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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

  • Angel Acuña Lizaña, 78, Mexican basketball player.
  • Berta Alves de Sousa, 91, Portuguese pianist and composer.
  • Kenneth W. Bilby, 78, American RCA executive, leukemia.[1]
  • Charles Brady, 71, American artist.[2]
  • Ngiratkel Etpison, 72, Palau politician.
  • Bertha Isaacs, 97, Bahamian tennis player, women's rights activist and 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.[3]
  • Janet G. Travell, 95, American physician and medical researcher, heart failure.

2Edit

  • William S. Burroughs, 83, American author and visual artist, heart attack.[4]
  • John Churcher, 91, British army general
  • Antonis Daglis, Greek serial killer, suicide.
  • Harald Kihle, 92, Norwegian painter and illustrator.
  • James Krüss, 71, German children's author and illustrator.
  • Fela Kuti, 58, Nigerian musician and human rights activist, AIDS (disputed).[5]
  • Michèle Pujol, 46, French intellectual, feminist, and human rights activist, cancer.
  • Frank Ellis Smith, 79, American politician, complications from strokes.[6]

3Edit

  • Bob Cope, 60, American football coach, cancer.
  • Joan Erikson, 94, Austrian-Canadian author, educator, and dance ethnographer.[7]
  • Pietro Rizzuto, 63, Canadian politician.
  • Nirmal Chandra Sinha, 85-86, Indian tibetologist and author.

4Edit

  • Horace Bristol, 88, American photographer.[8]
  • Dick Bush, 65, British cinematographer.
  • Jeanne Calment, 122 (disputed), French supercentenarian and the oldest person ever documented in history.[9]
  • Nicholas J. Hoff, 91, Hungarian-American aeronautics and astronautic engineer.[10]
  • Sidney Simon, 80, American painter, sculptor, and muralist.[11]
  • Alexander Young, 58, Scottish musician, lung cancer.

5Edit

  • Friedrich Jung, 82, German doctor and pharmacologist.
  • Clarence M. Kelley, 85, American politician and director of the FBI.[12]
  • Don Steele, 61, American disc jockey, lung cancer.[13]
  • Michael J. Tully Jr., 64, American lawyer and politician, heart attack.[14]

6Edit

  • Lance Barnard, 78, Australian politician and diplomat.
  • John Gurney, 95, American bass-baritone with the Metropolitan Opera[15]
  • Jürgen Kuczynski, 92, German economist and communist.[16]
  • Birendra Kumar Bhattacharya, 72, Indian writer.

7Edit

  • Kay Halle, 93, American journalist, author and World War II OSS operative.[17]
  • Volker Prechtel, 55, German actor.
  • Cecil Tate, 89, English cricketer.

8Edit

  • Dardanelle Hadley, 79, American jazz artist.
  • Orville H. Hampton, 80, American screenwriter.
  • William Lithgow, 77, English cricketer.
  • Plato Malozemoff, 87, Russian-American engineer and businessman, congestive heart failure.[18]
  • Paul Rudolph, 78, American architect, peritoneal mesothelioma.[19]

9Edit

  • Maria Antonietta Beluzzi, 67, Italian actress.
  • Gabriel Cattand, 73, French actor.
  • Trần Đại Nghĩa, 83, Vietnamese scientist and military engineer.
  • Herbert de Souza, 61, American sociologist and activist, HIV.[20]

10Edit

  • Peter Braestrup, 66-67, American journalist, heart attack.[21]
  • Malú Gatica, 75, Chilean actress and singer.
  • Steve Kraftcheck, 68, Canadian ice hockey player.
  • Carlton Moss, 88, American screenwriter, actor and film director.[22]
  • Conlon Nancarrow, 84, American-Mexican composer.[23]
  • Bob Welborn, 69, American racing driver.
  • George Zames, 63, Polish-Canadian control theorist and professor.

11Edit

  • Miksa Bondi, 79, Hungarian boxer.
  • Bert McTaggart, 81, Australian rules footballer.[24]
  • Jacques Robert, 76, French author, screenwriter and journalist.[25]

12Edit

  • Luther Allison, 57, American blues guitarist, cancer.
  • Anna Balakian, 82, Armenian-American professor of comparative literature, congestive heart failure.[26]
  • Rex Barney, 72, American baseball player.[27]
  • Gösta Bohman, 86, Swedish politician.
  • Sir Henry Calley, 83, English pilot and politician.
  • Jack Delano, 83, American photographer, kidney failure.[28]
  • Gulshan Kumar, 41, Indian businessman and film producer, murdered.
  • Dick Marx, 73, American jazz pianist and arranger, car accident.
  • Abe Newborn, 77, American talent agent and theatre producer, congestive heart failure.[29]
  • Len Norris, 83, Canadian editorial cartoonist.
  • Achilles Papapetrou, 90, Greek theoretical physicist.
  • Albert L. Smith Jr., 65, American politician.

13Edit

  • Robert Leggett, 71, American politician.
  • Dick Mather, 56, Canadian politician, heart attack.
  • Emil Mosbacher, 75, American yachtsman and Chief of Protocol of the United States, cancer.[30]
  • Harlow Rothert, 89, American Olympic shot putter.[31]
  • Marjorie Lynette Sigley, 68, English artist, writer, actress, choreographer and theatre director, cancer.
  • Carel Weight, 88, English painter.

14Edit

  • John Elliot, 79, British novelist, screenwriter and television producer.
  • Charlie Fleming, 70, Scottish footballer.
  • Diana E. Forsythe, 49, American anthropology researcher, hiking accident.[32]
  • Fred C. Galda, 79, American attorney and politician.[33]
  • James Grant, 73, American painter and sculptor.
  • George Pfister, 78, American baseball player and coach, heart attack.

15Edit

  • Geechie Fields, 92, American jazz trombonist.
  • Ray Heatherton, 88, American singer, Broadway theatre performer and television personality, Alzheimer's disease.[34]
  • Dave Solomon, 84, Fijian-born New Zealand rugby player.

16Edit

  • Hendrik van den Bergh, 82, South African police official.
  • Yanick Dupré, 24, Canadian professional ice hockey left winger, leukemia.
  • Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, 48, Pakistani Qawwali musician, cardiac arrest.[35]
  • Alf Malland, 80, Norwegian actor.
  • Plum Mariko, 29, Japanese female professional wrestler, wrestling accident.[36]
  • Donn Reynolds, 76, Canadian country music singer and yodeler.[37]

17Edit

  • Geoffrey Burnand, 85, English painter, theatrical designer and mural artist.
  • Burnum Burnum, 61, Australian Aboriginal activist, actor, and author, heart disease.[38]
  • Jorge Cañas, 54, Salvadoran football player.
  • David Schweitzer, 72, Israeli football player and manager.
  • Richard Skalak, 74, American biomedical engineering pioneer.[39]

18Edit

  • Praphas Charusathien, 84, Thai military officer and politician.
  • Don Knight, 64, English film, television and stage actor, stroke.[40]
  • Robert Swenson, 40, American professional wrestler, stuntman and actor, heart failure.
  • Tochiakagi Takanori, 42, Japanese sumo wrestler, heart attack.

19Edit

  • Moses ǁGaroëb, 55, Namibian politician and founding member of SWAPO.
  • Curly Ray Cline, 74, American bluegrass fiddler.
  • Cathleen Cordell, 82, American actress, emphysema.[41]
  • Lawrence Morgan, 82, Australian Olympic gold medal-winning equestrian, and footballer.
  • Petr Novák, 51, Czech rock musician, poisoned.

20Edit

  • Norris Bradbury, 88, American physicist.[42]
  • Bernard Cowey, 85, English rugby player.
  • William Humphrey, 73, American writer, cancer.[43]
  • Leo Jaffe, 88, American film executive.[44]
  • Bob Switzer, 83, American inventor, businessman and environmentalist, complications from Parkinson's disease.

21Edit

  • Misael Pastrana Borrero, 73, President of Colombia[45]
  • Abdul Rahim Ghafoorzai, Afghani politician and diplomat, plane crash.
  • A. A. Hamidhan, 88, Indonesian freedom fighter and journalist.
  • Jean Horsley, 84, New Zealand artist.
  • William Jopling, 86, Italian-born British leprologist.[46]
  • Yuri Nikulin, 75, Soviet/Russian actor and clown.[47]

22Edit

  • Infante Álvaro, Duke of Galliera, 87, Spanish noble and Infante.
  • James K. Johnson, 81, United States Air Force officer.[48]
  • Gholamreza Khosroo Kurdieh, 31, Iranian serial killer, execution by hanging.
  • Eduardo Lopes, 79, Portuguese road and track cyclist, cerebral vascular accident.
  • Matti Sippala, 89, Finnish athlete.
  • Mary Louise Smith, 82, American politician and women's rights activist, lung cancer.[49]
  • Brendan Smyth, 70, Northern Irish Roman Catholic priest and convicted child molester, heart attack.
  • Roy Zimmerman, 79, American gridiron football player.

23Edit

  • Mike Calhoun, 40, American football player (Chicago Bears, San Francisco 49ers and Tampa Bay Buccaneers).
  • Eric Gairy, 75, Prime Minister of Grenada (1974–1979).
  • Buddy Hassett, 85, American baseball player, bone cancer.[50]
  • John Kendrew, 80, British molecular biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.[51]
  • Elena Mayorova, 39, Soviet and Russian actress, burns.
  • Jan Šejna, 70, Czechoslovak Army Major General and defector[52]
  • Lucy Somerville Howorth, 102, American lawyer, feminist and politician.[53]

24Edit

  • Werner Abrolat, 73, German actor.
  • Davide Ancilotto, 23, Italian professional basketball player, brain ischemia during game.[54]
  • Hardial Bains, 58, Indo-Canadian microbiology lecturer and communist politician, cancer.[55]
  • Rex Ellsworth, 89, American Thoroughbred racing breeder.
  • Louis Essen, 88, English physicist.
  • Tete Montoliu, 64, Spanish jazz pianist.
  • Carolyne Morrison, 92, Canadian politician.
  • Zofia Rydet, 86, Polish photographer.
  • Edgar F. Shannon Jr., 79, American university director, cancer.[56]
  • Luigi Villoresi, 88, Italian motor racing driver.

25Edit

  • Clodomiro Almeyda, 74, Chilean politician, colon cancer.[57]
  • Peter Dews, 67, British stage director.
  • Carl Richard Jacobi, 89, American journalist and author.[58]
  • Bijan Najdi, 55, Iranian writer and poet.
  • Robert Pinget, 78, French avant-garde writer.[59]
  • Camilla Spira, 91, German actress.

26Edit

  • Marcello Aliprandi, 63, Italian film director.
  • Hone Glendinning, 85, British cinematographer.
  • Brendan McCarthy, 52, American football player, heart attack.[60]

27Edit

  • Sotiria Bellou, 76, Greek singer.
  • Sally Blane, 87, American actress, cancer.[61]
  • Noel Henderson, 69, Northern Irish rugby player.
  • James Lindsay, 90, British politician.
  • Molly F. Mare, 83, British marine biologist.
  • Samuel A. Peeples, 79, American writer, cancer.
  • Brandon Tartikoff, 48, American television executive, Hodgkin's lymphoma.[62]

28Edit

  • Frank Bencriscutto, 68, American concert band conductor and composer.
  • Joyce Ebert, 64, American actress, cancer.[63]
  • Willie Mae James Leake, American politician, cancer.
  • Peter Springett, 51, English footballer.
  • Masaru Takumi, 61, Japanese yakuza lord, murdered.

29Edit

  • Osborne Cowles, 98, American basketball player and coach.
  • Toshiya Fujita, 65, Japanese film director, film actor, and screenwriter.
  • Kansari Halder, 86, Indian politician.
  • Nelly Prono, 71, Paraguayan actress.
  • Rhydwen Williams, 81, Welsh poet, novelist and Baptist minister.

30Edit

  • John D. Craig, 94, American writer, film producer, and television host.[64]
  • Frunze Dovlatyan, 70, Armenian film director and actor.
  • Veselin Đuranović, 72, Montenegro politician.
  • Roger W. Mehle, 81, United States Navy admiral.
  • Ernst Wilimowski, 81, German–Polish football player.

31Edit

  • Will Hare, 81, American actor, heart attack.[65]
  • John M. Leddy, 83, United States Department of State official.[66]
  • Nana Meskhidze, 71, Georgian painter
  • Lotus Weinstock, 54, American stand-up comedian, author, musician, and actress, brain tumor.[67]
  • People killed in the 1997 Pont de l'Alma car crash:
    • Diana, Princess of Wales, 36
    • Dodi Fayed, 42, Egyptian businessman[68]
    • Henri Paul, 41, French chauffeur

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