Deaths in March 1997

The following is a list of notable deaths in March 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.

March 1997

1

• Stanislaus Joseph Brzana, 79, American bishop of the Roman Catholic Church.[1]
• Martin Furnival Jones, 84, British Director General of MI5 (1965-1972).[2]
• Monte Kennedy, 74, American baseball player.[3]
• Annie Beatrice van der Biest Thielan Wetmore, 87, Dutch-American ornithologist.[4]

2

• Yahaya Ahmad, 49, Malaysian businessman, helicopter crash.[5]
• Gurgen Askaryan, 68, Soviet physicist.
• Judi Bari, 47, American environmentalist, feminist, and labor leader, breast cancer.[6]
• Douglas Blackwood, 87, British publisher and fighter pilot during World War II.[7]
• Horace Cutler, 84, British politician.[8]
• Herman H. Fussler, 82, American librarian, writer and editor.
• Albert Gazier, 88, French trade union leader and politician.
• J. Carson Mark, 83, Canadian-American mathematician, complications from a fall.[9]
• Waldo Nelson, 98, American pediatrician.[10]
• Vicente Parra, 66, Spanish actor, lung cancer.[11]
• Wendell Thompson Perkins, 69, American painter.[12]

3

• Bradford Angier, 86, American wilderness survivalist.
• Jascha Brodsky, 89, Russian-American violinist.[13]
• Eric Edwards, Baron Chelmer, 82, English peer and solicitor.[14]
• Harry Davis, 88, American baseball player.[15]
• Lola Beer Ebner, 86, Israeli fashion designer.
• Billy Jurges, 88, American baseball player.[16]

4

• Joe Baker-Cresswell, 96, English Royal Navy officer and aide-de-camp to King George VI.[17]
• Roger Brown, 54, American basketball player, colon cancer.[18]
• Leo Catozzo, 84, Italian film editor.
• Robert H. Dicke, 80, American astronomer and physicist.[19]
• Michel Dulud, 95, French playwright, screenwriter and film director.
• Stanley Fink, 61, American lawyer and politician, cancer.[20]
• Robert Lampman, 76, American economist, lung cancer.[21]
• Carey Loftin, 83, American actor and stuntman.
• Paul Préboist, 70, French actor.

5

• Zalman Abramov, 88, Israeli politician.
• Josef Ackermann, 91, German Nazi politician.
• Syed Amjad Ali, 89, Pakistani politician and a civil servant.[22]
• Samm Sinclair Baker, 87, American self-help writer.[23]
• Ralph Bass, 85, American R&B record producer.
• George Brand, 85, Australian politician.[24]
• Frank Brennan, 72, Scottish footballer.

6

• Rosalyn Boulter, 80, British film actress.[25]
• Ed Furgol, 79, American golfer.[26]
• Cheddi Jagan, 78, President of Guyana.[27]
• Michael Manley, 72, Prime Minister of Jamaica (1972–1980; 1989–1992).[28]
• Ursula Torday, 85, British novelist.

7

• Wilfred Conwell Bain, 89, American music educator.[29]
• William Hawley Clark, 77, American Anglican bishop, cancer and Parkinson's disease.
• Chuck Green, 77, American tap dancer.[30]
• Martin Kippenberger, 44, German artist and sculptor, liver cancer.[31]
• Edward Mills Purcell, 84, American physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics, respiratory failure.[32]
• Kim Yale, 43, American writer and editor of comic books, breast cancer.

8

• Leon Danielian, 76, American ballet dancer, teacher, and choreographer.[33]
• Gershon Liebman, 92, French rabbi and holocaust survivor.
• Lefter Millo, 30, Albanian football player, car accident.
• Alexander Salkind, 75, French-Mexican film producer.[34]
• Alfred Sheinwold, 85, American bridge player and writer, stroke.[35]

9

• Jean-Dominique Bauby, 44, French journalist and author (Elle magazine), pneumonia during locked-in syndrome.
• Seymour Bennett, 81, American screenwriter.
• John Boyd, 70, United States Air Force fighter pilot and military strategist, cancer.[36]
• Robert B. Leighton, 77, American experimental physicist.[37]
• John S. McKiernan, 85, American politician.
• Terry Nation, 66, Welsh screenwriter, emphysema.
• The Notorious B.I.G., 24, American rapper, murdered.[38]
• Veronica Wedgwood, 86, English historian.[39]
• Dwight Locke Wilbur, 93, American medical doctor and president of the A.M.A..[40]

10

• Jimmy Airlie, 60, Scottish trade unionist, cancer.[41]
• LaVern Baker, 67, American R&B singer, cardiovascular disease.[42]
• Stan Drake, 75, American cartoonist.
• Yorozuya Kinnosuke, 64, Japanese kabuki actor.
• Imam Mustafayev, 87, Azerbaijani communist politician.
• Ossie O'Brien, 68, British politician.[43]
• Wesley Ramey, 87, American boxer.
• Johannes Theodor Suhr, 101, Danish Roman Catholic bishop.
• Wilf Wooller, 84, Welsh cricketer, rugby player, and journalist.

11

• Lars Ahlin, 81, Swedish author and aesthetician.
• Robert Browning, 83, Scottish Byzantinist.[44]
• Ernst-Georg Drünkler, 76, German Luftwaffe flying ace during World War II.
• Thikkurissy Sukumaran Nair, 80, Indian poet, playwright, film director and actor, kidney failure.
• Hugo Weisgall, 84, American composer and conductor.[45]

12

• Shamsul-hasan Shams Barelvi, 79/80, Pakistani Islamic scholar.
• Hendrik Brugmans, 90, Dutch academic and linguist.[46]
• Bertram Myron Gross, 84, American social scientist, congestive heart failure.[47]
• William Hare, 5th Earl of Listowel, 90, Anglo-Irish peer and Labour politician.
• Wally Wolf, 66, American swimmer, water polo player, and Olympic champion.

13

• Ronald Fraser, 66, English actor, haemorrhage.[48]
• Mike Klapak, 84, American NASCAR race car driver.[49]
• Joe Repko, 76, American football coach and player.

14

• Jurek Becker, 59, Polish-German writer, film author and GDR dissident.
• Alija Isaković, 65, Bosnian writer, publicist, and playwright.
• Kalman Mann, 84, Israeli physician, car accident.
• Veerendra Patil, 73, Indian politician.[50]
• Fred Zinnemann, 89, Austrian-American film director.[51]

15

• C. Arulampalam, 88, Sri Lankan Tamil politician.
• Gail Davis, 71, American actress and singer, cancer.[52]
• Edith Frohock, 80, American artist.
• Ed Kullman, 73, Canadian ice hockey player.[53]
• Dorab Patel, 72, Pakistani jurist and lawmaker, leukemia.
• Victor Vasarely, 90, Hungarian-French artist.

16

• Berta Bojetu, 51, Slovene writer, poet and actress.
• Paal Frisvold, 89, Norwegian general.
• Leda Gloria, 88, Italian actress.[54]
• Harry Holgate, 63, Australian politician and Premier of Tasmania, cancer.[55]
• John Montague Stow, 85, British colonial official.[56]
• Star Stowe, 40, American model and Playboy centerfold, murdered.

17

• Prem Jayanth, 64, Sri Lankan actor and film producer.
• Fritz Moravec, 74, Austrian mountaineer and author.
• Charles G. Overberger, 76, American chemist, Parkinson's disease.[57]
• Jermaine Stewart, 39, American R&B singer, AIDS-related liver cancer.[58]

18

• Kevin Gaines, 31, American police officer implicated in the Rampart scandal, killed.
• Wilbur Knorr, 51, American historian of mathematics, melanoma.[59]
• Erik de Mauny, 76, English journalist and author.[60]

19

• Jacques Foccart, 83, French businessman and politician.[61]
• Eugène Guillevic, 89, French poet.
• Willem de Kooning, 92, Dutch abstract expressionist artist, Alzheimer's disease.[62]
• Purnendu Pattrea, 66, Indian poet, writer, illustrator and film director.

20

• Ronnie Barron, 53, American actor and musician, heart problems.[63]
• Jean Engstrom, 76, American actress.
• Carlo Fassi, 67, Italian figure skater and coach.
• Marino Marini, 72, Italian musician.
• V. S. Pritchett, 96,British writer and literary critic.[64]
• Tony Zale, 83, American boxer.[65]

21

• Wilbert Awdry, 85, British children's author.[66]
• Charles Booth, 72, British diplomat.
• John Nemechek, 27, American NASCAR race car driver, complications from racing accident.[67]

22

• L. Royal Christensen, 82, American epidemiologist.[68]
• Mary Peters Fieser, 87, American chemist.
• Andrei Starovoytov, 81, Soviet/Russian ice hockey player and referee.
• James G. Stewart, 89, American sound engineer.
• Harry Thode, 86, Canadian geochemist and nuclear chemist.[69]

23

• Jack Clarke, 65, Australian rules footballer.
• Pyotr Lushev, 73, Soviet Army general during the Cold war.
• Pearson Mwanza, 29, Zambia football player.[70]

24

• Martin Caidin, 69, American author, screenwriter, and aviator.
• U. Alexis Johnson, 88, American diplomat, pneumonia.[71]
• Marcelle de Lacour, 100, French harpsichordist.
• Dr. Bill Miller, 69, American professional wrestler, heart attack.
• Roberto Sánchez Vilella, 84, Governor of Puerto Rico (1965–1969).[72]

25

• Robert Arthur, 75, American radio announcer.
• Baltazar, 71, Brazilian footballer.
• Pedro Medina, 39, Cuban refugee and murder convict, execution by electrocution.[73]
• Norm Ryan, 86, Australian politician.
• C. J. F. Williams, 66, British philosopher, cardiac arrest.[74]

26

• Norman Alexander, 89, New Zealand physicist.[75]
• Marshall Applewhite, 65, leader of the Heaven's Gate cult group, suicide.
• Bobby Hume, 56, Scottish footballer.
• Otto John, 88, German defector and spy.[76]
• George Post, 90, American watercolorist and art educator, pneumonia.
• Nina Mason Pulliam, 90, American journalist, author, and civic leader, complications from respiratory infection.
• Dickie Williams, 72, Welsh rugby player.

27

• John Barr, 79, Scottish footballer.
• George Malcolm Brown, 71, English geologist.[77]
• David A. Clarke, 53, American civil-rights worker, attorney, and politician, PCNSL.
• Hugh Horner, 72, Canadian physician and politician, heart attack.
• Ella Maillart, 94, Swiss adventurer, travel writer and photographer.[78]
• Benno Premsela, 76, Dutch designer, visual artist and art collector.
• Raje Vishveshvar Rao, Indian Raja and politician.
• Émile Stijnen, 89, Belgian footballer.[79]

28

• Arthur Arntzen, 90, Norwegian politician.[80]
• Lesley Cunliffe, 51, American journalist and writer, stomach cancer.[81]
• Carlos Ruiz Fuller, 80, Chilean geologist and mining engineer.
• Kambara Tai, 98, Japanese poet, painter, author, art critic and Japanese futurism pioneer, heart failure.[82]

29

• George William Gregory Bird, 80, British medical doctor, researcher and haematologist, renal failure.
• Gaius de Gaay Fortman, 85, Dutch politician and jurist.[83]
• Pupul Jayakar, 81, Indian cultural activist and writer.[84]
• Norman Pirie, 89, British biochemist and virologist.[85]
• Ellen Pollock, 94, British actress.[86]
• Anthony Roberts, 41, American basketball player, shot.
• Eddie Ryder, 74, American actor, writer, and television director.
• Ruth Sager, 79, American geneticist, bladder cancer.[87]

30

• Dorothy Liu, 62, Hong Kong pro-Beijing politician and lawyer, pancreatic cancer.[88]
• Bill Smith, 62, American baseball player.[89]
• Gordon Stephenson, British-Australian town planner and architect.
• Jon Stone, 64, American writer, director and producer, ALS.[90]
• Tadeusz Żenczykowski, 90, Polish lawyer and political activist.

31

• Eugenie Anderson, 87, United States diplomat.[91]
• Ross Bragg, 40, Canadian politician, leukemia.
• Friedrich Hund, 101, German physicist.
• Marvin Liebman, 73, American activist and gay rights advocate.[92]
• Helen Meinardi, 87, American screenwriter and songwriter.
• Stephen Kalong Ningkan, 76, Malaysian politician.[93]
• Chandrashekhar Prasad, 32, Indian student leader and communist activist, assassinated.
• Lyman Spitzer, 82, American theoretical physicist and astronomer, heart disease.[94]

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