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The following is a list of notable deaths in May 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.

May 1997

1

• Elena Altieri, 80, Italian actress.
• Tridib Chaudhuri, 85, Indian politician and Indian independence activist.
• Russell G. Cleary, 63, American brewer, complications from heart surgery. ^[1]
• Friedl Däuber, 86, German alpine and cross-country skier and Olympian (1936). ^[2]
• Fernand Dumont, 69, Canadian sociologist, philosopher, and theologian. ^[3]
• Ralph Earhart, 74, American football player (Green Bay Packers). ^[4]
• Jim McDonald, 81, American football player (Detroit Lions), and coach. ^[5]
• Arthur Milne, 82, Scottish football player.
• Bo Widerberg, 66, Swedish actor and film director, stomach cancer. ^[6]

2

• Raymond Sarif Easmon, 84, Sierra Leonean doctor and writer.
• Sir John Eccles, 94, Australian neurophysiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. ^[7]
• Heinz Ellenberg, 83, German biologist, botanist and ecologist.
• Paulo Freire, 75, Brazilian educator and philosopher, heart attack. ^[8]
• Walter Hill, 62, American serial killer, execution by electrocution.
• Robin Kinahan, 80, Northern Irish politician and Orange Order member. ^[9]
• Werner Lott, 89, German U-boat commander during World War II.
• David Madson, 33, American LGBTQ+ and HIV/AIDS activist, shot. ^[10]
• Ralph McCreath, 78, Canadian figure skater.
• Queen Mother Moore, 98, African-American civil rights leader and a black nationalist. ^[11]
• Don O'Riley, 52, American baseball player (Kansas City Royals). ^[12]
• Keith R. Porter, 84, Canadian-American cell biologist, pneumonia. ^[13]
• Eugene Vale, 81, American novelist. ^[14]
• Jimmy Wilson, 77, American Negro league baseball player. ^[15]

3

• Bruce Beetham, 61, New Zealand academic and politician, heart failure.
• Gerrit den Braber, 68, Dutch songwriter and lyricist, stroke. ^[16]
• Sébastien Enjolras, 21, French racing driver, racing accident.
• Hughie Green, 77, English presenter, game show host and actor, cancer. ^[17]
• Sir John Junor, 78, British journalist and editor of the Daily Express.
• Louis, Prince Napoléon, 83, French member of the Bonaparte dynasty.
• Narciso Yepes, 69, Spanish guitarist, cancer. ^[18]

4

• Suhayr al-Qalamawi, 85, Egyptian literary figure and politician. ^[19]
• Jerome Alden, 76, American playwright and screenwriter, kidney cancer. ^[20]
• Egidio Armelloni, 87, Italian Olympic gymnast (1936, 1948). ^[21]
• Wijeyananda Dahanayake, 94, Sri Lankan politician.
• Rudolf Edinger, 94, Austrian weightlifter and Olympian (1924). ^[22]
• Esin Engin, 51, Turkish musician, composer, and film actor, leukemia.
• Hilary Grivich, 19, American gymnast and diver, traffic collision. ^[23]
• Fernando Hernández, 52, Costa Rican footballer, cancer.
• Lee Miglin, 72, American businessman and philanthropist, stabbed. ^[24]
• Alvy Moore, 75, American actor ( Green Acres , The Littles , Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind ), heart failure. ^[25]
• Lyman Bradford Smith, 92, American botanist. ^[26]
• Lou Stathis, 44, American author, critic and editor, brain tumor.

5

• Giulio Balestrini, 89, Italian footballer. ^[27]
• Bob Briggs, 52, American gridiron football player (San Diego Chargers, Cleveland Browns, Kansas City Chiefs). ^[28]
• Sir George Burns, 86, British Army officer.
• Walter Gotell, 73, German actor ( From Russia with Love , The Spy Who Loved Me , The Living Daylights ), cancer. ^[29]
• Alan Gussow, 65, American artist, author and conservationist, cancer. ^[30]
• Dick Ives, 71, American college basketball player (Iowa Hawkeyes). ^[31]
• Murray Kempton, 79, American journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner, pancreatic cancer. ^[32]
• David Scherman, 81, American photojournalist and editor, cancer. ^[33]

6

• Ridge Bond, 74, American actor and singer. ^[34]
• Sydney Joseph Freedberg, 82, American art historian and curator. ^[35]
• Jorge Martínez de Hoyos, 76, Mexican actor, lung cancer. ^[36]
• John Edwards Hill, 68, British mammalogist.
• Günther Jerschke, 75, German actor. ^[37]
• Wang You, 86, Chinese biochemist.

7

• John C. Ewers, 87, American ethnologist and museum curator. ^[38]
• Yip Hon, 93, Chinese gambling tycoon, heart attack.
• George Lynch, 78, American race car driver. ^[39]
• Tom Lysons, 62, Canadian politician.

8

• Joachim Angermeyer, 73, German businessman and politician.
• Bijoy Chandra Bhagavati, 92, Indian politician.
• Ralph Wendell Burhoe, 85, American theologian. ^[40]
• Scott Carpenter, 22, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
• Pat Hughes, 94, English tennis player.
• Bernhard Nooni, 88, Estonian football player. ^[41]
• Clara Ottesen, 85, Norwegian government official, aid worker and politician.
• Nunzio Provenzano, 74, American mobster.
• William R. Royal, 92, American Air Force scuba diver.
• Michael Shersby, 64, British politician. ^[42]
• Kai-Uwe von Hassel, 84, German politician, heart attack. ^[43]
• Micheline Kerney Walsh, 77, Irish archivist and historian. ^[44]
• Bob Whitcher, 80, American baseball player. ^[45]

9

• Rawya Ateya, 71, Egyptian woman and first female parliamentarian in the Arab world.
• Augusto Céspedes Patzi, 93, Bolivian writer, politician, diplomat, and journalist.
• Bob Devaney, 82, American gridiron football coach, heart attack. ^[46]
• Marco Ferreri, 68, Italian film director, screenwriter and actor, heart attack. ^[47]
• Pierre Garsau, 35, Algerian-born French Olympic water polo player (1988, 1992). ^[48]
• Willy Hess, 90, Swiss musicologist and composer. ^[49]
• Hoke Howell, 67, American actor.
• Kazumi Kawai, 32, Japanese actress, suicide by jumping.
• Rina Lasnier, 81, Québécois poet. ^[50]
• Marie-Thérèse Paquin, 91, Canadian pianist. ^[51]
• Paul Zastupnevich, 75, American costume designer.

10

• Bernard Anderson, 77, American jazz trumpeter.
• Jacinto Quincoces, 91, Spanish football player, manager, and Olympian (1928). ^[52]
• Silvano Tranquilli, 71, Italian actor. ^[53]
• Joan Weston, 62, American Roller derby skater, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. ^[54]

11

• William Ragsdale Cannon, 81, American theologian and bishop of the United Methodist Church. ^[55]
• David Christie, 49, French singer-songwriter, suicide. ^[56]
• Ernie Fields, 92, American trombonist, pianist, arranger and bandleader.
• Markus Gähler, 31, Swiss Olympic ski jumper (1992). ^[57]
• Genine Graham, 70, English actress.
• Dean M. Kelley, 70, American legal scholar, cancer. ^[58]
• Catherine McLeod, 75, American actress. ^[59]
• Howard Morton, 71, American actor, stroke.
• Vince Sherlock, 87, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers). ^[60]
• Peter Stackpole, 83, American photographer. ^[61]

12

• Louis Barbarin, 94, American jazz drummer. ^[62]
• Charles-Arthur Gauthier, 84, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1962-1980). ^[63]
• Einar Gundersen, 81, Norwegian footballer. ^[64]
• Jiří Pecka, 79, Czechoslovak slalom and sprint canoeist and Olympian (1948). ^[65]
• Henk Plenter, 83, Dutch football player.
• Avraham Yitzchak Stern, 61, Israeli administrator and politician. ^[66]
• Frank A. Wenstrom, 93, American politician. ^[67]

13

• Olle Dahlberg, 68, Swedish Olympic speed skater (1956, 1960). ^[68]
• Laurie Lee, 82, English poet, novelist and screenwriter, colorectal cancer. ^[69]
• Carlos Augusto León, 82, Venezuelan poet, historian, politician and scientist.
• Tommy Turrentine, 69, American swing and hard bop trumpeter and composer. ^[70]
• Zdeňka Veřmiřovská, 83, Czechoslovak/Czech gymnast and Olympian. ^[71]
• Eduard Zakharov, 22, Russian boxer, stabbed. ^[72]

14

• Jambyn Batmönkh, 71, Mongolian communist politician.
• Mel Bay, 84, American musician and music publisher.
• Harry Blackstone, Jr., 62, American magician and television performer, pancreatic cancer. ^[73]
• Thelma Carpenter, 75, American jazz singer and actress, cardiac arrest. ^[74]
• Bernie Constable, 76, English cricketer. ^[75]
• Eddie Delker, 91, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals, Philadelphia Phillies). ^[76]
• Samuel Hoyt Elbert, 89, American linguist. ^[77]
• Alan Furlan, 77, Italian-American actor. ^[78]
• Morton Heilig, 70, American virtual reality technology pioneer and filmmaker.
• Boris Parsadanian, 72, Armenian-Estonian composer.
• Val Peat, 50, British sprinter and Olympian (1968). ^[79]
• Bessie Schonberg, 90, German-American dancer and choreographer. ^[80]

15

• Oscar Berger, 96, American editorial cartoonist. ^[81]
• Eric Dwyer, 79, Australian cricketer. ^[82]
• David Martin, 89, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1961-1974), pneumonia. ^[83]
• Matylda Ossadnik, 80, Polish Olympic gymanst (1936). ^[84]
• Trevor Porteous, 63, English football player and coach.
• Saadallah Wannous, Syrian playwright, cancer. ^[85]

16

• Donatien Mahele Lieko Bokungu, 56, Zairean general, execution by firing squad.
• Flor Crowley, 62, Irish Fianna Fáil politician.
• Giuseppe De Santis, 80, Italian film director ( Bitter Rice ), heart attack. ^[86]
• Elbridge Durbrow, 93, American diplomat and ambassador, stroke. ^[87]
• William McGregor, 47, Canadian Olympic judoka (1972). ^[88]
• Bones McKinney, 78, American basketball player (Washington Capitols, Boston Celtics), and coach. ^[89]
• Harry Charles Moore, 56, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection. ^[90]
• Wang Zengqi, 77, Chinese writer. ^[91]

17

• Tusten Ackerman, 95, American basketball player.
• Mikhail Bychkov, 70, Soviet Russian ice hockey player and Olympian (1960). ^[92]
• Chris Julian, 60, English motorcycle racer, gyrocopter accident.
• Durgabai Kamat, 117/118, first Indian female actress of Indian cinema.
• Roscoe L. Koontz, 74, American health physicist. ^[93]

18

• Bridgette Andersen, 21, American actress.
• Mikhail Anikushin, 79, Soviet and Russian sculptor.
• Horst Lippmann, 70, German concert promoter and jazz musician. ^[94]
• Paolo Panelli, 71, Italian comedian and film actor, pulmonary edema.
• Antonio Cornejo Polar, 60, Peruvian academic and literature and cultural critic. ^[95]
• Soenario, 94, Indonesian politician and Foreign Minister. ^[96]

19

• Aaron Henry, 74, American civil rights leader and politician, congestive heart failure. ^[97]
• Sombhu Mitra, 81, Indian actor, director and playwright.
• René Nyman, 80, Finnish Olympic sailor (1936, 1948, 1952, 1960). ^[98]
• Troy Ruttman, 67, American race car driver, lung cancer. ^[99]
• Pāvels Seņičevs, 72, Soviet Latvian Olympic sports shooter (1964, 1968). ^[100]

20

• Joe Allen, 49, American college basketball player (Bradley Braves). ^[101]
• Alex Friedmann, 78, Danish footballer. ^[102]
• Eduardo Jardón, 82, Spanish Olympic field hockey player (1948). ^[103]
• Don Parker, 88, British racing driver.
• John Rawlins, 94, American film editor and director. ^[104]
• Virgilio Barco Vargas, 75, Colombian politician, cancer. ^[105]
• Gopal Yonjan, 53, Nepalese musician, complications of jaundice.

21

• Ron Allan, 73, Australian rules footballer. ^[106]
• William Aston, 80, Australian politician. ^[107]
• Amasa Stone Bishop, 76, American nuclear physicist, pneumonia. ^[108]
• Noël Browne, 81, Irish politician.
• Fiorenzo Carpi, 78, Italian composer and pianist. ^[109]
• Piper Davis, 79, American baseball player. ^[110]

22

• Myrtle Bachelder, 89, American chemist and Women's Army Corps officer. ^[111]
• Alziro Bergonzo, 90, Italian architect and painter.
• Donald Curtis, 82, American actor. ^[112]
• Herman de Coninck, 53, Belgian poet, essayist, journalist and publisher, heart attack. ^[113]
• Genildo Ferreira de França, Brazilian spree killer, suicide by gunshot. ^[114]
• Jimmy Heale, 82, English footballer. ^[115]
• Alfred Hershey, 88, American biochemist and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, heart failure. ^[116]
• Raúl Gómez Jattin, 51, Colombian poet. ^[117]
• Arthur Milne, 82, Scottish football player.
• Renzo Montagnani, 66, Italian actor, lung cancer. ^[118]
• Candis Pettway, 72, American artist.
• Cornelius Michael Power, 83, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
• T. R. Ramanna, 74, Indian film director and producer.
• Robert D. Russ, 64, United States Air Force general and commander of Tactical Air Command.
• Stanisław Swianiewicz, 97, Polish economist and historian.
• Klaus von Bismarck, 85, German broadcaster and cultural administrator. ^[119]

23

• Alison Adburgham, 85, English fashion journalist and author.
• James Lee Byars, 65, American conceptual and performance artist, cancer. ^[120]
• Oswaldo Calero, 52, Colombian footballer. ^[121]
• Albert Cheetham, 81, Australian cricketer. ^[122]
• Dorothy Gulliver, 88, American actress, pneumonia. ^[123]
• Ken Keuper, 78, American football player (Green Bay Packers, New York Giants). ^[124]
• Sadayoshi Kobayashi, 92, Japanese Olympic field hockey player (1932). ^[125]
• Lovie Lee, 88, American electric blues pianist and singer. ^[126]
• David M. Ludlum, 86, American historian, meteorologist, and author. ^[127]
• Albert Rosen, 73, Austrian-Irish conductor.

24

• Muhammad Fadhel al-Jamali, 94, Iraqi politician and Prime Minister (1953-1954). ^[128]
• M. Aram, 70, Indian educator and peace advocate.
• Kinpei Azusa, 66, Japanese voice actor, laryngeal cancer.
• Robbie Branscum, 62, American children's author, heart attack. ^[129]
• Alfonso de Vinuesa, 38, Spanish racing driver, traffic collision.
• Jerzy Górski, 67, Polish Olympic canoeist (1956). ^[130]
• Edward Mulhare, 74, Irish actor ( Knight Rider , The Ghost and Mrs. Muir , Von Ryan's Express ), lung cancer. ^[131]
• Sepp Weiler, 76, West German ski jumper and Olympian. ^[132]

25

• Syd Bidwell, 80, British politician. ^[133]
• Chester Feldman, 71, American producer of game shows.
• Jay Hebert, 74, American golfer. ^[134]
• Joseph Hoffman, 88, American screenwriter. ^[135]
• Peter Rangmar, 40, Swedish comedian, actor and baritone.
• Ronald Vernieux, 86, Indian sprinter and Olympian. ^[136]

26

• Jack Bennett, 76, Australian rules football player. ^[137]
• Jenny Rosenthal Bramley, 87, Russian-American physicist. ^[138]
• James Gordon, 88, American Olympic sprinter (1932). ^[139]
• Ralph Horween, 100, American football player (Chicago Cardinals), and coach. ^[140]
• Serge Hubert, 81, French Olympic sports shooter (1960). ^[141]
• Bernard Jackson, 46, American football player (Cincinnati Bengals, Denver Broncos, San Diego Chargers), and coach, liver cancer. ^[142]
• Jack Jersey, 55, Dutch singer, composer, and producer of light music, cancer. ^[143]
• Erik Pausin, 77, Austrian figure skater and Olympian (1936). ^[144]
• Jack Vinall, 86, English football player and manager. ^[145]
• Manfred von Ardenne, 90, German physicist and inventor. ^[146]

27

• Robert Ambelain, 89, French essayist. ^[147]
• Henry Barakat, 82, Egyptian film director. ^[148]
• Franc Cvenkelj, 72, Slovenian Olympic alpine skier (1956). ^[149]
• Karl Martz, 84, American studio potter and ceramic artist. ^[150]
• Nic Roeser, 100, Luxembourgian Olympic gymnast (1928). ^[151]
• Azem Shkreli, 59, Albanian writer, poet, director and producer.

28

• Conway Baker, 85, American football player (Chicago Cardinals, Card-Pitt). ^[152]
• Ronald V. Book, 60, American theoretical computer scientist. ^[153]
• Sydney Guilaroff, 89, American Hollywood hairdresser, pneumonia. ^[154]
• Édouard Muller, 77, French road bicycle racer. ^[155]
• Sung Nak-woon, 71, South Korean football forward.
• John H. Sengstacke, 84, American newspaper publisher, stroke. ^[156]
• John Stack, 73, American X-ray engineer, rower and Olympic champion. ^[157]
• Tatyana Sumarokova, 74, Soviet flight navigator during World War II.

29

• Jeff Buckley, 30, American singer, songwriter and guitarist, accidental drowning. ^[158]
• George Fenneman, 77, American radio and television announcer, emphysema. ^[159]
• Alexander Kazhdan, 74, Soviet-American Byzantinist. ^[160]
• William H. McNichols, Jr., 87, American politician and mayor of Denver, Colorado (1968-1983).
• Jack Parkinson, 73, American basketball player (Kentucky Wildcats, Indianapolis Olympians), brain tumor, brain cancer. ^[161]

30

• West Arkeen, 36, American musician and songwriter for Guns N' Roses, opiate overdose. ^[162]
• Béla Barényi, 90, Austro-Hungarian automotive engineer.
• Winsome Cripps, 66, Australian sprinter and Olympian (1952). ^[163]
• Doris Lindsey Holland Rhodes, 87, American politician.

31

• Expedito Alencar, 51, Brazilian Olympic boxer (1968). ^[164]
• Pat Collins, 62, American hypnotist. ^[165]
• Frei Damião, 98, Italian Roman Catholic priest and missionary, stroke. ^[166]
• José González, 90, Spanish Olympic swimmer (1928). ^[167]
• James Bennett Griffin, 92, American archaeologist.
• Fazal Haq Mujahid, Afghanistan mujahideen during the Soviet–Afghan War, assassinated.
• Kai Jensen, 100, Danish Olympic athlete (1924). ^[168]
• Eddie Jones, 68, American jazz double bassist. ^[169]
• Oswald Kaduk, 90, German SS officer and war criminal during World War II.
• Jewel Lafontant, 75, American lawyer and White House official, breast cancer. ^[170]
• Ove Ljung, 79, Swedish Army officer. ^[171]
• Günter Luther, 75, German admiral.
• Johnny Papalia, 73, Canadian mobster, shot. ^[172]
• Poul Petersen, 76, Danish football player, manager and Olympian (1948, 1952). ^[173]

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External links

• List of May 1997 deaths at IMDb