Deaths in December 1997 explained
The following is a list of notable deaths in December 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.
December 1997
1
- Julius Barnathan, 70, American broadcast engineer, lung cancer.[1]
- Stéphane Grappelli, 89, French-Italian jazz violinist.[2]
- Władysław Młynek, 67, Polish teacher, writer and poet.
- Jiří Pleskot, 75, Czech actor.
- Khan Ataur Rahman, 68, Bangladeshi film actor, director, and singer.
- Edwin Rosario, 34, Puerto Rican boxer, aneurysm.[3]
2
- Guido Brunner, 67, Spanish-German diplomat and politician.[4]
- Silvio Ceccato, 83, Italian philosopher and linguist.[5]
- Shirley Crabtree, 67, British wrestler known as Big Daddy, stroke.[6]
- Harald Gelhaus, 82, German U-boat commander during World War II.
- Robert A. Hall, 86, American linguist.[7]
- Steve Hamilton, 63, American basketball player, colon cancer.[8]
- Michael Hedges, 43, American composer, guitarist and singer-songwriter, car accident.[9]
- Marge Kotlisky, 70, American actress (Major League, Thief, Sixteen Candles).
- Endicott Peabody, 77, American gridiron football player and politician, leukemia.[10]
3
- Stan Anderson, 58, Scottish football player.
- Domenico Enrici, 88, Italian prelate of the Catholic Church.
- Benito Jacovitti, 74, Italian comic artist.[11]
- Vic Lombardi, 75, American Major League Baseball player.[12]
- Olaf Pedersen, 77, Danish historian of science.[13]
4
- Leo August, 83, American philatelist.[14]
- Morton Bard, 73, American psychologist and author of The Crime Victim's Book.[15]
- Buck Barry, 80, American actor and radio and television personality.[16]
- Joe Brown, 71, American boxer.
- Ho Sin Hang, 97, Hong Kong entrepreneur and philanthropist.
- G. S. Jayanath, Sri Lanka Army officer, killed in action.
- Vytautas Kazimieras Jonynas, 90, Lithuanian artist.[17]
- Alberto Manzi, 73, Italian school teacher, writer and television host.[18]
- K. A. Nizami, 71, Indian historian and diplomat.[19]
- Richard Vernon, 72, English actor (Goldfinger, Gandhi, The Man in Room 17), complications from Parkinson's disease.[20]
- Joseph Wolpe, 82, South African psychiatrist.[21]
5
- Rudolf Bahro, 62, East Germany dissident and politician, cancer.[22]
- Forrest Burmeister, 84, American gridiron football player.[23]
- Eugen Cicero, 57, Romanian-German jazz pianist.[24]
- Frederick Dainton, Baron Dainton, 83, British academic chemist.[25]
- Ali Forney, 22, American gay and transgender youth, murdered.[26]
- Lutz Hoffmann, 38, East German gymnast and Olympic silver medalist, suicide.[27]
- John E. Moss, 82, American politician.[28]
- Jakob Sverdrup, 78, Norwegian historian.[29]
- Jan Voigt, 69, Norwegian actor, dancer and museum director.
6
- George Chisholm, 82, Scottish jazz trombonist and vocalist.[30]
- Lou Clinton, 60, American baseball player, pneumonia.[31]
- Eliot Daniel, 89, American songwriter and lyricist.[32]
- Gilbert Delahaye, 74, Belgian author (Martine).[33]
- Willy den Ouden, 79, Dutch swimmer and Olympic champion.[34]
- Jagmohan Kaur, 49, Indian singer and actress.
- Peter Leventritt, 82, American bridge player.[35]
- Eddie Myers, 91, British Army officer and author.
- Willie Pastrano, 62, American boxer, liver cancer.[36]
7
- Billy Bremner, 54, Scottish footballer and manager, suspected heart attack.[37]
- Barry S. Brook, 81, American musicologist.[38]
- Félix Candela, 87, Spanish architect.[39]
- Torbjörn Caspersson, 87, Swedish cytologist and geneticist.[40]
- Fernand Cornez, 90, French road bicycle racer.[41]
- Karl August Folkers, 91, American biochemist.
- George R. Gardiner, 80, Canadian businessman and philanthropist.
- Annette B. Weiner, 64, American anthropologist.
- Woodrow Wyatt, 79, British politician, author and journalist.[42]
8
- Bob Bell, 75, American actor famous for his alter-ego, Bozo the Clown.[43]
- Walter Molino, 82, Italian comics artist and illustrator.
- Léon Poliakov, 87, French historian.[44]
- Carlos Rafael Rodríguez, 84, Cuban communist politician, Parkinson's disease.[45]
- Laurean Rugambwa, 85, Tanzanian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.[46]
- Stephen Tredre, 34, English actor and writer, bone cancer.
- Armando Valente, 94, Italian track and field athlete and Olympian.[47]
- Shehu Musa Yar'Adua, 54, Nigerian army general, politician and Vice President.
9
- Tamara Geva, 91, Russian-American actress, ballet dancer, and choreographer.[48]
- Angelo Herndon, 84, American labor organizer.[49]
- K. Shivaram Karanth, 95, Indian polymath.[50]
- Michael Lee Lockhart, 37, American convicted serial killer, execution by lethal injection.
- Keith W. Piper, 76, American football coach, congestive heart failure.[51]
- Stefano Ludovico Straneo, 95, Italian entomologist and author.
- John D. Winters, 80, American historian.[52]
10
- Anatoliy Banishevskiy, 51, Azerbaijani football playerer, diabetic coma attack.
- Kalmen Kaplansky, 85, Canadian human rights and trade union activist.
- Yevgeni Mayorov, 59, Soviet ice hockey player, A.L.S.[53]
- Eve McVeagh, 78, American actress (High Noon, The Clear Horizon, The Glass Web).[54]
11
- Roger Brown, 72, American social psychologist.[55]
- Eddie Chapman, 83, English criminal and spy during World War II.
- Robert Cosmoc, 66, Romanian footballer.
- Jorge Castañeda y Álvarez de la Rosa, 76, Mexican diplomat.
- Simon Jeffes, 48, English classical guitarist, composer and arranger, brain tumor, brain cancer.[56]
- Paul Scull, 90, American football player.
12
- Jim Bob Altizer, 65, American calf and steer roper.
- R. Stanton Avery, 90, American inventor.[57]
- Wacław Gajewski, 86, Polish geneticist.
- Brian Deneke, 19, American punk musician, murdered.[58]
- Evgenii Landis, 76, Soviet and Russian mathematician.[59]
- M. G. Soman, 53, Indian Air Force officer and actor.
13
- Giovanni Alberto Agnelli, 33, Italian businessman and member of the Agnelli family, stomach cancer.
- Martin Carter, 70, Guyanese poet and political activist.
- Paddy DeMarco, 69, American lightweight boxer.
- Don Edward Fehrenbacher, 77, American historian and Pulitzer Prize winner.[60]
- Harry Glaß, 67, East German ski jumper and Olympian.[61]
- Jimmy Milne, 86, Scottish football player and manager.
- W. D. Mochtar, 69, Indonesian actor.[62]
- David Nicholson, 93, Australian politician.
- Alexander Oppenheim, 94, British mathematician.
- David Rousset, 85, French writer and political activist.[63]
- Claude Roy, 82, French poet and essayist, cancer.[64]
14
- John Adair, 84, American anthropologist.[65]
- Owen Barfield, 99, British philosopher, author, critic, and member of the Inklings.[66]
- Frank Baumholtz, 79, American baseball and basketball player.[67]
- Marion Bell, 78, American singer and musical theatre performer.[68]
- Gerald Legge, 9th Earl of Dartmouth, 73, British peer and businessman.
- Stubby Kaye, 79, American actor (Guys and Dolls, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Cat Ballou), comedian and singer, lung cancer.[69]
- Edna F. Kelly, 91, American politician.[70]
- Emily Cheney Neville, 77, American author.[71]
- Torsten Nilsson, 92, American politician.
- Kurt Winter, 51, Canadian guitarist and songwriter, kidney failure.[72]
15
- Karsten Andersen, 77, Norwegian conductor.[73]
- Cosmo Campoli, 74, American sculptor.
- Siegfried Flügge, 85, German theoretical physicist.[74]
- Albert Heremans, 91, Belgian football player.[75]
- Amin Ahsan Islahi, 93, Pakistani Muslim scholar.[76]
- Borislav Mihajlović Mihiz, 75, Serbian writer and literary critic.[77]
16
- Lillian Disney, 98, American ink artist and wife of Walt Disney, stroke.
- Ralph Fasanella, 84, American painter.[78]
- Kim Hak-sun, 73, Korean human rights activist.
- Oksana Ivanenko, 91, Soviet and Ukrainian children's writer and translator.
- Nicolette Larson, 45, American pop singer, cerebral edema.[79]
- David L. McDonald, 91, American admiral, Chief of Naval Operations.[80]
- Hu Ning, 81, Chinese physicist and writer.
- William A. Smalley, 74, American linguist, heart attack.[81]
- Frans Stafleu, 76, Dutch botanist.[82]
- Richard Warwick, 52, English actor, AIDS-related complications.[83]
17
- Juan Francisco Barraza, 62, Salvadoran football player and manager, cardiac problems.
- Paul Bindrim, 77, American psychotherapist.
- Ernest Bromley, 85, American minister and civil rights activist.
- Katharine Fowler-Billings, 95, American writer, naturalist, and geologist.[84]
- Reginald Victor Jones, 86, British physicist and scientific military intelligence expert.[85]
- Karl Kainberger, 85, Austrian football (soccer) player.
- Marie Gudme Leth, 102, Danish textile printer.
- Mel Mazzera, 83, American baseball player.[86]
- Uzi Narkiss, 72, Israeli general.[87]
- Peter Taylor, 75, English film editor (The Bridge on the River Kwai, Summertime, The Taming of the Shrew), Oscar winner (1958).[88]
- Leo Turner, 69, Australian rules football player.
- Hanna Walz, 79, German politician.
18
- Geoff Campion, 81, British comics artist.[89]
- Chris Farley, 33, American comedian and actor (Saturday Night Live, Tommy Boy, Black Sheep), drug overdose.[90]
- Harriet Holter, 75, Norwegian social psychologist.
- Michel Quoist, 76, French catholic priest, theologian and writer, pancreatic cancer.[91]
- George Tsutakawa, 87, American painter and sculptor.
- James Kemsey Wilkinson, founder of Wilko.
- Kasino Hadiwibowo, 47, Indonesian comedian and actor, a member of Warkop DKI, brain tumor.
19
- Michael Alldredge, 56, American actor (Scarface, Iron Eagle, Shoot the Moon).
- Siegfried Barth, 81, German Luftwaffe bomber pilot during World War.
- David Bradley, 77, American motion picture director and actor.[92]
- Jack Bruen, 48, American basketball coach, cancer.[93]
- Bonny Hicks, 29, Singapore model and writer, airplane crash.
- Sara Northrup Hollister, 73, American occultist and second wife of author L. Ron Hubbard.
- Masaru Ibuka, 89, Japanese electronics industrialist and co-founder of Sony, heart failure.[94]
- Patsy Lawlor, 64, Irish businesswoman and politician.
- Jimmy Rogers, 73, American blues musician, colon cancer.[95]
- David Schramm, 52, American astrophysicist, airplane crash.[96]
- Fyodor Simashev, 52, Russian cross-country skier.
- Uldis Ģērmanis, 82, Latvian historian, writer and publicist.[97]
20
- Jim Gibbons, 73, Irish politician.
- Richard Glazar, 77, Czech-Jewish Holocaust survivor, suicide.
- Jūzō Itami, 64, Japanese actor, screenwriter and film director, alleged suicide.[98]
- Wenceslas Kalibushi, 78, Rwandan catholic bishop.
- Denise Levertov, 74, American poet, lymphoma.[99]
- Esther Peterson, 91, American consumer and women's advocate.[100]
- Dick Spooner, 77, English cricket player.
- Dawn Steel, 51, American film studio executive and producer (Cool Runnings, , Honey, I Blew Up the Kid), brain cancer.[101]
21
- Joseph Ahrens, 94, German composer and organist.[102]
- Roger Barkley, 61, American radio personality, pancreatic cancer.[103]
- Blai Bonet, 71, Spanish poet, novelist and art critic.
- Johnny Coles, 71, American jazz trumpeter, cancer.[104]
- Amie Comeaux, 21, American country music singer, car accident.
- Igor Dmitriev, 56, Russian ice hockey player and coach.
- Sacco van der Made, 79, Dutch actor.[105]
- Jerry Masucci, 63, American attorney and businessman.[106]
- Roxbee Cox, Baron Kings Norton, 95, British aeronautical engineer.
- Sholom Schwadron, Israeli Haredi rabbi and orator.
- Józef Stefański, 89, Polish cyclist.[107]
- Bruce Woodcock, 76, English boxer.[108]
22
- Sebastian Arcos Bergnes, 66, Cuban human rights activist.[109]
- Flea Clifton, 89, American baseball player.[110]
- Francis Haar, 89, Hungarian socio-photographer.
- José Oliva, 26, Dominican baseball player, traffic accident.
- Hal Rice, 73, American baseball player.[111]
- Clara Lee Tanner, 92, American anthropologist and art historian.
23
- Felix Bwalya, 30, Zambian boxer and Olympian, head injuries sustained in a boxing fight.[112]
- Stanley Cortez, 89, American cinematographer, heart attack.[113]
- Les Harrison, American basketball player and coach.[114]
- Zaur Kaloyev, 66, Soviet and Georgian football player.
- Thomas S. Moorman, 87, United States Air Force officer.[115]
- Fred Page, 82, Canadian ice hockey referee and administrator.[116]
- Paula Stone, 85, American actress.[117]
24
- Fahd Ballan, 64, Syrian druze singer and actor.
- Jacques Fabbri, 72, French actor.[118]
- Vic Feller, 74, Luxembourgian football player.[119]
- Kemper Goodwin, 91, American architect.
- Harry Groves, 79, English boxer.
- Andy Kerr, 66, Scottish football player.[120]
- Charles Roman Koester, 82, American prelate of the Catholic Church.
- James Komack, 73, American television producer and writer (The Courtship of Eddie's Father, Chico and the Man, Welcome Back, Kotter), heart failure.[121]
- Toshiro Mifune, 77, Japanese actor (Rashomon, Seven Samurai, Throne of Blood), multiple organ failure.[122]
- Lotte Motz, 75, Austrian-American scholar.
25
- Anatoli Boukreev, 39, Russian and Kazakhstani mountaineer, avalanche.[123]
- Anita Conti, 98, French explorer and photographer.
- Yvonne Cormeau, 88, British SOE agent during World War II.
- Georgi Gavasheli, 50, Soviet/Georgian football player.
- Myriam Marbe, 66, Romanian composer and pianist.[124]
- Jerry March, 68, American organic chemist.[125]
- Paul M. O'Leary, 96, American economist and educator.[126]
- Denver Pyle, 77, American actor (The Dukes of Hazzard, Bonnie and Clyde, The Andy Griffith Show), lung cancer.[127]
- Kenneth Spring, 76, British Army officer and artist.
- Giorgio Strehler, 76, Italian opera and theatre director, heart attack.[128]
26
- Cahit Arf, 87, Turkish mathematician.
- Cornelius Castoriadis, 75, Greek-French philosopher, social critic and economist, complications following heart surgery.[129]
- Simone Duvalier, 84, First Lady of Haiti as wife of François "Papa Doc" Duvalier.[130]
- John Hinde, 81, English photographer.
- Sergei Mamchur, 25, Russian football player, heart failure.
- Victor Oehrn, 90, German U-boat commander during World War II.
- Karlis Osis, 80, Latvian-American parapsychologist.[131]
- Kenneth Pitzer, 83, American physical and theoretical chemist.[132]
- Tommy Price, 86, British speedway rider.
- Mircea Veroiu, 56, Romanian film director and screenwriter.[133]
27
- Ewart Abner, 74, American record company executive.[134]
- Yousef Mohamed Alghoul, 61, Libyan football referee.
- Said Brahimi, 66, Algerian-French football player.
- Webster Chikabala, Zambian football player and coach, HIV/AIDS.
- Brendan Gill, 83, American journalist.[135]
- James Nabrit, Jr., 97, American civil rights attorney.[136]
- Buxton Orr, 73, British composer and teacher.[137]
- Malayattoor Ramakrishnan, 70, Indian writer, cartoonist and lawyer.[138]
- Kent Robbins, 50, American country music songwriter, automobile accident.
- Bess Whitehead Scott, 107, American journalist.
- Tamara Tyshkevich, 66, Soviet shot putter and Olympian.[139]
- Danny Wagner, 75, American basketball player.[140]
- Billy Wright, 37, Northern Irish paramilitary leader, shot.[141] [142]
28
- Heikki A. Alikoski, 85, Finnish astronomer and discoverer of minor planets.
- Bill Anderson, 86, American producer, cerebral hemorrhage after falling.[143]
- Shaikh Ayaz, 74, Pakistani poet, heart attack.[144]
- Corneliu Baba, 91, Romanian painter.[145]
- Henry Barraud, 97, French composer.[146]
- James Lees-Milne, 89, English writer and expert on country houses.[147]
- William Martínez, 69, Uruguayan footballer.
- Steve Musseau, 74, American football coach and motivational speaker, heart failure.[148]
- Vassily Solomin, 44, Soviet and Russian boxer and Olympian, lung cancer.[149]
- Wacław Wójcik, 78, Polish racing cyclist.
29
- J. Richardson Dilworth, 81, American businessman.[150]
- Helen Kirkpatrick, 88, American war correspondent during World War II.[151]
- István Kiss, 70, Hungarian sculptor and politician.
- André Marchand, 90, French painter.[152]
- Robert Walter Steel, 82, British geographer.[153]
30
- Danilo Dolci, 73, Italian social activist, sociologist and poet, heart attack.[154]
- Raymond Ericson, 82, American music critic.[155]
- Bernard Girard, 79, American screenwriter, producer and film director.[156]
- Shinichi Hoshi, 71, Japanese novelist and science fiction writer.
- Warren Mehrtens, 77, American thoroughbred horse racing jockey.[157]
- Bernard Soysa, 83, Sri Lankan politician.
- Kim Sun-ja, South Korean serial killer.
- John Howard Yoder, 70, American theologian and ethicist.[158]
31
- Jim Chambers, 70, Canadian football player.
- Floyd Cramer, 64, American pianist, lung cancer.[159]
- Dominique de Menil, 89, French-American art collector and philanthropist.[160]
- Billie Dove, 94, American actress, pneumonia.[161]
- Richard Elman, 63, American novelist, poet, and journalist.[162]
- Michael LeMoyne Kennedy, 39, American lawyer, son of Robert F. Kennedy, skiing accident.[163]
- Liu Lantao, 87, Chinese communist revolutionary and politician.
- Sandy McPeak, 61, American actor.[164]
- Ken Olfson, 60, American actor.[165]
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- Web site: Bendersky. Ari. Guitarist Michael Hedges Dies In Car Accident. Rollingstone.com . 4 December 1997 . 4 April 2020.
- News: Irvin Molotsky . Endicott Peabody, 77, Dies; Governor of Massachusetts in 60's . subscription . 15 November 2020 . . 4 December 1997 . B 13.
- Web site: BENITO JACOVITTI – ILLUSTRATOR, CARTOONIST . archiviostoricobarilla.com/ . 4 April 2020.
- News: Vic Lombardi, 75, a Pitcher On '47 Dodger Pennant Team . subscription . 8 April 2022 . . 7 December 1997 . 1 54.
- Web site: Olaf Pedersen . catalogue.bnf.fr . Bibliothèque nationale de France . 8 April 2022 . French .
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- Web site: Olympedia – Harry Glaß . olympedia.org . . 8 April 2022 .
- Web site: W. D. Mochtar . catalogue.bnf.fr . Bibliothèque nationale de France . 8 April 2022 . French .
- Web site: David Rousset . data.bnf.fr . Bibliothèque nationale de France . 8 April 2022 . French .
- News: Kirkup . James . Obituary: Claude Roy . The Independent . 15 December 1997 . 3 April 2020.
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- Web site: Frank Baumholtz Stats - Baseball-Reference.com . baseball-reference.com . 8 April 2022 .
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- News: Wolfgang Saxon . Edna Kelly, Congresswoman From Brooklyn, Is Dead at 91 . subscription . 8 April 2022 . . 17 December 1997 . B 7.
- Web site: Emily Cheney Neville - Social Networks and Archival Context . snaccooperative.org . 8 April 2022 .
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- Web site: Siegfried Flügge . catalogue.bnf.fr . Bibliothèque nationale de France . 8 April 2022 . French .
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