Deaths in May 1997 explained

The following is a list of notable deaths in May 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.

May 1997

1

• Elena Altieri, 80, Italian actress.
• Tridib Chaudhuri, 85, Indian politician and Indian independence activist.
• Russell G. Cleary, 63, American brewer, complications from heart surgery.^[1]
• Fernand Dumont, 69, Canadian sociologist, philosopher, and theologian.^[2]
• Friedl Däuber, 86, German alpine and cross-country skier.^[3]
• Jim McDonald, 81, American football player and coach.^[4]
• Arthur Milne, 82, Scottish football player.
• Bo Widerberg, 66, Swedish actor and film director, stomach cancer.^[5]

2

• Raymond Sarif Easmon, 84, Sierra Leonean doctor and writer.
• John Eccles, 94, Australian neurophysiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.^[6]
• Heinz Ellenberg, 83, German biologist, botanist and ecologist.
• Paulo Freire, 75, Brazilian educator and philosopher, heart attack.^[7]
• Walter Hill, 62, American serial killer, execution by electrocution.
• Robin Kinahan, 80, Northern Irish politician and Orange Order member.^[8]
• Werner Lott, 89, German U-boat commander during World War II.
• Ralph McCreath, 78, Canadian figure skater.
• Queen Mother Moore, 98, African-American civil rights leader and a black nationalist.^[9]
• Keith R. Porter, 84, Canadian-American cell biologist, pneumonia.^[10]
• Eugene Vale, 81, American novelist.^[11]
• Jimmy Wilson, 77, American Negro league baseball player.^[12]

3

• Bruce Beetham, 61, New Zealand academic and politician, heart failure.
• Gerrit den Braber, 68, Dutch songwriter and lyricist, stroke.^[13]
• Sébastien Enjolras, 21, French racing driver, racing accident.
• Hughie Green, 77, English presenter, game show host and actor, cancer.^[14]
• Sir John Junor, 78, British journalist and editor of the Daily Express.
• Louis, Prince Napoléon, 83, French member of the Bonaparte dynasty.
• Narciso Yepes, 69, Spanish guitarist, cancer.^[15]

4

• Suhayr al-Qalamawi, 85, Egyptian literary figure and politician.^[16]
• Jerome Alden, 76, American playwright and screenwriter, kidney cancer.^[17]
• Wijeyananda Dahanayake, 95, Sri Lankan politician.
• Esin Engin, 51, Turkish musician, composer, and film actor, leukemia.
• Danilo Fioravanti, 83, Italian gymnast and Olympian.^[18]
• Hilary Grivich, 19, American gymnast and diver, car accident.^[19]
• Fernando Hernández, 52, Costa Rican footballer, cancer.
• Lee Miglin, 72, American businessman and philanthropist, murdered by serial killer Andrew Cunanan.^[20]
• Alvy Moore, 75, American actor (Green Acres, The Littles, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind), heart failure.^[21]
• Lyman Bradford Smith, 92, American botanist.^[22]
• Lou Stathis, 44, American author, critic and editor, brain tumor.

5

• Bob Briggs, 52, American gridiron football player.^[23]
• George Burns, 86, British Army officer.
• Walter Gotell, 73, German actor (From Russia with Love, The Spy Who Loved Me, The Living Daylights), cancer.^[24]
• Alan Gussow, 65, American artist, author and conservationist, cancer.^[25]
• Murray Kempton, 79, American journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner, pancreatic cancer.^[26]
• David Scherman, 81, American photojournalist and editor, cancer.^[27]

6

• Ridge Bond, 74, American actor and singer.^[28]
• Sydney Joseph Freedberg, 82, American art historian and curator.^[29]
• Jorge Martínez de Hoyos, 76, Mexican actor, lung cancer.^[30]
• John Edwards Hill, 68, British mammalogist.
• Günther Jerschke, 75, German actor.^[31]
• Wang You, 86, Chinese biochemist.

7

• John C. Ewers, 87, American ethnologist and museum curator.^[32]
• Yip Hon, 93, Chinese gambling tycoon, heart attack.
• George Lynch, 78, American race car driver.^[33]
• Tom Lysons, 62, Canadian politician.

8

• Joachim Angermeyer, 73, German businessman and politician.
• Bijoy Chandra Bhagavati, 92, Indian politician.
• Ralph Wendell Burhoe, 85, American theologian.^[34]
• Scott Carpenter, 22, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
• Pat Hughes, 94, English tennis player.
• Bernhard Nooni, 88, Estonian football player.
• Clara Ottesen, 85, Norwegian government official, aid worker and politician.
• Nunzio Provenzano, 74, American mobster.
• William R. Royal, 92, American Air Force scuba diver.
• Michael Shersby, 64, British politician.^[35]
• Kai-Uwe von Hassel, 84, German politician, heart attack.^[36]
• Micheline Kerney Walsh, 77, Irish archivist and historian.^[37]
• Bob Whitcher, 80, American baseball player.^[38]

9

• Rawya Ateya, 71, Egyptian woman and first female parliamentarian in the Arab world.
• Bob Devaney, 82, American gridiron football coach, heart attack.^[39]
• Marco Ferreri, 68, Italian film director, screenwriter and actor, heart attack.^[40]
• Willy Hess, 90, Swiss musicologist and composer.^[41]
• Kazumi Kawai, 32, Japanese actress, suicide.
• Rina Lasnier, 86, Québécois poet.^[42]
• Augusto Céspedes Patzi, 93, Bolivian writer, politician, diplomat, and journalist.
• Paul Zastupnevich, 75, American costume designer.

10

• Bernard Anderson, 77, American jazz trumpeter.
• Jacinto Quincoces, 91, Spanish football player and manager.^[43]
• Silvano Tranquilli, 71, Italian actor.^[44]
• Joan Weston, 62, American Roller derby skater, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.^[45]

11

• William Ragsdale Cannon, 81, American theologian and bishop of the United Methodist Church.^[46]
• David Christie, 49, French singer-songwriter, suicide.^[47]
• Ernie Fields, 92, American trombonist, pianist, arranger and bandleader.
• Genine Graham, 70, English actress.
• Dean M. Kelley, 70, American legal scholar, cancer.^[48]
• Catherine McLeod, 75, American actress.^[49]
• Howard Morton, 71, American actor, stroke.
• Peter Stackpole, 83, American photographer.^[50]

12

• Louis Barbarin, 94, American jazz drummer.^[51]
• Charles-Arthur Gauthier, 84, Canadian politician.
• Jiří Pecka, 79, Czechoslovak slalom and sprint canoeist.^[52]
• Henk Plenter, 83, Dutch football player.
• Avraham Yitzchak Stern, 61, Israeli administrator and politician.^[53]
• Frank A. Wenstrom, 93, American politician.^[54]

13

• Laurie Lee, 82, English poet, novelist and screenwriter, colorectal cancer.^[55]
• Carlos Augusto León, 82, Venezuelan poet, historian, politician and scientist.
• Tommy Turrentine, 69, American swing and hard bop trumpeter and composer.^[56]
• Zdeňka Veřmiřovská, 83, Czechoslovak/Czech gymnast and Olympian.^[57]
• Eduard Zakharov, 22, Russian boxer, homicide.^[58]

14

• Jambyn Batmönkh, 71, Mongolian communist politician.
• Mel Bay, 84, American musician and music publisher.
• Harry Blackstone, Jr., 62, American magician and television performer, pancreatic cancer.^[59]
• Thelma Carpenter, 75, American jazz singer and actress, cardiac arrest.^[60]
• Samuel Hoyt Elbert, 89, American linguist.^[61]
• Alan Furlan, 77, Italian-American actor.^[62]
• Morton Heilig, 70, American virtual reality technology pioneer and filmmaker.
• Boris Parsadanian, 72, Armenian-Estonian composer.
• Val Peat, 50, British sprinter and Olympian.^[63]
• Bessie Schonberg, 90, German-American dancer and choreographer.^[64]

15

• Oscar Berger, 96, American editorial cartoonist.^[65]
• David Martin, 89, American politician, pneumonia.
• Trevor Porteous, 63, English football player and coach.
• Saadallah Wannous, Syrian playwright, cancer.^[66]

16

• Donatien Mahele Lieko Bokungu, 56, Zairean general, execution by firing squad.
• Flor Crowley, 62, Irish Fianna Fáil politician.
• Giuseppe De Santis, 80, Italian film director (Bitter Rice), heart attack.^[67]
• Elbridge Durbrow, 93, American diplomat and ambassador, stroke.^[68]
• Bones McKinney, 78, American basketball player and coach.^[69]
• Harry Charles Moore, 56, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.^[70]
• Wang Zengqi, 77, Chinese writer.^[71]

17

• Tusten Ackerman, 95, American basketball player.
• Mikhail Bychkov, 70, Russian ice hockey player.^[72]
• Chris Julian, 60, English motorcycle racer, gyrocopter accident.
• Durgabai Kamat, 97/98, first Indian female actress of Indian cinema.
• Roscoe L. Koontz, 74, American health physicist.^[73]

18

• Bridgette Andersen, 21, American actress.
• Mikhail Anikushin, 79, Soviet and Russian sculptor.
• Horst Lippmann, 70, German concert promoter and jazz musician.^[74]
• Paolo Panelli, 71, Italian comedian and film actor, pulmonary edema.
• Antonio Cornejo Polar, 60, Peruvian academic and literature and cultural critic.
• Soenario, 94, Indonesian politician and Foreign Minister.^[75]

19

• Aaron Henry, 74, American civil rights leader and politician, congestive heart failure.^[76]
• Sombhu Mitra, 81, Indian actor, director and playwright.
• Troy Ruttman, 67, American race car driver, lung cancer.^[77]
• Pāvels Seņičevs, 72, Soviet sports shooter.^[78]

20

• Don Parker, 88, British racing driver.
• John Rawlins, 94, American film editor and director.^[79]
• Virgilio Barco Vargas, 75, Colombian politician, cancer.^[80]
• Gopal Yonjan, 53, Nepalese musician, complications of jaundice.

21

• William Aston, 80, Australian politician.
• Amasa Stone Bishop, American nuclear physicist, pneumonia.^[81]
• Noël Browne, 81, Irish politician.
• Fiorenzo Carpi, 78, Italian composer and pianist.^[82]

22

• Myrtle Bachelder, 89, American chemist and Women's Army Corps officer.^[83]
• Alziro Bergonzo, 90, Italian architect and painter.
• Donald Curtis, 82, American actor.^[84]
• Herman de Coninck, 53, Belgian poet, essayist, journalist and publisher, heart attack.^[85]
• Genildo Ferreira de França, Brazilian spree killer, suicide.^[86]
• Jimmy Heale, 82, English footballer.^[87]
• Alfred Hershey, 88, American biochemist and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, heart failure.^[88]
• Raúl Gómez Jattin, 51, Colombian poet.^[89]
• Arthur Milne, 82, Scottish football player.
• Renzo Montagnani, 66, Italian actor, lung cancer.^[90]
• Candis Pettway, 72, American artist.
• Cornelius Michael Power, 84, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
• T. R. Ramanna, 74, Indian film director and producer.
• Robert D. Russ, 64, United States Air Force general and commander of Tactical Air Command.
• Stanisław Swianiewicz, 97, Polish economist and historian.
• Klaus von Bismarck, 85, German broadcaster and cultural administrator.^[91]

23

• Alison Adburgham, 85, English fashion journalist and author.
• James Lee Byars, 65, American conceptual and performance artist, cancer.^[92]
• Dorothy Gulliver, 88, American actress, pneumonia.
• Sadayoshi Kobayashi, 92, Japanese field hockey player.^[93]
• Lovie Lee, 88, American electric blues pianist and singer.^[94]
• David M. Ludlum, 86, American historian, meteorologist, and author.^[95]
• Albert Rosen, 73, Austrian-Irish conductor.

24

• Muhammad Fadhel al-Jamali, 94, Iraqi politician and Prime Minister (1953-1954).^[96]
• M. Aram, 70, Indian educator and peace advocate.
• Kinpei Azusa, 66, Japanese voice actor, laryngeal cancer.
• Robbie Branscum, 62, American children's author, heart attack.^[97]
• Alfonso de Vinuesa, 38, Spanish racing driver, traffic collision.
• Edward Mulhare, 74, Irish actor (Knight Rider, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, Von Ryan's Express), lung cancer.^[98]
• Sepp Weiler, 76, West German ski jumper and Olympian.^[99]

25

• Syd Bidwell, 80, British politician.^[100]
• Chester Feldman, 71, American producer of game shows.
• Jay Hebert, 74, American golfer.^[101]
• Joseph Hoffman, 88, American screenwriter.^[102]
• Peter Rangmar, 40, Swedish comedian, actor and baritone.
• Ronald Vernieux, 86, Indian sprinter and Olympian.^[103]

26

• Jack Bennett, 76, Australian rules football player.
• Jenny Rosenthal Bramley, 87, Russian-American physicist.^[104]
• James Gordon, 88, American sprinter and Olympian.^[105]
• Ralph Horween, 100, American football player and coach.^[106]
• Bernard Jackson, 46, American football player and coach, liver cancer.^[107]
• Jack Jersey, 55, Dutch singer, composer, and producer of light music, cancer.^[108]
• Jack Vinall, 86, English football player and manager.^[109]
• Manfred von Ardenne, 90, German physicist and inventor.^[110]

27

• Robert Ambelain, 89, French essayist.^[111]
• Henry Barakat, 83, Egyptian film director.^[112]
• Karl Martz, 84, American studio potter and ceramic artist.^[113]
• Azem Shkreli, 59, Albanian writer, poet, director and producer.

28

• Ronald V. Book, 60, American theoretical computer scientist.
• Sydney Guilaroff, 89, American Hollywood hairdresser, pneumonia.^[114]
• Édouard Muller, 77, French road bicycle racer.^[115]
• Sung Nak-woon, 71, South Korean football forward.
• John H. Sengstacke, 84, American newspaper publisher, stroke.^[116]
• John Stack, 73, American X-ray engineer, rower and Olympic champion.^[117]
• Tatyana Sumarokova, 74, Soviet flight navigator during World War II.

29

• Jeff Buckley, 30, American singer, songwriter and guitarist, accidental drowning.^[118]
• George Fenneman, 77, American radio and television announcer, emphysema.^[119]
• Alexander Kazhdan, 74, Soviet-American Byzantinist.^[120]
• William H. McNichols, Jr., 87, American politician and mayor of Denver, Colorado (1968-1983).
• Jack Parkinson, 73, American basketball player, brain tumor, brain cancer.

30

• West Arkeen, 36, American musician and songwriter for Guns N' Roses, opiate overdose.^[121]
• Béla Barényi, 90, Austro-Hungarian automotive engineer.
• Winsome Cripps, 66, Australian sprinter.^[122]
• Doris Lindsey Holland Rhodes, 87, American politician.

31

• Pat Collins, 62, American hypnotist.^[123]
• Frei Damião, 98, Italian Roman Catholic priest and missionary, stroke.^[124]
• James Bennett Griffin, 92, American archaeologist.
• Fazal Haq Mujahid, Afghanistan mujahideen during the Soviet–Afghan War, assassinated.
• Eddie Jones, 68, American jazz double bassist.^[125]
• Oswald Kaduk, 90, German SS officer and war criminal during World War II.
• Jewel Lafontant, 75, American lawyer and White House official, breast cancer.^[126]
• Ove Ljung, 79, Swedish Army officer.^[127]
• Günter Luther, 75, German admiral.
• Johnny Papalia, 73, Canadian mobster, shot.^[128]
• Poul Petersen, 76, Danish football player and manager.

Notes and References

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2. Web site: Fernand Dumont . data.bnf.fr . Bibliothèque nationale de France . 1 April 2022 . French .
3. Web site: Olympedia – Friedl Däuber . olympedia.org . . 1 April 2022 .
4. Web site: Jim McDonald Stats - Pro-Football-Reference.com . pro-football-reference.com . 1 April 2022 .
5. News: Lawrence Van Gelder . Lawrence Van Gelder . Bo Widerberg, 66, Director Of 'Elvira Madigan,' Is Dead . subscription . 8 August 2020 . . 2 May 1997 . A 30.
6. News: David M. Herszenhorn . John C. Eccles, 94, Nobel Physiologist, Dies . subscription . 8 August 2020 . . 4 May 1997 . 1 45.
7. News: Eric Pace . List of The New York Times employees . Paulo Freire, 75, Is Dead; Educator of the Poor in Brazil . subscription . 8 August 2020 . . 6 May 1997 . D 23.
8. News: Bradford . Roy . Obituary: Sir Robin Kinahan . 10 August 2020 . . 27 May 1997.
9. News: Pace . Eric . Queen Mother Moore, 98, Harlem Rights Leader, Dies . . subscription . 10 August 2020 . B 15 . 7 May 1997.
10. News: Holcomb B. Noble . Keith R. Porter, 84; Set Groundwork for Field of Cell Biology . subscription . 8 August 2020 . . 6 May 1997 . D 24.
11. News: Rick Lyman . Eugene Vale, 81, Best-Selling Novelist And Screenwriter . subscription . 8 August 2020 . . 6 May 1997 . D 24.
12. Web site: Jimmy Wilson Stats - Baseball-Reference.com . baseball-reference.com . 1 April 2022 .
13. News: Tv- en radiomaker Den Braber (68) overleden . 10 August 2020 . subscription . . . 5 May 1997 . nl.
14. Web site: Hughie Green, TV legend, Dies at 77. 4 May 1997. . Nicole Veash . Graham Ball . 10 August 2020.
15. News: Allan Kozinn . Allan Kozinn . Narciso Yepes, Spanish Guitarist And an Innovative Musician, 69 . subscription . 8 August 2020 . . 4 May 1997 . 1 45.
16. Web site: Suhayr al-Qalamawi . data.bnf.fr . Bibliothèque nationale de France . 1 April 2022 . French .
17. News: Jerome Alden, 76, Stage and TV Writer . subscription . 8 August 2020 . . 9 May 1997 . B 12.
18. Web site: Olympedia - Danilo Fioravanti . olympedia.org . . 1 April 2022.
19. News: Hilary Grivich, 19, American Gymnast. Associated Press. 1997-05-06. . subscription. 11 August 2020. en-US. 0362-4331.
20. News: The Mysterious Death Of Lee Miglin - Gold Coast Area Shocked By Slaying. Martin. Andrew. Ferkenhoff. Eric . Chicago Tribune. May 6, 1997. 11 August 2020.
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25. News: Holland Cotter . Holland Cotter . Alan Gussow, 65; Painted and Protected Nature . subscription . 8 August 2020 . . 7 May 1997 . B 15.
26. News: Richard Severo . Murray Kempton, 79, a Newspaperman Of Honor and Elegant Vinegar, Is Dead . subscription . 8 August 2020 . . 6 May 1997 . D 24.
27. News: Holcomb B. Noble . David Scherman, 81, Editor Whose Photos Sank a Ship . subscription . 8 August 2020 . . 7 May 1997 . B 15.
28. Web site: Ridge Bond - Broadway Cast & Staff - IBDB . ibdb.com . 1 April 2022 .
29. News: Holland Cotter . Holland Cotter . Sydney J. Freedberg, 82, Art Historian, Dies . subscription . 8 August 2020 . . 8 May 1997 . D 25.
30. Web site: Jorge Martínez de Hoyos . catalogue.bnf.fr . Bibliothèque nationale de France . 1 April 2022 . French .
31. Web site: Günther Jerschke - filmportal.de . filmportal.de . 1 April 2022 . German .
32. News: Wolfgang Saxon . John Canfield Ewers, Ethnologist, Dies at 87 . subscription . 8 August 2020 . . 27 May 1997 . B 8.
33. Web site: GEORGE LYNCH . racing-reference.info . 1 April 2022.
34. News: Wolfgang Saxon . Ralph Wendell Burhoe, 85; Reconciled Science and Faith . subscription . 8 August 2020 . . 16 May 1997 . D 17.
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38. Web site: Bob Whitcher Stats - Baseball-Reference.com . baseball-reference.com . 1 April 2022 .
39. News: Frank Litsky . Frank Litsky . Bob Devaney, 82, Nebraska Coach, Dies . subscription . 8 August 2020 . . 10 May 1997 . 1 20.
40. News: Lawrence Van Gelder . Lawrence Van Gelder . Marco Ferreri, 68, Is Dead; Directed 'La Grande Bouffe' . subscription . 8 August 2020 . . 10 May 1997 . 1 20.
41. Web site: Willy Hess . data.bnf.fr . Bibliothèque nationale de France . 1 April 2022 . French .
42. Web site: Rina Lasnier . data.bnf.fr . Bibliothèque nationale de France . 1 April 2022 . French .
43. Web site: Jacinto Quincoces - DB~e . dbe.rah.es . Real Academia de la Historia . 1 April 2022 . Spanish .
44. Web site: Silvano Tranquilli . catalogue.bnf.fr . Bibliothèque nationale de France . 1 April 2022 . French .
45. News: Robert McG. Thomas Jr. . Robert McG. Thomas Jr. . Joanie Weston, 62, a Big Star In the World of Roller Derbies . subscription . 8 August 2020 . . 18 May 1997 . 1 33.
46. News: Wolfgang Saxon . William R. Cannon, 81, Methodist Theologian . subscription . 8 August 2020 . . 13 May 1997 . A 18.
47. Web site: David Christie . catalogue.bnf.fr . Bibliothèque nationale de France . 1 April 2022 . French .
48. News: Gustav Niebuhr . Dean Kelley, 70, Advocate for Religious Freedom, Dies . subscription . 8 August 2020 . . 14 May 1997 . B 9.
49. News: Catherine McLeod; Film Actress Was 75 . subscription . 8 August 2020 . . 17 May 1997 . 1 12.
50. News: Rick Lyman . Peter Stackpole, 83, Chronicler Of California Trends for Life . subscription . 1 April 2022 . . 14 May 1997 . B 9.
51. Web site: Chadbourne . Eugene . Louis Barbarin . . 13 August 2020.
52. Web site: Olympedia – Jiří Pecka . olympedia.org . . 1 April 2022 .
53. Web site: Knesset Member, Avraham Stern . knesset.gov.il . 13 August 2020.
54. Web site: Frank A. Wenstrom - Social Networks and Archival Context . snaccooperative.org . 1 April 2022 .
55. Web site: Laurie Lee, Biographie & Facts . Encyclopaedia Britannica . 13 August 2020.
56. Web site: Tommy Turrentine . data.bnf.fr . Bibliothèque nationale de France . 1 April 2022 . French .
57. Web site: Olympedia - Zdena Vermirovská . olympedia.org . . 1 April 2022.
58. Web site: Olympedia – Eduard Zakharov . olympedia.org . . 1 April 2022 .
59. News: Barry Bearak . Barry Bearak . Harry Blackstone Jr., 62, Master of the Magic Arts, Dies . subscription . 8 August 2020 . . 16 May 1997 . D 17.
60. News: Vosburgh . Tim . Obituary: Thelma Carpenter . 13 August 2020 . 26 May 1997 . The Independent.
61. Web site: Samuel Hoyt Elbert . data.bnf.fr . Bibliothèque nationale de France . 1 April 2022 . French .
62. Web site: Alan Furlan - Broadway Cast & Staff - IBDB . ibdb.com . 1 April 2022 .
63. Web site: Olympedia – Val Peat . olympedia.org . . 1 April 2022 .
64. News: Jack Anderson . Bessie Schonberg, 90, a Mentor for Dancers . subscription . 13 August 2020 . . 15 May 1997 . D 24.
65. Web site: Oscar Berger - Social Networks and Archival Context . snaccooperative.org . 1 April 2022 .
66. News: Judith Miller . Judith Miller . Saadallah Wannous, 56, Arab Playwright . subscription . 8 August 2020 . . 17 May 1997 . 1 12.
67. Web site: Giuseppe De Santis . data.bnf.fr . Bibliothèque nationale de France . 1 April 2022 . French .
68. News: Wolfgang Saxon . Elbridge Durbrow, U.S. Diplomat, Dies at 93 . subscription . 8 August 2020 . . 23 May 1997 . A 25.
69. Web site: Bones McKinney Stats - Basketball-Reference.com . basketball-reference.com . 1 April 2022 .
70. News: May 16, 1997. Oregon executes convicted killer, state's second in 34 years. Associated Press.
71. Web site: Wang Zengqi . data.bnf.fr . Bibliothèque nationale de France . 1 April 2022 . French .
72. Web site: Olympedia – Mikhail Bychkov . olympedia.org . . 1 April 2022 .
73. Web site: KOONTZ, RONALD E thru KOONTZ, ROY . sortedbyname.com . 16 August 2020 .
74. Web site: Horst Lippmann Discography . discogs.com . 16 August 2020.
75. Web site: Soenario - Social Networks and Archival Context . snaccooperative.org . 1 April 2022 .
76. News: Robert McG. Thomas Jr. . Robert McG. Thomas Jr. . Aaron Henry, Civil Rights Leader, Dies at 74 . subscription . 8 August 2020 . . 21 May 1997 . D 23.
77. News: Troy Ruttman, 67, Youngest Winner of Indy 500 . subscription . 8 August 2020 . . 21 May 1997 . D 23.
78. Web site: Olympedia - PavelsSenicevs . olympedia.org . . 1 April 2022.
79. News: Vallance . Tom . John Rawlins . 16 August 2020 . . 9 June 1997.
80. Web site: Virgilio Barco Vargas . CIDOB . 16 August 2020 . es.
81. News: Amasa S. Bishop, 76, Scientist Who Worked in Fusion Physics . subscription . 3 August 2020 . . 12 June 1997 . B 17.
82. Web site: Fiorenzo Carpi . data.bnf.fr . Bibliothèque nationale de France . 1 April 2022 . French .
83. News: Myrtle C. Bachelder . . May 26, 1997 . 16 August 2020.
84. Web site: Donald Curtis - Broadway Cast & Staff - IBDB . ibdb.com . 1 April 2022 .
85. Web site: Herman de Coninck . biografischportaal.nl . 1 April 2022 . Dutch .
86. https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=wAZRAAAAIBAJ&sjid=wsAMAAAAIBAJ&pg=3588,5020834&dq= Rampage leaves 16 dead
87. Web site: Jimmy Heale . worldfootball.net . 1 April 2022 .
88. News: Lawrence K. Altman . Alfred D. Hershey, Nobel Laureate for DNA Work, Dies at 88 . subscription . 8 August 2020 . . 24 May 1997 . 1 26.
89. Web site: Raúl Gómez Jattin . catalogue.bnf.fr . Bibliothèque nationale de France . 1 April 2022 . French .
90. Web site: Renzo Montagnani - filmportal.de . filmportal.de . 1 April 2022 . German .
91. Web site: Klaus von Bismarck . data.bnf.fr . Bibliothèque nationale de France . 1 April 2022 . French .
92. News: Roberta Smith . Roberta Smith . James Lee Byars, 65, Creator Of Art That Lived in a Moment . subscription . 8 August 2020 . . 30 May 1997 . D 17.
93. Web site: Olympedia – Sadayoshi Kobayashi . olympedia.org . . 1 April 2022 .
94. Web site: Lovie Lee . catalogue.bnf.fr . Bibliothèque nationale de France . 1 April 2022 . French .
95. News: Robert McG. Thomas Jr. . Robert McG. Thomas Jr. . David Ludlum, Weather Expert, Dies at 86 . subscription . 8 August 2020 . . 29 May 1997 . D 19.
96. Web site: Muhammad Fadhel al-Jamali - Social Networks and Archival Context . snaccooperative.org . 1 April 2022 .
97. News: Robbie Tilley Branscum, 62, Children's Author. Wolfgang. Saxon. May 30, 1997. August 16, 2020. subscription. The New York Times.
98. News: Vallance. Tom. Obituary: Edward Mulhare. August 16, 2020. The Independent. 27 May 1997.
99. Web site: Olympedia – Sepp Weiler . olympedia.org . . 1 April 2022 .
100. News: Buchan . Janey . Obituary: Sydney Bidwell . 16 August 2020 . . 28 May 1997.
101. Web site: Jay Hebert . where2golf.com . 1 April 2022 .
102. Web site: Joseph Hoffman . catalogue.bnf.fr . Bibliothèque nationale de France . 1 April 2022 . French .
103. Web site: Olympedia – Ronald Vernieux . olympedia.org . . 1 April 2022 .
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