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The following is a list of notable deaths in October 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.

October 1997Edit

1Edit

  • Francisco Aramburu, 75, Brazilian footballer.[1]
  • George Kisevalter, 87, American operations officer of the CIA.
  • Jerome H. Lemelson, 74, American engineer, inventor and patent holder, liver cancer.[2]
  • Neil O'Connor, 80, Australian experimental psychologist, traffic incident.
  • Inbal Perlmuter, 26, Israeli rock musician, singer, composer and lyricist, car accident.

2Edit

  • Carybé, 86, Argentine-Brazilian artist, historian and journalist, heart failure.
  • Douglas Fairbairn, 70, American author.
  • William J. Maguire, 81, American politician.
  • Guillermo Meza, 80, Mexian painter.[3]

3Edit

  • Michael Adekunle Ajasin, 88, Nigerian politician.
  • John Ashley, 62, American actor, producer and singer, heart attack.[4]
  • Helen Brook, 89, British family planning adviser and author.
  • Richard Gilkey, 72, American painter, suicide[5]
  • Verna Hillie, 83, American film actress, stroke.
  • Jarl Kulle, 70, Swedish actor and director, bone cancer.
  • Blake Wayne Van Leer, 71, United States Navy officer.
  • Hadassah Rosensaft, 85, Polish holocaust survivor, liver failure.[6]
  • A. L. Rowse, 93, British historian and author.[7]
  • George Urban, 76, Hungarian writer.

4Edit

  • Romano Amerio, 92, Roman Catholic theologian.
  • Nelson C. Nye, 90, American author and editor.
  • Otto Ernst Remer, 85, German Wehrmacht officer during World War II.
  • Anne Strachan Robertson, 87, Scottish archaeologist, numismatist and writer.
  • Gunpei Yokoi, 56, Japanese video game designer and creator of the Game Boy, traffic collision.[8]

5Edit

  • Babatunde Kwaku Adadevoh, 64, Nigerian physician.
  • Chitta Basu, 70, Indian politician, cardiac arrest.
  • Andrew Keir, 71, Scottish actor.[9]
  • Dave Marr, 63, American golfer and sportscaster.[10]
  • Brian Pillman, 35, American professional wrestler, heart attack.
  • Tommy Ring, 67, Scottish footballer.
  • Larisa Rozanova, 78, Soviet/Ukrainian pilot and navigator during World War II.
  • Arthur Tracy, 98, American vocalist and actor.[11]

6Edit

  • Orlando Ramón Agosti, 73, Argentine general and part of the military junta.[12]
  • George T. Barclay, 87, American football player and coach.
  • Warren Louis Boudreaux, 79, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church, heart failure.
  • Robert Endean, 71, Australian marine scientist.[13]
  • Adrienne Hill, 60, English actress.
  • Yevgeny Khaldei, 80, Soviet naval officer and photographer.[14]
  • Debbie Linden, 36, Scottish model and actress, heroin overdose.
  • Johnny Vander Meer, 82, American baseball player, abdominal aneurysm.[15]
  • Georgi Yumatov, 71, Soviet/Russian film actor.

7Edit

  • Felicisimo Ampon, 76, Filipino tennis player.
  • Johnny Darrell, 57, American country music artist, diabetes.[16]
  • Wan Laiming, 97, Chinese animator.
  • Gus Marker, 92, Canadian ice hockey player.
  • Aldo Sebben, 77, American football, cross country, and track and field coach.

8Edit

  • William H. Amoss, 60, American politician.
  • Henryk Bista, 63, Polish actor.
  • Albert Blumberg, 91, American philosopher and political activist.[17]
  • Bertrand Goldberg, 84, American architect and industrial designer.[18]
  • Ricky Lee Green, 36, American serial killer, execution by lethal injection.
  • Robin Lee, 77, American figure skater.
  • Brown Meggs, 66, American writer and music executive.[19]
  • Desmond J. Scott, 79, New Zealand flying ace during World War II.
  • William B. Spong Jr., 77, American politician.[20]

9Edit

  • Michael Cummings, 78, British newspaper cartoonist.[21]
  • Monty Hoyt, 53, American figure skater, melanoma.
  • Arch Johnson, 75, American actor, cancer.
  • Jean Pasqualini, French/Chinese journalist.[22]
  • Joel Pritchard, 72, American politician, lymphoma.

10Edit

  • D. J. Ambalavanar, 69, Sri Lankan Tamil bishop.[23]
  • Phyllis Arkle, 87, English children's author.[24]
  • Marjorie Harris Carr, 82, American scientist and environmental activist.
  • Michael J. S. Dewar, 79, American theoretical chemist.[25]
  • Anne Marriott, 83, Canadian writer, stroke.
  • Dencio Padilla, 69, Filipino actor and comedian.
  • Thomas Whiteside, 79, American journalist, heart failure.[26]

11Edit

  • Paul Doughty Bartlett, 90, American chemist.[27]
  • Arnold Beck, 81, British scientist and electrical engineer.
  • Patrick McTaggart-Cowan, 85, Canadian meteorologist.
  • Ivan Yarygin, 48, Soviet / Russian heavyweight freestyle wrestler, car crash.[28]

12Edit

  • John Denver, 53, American musician and activist, plane crash.[29]
  • Draga Garašanin, 76, Serbian archaeologist.
  • Kenneth Hahn, 77, American civil servant, heart failure.[30]

13Edit

  • Alexandru Bârlădeanu, 86, Romanian politician.
  • Ian Stuart Black, 82, British novelist, playwright and screenwriter.
  • Adil Çarçani, 75, Albanian politician.[31]
  • Joyce Compton, 90, American actress.
  • Gary Lee Davis, 53, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.[32]
  • Richard Mason, 78, British novelist.[33]
  • Marian Pepler, 93, British architect and textile designer.
  • Raf, 68, Spanish comic author, heart disease.
  • William Staveley, 68, Royal Navy officer, heart attack.[34]

14Edit

  • Hy Averback, 76, American actor, producer and director.[35]
  • Piedade Coutinho, 77, Brazil Olympic swimmer.
  • George Forrest, 72, British classicist and academic, cancer.
  • Harold Robbins, 81, American writer.[36]
  • Barbara Slater, 76, American film actress.
  • Ian Tampion, 59, Australian scientologist and sportsman, cancer.

15Edit

  • Peter J. Dalessandro, 79, United States Army soldier and Medal of Honor recipient.
  • Walter Fritzsch, 76, German football player and manager.
  • Bill McKay, 76, Irish rugby player.

16Edit

  • A. H. Armstrong, 88, English educator and author.
  • Dick Cavalli, 74, American cartoonist, heart attack.
  • Princess Olga of Greece and Denmark, 94, Greek princess.[37]
  • Noel Ferrier, 66, Australian comedian, actor, and theatrical producer.
  • Adam Kennedy, 75, American actor, novelist, and painter, heart attack.
  • Audra Lindley, 79, American actress, leukemia.[38]
  • James A. Michener, 90, American author.[39]
  • Jackie O'Connell, 85, Irish hurler.

17Edit

  • Carlos Escaleras, 39, Honduran politician and environmental activist, shot.
  • Larry Jennings, 64, American magician.
  • Ben Welden, 96, American actor.[40]
  • Fang Yi, 81, Chinese Communist revolutionary, diplomat, and politician.

18Edit

  • Ramiro Castillo, 31, Bolivian footballer, suicide by hanging.
  • Walter William Curtis, 84, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church, pneumonia.[41]
  • Nancy Dickerson, 70, American radio and television journalist.[42]
  • Vince Gironda, 79, American bodybuilder, personal trainer and author.
  • Roberto Goizueta, 65, Cuban businessman and CEO of The Coca-Cola Company, cancer.[43]
  • Natalia Magnat, 42, Soviet / Russian translator, Crohn's disease.
  • William Rotsler, 71, American artist, cartoonist, pornographer and author.
  • Paul Edwin Zimmer, 54, American poet and author, heart attack.[44]

19Edit

  • Donald R. Bensen, 70, American editor and science fiction writer.
  • Glen Buxton, 49, American guitarist and composer, complications from pneumonia.[45]
  • Claudia Drake, 79, American actress and singer.
  • Harold French, 100, English film director, screenwriter and actor.
  • William J. McGill, 75, American psychologist and author.
  • Pilar Miró, 57, Spanish screenwriter and film director, heart attack.

20Edit

  • Frank Worth Elliott Jr., 72, United States Air Force Major General.
  • John Jacobs, 50, American student and anti-war activist, complications from melanoma.[46]
  • Frank Robert Miller, 89, Canadian air chief marshal.
  • Manush Myftiu, 78, Albanian politician.
  • Omar August Pinson, 79, American robber and murderer.
  • Ron Tarr, 60, British actor, cancer.
  • Henry Vestine, 52, American guitarist, heart and respiratory failure.[47]
  • Robin Woods, 83, English Anglican bishop.

21Edit

  • Dolph Camilli, 90, American baseball player.[48]
  • John Whitney Hall, 81, American Japanologist.[49]
  • Lorenzo Sumulong, 92, Filipino politician.
  • Waldemar F. A. Wendt, 85, United States Navy admiral.
  • Dick Wilkins, 72, American gridiron football player.

22Edit

  • Leonid Amalrik, 92, Soviet animator.
  • Stratton Hammon, 93, American architect.
  • Reinhard Lauck, 51, German footballer.
  • Mian Mohammed Sharif, 79, Pakistani mathematician.
  • Quentin Smythe, 81, South African sergeant and recipient of the Victoria Cross.[50]
  • Matthew Trupiano, 58, American mobster.

23Edit

  • Alfredo II, 77, Brazilian footballer.
  • Scrappy Blumer, 80, American pilot during World War II, leukemia.
  • Alan Broadley, 77, Australian footballer.
  • Hedley Bunton, 91, Australian missionary in China.
  • Ann Devroy, 49, American political journalist, uterine cancer.[51]
  • Claire Falkenstein, 89, American visual artist, stomach cancer.[52]
  • Barbara Goette, 89, German/British/Australian academic.
  • Bert Haanstra, 81, Dutch filmmaker, Alzheimer's disease.
  • Kim Lim, 61, Singaporean-British sculptor and printmaker.
  • Bob Manning, 71, American big band singer, pneumonia.[53]
  • Leticia Ocharan, Mexican artist.
  • Georges Pianta, 85, French politician .
  • Babette Rosmond, 75, American author.
  • Luther Simjian, 92, Armenian-American inventor and entrepreneur.[54]
  • Trevor Smith, 87, English footballer and manager.

24Edit

  • Luis Aguilar, 79, Mexican actor, and singer.
  • Skip Alexander, 79, American golfer.
  • Michael Balfour, 79, English actor.
  • Don Messick, 71, American voice actor, stroke.[55]

25Edit

  • William J. Hirsch, 88, American Hall of Fame trainer of Thoroughbred racehorses.
  • Tina Lattanzi, 99, Italian actress and voice actress.
  • Jamie Livingston, 41, American photographer and film maker, brain tumor.[56]
  • Mina Rees, 95, American mathematician.[57]
  • Firudin Shushinski, 72, Azerbaijani musicologist and scholar.

26Edit

  • Georg Adelly, 78, Swedish film actor.
  • Donald Ray Matthews, 90, American politician.
  • William B. Hutchinson, 88, American physician.[58]
  • Rankin M. Smith Sr., 72, American businessman and philanthropist.[59]

27Edit

  • Mahala Andrews, 58, British vertebrae palaeontologist.
  • Achim Gercke, 95, German Nazi politician.
  • Jane McCarty Mauldin, 61, American Choctaw artist, brain tumor.
  • Vladimir Sokoloff, 84, American pianist and accompanist.[60]
  • François-Henri de Virieu, 65, French journalist and television presenter, pancreatic cancer.

28Edit

  • Walter Capps, 63, American politician, heart attack.
  • Toni Carabillo, 71, American feminist, graphic designer, and historian, lung cancer.[61]
  • Doraiswamy Iyengar, 77, Indian musician.
  • Paul Jarrico, 82, American screenwriter.[62]
  • Marian Koshland, 76, American immunologist, lung cancer.[63]
  • Bryan Lefley, 49, Canadian ice hockey player and coach, car accident.
  • Klaus Wunderlich, 66, German musician, heart attack.

29Edit

  • Len Beurton, 83, English communist and Soviet agent.
  • H. C. Coombs, 91, Australian economist and public servant.[64]
  • Alexander zu Dohna-Schlobitten, 97, German junker, businessman and author.
  • Andreas Gerasimos Michalitsianos, 50, Greek-American astronomer and astrophysicist, brain tumor.
  • Anton LaVey, 67, American author, musician, and occultist, pulmonary edema.[65]
  • Big Nick Nicholas, 75, American jazz saxophonist and singer, heart failure.[66]
  • Anthony Velonis, 86, American painter and designer.

30Edit

  • Mary Syme Boyd, 87, Scottish artist and sculptor.
  • Samuel Fuller, 85, American screenwriter, novelist, and film director.[67]
  • Barney Martin, 74, American baseball player.
  • Sydney Newman, 80, Canadian film and television producer, heart attack.[68]

31Edit

  • Zubeida Agha, 75, Pakistani artist.
  • Bram Appel, 75, Dutch footballer.
  • Hans Bauer, 70, German footballer.
  • Sidney Darlington, 91, American electrical engineer.[69]
  • Wilfrid Oulton, 86, British Royal Air Force officer, cancer.[70]

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