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The following is a list of notable deaths in August 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.

August 1997Edit

1Edit

  • Ángel Acuña, 78, Mexican basketball player.
  • Kenneth W. Bilby, 78, American RCA executive, leukemia.[1]
  • Berta Alves de Sousa, 91, Portuguese pianist and composer.
  • Ngiratkel Etpison, 72, Palau politician.
  • Lawrence Alexander Sidney Johnson, 72, Australian taxonomic botanist, cancer.
  • Norio Nagayama, 48, Japanese spree killer and novelist, execution by hanging.
  • Sviatoslav Richter, 82, Ukrainian pianist, heart attack.[2]
  • Janet G. Travell, 95, American physician and medical researcher, heart failure.[3]
  • Hans von Luck, 86, German Wehrmacht officer during World War II.[4]

2Edit

  • William S. Burroughs, 83, American author (Naked Lunch, Junkie) and visual artist, heart attack.[5]
  • John Churcher, 91, British army general.
  • Antonis Daglis, Greek serial killer, suicide.
  • Joyce Dingwell, 89, Australian writer.[6]
  • Feim Ibrahimi, 61, Albanian composer.
  • Harald Kihle, 92, Norwegian painter and illustrator.[7]
  • James Krüss, 71, German children's author and illustrator.[8]
  • Fela Kuti, 58, Nigerian musician and human rights activist, AIDS (disputed).[9]
  • Frank E. Smith, 79, American politician, complications from strokes.[10]
  • Ricardo Muñoz Suay, 79, Spanish film director, producer and screenwriter.[11]
  • Michèle Pujol, 46, French intellectual, feminist, and human rights activist, cancer.
  • Rhydwen Williams, 80, Welsh poet, novelist and baptist minister.

3Edit

  • Peter A. Carruthers, 62, American physicist.[12]
  • Joan Erikson, 94, Austrian-Canadian author, educator, and dance ethnographer.[13]
  • Mladen Koščak, 60, Croatian football player.[14]
  • Pietro Rizzuto, 63, Canadian politician.
  • Nirmal Chandra Sinha, 85–86, Indian tibetologist and author.

4Edit

  • Horace Bristol, 88, American photographer.[15]
  • Dick Bush, 65, British cinematographer (Tommy, Victor Victoria, Twins of Evil).[16]
  • Jeanne Calment, 122, French supercentenarian and the oldest person ever documented in history, senility.[17]
  • Tom Eckersley, 82, English poster artist and teacher of design.[18]
  • Nicholas J. Hoff, 91, Hungarian-American aeronautics and astronautic engineer.[19]
  • Gene Johnson, 61, American gridiron football player.[20]
  • Lloyd Marshall, 83, American light heavyweight boxer.
  • Ariel Maughan, 74, American basketball player.[21]
  • Ray Renfro, 67, American gridiron football player.[22]
  • Sidney Simon, 80, American painter, sculptor, and muralist.[23]
  • Alexander Young, 58, Scottish musician, lung cancer.

5Edit

  • Clarence M. Kelley, 85, American politician and director of the FBI.[24]
  • Poul Møller, 77, Danish Conservative People's Party politician.[25]
  • Don Steele, 61, American disc jockey, lung cancer.[26]
  • Michael J. Tully Jr., 64, American lawyer and politician, heart attack.[27]

6Edit

  • Lance Barnard, 78, Australian politician and diplomat.[28]
  • Maria Antonietta Beluzzi, 67, Italian actress, infarction.
  • Birendra Kumar Bhattacharya, 72, Indian writer.
  • Shin Ki-ha, 56, South Korean politician, aviation accident.[29]
  • Jürgen Kuczynski, 92, German economist and communist.[30]
  • Tom Normanton, 80, British politician.
  • John Porter, 93, Canadian ice hockey player.[31]
  • Samuel Paul Welles, 89, American palaeontologist.[32]
  • Bora Öztürk, 42, Turkish football player, cancer.

7Edit

  • Rudolf Blügel, 70, German politicianand member of the Bundestag.
  • Jules Goedhuys, 92, Belgian racing cyclist.
  • Kay Halle, 93, American journalist, author and World War II OSS operative.[33]
  • Elisabeth Höngen, 90, German operatic mezzo-soprano and actress.
  • Volker Prechtel, 55, German actor, cancer.[34]

8Edit

  • Joseph Aquilina, 78, Maltese author and linguist.
  • Orville H. Hampton, 80, American screenwriter.[35]
  • Dardanelle Hadley, 79, American jazz musician.
  • Plato Malozemoff, 87, Russian-American engineer and businessman, congestive heart failure.[36]
  • Paul Rudolph, 78, American architect, peritoneal mesothelioma.[37]

9Edit

  • Doug Adams, 47, American gridiron football player.[38]
  • Max Bloesch, 89, Swiss field handball player and Olympian.[39]
  • Gabriel Cattand, 73, French actor.[40]
  • Herbert de Souza, 61, American sociologist and activist, AIDS-related complications.[41]
  • Ilpo Koskela, 52, Finnish ice hockey player.[42]
  • Trần Đại Nghĩa, 83, Vietnamese scientist and military engineer.

10Edit

  • Peter Braestrup, 66–67, American journalist, heart attack.[43]
  • Valery Chaptynov, 52, Russian politician.
  • Roy Chipman, 40, American basketball coach, colorectal cancer.
  • Malú Gatica, 75, Chilean actress and singer.
  • William Jordy, 80, American architectural historian.[44]
  • Steve Kraftcheck, 68, Canadian ice hockey player.
  • Jean-Claude Lauzon, 43, Canadian filmmaker and screenwriter, aviation accident.[45]
  • Carlton Moss, 88, American screenwriter, actor and film director.[46]
  • Conlon Nancarrow, 84, American-Mexican composer.[47]
  • Bob Welborn, 69, American racing driver.
  • George Zames, 63, Polish-Canadian control theorist and professor.

11Edit

  • Miksa Bondi, 79, Hungarian boxer.[48]
  • Bert McTaggart, 81, Australian rules footballer.[49]
  • Frank Pearson, 77, American Negro league baseball player.[50]
  • Jacques Robert, 76, French author, screenwriter and journalist.[51]

12Edit

  • Luther Allison, 57, American blues guitarist, cancer.[52]
  • Anna Balakian, 82, Armenian-American professor of comparative literature, congestive heart failure.[53]
  • Rex Barney, 72, American baseball player.[54]
  • Gösta Bohman, 86, Swedish politician.[55]
  • Jack Delano, 83, American photographer, kidney failure.[56]
  • Keith Harper, 70, Australian rules football player.
  • Robert Hetzron, 58, Hungarian-born linguist.[57]
  • Gulshan Kumar, 41, Indian businessman and film producer, murdered.
  • Dick Marx, 73, American jazz pianist and arranger, car accident.
  • Mario Montuori, 77, Italian film cinematographer and painter.
  • Abe Newborn, 77, American talent agent and theatre producer, congestive heart failure.[58]
  • Sam Nolutshungu, 52, South African academic, cancer.
  • Len Norris, 83, Canadian editorial cartoonist.
  • Achilles Papapetrou, 90, Greek theoretical physicist.
  • Albert L. Smith, Jr., 65, American politician.
  • Conrad von Molo, 90, Austrian film producer and editor.[59]
  • Ali Yata, 76, Moroccan communist leader.

13Edit

  • Vladimir Gribov, 67, Soviet and Russian theoretical physicist.[60]
  • Robert L. Leggett, 71, American politician.[61]
  • Dick Mather, 56, Canadian politician, heart attack.
  • Emil Mosbacher, 75, American yachtsman and Chief of Protocol of the United States, cancer.[62]
  • Harlow Rothert, 89, American Olympic shot putter.[63]
  • Marjorie Lynette Sigley, 68, English artist, writer, actress, choreographer and theatre director, cancer.[64]
  • Carel Weight, 88, English painter.[65]

14Edit

  • John Elliot, 79, British novelist, screenwriter and television producer.[66]
  • Charlie Fleming, 70, Scottish footballer.
  • Diana E. Forsythe, 49, American anthropology researcher, hiking accident.[67]
  • Frederick Carl Galda, 79, American attorney and politician.[68]
  • George Pfister, 78, American baseball player and coach, heart attack.[69]
  • Guido Vincenzi, 65, Italian football player and manager, A.L.S.[70]

15Edit

  • Ida Gerhardt, 92, Dutch writer and poet.[71]
  • Ray Heatherton, 88, American singer, Broadway performer and television personality, Alzheimer's disease.[72]
  • Lubka Kolessa, 95, Canadian-Ukrainian pianist and educator.[73]
  • Lawrence Morgan, 82, Australian rules footballer, equestrian and Olympian.[74]
  • Steve Pruski, 73, Canadian football player.
  • Dave Solomon, 84, Fijian-New Zealand rugby player and coach.
  • Çesk Zadeja, 70, Albanian composer.[75]

16Edit

  • Yanick Dupré, 24, Canadian ice hockey player, leukemia.
  • Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, 48, Pakistani Qawwali musician, heart attack.[76]
  • Alf Malland, 80, Norwegian actor.
  • Plum Mariko, 29, Japanese female professional wrestler, wrestling accident.[77]
  • Jacques Pollet, 75, French racing driver.
  • Donn Reynolds, 76, Canadian country music singer and yodeler.[78]
  • Hendrik van den Bergh, 82, South African police official.
  • Roger Vrigny, 77, French writer.[79]

17Edit

  • Burnum Burnum, 61, Australian Aboriginal activist, actor, and author, heart disease.[80]
  • Secondo Magni, 85, Italian racing cyclist.[81]
  • Don Owens, 65, American gridiron football player.[82]
  • David Schweitzer, 72, Israeli football player and manager.
  • Richard Skalak, 74, American biomedical engineering pioneer.[83]

18Edit

  • Praphas Charusathien, 84, Thai military officer and politician.
  • Fedor Hanžeković, 84, Croatian film director.
  • Don Knight, 64, English actor (The Apple Dumpling Gang, Swamp Thing, The Hawaiians), stroke.[84]
  • Maria Prymachenko, 89, Ukrainian folk art painter.
  • Frank P. Sanders, 78, American Under Secretary of the Navy (1972–73).
  • Robert Swenson, 40, American professional wrestler (WCCW) and actor (Batman & Robin, Bulletproof), heart failure.
  • Harry R. Wellman, 98, American academic.[85]

19Edit

  • Cathleen Cordell, 82, American actress, emphysema.[86]
  • Jim Karcher, 83, American gridiron football player.[87]
  • Robson Lowe, 92, English philatelist, stamp dealer and stamp auctioneer.
  • Petr Novák, 51, Czech rock musician, poisoned.
  • Mario Velarde, 57, Mexican football player.[88]

20Edit

  • Norris Bradbury, 88, American physicist, infectious disease.[89]
  • William Humphrey, 73, American writer, cancer.[90]
  • Leo Jaffe, 88, American film executive.[91]
  • Bob Switzer, 83, American inventor, businessman and environmentalist, Parkinson's disease.[92]

21Edit

  • Misael Pastrana Borrero, 73, President of Colombia.[93]
  • Somers Cox, 86, New Zealand rower and Olympian.[94]
  • Abdul Rahim Ghafoorzai, Afghani politician and diplomat, plane crash.
  • Jean Horsley, 84, New Zealand artist.
  • William Jopling, 86, Italian-British leprologist.[95]
  • Yuri Nikulin, 75, Soviet/Russian actor and clown, heart failure.[96]

22Edit

  • Prince Álvaro of Orleans, 87, Spanish noble and Infante.[97]
  • James Edmund Jeffries, 72, American politician.
  • James K. Johnson, 81, United States Air Force officer.[98]
  • François Lachenal, 79, Swiss publisher and diplomat.[99]
  • Eduardo Lopes, 79, Portuguese road and track cyclist, cerebral vascular accident.[100]
  • Matti Sippala, 89, Finnish athlete.[101]
  • Robin Skelton, 71, British-Canadian academic, writer, poet, and anthologist.[102]
  • Mary Louise Smith, 82, American politician and women's rights activist, lung cancer.[103]
  • Brendan Smyth, 70, Northern Irish Roman Catholic priest and convicted child molester, heart attack.
  • Virgil Wagner, 75, Canadian football player.
  • Roy Zimmerman, 79, American gridiron football player.[104]

23Edit

  • Mike Calhoun, 40, American football player (Chicago Bears, San Francisco 49ers and Tampa Bay Buccaneers).[105]
  • Eric Gairy, 75, Prime Minister of Grenada (1974–1979).
  • Buddy Hassett, 85, American baseball player, bone cancer.[106]
  • Lucy Somerville Howorth, 102, American lawyer, feminist and politician.[107]
  • John Kendrew, 80, British molecular biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.[108]
  • Elena Mayorova, 39, Soviet and Russian actress, burns.
  • Jean Poperen, 72, French politician.[109]
  • Jan Šejna, 70, Czechoslovak Army Major General and defector.[110]

24Edit

  • Werner Abrolat, 73, German actor.[111]
  • Davide Ancilotto, 23, Italian basketball player, brain ischemia during game.[112]
  • Hardial Bains, 58, Indian-Canadian microbiology lecturer and communist politician, cancer.[113]
  • Rex Ellsworth, 89, American thoroughbred horse breeder.
  • Louis Essen, 88, English physicist.
  • Tete Montoliu, 64, Spanish jazz pianist, lung cancer.[114]
  • Zofia Rydet, 86, Polish photographer.
  • Edgar F. Shannon, Jr., 79, American university director, cancer.[115]
  • Luigi Villoresi, 88, Italian motor racing driver.

25Edit

  • Clodomiro Almeyda, 74, Chilean politician, colon cancer.[116]
  • Mauro Cristofani, 56, Linguist and researcher in Etruscan studies.[117]
  • Muriel Frances Dana, 80, American silent film era child actress.
  • Peter Dews, 67, British stage director.[118]
  • James Gould, 83, New Zealand rower.
  • Carl Richard Jacobi, 89, American journalist and author.[119]
  • Füreya Koral, 87, Turkish ceramics artist.[120]
  • Noé Murayama, 67, Mexican actor.
  • Bijan Najdi, 55, Iranian writer and poet.
  • Robert Pinget, 78, French avant-garde writer.[121]
  • Camilla Spira, 91, German actress.[122]
  • Vitaly Tulenev, 60, Soviet and Russian painter, visual artist and art teacher.

26Edit

  • Marcello Aliprandi, 63, Italian film director.[123]
  • Hone Glendinning, 85, British cinematographer.
  • William Kenneth Kiernan, 81, Canadian businessman and politician.
  • Brendan McCarthy, 52, American football player, heart attack.[124]

27Edit

  • Sotiria Bellou, 76, Greek singer, cancer.[125]
  • Sally Blane, 87, American actress, cancer.[126]
  • Ing Chang-ki, 79, Chinese industrialist and Go player, cancer.
  • Johannes Edfelt, 92, Swedish writer, poet, and literary critic.[127]
  • Noël Henderson, 69, Northern Irish rugby player.
  • James Lindsay, 90, British politician.
  • Dick N. Lucas, 77, American animator (The Fox and the Hound, One Hundred and One Dalmatians, The Rescuers).
  • Samuel A. Peeples, 79, American writer, cancer.[128]
  • Brandon Tartikoff, 48, American television executive, Hodgkin's lymphoma.[129]

28Edit

  • Frank Bencriscutto, 68, American concert band conductor and composer.[130]
  • Joyce Ebert, 64, American actress, cancer.[131]
  • Werner Mieth, 85, American gridiron football player.
  • Peter Springett, 51, English footballer, cancer.[132]
  • Masaru Takumi, 61, Japanese yakuza lord, murdered.
  • Lloyd A. Thompson, 65, Nigerian classicist and academic.

29Edit

  • Richard Cottam, 72, American political scientist, Iranist and CIA operative.[133]
  • Osborne Cowles, 98, American basketball player and coach.
  • Kansari Halder, 86, Indian politician.[134]
  • Rudolf Pichlmayr, 65, German surgeon.[135]
  • Nelly Prono, 71, Paraguayan actress, cerebrovascular disease.

30Edit

  • John D. Craig, 94, American writer, film producer, and television host.[136]
  • Frunze Dovlatyan, 70, Armenian film director and actor.[137]
  • Toshiya Fujita, 65, Japanese film director, film actor, and screenwriter, liver failure.[138]
  • Dale Lewis, 64, American wrestler and Olympian.[139]
  • Ernst Wilimowski, 81, German–Polish football player.
  • Veselin Đuranović, 72, Montenegro politician.

31Edit

  • Will Hare, 81, American actor (Back to the Future, The Rose, Silent Night, Deadly Night), heart attack.[140]
  • Heinz Kaufmann, 83, German rower.[141]
  • John M. Leddy, 83, United States Department of State official.[142]
  • Lotus Weinstock, 54, American stand-up comedian, author, musician, and actress, brain tumor.[143]
  • People killed in the 1997 Pont de l'Alma car crash:[144]
    • Diana, Princess of Wales, 36, British royal and activist.[145]
    • Dodi Fayed, 42, Egyptian film producer (Chariots of Fire, Hook).[146]
    • Henri Paul, 41, French chauffeur.

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