Deaths in December 1997

The following is a list of notable deaths in December 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.

December 1997

1

• Julius Barnathan, 70, American broadcast engineer.[1]
• Gerald Danovitch, 65, Canadian classical saxophone player and educator.
• Stéphane Grappelli, 89, French-Italian jazz violinist.[2]
• Władysław Młynek, 67, Polish teacher, writer and poet.
• Khan Ataur Rahman, 68, Bangladeshi film actor and director and singer.
• Edwin Rosario, 34, Puerto Rican boxer, aneurysm.[3]
• Warren B. Wilson, 77, American painter, sculptor and potter.

2

• Endicott Peabody, 77, American politician, leukemia.[4]
• Shirley Crabtree, 67, British wrestler known as Big Daddy, stroke.[5]
• Milan Čvirk, 21, Slovak football player, car crash.
• Harald Gelhaus, 82, German U-boat commander during World War II.
• Robert A. Hall Jr., 86, American linguist.
• Steve Hamilton, 63, American basketball player, colon cancer.[6]
• Michael Hedges, 43, American composer, guitarist and singer-songwriter, car accident.[7]

3

• Stan Anderson, 58, Scottish football player.
• Domenico Enrici, 88, Italian prelate of the Catholic Church.
• Benito Jacovitti, 74, Italian comic artist.[8]
• Adelma Simmons, 93, American herbalist.

4

• Leo August, 83, American philatelist.[9]
• Morton Bard, 73, American psychologist and author of The Crime Victim's Book.[10]
• Buck Barry, 80, American actor and radio and television personality.[11]
• Joe Brown, 71, American boxer.
• Cyril Cleverdon, 83, British librarian and computer scientist.
• Ho Sin Hang, 97, Hong Kong entrepreneur and philanthropist.
• G. S. Jayanath, Sri Lankan Army Major, killed in action.
• K. A. Nizami, 71, Indian historian and diplomat.
• Richard Vernon, 72, English actor, complications from Parkinson's disease.[12]
• Joseph Wolpe, 82, South African psychiatrist.

5

• Rudolf Bahro, 62, East Germany dissident and politician, cancer.[13]
• Reed Champion, American artist and illustrator, heart failure.
• Russell S. Drago, 69, American professor of inorganic chemistry.
• Ali Forney, 22, American gay and transgender youth, murdered.[14]
• Lutz Hoffmann, 38, East German gymnast and Olympic silver medalist, suicide.
• John E. Moss, 82, American politician.[15]
• Jan Voigt, 69, Norwegian actor, dancer and museum director.

6

• George Chisholm, 82, Scottish jazz trombonist and vocalist.
• Lou Clinton, 60, American baseball player, pneumonia.
• Gilbert Delahaye, 74, Belgian author (Martine).
• Jagmohan Kaur, 49, Indian singer and actress.
• Peter Leventritt, 82, American bridge player.[16]
• Willy den Ouden, 79, Dutch swimmer and Olympic champion.[17]
• Willie Pastrano, 62, American boxer, liver cancer.[18]
• Herbert Ratner, 90, American physician.

7

• Billy Bremner, 54, Scottish footballer and manager, suspected heart attack.[19]
• Barry S. Brook, 81, American musicologist.[20]
• Félix Candela, 87, Spanish architect.[21]
• Torbjörn Caspersson, 87, Swedish cytologist and geneticist.
• Karl August Folkers, 91, American biochemist.
• Woodrow Wyatt, 79, British politician, author and journalist.[22]

8

• Bob Bell, 75, American actor famous for his alter-ego, Bozo the Clown.[23]
• Peter John Hunt, 64, British businessman.
• Walter Molino, 82, Italian comics artist and illustrator.
• Léon Poliakov, 87, French historian.[24]
• Laurean Rugambwa, 85, Tanzanian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.[25]
• Stephen Tredre, 34, English actor and writer, bone cancer.
• Shehu Musa Yar'Adua, 54, Nigerian army general, politician and Vice President.

9

• Lucy Jane Askew, 114, British supercentenarian, oldest person in the United Kingdom.
• Tamara Geva, 91, Russian-American actress, ballet dancer, and choreographer.[26]
• K. Shivaram Karanth, 95, Indian polymath.
• Michael Lee Lockhart, 37, American serial killer, execution by lethal injection.
• Keith W. Piper, 76, American football coach, congestive heart failure.[27]
• Stefano Ludovico Straneo, 95, Italian entomologist and author.
• John D. Winters, 80, American historian.

10

• Anatoliy Banishevskiy, 51, Azerbaijani footballer, diabetic coma attack.
• Maggie Baylis, 85, American graphic designer, illustrator and author.
• Eve McVeagh, 78, American actress.[28]

11

• Radhames Aracena, 67, Dominican radio host and music producer.
• Roger Brown, 72, American social psychologist.[29]
• Eddie Chapman, 83, English criminal and spy during World War II.
• Robert Cosmoc, 66, Romanian footballer.
• Simon Jeffes, 48, English classical guitarist, composer and arranger, brain tumor.
• Paul Scull, 90, American football player.
• Harold Wright, 89, Canadian engineer and athlete.

12

• R. Stanton Avery, 90, American inventor.[30]
• Brian Deneke, 19, American punk musician, murdered.[31]
• Wacław Gajewski, 86, Polish geneticist.

13

• Paddy DeMarco, 69, American lightweight boxer.
• Don E. Fehrenbacher, 77, American historian and Pullitzer Prize winner.[32]
• W. D. Mochtar, 69, Indonesian actor.
• David Nicholson, 93, Australian politician.
• Alexander Oppenheim, 94, British mathematician.
• Claude Roy, 82, French poet and essayist.[33]

14

• John Adair, 84, American anthropologist.[34]
• Owen Barfield, 99, British philosopher, author, critic, and member of the Inklings.[35]
• Frank Baumholtz, 79, American baseball and basketball player.
• Marion Bell, 78, American singer and musical theatre performer.[36]
• Leola Brody, 75, American baseball player (AAGPBL)[37]
• William Brooks Drew, 89, American botanist and professor.
• Gerald Legge, 9th Earl of Dartmouth, 73, British peer and businessman.
• Horst Heintze, 70, German trades union official and politician.
• Stubby Kaye, 79, American actor, comedian and singer, lung cancer.[38]
• Kurt Winter, 51, Canadian guitarist and songwriter, kidney failure.

15

• Amin Ahsan Islahi, 93, Pakistani Muslim scholar.[39]
• Karsten Andersen, 77, Norwegian conductor.
• Cosmo Campoli, 74, American sculptor.
• Jack Robinson, 69, American photographer and stained glass designer.

16

• Lillian Disney, 98, American ink artist anf wife of Walt Disney.
• Ralph Fasanella, 84, American painter.[40]
• Nicolette Larson, 45, American pop singer, cerebral edema.[41]
• David L. McDonald, 91, American admiral, Chief of Naval Operations.
• William A. Smalley, 74, American linguist, heart attack.[42]
• Frans Stafleu, 76, Dutch botanist.

17

• Juan Francisco Barraza, 62, Salvadoran football player and manager, cardiac problems.
• Ernest Bromley, 85, American minister and civil rights activist.
• Katharine Fowler-Billings, 95, American writer, naturalist, and geologist.[43]
• Reginald Victor Jones, 86, British physicist and scientific military intelligence expert.[44]
• Mel Mazzera, 83, American baseball player.
• Uzi Narkiss, 72, Israeli general.[45]
• Peter Taylor, 75, English film editor.
• Hanna Walz, 79, German politician.

18

• Geoff Campion, 81, British comics artist.[46]
• Robert Duax, 78, American athlete, coach and politician.
• Chris Farley, 33, American actor and comedian, drug overdose.[47]
• Harriet Holter, 75, Norwegian social psychologist.
• George Tsutakawa, 87, American painter and sculptor.

19

• Surendra Sheodas Barlingay, 78, Indian philosopher and writer.
• Siegfried Barth, 81, German Luftwaffe bomber pilot during World War.
• David Bradley, 77, American motion picture director and actor.
• Jack Bruen, 48, American basketball coach, cancer.[48]
• Uldis Ģērmanis, 82, Latvian historian, writer and publicist.
• Bonny Hicks, 29, Singapore Eurasian model and writer, airplane crash.
• Masaru Ibuka, 89, Japanese electronics industrialist and co-founder of Sony.[49]
• Sara Northrup Hollister, 73, American occultist and second wife of author L. Ron Hubbard.
• Jimmy Rogers, 73, American blues musician, colon cancer.[50]
• David Schramm, 52, American astrophysicist, airplane crash.[51]

20

• Jim Gibbons, 73, Irish politician.
• Richard Glazar, 77, Czech-Jewish Holocaust survivor, suicide.
• Christy Greene, 71, Irish professional golfer.
• Juzo Itami, 64, Japanese actor, screenwriter and film director, alleged suicide.[52]
• Wenceslas Kalibushi, 78, Rwandan Catholic bishop.
• Denise Levertov, 74, American poet, complications due to lymphoma.[53]
• Hugh McMahon, 91, Scottish footballer.
• Richard Murden, 91, Australian politician.
• Esther Peterson, 91, American consumer and women's advocate.[54]
• Dick Spooner, 77, English cricketer.
• Dawn Steel, 51, American film studio executive and producer.[55]

21

• Joseph Ahrens, 94, German composer and organist.
• Roger Barkley, 61, American radio personality, pancreatic cancer.[56]
• Johnny Coles, 71, American jazz trumpeter, cancer.[57]
• Amie Comeaux, 21, American country music singer, car accident.
• Igor Dmitriev, 56, Russian ice hockey player and coach.
• Roxbee Cox, Baron Kings Norton, 95, British aeronautical engineer.
• Sholom Schwadron, Israeli Haredi rabbi and orator.
• Bruce Woodcock, 76, English boxer.[58]

22

• Sebastian Arcos Bergnes, 66, Cuban human rights activist.[59]
• Flea Clifton, 89, American baseball player.
• Francis Haar, 89, Hungarian socio-photographer.
• José Oliva, 26, Dominican baseball player, traffic accident.
• Hal Rice, 73, American baseball player.

23

• Bill Bushby, 83, English footballer.
• Felix Bwalya, 27, Zambia boxer.
• Stanley Cortez, 89, American cinematographer, heart attack.
• Thomas S. Moorman, 87, United States Air Force officer.[60]
• Fred Page, 82, Canadian ice hockey referee and administrator.[61]
• Paula Stone, 85, American actress.

24

• Jacques Fabbri, 72, French actor.
• Kemper Goodwin, 91, American architect.
• James Komack, 73, American television producer, director, writer and actor, heart failure.
• Toshiro Mifune, 77, Japanese actor, multiple organ failure.[62]
• Lotte Motz, 75, Austrian-American scholar.

25

• Anatoli Boukreev, 39, Russian Kazakhstani mountaineer, avalanche.[63]
• Anita Conti, 98, French explorer and photographer.
• Yvonne Cormeau, 88, British SOE agent during World War II.
• Paul M. O'Leary, 96, American economist and educator.
• Denver Pyle, 77, American actor, lung cancer.[64]
• Kenneth Spring, 76, British Army officer and artist.
• Giorgio Strehler, 76, Italian opera and theatre director.[65]

26

• Cahit Arf, 87, Turkish mathematician.
• Cornelius Castoriadis, 75, Greek-French philosopher, social critic and economist, complications following heart surgery.[66]
• Grace Gemberling, 94, American artist.
• John Hinde, 81, English photographer.
• Victor Oehrn, 90, German U-boat commander during World War II.
• Karlis Osis, 80, Latvian-American parapsychologist.
• Kenneth Pitzer, 83, American physical and theoretical chemist.[67]
• Tommy Price, 86, British speedway rider.

27

• Ewart Abner, 74, American record company executive.[68]
• Webster Chikabala, Zambian football player and coach, HIV/AIDS.
• Tom Hudson, 75, British artist and lecturer.
• John Megaw, 88, British judge.
• James Nabrit Jr., 97, American civil rights attorney.[69]
• Malayattoor Ramakrishnan, 70, Indian writer, cartoonist and lawyer.
• Kent Robbins, 50, American country music songwriter, automobile accident.
• Bess Whitehead Scott, 107, American woman journalist from the early 20th century.
• Billy Wright, 37, Northern Irish paramilitary leader, shot.[70][71]

28

• Bill Anderson, 86, American producer, cerebral hemorrhage after falling.[72]
• Shaikh Ayaz, 74, Pakistani poet, heart attack.
• Corneliu Baba, 91, Romanian painter.
• Henry Barraud, 97, French composer.
• Doda Conrad, 92, Polish-American bass operatic singer.
• William Martínez, 69, Uruguayan footballer.
• Steve Musseau, 74, American football coach and motivational speaker, heart failure.[73]
• Mafat Oza, 53, Indian poet, novelist and short story writer.
• Ronnie Williams, 58, Welsh actor and comedian, suicide.

29

• Richard Lindsey Batten, 77, English orthopaedic surgeon.
• Helen Kirkpatrick, 88, American war correspondent during World War II.[74]
• Robert Walter Steel, 82, British geographer.

30

• Daryl Arnold, 74, American farmer, businessman and diplomat, traffic accident.[75]
• Danilo Dolci, 73, Italian social activist, sociologist and poet.[76]
• Stanko Fabris, 88, Croatian architect.
• Pablo García, 74, Cuban baseball player, heart attack.
• Shinichi Hoshi, 71, Japanese novelist and science fiction writer.
• Bernard Soysa, 83, Sri Lankan politician.
• Kim Sun-ja, South Korean serial killer.
• John Howard Yoder, 70, American theologian and ethicist.[77]

31

• Pablito Barcos, 84, Spanish footballer.
• Floyd Cramer, 64, American pianist, lung cancer.
• Billie Dove, 94, American actress.[78]
• Richard Elman, 63, American novelist, poet, and journalist.[79]
• Michael LeMoyne Kennedy, 39, American lawyer, son of Robert F. Kennedy, skiing accident.[80]
• Dominique de Menil, 89, French-American art collector and philanthropist.

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