Deaths in May 1997
The following is a list of notable deaths in May 1997.
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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.
- Russell G. Cleary, 63, American brewer, complications from heart surgery.[1]
- Ernie Fields, 92, American trombonist, pianist, arranger and bandleader.
- Abe Poffenroth, 79, American football and baseball coach.
- Bo Widerberg, 66, Swedish actor and film director, stomach cancer.[2]
2
- Raymond Sarif Easmon, 84, Sierra Leonean doctor and writer.
- John Eccles, 94, Australian neurophysiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.[3]
- Paulo Freire, 75, Brazilian educator and philosopher, heart attack.[4]
- Sir Robin Kinahan, 80, Northern Irish politician and Orange Order member.[5]
- 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.[6]
- Keith R. Porter, 84, Canadian-American cell biologist, pneumonia.[7]
- Eugene Vale, 81, American novelist.[8]
3
- Bruce Beetham, 61, New Zealand academic and politician, heart failure.
- Gerrit den Braber, 68, Dutch songwriter and lyricist, stroke.[9]
- Sébastien Enjolras, 21, French racing driver, racing accident.
- Hughie Green, 77, English presenter, game show host and actor, cancer.[10]
- 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.[11]
4
- Jerome Alden, 76, American playwright and screenwriter, kidney cancer.[12]
- Suhayr al-Qalamawi, 85, Egyptian literary figure and politician.
- Wijeyananda Dahanayake, 95, Sri Lankan politician.
- Esin Engin, 51, Turkish musician, composer, and film actor.
- Hilary Grivich, 19, American gymnast and diver, car accident.[13]
- Fernando Hernández, 52, Costa Rican footballer, cancer.
- Lee Miglin, 72, American business tycoon and philanthropist, murdered by serial killer Andrew Cunanan.[14]
- Alvy Moore, 75, American actor, heart failure.
- Lou Stathis, 44, American author, critic and editor, brain tumor.
- Gertrud Thausing, 91, Austrian egyptologist.
5
- Sir George Burns, 86, British Army officer.
- Carel Fourie, 46, South African rugby player.
- Walter Gotell, 73, German actor, cancer.
- Alan Gussow, 65, American artist, author and conservationist, cancer.[15]
- Murray Kempton, 79, American journalist and Pullitzer Prize winner.[16]
- David Scherman, 81, American photojournalist and editor, cancer.[17]
6
- Ridge Bond, 74, American actor and singer.
- Sydney Joseph Freedberg, 82, American art historian and curator.[18]
- Jorge Martínez de Hoyos, 76, Mexican actor, lung cancer.
- Günther Jerschke, 75, German actor.
- Wang You, 86, Chinese biochemist.
7
- John C. Ewers, 87, American ethnologist and museum curator.[19]
- Yip Hon, 93, Chinese gambling tycoon, heart attack.
- Fletcher Watson, American professor of science education.
8
- Ralph Wendell Burhoe, 85, American theologian.[20]
- Scott Carpenter, 22, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
- Art Hanes, 80, American politician and Klansman.
- Kai-Uwe von Hassel, 84, German politician.
- Pat Hughes, 94, English tennis player.
- Micheline Kerney Walsh, 77, Irish archivist and historian.[21]
- Sir Michael Shersby, 64, British politician.[22]
- Bob Whitcher, 80, American baseball player.
9
- Rawya Ateya, 71, Egyptian woman and first female parliamentarian in the Arab world.
- Bob Devaney, 82, American gridiron football coach, heart attack.[23]
- Marco Ferreri, 68, Italian film director, screenwriter and actor, heart attack.[24]
- Kazumi Kawai, 32, Japanese actress, suicide.
- Paul Zastupnevich, 75, American costume designer.
10
- Steve Holland (actor), 72, American actor.
- Jacinto Quincoces, 91, Spanish football player and manager.
- Silvano Tranquilli, 71, Italian actor.
- Joan Weston, 62, American Roller derby skater, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.[25]
11
- William Ragsdale Cannon, 81, American theologian and bishop of the United Methodist Church.[26]
- Genine Graham, 70, English actress.
- Dean M. Kelley, 70, American legal scholar, cancer.[27]
- Catherine McLeod, 75, American actress.[28]
- Howard Morton, 71, American actor, stroke.
12
- Sonny Avery, 82, English cricketer.
- Louis Barbarin, 94, New Orleans jazz drummer.[29]
- Avraham Stern, 61, Israeli administrator and politician.[30]
- Dimitris Vakrinos, 34/35, Greek serial killer, suicide by hanging.
13
- Laurie Lee, 82, English poet, novelist and screenwriter.[31]
- Myron Sharaf, 70, American writer and psychotherapist, heart attack.
- Zdeňka Veřmiřovská, 83, Czechoslovak/Czech gymnast and Olympian.
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.[32]
- Thelma Carpenter, 75, American jazz singer and actress, cardiac arrest.[33]
- Samuel Hoyt Elbert, 89, American linguist.
- Alan Furlan, 77, Italian-American actor.
- Bessie Schonberg, 90, German-American dancer and choreographer.[34]
- Leo Yaffe, 80, Canadian nuclear chemistry scientist and pacifist.
15
- Oscar Berger, 96, American editorial cartoonist.
- David Martin, 89, American Republican Party politician, pneumonia.
- Margaret Peterson, 94/95, American abstract painter.
- Saadallah Wannous, Syrian playwright, cancer.[35]
16
- Donatien Mahele Lieko Bokungu, 56, Zairean general, execution by firing squad.
- Elbridge Durbrow, American diplomat[36]
- Bones McKinney, 78, American basketball player and coach.
- Giuseppe De Santis, 80, Italian film director, heart attack.
- Wang Zengqi, 77, Chinese writer.
17
- 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.[37]
- Fuiono Senio, Western Samoan chief and environmentalist, cancer.
18
- Bridgette Andersen, 21, American actress.
- Horst Lippmann, 70, German concert promoter and jazz musician.[38]
- Paolo Panelli, 71, Italian comedian and film actor.
- Antonio Cornejo Polar, 60, Peruvian academic and literature and cultural critic.[39]
- Soenario, 94, Indonesian politician and Foreign Minister.
19
- Aaron Henry, 74, American civil rights leader and politician, congestive heart failure.][40]
- Sombhu Mitra, 81, Indian actor, director and playwright.
- Troy Ruttman, 67, American race car driver, lung cancer.[41]
20
- Don Parker, 88, British racing driver.
- Vasily Podshibyakin, 69, Soviet geologist.
- John Rawlins, 94, American film editor and director.[42]
- Wakafutase Tadayuki, 55, Japanese sumo wrestler.
- Virgilio Barco Vargas, 75, Colombian politician.[43]
- Gopal Yonzon, 53, Nepalese musician, complications of jaundice.
21
- William Aston, 80, Australian politician.
- Amasa Stone Bishop, American nuclear physicist, pneumonia.[44]
- Noël Browne, 81, Irish politician.
- Fiorenzo Carpi, 78, Italian composer and pianist.
22
- Myrtle Bachelder, 89, American chemist and Women's Army Corps officer.[45]
- Alziro Bergonzo, 90, Italian architect and painter.
- Klaus von Bismarck, 85, German broadcaster and cultural administrator.
- Donald Curtis, 82, American actor.
- Genildo Ferreira de França, Brazilian spree killer, suicide.[46]
- Jimmy Heale, 82, English footballer.
- Alfred Hershey, 88, American biochemist and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.[47]
- Raúl Gómez Jattin, 51, Colombian poet.
- Arthur Milne, 82, Scottish football player.
- Renzo Montagnani, 66, Italian actor, lung cancer.
- Samuel DeWitt Proctor, 75, American minister, civil rights activist, and humanitarian, heart attack.[48]
- T. R. Ramanna, 74, Indian film director and producer.
- Robert D. Russ, 64, United States Air Force general and commander of the Tactical Air Command.
- Stanisław Swianiewicz, 97, Polish economist and historian.
23
- Alison Adburgham, 85, English fashion journalist and author.
- James Lee Byars, 65, American conceptual and performance artist, cancer.[49]
- Dorothy Gulliver, 88, American actress.
- Lovie Lee, 88, American electric blues pianist and singer.
- David M. Ludlum, 86, American historian, meteorologist, and author.[50]
24
- Kinpei Azusa, 66, Japanese voice actor, laryngeal cancer.
- Robbie Branscum, 62, American children's author, heart attack.[51]
- Alexandre Lippiani, 32, Brazilian actor, car accident.
- Edward Mulhare, 74, Irish actor, lung cancer.[52]
- Peter Rangmar, 40, Swedish actor, comedian and baritone, melanoma.
25
- Syd Bidwell, 80, British politician.[53]
- Jay Hebert, 74, American golfer.
- Joseph Hoffman, 88, American screenwriter.
26
- Manfred von Ardenne, 90, German physicist and inventor.
- Henry Barakat, Egyptian film director.
- Ernst Biehler, 93, German Wehrmacht general during World War II.
- Jenny Rosenthal Bramley, 87, Russian-American physicist.[54]
- Ralph Horween, 100, American football player and coach.[55]
- Bernard Jackson, 46, American football player and coach, liver cancer.
- Jack Jersey, 55, Dutch singer, composer, and producer of light music, cancer.[56]
27
- John F. Forrest, 69, United States Army officer and combat commander.
- Karl Martz, 84, American studio potter and ceramic artist.[57]
- Henry Barakat, 83, Egyptian film director.
28
- Lynn Archibald, 52, American college basketball coach.
- Sydney Guilaroff, 89, American Hollywood hairdresser, pneumonia.[58][59]
- Bernard-Claude Savy, 74, French physician and politician, cancer.
- John Sengstacke, 84, American newspaper publisher.[60]
- Tatyana Sumarokova, 74, Soviet flight navigator during World War II.
- Ronald Book, 60, American theoretical computer scientist.[61]
29
- Jeff Buckley, 30, American singer, songwriter and guitarist, accidental drowning.[62]
- George Fenneman, 77, American radio and television announcer, emphysema.[63]
- Alexander Kazhdan, 74, Soviet-American Byzantinist.[64]
- Jack Parkinson, 73, American basketball player, brain tumor.
30
- West Arkeen, 36, American musician and songwriter for Guns N' Roses, opiate overdose.[65]
- Béla Barényi, 90, Austro-Hungarian automotive engineer.
- Winsome Cripps, 66, Australian sprinter.
31
- Damião de Bozzano, 98, Italian Roman Catholic priest and missionary, stroke.
- Pat Collins, 62, American hypnotist.[66]
- James Bennett Griffin, 92, American archaeologist.
- Jewel Lafontant, 75, American lawyer and White House official, breast cancer.[67]
- Ove Ljung, 79, Swedish Army officer.[68]
- Günter Luther, 75, German admiral.
- Fazal Haq Mujahid, Afghanistan mujahideen during the Soviet–Afghan War, assassinated.
- Johnny Papalia, 73, Canadian mobster, shot.[69]
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