Deaths in December 1997
The following is a list of notable deaths in December 1997.
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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.
December 1997
1
- Julius Barnathan, 70, American broadcast engineer.[1]
- Gerald Danovitch, 65, Canadian classical saxophone player and educator.
- Stéphane Grappelli, 89, French-Italian jazz violinist.[2]
- Władysław Młynek, 67, Polish teacher, writer and poet.
- Khan Ataur Rahman, 68, Bangladeshi film actor and director and singer.
- Edwin Rosario, 34, Puerto Rican boxer, aneurysm.[3]
- Warren B. Wilson, 77, American painter, sculptor and potter.
2
- Shirley Crabtree, 67, British wrestler known as Big Daddy, stroke.[4]
- Milan Čvirk, 21, Slovak football player, car crash.
- Harald Gelhaus, 82, German U-boat commander during World War II.
- Robert A. Hall Jr., 86, American linguist.
- Steve Hamilton, 63, American basketball player, colon cancer.
- Michael Hedges, 43, American composer, guitarist and singer-songwriter, car accident.[5]
3
- Stan Anderson, 58, Scottish football player.
- Domenico Enrici, 88, Italian prelate of the Catholic Church.
- Benito Jacovitti, 74, Italian comic artist.[6]
- Adelma Simmons, 93, American herbalist.
4
- Leo August, 83, American philatelist.
- Morton Bard, 73, American psychologist and author of The Crime Victim's Book.
- Buck Barry, 80, American actor and radio and television personality.[7]
- Joe Brown, 71, American boxer.
- Cyril Cleverdon, 83, British librarian and computer scientist.
- Ho Sin Hang, Hong Kong entrepreneur and philanthropist.
- G. S. Jayanath, Sri Lankan Army Major, killed in action.
- K. A. Nizami, 71, Indian historian and diplomat.
- Richard Vernon, 72, English actor, complications from Parkinson's disease.[8]
- Joseph Wolpe, 82, South African psychiatrist.
5
- Rudolf Bahro, 62, East Germany dissident and politician, cancer.[9]
- Reed Champion, American artist and illustrator, heart failure.
- Russell S. Drago, 69, American professor of inorganic chemistry.
- Ali Forney, 22, American gay and transgender youth, murdered.[10]
- Lutz Hoffmann, 38, East German gymnast and Olympic silver medalist, suicide.
- John E. Moss, 82, American politician.
- Jan Voigt, 69, Norwegian actor, dancer and museum director.
6
- George Chisholm, 82, Scottish jazz trombonist and vocalist.
- Lou Clinton, 60, American baseball player, pneumonia.
- Gilbert Delahaye, 74, Belgian author (Martine).
- Jagmohan Kaur, 49, Indian singer and actress.
- Peter Leventritt, 82, American bridge player.
- Willy den Ouden, 79, Dutch swimmer and Olympic champion.[11]
- Willie Pastrano, 62, American boxer, liver cancer.[12]
- Herbert Ratner, 90, American physician.
7
- Billy Bremner, 54, Scottish footballer and manager, suspected heart attack.[13]
- Félix Candela, 87, Spanish architect.
- Barry S. Brook, 81, American musicologist.
- Félix Candela, 87, Spanish architect.
- Torbjörn Caspersson, 87, Swedish cytologist and geneticist.
- Karl August Folkers, 91, American biochemist.
- Woodrow Wyatt, 79, British politician, author and journalist.[14]
8
- Bob Bell, 75, American actor famous for his alter-ego, Bozo the Clown.[15]
- Peter John Hunt, 64, British businessman.
- Walter Molino, 82, Italian comics artist and illustrator.
- Laurean Rugambwa, 85, Tanzanian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.
- Stephen Tredre, 34, English actor and writer, bone cancer.
- Shehu Musa Yar'Adua, 54, Nigerian army general, politician and Vice President.
9
- Lucy Jane Askew, 114, British supercentenarian, oldest person in the United Kingdom.
- K. Shivaram Karanth, 95, Indian polymath.
- Michael Lee Lockhart, 37, American serial killer, execution by lethal injection.
- Keith W. Piper, 76, American football coach, congestive heart failure.[16]
- Stefano Ludovico Straneo, 95, Italian entomologist and author.
- John D. Winters, 80, American historian.
10
- Anatoliy Banishevskiy, 51, Azerbaijani footballer, diabetic coma attack.
- Maggie Baylis, 85, American graphic designer, illustrator and author.
- Eve McVeagh, 78, American actress.[17]
11
- Radhames Aracena, 67, Dominican radio host and music producer.
- Roger Brown, 72, American social psychologist.[18]
- Eddie Chapman, 83, English criminal and spy during World War II.
- Robert Cosmoc, 66, Romanian footballer.
- Simon Jeffes, 48, English classical guitarist, composer and arranger, brain tumor.
- Paul Scull, 90, American football player.
- Harold Wright, 89, Canadian engineer and athlete.
12
- R. Stanton Avery, 90, American inventor.
- Brian Deneke, 19, American punk musician, murdered.[19]
- Wacław Gajewski, Polish geneticist.
13
- Paddy DeMarco, 69, American lightweight boxer.
- W. D. Mochtar, 69, Indonesian actor.
- David Nicholson, 93, Australian politician.
- Alexander Oppenheim, 94, British mathematician.
- Claude Roy, 82, French poet and essayist.[20]
14
- John Adair, 84, American anthropologist.[21]
- Frank Baumholtz, 79, American baseball and basketball player.
- Marion Bell, 78, American singer and musical theatre performer.[22]
- Leola Brody, 75, American baseball player (AAGPBL)[23]
- William Brooks Drew, 89, American botanist and professor.
- Gerald Legge, 9th Earl of Dartmouth, 73, British peer and businessman.
- Horst Heintze, 70, German trades union official and politician.
- Stubby Kaye, 79, American actor, comedian and singer, lung cancer.
- Kurt Winter, 51, Canadian guitarist and songwriter, kidney failure.
15
- Amin Ahsan Islahi, 93, Pakistani Muslim scholar.[24]
- Karsten Andersen, 77, Norwegian conductor.
- Cosmo Campoli, 74, American sculptor.
- Jack Robinson, 69, American photographer and stained glass designer.
16
- Lillian Disney, 98, American ink artist anf wife of Walt Disney.
- Nicolette Larson, 45, American pop singer, cerebral edema.[25]
- David L. McDonald, 91, American admiral, Chief of Naval Operations.
- William A. Smalley, 74, American linguist, heart attack.[26]
- Frans Stafleu, 76, Dutch botanist.
17
- Juan Francisco Barraza, 62, Salvadoran football player and manager, cardiac problems.
- Ernest Bromley, 85, American minister and civil rights activist.
- Katharine Fowler-Billings, 95, American writer, naturalist, and geologist.[27]
- Reginald Victor Jones, 86, British physicist and scientific military intelligence expert.[28]
- Mel Mazzera, 83, American baseball player.
- Peter Taylor, 75, English film editor.
- Hanna Walz, 79, German politician.
18
- Geoff Campion, 81, British comics artist.[29]
- Robert Duax, 78, American athlete, coach and politician.
- Chris Farley, 33, American actor and comedian, drug overdose.[30]
- Harriet Holter, 75, Norwegian social psychologist.
- George Tsutakawa, 87, American painter and sculptor.
19
- Surendra Sheodas Barlingay, 78, Indian philosopher and writer.
- Siegfried Barth, 81, German Luftwaffe bomber pilot during World War.
- David Bradley, 77, American motion picture director and actor.
- Jack Bruen, 48, American basketball coach, cancer.
- Uldis Ģērmanis, 82, Latvian historian, writer and publicist.
- Bonny Hicks, 29, Singapore Eurasian model and writer, airplane crash.
- Masaru Ibuka, 89, Japanese electronics industrialist and co-founder of Sony.
- Sara Northrup Hollister, 73, American occultist and second wife of author L. Ron Hubbard.
- Jimmy Rogers, 73, American blues musician, colon cancer.[31]
- David Schramm, 52, American astrophysicist, airplane crash.[32]
20
- Jim Gibbons, 73, Irish politician.
- Richard Glazar, 77, Czech-Jewish Holocaust survivor, suicide.
- Christy Greene, 71, Irish professional golfer.
- Juzo Itami, 64, Japanese actor, screenwriter and film director, alleged suicide.[33]
- Wenceslas Kalibushi, 78, Rwandan Catholic bishop.
- Denise Levertov, 74, American poet, complications due to lymphoma.[34]
- Hugh McMahon, 91, Scottish footballer.
- Richard Murden, 91, Australian politician.
- Esther Peterson, 91, American consumer and women's advocate.[35]
- Dick Spooner, 77, English cricketer.
- Dawn Steel, 51, American film studio executive and producer.
21
- Joseph Ahrens, 94 German composer and organist.
- Roger Barkley, 61, American radio personality, pancreatic cancer.[36]
- Amie Comeaux, 21, American country music singer, car accident.
- Igor Dmitriev, 56, Russian ice hockey player and coach.
- Roxbee Cox, Baron Kings Norton, 95, British aeronautical engineer.
- Sholom Schwadron, Israeli Haredi rabbi and orator.
- Bruce Woodcock, 76, English boxer.[37]
22
- Sebastian Arcos Bergnes, 66, Cuban human rights activist.[38]
- Flea Clifton, 89, American baseball player.
- Francis Haar, 89, Hungarian socio-photographer.
- José Oliva, 26, Dominican baseball player, traffic accident.
- Hal Rice, 73, American baseball player.
23
- Bill Bushby, 83, English footballer.
- Felix Bwalya, 27, Zambia boxer.
- Stanley Cortez, 89, American cinematographer, heart attack.
- Fred Page, 82, Canadian ice hockey referee and administrator.[39]
- Paula Stone, 85, American actress.
24
- Jacques Fabbri, 72, French actor.
- Kemper Goodwin, 91, American architect.
- James Komack, 73, American television producer, director, writer and actor, heart failure.
- Toshiro Mifune, 77, Japanese actor, multiple organ failure.[40]
- Lotte Motz, Austrian-American scholar.
25
- Anatoli Boukreev, 39, Russian Kazakhstani mountaineer, avalanche.[41]
- Anita Conti, 98, French explorer and photographer.
- Yvonne Cormeau, 88, British SOE agent during World War II.
- Paul M. O'Leary, 96, American economist and educator.
- Denver Pyle, 77, American actor, lung cancer.[42]
- Kenneth Spring, 76, British Army officer and artist.
26
- Cahit Arf, 87, Turkish mathematician.
- Cornelius Castoriadis, 75, Greek-French philosopher, social critic and economist, complications following heart surgery.[43]
- Grace Gemberling, 94, American artist.
- John Hinde, 81, English photographer.
- Victor Oehrn, 90, German u-boat commander during World War II.
- Karlis Osis, 80, Latvian-American parapsychologist.
- Kenneth Pitzer, 83, American physical and theoretical chemist.[44]
- Tommy Price, British speedway rider.
27
- Ewart Abner, 74 American record company executive.
- Webster Chikabala, Zambian football player and coach, HIV/AIDS.
- Tom Hudson, 75, British artist and lecturer.
- John Megaw, 88, British judge.
- Malayattoor Ramakrishnan, 70, Indian writer, cartoonist and lawyer.
- Kent Robbins, 50, American country music songwriter, automobile accident.
- Bess Whitehead Scott, 107, American woman journalist from the early 20th century.
- Billy Wright, 37, Northern Irish paramilitary leader, shot.[45][46]
28
- Bill Anderson, 86, American producer, cerebral hemorrhage after falling.[47]
- Shaikh Ayaz, 74, Pakistani poet, heart attack.
- Corneliu Baba, 91, Romanian painter.
- Henry Barraud, 97, French composer.
- Doda Conrad, 92, Polish-American bass operatic singer.
- William Martínez, 69, Uruguayan footballer.
- Steve Musseau, 74, American football coach and motivational speaker, heart failure.[48]
- Mafat Oza, 53, Indian poet, novelist and short story writer.
- Ronnie Williams, 58, Welsh actor and comedian, suicide.
29
- Richard Lindsey Batten, 77, English orthopaedic surgeon.
- Helen Kirkpatrick, 88, American war correspondent during World War II.[49]
- Robert Walter Steel, 82, British geographer.
30
- Danilo Dolci, 73, Italian social activist, sociologist and poet.[50]
- Stanko Fabris, 88, Croatian architect.
- Pablo García, 74, Cuban baseball player, heart attack.
- Shinichi Hoshi, 71, Japanese novelist and science fiction writer.
- Bernard Soysa, 83, Sri Lankan politician.
- Kim Sun-ja, South Korean serial killer.
- John Howard Yoder, 70, American theologian and ethicist.[51]
31
- Pablito Barcos, 84, Spanish footballer.
- Floyd Cramer, 64, American pianist, lung cancer.
- Billie Dove, 94, American actress.[52]
- Michael LeMoyne Kennedy, 39, American lawyer, son of Robert F. Kennedy, skiing accident.[53]
- Dominique de Menil, 89, French-American art collector and philanthropist.
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