Deaths in January 1997

The following is a list of notable deaths in January 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.

January 1997

1

• Aenne Brauksiepe, 84, German politician.
• Asnoldo Devonish, 64, Venezuelan track and field athlete.
• Ivan Graziani, 51, Italian singer-songwriter and guitarist, colon cancer.
• Hagood Hardy, 59, Canadian composer, pianist, and vibraphonist, lymphoma.[1]
• Mohammed Hafez Ismail, 77, Egyptian diplomat and ambassador.
• Graham Kersey, 25, English cricketer, traffic accident.[2]
• Hans-Martin Majewski, 85, German composer of film scores.
• James B. Pritchard, 87, American archeologist.[3]
• Joan Rice, 66, English film actress.[4]
• Townes Van Zandt, 52, American singer-songwriter, cardiac arrythmia.[5]

2

• Leighton Buckwell, 78, Canadian politician.
• Randy California, 45, American guitarist, singer and songwriter, drowned.[6]
• Samuel Carlisi, 82, American mobster, heart attack.
• Moshe Wilensky, 86, Polish-Israeli composer.[7]

3

• Werner Genuit, 59, German classical pianist and composer.
• Roger Goeb, 82, American composer[8]
• Velda Johnston, 84, American novelist.
• Pieter Keuneman, 79, Sri Lankan communist politician.
• Odd Øyen, 82, Norwegian physician and resistance member during World War II.[9]
• Marie Torre, 72, American television journalist, lung cancer.[10]

4

• Hédi Berkhissa, 24, Tunisian footballer, heart attack.
• Akhteruzzaman Elias, 53, Bangladeshi novelist and short story writer.
• Harry Helmsley, 87, American real estate mogul, pneumonia.[11]
• Harry P. Jeffrey, 95, American attorney and politician.
• Bill Lancaster, 49, American screenwriter and actor, heart attack.[12]
• Tormod Skagestad, 76, Norwegian poet, novelist, playwright and actor.
• Richard Taitano, 75, Guamanian politician.

5

• Peter Cain, American artist.
• André Franquin, 73, Belgian comics artist, (Spirou & Fantasio, Gaston, Marsupilami).[13]
• Peter Zack Geer, 68, American politician, cancer.
• Prince Bertil, Duke of Halland, 84, Swedish royal, third son of King Gustaf VI Adolf.
• Burton Lane, 84, American composer and lyricist.[14]
• Casey Miller, 77, American feminist author and editor.
• Frans Piët, 91, Dutch comics artist (Sjors en Sjimmie).[15]
• Emil Roy, 89, American baseball player.
• V. C. Wynne-Edwards, 90, English zoologist.[16]

6

• Herbert Blitzstein, 62, American mobster, murdered.
• Dick Donovan, 69, American MLB baseball player, cancer.[17]
• Teiichi Matsumaru, 87, Japanese football player.
• Catherine Scorsese, 84, Italian-American actress.[18]

7

• Tod Goodwin, 85, American gridiron football player.[19]
• Paul-Werner Hozzel, 86, Nazi Germany Luftwaffe pilot during World War II.
• Eduard Isken, 78, German Luftwaffe flying ace during World War II.
• Christopher Mayhew, 81, British politician.
• Patricia McLaughlin, 80, Northern Irish politician.

8

• Smiley Bates, 59, Canadian country singer, songwriter, and musician, cancer.[20]
• Melvin Calvin, 85, American biochemist.[21]
• James Fraser, 72, Scottish academic surgeon.[22]
• Harold Foote Gosnell, 100, American political scientist and author.[23]
• George Handy, 76, American jazz arranger, composer and pianist.[24]

9

• Ove Dahlberg, 65, Swedish ice hockey referee, heart attack.
• Ellen Griffin Dunne, 64, American actress and activist, multiple sclerosis.
• Vasily Fedotov, 81, Soviet Army major general.
• Shorty McWilliams, 70, American football player.[25]
• Edward Osóbka-Morawski, 87, Polish activist and politician.
• Jesse White, 80, American actor and comedian, heart attack.[26]

10

• Bob Atwood, 89, American journalist and publisher.
• Mary Bancroft, 93, American novelist and spy.[27]
• Samuel Preston Bayard, 88, American folklorist and musicologist.
• Gordon W. Burrows, 70, American politician, cardiac arrest.[28]
• André Caron, 52, member of the House of Commons of Canada from 1993 to 1997, cancer.
• William C. Dixon, 92, American government antitrust lawyer.
• Seymour Halpern, 83, American politician.[29]
• Elspeth Huxley, 89, English author, journalist, broadcaster, and government adviser.[30]
• Valentin Koptyug, 65, Soviet/Russian chemist.
• Sheldon Leonard, 89, American actor, producer, director, and writer.[31]
• Phil Marchildon, 83, Canadian Major League Baseball player.[32]
• Derek Pratt, 71, English cricketer.
• Alexander R. Todd, 89, Scottish biochemist and Nobel Prize laureate, heart attack.[33]
• Shiv Verma, 92, Indian revolutionary.
• Lee Willerman, 57, American psychologist.[34]
• Albert Wohlstetter, 83, American nuclear strategist.[35]
• George Young, 74, Scottish footballer.

11

• Bhabatosh Datta, 85, Indian economist, academic and writer.
• Rosalind Hill, 88, English historian, heart failure.[36]
• Pancheti Koteswaram, 81, Indian meteorologist, hydrologist, and atmospheric physicist.
• Stu Martin, 84, American Major League Baseball player.[37]
• Afsar Madad Naqvi, 63, Pakistani sculptor.
• Jerry Neudecker, 66, American MLB umpire, cancer.
• Patrick Sherrard, 78, English cricketer.
• Helen Foster Snow, 89, American journalist.[38]
• Jill Summers, 86, English music hall performer and comedian.[39]

12

• Don Dorman, 74, English footballer.
• Sem Ghelardini, 69, Italian sculptor and artisan.
• Jean-Edern Hallier, 60, French writer, critic and editor, cerebral haemorrhage after fall.
• Jean Hoerni, 72, Swiss-American engineer.
• Charles Brenton Huggins, 95, Canadian-American cancer researcher and Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate.[40]

13

• Sivar Arnér, 87, Swedish novelist and playwright.
• Burton Barr, 79, American businessman and politician, kidney failure.[41]
• Max Kaser, 90, German academic and professor of jurisprudence.
• Leo Margolis, 69, Canadian parasitologist, heart attack.[42]
• Baburaoji Parkhe, 84, Indian industrialist.
• Ruslan Stratonovich, 66, Russian physicist and engineer.
• Herman V. Wall, 91, American combat photographer during World War II.

14

• Leonard Dodson, 84, American golfer.
• King Hu, 64, Chinese film director and actor, complications from angioplasty.
• Robert Irsay, 73, American football team owner.[43]
• Ebba Lodden, 83, Norwegian civil servant and politician.
• Dollard Ménard, 83, Canadian general.
• Polly Ann Young, 88, American actress, cancer.[44]

15

• Oscar Auerbach, 92, American physician.[45]
• Exuma, 54, Bahamian musician, artist, playwright and author, heart attack.
• Nadezhda Kozhushanaya, 44, Soviet/Russian screenwriter and writer.
• Edwin Smith, 74, New Zealand rower.

16

• Markus Hoffmann, 26, German actor, suicide.
• Nils Katajainen, 77, Finnish flying ace during World War II.
• Zvonimir Koceić, 79, Croatian footballer.
• Hamish Mahaddie, 85, Scottish Royal Air Force officer.
• Iain Mills, 56, English politician.[46]
• Beverly Peer, 84, American jazz double-bassist, cancer.[47]
• Juan Landázuri Ricketts, 83, Peruvian catholic cardinal.
• Eddie Whitcombe, 83, English golfer.

17

• Susanna Al-Hassan, 69, Ghanaian author and politician.
• Lewis H. Gann, German-American historian, political scientist and archivist.
• Jug Girard, 69, American football player.[48]
• Robert Giraud, 75, French journalist, poet and lexicographer.
• Bert Kelly, 84, Australian politician and government minister.
• Amha Selassie, 80, Ethiopian Emperor-in-exile and son of Haile Selassie I.
• Clyde Tombaugh, 90, American astronomer.[49]
• Theo Wilson, 79, American reporter, cerebral hemorrhage.[50]

18

• Herbert A. Allen Sr., 88, American stockbroker.
• Ruth Brinkmann, 62, American actress and founder of Vienna's English Theatre, ovarian cancer.[51]
• Adriana Caselotti, 80, American actress and singer.[52]
• Keith Diamond, 46, American songwriter and producer, heart attack.[53]
• William C. Goodloe, 77, American lawyer, politician and judge.
• Ardis Krainik, 67, American mezzo-soprano opera singer.[54]
• Diana Lewis, 77, American film actress, pancreatic cancer.[55]
• Flors Sirera, 33, Spanish nurse and aid worker for Médecins du Monde, murdered.
• Darío Suro, 79, Dominican Republic art critic, diplomat and painter.
• Paul Tsongas, 55, American politician, non-Hodgkin lymphoma.[56]

19

• Robert Chapatte, 75, French cyclist and sports journalist.
• James Dickey, 73, American poet and novelist.[57]
• Richard E. Jennings, 75, English comics artist, pneumonia.[58]
• Graham Skinner, 86, English cricketer.
• Sudhir, 75, Pakistani film actor, director and producer.

20

• Albín Brunovský, 61, Slovak painter and graphic artist.
• Curt Flood, 59, American baseball player, pneumonia.[59]
• Joseph J. Loferski, 71, American physicist.[60]
• Ashious Melu, 39, Zambian footballer and coach.
• Konrad Püschel, 89, German architect, town planner, and university professor.
• Dennis Main Wilson, 72, British radio and television producer, lung cancer.[61]

21

• John Glyn-Jones, 87, British actor.[62]
• Sourendra Nath Kohli, 80, Indian Navy admiral.
• Louis Miehe-Renard, 77, Danish film actor.
• Shinroku Momose, 77, Japanese aircraft/automotive engineer.
• Colonel Tom Parker, 87, Dutch-American manager of Elvis Presley.[63]
• Jaco Reinach, 35, South African rugby player and athlete, car accident.

22

• Pilar Barbosa, 98, Puerto Rican educator, historian and political activist.
• George Dockins, 79, American baseball player.[64]
• Ron Holden, 57, American pop and R&B singer, heart attack.[65]
• Elwyn Lynn, 79, Australian artist, author and art critic.
• Billy Mackenzie, 39, Scottish singer and songwriter, suicide.[66]
• Cornelio Reyna, 56, Mexican singer, composer and actor.
• Willard Wheatley, 81, British Virgin Islands politician and Chief Minister.

23

• Richard Berry, 61, American singer, songwriter and musician, complications from an aneurysm.[67]
• Paul Egli, 85, Swiss road bicycle racer.
• Lyudmila Marchenko, 56, Soviet film actress.
• Roger Tayler, 67, British astronomer, cancer.[68]
• Rolling Thunder, 80, American hippy spiritual leader, complications of diabetes.
• Bill Zuckert, 81, American actor, pneumonia.

24

• Bill Alexander, 81, German painter and television host.
• Lourdino Barreto, 58, Indian musicologist and composer.
• Dr. Jerry Graham, 75, American professional wrestler, complications from a stroke.[69]
• Ida Kohlmeyer, 84, American painter.[70]
• Roy Sproson, 66, English footballer and manager.
• Gaetana Tolomeo, 60, Italian venerated catholic.

25

• Werner Aspenström, 78, Swedish poet.
• Jeane Dixon, 93, American astrologer.[71]
• Sir Barry Duxbury, 63, British air marshal.
• Carlton Benjamin Goodlett, 82, American physician and newspaper publisher.[72]
• Edith Thacher Hurd, 86, American children's author.[73]
• Nikola Koljević, 60, Bosnian Serb politician, essayist, and scholar, suicide.
• Manuel Tuñón de Lara, 81, Spanish historian.
• George W. Mitchell, 92, American economist.[74]

26

• Jack Clayton, 82, American football, basketball, and baseball coach, congestive heart failure.[75]
• Barkat Ali Ludhianwi, 85, Indian muslim sufi.
• Sir Frank Hartley, 86, British pharmacist.
• Margaret, Princess of Hesse and by Rhine, 83, German princess.
• Cornelius Herman Muller, 87, American botanist and ecologist.[76]
• Guy Raymond, 85, American actor.
• Donald E. Stokes, 69, American political scientist, acute leukemia.[77]

27

• Bill Kennedy, 88, American actor and television show host.
• Cecil Arthur Lewis, 98, British last surviving World War I fighter ace.[78]
• Gerald Marks, 96, American composer.
• Louis E. Martin, 84, American journalist, newspaper publisher and civil rights activist[79]
• Harish Chandra Sarin, 82, Indian civil servant, writer and defence secretary of India.
• Richard X. Slattery, 71, American actor.[80]
• Aleksandr Zarkhi, 88, Soviet film director, screenwriter, and playwright.

28

• Anna Galmarini, 54, Italian figure skater.
• Raya Garbousova, 87, Russian-American cellist.[81]
• Mikel Koliqi, 96, Albanian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.[82]
• Wong Shun Leung, 61, Hong Kong martial artist, stroke.
• Geoffrey Rippon, 72, British politician.[83]
• Pandurang Vasudeo Sukhatme, 85, Indian statistician.

29

• Irma Blohm, 85, German politician.
• Floyd E. Breinholt, 81, American painter and art professor, cancer.[84]
• Ken Harada, 77, Japanese politician.
• Osvaldo Soriano, 54, Argentine journalist and writer, lung cancer.
• Thomas Daniel Young, 77, American academic.[85]

30

• Henry Bentinck, 11th Earl of Portland, 77, British earl and activist.
• Charles Hargens, 103, American painter.[86]
• Willis Harman, 78, American engineer, futurist, and autho, brain cancer.
• Duane Josephson, 54, American baseball player.[87]
• John Lavery, 77, Northern Irish footballer.
• Frank Tejeda, 51, United States Marine and politician, brain cancer.[88]

31

• Harold Raymond Ballard, 78, Canadian politician.
• Raymond Coxon, 100, British artist.[89]
• Hedy Graf, 70, Spanish-Swiss soprano.
• Zahir Pajaziti, 34, Kosovo Albanian guerilla commander, killed in action.
• Eugenia Smith, 98, American Romanov impostor.[90]
• Alexander Solonik, 36, Russian gangster, strangled.
• Hans Tisdall, 86, German-British artist.[91]

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