Deaths in February 1997
The following is a list of notable deaths in February 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.
February 1997
1
- Simion Bughici, 82, Romanian politician.
- Herb Caen, 80, American journalist and columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle, lung cancer.[1]
- Hugh Catchpole, 89, British educationist.
- Ed Danowski, 85, American football player.[2]
- Francisco Tobar García, 68, Ecuadorian poet, playwright, journalist, and diplomat, lung cancer.
- Mitchell Goodman, 73, American writer, teacher, and activist.[3]
- William Kintner, 81, American soldier, foreign policy analyst, and diplomat.[4]
- Kiki Kogelnik, 62, Austrian painter, sculptor and printmaker, cancer.[5]
- Marjorie Reynolds, 79, American actress and dancer.
- Wilcomb E. Washburn, American historian.[6]
2
- Godfrey Baseley, 92, British radio executive.[7]
- Erich Eliskases, 83, Austrian-Argentinian chess grandmaster.
- Qin Jiwei, 82, Chinese general and member of the Politburo.
- Sanford Meisner, 91, American actor and acting teacher.[8]
- Art Merewether, 94, American baseball player.[9]
- Nellie Miller-Mann, 99, American mennonite missionary.
- Chico Science, 30, Brazilian singer and composer, car accident.[10]
- Seán Ó Síocháin, 82, Irish Gaelic footballer, hurler, and broadcaster.
- Theodoros Stamos, 74, Greek-American painter.[11]
3
- Jerry Beit haLevi, 84, Israeli football player and manager.
- Bohumil Hrabal, 82, Czech writer.[12]
- Stan Kostka, 84, American football player and coach.
- Harry H. Wachtel, 79, American lawyer and civil rights activist, Parkinson’s disease.[13]
4
- Henry H. Barschall, 81, German-American physicist.[14]
- Robert Clouse, 68, American film director and producer, kidney failure.[15]
- Ross Lee Finney, 90, American composer.[16]
- Rabi Ghosh, 65, Indian actor.
- Benjamin de Jesus, 56, Philippine prelate of the Catholic Church, murdered.[17]
- A R Mallick, 78, Bangladeshi historian and educationist.
- Alek Rapoport, 63, Russian nonconformist artist.[18]
- Jimmy Tattersall, 56, British tennis player.
- Cyril Toumanoff, 83, Russian-American historian.
5
- Frederick J. Almgren Jr., 63, American mathematician, complication from bone marrow transplant.[19]
- Bob Brown, 58, Canadian professional wrestler ("Bulldog" Bob Brown).
- Robert "Big Mojo" Elem, 69, American blues guitarist and singer.
- Harry Essex, 86, American screenwriter and director.[20]
- Dorothy Fosdick, 83, American foreign policy expert.[21]
- Pamela Harriman, 76, English-American political activist, diplomat, and socialite.[22]
- René Huyghe, 90, French art historian.
- Jürgen Neukirch, 59, German mathematician.
6
- Ernie Anderson, 73, American disc jockey, and television and radio announcer, lung cancer.[23]
- Roger Laurent, 83, Belgian racing driver.
- Riza Lushta, 81, Kosovar Albanian football striker.
7
- Nina Albright, 89, American comic book artist.[24]
- Owen Aspinall, 69, American politician and Governor of American Samoa.
- Allan Edwall, 72, Swedish actor, author, composer and singer.[25]
- Maynard Pirsig, 95, American legal scholar.
- Daniil Shafran, 74, Soviet/Russian cellist.
- José García Villa, 88, Filipino poet, novelist, and painter.[26]
8
- Mark Baum, 94, Polish-American painter.
- Nathan Lerner, 83, American photographer.[27]
- Henry Margenau, 95, German-American physicist and philosopher of science.[28]
- Robert Ridgely, 65, American actor and voice artist, cancer.[29]
- Corey Scott, 28, American motorcycle stunt rider, motorcycle accident.
9
- David Austick, 76, British politician and bookshop owner.[30]
- Maide Arel, Turkish-Armenian painter.
- Fritz Grasshoff, 83, German painter, poet and songwriter.
- Jack Owens, 92, American blues singer and guitarist.[31]
- Margaret Dean Smith, 97, English folklorist and librarian.
- Max Tetley, 87, Australian rules footballer.
10
- Conrad M. Arensberg, 86, American anthropologist and scholar, respiratory failure.[32]
- Lou Bennett, 70, American jazz organist.
- Milton Cato, 81, Saint Vincentian politician and first Prime Minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
- Brian Connolly, 51, Scottish lead singer of the glam band Sweet.
- Brahm Dutt Dwivedi, Indian politician, shot.
- Robert Mallary, 79, American sculptor and pioneer in computer art, leukemia.[33]
- Jerome Namias, 86, American meteorologist.[34]
11
- Nalanda Ellawala, 29, Sri Lankan politician, shot.
- Lewis Jacobs, 92, American screenwriter, film director and critic.[35]
- Don Porter, 84, American actor.
- Ray Terrell, 77, American gridiron football player.
12
- Nora Beloff, 78, English journalist and political writer.[36]
- James Cossins, 63, English actor, heart disease.
- Abd al-Fattah Abu Ghudda, 79, Syrian leader of the Muslim Brotherhood.
- Ruth Winifred Howard, 96, American psychologist.
- Federico Pisani, 22, Italian footballer, car crash.[37]
- Vali Rácz, 85, Hungarian singer and actress.
13
- Bobby Adams, 75, American baseball player.[38]
- Otto Beckmann, 88, Austrian sculptor and pioneer of computer art.
- Robert Herman, 82, American scientist.[39]
- Don Jordan, 62, American boxer, complications following robbery.
- Reg Ryan, 71, Irish football player.
- Atta Shad, 57, Pakistani poet, playwright, and intellectual.
14
- Jack Matheson, 76, American gridiron football player.[40]
- Charles Moffett, 67, American free jazz drummer.[41]
- Miguel Rodriguez, 35, Filipino actor and model, pancreatitis.
- William L. Scott, 81, American politician.[42]
- Ustad Muhammad Yousuf, 57, Pakistani singer.
15
- Oscar Adams, 72, American lawyer and first African-American Alabama Supreme Court justice.[43]
- Frode Rinnan, 91, Norwegian architect and politician.
- Jack Sparling, 80, Canadian comics artist.[44]
16
- Bozorg Alavi, 93, Iranian writer, novelist, and intellectual.
- Ethel Owen, 103, American actress.
- Jack Wilson, 82, British rower and Olympic champion.
- Chien-Shiung Wu, 84, Chinese-American experimental physicist.[45]
17
- Kenny Graham, 72, British jazz saxophonist, arranger and composer.[46]
- Ichimaru, 90, Japanese recording artist and geisha.
- Joe Kieyoomia, 77, American Navajo prisoner of war during World War II.
- Darcy Ribeiro, 74, Brazilian anthropologist, historian, sociologist, author and politician.[47]
- Georg L. Samuelsen, 87, Faroese editor and voice actor.
18
- Antonio de Almeida, 69, French conductor and musicologist.[48]
- Eric Fenby, 90, English composer, conductor, pianist and organist[49]
- Emily Hahn, 92, American journalist and author.[50]
- George L. Jones, 78, United States Air Force flying ace during the Korean War.
- Austin Knickerbocker, 78, American baseball player.[51]
- Ana G. Méndez, 89, Puerto Rican educator.
- Paul Vinelli, 74, Italian-American-Honduran economist and banker.
19
- Frank Delfino, 86, American actor, bone marrow cancer.
- Taylor Drysdale, 83, American competition swimmer and swimming coach.
- Buddy Edelen, 59, American marathon runner.[52]
- Karin Magnussen, 89, German nazi eugenicist, biologist, and researcher during World War II.[53]
- Lois Marshall, 73, Canadian soprano.[54]
- Fernand Oury, 77, French pedagogue.
- Leo Rosten, 78, American humorist.[55]
- Deng Xiaoping, 92, Chinese politician leader of the People's Republic of China, complications of lung infections.[56]</ref>[57]
20
- Paul Anxionnaz, 94, French politician.
- Zachary Breaux, 36, American jazz guitarist, drowned.[58]
- Ruth Clark (pollster), American pollster and researcher.[59]
- Stan Pearson, 78, English footballer.
- Alan Tennant, 66, English rugby player.
21
- Ziya Bunyadov, 73, Azerbaijani historian and scientist, murdered.[60]
- Luitgard Im, 67, German actress.
- Choe Kwang, 78, North Korean army general and politician, heart attack.[61]
- Mohamed Nasir, 81, Malaysian politician.
- Josef Posipal, 69, Romanian-German footballer, heart failure.
- Kenneth Rowntree, 81, British artist.[62]
- Eleanor Butler, Lady Wicklow, 82, Irish politician and architect.
22
- Joey Aiuppa, 89, American mobster.[63]
- Urmila Bhatt, 62/63, Indian actress, murdered.
- William Karush, 79, American mathematician.
- James A. Lewis, 63, American Libertarian Party politician.[64]
- Harold Nichols, 79, American wrestler and wrestling coach.
23
- Gordon Glisson, 66, American Champion jockey.
- Ephraim P. Holmes, 88, United States Navy admiral.[65]
- Frank Launder, 91, British writer, film director and producer.[66]
- Oscar Lewenstein, 80, British theatre and film producer.[67]
- Tony Williams, 51, American jazz drummer, heart attack.[68]
24
- Astrid Fagraeus, 83, Swedish immunologist.[69]
- Raymond Lambert, 72, Swiss mountaineer, complications of a lung disorder.[70]
- Isabelle Lucas, 69, Canadian-British actress and singer, heart attack.
- Ernest C. Pollard, 90, British professor of physics and biophysics, stroke.[71]
- Len Vlahov, 56, Australian track and field athlete, cancer.
25
- Cal Abrams, 72, American baseball player, heart attack.[72]
- Bill "Hoss" Allen, 74, American radio disc jockey.
- Louis Auslander, 68, American mathematician.[73]
- Earle Edwards, 88, American football player and coach.
- Scott Forbes, 76, British actor and screenwriter.[74]
- Yi Han-yong, 36, North Korean defector, murdered.
- Arthur Hewlett, 89, British actor.
- Ugo Poletti, 82, Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, heart attack.
- Ted Roach, 87, Australian trade unionist and member of the Communist Party of Australia.[75]
- Andrei Sinyavsky, 71, Russian writer and Soviet dissident.[76]
- John Williams, 70, Australian politician.
26
- Nuccio Bertone, 82, Italian automobile designer and constructor.[77]
- Mildred Clingerman, 78, American science fiction author.
- David Doyle, 67, American actor, lung cancer.[78]
- Paul J. Fontana, 85, United States Marine Major General and flying ace.
- Vincent Gaddis, 83, American author.
- Joseph A. LeFante, 68, American politician.[79]
- Tom O'Connor, 78, Irish Gaelic footballer.
- Wende Wagner, 55, American actress, cancer.
27
- Karl Anders, 90, German political activist.
- Kingsley Davis, 88, American sociologist and demographer.[80]
- William Gear, 81, Scottish painter.[81]
- Indeevar, 73, Indian film lyricist.
- Alpo Jaakola, 67, Finnish painter and sculptor.
- Mieczysław Jagielski, 73, Polish politician and economist, heart attack.
- George Karreman, 76, Dutch-American physicist, mathematical biophysicist and biologist.
- Kim Kwang-jin, 69, North Korean general and politician.
- Harry Love, 85, American animator, effects animator, and writer, heart attack.[82]
- William R. Maples, 59, American forensic anthropologist, brain cancer.[83]
- Edward J. McCormack Jr., 73, American lawyer and politician, complications from lung cancer.
- Theodore Mendez, 62, English abstract artist.
28
- Donald Carrick, 90, Ontario lawyer, political figure, Olympic boxer, and Canadian national golf champion.[84]
- Harry Anderson, 69, American football player and coach.
- Osvaldo Bailo, 84, Italian road cyclist.[85]
- John Bruce Howell, 55, American librarian and bibliographer.
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