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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]
  • Stéphane Grappelli, 89, French-Italian jazz violinist.[2]
  • Władysław Młynek, 67, Polish teacher, writer and poet.
  • Jiří Pleskot, 75, Czech actor.
  • Khan Ataur Rahman, 68, Bangladeshi film actor, director, and singer.
  • Edwin Rosario, 34, Puerto Rican boxer, aneurysm.[3]

2Edit

  • Guido Brunner, 67, Spanish-German diplomat and politician.[4]
  • Silvio Ceccato, 83, Italian philosopher and linguist.[5]
  • Shirley Crabtree, 67, British wrestler known as Big Daddy, stroke.[6]
  • Harald Gelhaus, 82, German U-boat commander during World War II.
  • Robert A. Hall, 86, American linguist.[7]
  • Steve Hamilton, 63, American basketball player, colon cancer.[8]
  • Michael Hedges, 43, American composer, guitarist and singer-songwriter, car accident.[9]
  • Marge Kotlisky, 70, American actress (Major League, Thief, Sixteen Candles).
  • Endicott Peabody, 77, American gridiron football player and politician, leukemia.[10]

3Edit

  • Stan Anderson, 58, Scottish football player.
  • Domenico Enrici, 88, Italian prelate of the Catholic Church.
  • Benito Jacovitti, 74, Italian comic artist.[11]
  • Vic Lombardi, 75, American Major League Baseball player.[12]
  • Olaf Pedersen, 77, Danish historian of science.[13]

4Edit

  • Leo August, 83, American philatelist.[14]
  • Morton Bard, 73, American psychologist and author of The Crime Victim's Book.[15]
  • Buck Barry, 80, American actor and radio and television personality.[16]
  • Joe Brown, 71, American boxer.
  • Ho Sin Hang, 97, Hong Kong entrepreneur and philanthropist.
  • G. S. Jayanath, Sri Lanka Army officer, killed in action.
  • Vytautas Kazimieras Jonynas, 90, Lithuanian artist.[17]
  • Alberto Manzi, 73, Italian school teacher, writer and television host.[18]
  • K. A. Nizami, 71, Indian historian and diplomat.[19]
  • Richard Vernon, 72, English actor (Goldfinger, Gandhi, The Man in Room 17), complications from Parkinson's disease.[20]
  • Joseph Wolpe, 82, South African psychiatrist.[21]

5Edit

  • Rudolf Bahro, 62, East Germany dissident and politician, cancer.[22]
  • Forrest Burmeister, 84, American gridiron football player.[23]
  • Eugen Cicero, 57, Romanian-German jazz pianist.[24]
  • Frederick Dainton, Baron Dainton, 83, British academic chemist.[25]
  • Ali Forney, 22, American gay and transgender youth, murdered.[26]
  • Lutz Hoffmann, 38, East German gymnast and Olympic silver medalist, suicide.[27]
  • John E. Moss, 82, American politician.[28]
  • Jakob Sverdrup, 78, Norwegian historian.[29]
  • Jan Voigt, 69, Norwegian actor, dancer and museum director.

6Edit

  • George Chisholm, 82, Scottish jazz trombonist and vocalist.[30]
  • Lou Clinton, 60, American baseball player, pneumonia.[31]
  • Eliot Daniel, 89, American songwriter and lyricist.[32]
  • Gilbert Delahaye, 74, Belgian author (Martine).[33]
  • Willy den Ouden, 79, Dutch swimmer and Olympic champion.[34]
  • Jagmohan Kaur, 49, Indian singer and actress.
  • Peter Leventritt, 82, American bridge player.[35]
  • Eddie Myers, 91, British Army officer and author.
  • Willie Pastrano, 62, American boxer, liver cancer.[36]

7Edit

  • Billy Bremner, 54, Scottish footballer and manager, suspected heart attack.[37]
  • Barry S. Brook, 81, American musicologist.[38]
  • Félix Candela, 87, Spanish architect.[39]
  • Torbjörn Caspersson, 87, Swedish cytologist and geneticist.[40]
  • Fernand Cornez, 90, French road bicycle racer.[41]
  • Karl August Folkers, 91, American biochemist.
  • George R. Gardiner, 80, Canadian businessman and philanthropist.
  • Annette B. Weiner, 64, American anthropologist.
  • Woodrow Wyatt, 79, British politician, author and journalist.[42]

8Edit

  • Bob Bell, 75, American actor famous for his alter-ego, Bozo the Clown.[43]
  • Walter Molino, 82, Italian comics artist and illustrator.
  • Léon Poliakov, 87, French historian.[44]
  • Carlos Rafael Rodríguez, 84, Cuban communist politician, Parkinson's disease.[45]
  • Laurean Rugambwa, 85, Tanzanian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.[46]
  • Stephen Tredre, 34, English actor and writer, bone cancer.
  • Armando Valente, 94, Italian track and field athlete and Olympian.[47]
  • Shehu Musa Yar'Adua, 54, Nigerian army general, politician and Vice President.

9Edit

  • Tamara Geva, 91, Russian-American actress, ballet dancer, and choreographer.[48]
  • Angelo Herndon, 84, American labor organizer.[49]
  • K. Shivaram Karanth, 95, Indian polymath.[50]
  • Michael Lee Lockhart, 37, American convicted serial killer, execution by lethal injection.
  • Keith W. Piper, 76, American football coach, congestive heart failure.[51]
  • Stefano Ludovico Straneo, 95, Italian entomologist and author.
  • John D. Winters, 80, American historian.[52]

10Edit

  • Anatoliy Banishevskiy, 51, Azerbaijani football playerer, diabetic coma attack.
  • Kalmen Kaplansky, 85, Canadian human rights and trade union activist.
  • Yevgeni Mayorov, 59, Soviet ice hockey player, A.L.S.[53]
  • Eve McVeagh, 78, American actress (High Noon, The Clear Horizon, The Glass Web).[54]

11Edit

  • Roger Brown, 72, American social psychologist.[55]
  • Eddie Chapman, 83, English criminal and spy during World War II.
  • Robert Cosmoc, 66, Romanian footballer.
  • Jorge Castañeda y Álvarez de la Rosa, 76, Mexican diplomat.
  • Simon Jeffes, 48, English classical guitarist, composer and arranger, brain tumor, brain cancer.[56]
  • Paul Scull, 90, American football player.

12Edit

  • R. Stanton Avery, 90, American inventor.[57]
  • Wacław Gajewski, 86, Polish geneticist.
  • Brian Deneke, 19, American punk musician, murdered.[58]
  • Evgenii Landis, 76, Soviet and Russian mathematician.[59]
  • M. G. Soman, 53, Indian Air Force officer and actor.

13Edit

  • Giovanni Alberto Agnelli, 33, Italian businessman and member of the Agnelli family, stomach cancer.
  • Martin Carter, 70, Guyanese poet and political activist.
  • Paddy DeMarco, 69, American lightweight boxer.
  • Don Edward Fehrenbacher, 77, American historian and Pullitzer Prize winner.[60]
  • Harry Glaß, 67, East German ski jumper and Olympian.[61]
  • Jimmy Milne, 86, Scottish football player and manager.
  • W. D. Mochtar, 69, Indonesian actor.[62]
  • David Nicholson, 93, Australian politician.
  • Alexander Oppenheim, 94, British mathematician.
  • David Rousset, 85, French writer and political activist.[63]
  • Claude Roy, 82, French poet and essayist, cancer.[64]

14Edit

  • John Adair, 84, American anthropologist.[65]
  • Owen Barfield, 99, British philosopher, author, critic, and member of the Inklings.[66]
  • Frank Baumholtz, 79, American baseball and basketball player.[67]
  • Marion Bell, 78, American singer and musical theatre performer.[68]
  • Gerald Legge, 9th Earl of Dartmouth, 73, British peer and businessman.
  • Stubby Kaye, 79, American actor (Guys and Dolls, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Cat Ballou), comedian and singer, lung cancer.[69]
  • Edna F. Kelly, 91, American politician.[70]
  • Emily Cheney Neville, 77, American author.[71]
  • Torsten Nilsson, 92, American politician.
  • Kurt Winter, 51, Canadian guitarist and songwriter, kidney failure.[72]

15Edit

  • Karsten Andersen, 77, Norwegian conductor.[73]
  • Cosmo Campoli, 74, American sculptor.
  • Siegfried Flügge, 85, German theoretical physicist.[74]
  • Albert Heremans, 91, Belgian football player.[75]
  • Amin Ahsan Islahi, 93, Pakistani Muslim scholar.[76]
  • Borislav Mihajlović Mihiz, 75, Serbian writer and literary critic.[77]

16Edit

  • Lillian Disney, 98, American ink artist and wife of Walt Disney, stroke.
  • Ralph Fasanella, 84, American painter.[78]
  • Kim Hak-sun, 73, Korean human rights activist.
  • Oksana Ivanenko, 91, Soviet and Ukrainian children's writer and translator.
  • Nicolette Larson, 45, American pop singer, cerebral edema.[79]
  • David L. McDonald, 91, American admiral, Chief of Naval Operations.[80]
  • Hu Ning, 81, Chinese physicist and writer.
  • William A. Smalley, 74, American linguist, heart attack.[81]
  • Frans Stafleu, 76, Dutch botanist.[82]
  • Richard Warwick, 52, English actor, AIDS-related complications.[83]

17Edit

  • Juan Francisco Barraza, 62, Salvadoran football player and manager, cardiac problems.
  • Paul Bindrim, 77, American psychotherapist.
  • Ernest Bromley, 85, American minister and civil rights activist.
  • Katharine Fowler-Billings, 95, American writer, naturalist, and geologist.[84]
  • Reginald Victor Jones, 86, British physicist and scientific military intelligence expert.[85]
  • Karl Kainberger, 85, Austrian football (soccer) player.
  • Marie Gudme Leth, 102, Danish textile printer.
  • Mel Mazzera, 83, American baseball player.[86]
  • Uzi Narkiss, 72, Israeli general.[87]
  • Peter Taylor, 75, English film editor (The Bridge on the River Kwai, Summertime, The Taming of the Shrew), Oscar winner (1958).[88]
  • Leo Turner, 69, Australian rules football player.
  • Hanna Walz, 79, German politician.

18Edit

  • Geoff Campion, 81, British comics artist.[89]
  • Chris Farley, 33, American comedian and actor (Saturday Night Live, Tommy Boy, Black Sheep), drug overdose.[90]
  • Harriet Holter, 75, Norwegian social psychologist.
  • Michel Quoist, 76, French catholic priest, theologian and writer, pancreatic cancer.[91]
  • George Tsutakawa, 87, American painter and sculptor.

19Edit

  • Michael Alldredge, 56, American actor (Scarface, Iron Eagle, Shoot the Moon).
  • Siegfried Barth, 81, German Luftwaffe bomber pilot during World War.
  • David Bradley, 77, American motion picture director and actor.[92]
  • Jack Bruen, 48, American basketball coach, cancer.[93]
  • Bonny Hicks, 29, Singapore model and writer, airplane crash.
  • Sara Northrup Hollister, 73, American occultist and second wife of author L. Ron Hubbard.
  • Masaru Ibuka, 89, Japanese electronics industrialist and co-founder of Sony, heart failure.[94]
  • Patsy Lawlor, 64, Irish businesswoman and politician.
  • Jimmy Rogers, 73, American blues musician, colon cancer.[95]
  • David Schramm, 52, American astrophysicist, airplane crash.[96]
  • Fyodor Simashev, 52, Russian cross-country skier.
  • Uldis Ģērmanis, 82, Latvian historian, writer and publicist.[97]

20Edit

  • Jim Gibbons, 73, Irish politician.
  • Richard Glazar, 77, Czech-Jewish Holocaust survivor, suicide.
  • Jūzō Itami, 64, Japanese actor, screenwriter and film director, alleged suicide.[98]
  • Wenceslas Kalibushi, 78, Rwandan catholic bishop.
  • Denise Levertov, 74, American poet, lymphoma.[99]
  • Esther Peterson, 91, American consumer and women's advocate.[100]
  • Dick Spooner, 77, English cricket player.
  • Dawn Steel, 51, American film studio executive and producer (Cool Runnings, Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit, Honey, I Blew Up the Kid), brain cancer.[101]

21Edit

  • Joseph Ahrens, 94, German composer and organist.[102]
  • Roger Barkley, 61, American radio personality, pancreatic cancer.[103]
  • Blai Bonet, 71, Spanish poet, novelist and art critic.
  • Johnny Coles, 71, American jazz trumpeter, cancer.[104]
  • Amie Comeaux, 21, American country music singer, car accident.
  • Igor Dmitriev, 56, Russian ice hockey player and coach.
  • Sacco van der Made, 79, Dutch actor.[105]
  • Jerry Masucci, 63, American attorney and businessman.[106]
  • Roxbee Cox, Baron Kings Norton, 95, British aeronautical engineer.
  • Sholom Schwadron, Israeli Haredi rabbi and orator.
  • Józef Stefański, 89, Polish cyclist.[107]
  • Bruce Woodcock, 76, English boxer.[108]

22Edit

  • Sebastian Arcos Bergnes, 66, Cuban human rights activist.[109]
  • Flea Clifton, 89, American baseball player.[110]
  • Francis Haar, 89, Hungarian socio-photographer.
  • José Oliva, 26, Dominican baseball player, traffic accident.
  • Hal Rice, 73, American baseball player.[111]
  • Clara Lee Tanner, 92, American anthropologist and art historian.

23Edit

  • Felix Bwalya, 27, Zambian boxer and Olympian, head injuries sustained in a boxing fight.[112]
  • Stanley Cortez, 89, American cinematographer, heart attack.[113]
  • Les Harrison, American basketball player and coach.[114]
  • Zaur Kaloyev, 66, Soviet and Georgian football player.
  • Thomas S. Moorman, 87, United States Air Force officer.[115]
  • Fred Page, 82, Canadian ice hockey referee and administrator.[116]
  • Paula Stone, 85, American actress.[117]

24Edit

  • Fahd Ballan, 64, Syrian druze singer and actor.
  • Jacques Fabbri, 72, French actor.[118]
  • Vic Feller, 74, Luxembourgian football player.[119]
  • Kemper Goodwin, 91, American architect.
  • Harry Groves, 79, English boxer.
  • Andy Kerr, 66, Scottish football player.[120]
  • Charles Roman Koester, 82, American prelate of the Catholic Church.
  • James Komack, 73, American television producer and writer (The Courtship of Eddie's Father, Chico and the Man, Welcome Back, Kotter), heart failure.[121]
  • Toshiro Mifune, 77, Japanese actor (Rashomon, Seven Samurai, Throne of Blood), multiple organ failure.[122]
  • Lotte Motz, 75, Austrian-American scholar.

25Edit

  • Anatoli Boukreev, 39, Russian and Kazakhstani mountaineer, avalanche.[123]
  • Anita Conti, 98, French explorer and photographer.
  • Yvonne Cormeau, 88, British SOE agent during World War II.
  • Georgi Gavasheli, 50, Soviet/Georgian football player.
  • Myriam Marbe, 66, Romanian composer and pianist.[124]
  • Jerry March, 68, American organic chemist.[125]
  • Paul M. O'Leary, 96, American economist and educator.[126]
  • Denver Pyle, 77, American actor (The Dukes of Hazzard, Bonnie and Clyde, The Andy Griffith Show), lung cancer.[127]
  • Kenneth Spring, 76, British Army officer and artist.
  • Giorgio Strehler, 76, Italian opera and theatre director, heart attack.[128]

26Edit

  • Cahit Arf, 87, Turkish mathematician.
  • Cornelius Castoriadis, 75, Greek-French philosopher, social critic and economist, complications following heart surgery.[129]
  • Simone Duvalier, 84, First Lady of Haiti as wife of François "Papa Doc" Duvalier.[130]
  • John Hinde, 81, English photographer.
  • Sergei Mamchur, 25, Russian football player, heart failure.
  • Victor Oehrn, 90, German U-boat commander during World War II.
  • Karlis Osis, 80, Latvian-American parapsychologist.[131]
  • Kenneth Pitzer, 83, American physical and theoretical chemist.[132]
  • Tommy Price, 86, British speedway rider.
  • Mircea Veroiu, 56, Romanian film director and screenwriter.[133]

27Edit

  • Ewart Abner, 74, American record company executive.[134]
  • Yousef Mohamed Alghoul, 61, Libyan football referee.
  • Said Brahimi, 66, Algerian-French football player.
  • Webster Chikabala, Zambian football player and coach, HIV/AIDS.
  • Brendan Gill, 83, American journalist.[135]
  • James Nabrit, Jr., 97, American civil rights attorney.[136]
  • Buxton Orr, 73, British composer and teacher.[137]
  • Malayattoor Ramakrishnan, 70, Indian writer, cartoonist and lawyer.[138]
  • Kent Robbins, 50, American country music songwriter, automobile accident.
  • Bess Whitehead Scott, 107, American journalist.
  • Tamara Tyshkevich, 66, Soviet shot putter and Olympian.[139]
  • Danny Wagner, 75, American basketball player.[140]
  • Billy Wright, 37, Northern Irish paramilitary leader, shot.[141][142]

28Edit

  • Heikki A. Alikoski, 85, Finnish astronomer and discoverer of minor planets.
  • Bill Anderson, 86, American producer, cerebral hemorrhage after falling.[143]
  • Shaikh Ayaz, 74, Pakistani poet, heart attack.[144]
  • Corneliu Baba, 91, Romanian painter.[145]
  • Henry Barraud, 97, French composer.[146]
  • James Lees-Milne, 89, English writer and expert on country houses.[147]
  • William Martínez, 69, Uruguayan footballer.
  • Steve Musseau, 74, American football coach and motivational speaker, heart failure.[148]
  • Vassily Solomin, 44, Soviet and Russian boxer and Olympian, lung cancer.[149]
  • Wacław Wójcik, 78, Polish racing cyclist.

29Edit

  • J. Richardson Dilworth, 81, American businessman.[150]
  • Helen Kirkpatrick, 88, American war correspondent during World War II.[151]
  • István Kiss, 70, Hungarian sculptor and politician.
  • André Marchand, 90, French painter.[152]
  • Robert Walter Steel, 82, British geographer.[153]

30Edit

  • Danilo Dolci, 73, Italian social activist, sociologist and poet, heart attack.[154]
  • Raymond Ericson, 82, American music critic.[155]
  • Bernard Girard, 79, American screenwriter, producer and film director.[156]
  • Shinichi Hoshi, 71, Japanese novelist and science fiction writer.
  • Warren Mehrtens, 77, American thoroughbred horse racing jockey.[157]
  • Bernard Soysa, 83, Sri Lankan politician.
  • Kim Sun-ja, South Korean serial killer.
  • John Howard Yoder, 70, American theologian and ethicist.[158]

31Edit

  • Jim Chambers, 70, Canadian football player.
  • Floyd Cramer, 64, American pianist, lung cancer.[159]
  • Dominique de Menil, 89, French-American art collector and philanthropist.[160]
  • Billie Dove, 94, American actress, pneumonia.[161]
  • Richard Elman, 63, American novelist, poet, and journalist.[162]
  • Michael LeMoyne Kennedy, 39, American lawyer, son of Robert F. Kennedy, skiing accident.[163]
  • Liu Lantao, 87, Chinese communist revolutionary and politician.
  • Sandy McPeak, 61, American actor.[164]
  • Ken Olfson, 60, American actor.[165]

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