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 1997
1
- Francisco Aramburu, 75, Brazilian footballer.[1]
- Georg Bodenhausen, 92, Dutch civil servant.
- Jerome H. Lemelson, 74, American engineer, inventor and patent holder, liver cancer.[2]
- Gul Mohammed, 40, Shortest adult human, heart attack.
- Inbal Perlmuter, 26, Israeli rock musician, singer, composer and lyricist, car accident.
2
- Carybé, 86, Argentine-Brazilian artist, historian and journalist, heart failure.
- Douglas Fairbairn, 70, American author.[3]
- Esa Seeste, 84, Finnish gymnast.[4]
- Guillermo Meza Álvarez, 80, Mexican painter.[5]
3
- Michael Adekunle Ajasin, 88, Nigerian politician.
- John Ashley, 62, American actor, producer and singer, heart attack.[6]
- Walter Baumgartner, 92, Swiss film composer.[7]
- Richard Gilkey, 72, American painter, suicide.[8]
- Verna Hillie, 83, American film actress, stroke.[9]
- Jarl Kulle, 70, Swedish actor and director, bone cancer.[10]
- Millard Lampell, 78, American movie and television screenwriter, lung cancer.[11]
- Phil Medley, 81, American songwriter.[12]
- Charlie Parsley, 71, American basketball player and college coach.[13]
- Hadassah Rosensaft, 85, Polish holocaust survivor, liver failure.[14]
- A. L. Rowse, 93, British historian and author.[15]
- George Urban, 76, Hungarian writer.[16]
- Blake Wayne Van Leer, 71, United States Navy officer.
4
- Nelson Coral Nye, 90, American author and editor.[17]
- 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.[18]
- Georgi Yumatov, 71, Soviet and Russian film actor, aneurysm.
5
- Chitta Basu, 70, Indian politician, heart attack.
- Mary Jayne Gold, 88, American heiress, pancreatic cancer.[19]
- Andrew Keir, 71, Scottish actor (Cleopatra, Rob Roy, Mary, Queen of Scots).[20]
- Debbie Linden, 36, British glamour model and actress, heroin overdose.
- Dave Marr, 63, American golfer and sportscaster, stomach cancer.[21]
- Brian Pillman, 35, American professional wrestler (WCW, WWF, ECW), heart attack.
- Tommy Ring, 67, Scottish footballer.[22]
- Larisa Rozanova, 78, Soviet and Ukrainian pilot and navigator during World War II.
- Curtis Williams Sabrosky, 87, American entomologist.[23]
- Arthur Tracy, 98, American vocalist and actor, heart attack.[24]
- Bernard Yago, 81, Ivoirian cardinal of the Catholic Church.[25]
6
- Orlando Ramón Agosti, 73, Argentine general and part of the military junta, cancer.[26]
- George T. Barclay, 87, American football player and coach.
- Warren Louis Boudreaux, 79, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church, heart failure.[27]
- Robert Endean, 71, Australian marine scientist.[28]
- Adrienne Hill, 60, English actress (Doctor Who), cancer.
- Yevgeny Khaldei, 80, Soviet naval officer and photographer.[29]
- Johnny Vander Meer, 82, American baseball player, abdominal aneurysm.[30]
7
- Felicisimo Ampon, 76, Filipino tennis player.
- Johnny Darrell, 57, American country music artist, diabetes.[31]
- Wan Laiming, 97, Chinese animator.
- Gus Marker, 92, Canadian ice hockey player.
- Aldo Sebben, 77, American football, cross country, and track and field coach.
- Janez Vrhovec, 76, Yugoslav actor of Slovenian-German origin.[32]
8
- Henryk Bista, 63, Polish actor.[33]
- Albert Blumberg, 91, American philosopher and political activist.[34]
- Bertrand Goldberg, 84, American architect and industrial designer.[35]
- Robin Lee, 77, American figure skater.[36]
- Brown Meggs, 66, American writer and music executive.[37]
- Nininho, 73, Brazilian football player.
- Desmond J. Scott, 79, New Zealand flying ace during World War II.[38]
- Sant Singh Sekhon, 89, Indian playwright and writer.[39]
- George Everard Kidder Smith, 84, American architectural writer and photographer.[40]
- William Spong Jr., 77, American politician.[41]
9
- Michael Cummings, 78, British newspaper cartoonist.[42]
- Monty Hoyt, 53, American figure skater and Olympian, melanoma.[43]
- Arch Johnson, 75, American actor, cancer.[44]
- Jean Pasqualini, French/Chinese journalist.[45]
- Joel Pritchard, 72, American politician, lymphoma.[46]
- Roy Rappaport, 71, American anthropologist.[47]
10
- D. J. Ambalavanar, 69, Sri Lankan Tamil bishop.[48]
- Marjorie Harris Carr, 82, American scientist and environmental activist.
- Michael J. S. Dewar, 79, American theoretical chemist.[49]
- Hans-Joachim Kasprzik, 69, German film and television director and screenwriter.[50]
- George Malcolm, 80, English pianist, harpsichordist, composer, and conductor.[51]
- Anne Marriott, 83, Canadian writer, stroke.[52]
- Dencio Padilla, 69, Filipino actor and comedian, heart attack.
- Walt Simon, 57, American basketball player.[53]
- Thomas Whiteside, 79, American journalist, heart failure.[54]
11
- Paul Doughty Bartlett, 90, American chemist.[55]
- Giacinto Bosco, 92, Italian jurist, academic and politician.
- Lina Gennari, 86, Italian actress and operetta singer.
- Käthe Gold, 90, Austrian actress.[56]
- Will Sherman, 69, American gridiron football player.[57]
- Ivan Yarygin, 48, Soviet / Russian heavyweight freestyle wrestler, car crash.[58]
12
- Raúl Arellano, 62, Mexican football forward.
- John Denver, 53, American singer ("Take Me Home, Country Roads", "Poems, Prayers & Promises", "Annie's Song") and activist, plane crash.[59]
- Talib El-Shibib, 63, Iraqi politician.
- Draga Garašanin, 76, Serbian archaeologist.[60]
- Kenneth Hahn, 77, American civil servant, heart failure.[61]
- Fred McCain, 79, Canadian politician.
- Isadore Twersky, 67, American orthodox rabbi and professor.[62]
13
- Ian Stuart Black, 82, British novelist, playwright and screenwriter.[63]
- Joyce Compton, 90, American actress.[64]
- Gary Lee Davis, 53, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.[65]
- Kārlis Irbītis, 92, Latvian aeroplane designer.
- Richard Mason, 78, British novelist, lung cancer.[66]
- William Staveley, 68, Royal Navy officer, heart attack.[67]
- Adil Çarçani, 75, Albanian politician.[68]
14
- Hy Averback, 76, American actor, producer and director.[69]
- Piedade Coutinho, 77, Brazilian swimmer and Olympian.[70]
- Jacqueline Delubac, 90, French stage and film actress, traffic collision.[71]
- George Forrest, 72, British classicist and academic, cancer.[72]
- Henry Pelling, 77, British historian.[73]
- Harold Robbins, 81, American writer, heart failure.[74]
- Barbara Slater, 76, American film actress.
15
- MacDonald Critchley, 97, British neurologist.[75]
- Peter J. Dalessandro, 79, United States Army soldier and Medal of Honor recipient.
- Jack Dwyer, 70, American gridiron football player.[76]
- Walter Fritzsch, 76, German football player and manager.[77]
- Parker T. Hart, 87, American diplomat.[78]
- Bill McKay, 76, Irish rugby player.
- John Merricks, 26, English sailor and Olympian, traffic collision.[79]
16
- A. H. Armstrong, 88, English educator and author.[80]
- Dick Cavalli, 74, American cartoonist, heart attack.
- Princess Olga of Greece and Denmark, 94, Greek princess, Alzheimer's disease.[81]
- Noel Ferrier, 66, Australian comedian, actor, and theatrical producer.[82]
- Lotte Goslar, 90, German-American dancer.[83]
- Adam Kennedy, 75, American actor, novelist, and painter, heart attack.[84]
- Audra Lindley, 79, American actress (Three's Company, Another World, The Heartbreak Kid), leukemia.[85]
- James A. Michener, 90, American author, kidney failure.[86]
17
- Larry Jennings, 64, American magician.
- Giorgio Pisanò, 73, Italian journalist, essayist and neo-fascist politician.[87]
- László Szabados, 86, Hungarian swimmer and Olympic medalist.[88]
- Ben Welden, 96, American actor.[89]
- Fang Yi, 81, Chinese Communist revolutionary, diplomat, and politician.
18
- Leonard Andrzejewski, 73, Polish actor.
- Ramiro Castillo, 31, Bolivian footballer, suicide by hanging.[90]
- Gordon Clark, 83, English football player.[91]
- Walter William Curtis, 84, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church, pneumonia.[92]
- Nancy Dickerson, 70, American radio and television journalist, stroke.[93]
- Trude Eipperle, 89, German operatic soprano.[94]
- Vince Gironda, 79, American bodybuilder, personal trainer and author.[95]
- Roberto Goizueta, 65, Cuban businessman and CEO of The Coca-Cola Company, cancer.[96]
- Milt Neil, 83, American animator (Fantasia, Dumbo, The Three Caballeros).
- William Rotsler, 71, American artist, cartoonist, pornographer and author.
- Paul Edwin Zimmer, 54, American poet and author, heart attack.[97]
19
- Donald R. Bensen, 70, American editor and science fiction writer.[98]
- Glen Buxton, 49, American guitarist and composer, complications from pneumonia.[99]
- Claudia Drake, 79, American actress and singer.[100]
- Harold French, 100, English film director, screenwriter and actor.[101]
- Arthur Ibbetson, 75, British cinematographer (Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, Where Eagles Dare, The Bounty).
- Francisco Guerrero Marín, 46, Spanish composer.[102]
- William J. McGill, 75, American psychologist and author.[103]
- Pilar Mercedes Miró Romero, 57, Spanish screenwriter and film director, heart attack.[104]
- Stella Sierra, 80, Panamanian poet and prose writer.
20
- John Jacobs, 50, American student and anti-war activist, complications from melanoma.[105]
- Frank Robert Miller, 89, Canadian air chief marshal.
- Manush Myftiu, 78, Albanian politician.
- Manuel Rodríguez Barros, 71, Spanish racing cyclist.[106]
- Li Ruishan, 76, Chinese politician.
- Ron Tarr, 60, British actor, cancer.
- Henry Vestine, 52, American guitarist, heart and respiratory failure.[107]
- Robin Woods, 83, English Anglican bishop.[108]
21
- Dolph Camilli, 90, American baseball player.[109]
- John Whitney Hall, 81, American Japanologist.[110]
- Lorenzo Sumulong, 92, Filipino politician.
- Aale Tynni, 84, Finnish poet and translator.[111]
- Waldemar F. A. Wendt, 85, United States Navy admiral.[112]
- Dick Wilkins, 72, American gridiron football player.[113]
22
- Leonid Amalrik, 92, Soviet animator.[114]
- Reinhard Lauck, 51, German footballer, traffic collision.[115]
- Quentin Smythe, 81, South African sergeant and recipient of the Victoria Cross, cancer.[116]
- Valerie Taylor, 84, American author and feminist.[117]
- Matthew Trupiano, 58, American mobster, heart attack.[118]
23
- Ann Devroy, 49, American political journalist, uterine cancer.[119]
- Claire Falkenstein, 89, American visual artist, stomach cancer.[120]
- Bert Haanstra, 81, Dutch filmmaker, Alzheimer's disease.[121]
- Pinchas Lapide, 74, Israeli theologian and historian.[122]
- Kim Lim, 61, Singaporean-British sculptor and printmaker.
- Bob Manning, 71, American big band singer, pneumonia.[123]
- Michael Peter, 48, Field hockey player from West Germany.[124]
- Georges Pianta, 85, French politician .[125]
- Babette Rosmond, 75, American author.[126]
- Alfredo dos Santos, 77, Brazilian footballer.
- Luther George Simjian, 92, Armenian-American inventor and entrepreneur.[127]
- Trevor Smith, 87, English footballer and manager.
- Gerd Tacke, 91, German businessman and CEO of Siemens.
24
- Luis Aguilar, 79, Mexican actor, and singer.[128]
- Skip Alexander, 79, American golfer.
- Michael Balfour, 79, English actor, cancer.[129]
- Don Messick, 71, American voice actor (Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?, The Yogi Bear Show, The Jetsons), stroke.[130]
25
- William J. Hirsch, 88, American thoroughbred racehorses trainer, Alzheimer's disease.
- Tina Lattanzi, 99, Italian actress and voice actress.
- Jamie Livingston, 41, American photographer and film maker, brain tumor.[131]
- Mina Rees, 95, American mathematician.[132]
26
- Georg Adelly, 78, Swedish film actor.
- Teng Haiqing, 88, Chinese military officer and a politician.
- William B. Hutchinson, 88, American physician.[133]
- Rolf Kukowitsch, 84-85, German football coach.
- Donald Ray Matthews, 90, American politician.[134]
- Rankin M. Smith, Sr., 72, American businessman and philanthropist.[135]
27
- Mahala Andrews, 58, British vertebrae palaeontologist.
- Achim Gercke, 95, German Nazi politician.
- Billy Neill, 47, Northern Irish football player.
- Vladimir Sokoloff, 84, American pianist and accompanist.[136]
- Thomas Dale Stewart, 96, American anthropologist.[137]
- Reuben Sturman, 73, American businessman and pornographer.
- François-Henri de Virieu, 65, French journalist and television presenter, pancreatic cancer.
28
- Walter Capps, 63, American politician, heart attack.[138]
- Toni Carabillo, 71, American feminist, graphic designer, and historian, lung cancer.[139]
- Paul Jarrico, 82, American screenwriter, traffic collision.[140]
- Marian E. Koshland, 76, American immunologist, lung cancer.[141]
- Bryan Lefley, 49, Canadian ice hockey player (New York Islanders) and coach, car accident.[142]
- Klaus Wunderlich, 66, German musician, heart attack.
29
- Len Beurton, 83, English communist and Soviet agent.
- H. C. Coombs, 91, Australian economist and public servant.[143]
- William Crook, 72, American politician and ambassador, congestive heart failure.[144]
- Alexander zu Dohna-Schlobitten, 97, German junker, businessman and author.
- Paul Guth, 87, French journalist and writer.[145]
- Anton LaVey, 67, American author, musician, and occultist, pulmonary edema.[146]
- Andreas Gerasimos Michalitsianos, 50, Greek-American astronomer and astrophysicist, brain tumor.
- Big Nick Nicholas, 75, American jazz saxophonist and singer, heart failure.[147]
- Anthony Velonis, 86, American painter and designer.[148]
30
- Jacques Derogy, 72, French journalist, cancer.[149]
- Samuel Fuller, 85, American screenwriter, novelist, and film director.[150]
- Barney Martin, 74, American baseball player.[151]
- Sydney Newman, 80, Canadian film and television producer (The Avengers, Doctor Who), heart attack.[152]
31
- Zubeida Agha, 75, Pakistani artist.
- Bram Appel, 75, Dutch footballer.
- Hans Bauer, 70, German footballer.[153]
- Sidney Darlington, 91, American electrical engineer.[154]
- Tadeusz Janczar, 71, Polish film actor.[155]
- Taisto Kangasniemi, 73, Finnish heavyweight wrestler.[156]
- Wilfrid Oulton, 86, British Royal Air Force officer, cancer.[157]
- George Roth, 86, American gymnast and Olympic champion.[158]
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