The following is a list of notable deaths in August 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.
August 1997
1
- Ángel Acuña, 78, Mexican basketball player.
- Kenneth W. Bilby, 78, American RCA executive, leukemia.[1]
- Berta Alves de Sousa, 91, Portuguese pianist and composer.
- Ngiratkel Etpison, 72, Palau politician.
- Lawrence Alexander Sidney Johnson, 72, Australian taxonomic botanist, cancer.
- Norio Nagayama, 48, Japanese spree killer and novelist, execution by hanging.
- Sviatoslav Richter, 82, Ukrainian pianist, heart attack.[2]
- Janet G. Travell, 95, American physician and medical researcher, heart failure.[3]
- Hans von Luck, 86, German Wehrmacht officer during World War II.[4]
2
- William S. Burroughs, 83, American author (Naked Lunch, Junkie) and visual artist, heart attack.[5]
- John Churcher, 91, British army general.
- Antonis Daglis, Greek serial killer, suicide.
- Joyce Dingwell, 89, Australian writer.[6]
- Feim Ibrahimi, 61, Albanian composer.
- Harald Kihle, 92, Norwegian painter and illustrator.[7]
- James Krüss, 71, German children's author and illustrator.[8]
- Fela Kuti, 58, Nigerian musician and human rights activist, AIDS (disputed).[9]
- Frank E. Smith, 79, American politician, complications from strokes.[10]
- Ricardo Muñoz Suay, 79, Spanish film director, producer and screenwriter.[11]
- Michèle Pujol, 46, French intellectual, feminist, and human rights activist, cancer.
- Rhydwen Williams, 80, Welsh poet, novelist and baptist minister.
3
- Peter A. Carruthers, 62, American physicist.[12]
- Joan Erikson, 94, Austrian-Canadian author, educator, and dance ethnographer.[13]
- Mladen Koščak, 60, Croatian football player.[14]
- Pietro Rizzuto, 63, Canadian politician.
- Nirmal Chandra Sinha, 85–86, Indian tibetologist and author.
4
- Horace Bristol, 88, American photographer.[15]
- Dick Bush, 65, British cinematographer (Tommy, Victor Victoria, Twins of Evil).[16]
- Jeanne Calment, 122, French supercentenarian and the oldest person ever documented in history, senility.[17]
- Tom Eckersley, 82, English poster artist and teacher of design.[18]
- Nicholas J. Hoff, 91, Hungarian-American aeronautics and astronautic engineer.[19]
- Gene Johnson, 61, American gridiron football player.[20]
- Lloyd Marshall, 83, American light heavyweight boxer.
- Ariel Maughan, 74, American basketball player.[21]
- Ray Renfro, 67, American gridiron football player.[22]
- Sidney Simon, 80, American painter, sculptor, and muralist.[23]
- Alexander Young, 58, Scottish musician, lung cancer.
5
- Clarence M. Kelley, 85, American politician and director of the FBI.[24]
- Poul Møller, 77, Danish Conservative People's Party politician.[25]
- Don Steele, 61, American disc jockey, lung cancer.[26]
- Michael J. Tully Jr., 64, American lawyer and politician, heart attack.[27]
6
- Lance Barnard, 78, Australian politician and diplomat.[28]
- Maria Antonietta Beluzzi, 67, Italian actress, infarction.
- Birendra Kumar Bhattacharya, 72, Indian writer.
- Shin Ki-ha, 56, South Korean politician, aviation accident.[29]
- Jürgen Kuczynski, 92, German economist and communist.[30]
- Tom Normanton, 80, British politician.
- John Porter, 93, Canadian ice hockey player.[31]
- Samuel Paul Welles, 89, American palaeontologist.[32]
- Bora Öztürk, 42, Turkish football player, cancer.
7
- Rudolf Blügel, 70, German politician and member of the Bundestag.
- Jules Goedhuys, 92, Belgian racing cyclist.
- Kay Halle, 93, American journalist, author and World War II OSS operative.[33]
- Elisabeth Höngen, 90, German operatic mezzo-soprano and actress.
- Volker Prechtel, 55, German actor, cancer.[34]
8
- Joseph Aquilina, 78, Maltese author and linguist.
- Orville H. Hampton, 80, American screenwriter.[35]
- Dardanelle Hadley, 79, American jazz musician.
- Plato Malozemoff, 87, Russian-American engineer and businessman, congestive heart failure.[36]
- Paul Rudolph, 78, American architect, peritoneal mesothelioma.[37]
9
- Doug Adams, 47, American gridiron football player.[38]
- Max Bloesch, 89, Swiss field handball player and Olympian.[39]
- Gabriel Cattand, 73, French actor.[40]
- Herbert de Souza, 61, American sociologist and activist, AIDS-related complications.[41]
- Ilpo Koskela, 52, Finnish ice hockey player.[42]
- Trần Đại Nghĩa, 83, Vietnamese scientist and military engineer.
10
- Peter Braestrup, 66–67, American journalist, heart attack.[43]
- Valery Chaptynov, 52, Russian politician.
- Roy Chipman, 40, American basketball coach, colorectal cancer.
- Malú Gatica, 75, Chilean actress and singer.
- William Jordy, 80, American architectural historian.[44]
- Steve Kraftcheck, 68, Canadian ice hockey player.
- Jean-Claude Lauzon, 43, Canadian filmmaker and screenwriter, aviation accident.[45]
- Carlton Moss, 88, American screenwriter, actor and film director.[46]
- Conlon Nancarrow, 84, American-Mexican composer.[47]
- Bob Welborn, 69, American racing driver.
- George Zames, 63, Polish-Canadian control theorist and professor.
11
- Miksa Bondi, 79, Hungarian boxer.[48]
- Bert McTaggart, 81, Australian rules footballer.[49]
- Frank Pearson, 77, American Negro league baseball player.[50]
- Jacques Robert, 76, French author, screenwriter and journalist.[51]
12
- Luther Allison, 57, American blues guitarist, cancer.[52]
- Anna Balakian, 82, Armenian-American professor of comparative literature, congestive heart failure.[53]
- Rex Barney, 72, American baseball player.[54]
- Gösta Bohman, 86, Swedish politician.[55]
- Jack Delano, 83, American photographer, kidney failure.[56]
- Keith Harper, 70, Australian rules football player.
- Robert Hetzron, 58, Hungarian-born linguist.[57]
- Gulshan Kumar, 41, Indian businessman and film producer, murdered.
- Dick Marx, 73, American jazz pianist and arranger, car accident.
- Mario Montuori, 77, Italian film cinematographer and painter.
- Abe Newborn, 77, American talent agent and theatre producer, congestive heart failure.[58]
- Sam Nolutshungu, 52, South African academic, cancer.
- Len Norris, 83, Canadian editorial cartoonist.
- Achilles Papapetrou, 90, Greek theoretical physicist.
- Albert L. Smith, Jr., 65, American politician.
- Conrad von Molo, 90, Austrian film producer and editor.[59]
- Ali Yata, 76, Moroccan communist leader.
13
- Vladimir Gribov, 67, Soviet and Russian theoretical physicist.[60]
- Robert L. Leggett, 71, American politician.[61]
- Dick Mather, 56, Canadian politician, heart attack.
- Emil Mosbacher, 75, American yachtsman and Chief of Protocol of the United States, cancer.[62]
- Harlow Rothert, 89, American Olympic shot putter.[63]
- Marjorie Lynette Sigley, 68, English artist, writer, actress, choreographer and theatre director, cancer.[64]
- Carel Weight, 88, English painter.[65]
14
- John Elliot, 79, British novelist, screenwriter and television producer.[66]
- Charlie Fleming, 70, Scottish footballer.
- Diana E. Forsythe, 49, American anthropology researcher, hiking accident.[67]
- Frederick Carl Galda, 79, American attorney and politician.[68]
- George Pfister, 78, American baseball player and coach, heart attack.[69]
- Guido Vincenzi, 65, Italian football player and manager, A.L.S.[70]
15
- Ida Gerhardt, 92, Dutch writer and poet.[71]
- Ray Heatherton, 88, American singer, Broadway performer and television personality, Alzheimer's disease.[72]
- Lubka Kolessa, 95, Canadian-Ukrainian pianist and educator.[73]
- Lawrence Morgan, 82, Australian rules footballer, equestrian and Olympian.[74]
- Steve Pruski, 73, Canadian football player.
- Dave Solomon, 84, Fijian-New Zealand rugby player and coach.
- Çesk Zadeja, 70, Albanian composer.[75]
16
- Yanick Dupré, 24, Canadian ice hockey player, leukemia.
- Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, 48, Pakistani Qawwali musician, heart attack.[76]
- Alf Malland, 80, Norwegian actor.
- Plum Mariko, 29, Japanese female professional wrestler, wrestling accident.[77]
- Jacques Pollet, 75, French racing driver.
- Donn Reynolds, 76, Canadian country music singer and yodeler.[78]
- Hendrik van den Bergh, 82, South African police official.
- Roger Vrigny, 77, French writer.[79]
17
- Burnum Burnum, 61, Australian Aboriginal activist, actor, and author, heart disease.[80]
- Secondo Magni, 85, Italian racing cyclist.[81]
- Don Owens, 65, American gridiron football player.[82]
- David Schweitzer, 72, Israeli football player and manager.
- Richard Skalak, 74, American biomedical engineering pioneer.[83]
18
- Praphas Charusathien, 84, Thai military officer and politician.
- Fedor Hanžeković, 84, Croatian film director.
- Don Knight, 64, English actor (The Apple Dumpling Gang, Swamp Thing, The Hawaiians), stroke.[84]
- Maria Prymachenko, 89, Ukrainian folk art painter.
- Frank P. Sanders, 78, American Under Secretary of the Navy (1972–73).
- Robert Swenson, 40, American professional wrestler (WCCW) and actor (Batman & Robin, Bulletproof), heart failure.
- Harry R. Wellman, 98, American academic.[85]
19
- Cathleen Cordell, 82, American actress, emphysema.[86]
- Jim Karcher, 83, American gridiron football player.[87]
- Robson Lowe, 92, English philatelist, stamp dealer and stamp auctioneer.
- Petr Novák, 51, Czech rock musician, poisoned.
- Mario Velarde, 57, Mexican football player.[88]
20
- Norris Bradbury, 88, American physicist, infectious disease.[89]
- William Humphrey, 73, American writer, cancer.[90]
- Leo Jaffe, 88, American film executive.[91]
- Bob Switzer, 83, American inventor, businessman and environmentalist, Parkinson's disease.[92]
21
- Misael Pastrana Borrero, 73, President of Colombia.[93]
- Somers Cox, 86, New Zealand rower and Olympian.[94]
- Abdul Rahim Ghafoorzai, Afghani politician and diplomat, plane crash.
- Jean Horsley, 84, New Zealand artist.
- William Jopling, 86, Italian-British leprologist.[95]
- Yuri Nikulin, 75, Soviet/Russian actor and clown, heart failure.[96]
22
- Prince Álvaro of Orleans, 87, Spanish noble and Infante.[97]
- James Edmund Jeffries, 72, American politician.
- James K. Johnson, 81, United States Air Force officer.[98]
- François Lachenal, 79, Swiss publisher and diplomat.[99]
- Eduardo Lopes, 79, Portuguese road and track cyclist, cerebral vascular accident.[100]
- Matti Sippala, 89, Finnish athlete.[101]
- Robin Skelton, 71, British-Canadian academic, writer, poet, and anthologist.[102]
- Mary Louise Smith, 82, American politician and women's rights activist, lung cancer.[103]
- Brendan Smyth, 70, Northern Irish Roman Catholic priest and convicted child molester, heart attack.
- Virgil Wagner, 75, Canadian football player.
- Roy Zimmerman, 79, American gridiron football player.[104]
23
- Mike Calhoun, 40, American football player (Chicago Bears, San Francisco 49ers and Tampa Bay Buccaneers).[105]
- Eric Gairy, 75, Prime Minister of Grenada (1974–1979).
- Buddy Hassett, 85, American baseball player, bone cancer.[106]
- Lucy Somerville Howorth, 102, American lawyer, feminist and politician.[107]
- John Kendrew, 80, British molecular biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.[108]
- Elena Mayorova, 39, Soviet and Russian actress, burns.
- Jean Poperen, 72, French politician.[109]
- Jan Šejna, 70, Czechoslovak Army Major General and defector.[110]
24
- Werner Abrolat, 73, German actor.[111]
- Davide Ancilotto, 23, Italian basketball player, brain ischemia during game.[112]
- Hardial Bains, 58, Indian-Canadian microbiology lecturer and communist politician, cancer.[113]
- Rex Ellsworth, 89, American thoroughbred horse breeder.
- Louis Essen, 88, English physicist.
- Tete Montoliu, 64, Spanish jazz pianist, lung cancer.[114]
- Zofia Rydet, 86, Polish photographer.
- Edgar F. Shannon, Jr., 79, American university director, cancer.[115]
- Luigi Villoresi, 88, Italian motor racing driver.
25
- Clodomiro Almeyda, 74, Chilean politician, colon cancer.[116]
- Mauro Cristofani, 56, Linguist and researcher in Etruscan studies.[117]
- Muriel Frances Dana, 80, American silent film era child actress.
- Peter Dews, 67, British stage director.[118]
- James Gould, 83, New Zealand rower.
- Carl Richard Jacobi, 89, American journalist and author.[119]
- Füreya Koral, 87, Turkish ceramics artist.[120]
- Noé Murayama, 67, Mexican actor.
- Bijan Najdi, 55, Iranian writer and poet.
- Robert Pinget, 78, French avant-garde writer.[121]
- Camilla Spira, 91, German actress.[122]
- Vitaly Tulenev, 60, Soviet and Russian painter, visual artist and art teacher.
26
- Marcello Aliprandi, 63, Italian film director.[123]
- Hone Glendinning, 85, British cinematographer.
- William Kenneth Kiernan, 81, Canadian businessman and politician.
- Brendan McCarthy, 52, American football player, heart attack.[124]
27
- Sotiria Bellou, 76, Greek singer, cancer.[125]
- Sally Blane, 87, American actress, cancer.[126]
- Ing Chang-ki, 79, Chinese industrialist and Go player, cancer.
- Johannes Edfelt, 92, Swedish writer, poet, and literary critic.[127]
- Noël Henderson, 69, Northern Irish rugby player.
- James Lindsay, 90, British politician.
- Dick N. Lucas, 77, American animator (The Fox and the Hound, One Hundred and One Dalmatians, The Rescuers).
- Samuel A. Peeples, 79, American writer, cancer.[128]
- Brandon Tartikoff, 48, American television executive, Hodgkin's lymphoma.[129]
28
- Frank Bencriscutto, 68, American concert band conductor and composer.[130]
- Joyce Ebert, 64, American actress, cancer.[131]
- Werner Mieth, 85, American gridiron football player.
- Peter Springett, 51, English footballer, cancer.[132]
- Masaru Takumi, 61, Japanese yakuza lord, murdered.
- Lloyd A. Thompson, 65, Nigerian classicist and academic.
29
- Richard Cottam, 72, American political scientist, Iranist and CIA operative.[133]
- Osborne Cowles, 98, American basketball player and coach.
- Kansari Halder, 86, Indian politician.[134]
- Rudolf Pichlmayr, 65, German surgeon.[135]
- Nelly Prono, 71, Paraguayan actress, cerebrovascular disease.
30
- John D. Craig, 94, American writer, film producer, and television host.[136]
- Frunze Dovlatyan, 70, Armenian film director and actor.[137]
- Toshiya Fujita, 65, Japanese film director, film actor, and screenwriter, liver failure.[138]
- Dale Lewis, 64, American wrestler and Olympian.[139]
- Ernst Wilimowski, 81, German–Polish football player.
- Veselin Đuranović, 72, Montenegro politician.
31
- Will Hare, 81, American actor (Back to the Future, The Rose, Silent Night, Deadly Night), heart attack.[140]
- Heinz Kaufmann, 83, German rower.[141]
- John M. Leddy, 83, United States Department of State official.[142]
- Lotus Weinstock, 54, American stand-up comedian, author, musician, and actress, brain tumor.[143]
- People killed in the 1997 Pont de l'Alma car crash:[144]
- Diana, Princess of Wales, 36, British royal and activist.[145]
- Dodi Fayed, 42, Egyptian film producer (Chariots of Fire, Hook).[146]
- Henri Paul, 41, French chauffeur.
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