Deaths in August 1997 explained

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, 73, Palau politician.
• Dame Bertha Isaacs, 97, Bahamian teacher, tennis player, politician and women's rights activist.^[2]
• 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.^[3]
• Janet G. Travell, 95, American physician and medical researcher, heart failure.^[4]
• Hans von Luck, 86, German Wehrmacht officer during World War II.^[5]

2

• William S. Burroughs, 83, American author (Naked Lunch, Junkie) and visual artist, heart attack.^[6]
• John Churcher, 91, British army general.
• Antonis Daglis, Greek serial killer, suicide by hanging.
• Joyce Dingwell, 89, Australian writer.^[7]
• Feim Ibrahimi, 61, Albanian composer.
• Harald Kihle, 92, Norwegian painter and illustrator.^[8]
• James Krüss, 71, German children's author and illustrator.^[9]
• Fela Kuti, 58, Nigerian musician and human rights activist, AIDS (disputed).^[10]
• Frank E. Smith, 79, American politician, complications from strokes.^[11]
• Ricardo Muñoz Suay, 79, Spanish film director, producer and screenwriter.^[12]
• 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.^[13]
• Joan Erikson, 94, Austrian-Canadian author, educator, and dance ethnographer.^[14]
• Mladen Koščak, 60, Croatian football player.^[15]
• Pietro Rizzuto, 63, Canadian politician.
• Nirmal Chandra Sinha, 85–86, Indian tibetologist and author.

4

• Horace Bristol, 88, American photographer.^[16]
• Dick Bush, 65, British cinematographer (Tommy, Victor Victoria, Twins of Evil).^[17]
• Jeanne Calment, 122, French supercentenarian and the oldest person ever documented in history, senility.^[18]
• Tom Eckersley, 82, English poster artist and teacher of design.^[19]
• Nicholas J. Hoff, 91, Hungarian-American aeronautics and astronautic engineer.^[20]
• Gene Johnson, 61, American gridiron football player.^[21]
• Lloyd Marshall, 83, American light heavyweight boxer.
• Ariel Maughan, 74, American basketball player.^[22]
• Ray Renfro, 67, American gridiron football player.^[23]
• Sidney Simon, 80, American painter, sculptor, and muralist.^[24]
• Alexander Young, 58, Scottish musician, lung cancer.

5

• Clarence M. Kelley, 85, American politician and director of the FBI.^[25]
• Poul Møller, 77, Danish Conservative People's Party politician.^[26]
• Don Steele, 61, American disc jockey, lung cancer.^[27]
• Michael J. Tully Jr., 64, American lawyer and politician, heart attack.^[28]

6

• Lance Barnard, 78, Australian politician and diplomat.^[29]
• Maria Antonietta Beluzzi, 67, Italian actress, infarction.
• Birendra Kumar Bhattacharya, 72, Indian writer.
• Shin Ki-ha, 56, South Korean politician, plane crash.^[30]
• Jürgen Kuczynski, 92, German economist and communist.^[31]
• Tom Normanton, 80, British politician.
• John Porter, 93, Canadian ice hockey player.^[32]
• Samuel Paul Welles, 89, American palaeontologist.^[33]
• 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.^[34]
• Elisabeth Höngen, 90, German operatic mezzo-soprano and actress.
• Volker Prechtel, 55, German actor, cancer.^[35]

8

• Joseph Aquilina, 78, Maltese author and linguist.
• Orville H. Hampton, 80, American screenwriter.^[36]
• Dardanelle Hadley, 79, American jazz musician.
• Plato Malozemoff, 87, Russian-American engineer and businessman, congestive heart failure.^[37]
• Paul Rudolph, 78, American architect, peritoneal mesothelioma.^[38]

9

• Doug Adams, 47, American gridiron football player.^[39]
• Max Bloesch, 89, Swiss field handball player and Olympian.^[40]
• Gabriel Cattand, 73, French actor.^[41]
• Herbert de Souza, 61, American sociologist and activist, AIDS-related complications.^[42]
• Ilpo Koskela, 52, Finnish ice hockey player.^[43]
• Trần Đại Nghĩa, 83, Vietnamese scientist and military engineer.

10

• Peter Braestrup, 66–67, American journalist, heart attack.^[44]
• Valery Chaptynov, 52, Russian politician.
• Roy Chipman, 58, American basketball coach, colorectal cancer.
• Malú Gatica, 75, Chilean actress and singer.
• William Jordy, 80, American architectural historian.^[45]
• Steve Kraftcheck, 68, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Jean-Claude Lauzon, 43, Canadian filmmaker and screenwriter, plane crash.^[46]
• Carlton Moss, 88, American screenwriter, actor and film director.^[47]
• Conlon Nancarrow, 84, American-Mexican composer.^[48]
• Bob Welborn, 69, American racing driver.
• George Zames, 63, Polish-Canadian control theorist and professor.

11

• Miksa Bondi, 79, Hungarian boxer.^[49]
• Bert McTaggart, 81, Australian rules footballer.^[50]
• Frank Pearson, 77, American Negro league baseball player.^[51]
• Jacques Robert, 76, French author, screenwriter and journalist.^[52]

12

• Luther Allison, 57, American blues guitarist, cancer.^[53]
• Anna Balakian, 82, Armenian-American professor of comparative literature, congestive heart failure.^[54]
• Rex Barney, 72, American baseball player.^[55]
• Ambrogio Bessi, 82, Italian basketball player.^[56]
• Gösta Bohman, 86, Swedish politician.^[57]
• Jack Delano, 83, American photographer, kidney failure.^[58]
• Keith Harper, 70, Australian rules football player.
• Robert Hetzron, 58, Hungarian-born linguist.^[59]
• Gulshan Kumar, 46, Indian businessman and film producer, shot.^[60]
• Dick Marx, 73, American jazz pianist and arranger, traffic collision.
• Mario Montuori, 77, Italian film cinematographer and painter.
• Abe Newborn, 77, American talent agent and theatre producer, congestive heart failure.^[61]
• 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.^[62]
• Ali Yata, 76, Moroccan communist leader.

13

• Vladimir Gribov, 67, Soviet and Russian theoretical physicist.^[63]
• Robert L. Leggett, 71, American politician.^[64]
• Dick Mather, 56, Canadian politician, heart attack.
• Emil Mosbacher, 75, American yachtsman and Chief of Protocol of the United States, cancer.^[65]
• Harlow Rothert, 89, American Olympic shot putter.^[66]
• Marjorie Lynette Sigley, 68, English artist, writer, actress, choreographer and theatre director, cancer.^[67]
• Carel Weight, 88, English painter.^[68]

14

• John Elliot, 79, British novelist, screenwriter and television producer.^[69]
• Charlie Fleming, 70, Scottish footballer.
• Diana E. Forsythe, 49, American anthropology researcher, hiking accident.^[70]
• Frederick Carl Galda, 79, American attorney and politician.^[71]
• George Pfister, 78, American baseball player and coach, heart attack.^[72]
• Guido Vincenzi, 65, Italian football player and manager, A.L.S.^[73]

15

• Ida Gerhardt, 92, Dutch writer and poet.^[74]
• Ray Heatherton, 88, American singer, Broadway performer and television personality, Alzheimer's disease.^[75]
• Lubka Kolessa, 95, Canadian-Ukrainian pianist and educator.^[76]
• Lawrence Morgan, 82, Australian rules footballer, equestrian and Olympian.^[77]
• Steve Pruski, 73, Canadian football player.
• Dave Solomon, 84, Fijian-New Zealand rugby player and coach.
• Çesk Zadeja, 70, Albanian composer.^[78]

16

• Yanick Dupré, 24, Canadian ice hockey player, leukemia.
• Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, 48, Pakistani Qawwali musician, heart attack.^[79]
• Alf Malland, 80, Norwegian actor.
• Plum Mariko, 29, Japanese female professional wrestler, wrestling accident.^[80]
• Jacques Pollet, 75, French racing driver.
• Donn Reynolds, 76, Canadian country music singer and yodeler.^[81]
• Hendrik van den Bergh, 82, South African police official.
• Roger Vrigny, 77, French writer.^[82]

17

• Burnum Burnum, 61, Australian Aboriginal activist, actor, and author, heart disease.^[83]
• Secondo Magni, 85, Italian racing cyclist.^[84]
• Don Owens, 65, American gridiron football player.^[85]
• David Schweitzer, 72, Israeli football player and manager.
• Richard Skalak, 74, American biomedical engineering pioneer.^[86]

18

• Praphas Charusathien, 84, Thai military officer and politician.
• Fedor Hanžeković, 84, Croatian film director.^[87]
• Don Knight, 64, English actor (The Apple Dumpling Gang, Swamp Thing, The Hawaiians), stroke.^[88]
• 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.^[89]

19

• Cathleen Cordell, 82, American actress, emphysema.^[90]
• Jim Karcher, 83, American gridiron football player.^[91]
• Robson Lowe, 92, English philatelist, stamp dealer and stamp auctioneer.
• Petr Novák, 51, Czech rock musician, poisoned.
• Mario Velarde, 57, Mexican football player.^[92]

20

• Norris Bradbury, 88, American physicist, infectious disease.^[93]
• William Humphrey, 73, American writer, cancer.^[94]
• Leo Jaffe, 88, American film executive.^[95]
• Bob Switzer, 83, American inventor, businessman and environmentalist, Parkinson's disease.^[96]

21

• Misael Pastrana Borrero, 73, President of Colombia.^[97]
• Somers Cox, 86, New Zealand rower and Olympian.^[98]
• Abdul Rahim Ghafoorzai, Afghani politician and diplomat, plane crash.
• Jean Horsley, 84, New Zealand artist.
• William Jopling, 86, Italian-British leprologist.^[99]
• Yuri Nikulin, 75, Soviet/Russian actor and clown, heart failure.^[100]

22

• Prince Álvaro of Orleans, 87, Spanish noble and Infante.^[101]
• James Edmund Jeffries, 72, American politician.
• James K. Johnson, 81, United States Air Force officer.^[102]
• François Lachenal, 79, Swiss publisher and diplomat.^[103]
• Eduardo Lopes, 79, Portuguese road and track cyclist, cerebral vascular accident.^[104]
• Matti Sippala, 89, Finnish athlete.^[105]
• Robin Skelton, 71, British-Canadian academic, writer, poet, and anthologist.^[106]
• Mary Louise Smith, 82, American politician and women's rights activist, lung cancer.^[107]
• 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.^[108]

23

• Mike Calhoun, 40, American football player (Chicago Bears, San Francisco 49ers and Tampa Bay Buccaneers).^[109]
• Eric Gairy, 75, Prime Minister of Grenada (1974–1979).
• Buddy Hassett, 85, American baseball player, bone cancer.^[110]
• Lucy Somerville Howorth, 102, American lawyer, feminist and politician.^[111]
• John Kendrew, 80, British molecular biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.^[112]
• Elena Mayorova, 39, Soviet and Russian actress, burns.
• Jean Poperen, 72, French politician.^[113]
• Jan Šejna, 70, Czechoslovak Army Major General and defector.^[114]

24

• Werner Abrolat, 73, German actor.^[115]
• Davide Ancilotto, 23, Italian basketball player, brain ischemia during game.^[116]
• Hardial Bains, 58, Indian-Canadian microbiology lecturer and communist politician, cancer.^[117]
• Rex Ellsworth, 89, American thoroughbred horse breeder.
• Louis Essen, 88, English physicist.
• Tete Montoliu, 64, Spanish jazz pianist, lung cancer.^[118]
• Zofia Rydet, 86, Polish photographer.
• Edgar F. Shannon, Jr., 79, American university director, cancer.^[119]
• Luigi Villoresi, 88, Italian motor racing driver.

25

• Clodomiro Almeyda, 74, Chilean politician, colon cancer.^[120]
• Mauro Cristofani, 56, Linguist and researcher in Etruscan studies.^[121]
• Muriel Frances Dana, 80, American silent film era child actress.
• Peter Dews, 67, British stage director.^[122]
• James Gould, 83, New Zealand rower.
• Carl Richard Jacobi, 89, American journalist and author.^[123]
• Füreya Koral, 87, Turkish ceramics artist.^[124]
• Noé Murayama, 67, Mexican actor.
• Bijan Najdi, 55, Iranian writer and poet.
• Robert Pinget, 78, French avant-garde writer.^[125]
• Camilla Spira, 91, German actress.^[126]
• Vitaly Tulenev, 60, Soviet and Russian painter, visual artist and art teacher.

26

• Marcello Aliprandi, 63, Italian film director.^[127]
• Hone Glendinning, 85, British cinematographer.
• William Kenneth Kiernan, 81, Canadian businessman and politician.
• Brendan McCarthy, 52, American football player, heart attack.^[128]

27

• Sotiria Bellou, 76, Greek singer, cancer.^[129]
• Sally Blane, 87, American actress, cancer.^[130]
• Ing Chang-ki, 79, Chinese industrialist and Go player, cancer.
• Johannes Edfelt, 92, Swedish writer, poet, and literary critic.^[131]
• 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.^[132]
• Brandon Tartikoff, 48, American television executive, Hodgkin's lymphoma.^[133]

28

• Frank Bencriscutto, 68, American concert band conductor and composer.^[134]
• Joyce Ebert, 64, American actress, cancer.^[135]
• Werner Mieth, 85, American gridiron football player.
• Peter Springett, 51, English footballer, cancer.^[136]
• Masaru Takumi, 61, Japanese yakuza lord, shot.
• Lloyd A. Thompson, 65, Nigerian classicist and academic.

29

• Richard Cottam, 72, American political scientist, Iranist and CIA operative.
• Osborne Cowles, 98, American basketball player and coach.
• Kansari Halder, 86, Indian politician.^[137]
• Rudolf Pichlmayr, 65, German surgeon.^[138]
• Nelly Prono, 71, Paraguayan actress, cerebrovascular disease.

30

• John D. Craig, 94, American writer, film producer, and television host.^[139]
• Frunze Dovlatyan, 70, Armenian film director and actor.^[140]
• Toshiya Fujita, 65, Japanese film director, film actor, and screenwriter, liver failure.^[141]
• Dale Lewis, 64, American wrestler and Olympian.^[142]
• 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.^[143]
• Heinz Kaufmann, 83, German rower.^[144]
• John M. Leddy, 83, United States Department of State official.^[145]
• Lotus Weinstock, 54, American stand-up comedian, author, musician, and actress, brain tumor.^[146]
• People killed in the 1997 Pont de l'Alma car crash:^[147]
  • Diana, Princess of Wales, 36, British royal and activist.^[148]
  • Dodi Fayed, 42, Egyptian film producer (Chariots of Fire, Hook).^[149]
  • Henri Paul, 41, French chauffeur.

Notes and References

1. News: Kenneth Bilby, 78, Author and Journalist . subscription . 11 July 2020 . . 2 August 1997 . 1 10.
2. Web site: Albertha Isaacs « Women Suffrage Bahamas. https://web.archive.org/web/20121128230606/http://www.womensuffragebahamas.com/history/suffrage-women/albertha-isaacs/. dead. 2012-11-28. 2012-11-28. 2017-10-19.
3. News: Anthony . Tommasini . Anthony Tommasini . Sviatoslav Richter Is Dead; Acclaimed Pianist Was 82 . subscription . 11 July 2020 . . 2 August 1997 . 1 10.
4. Web site: Janet G. Travell - Social Networks and Archival Context . snaccooperative.org . 5 April 2022 .
5. Web site: Hans von Luck - Library of Congress . id.loc.gov . 5 April 2022 .
6. News: Richard . Severo . William S. Burroughs Dies at 83; Member of the Beat Generation Wrote 'Naked Lunch' . subscription . 11 July 2020 . . 3 August 1997 . 1 35.
7. Web site: Joyce Dingwell - Social Networks and Archival Context . snaccooperative.org . 5 April 2022 .
8. Web site: Harald Kihle . catalogue.bnf.fr . Bibliothèque nationale de France . 5 April 2022 . French .
9. Web site: James Krüss - filmportal.de . filmportal.de . 5 April 2022 . German .
10. News: David M. . Herszenhorn . Fela, 58, Dissident Nigerian Musician, Dies . subscription . 15 November 2020 . . 4 August 1997 . B 7.
11. News: Robert McG. Thomas Jr. . Robert McG. Thomas Jr. . F. E. Smith, 79, Congressman Ousted Over Moderate Views . subscription . 11 July 2020 . . 6 August 1997 . D 22.
12. Web site: Ricardo Muñoz Suay - DB~e . dbe.rah.es . Real Academia de la Historia . 5 April 2022 . Spanish .
13. Web site: Peter A. Carruthers - Social Networks and Archival Context . snaccooperative.org . 5 April 2022 .
14. News: Robert McG. Thomas Jr. . Robert McG. Thomas Jr. . Joan Erikson Is Dead at 95; Shaped Thought on Life Cycles . subscription . 25 July 2020 . . 8 August 1997 . B 6.
15. Web site: Olympedia – Mladen Koščak . olympedia.org . . 5 April 2022 .
16. News: Robert McG. Thomas Jr. . Robert McG. Thomas Jr. . Horace Bristol, 88; Depicted War and Poverty . subscription . 15 November 2020 . . 7 August 1997 . B 9.
17. Web site: Dick Bush . data.bnf.fr . Bibliothèque nationale de France . 5 April 2022 . French .
18. News: Craig R. . Whitney . Jeanne Calment, World's Elder, Dies at 122 . subscription . 25 July 2020 . . 5 August 1997 . B 8.
19. Web site: Tom Eckersley - Social Networks and Archival Context . snaccooperative.org . 5 April 2022 .
20. News: Wolfgang . Saxon . Nicholas J. Hoff, 91, Developer Of an Aluminum Skin for Jets . subscription . 11 July 2020 . . 12 August 1997 . B 9.
21. Web site: Gene Johnson Stats - Pro-Football-Reference.com . pro-football-reference.com . 5 April 2022 .
22. Web site: Ariel Maughan Stats - Basketball-Reference.com . basketball-reference.com . 5 April 2022 .
23. Web site: Ray Renfro Stats - Pro-Football-Reference.com . pro-football-reference.com . 5 April 2022 .
24. News: Judith H. . Dobrzynski . Judith H. Dobrzynski . Sidney Simon, Sculptor, 80; Founded School . subscription . 15 November 2020 . . 8 August 1997 . B 6.
25. News: David . Stout . David Stout . Clarence M. Kelley, Director of F.B.I. in the 70's, Dies at 85 . subscription . 15 November 2020 . . 6 August 1997 . D 22.
26. Web site: Poul Møller . catalogue.bnf.fr . Bibliothèque nationale de France . 5 April 2022 . French .
27. News: Neil . Strauss . Neil Strauss . Don Steele, 61, Disk Jockey Known for His Patter . subscription . 15 November 2020 . . 8 August 1997 . B 6.
28. News: Bruce . Lambert . Michael J. Tully Jr., 64, Senator Who Fought for a Smoking Ban . subscription . 11 July 2020 . . 6 August 1997 . D 21.
29. Web site: Lance Barnard - Social Networks and Archival Context . snaccooperative.org . 6 April 2022 .
30. News: Edward A. . Gargan . For Relatives Of Victims, Anger Adds To Anguish . 29 March 2022 . . 7 August 1997 . A9.
31. Web site: Obituary: Professor Jurgen Kuczynski . David. Childs. The Independent. London. 13 August 1997. 15 July 2020. David Childs (academic) .
32. Web site: Olympedia – John Porter . olympedia.org . . 6 April 2022 .
33. Web site: Samuel Paul Welles . data.bnf.fr . Bibliothèque nationale de France . 6 April 2022 . French .
34. News: Robert McG. Thomas Jr. . Robert McG. Thomas Jr. . Kay Halle, 93, an Intimate of Century's Giants . subscription . 11 July 2020 . . 24 August 1997 . 1 33.
35. Web site: Volker Prechtel - filmportal.de . filmportal.de . 6 April 2022 . German .
36. Web site: Orville H. Hampton . catalogue.bnf.fr . Bibliothèque nationale de France . 6 April 2022 . French .
37. News: Plato Malozemoff, 88, Retired Executive . subscription . 11 July 2020 . . 18 August 1997 . B 8.
38. News: Herbert . Muschamp . Herbert Muschamp . Paul Rudolph Is Dead at 78; Modernist Architect of the 60's . subscription . 11 July 2020 . . 9 August 1997 . 1 50.
39. Web site: Doug Adams Stats - Pro-Football-Reference.com . pro-football-reference.com . 6 April 2022 .
40. Web site: Olympedia – Max Bloesch . olympedia.org . . 6 April 2022 .
41. Web site: Gabriel Cattand - Broadway Cast & Staff - IBDB . ibdb.com . 6 April 2022 .
42. News: Diana Jean Schemo . Herbert Jose de Souza, 60, Champion of Brazil's Poor . subscription . 11 July 2020 . . 11 August 1997 . B5.
43. Web site: Olympedia – Ilpo Koskela . olympedia.org . . 6 April 2022 .
44. News: David M. . Herszenhorn . Peter Braestrup, 68, Library of Congress Editor . subscription . 11 July 2020 . . 12 August 1997 . B 9.
45. News: Herbert . Muschamp . Herbert Muschamp . William H. Jordy, 79, Architectural Historian . subscription . 6 April 2022 . . 18 August 1997 . B 8.
46. Web site: Jean-Claude Lauzon - Social Networks and Archival Context . snaccooperative.org . 6 April 2022 .
47. News: Robert McG. Thomas Jr. . Robert McG. Thomas Jr. . Carlton Moss, 88, Who Filmed The Black Experience, Dies . subscription . 11 July 2020 . . 15 August 1997 . D 20.
48. News: Allan . Kozinn . Allan Kozinn . Conlon Nancarrow Dies at 84; Composed for the Player Piano . subscription . 11 July 2020 . . 12 August 1997 . B 9.
49. Web site: Olympedia – Miksa Bondi . olympedia.org . . 6 April 2022 .
50. Web site: Bert McTaggart - Player Bio. Australian Football . 25 July 2020 .
51. Web site: Frank Pearson Stats - Baseball-Reference.com . baseball-reference.com . 6 April 2022 .
52. Web site: l'Humanité . DÉCÈS DE JACQUES ROBERT . 25 July 2020 . fr.
53. Web site: Luther Allison . data.bnf.fr . Bibliothèque nationale de France . 6 April 2022 . French .
54. News: Grace . Glueck . Grace Glueck . Anna Balakian, 82, a Professor of Comparative Literature . subscription . 11 July 2020 . . 15 August 1997 . D 20.
55. News: Ray . Corio . Rex Barney, 72, Dodger Pitcher; Threw a No-Hitter for Brooklyn . subscription . 11 July 2020 . . 13 August 1997 . A 21.
56. Web site: Olympedia – Ambrogio Bessi . olympedia.org . . 3 November 2024 .
57. Web site: Gösta Bohman . catalogue.bnf.fr . Bibliothèque nationale de France . 6 April 2022 . French .
58. News: Margarett . Loke . Jack Delano, 83; Depicted the Depression . subscription . 11 July 2020 . . 15 August 1997 . D 20.
59. Web site: Robert Hetzron . catalogue.bnf.fr . Bibliothèque nationale de France . 6 April 2022 . French .
60. News: Margarett . Loke . Gulshan Kumar shot dead, scare in filmdom . 22 August 2024 . . 15 August 1997 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090505042754/http://www.indianexpress.com/res/web/pIe/ie/daily/19970813/22550763.html . 5 May 2009.
61. News: Abe Newborn, Theatrical Agent, 77 . subscription . 11 July 2020 . . 23 August 1997 . 1 10.
62. Web site: Conrad von Molo - filmportal.de . filmportal.de . 6 April 2022 . German .
63. Web site: Vladimir Gribov . catalogue.bnf.fr . Bibliothèque nationale de France . 6 April 2022 . French .
64. Web site: Robert Leggett - Social Networks and Archival Context . snaccooperative.org . 6 April 2022 .
65. News: James . Barron . Emil Mosbacher Dies at 75; Yachtsman and Nixon Official . subscription . 11 July 2020 . . 14 August 1997 . B 8.
66. Web site: Harlow Rothert . olympedia.org . 25 July 2020.
67. Web site: Marjorie Lynette Sigley - Social Networks and Archival Context . snaccooperative.org . 6 April 2022 .
68. Web site: Carel Weight - Social Networks and Archival Context . snaccooperative.org . 6 April 2022 .
69. Web site: John Elliot . data.bnf.fr . Bibliothèque nationale de France . 6 April 2022 . French .
70. News: Zinko. Carolyne. UCSF Researcher's Death Stuns Friends / She fell while crossing river in Alaska. 25 July 2020. SFGate. 19 August 1997.
71. News: Wolfgang . Saxon . Fred C. Galda, 79, Retired Judge . subscription . 15 November 2020 . . 19 August 1997 . D 20.
72. Web site: George Pfister Stats - Baseball-Reference.com . baseball-reference.com . 6 April 2022 .
73. Web site: Guido Vincenzi . worldfootball.net . 6 April 2022 .
74. Web site: Ida Gerhardt . biografischportaal.nl . 6 April 2022 . Dutch .
75. News: Eric . Pace . List of The New York Times employees . Ray Heatherton, 88, TV's 'Merry Mailman' . subscription . 11 July 2020 . . 18 August 1997 . B 8.
76. Web site: Lubka Kolessa . catalogue.bnf.fr . Bibliothèque nationale de France . 6 April 2022 . French .
77. Web site: Olympedia - Laurie Morgan . olympedia.org . . 6 April 2022.
78. Web site: Çesk Zadeja . data.bnf.fr . Bibliothèque nationale de France . 6 April 2022 . French .
79. News: Jon . Pareles . Jon Pareles . Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, 48, Pakistani Sufi Singer . subscription . 6 April 2022 . . 18 August 1997 . B 8.
80. Web site: Lorefice. Mike. The Tragic Death of Plum Mariko. Quebrada.net. 26 July 2020. 19 August 1997.
81. Web site: Reynolds, Donn Biography . citizenfreak.com . 26 July 2020.
82. Web site: Roger Vrigny . data.bnf.fr . Bibliothèque nationale de France . 6 April 2022 . French .
83. News: Clyde H. . Farnsworth . Burnum Burnum, 61, Fighter For Australia's Aborigines . subscription . 15 November 2020 . . 20 August 1997 . D 20.
84. Web site: Secondo Magni . procyclingstats.com . 6 April 2022 .
85. Web site: Don Owens Stats - Pro-Football-Reference.com . pro-football-reference.com . 6 April 2022 .
86. News: Tim . Hilchey . Richard Skalak, 74, Pioneer In Bioengineering, Is Dead . subscription . 11 July 2020 . . 1 September 1997 . B 6.
87. Web site: Fedor Hanžeković . Baza HR kinematografie . 4 November 2024 . hr.
88. Web site: Don Knight . variety.com . 26 July 2020.
89. Web site: Harry R. Wellman - Social Networks and Archival Context . snaccooperative.org . 6 April 2022 .
90. News: Cathleen Cordell, Actress, Dead at 81 . subscription . 11 July 2020 . . 30 August 1997 . 1 52.
91. Web site: Jim Karcher Stats - Pro-Football-Reference.com . pro-football-reference.com . 6 April 2022 .
92. Web site: Mario Velarde . worldfootball.net . 6 April 2022 .
93. News: Wolfgang . Saxon . Norris E. Bradbury, 88, Chief Of Los Alamos Atomic Center . subscription . 11 July 2020 . . 22 August 1997 . D 17.
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