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The following is a list of notable deaths in December 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.

December 1997Edit

1Edit

  • Julius Barnathan, 70, American broadcast engineer, lung cancer.[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.

2Edit

  • Endicott Peabody, 77, American politician, leukemia.[4]
  • Shirley Crabtree, 67, British wrestler known as Big Daddy, stroke.[5]
  • 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.[6]
  • Michael Hedges, 43, American composer, guitarist and singer-songwriter, car accident.[7]

3Edit

  • Stan Anderson, 58, Scottish football player.
  • Domenico Enrici, 88, Italian prelate of the Catholic Church.
  • Benito Jacovitti, 74, Italian comic artist.[8]
  • Adelma Simmons, 93, American herbalist.

4Edit

  • Leo August, 83, American philatelist.[9]
  • Morton Bard, 73, American psychologist and author of The Crime Victim's Book.[10]
  • Buck Barry, 80, American actor and radio and television personality.[11]
  • Joe Brown, 71, American boxer.
  • Cyril Cleverdon, 83, British librarian and computer scientist.
  • Ho Sin Hang, 97, 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.[12]
  • Joseph Wolpe, 82, South African psychiatrist.

5Edit

  • Rudolf Bahro, 62, East Germany dissident and politician, cancer.[13]
  • 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.[14]
  • Lutz Hoffmann, 38, East German gymnast and Olympic silver medalist, suicide.
  • John E. Moss, 82, American politician.[15]
  • Jan Voigt, 69, Norwegian actor, dancer and museum director.

6Edit

  • 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.[16]
  • Willy den Ouden, 79, Dutch swimmer and Olympic champion.[17]
  • Willie Pastrano, 62, American boxer, liver cancer.[18]
  • Herbert Ratner, 90, American physician.

7Edit

  • Billy Bremner, 54, Scottish footballer and manager, suspected heart attack.[19]
  • Barry S. Brook, 81, American musicologist.[20]
  • Félix Candela, 87, Spanish architect.[21]
  • Torbjörn Caspersson, 87, Swedish cytologist and geneticist.
  • Karl August Folkers, 91, American biochemist.
  • Woodrow Wyatt, 79, British politician, author and journalist.[22]

8Edit

  • Bob Bell, 75, American actor famous for his alter-ego, Bozo the Clown.[23]
  • Peter John Hunt, 64, British businessman.
  • Walter Molino, 82, Italian comics artist and illustrator.
  • Léon Poliakov, 87, French historian.[24]
  • Laurean Rugambwa, 85, Tanzanian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.[25]
  • Stephen Tredre, 34, English actor and writer, bone cancer.
  • Shehu Musa Yar'Adua, 54, Nigerian army general, politician and Vice President.

9Edit

  • Lucy Jane Askew, 114, British supercentenarian, oldest person in the United Kingdom.
  • Tamara Geva, 91, Russian-American actress, ballet dancer, and choreographer.[26]
  • 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.[27]
  • Stefano Ludovico Straneo, 95, Italian entomologist and author.
  • John D. Winters, 80, American historian.

10Edit

  • Anatoliy Banishevskiy, 51, Azerbaijani footballer, diabetic coma attack.
  • Maggie Baylis, 85, American graphic designer, illustrator and author.
  • Eve McVeagh, 78, American actress.[28]

11Edit

  • Radhames Aracena, 67, Dominican radio host and music producer.
  • Roger Brown, 72, American social psychologist.[29]
  • 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.

12Edit

  • R. Stanton Avery, 90, American inventor.[30]
  • Brian Deneke, 19, American punk musician, murdered.[31]
  • Wacław Gajewski, 86, Polish geneticist.

13Edit

  • Paddy DeMarco, 69, American lightweight boxer.
  • Don E. Fehrenbacher, 77, American historian and Pullitzer Prize winner.[32]
  • W. D. Mochtar, 69, Indonesian actor.
  • David Nicholson, 93, Australian politician.
  • Alexander Oppenheim, 94, British mathematician.
  • Claude Roy, 82, French poet and essayist.[33]

14Edit

  • John Adair, 84, American anthropologist.[34]
  • Owen Barfield, 99, British philosopher, author, critic, and member of the Inklings.[35]
  • Frank Baumholtz, 79, American baseball and basketball player.
  • Marion Bell, 78, American singer and musical theatre performer.[36]
  • Leola Brody, 75, American baseball player (AAGPBL)[37]
  • 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.[38]
  • Kurt Winter, 51, Canadian guitarist and songwriter, kidney failure.

15Edit

  • Amin Ahsan Islahi, 93, Pakistani Muslim scholar.[39]
  • Karsten Andersen, 77, Norwegian conductor.
  • Cosmo Campoli, 74, American sculptor.
  • Jack Robinson, 69, American photographer and stained glass designer.

16Edit

  • Lillian Disney, 98, American ink artist and wife of Walt Disney.
  • Ralph Fasanella, 84, American painter.[40]
  • Nicolette Larson, 45, American pop singer, cerebral edema.[41]
  • David L. McDonald, 91, American admiral, Chief of Naval Operations.
  • William A. Smalley, 74, American linguist, heart attack.[42]
  • Frans Stafleu, 76, Dutch botanist.

17Edit

  • 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.[43]
  • Reginald Victor Jones, 86, British physicist and scientific military intelligence expert.[44]
  • Mel Mazzera, 83, American baseball player.
  • Uzi Narkiss, 72, Israeli general.[45]
  • Peter Taylor, 75, English film editor.
  • Hanna Walz, 79, German politician.

18Edit

  • Geoff Campion, 81, British comics artist.[46]
  • Robert Duax, 78, American athlete, coach and politician.
  • Chris Farley, 33, American actor and comedian, drug overdose.[47]
  • Harriet Holter, 75, Norwegian social psychologist.
  • George Tsutakawa, 87, American painter and sculptor.

19Edit

  • 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.[48]
  • 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.[49]
  • Sara Northrup Hollister, 73, American occultist and second wife of author L. Ron Hubbard.
  • Jimmy Rogers, 73, American blues musician, colon cancer.[50]
  • David Schramm, 52, American astrophysicist, airplane crash.[51]

20Edit

  • 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.[52]
  • Wenceslas Kalibushi, 78, Rwandan Catholic bishop.
  • Denise Levertov, 74, American poet, complications due to lymphoma.[53]
  • Hugh McMahon, 91, Scottish footballer.
  • Richard Murden, 91, Australian politician.
  • Esther Peterson, 91, American consumer and women's advocate.[54]
  • Dick Spooner, 77, English cricketer.
  • Dawn Steel, 51, American film studio executive and producer.[55]

21Edit

  • Joseph Ahrens, 94, German composer and organist.
  • Roger Barkley, 61, American radio personality, pancreatic cancer.[56]
  • Johnny Coles, 71, American jazz trumpeter, cancer.[57]
  • 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.[58]

22Edit

  • Sebastian Arcos Bergnes, 66, Cuban human rights activist.[59]
  • 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.

23Edit

  • Bill Bushby, 83, English footballer.
  • Felix Bwalya, 27, Zambia boxer.
  • Stanley Cortez, 89, American cinematographer, heart attack.
  • Thomas S. Moorman, 87, United States Air Force officer.[60]
  • Fred Page, 82, Canadian ice hockey referee and administrator.[61]
  • Paula Stone, 85, American actress.

24Edit

  • 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.[62]
  • Lotte Motz, 75, Austrian-American scholar.

25Edit

  • Anatoli Boukreev, 39, Russian Kazakhstani mountaineer, avalanche.[63]
  • 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.[64]
  • Kenneth Spring, 76, British Army officer and artist.
  • Giorgio Strehler, 76, Italian opera and theatre director.[65]

26Edit

  • Cahit Arf, 87, Turkish mathematician.
  • Cornelius Castoriadis, 75, Greek-French philosopher, social critic and economist, complications following heart surgery.[66]
  • 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.[67]
  • Tommy Price, 86, British speedway rider.

27Edit

  • Ewart Abner, 74, American record company executive.[68]
  • Webster Chikabala, Zambian football player and coach, HIV/AIDS.
  • Tom Hudson, 75, British artist and lecturer.
  • John Megaw, 88, British judge.
  • James Nabrit Jr., 97, American civil rights attorney.[69]
  • 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.[70][71]

28Edit

  • Bill Anderson, 86, American producer, cerebral hemorrhage after falling.[72]
  • 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.[73]
  • Mafat Oza, 53, Indian poet, novelist and short story writer.
  • Ronnie Williams, 58, Welsh actor and comedian, suicide.

29Edit

  • Richard Lindsey Batten, 77, English orthopaedic surgeon.
  • Helen Kirkpatrick, 88, American war correspondent during World War II.[74]
  • Robert Walter Steel, 82, British geographer.

30Edit

  • Daryl Arnold, 74, American farmer, businessman and diplomat, traffic accident.[75]
  • Danilo Dolci, 73, Italian social activist, sociologist and poet.[76]
  • 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.[77]

31Edit

  • Pablito Barcos, 84, Spanish footballer.
  • Floyd Cramer, 64, American pianist, lung cancer.
  • Billie Dove, 94, American actress.[78]
  • Richard Elman, 63, American novelist, poet, and journalist.[79]
  • Michael LeMoyne Kennedy, 39, American lawyer, son of Robert F. Kennedy, skiing accident.[80]
  • Dominique de Menil, 89, French-American art collector and philanthropist.

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