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The following is a list of notable deaths in July 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.

July 1997Edit

1Edit

  • Lester Asheim, 83, American librarian and scholar of library science.
  • Annie Fratellini, 64, French circus artist, film actress and clown, cancer.[1]
  • Werner Haberkorn, 90, German-Brazilian engineer, photographer, and businessman.
  • Joshua Hassan, 81, Gibraltarian politician and Chief Minister of Gibraltar.
  • Harold McQueen Jr., 44, American convicted murderer, execution by electric chair.[2]
  • Robert Mitchum, 79, American actor, complications of lung cancer and emphysema.[3]
  • Efraín Andrade Viteri, 77, Ecuadorian painter.

2Edit

  • George Antonio, 82, English footballer.
  • Jean Pierre Capron, 75, French painter.
  • Chiquito, 65, Filipino actor and comedian, liver cancer.
  • Flint Gregory Hunt, 38, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.[4]
  • James Stewart, 89, American actor, blood clot in lung.[5]

3Edit

  • Johnny Copeland, 60, American Texas blues guitarist and singer, complications during heart surgery.[6]
  • Gloster B. Current, 84, American NAACP activist, leukemia and pneumonia.[7]
  • Rufe Gentry, 79, American baseball player.
  • Thomas Mervyn Horder, 2nd Baron Horder, 86, English hereditary peer and publisher.
  • Michael James MacDonald, 87, Canadian politician and union leader.

4Edit

  • William Cadogan, 7th Earl Cadogan, British peer and military officer.
  • Charles Kuralt, 62, American journalist, complications from lupus.[8]
  • Miguel Najdorf, 87, Polish-Argentinian chess grandmaster.[9]
  • Bevis Reid, 78, British track and field athlete.
  • Rerukane Chandawimala Thero, 99, Sri Lankan Buddhist monk and author.
  • John Zachary Young, 90, English zoologist and neurophysiologist.

5Edit

  • Kainoyama Isamu, 57, Japanese sumo wrestler.
  • Bill Kinner, 83, American basketball player.
  • Les Norman, 83, Australian politician.[10]
  • A. Thangathurai, 61, Sri Lankan Tamil politician.

6Edit

  • Chetan Anand, 82, Indian film producer, screenwriter and director.
  • Gene James, 72, American basketball player.[11]
  • Henry Salvatori, 96, American geophysicist, philanthropist, and political activist.[12]
  • Ajaib Singh, 70, Indian sant of Surat Shabd Yoga.
  • Brun Smith, 75, New Zealand cricketer.

7Edit

  • Mate Boban, 57, Bosnian Croat politician and the only president of the short lived Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia, stroke.[13]
  • Leonid Bykovets, 75, Soviet airman.
  • Jerry Doggett, 80, American sportscaster.
  • Henry Howell, 76, American politician, cancer.[14]
  • Oku Mumeo, 101, Japanese politician and feminist.
  • Royston Tickner, 74, British actor.
  • Rolando Tinio, 60, Filipino poet, dramatist, actor, and essayist.

8Edit

  • Dick van Dijk, 51, Dutch footballer (FC Twente, Ajax Amsterdam), acute endocarditis.
  • Guy Murchie, 90, American author and aviator[15]
  • Abu Sadat Mohammad Sayem, 81, Bangladeshi jurist and statesman.
  • Charles P. B. Taylor, Canadian journalist, author, and thoroughbred racehorse owner and breeder, cancer.[16]
  • Tony Thomas, 69, British-American film historian, author, and producer, pneumonia.[17]
  • Max E. Youngstein, 84, American film producer.[18]

9Edit

  • Alexander Cordell, 82, Welsh novelist and author.[19]
  • Carol Forman, 79, American actress.
  • Aurelio González, 91, Paraguayan football player.
  • Georgeta Năpăruș, 66, Romanian modernist painter.
  • Sandor Szondi, 76, Hungarian-Flemish politician.
  • Sir David Pitblado, British principal private secretary to successive Prime Ministers.[20]

10Edit

  • Ivor Allchurch, 67, Welsh international footballer.
  • Bernard Elgood, 75, British Army officer and first-class cricketer.
  • Dwight Lowry, 39, professional baseball catcher, heart attack.[21]
  • Abe Okpik, 69, Canadian Inuit community leader.
  • Frank R. Parker, 57, American civil rights lawyer and activist, complications from an aortic aneurysm[22]

11Edit

  • Felix Barker, 80, British drama critic and historian.[23]
  • Fred Beavis, 82, Canadian politician, pneumonia.
  • Alfred M. Boyce, 96, American entomologist.
  • Joe Hauser, 98, American baseball player.[24]
  • Edward Lasker, 85, American businessman and thoroughbred racehorse owner.
  • Robert V. Whitlow, 78, American military officer, football coach, and sports club executive.

12Edit

  • Meribeth E. Cameron, 92, American historian of China and academic.
  • François Furet, 70, French historian, head injury while playing tennis.[25]
  • Douglas Huebler, 72, American conceptual artist.[26]
  • Vinko Nikolić, 85, Croatian writer, poet and journalist.
  • Frank Shuter, 54, New Zealand speedway rider, traffic accident.

13Edit

  • Garfield Barwick, 94, Australian politician, lawyer, and Chief Justice of Australia.
  • Miguel Ángel Blanco, 29, Spanish politician and ETA victim, executed.
  • Alexandra Danilova, 93, Russian-American prima ballerina.[27]
  • Rosy Gibb, 54, Irish social worker, clown, and magician, cancer.[28]

14Edit

  • Eugene Goossen, 76, American art critic and art historian, pneumonia.[29]
  • Joseph F. Holt, 73, American politician.
  • Isaac Nicola, Cuban guitarist.
  • Polly Shackleton, 87, American politician.[30]
  • Hilda Watson, 75, Canadian politician.

15Edit

  • Ernest Amano Boateng, 76, Ghanaian academic and public servant.
  • Alan J. Charig, 70, English palaeontologist, stroke.[31]
  • Cheryl Linn Glass, 35, American racing driver, suicide.
  • Eve Greene, 91, American screenwriter.
  • Rosamund Greenwood, 90, British actress.
  • Stefan Marinov, 66, Bulgarian physicist, suicide.
  • Arthur A. J. Marshman, 68, English architect.
  • Albert G. Mumma, 91, United States Navy rear admiral.
  • Gianni Versace, 50, Italian fashion designer and founder of the Versace fashion house, shot.[32][33]

16Edit

  • Virginia Dare Aderholdt, 86, American cryptanalyst and Japanese translator, pancreatic cancer.
  • Ron Berry, 77, Welsh author and novelist.
  • Eddie Finnigan, 84, Canadian ice hockey player.
  • Dora Maar, 89, French photographer, painter, and poet.[34]
  • William Reynolds, 87, American film editor, cancer.[35]

17Edit

  • Don Bingham, 67, American gridiron football player.
  • Thomas Mellon Evans, 86, American financier, complications following a fall.[36]
  • Frank Irish, 78, English cricket player.
  • Arthur Jepson, 82, English first-class cricketer.
  • R. Krishnan, 87, Indian film director.
  • Robert C. Weaver, 89, American economist and academic.[37]

18Edit

  • Valerie Violet French, 88, English socialite.
  • Léon Gaultier, 82, French nazi collaborator during World War II and founding member of Front National.
  • James Goldsmith, 64, Anglo-French financier, tycoon, and politician, pancreatic cancer.[38]
  • Stephen Kimpton, 83, Australian first-class cricketer.
  • Igor Lintchevski, Russian botanist.
  • Eugene Merle Shoemaker, 69, American geologist and planetary science pioneer, car accident.[39]
  • Gregorio Weber, 81, Argentinian biochemist[40]

19Edit

  • Ethaline Hartge Cortelyou, 87, American chemist and scientist.
  • Frank Farrell, 50, British rock musician (Supertramp).
  • Eric Halladay, 67, British historian and academic.
  • John E. Hines, 86, American Episcopal Church bishop.[41]
  • Jim Peebles, 76, American football player (Washington Redskins).

20Edit

  • Alf Engen, 88, Norwegian-American skier.[42]
  • Ed Klewicki, 85, American football player.
  • M. E. H. Maharoof, 58, Sri Lankan politician, gunshot wounds.
  • Drummond Matthews, 66, British marine geologist and geophysicist.[43]
  • Arshi Pipa, 76, Albanian-American philosopher, writer and poet.
  • Linda Stirling, 75, American showgirl, model, and actress, cancer.[44]

21Edit

  • Tony Alvarez, 40, Spanish Australian actor and singer, AIDS-related cancer.
  • Paul K. Benedict, 85, American anthropologist, and linguist, traffic accident.
  • Roger Bowman, 69, American baseball player.[45]
  • Ernst Majonica, 76, German politician (CDU).

22Edit

  • Khalil Ahmed, 61, Pakistani composer.
  • Marilyn Brown, 44, American actress, suicide by jumping.
  • Irving Geis, 88, American artist.[46]
  • Vincent Hanna, 57, Northern Irish television journalist, heart attack.[47]
  • Sondra Rodgers, 94, American actress.

23Edit

  • Barney Bright, 70, American sculptor, lung cancer.
  • Jeff Cross, 78, American baseball player.
  • Andrew Cunanan, 27, American spree killer and murderer of Gianni Versace, suicide by gunshot.[48]
  • Chūhei Nambu, 93, Japanese track and field athlete, pneumonia.
  • Simon Pierre Tchoungui, 80, First Prime Minister of Cameroon.
  • David Warbeck, 55, New Zealand actor and model, cancer.[49]

24Edit

  • William J. Brennan Jr., 91, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (1956–1990).[50]
  • Bob Gaddy, 73, American East Coast blues and R&B pianist, singer and songwriter, lung cancer.
  • Brian Glover, 63, English actor and writer, brain tumor.
  • Saw Maung, 69, Burmese army general and statesman, heart attack.[51]
  • Frank Parker, 81, American tennis player.[52]
  • Bill Shine, 85, British actor.

25Edit

  • Jack Bickham, 66, American novelist.
  • Peter Carmichael, 73, British fighter pilot during World War II and the Korean War.
  • Ned Courtney, Irish footballer.
  • Jack Davies, 80, New Zealand swimmer.
  • Ralph Goldstein, 83, American Olympic épée fencer, car accident.
  • Ben Hogan, 84, American golf champion.[53]
  • Boris Novikov, 72, Soviet actor, complications from diabetes.
  • Matiu Rata, 63, New Zealand Māori politician, traffic accident.[54]

26Edit

  • Kunihiko Kodaira, 82, Japanese mathematician.
  • William Kolakoski, 52, American artist and recreational mathematician, lung cancer.
  • Jaime Milans del Bosch, 82, Spanish lieutenant general and co-leader of 1981 coup d'état, brain tumor.[55]
  • Sir Denis Smallwood, 78, British Royal Air Force senior commander.

27Edit

  • Muhammad Mahdi al-Jawahiri, 98, Iraqi poet.
  • Allan Broadway, 75, Australian rules footballer.
  • Isabel Dean, 79, English actress.[56]
  • Heinrich Liebe, 89, German naval officer during World War II.
  • K'tut Tantri, 99, Scottish American hotelier and broadcaster known as "Surabaya Sue".[57]

28Edit

  • Sir Geoffrey Vavasour, 5th Baronet, 82, English cricket player and Royal Navy officer.
  • Rosalie Crutchley, 77, British actress.[58]
  • John FitzPatrick, 82, Australian politician.
  • Bud Hardin, 75, American baseball player.[59]
  • Leo Loudenslager, 53, American aviator, motorcycle accident.
  • Gordon McMaster, 37, Scottish politician.
  • Seni Pramoj, 92, Thai politician and Prime Minister, heart disease and kidney failure.[60]

29Edit

  • Jack Archer, 75, English sprinter.
  • Edward A. Kawānanakoa, 72, American member of the Hawaiian House of Kawānanakoa.
  • John H. Ware III, 88, American politician.
  • Chuck Wayne, 74, jazz guitarist.[61]

30Edit

  • Giuseppe Anedda, 85, Italian mandolin player.
  • Robert Bryce, 87, Canadian civil servant.[62]
  • Bảo Đại, 83, Vietnamese emperor of the Nguyễn dynasty.[63]

31Edit

  • Hepi Te Heuheu VII, 78, New Zealand Māori chief.[64]
  • Eddie Miller, 80, American baseball player.[65]
  • Vern Riffe, 72, American politician and speaker.
  • Frans Schoubben, 63, Belgian racing cyclist.[66]

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