 85, Chinese politician. ^[57]
• Renato Reyes, 52, Filipino basketball player and Olympian (1968). ^[58]

11

• Herman Basudde, 38, Ugandan kadongo kamu musician, traffic accident.
• Robert Bates, 48, Northern Irish Ulster loyalist, shot.
• Noel Burrows, 86, Australian rules footballer. ^[59]
• Thalassa Cruso, 88, British-American presenter and author on horticulture, Alzheimer's disease. ^[60]
• Ben Dunkelman, 83, Canadian-Israeli military officer, heart attack.
• Gonzalo Fonseca, 74, Uruguayan artist, stroke. ^[61]
• Ralph Kohl, 73, American football player, coach and scout. ^[62]
• Jakob Nirschl, 72, German bobsledder and Olympian (1956). ^[63]
• Satyanarayan Rajguru, 93, Indian litterateur, epigraphist and historian.
• Mihir Sen, 66, Indian long distance swimmer, combination of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease.
• Kurt Stöpel, 89, German road bicycle racer.
• Lütfiye Sultan, 87, Turkish Ottoman princess.
• Yrjö Uimonen, 65, Finnish Olympic speed skater (1956). ^[64]

12

• Jo Backaert, 75, Belgian football player.
• Rick Baldwin, 42, American racing driver, racing accident. ^[65]
• Pieter d'Hont, 80, Dutch sculptor.
• Colette Magny, 70, French singer and songwriter. ^[66]
• Vittorio Mussolini, 80, Italian film critic and producer.
• Bulat Okudzhava, 73, Soviet/Russian poet, writer, musician, and singer-songwriter. ^[67]
• André Prébolin, 91, French Olympic long jumper (1936). ^[68]
• Arnaldo Sentimenti, 83, Italian football player and coach. ^[69]
• Veikko Vennamo, 84, Finnish politician.
• Joe Ben Wheat, 81, American archaeologist and author. ^[70]

13

• Al Berto, 49, Portuguese poet and painter, lymphoma. ^[71]
• Ladislau Bonyhádi, 74, Romanian football player of Hungarian ethnicity.
• Fredrik Hultén, 30, Swedish Olympic rower (1988, 1992, 1996). ^[72]
• Anand Narain Mulla, 95, Indian Urdu poet. ^[73]
• George Strugar, 63. American gridiron football player (Los Angeles Rams, Pittsburgh Steelers, New York Titans/Jets), lung cancer. ^[74]

14

• Marjorie Best, 94, American costume designer ( Giant , Rio Bravo , The Greatest Story Ever Told , Oscar winner (1950).
• Helmut Fischer, 70, German actor, carcinoma. ^[75]
• Jean Fournel, 40, Canadian Olympic canoeist (1976). ^[76]
• Richard Jaeckel, 70, American actor ( The Dirty Dozen , Sometimes a Great Notion . Starman ), melanoma. ^[77]
• Dorothy Prior, 85, Canadian Olympic swimmer (1928, 1932). ^[78]
• Helena Sanders, 86, British India-born British cultural activist, politician, poet, and activist for feline welfare, ^{[79] [80]} , she was both the founder and the first leader of the Cornish political party Mebyon Kernow (MK), ^[81] she won a seat on the Camborne–Redruth Urban District Council in 1953 ^[82]

15

• Nicholas Danby, British organist and composer.
• George Denholm, 88, British flying ace during World War II.
• Frode Jakobsen, 90, Danish author and politician.
• Bill Lawrence, 91, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers). ^[83]
• Edmond Leburton, 82, Belgian politician and Prime Minister. ^[84]
• Robert C. McEwen, 77, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1965-1981). ^[85]
• Attilio Redolfi, 73, Italian-French racing cyclist. ^[86]
• Son Sen, 67, Cambodian communist politician and soldier, summary execution.
• Dal Stivens, 85, Australian writer.

16

• Bill Barwick, 92, Australian Olympic middle-distance runner (1932). ^[87]
• Mariya Batrakova, 74, Soviet and Russian Red Army officer and Hero of the Soviet Union.
• Rolf Ericson, 74, Swedish jazz trumpeter. ^[88]
• Badi-ud-din Mahmud, 92, Sri Lankan politician.
• Elizabeth McBride, 42, American costume designer ( Driving Miss Daisy , Thelma & Louise , The Shawshank Redemption ), cancer.
• Michael O'Herlihy, 68, Irish television producer and director. ^[89]
• Sukumaran, 49, Indian film actor and producer, heart attack.
• Sue Sumii, 95, Japanese social reformer, writer, and novelist. ^[90]
• Tom Søndergaard, 53, Danish football player.
• Inge Wersin-Lantschner, 92, Austrian alpine skier and world champion.
• Andrzej Wojciechowski, 64, Polish Olympic boxer (1956). ^[91]

17

• Frances Foster, 73, American film, television and stage actress, cerebral hemorrhage. ^[92]
• Bernhard Jensen, 85, Danish flatwater canoeist and Olympian (1948). ^[93]
• Maurice Rootes, 80, British film editor.
• Hari Krishna Shastri, 59, Indian politician.

18

• Waldo Don Carlos, 87, American football player (Green Bay Packers). ^[94]
• James Willard Hurst, 86, American legal scholar and law history pioneer, cancer. ^[95]
• Lev Kopelev, 85, Soviet author and dissident. ^[96]
• Devon Russell, Jamaican rocksteady and reggae singer and record producer, brain tumour.
• Arvid Syrrist, 92, Norwegian footballer. ^[97]
• Cândido Tavares, 85, Portuguese football goalkeeper and manager.
• José María Fernández Unsáin, 78, Argentine film director, screenwriter, and playwright. ^[98]
• C. Martin Wilbur, 89, American historian and professor at Columbia University. ^[99]
• Héctor Yazalde, 51, Argentine footballer, heart failure. ^[100]

19

• Basu Bhattacharya, Indian film director, acute pancreatitis. ^[101]
• Robert Francis Byrnes, 79, American professor of history, heart attack. ^[102]
• Jiří David, 74, Czech Olympic sprinter (1952). ^[103]
• Cathleen Delany, 89, Irish actress. ^[104]
• Olga Georges-Picot, 57, French actress, suicide. ^[105]
• Thurman Green, 56, American jazz trombonist. ^[106]
• Bobby Helms, 63, American country music singer, emphysema and asthma. ^[107]
• Robert Henrion, 81, Belgian politician and Olympic fencer (1952). ^[108]
• Ed Scheiwe, 79, American basketball player. ^[109]
• Julia Smith, 70, English television director and producer, cancer. ^[110]
• Stan Stasiak, 60, Canadian professional wrestler known as Stan Stasiak, heart failure.

20

• John Akii-Bua, 47, Ugandan hurdler and the nation's first Olympic champion (1972, 1980). ^[111]
• Armando Brancia, 79, Italian film and television actor. ^[112]
• Paul Carell, 85, German Nazi politician and propagandist.
• Henri Haest, 70, Belgian Olympic hammer thrower (1952). ^[113]
• Cahit Külebi, 80, Turkish poet and author, cancer.
• John Michael Macdonald, 91, Canadian politician.
• Lawrence Payton, 59, American tenor, songwriter, musician, and record producer, liver cancer. ^[114]
• Alberto Rivera, 61, Spanish anti-Catholic religious activist, colon cancer.
• William Thoburn, 90, Canadian Olympic rower (1932). ^[115]

21

• Eusebio Hernández, 85, Chilean Olympic basketball player (1936). ^[116]
• Shintarō Katsu, 65, Japanese actor, singer, producer, and director, pharyngeal cancer. ^[117]
• Bill Lane, 80, American basketball player. ^[118]
• Shantilal Jamnadas Mehta, 92, Indian surgeon and medical academic.
• Werner Mensching, 63, German figure skater and Olympian (1960). ^[119]
• Arthur Prysock, 68, American jazz and R&B singer. ^[120]
• Karl Ridderbusch, 65, German operatic bass. ^[121]
• Fidel Velázquez Sánchez, 97, Mexican union leader, cardiac and respiratory failure. ^[122]
• Vladimir Vinogradov, 75, Soviet diplomat.
• Don Vosberg, 77, American football player (New York Giants). ^[123]

22

• Lars Bergendahl, 88, Norwegian cross-country skier.
• William Slater Brown, 100, American novelist, biographer, and translator of French literature. ^[124]
• Larry Grossman, 53, Canadian politician (Legislative Assembly of Ontario), brain cancer.
• Ted Gärdestad, 41, Swedish singer, songwriter, musician, and actor, suicide.
• Don Henderson, 65, English actor ( Star Wars , The Paradise Club , Strangers ), throat cancer. ^[125]
• Paul Napolitano, 74, American basketball player (Minneapolis Lakers). ^[126]
• Gérard Pelletier, 78, Canadian journalist and politician. ^[127]

23

• Jakob Balzert, 79, German footballer. ^[128]
• Tom Calder, 79, Australian rules football player. ^[129]
• Rosina Lawrence, 84, British-Canadian actress and singer, cancer. ^[130]
• Prince Nico Mbarga, 47, Nigerian Igbo highlife musician, motorcycle accident.
• Don Norton, 59, American gridiron football player (Los Angeles/San Diego Chargers). ^[131]
• Betty Shabazz, 63, American civil rights advocate and widow of Malcolm X, burns. ^[132]
• Acharya Tulsi, 82, Indian Jain religious leader. ^[133]

24

• Marion Jones Callister, 76, American district judge (United States District Court for the District of Idaho). ^[134]
• Brian Keith, 75, American actor ( Family Affair , The Parent Trap , The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming ), suicide. ^[135]
• Paul Lavalle, 88, American conductor, composer, arranger and peron clarinet and saxophone. ^[136]
• Sanjukta Panigrahi, 52, Indian Odissi dancer, cancer. ^[137]
• Leonard B. Strang, 72, British professor of paediatric sciences, cancer.

25

• Bobby Blackwood, 62, Scottish footballer. ^[138]
• Jacques Cousteau, 87, French explorer, conservationist, and oceanographer, heart attack. ^[139]
• William Grinnell, 87, American football player and coach, congestive heart failure.
• Mario Salvadori, 90, American structural engineer and professor at Columbia University. ^[140]
• Sotim Ulugzoda, 85, Soviet and Tajik writer.
• Richard Weiss, 33, West German-born American canoeist and Olympian (1992, 1996). ^[141]

26

• George Bassman, 83, American composer and arranger. ^[142]
• Don Bradley, 72, English football player.
• Charlie Chester, 83, English comedian, radio and television presenter and writer.
• Robert Frucht, 90, German-Chilean mathematician.
• William Grinnell, 87, American college football player and coach. ^[143]
• Don Hutson, 84, American football player (Green Bay Packers) and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame. ^[144]
• Israel Kamakawiwoʻole, 38, Native Hawaiian musician and activist, respiratory failure.
• Thomas Joseph Murphy, 64, American prelate in the Catholic Church, cerebral hemorrhage. ^[145]
• Armando Roche, 70, Cuban baseball player (Washington Senators). ^[146]
• William Turnbull, 62, American architect, cancer. ^[147]

27

• Ray Benge, 95, American baseball player. ^[148]
• Narinder Biba, 56, Indian Punjabi singer.
• Samuel L. Devine, 81, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1959-1981), cancer. ^[149]
• Joseph Zong Huaide, 80, Chinese Roman Catholic Bishop.
• Walter Jordan, 93, Australian rower and Olympian (1936). ^[150]
• W. O. G. Lofts, 73, British researcher and author. ^[151]
• Harrison Marks, 70, English glamour photographer and director of pornographic films. ^[152]
• Kenneth Neate, 82, Australian tenor, opera producer, composer and author. ^[153]
• Ken Richardson, 85, English racing and test driver.
• Ondino Viera, 95, Uruguayan football manager. ^[154]

28

• Gary DeVore, 55, American Hollywood screenwriter, murdered. ^[155]
• Forest Dewey Dodrill, 95, American doctor and inventor of the Dodrill-GMR heart machine. ^[156]
• Jack Hinton, 87, New Zealand soldier during World War II and recipient of the Victoria Cross.
• Hubert Lamb, 83, English climatologist.
• Hildegard Ochse, 61, German photographer, leukemia.
• Friedrich von Mellenthin, 92, German Wehrmacht general during World War II. ^[157]
• Roland Surrugue, 58, French Olympic cyclist (1960). ^[158]
• Yang Yichen, 83, Chinese politician.

29

• Nicholas Cleaveland Bodman, 83, American linguist.
• William Hickey, 69, American actor ( Prizzi's Honor , National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation , The Nightmare Before Christmas ), emphysema and bronchitis. ^[159]
• Marjorie Linklater, 88, Scottish arts and environment campaigner, cancer and heart failure. ^[160]
• Tom Lovell, 88, American illustrator and painter, car accident. ^[161]
• Petey Rosenberg, 79, American basketball player (Philadelphia Warriors). ^[162]

30

• Gyula Benkő, 78, Hungarian actor and father of actor Péter Benkő. ^[163]
• Su Bingqi, 87, Chinese archaeologist.
• Jindřich Blažek, 63, Czech Olympic rower (1960). ^[164]
• William Bradley, 64, English bicycle racer and Olympian (1960). ^[165]
• Leslie Melia, 67, Canadian Olympic canoeist (1956). ^[166]
• Larry O'Dea, 53, Australian professional wrestler, liver cancer. ^[167]
• Alcira Soust Scaffo, 73, Uruguayan teacher and poet, respiratory disease.

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External links

• List of June 1997 deaths at IMDb