Deaths in August 1997

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

August 1997

1

• Kenneth W. Bilby, 78, American RCA executive, leukemia.
• Berta Alves de Sousa, 91, Portuguese pianist and composer.
• Ngiratkel Etpison, 73, Palauan politician.
• Dame Bertha Isaacs, 97, Bahamian teacher, tennis player, politician and women's rights activist.
• Lawrence Alexander Sidney Johnson, 72, Australian taxonomic botanist, cancer.
• Angel Acuña Lizaña, 78, Mexican Olympic basketball player.
• Norio Nagayama, 48, Japanese spree killer and novelist, execution by hanging.
• Gene Richardson, 69, American baseball player.
• Sviatoslav Richter, 82, Ukrainian pianist, heart attack.
• Janet G. Travell, 95, American physician and medical researcher, heart failure.
• Hans von Luck, 86, German Wehrmacht officer during World War II.

2

• William S. Burroughs, 83, American author and visual artist, heart attack.
• John Churcher, 91, British army general.
• Antonis Daglis, Greek serial killer, suicide by hanging.
• Joyce Dingwell, 89, Australian writer.
• Feim Ibrahimi, 61, Albanian composer.
• Harald Kihle, 92, Norwegian painter and illustrator.
• James Krüss, 71, German children's author and illustrator.
• Fela Kuti, 58, Nigerian musician and human rights activist, AIDS.
• Russ Mosley, 79, American football player.
• Frank E. Smith, 79, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives, complications from strokes.
• Ricardo Muñoz Suay, 79, Spanish film director, producer and screenwriter.
• Michèle Pujol, 46, French intellectual, feminist, and human rights activist, cancer.
• Rhydwen Williams, 80, Welsh poet, novelist and baptist minister.

3

• Peter A. Carruthers, 62, American physicist.
• Joan Erikson, 94, Austrian-Canadian author, educator, and dance ethnographer.
• Mladen Koščak, 60, Croatian football player and Olympian.
• Pietro Rizzuto, 63, Canadian politician, member of the Senate of Canada.
• Nirmal Chandra Sinha, 85–86, Indian tibetologist and author.

4

• Horace Bristol, 88, American photographer.
• Ces Burke, 83, New Zealand cricketer.
• Dick Bush, 65, British cinematographer.
• Jeanne Calment, 122, French supercentenarian and the oldest person ever documented in history, senility.
• Tom Eckersley, 82, English poster artist and teacher of design.
• Nicholas J. Hoff, 91, Hungarian-American aeronautics and astronautic engineer.
• Gene Johnson, 61, American gridiron football player.
• Jens Lundgaard, 86, Danish footballer.
• Lloyd Marshall, 83, American light heavyweight boxer.
• Ariel Maughan, 74, American basketball player.
• Ray Renfro, 67, American gridiron football player.
• Sidney Simon, 80, American painter, sculptor, and muralist.
• Alexander Young, 58, Scottish musician, lung cancer.

5

• Dick Day, 77, Australian rules footballer.
• Clarence M. Kelley, 85, American politician and director of the FBI.
• Poul Møller, 77, Danish Conservative People's Party politician.
• Don Steele, 61, American disc jockey, lung cancer.
• Michael J. Tully Jr., 64, American lawyer and politician, heart attack.

6

• Lance Barnard, 78, Australian politician and diplomat.
• Bill Behr, 78, American basketball player.
• Maria Antonietta Beluzzi, 67, Italian actress, infarction.
• Birendra Kumar Bhattacharya, 72, Indian writer.
• Shin Ki-ha, 56, South Korean politician, plane crash.
• Jürgen Kuczynski, 92, German economist and communist.
• Tom Normanton, 80, British politician.
• John Porter, 93, Canadian ice hockey player and Olympian.
• Noel Teggart, 55, Irish Olympic cyclist.
• Samuel Paul Welles, 89, American palaeontologist.
• Bora Öztürk, 42, Turkish football player, cancer.

7

• Rudolf Blügel, 70, German politician and member of the Bundestag.
• Jules Goedhuys, 92, Belgian racing cyclist.
• Kay Halle, 93, American journalist, author and World War II OSS operative.
• Elisabeth Höngen, 90, German operatic mezzo-soprano and actress.
• Eugene Langenraedt, 90, Belgian Olympic sprinter.
• Robert Major, 82, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada.
• Volker Prechtel, 55, German actor, cancer.
• Léon Spartz, 70, Luxembourgian Olympic footballer.

8

• Joseph Aquilina, 78, Maltese author and linguist.
• Orville H. Hampton, 80, American screenwriter.
• Dardanelle Hadley, 79, American jazz musician.
• William Lithgow, 77, English cricketer.
• Plato Malozemoff, 87, Russian-American engineer and businessman, congestive heart failure.
• Paul Rudolph, 78, American architect, peritoneal mesothelioma.
• Oad Swigart, 82, American baseball player.

9

• Doug Adams, 47, American gridiron football player.
• Max Bloesch, 89, Swiss Olympic handball player.
• Gabriel Cattand, 73, French actor.
• Herbert de Souza, 61, American sociologist and activist, AIDS-related complications.
• Ilpo Koskela, 52, Finnish ice hockey player and Olympian.
• Trần Đại Nghĩa, 83, Vietnamese scientist and military engineer.

10

• Peter Braestrup, 66–67, American journalist, heart attack.
• Valery Chaptynov, 52, Russian politician.
• Roy Chipman, 58, American basketball coach, colorectal cancer.
• Malú Gatica, 75, Chilean actress and singer.
• William Jordy, 80, American architectural historian.
• Steve Kraftcheck, 68, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Jean-Claude Lauzon, 43, Canadian filmmaker and screenwriter, plane crash.
• Carlton Moss, 88, American screenwriter, actor and film director.
• Conlon Nancarrow, 84, American-Mexican composer.
• Marie-Soleil Tougas, 27, Canadian actress and tv host, plane crash.
• Bob Welborn, 69, American racing driver.
• George Zames, 63, Polish-Canadian control theorist and professor.

11

• Miksa Bondi, 79, Hungarian Olympic boxer.
• Bert McTaggart, 81, Australian rules footballer.
• Frank Pearson, 77, American Negro league baseball player.
• Jacques Robert, 76, French author, screenwriter and journalist.

12

• Luther Allison, 57, American blues guitarist, cancer.
• Anna Balakian, 82, Armenian-American professor of comparative literature, congestive heart failure.
• Rex Barney, 72, American baseball player.
• Ambrogio Bessi, 82, Italian Olympic basketball player.
• Gösta Bohman, 86, Swedish politician.
• Jack Delano, 83, American photographer, kidney failure.
• Rob Denton, 89, American soccer player and Olympian.
• Keith Harper, 70, Australian rules football player.
• Robert Hetzron, 58, Hungarian-born linguist.
• Gulshan Kumar, 46, Indian businessman and film producer, shot.
• Dick Marx, 73, American jazz pianist and arranger, traffic collision.
• Mario Montuori, 77, Italian film cinematographer and painter.
• Abe Newborn, 77, American talent agent and theatre producer, congestive heart failure.
• Sam Nolutshungu, 52, South African academic, cancer.
• Len Norris, 83, Canadian editorial cartoonist.
• Achilles Papapetrou, 90, Greek theoretical physicist.
• Albert L. Smith, Jr., 65, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives.
• Conrad von Molo, 90, Austrian film producer and editor.
• Ali Yata, 76, Moroccan communist leader.

13

• Vladimir Gribov, 67, Soviet and Russian theoretical physicist.
• António de Herédia, 96, Portuguese Olympic sailor.
• Robert L. Leggett, 71, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives.
• Dick Mather, 56, Canadian politician, heart attack.
• Emil Mosbacher, 75, American yachtsman and Chief of Protocol of the United States, cancer.
• Harlow Rothert, 89, American Olympic shot putter.
• Marjorie Lynette Sigley, 68, English artist, writer, actress, choreographer and theatre director, cancer.
• Carel Weight, 88, English painter.

14

• John Elliot, 79, British novelist, screenwriter and television producer.
• Charlie Fleming, 70, Scottish footballer.
• Diana E. Forsythe, 49, American anthropology researcher, hiking accident.
• Frederick Carl Galda, 79, American attorney and politician.
• George Pfister, 78, American baseball player, and coach, heart attack.
• Guido Vincenzi, 65, Italian football player and manager, A.L.S.

15

• Ida Gerhardt, 92, Dutch writer and poet.
• Ray Heatherton, 88, American singer, Broadway performer and television personality, Alzheimer's disease.
• Lubka Kolessa, 95, Canadian-Ukrainian pianist and educator.
• Lawrence Morgan, 82, Australian rules footballer, equestrian and Olympian.
• Steve Pruski, 73, Canadian football player.
• Dave Solomon, 84, Fijian-New Zealand rugby player and coach.
• Çesk Zadeja, 70, Albanian composer.

16

• Yanick Dupré, 24, Canadian ice hockey player, leukemia.
• Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, 48, Pakistani Qawwali musician, heart attack.
• Robert Lang, 80, Swiss cyclist.
• Alf Malland, 80, Norwegian actor.
• Plum Mariko, 29, Japanese female professional wrestler, wrestling accident.
• Jacques Pollet, 75, French racing driver.
• Donn Reynolds, 76, Canadian country music singer and yodeler.
• Hendrik van den Bergh, 82, South African police official.
• Roger Vrigny, 77, French writer.

17

• Burnum Burnum, 61, Australian Aboriginal activist, actor, and author, heart disease.
• Secondo Magni, 85, Italian racing cyclist.
• Don Owens, 65, American gridiron football player.
• David Schweitzer, 72, Israeli football player and manager.
• Richard Skalak, 74, American biomedical engineering pioneer.

18

• Praphas Charusathien, 84, Thai military officer and politician.
• Fedor Hanžeković, 84, Croatian film director.
• Don Knight, 64, English actor, stroke.
• Ante Pivčević, 71, Croatian Olympic sailor.
• Maria Prymachenko, 89, Ukrainian folk art painter.
• Frank P. Sanders, 78, American Under Secretary of the Navy.
• Robert Swenson, 40, American professional wrestler and actor, heart failure.
• Tochiakagi Takanori, 42, Japanese sumo wrestler.
• Harry R. Wellman, 98, American academic.

19

• Cathleen Cordell, 82, American actress, emphysema.
• René van Hove, 84, Dutch Olympic cyclist.
• Jim Karcher, 83, American gridiron football player.
• Robson Lowe, 92, English philatelist, stamp dealer and stamp auctioneer.
• Petr Novák, 51, Czech rock musician, poisoned.
• Mario Velarde, 57, Mexican football player.

20

• Scott Armstrong, 83, American basketball player.
• Norris Bradbury, 88, American physicist, infectious disease.
• William Humphrey, 73, American writer, cancer.
• Leo Jaffe, 88, American film executive.
• Bob Switzer, 83, American inventor, businessman and environmentalist, Parkinson's disease.

21

• Misael Pastrana Borrero, 73, President of Colombia.
• Somers Cox, 86, New Zealand Olympic rower.
• Abdul Rahim Ghafoorzai, Afghani politician and diplomat, prime minister of afghanistan, plane crash.
• Jean Horsley, 84, New Zealand artist.
• William Jopling, 86, Italian-British leprologist.
• Guillermo Molina, 88, American baseball player.
• Yuri Nikulin, 75, Soviet/Russian actor and clown, heart failure.

22

• Prince Álvaro of Orleans, 87, Spanish noble and Infante.
• James Edmund Jeffries, 72, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives.
• James K. Johnson, 81, United States Air Force officer.
• François Lachenal, 79, Swiss publisher and diplomat.
• Eduardo Lopes, 79, Portuguese road and track cyclist, cerebral vascular accident.
• Bill MacIntosh, 66, Canadian Olympic sailor.
• Matti Sippala, 89, Finnish athlete and Olympian.
• Robin Skelton, 71, British-Canadian academic, writer, poet, and anthologist.
• Mary Louise Smith, 82, American politician and women's rights activist, lung cancer.
• Brendan Smyth, 70, Northern Irish Roman Catholic priest and convicted child molester, heart attack.
• Virgil Wagner, 75, Canadian football player.
• Roy Zimmerman, 79, American gridiron football player.

23

• Mike Calhoun, 40, American football player.
• Guy Curtright, 84, American baseball player.
• Eric Gairy, 75, Prime Minister of Grenada.
• Jack Harris, 95, Canadian Olympic middle-distance runner.
• Buddy Hassett, 85, American baseball player, bone cancer.
• Lucy Somerville Howorth, 102, American lawyer, feminist and politician.
• John Kendrew, 80, British molecular biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
• Elena Mayorova, 39, Soviet and Russian actress, burns.
• Jean Poperen, 72, French politician.
• Jan Šejna, 70, Czechoslovak Army Major General and defector.

24

• Werner Abrolat, 73, German actor.
• Davide Ancilotto, 23, Italian basketball player, brain ischemia during game.
• Hardial Bains, 58, Indian-Canadian microbiology lecturer and communist politician, cancer.
• Rex Ellsworth, 89, American thoroughbred horse breeder.
• Louis Essen, 88, English physicist.
• Tete Montoliu, 64, Spanish jazz pianist, lung cancer.
• Zofia Rydet, 86, Polish photographer.
• Edgar F. Shannon, Jr., 79, American university director, cancer.
• Luigi Villoresi, 88, Italian motor racing driver.

25

• Clodomiro Almeyda, 74, Chilean politician, colon cancer.
• Mauro Cristofani, 56, Linguist and researcher in Etruscan studies.
• Muriel Frances Dana, 80, American silent film era child actress.
• Peter Dews, 67, British stage director.
• James Gould, 83, New Zealand rower.
• Carl Richard Jacobi, 89, American journalist and author.
• Füreya Koral, 87, Turkish ceramics artist.
• Noé Murayama, 67, Mexican actor.
• Bijan Najdi, 55, Iranian writer and poet.
• Robert Pinget, 78, French avant-garde writer.
• Camilla Spira, 91, German actress.
• Vitaly Tulenev, 60, Soviet and Russian painter, visual artist and art teacher.

26

• Marcello Aliprandi, 63, Italian film director.
• Peter Bakonyi, 64, Hungarian-born Canadian fencer and Olympian.
• Hone Glendinning, 85, British cinematographer.
• William Kenneth Kiernan, 81, Canadian businessman and politician.
• Brendan McCarthy, 52, American football player, heart attack.

27

• Saim Arıkan, 91, Turkish Olympic wrestler.
• Sotiria Bellou, 76, Greek singer, cancer.
• Sally Blane, 87, American actress, cancer.
• Ing Chang-ki, 79, Chinese industrialist and Go player, cancer.
• Arthur Cutler, 84, New Zealand cricketer.
• Johannes Edfelt, 92, Swedish writer, poet, and literary critic.
• Noël Henderson, 69, Northern Irish rugby player.
• James Lindsay, 90, British politician.
• Dick N. Lucas, 77, American animator.
• Samuel A. Peeples, 79, American writer, cancer.
• Brandon Tartikoff, 48, American television executive, Hodgkin's lymphoma.

28

• Frank Bencriscutto, 68, American concert band conductor and composer.
• Jim Bredar, 65, American college basketball player.
• Joyce Ebert, 64, American actress, cancer.
• Cesar Gaudard, 82, Swiss Olympic wrestler.
• Tõnu Haljand, 52, Soviet Estonian skier and Olympian.
• Werner Mieth, 85, American gridiron football player.
• Lou Scoffic, 84, American baseball player.
• Peter Springett, 51, English footballer, cancer.
• Masaru Takumi, 61, Japanese yakuza lord, shot.
• Lloyd A. Thompson, 65, Nigerian classicist and academic.

29

• Richard Cottam, 72, American political scientist, Iranist and CIA operative.
• Osborne Cowles, 98, American basketball player and coach.
• Kansari Halder, 86, Indian politician.
• James Latane Noel Jr., 87, American district judge.
• Rudolf Pichlmayr, 65, German surgeon.
• Nelly Prono, 71, Paraguayan actress, cerebrovascular disease.

30

• John D. Craig, 94, American writer, film producer, and television host.
• Frunze Dovlatyan, 70, Armenian film director and actor.
• Toshiya Fujita, 65, Japanese film director, film actor, and screenwriter, liver failure.
• Dale Lewis, 64, American wrestler and Olympian.
• Ernst Wilimowski, 81, German–Polish football player.
• Veselin Đuranović, 72, Montenegrin politician.

31

• Will Hare, 81, American actor, heart attack.
• Heinz Kaufmann, 83, German rower.
• John M. Leddy, 83, United States Department of State official.
• Oscar Olson, 79, American basketball player.
• Lotus Weinstock, 54, American stand-up comedian, author, musician, and actress, brain tumor.
• People killed in the Pont de l'Alma car crash:
• *Diana, Princess of Wales, 36, British royal and ex-wife of future King Charles III, and activist.
• *Dodi Fayed, 42, Egyptian film producer.