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The following is a list of notable deaths in May 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.

May 1997Edit

1Edit

  • Elena Altieri, 80, Italian actress.
  • Russell G. Cleary, 63, American brewer, complications from heart surgery.[1]
  • Ernie Fields, 92, American trombonist, pianist, arranger and bandleader.
  • Abe Poffenroth, 79, American football and baseball coach.
  • Bo Widerberg, 66, Swedish actor and film director, stomach cancer.[2]

2Edit

  • Raymond Sarif Easmon, 84, Sierra Leonean doctor and writer.
  • John Eccles, 94, Australian neurophysiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.[3]
  • Paulo Freire, 75, Brazilian educator and philosopher, heart attack.[4]
  • Sir Robin Kinahan, 80, Northern Irish politician and Orange Order member.[5]
  • Werner Lott, 89, German U-boat commander during World War II.
  • Ralph McCreath, 78, Canadian figure skater.
  • Queen Mother Moore, 98, African-American civil rights leader and a black nationalist.[6]
  • Keith R. Porter, 84, Canadian-American cell biologist, pneumonia.[7]
  • Eugene Vale, 81, American novelist.[8]

3Edit

  • Bruce Beetham, 61, New Zealand academic and politician, heart failure.
  • Gerrit den Braber, 68, Dutch songwriter and lyricist, stroke.[9]
  • Sébastien Enjolras, 21, French racing driver, racing accident.
  • Hughie Green, 77, English presenter, game show host and actor, cancer.[10]
  • Sir John Junor, 78, British journalist and editor of the Daily Express.
  • Louis, Prince Napoléon, 83, French member of the Bonaparte dynasty.
  • Narciso Yepes, 69, Spanish guitarist, cancer.[11]

4Edit

  • Jerome Alden, 76, American playwright and screenwriter, kidney cancer.[12]
  • Suhayr al-Qalamawi, 85, Egyptian literary figure and politician.
  • Wijeyananda Dahanayake, 95, Sri Lankan politician.
  • Esin Engin, 51, Turkish musician, composer, and film actor.
  • Hilary Grivich, 19, American gymnast and diver, car accident.[13]
  • Fernando Hernández, 52, Costa Rican footballer, cancer.
  • Lee Miglin, 72, American business tycoon and philanthropist, murdered by serial killer Andrew Cunanan.[14]
  • Alvy Moore, 75, American actor, heart failure.
  • Lou Stathis, 44, American author, critic and editor, brain tumor.
  • Gertrud Thausing, 91, Austrian egyptologist.

5Edit

  • Sir George Burns, 86, British Army officer.
  • Carel Fourie, 46, South African rugby player.
  • Walter Gotell, 73, German actor, cancer.
  • Alan Gussow, 65, American artist, author and conservationist, cancer.[15]
  • Murray Kempton, 79, American journalist and Pullitzer Prize winner.[16]
  • David Scherman, 81, American photojournalist and editor, cancer.[17]

6Edit

  • Ridge Bond, 74, American actor and singer.
  • Sydney Joseph Freedberg, 82, American art historian and curator.[18]
  • Jorge Martínez de Hoyos, 76, Mexican actor, lung cancer.
  • Günther Jerschke, 75, German actor.
  • Wang You, 86, Chinese biochemist.

7Edit

  • John C. Ewers, 87, American ethnologist and museum curator.[19]
  • Yip Hon, 93, Chinese gambling tycoon, heart attack.
  • Fletcher Watson, American professor of science education.

8Edit

  • Ralph Wendell Burhoe, 85, American theologian.[20]
  • Scott Carpenter, 22, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
  • Art Hanes, 80, American politician and Klansman.
  • Kai-Uwe von Hassel, 84, German politician.
  • Pat Hughes, 94, English tennis player.
  • Micheline Kerney Walsh, 77, Irish archivist and historian.[21]
  • Sir Michael Shersby, 64, British politician.[22]
  • Bob Whitcher, 80, American baseball player.

9Edit

  • Rawya Ateya, 71, Egyptian woman and first female parliamentarian in the Arab world.
  • Bob Devaney, 82, American gridiron football coach, heart attack.[23]
  • Marco Ferreri, 68, Italian film director, screenwriter and actor, heart attack.[24]
  • Kazumi Kawai, 32, Japanese actress, suicide.
  • Paul Zastupnevich, 75, American costume designer.

10Edit

  • Steve Holland (actor), 72, American actor.
  • Jacinto Quincoces, 91, Spanish football player and manager.
  • Silvano Tranquilli, 71, Italian actor.
  • Joan Weston, 62, American Roller derby skater, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.[25]

11Edit

  • William Ragsdale Cannon, 81, American theologian and bishop of the United Methodist Church.[26]
  • Genine Graham, 70, English actress.
  • Dean M. Kelley, 70, American legal scholar, cancer.[27]
  • Catherine McLeod, 75, American actress.[28]
  • Howard Morton, 71, American actor, stroke.

12Edit

  • Sonny Avery, 82, English cricketer.
  • Louis Barbarin, 94, New Orleans jazz drummer.[29]
  • Avraham Stern, 61, Israeli administrator and politician.[30]
  • Dimitris Vakrinos, 34/35, Greek serial killer, suicide by hanging.

13Edit

  • Laurie Lee, 82, English poet, novelist and screenwriter.[31]
  • Myron Sharaf, 70, American writer and psychotherapist, heart attack.
  • Zdeňka Veřmiřovská, 83, Czechoslovak/Czech gymnast and Olympian.

14Edit

  • Jambyn Batmönkh, 71, Mongolian communist politician.
  • Mel Bay, 84, American musician and music publisher.
  • Harry Blackstone Jr., 62, American magician and television performer, pancreatic cancer.[32]
  • Thelma Carpenter, 75, American jazz singer and actress, cardiac arrest.[33]
  • Samuel Hoyt Elbert, 89, American linguist.
  • Alan Furlan, 77, Italian-American actor.
  • Bessie Schonberg, 90, German-American dancer and choreographer.[34]
  • Leo Yaffe, 80, Canadian nuclear chemistry scientist and pacifist.

15Edit

  • Oscar Berger, 96, American editorial cartoonist.
  • David Martin, 89, American Republican Party politician, pneumonia.
  • Margaret Peterson, 94/95, American abstract painter.
  • Saadallah Wannous, Syrian playwright, cancer.[35]

16Edit

  • Donatien Mahele Lieko Bokungu, 56, Zairean general, execution by firing squad.
  • Elbridge Durbrow, American diplomat[36]
  • Bones McKinney, 78, American basketball player and coach.
  • Harry Charles Moore, 56, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.[37]
  • Giuseppe De Santis, 80, Italian film director, heart attack.
  • Wang Zengqi, 77, Chinese writer.

17Edit

  • Chris Julian, 60, English motorcycle racer, gyrocopter accident.
  • Durgabai Kamat, 97/98, first Indian female actress of Indian cinema
  • Roscoe L. Koontz, 74, American health physicist.[38]
  • Fuiono Senio, Western Samoan chief and environmentalist, cancer.

18Edit

  • Bridgette Andersen, 21, American actress.
  • Horst Lippmann, 70, German concert promoter and jazz musician.[39]
  • Paolo Panelli, 71, Italian comedian and film actor.
  • Antonio Cornejo Polar, 60, Peruvian academic and literature and cultural critic.[40]
  • Soenario, 94, Indonesian politician and Foreign Minister.

19Edit

  • Aaron Henry, 74, American civil rights leader and politician, congestive heart failure.[41]
  • Sombhu Mitra, 81, Indian actor, director and playwright.
  • Troy Ruttman, 67, American race car driver, lung cancer.[42]

20Edit

  • Don Parker, 88, British racing driver.
  • Vasily Podshibyakin, 69, Soviet geologist.
  • John Rawlins, 94, American film editor and director.[43]
  • Wakafutase Tadayuki, 55, Japanese sumo wrestler.
  • Virgilio Barco Vargas, 75, Colombian politician.[44]
  • Gopal Yonzon, 53, Nepalese musician, complications of jaundice.

21Edit

  • William Aston, 80, Australian politician.
  • Amasa Stone Bishop, American nuclear physicist, pneumonia.[45]
  • Noël Browne, 81, Irish politician.
  • Fiorenzo Carpi, 78, Italian composer and pianist.

22Edit

  • Myrtle Bachelder, 89, American chemist and Women's Army Corps officer.[46]
  • Alziro Bergonzo, 90, Italian architect and painter.
  • Klaus von Bismarck, 85, German broadcaster and cultural administrator.
  • Donald Curtis, 82, American actor.
  • Genildo Ferreira de França, Brazilian spree killer, suicide.[47]
  • Jimmy Heale, 82, English footballer.
  • Alfred Hershey, 88, American biochemist and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.[48]
  • Raúl Gómez Jattin, 51, Colombian poet.
  • Arthur Milne, 82, Scottish football player.
  • Renzo Montagnani, 66, Italian actor, lung cancer.
  • Samuel DeWitt Proctor, 75, American minister, civil rights activist, and humanitarian, heart attack.[49]
  • T. R. Ramanna, 74, Indian film director and producer.
  • Robert D. Russ, 64, United States Air Force general and commander of the Tactical Air Command.
  • Stanisław Swianiewicz, 97, Polish economist and historian.

23Edit

  • Alison Adburgham, 85, English fashion journalist and author.
  • James Lee Byars, 65, American conceptual and performance artist, cancer.[50]
  • Dorothy Gulliver, 88, American actress.
  • Lovie Lee, 88, American electric blues pianist and singer.
  • David M. Ludlum, 86, American historian, meteorologist, and author.[51]

24Edit

  • Kinpei Azusa, 66, Japanese voice actor, laryngeal cancer.
  • Robbie Branscum, 62, American children's author, heart attack.[52]
  • Alexandre Lippiani, 32, Brazilian actor, car accident.
  • Edward Mulhare, 74, Irish actor, lung cancer.[53]
  • Peter Rangmar, 40, Swedish comedian, actor and baritone, melanoma.

25Edit

  • Syd Bidwell, 80, British politician.[54]
  • Jay Hebert, 74, American golfer.
  • Joseph Hoffman, 88, American screenwriter.

26Edit

  • Manfred von Ardenne, 90, German physicist and inventor.
  • Henry Barakat, Egyptian film director.
  • Ernst Biehler, 93, German Wehrmacht general during World War II.
  • Jenny Rosenthal Bramley, 87, Russian-American physicist.[55]
  • Ralph Horween, 100, American football player and coach.[56]
  • Bernard Jackson, 46, American football player and coach, liver cancer.
  • Jack Jersey, 55, Dutch singer, composer, and producer of light music, cancer.[57]

27Edit

  • John F. Forrest, 69, United States Army officer and combat commander.
  • Karl Martz, 84, American studio potter and ceramic artist.[58]
  • Henry Barakat, 83, Egyptian film director.

28Edit

  • Lynn Archibald, 52, American college basketball coach.
  • Sydney Guilaroff, 89, American Hollywood hairdresser, pneumonia.[59]
  • Bernard-Claude Savy, 74, French physician and politician, cancer.
  • John Sengstacke, 84, American newspaper publisher.[60]
  • Tatyana Sumarokova, 74, Soviet flight navigator during World War II.
  • Ronald Book, 60, American theoretical computer scientist.[61]

29Edit

  • Jeff Buckley, 30, American singer, songwriter and guitarist, accidental drowning.[62]
  • George Fenneman, 77, American radio and television announcer, emphysema.[63]
  • Alexander Kazhdan, 74, Soviet-American Byzantinist.[64]
  • Jack Parkinson, 73, American basketball player, brain tumor.

30Edit

  • West Arkeen, 36, American musician and songwriter for Guns N' Roses, opiate overdose.[65]
  • Béla Barényi, 90, Austro-Hungarian automotive engineer.
  • Winsome Cripps, 66, Australian sprinter.

31Edit

  • Damião de Bozzano, 98, Italian Roman Catholic priest and missionary, stroke.
  • Pat Collins, 62, American hypnotist.[66]
  • James Bennett Griffin, 92, American archaeologist.
  • Jewel Lafontant, 75, American lawyer and White House official, breast cancer.[67]
  • Ove Ljung, 79, Swedish Army officer.[68]
  • Günter Luther, 75, German admiral.
  • Fazal Haq Mujahid, Afghanistan mujahideen during the Soviet–Afghan War, assassinated.
  • Johnny Papalia, 73, Canadian mobster, shot.[69]

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