Deaths in April 1997

• Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship, reason for notability, cause of death, and reference.

  April 1997

1

• Milton Brunson, 67, American gospel musician and pastor.
• Jack Carroll, 66, Canadian Olympic sprinter.
• Evsey Domar, 82, Russian American economist.
• Jolie Gabor, 100, Hungarian-American socialite.
• John R. Hargrove Sr., 73, American attorney and district judge.
• Makar Honcharenko, 84, Soviet-Ukrainian football player and coach.
• Jerry Pacht, 75, American judge, cerebral hemorrhage.
• Franz Seltenheim, 82, Austrian Olympic swimmer.

  2

• Zaki Badr, 71, Egyptian general and politician.
• Al Blanche, 87, American baseball player.
• Anthony Bushell, 92, English film actor and director.
• Craig D. Button, 32, United States Air Force pilot, suicide by plane crash.
• Zsolt Durkó, 62, Hungarian composer.
• Orvis A. Kennedy, 89, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada.
• Reg Lewis, 77, English football player.
• Yulii Meitus, 94, Ukrainian composer.
• David Shahar, 70, Israeli fiction writer, translator, and editor.
• Tomoyuki Tanaka, 86, Japanese film producer, stroke.

  3

• Thomas Barthel, 74, German ethnologist and epigrapher.
• Jerome Cosentino, 65, American politician.
• Sergei Filatov, 70, Soviet and Russian equestrian and Olympian.
• Ivor McIvor, 79, Australian rules footballer.
• Dan Swartz, 62, American basketball player.
• John Ugelstad, 76, Norwegian chemical engineer and inventor.
• Robert W. Ward, 67, American businessman and politician, cancer.
• Henriette Wyeth, 79, American artist.

  4

• Lawrence A. Appley, 93, American organizational theorist.
• Kevin Coverdale, 56, Australian rules footballer.
• Herta Ehlert, 92, German nazi camp guard during World War II.
• Billy Graham, 61, American comics artist.
• Sugimura Haruko, 88, Japanese actress.
• Leo Picard, 96, Israeli geologist.
• Mike Raven, 72, British radio disc jockey, actor and sculptor.
• Vladimir Soloukhin, 72, Russian poet and writer.
• Shoichiro Takenaka, 84, Japanese Olympic long-distance runner.
• Alparslan Türkeş, 79, Turkish politician, heart attack.
• Rudolf Ulrich, 75, German film actor.

  5

• Ignazio Buttitta, 97, Italian poet.
• Heberto Castillo, 58, Mexican political activist.
• Richard Clifton-Dey, 66, British artist.
• Paul W. Cronin, 59, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives, brain cancer.
• Paul de Bruyn, 89, German athlete and Olympian.
• Stoney Edwards, 67, American country singer, stomach cancer.
• Allen Ginsberg, 70, American poet and writer, liver cancer.
• Warren Godfrey, 66, Canadian ice hockey player.
• August Heckscher II, 83, American public intellectual and writer, heart failure.
• Bill Holland, 81, American baseball player.
• Aklilu Lemma, 61, Ethiopian scientist.
• John R. McKinney, 76, American soldier and recipient of the Medal of Honor.
• Riley Morris, 62-63, American football player.
• Albino Simões Neto, 73, Portuguese Olympic rower.

  6

• Max Alvarado, 68, Filipino actor, heart failure.
• Bernard Chevallier, 84, French Olympic equestrian.
• Jack Kent Cooke, 84, Canadian-American businessman, cardiac arrest, heart attack.
• Stephan Hermlin, 81, German author.
• Peter Jeffrey, 83, Royal Australian Air Force officer and flying ace.
• David Keith-Lucas, 86, British aeronautical engineer.
• Frank Kirwin, 75, Australian rules footballer.
• Barbara Yu Ling, Singapore-British actress.
• Joaquin Mazdak Luttinger, 73, American physicist.
• Rosita Serrano, 84, Chilean singer, chronic bronchitis.
• Pierre-Henri Teitgen, 88, French lawyer, professor and politician.

  7

• Luis Aloma, 73, Cuban baseball player.
• Josef Deutschmann, 76, Austrian Olympic cross-country skier.
• Aaron Kramer, 75, American poet and social activist.
• Sam Parks, Jr., 87, American golfer.
• Georgy Shonin, 61, Soviet cosmonaut, heart attack.

  8

• Kwame Baah, 58, Ghanaian soldier and politician.
• Bob Cain, 72, American baseball player, cancer.
• Charles Hayes, 79, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives, lung cancer.
• Laura Nyro, 49, American songwriter, singer, and pianist, ovarian cancer.
• Homer Peel, 94, American baseball player, and manager.
• Alejo Peralta, 80, Mexican baseball executive.

  9

• Mae Boren Axton, 82, American songwriter and music promoter.
• Joe Coleman, 74, American baseball player.
• Helene Hanff, 80, American writer, peritonitis, diabetes.
• Geoffrey Hardy-Roberts, 89, British Army officer, politician and courtier.
• John Hollar, 74, American football player.
• Yank Rachell, 94, American country blues musician.
• Stevo Teodosievski, 72, Macedonian artist and humanist.
• Wu Zuoren, 88, Chinese painter.

  10

• Bèto Adriana, 71, Antillean sportsman and Olympian.
• Erik Blumenfeld, 82, German politician.
• Michael Dorris, 52, American novelist and scholar, suicide.
• Stan Eastham, 83, English footballer and Olympian.
• Fred Emery, 71, Australian psychologist.
• Andrew Joseph Galambos, 72, Hungarian astrophysicist and philosopher.
• Alan Gibson, 73, English journalist, writer and radio broadcaster.
• Ben Gregory, 50, American football player.
• Gösta Johansson, 68, Swedish ice hockey player and Olympian, liver cancer.
• Marcel Maes, 52, Belgian cyclist.
• Toshiro Mayuzumi, 68, Japanese composer.
• Mehtab, 78, Indian actress.
• Martin Schwarzschild, 84, German-American astrophysicist.
• Edgar Sulite, 39, Filipino martial arts teacher.
• Francis Walder, 90, Belgian writer and soldier.
• Glanville Williams, 86, Welsh legal scholar.

  11

• Castor de Andrade, 71, Brazilian mobster and bicheiro.
• Yehia Emam, 78, Egyptian footballer and Olympian.
• Muriel McQueen Fergusson, 97, Canadian activist, judge and politician.
• Rajko Kojić, 40, Serbian/Yugoslav guitarist.
• Milt Smith, 68, American baseball player.
• Radovan Stojičić, 46, Serbian police general, leader of the Public Security Service and acting Minister of Internal Affairs of Serbia.
• Wang Xiaobo, 44, Chinese novelist and essayist, heart attack.
• Junzō Yoshimura, 88, Japanese architect.

  12

• Kevin Belcher, 35, American football player.
• Wally Catchlove, 90, Australian cricketer.
• Ivar Eriksson, 87, Swedish football defender.
• Nechama Leibowitz, 91, Israeli bible scholar and commentator.
• Moro Lorenzo, Filipino basketball player and executive.
• Dorothy Norman, 92, American photographer, writer, and arts patron.
• Eric Pearce, 92, Australian broadcaster.
• James Ross, 85, Scottish surgeon.
• George Wald, 90, American scientist and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

  13

• Mustafa Amin or Mostafa Amin, 83, Egyptian columnist and journalist.
• Madhava Ashish, 77, British-Indian spiritualist, mystic, writer and agriculturist.
• Dorothy Frooks, 101, American author, lawyer, and suffragist.
• Josef Krejci, 86, Austrian Olympic handball player.
• David McCord, 99, American poet.
• Shuhei Nishida, 86, Japanese Olympic pole vaulter, heart failure.
• Harry Rosenberg, 88, American baseball player.
• Zbigniew Szajewski, 82, Polish Olympic wrestler.
• Voldemar Väli, 94, Estonian Greco-Roman wrestler and Olympic medalist.

  14

• Gerda Christian, 83, German private secretary of Adolf Hitler during World War II, cancer.
• Count Geoffrey Potocki de Montalk, 93, New Zealand poet, polemicist and pretender to the Polish throne.
• Kit Denton, 68, Australian writer and broadcaster.
• Gus Dugas, 90, Canadian-born baseball outfielder.
• Rusty Jackson, 46, American football player.
• John Jennings, 94, English footballer.
• Michael Stroka, 58, American television actor, kidney cancer.
• Walter Taylor, 84, American anthropologist and archaeologist.
• Finn Wold, 69, Norwegian-American biochemist, cancer.

  15

• Don Bexley, 87, American actor and comedian, heart and kidney failure.
• L. Brent Bozell, Jr., 71, American conservative activist and Roman Catholic writer.
• David Dockendorf, 73, American sound engineer.
• Bob Friedrichs, 90, American baseball player.
• Jaime Garcia Goulart, 89, Portuguese Catholic missionary and bishop.
• Jim Holloway, 88, American baseball player.
• Zdeněk Mlynář, 66, Czech politic writer, political analyst and lawyer.
• Sam Moskowitz, 76, American writer, critic, and science fiction historian.
• Harry Nicholas, 92, British trade unionist.
• Kō Nishimura, 74, Japanese actor.
• Sipan Shiraz, 29, Armenian poet, sculptor and painter.
• Carlos Enrique Taboada, 67, Mexican screenwriter and director.
• Richard Tousey, 88, American astronomer, pneumonia.

  16

• Doris Angleton, 46, American socialite and murder victim, shot.
• Jan Bruins, 56, Dutch motorcycle road racer.
• Esmeralda Arboleda Cadavid, 76, Colombian activist, politician and diplomat, kidney failure.
• John Elliott, 62, Australian Olympic wrestler.
• Thaddeus Golas, 72, American writer.
• Doug McMahon, 79, Canadian soccer player.
• Emilio Azcárraga Milmo, 66, Mexican newspaper publisher, pancreatic cancer.
• Roland Topor, 59, French graphic artist, author and actor, cerebral hemorrhage.
• Claude Tresmontant, 71, French philosopher, hellenist and theologian.

  17

• Mitsu Arakawa, 69, American professional wrestler, heart failure.
• Dale Burnett, 88, American gridiron football player.
• Tom Franckhauser, 59, American gridiron football player, heart attack.
• Allan Francovich, 56, American film maker, heart attack.
• Chaim Herzog, 78, Israeli politician, general, and author.
• Henry George Lang, 78, New Zealand economist, university professor and company director.
• Gérard Lecomte, 70, French arabist.
• Biju Patnaik, 81, Indian politician, aviator and businessman.
• Mary French Rockefeller, 86, American heiress, socialite and philanthropist.
• Hena Rodríguez, 81, Colombian sculptor.