Deaths in September 1997
The following is a list of notable deaths in September 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.
September 1997
1
- Boris Balinsky, 91, Ukrainian and South African biologist, embryologist and entomologist.
- Gordon Blake, 87, U.S. Air Force lieutenant general.
- Harriet Browne, 65, American tap dancer and choreographer.[1]
- Zoltán Czibor, 68, Hungarian Olympic football player (1952 gold medal).[2]
- Reidar Olsen, 86, Norwegian footballer.
2
- George E. Allen, 85, American football player and coach.
- Rudolf Bing, 95, Austrian-born opera manager.[3]
- Viktor Frankl, 92, Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist.[4]
- Joseph Thomas O'Keefe, 78, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church, heart failure.
- Germán Rieckehoff, 82, Puerto Rican politician.
- Mary Sears, 92, American oceanographer.[5]
3
- George Henry Andrews, Liberian sports journalist and minister of Tourism and Cultural Affairs of Liberia, heart attack.
- Arthur Chin, 83, American pilot and World War II flying ace.
- Harold G. Dick, 90, American mechanical engineer.
- Ernst C. Stiefel, 89, German-American jurist.[6]
4
- Khaled Abdul-Wahab, 86, Tunisian rescuer of Jews.
- Chuck Arnold, 71, American racecar driver.
- Jeffrey Bernard, 65, British journalist, renal failure.
- Dharamvir Bharati, 70, Indian poet, author and playwright, heart disease.
- Hans Eysenck, 81, German-born British psychologist.[7]
- Julio Musimessi, 73, Argentine football goalkeeper.
- Ivan Nenov, 95, Bulgarian painter.[8]
- Lobo Nocho, 78, African-American émigré jazz singer and painter.
- Jan Opperman, 58, American racecar driver.
- Ken Otremba, 48, American politician, member of the Minnesota House of Representatives (1995–1997), liver cancer[9]
- Ester Paredes Jimenez, 81, Filipina activist.
- Florence Engel Randall, 79, American author.[10]
- Aldo Rossi, 66, Italian architect and designer, car accident.[11]
- Belle Stewart, 91, Scottish traditional singer.
- Bill Whatley, 74, British trade unionist.
5
- Mildred Dein, 85, American screenwriter.
- Ann Dunnigan, 87, American actress and teacher.[12]
- Leon Edel, 89, American literary critic and biographer.[13]
- Sir George Solti, 84, Hungarian conductor.[14]
- Mother Teresa, 87, Albanian missionary and humanitarian, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.
6
- Edward H. Hurst, 80, United States Marine Corps officer.
- Roy Huskey Jr., 40, American upright bass player, lung cancer.
- Mary Lawson, 73, American baseball player (AAGPBL).[15]
- Bianca Majolie, 96, Italian-American story artist, concept artist and writer.
- P. H. Newby, 79, English novelist.[16]
- H. W. L. Poonja, Indian sage and jivanmukta, pneumonia.
- Refik Resmja, 66, Albanian footballer.
7
- Mukul S. Anand, 45, Indian film director and producer, heart attack.
- Elisabeth Brooks, 46, Canadian actress (The Howling), brain cancer.
- Edwin Brock, 69, British poet.
- Connie Clausen, 74, American actress, author, and literary agent, stroke.[17]
- George Crockett Jr., 88, African-American attorney, jurist, and congressman.[18]
- Edgar Kaplan, 72, American bridge player, cancer.[19]
- Mobutu Sese Seko, 66, Congolese politician and president of Zaire.
- Bill Strannigan, 78, American basketball coach.
- Abdullah Tariki, 78, Saudi politician and government official, heart attack.
- Derek Taylor, 65, English journalist, writer and record producer, throat cancer.[20]
8
- Yu Jim-yuen, 92, China opera singer and actor, heart attack.
- Helen Shaw, 100, American actress.
- Vladimír Sommer, 76, Czech composer.
- Sabatino Moscati, 74, Italian archaeologist and linguist.[21]
9
- Richie Ashburn, 70, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies) and member of the MLB Hall of Fame.[22]
- Sir John Hackett, 86, Australian-born British army general and painter.
- Burgess Meredith, 89, American actor, director, producer, and writer.[23]
- Thomas L. Tatham, 85, American attorney and land developer.
10
- Satish Chandra Agarwal, Indian politician.
- Abraham Akaka, 80, American clergyman.[24]
- Richard Brandt, 86, American philosopher.
- Fritz Von Erich, 68, American professional wrestler, cancer.[25]
- George Schaefer, 76, American television and theatre director.
- Donald Vails, 48, American gospel musician.
11
- Fernando Ayala, 77, Argentine film director, screenwriter and producer.
- Mel Groomes, 70, American football player and baseball coach, renal failure and cardiac arrest.[26]
- Camille Henry, 64, Canadian ice hockey player.[27]
- Rosalie King, 95, American actress and singer.
- Xhevdet Shaqiri, 74, Albanian football player and coach.
- Hannah Weiner, 68, American poet.
12
- Stig Anderson, 66, Swedish music manager and publisher, heart attack.[28]
- Julien Binford, 88, American painter.
- Leslie E. Brown, 77, United States Marine Corps aviator.
- Archer Denness, 82, Australian Army officer.
- Elsa De Giorgi, 82, Italian actress and writer.
- Mool Chand Jain, 82, Indian politician.
- Leonard Maguire, 73, Scottish actor.
- Judith Merril, 74, American-Canadian science fiction writer.[29]
- Eddie O'Toole, 76, American long-distance runner, heart attack.[30]
13
- Paul Brechler, 86, American athletic director (University of Iowa).[31]
- Robert Cant, 82, British politician.
- Roger O. Egeberg, 94, American medical educator and administrator.
- Roger Frey, 84, French politician.
- Georges Guétary, 82, French singer, dancer and actor.[32]
- David Rice, 83, English physician, naval officer, and psychiatrist.
- Margo Rose, 94, American puppeteer.[33]
- Victor Szebehely, 76, Hungarian-American physicist.[34]
14
- Andrew Fountaine, 78, British far right activist.
- Stig H. Hästö, 79, Finnish jurist, businessman and vuorineuvos.
- Clyde Johnson, 80, American football player.[35]
15
- Angel Balevski, 87, Bulgarian inventor and engineer.
- Georges Bergé, 88, French Army general.
- Bulldog Brower, 63, American professional wrestler, complications from hip surgery.
- David Dunbar-Nasmith, 76, British Royal Navy officer.
- Edna Mae Harris, 82, American actress and singer, heart attack.
- Bashiru Kwaw-Swanzy, 75, Ghanese politician.
- Thomas J. Parmley, 99, American physicist.[36]
- Gertrude Pitzinger, 93, German contralto.[37]
- Larry Rosati, 79, American football coach.
16
- Bill Burns, 84, American journalist.
- Terence Cooper, 64, British film actor.
- Helen Jepson, 92, American lyric soprano.[38]
- William N. Oatis, 83, American journalist, Alzheimer's disease.[39]
17
- Benjamin Atkins, 29, American serial killer and rapist, HIV.
- Barbara Canright, 77, American human computer at NASA.
- Anthony Franchini, 99, American guitarist.[40]
- Brian Hall, 59, English actor (Fawlty Towers), cancer.
- Harry Jago, 84, Australian politician.
- Trevor Redmond, 70, New Zealand speedway rider.[41]
- Amanoyama Shizuo, 43, Japanese sumo wrestler.
- Red Skelton, 84, American comedian.[42]
- Jan P. Syse, 66, Prime Minister of Norway (1989–1990).
- Aida Yūji, 81, Japanese historian, pneumonia.
18
- Robert Macintyre, 57, Scottish architect.
- Patricia Pulling, 49, American anti-role-playing games activist, lung cancer.[43]
- Ganesh Man Singh, 81, Nepali politician.
- Seigo Tada, 75, Japanese founder of Goju-Ryu Seigokan Karatedo.
- Jimmy Witherspoon, 77, American blues singer, cancer.[44]
19
- Józef Bielawski, 87, Polish Arabist and scholar of Islam.
- Bill Butland, 79, American baseball pitcher (Boston Red Sox).
- Malcolm Hughes, 77, British artist.
- Cao Jianyou, 80, Chinese electrical engineer.
- Kathy Keeton, 58, American editor and publisher of Penthouse magazine, complications from surgery.[45]
- Rich Mullins, 41, American Christian musician, car accident.[46]
- John E. Pickering, 79, United States Air Force Medical Corps officer.
20
- Virginia d'Albert-Lake, 87, American French Resistance agent during World War II.
- Matt Christopher, 80, American children's author.[47]
- Derek Empson, 78, British admiral.
- Kurt Gloor, 54, Swiss film director, screenwriter and producer, suicide.
- Anoop Kumar, 71, Indian film actor.
- Nick Traina, 19, American punk band singer, suicide.
- Graham Willars, 57, English rugby player.
21
- Juan Burgueño, 74, Uruguayan footballer.
- Teuku Muhammad Hasan, 91, Indonesian politician.
- Jennifer Holt, 76, American actress.
- Maurice Kaufmann, 70, British actor, cancer.[48]
- Paturi Rajagopala Naidu, 77, Indian freedom fighter and politician.
22
- Beatrice Aitchison, 89, American mathematician, statistician, and economist.
- Deolindo Bittel, 75, Argentine politician.
- William Craig, 68, American author and historian[49]
- George Henderson, 74, Scottish Anglican bishop.
- Robert E. Huyser, 73, United States Air Force general.
- Ruth Picardie, 33, English journalist and editor, breast cancer.
- Eddie Sawyer, 87, American Major League Baseball scout.[50]
- George Thomas, 1st Viscount Tonypandy, 88, British politician.
- Chiang Wei-kuo, 80, Secretary-General of the National Security Council of the Republic of China (1986–1993).
- Anthony Wreford-Brown, 84, English cricketer.
- Shoichi Yokoi, 82, Japanese soldier, heart attack.[51]
23
- Darko Bratina, 55, Italian sociologist, film theorist and politician, heart attack.
- Pedro de Castro Van Dúnem, 55, Angolan politician.[52]
- Shirley Clarke, 77, American filmmaker, stroke.[53]
- Abe Gibron, 72, American gridiron football player and coach.[54]
- Wilbur R. Ingalls Jr., 74, American architect.
- Cary Lu, 51, American science writer, cancer.[55]
- Abdul Bakeer Markar, 80, Sri Lankan politician.
24
- Dwight Dickinson, 80, United States diplomat and Navy officer, Parkinson's disease.
- Aobayama Hirotoshi, 47, Japanese sumo wrestler.
- William M. Miley, 99, United States Army officer and a professor.[56]
- Marie Jean Philip, 44, American deaf community leader, pulmonary embolism.
- Yen Shui-long, 94, Taiwanese painter and sculptor, surgical complications after fall.
- Ernest Will, 84, French archaeologist and professor.
25
- Hélène Baillargeon, 81, Canadian singer, actor and folklorist.
- Jean Françaix, 85, French musician and composer.
- Juan José Gámez, 58, Costa Rican football player and manager, cardiac arrest.
- Jim Kemmy, 61, Irish politician.[57]
- Maria Mordasova, 82, Russian singer.
- Konda Madhava Reddy, 73, Indian judge, non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
- Kamil Yashin, 87, Soviet/Uzbekistani poet and screenwriter.
26
- Mafizuddin Ahmed, Bangladeshi scientist.
- Woody English, 91, American baseball player.[58]
- Dorothy Kingsley, 87, American screenwriter, heart failure.[59]
- John Schubeck, 61, American television reporter and anchor, kidney and liver failure.[60]
- Samuel W. Taylor, 90, American novelist, scriptwriter, and historian.
27
- Tina Flade, 92, German modern dancer.
- Sven-Eric Johanson, 77, Swedish composer and organist.
- Alex Konikowski, 69, American baseball player.[61]
- Mandali Venkata Krishna Rao, 71, Indian politician.
- Walter Trampler, 82, American violist.[62]
- Péter Zsoldos, 67, Hungarian science fiction author.
28
- Munir Bashir, 66-67, Iraqi musician.[63]
- Ho Feng-Shan, 96, Chinese diplomat.
- David Gill, 69, British film historian, preservationist and documentarian.[64]
- Lage Thunberg, 92, Swedish Air Force officer.[65]
- Elfriede Vey, 75, German cyclist.
29
- William Goddard, 84, American engineer and inventor.
- Roy Lichtenstein, 73, American pop artist, pneumonia.[66]
- Peter G. Marbaniang, 58, Indian parliamentarian and academic.
- Edith B. Price, 100, American children's author and illustrator.
30
- Al "Jazzbo" Collins, 78, American disc jockey and musician.[67]
- Nobuo Fujita, Japanese pilot and warrant officer during World War II.[68]
- Pierre Granche, 49, French-Canadian sculptor, lung cancer.
- Edward L. Kessel, 93, American biologist.
- Graeme MacDonald, 67, British television producer and executive.[69]
- Don Martin, 77, American basketball player.[70]
- Robert De Vestel, 72, American set decorator (Logan's Run).
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