Deaths in February 1997

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

  February 1997

1

• Simion Bughici, 82, Romanian politician.
• Herb Caen, 80, American journalist and columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle, lung cancer.
• Heiner Carow, 67, German film director and screenwriter.
• Ed Danowski, 85, American football player.
• Mitchell Goodman, 73, American writer, teacher, and activist.
• William Kintner, 81, American soldier, foreign policy analyst, and diplomat.
• Kiki Kogelnik, 62, Austrian painter, sculptor and printmaker, cancer.
• Thelma Moss, 79, American actress, psychologist and parapsychologist.
• Lillian Porter, 79, American film and television actress.
• Marjorie Reynolds, 79, American actress and dancer, heart failure.
• Bo Russell, 81, American gridiron football player.
• Francisco Tobar García, 68, Ecuadorian poet, playwright, journalist, and diplomat, lung cancer.
• Wilcomb E. Washburn, American historian, prostate cancer.

  2

• Godfrey Baseley, 92, British radio executive.
• Raúl de Anda, 88, Mexican actor, screenwriter, film producer and director.
• Erich Eliskases, 83, Austrian-Argentinian chess grandmaster.
• Karsten Johannesen, 77, Norwegian footballer.
• Qin Jiwei, 82, Chinese general and member of the Politburo.
• Sanford Meisner, 91, American actor and acting teacher.
• Art Merewether, 94, American baseball player.
• Martin Mussgnug, 60, German politician.
• Raimundo Saporta, 70, Spanish club basketball administrator.
• Chico Science, 30, Brazilian singer and composer, traffic collision.
• Theodoros Stamos, 74, Greek-American painter.
• Seán Ó Síocháin, 82, Irish Gaelic footballer, hurler, and broadcaster.

  3

• Boris de Rachewiltz, 70, Italian-Russian egyptologist and writer.
• Jerry Beit haLevi, 84, Israeli football player and manager.
• Bohumil Hrabal, 82, Czech writer, fall.
• Agi Jambor, 87, Hungarian-born American pianist.
• Stan Kostka, 84, American football player, and coach.
• Harry H. Wachtel, 79, American lawyer and civil rights activist, Parkinson's disease.
• Mikhail Yakushin, 86, Russian football player and manager.
• Jun'ichi Yoda, 91, Japanese poet.

  4

• Henry H. Barschall, 81, German-American physicist.
• Robert Clouse, 68, American film director and producer, kidney failure.
• Artie Combes, 83, Australian cricketer.
• Benjamin David de Jesus, 56, Philippine prelate of the Catholic Church, shot.
• Ross Lee Finney, 90, American composer.
• Paulo Francis, 66, Brazilian journalist, novelist and critic, heart attack.
• Robi Ghosh, 65, Indian actor.
• A R Mallick, 78, Bangladeshi historian and educationist.
• Alek Rapoport, 63, Russian nonconformist artist.
• Davide Sorrenti, 20, Italian-American photographer.
• James Tattersall, 56, British tennis player.
• Cyril Toumanoff, 83, Russian-American historian.
• Darrell Tully, 79, American football player, and coach.

  5

• Frederick J. Almgren, Jr., 63, American mathematician, complication following surgery.
• Bob Brown, 58, Canadian professional wrestler.
• Robert Elem, 69, American blues guitarist and singer.
• Dorothy Fosdick, 83, American foreign policy expert.
• Pamela Harriman, 76, English-American political activist, diplomat, and socialite, cerebral hemorrhage.
• Oren Harris, 93, American politician and district judge.
• René Huyghe, 90, French art historian.
• Jürgen Neukirch, 59, German mathematician.
• Harry Trotsek, 84, American Thoroughbred racehorses trainer and owner.

  6

• Ernie Anderson, 73, American disc jockey, and television and radio announcer, cancer.
• Harry Essex, 86, American screenwriter and director.
• Roger Laurent, 83, Belgian racing driver.
• Riza Lushta, 81, Kosovar Albanian football striker.
• Amby Murray, 83, American baseball player.
• Cliff Thompson, 78, American ice hockey player.

  7

• Nina Albright, 89, American comic book artist.
• Owen Aspinall, 69, American politician and Governor of American Samoa.
• John Baker, 59, British musician and composer.
• Sam DeCavalcante, 84, American mobster, heart attack.
• Allan Edwall, 72, Swedish actor, author, composer and singer, prostate cancer.
• Gérard Higny, 65, Belgian rower and Olympian.
• Maynard Pirsig, 95, American legal scholar.
• Manny Salvo, 84, American baseball player.
• Daniil Shafran, 74, Soviet/Russian cellist.
• Rösli Streiff, 96, Swiss alpine skier and world champion.
• Jose Garcia Villa, 88, Filipino poet, novelist, and painter.
• Mary Wills, 82, American costume designer, kidney failure.

  8

• Nathan Lerner, 83, American photographer.
• Henry Margenau, 95, German-American physicist and philosopher of science.
• Robert Ridgely, 65, American actor, cancer.
• Corey Scott, 28, American motorcycle stunt rider, traffic collision.
• Michael Voslenski, 76, Soviet and Russian writer, scientist, diplomat and dissident.
• Walter Wiora, 90, German musicologist and music historian.

  9

• David Austick, 76, British politician and bookshop owner.
• Taylor Drysdale, 83, American swimmer, swimming coach and Olympian.
• Barry Evans, 53, English actor.
• Fritz Grasshoff, 83, German painter, poet and songwriter.
• Leni Junker, 91, German sprint runner and Olympian.
• Mikhail Lavrov, 69, Soviet Russian Olympic racewalker.
• Jack Owens, 92, American blues singer and guitarist.
• Williams Sassine, 53, Guinean novelist.
• Max Tetley, 87, Australian rules footballer.
• Luis Velásquez, 77, Guatemalan long-distance runner and Olympian.

  10

• Harriet Andreassen, 71, Norwegian labour activist and politician.
• Conrad M. Arensberg, 86, American anthropologist and scholar, respiratory failure.
• 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 singer-songwriter, musician and actor.
• Jan Kramer, 83, Dutch Olympic rower.
• Robert Mallary, 79, American sculptor and computer art pioneer, leukemia.
• Ted McCarthy, 85, Australian rules footballer.
• Jerome Namias, 86, American meteorologist.
• Olaf Strand, 98, Norwegian middle-distance runner and Olympian.
• Tadeusz Trojanowski, 64, Polish Olympic wrestler.

  11

• Nalanda Ellawala, 29, Sri Lankan politician, shot.
• Robert A. Graham, 84, American Jesuit priest and historian.
• Lewis Jacobs, 92, American screenwriter, film director and critic.
• Don Porter, 84, American actor.
• Glen Stewart, 84, American baseball player.
• Ray Terrell, 77, American gridiron football player.

  12

• Nora Beloff, 78, English journalist and political writer.
• James Cossins, 63, English actor, heart disease.
• Francis Healy, 86, American Major League Baseball player.
• Ruth Winifred Howard, 96, American psychologist.
• Victor Huthart, 72, British Olympic sports shooter.
• Federico Pisani, 22, Italian footballer, traffic collision.
• Heikki Raitio, 72, Finnish Olympic fencer.

  13

• Bobby Adams, 75, American baseball player.
• John R. Bartels, 99, American district judge.
• Thies Christophersen, 79, German neo-nazi and Holocaust denier.
• Robert Klark Graham, 90, American eugenicist and businessman.
• Robert Herman, 82, American scientist.
• Don Jordan, 62, American boxer, complications following robbery.
• Eduardo Kapstein, 82, Chilean Olympic basketball player.
• Ernő Rubik, 86, Hungarian aircraft designer.
• Reg Ryan, 71, Irish football player.
• Atta Shad, 57, Pakistani poet, playwright, and intellectual.

  14

• Lélia Gousseau, 88, 20th-century French classical pianist.
• Jack Matheson, 76, American gridiron football player.
• Charles Moffett, 67, American free jazz drummer.
• Miguel Rodriguez, 35, Filipino actor and model, pancreatitis.
• William L. Scott, 81, American politician, Alzheimer's disease.
• Chōbyō Yara, 94, Japanese politician and teacher.
• Mohammed Yousuf, 57, Pakistani singer.

  15

• Oscar W. Adams Jr., 72, American lawyer and first African-American Alabama Supreme Court justice.
• Arne Berg, 87, Swedish Olympic road racing cyclist.
• William Dippie, 89, Scottish cricketer.
• Philip Hershkovitz, 87, American mammalogist.
• Billie-Jo Jenkins, 13, English murder victim.
• Mazhar-Ul-Haque Khan, 73, Pakistani hurdler and Olympian.
• Bob Lacey, 54, American football player.
• Paul Page, 69, American gridiron football player.
• Frode Rinnan, 91, Norwegian architect and politician.
• Jack Sparling, 80, Canadian comic book artist.

  16

• Peter Bullock, 72, English cricketer.
• Abd al-Fattah Abu Ghudda, 79, Syrian leader of the Muslim Brotherhood.
• Ethel Owen, 103, American actress.
• Alvis Vītoliņš, 50, Latvian chess master, suicide by jumping.
• Jack Wilson, 82, British rower and Olympic champion.
• Chien-Shiung Wu, 84, Chinese-American experimental physicist, watershed stroke.

  17

• Spartaco Bandinelli, 75, Italian boxer and Olympian.
• Kenny Graham, 72, British jazz saxophonist, arranger and composer.
• Leonard Ho, 72, Hong Kong film producer.
• Ichimaru, 90, Japanese recording artist and geisha.
• Bärbel Inhelder, 83, Swiss psychologist.
• Joe Kieyoomia, 77, American Navajo prisoner of war during World War II.
• Darcy Ribeiro, 74, Brazilian anthropologist, historian, sociologist, author and politician, cancer.
• Georg L. Samuelsen, 87, Faroese editor and voice actor.

  18

• Bozorg Alavi, 93, Iranian writer, novelist, and intellectual, heart attack.
• Enrique Peralta Azurdia, 88, President of Guatemala.
• Antonio de Almeida, 69, French conductor and musicologist, lung cancer, liver cancer.
• Gerd Domhardt, 51, German composer.
• Eric Fenby, 90, English composer, conductor, pianist and organist.
• Reggie Forte, 47, American activist and founding member of the Black Panther Party.
• Jnan Prakash Ghosh, 87, Indian harmonium and tabla player and musicologist.
• Emily Hahn, 92, American journalist and author.
• Austin Knickerbocker, 78, American baseball player.
• Ingrid Larsen, 84, Danish Olympic diver.
• Geoffrey Swaebe, 86, American diplomat and ambassador, complications of pneumonia.