Deaths in January 1997

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

  January 1997

1

• Prince Eugen of Bavaria, 71, German noble.
• Aenne Brauksiepe, 84, German politician.
• Asnoldo Devonish, 64, Venezuelan track and field athlete and Olympian.
• Al Eugster, 87, American animator, writer, and film director.
• Jean Feller, 77, Luxembourgish Olympic footballer.
• Ivan Graziani, 51, Italian singer-songwriter and guitarist, colon cancer.
• Hagood Hardy, 59, Canadian composer, pianist, and vibraphonist, lymphoma.
• Ham Harmon, 83, American fooball player.
• Mohammed Hafez Ismail, 77, Egyptian diplomat and ambassador.
• Graham Kersey, 25, English cricketer, traffic collision.
• Hans-Martin Majewski, 85, German composer of film scores.
• James B. Pritchard, 87, American archeologist.
• Joan Rice, 66, English film actress.
• Franco Volpi, 75, Italian actor and voice actor, cancer.
• Townes Van Zandt, 52, American singer-songwriter, cardiac arrhythmia.
• Ladislau Zilahi, 74, Romanian football player and manager.

  2

• Randy California, 45, American guitarist, singer and songwriter, drowned.
• Samuel Carlisi, 82, American mobster, heart attack.
• Aarne Castrén, 73, Finnish Olympic sailor.
• Joan Coromines, 91, Spanish linguist.
• Antonio Giordani Soika, 83, Italian entomologist and ecologist.
• Moshe Wilensky, 86, Polish-Israeli composer.

  3

• Werner Genuit, 59, German classical pianist and composer.
• Roger Goeb, 82, American composer.
• Michel Heller, 74, Russian historian, heart attack.
• Pieter Keuneman, 79, Sri Lankan communist politician.
• Jon Lennart Mjøen, 84, Norwegian actor, film director and screenwriter.
• Gianfranco Pandolfini, 76, Italian Olympic water polo player.
• Marie Torre, 72, American television journalist, lung cancer.
• Odd Øyen, 82, Norwegian physician and resistance member during World War II.

  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.
• Harry P. Jeffrey, 95, American attorney and politician, member of the United States House of Representatives.
• Bill Lancaster, 49, American screenwriter and actor.
• Lucien Rebuffic, 75, French Olympic basketball player.
• Tormod Skagestad, 76, Norwegian poet, novelist, playwright and actor.
• Richard Taitano, 75, Guamanian politician.

  5

• André Franquin, 73, Belgian comics artist,, heart attack.
• Peter Zack Geer, 68, American politician, cancer.
• Prince Bertil, Duke of Halland, 84, Swedish royal, third son of King Gustaf VI Adolf.
• Homer Hobbs, 73, American football player, and coach.
• Burton Lane, 84, American composer and lyricist.
• Frans Piët, 91, Dutch comics artist.
• Emil Roy, 89, American baseball player.
• Alvaro de Toledo, 75, Brazilian Olympic equestrian.
• V. C. Wynne-Edwards, 90, English zoologist.

  6

• Herbert Blitzstein, 62, American mobster, shot.
• Dick Donovan, 69, American MLB baseball player, cancer.
• Kalevi Laitinen, 78, Finnish gymnast and Olympic champion.
• Teiichi Matsumaru, 87, Japanese football player.
• Heinrich Müller, 70, Swiss Olympic cyclist.
• Charles Murphy, 88, Australian politician.
• Catherine Scorsese, 84, Italian-American actress, Alzheimer's disease.

  7

• Francisco Castillo, 75, Spanish Olympic water polo player.
• Tod Goodwin, 85, American gridiron football player.
• Paul-Werner Hozzel, 86, Nazi Germany Luftwaffe pilot during World War II.
• Christopher Mayhew, 81, British politician.
• Patricia McLaughlin, 80, Northern Irish politician.
• Sándor Végh, 84, Hungarian-French violinist and conductor.
• Alfred Vincelette, 61, American Olympic skier.

  8

• Sidney Aronovitz, 76, American district judge.
• Smiley Bates, 59, Canadian country singer, songwriter, and musician, cancer.
• Melvin Calvin, 85, American biochemist, heart failure.
• Paul Endacott, 94, American basketball player.
• James Fraser, 72, Scottish surgeon.
• Harold Foote Gosnell, 100, American political scientist and author.
• George Handy, 76, American jazz arranger, composer and pianist.
• Phyllis Hartnoll, 90, British poet, author and editor.
• Alfred John Markiewicz, 68, American prelate of the Catholic Church.

  9

• Karol Borhy, 84, Czechoslovak football coach.
• Ove Dahlberg, 65, Swedish ice hockey referee, heart attack.
• Herb Davis, 97, American football player.
• Angelo Drossos, 68, American basketball executive, Parkinson's disease.
• Ellen Griffin Dunne, 64, American actress and activist, multiple sclerosis.
• Muhammadu Junaidu, 91, Nigerian historian and writer.
• Fortunato Maninetti, 76, Italian rower and Olympian.
• Shorty McWilliams, 70, American football player.
• Edward Osóbka-Morawski, 87, Polish activist and politician.
• Jesse White, 79, American actor and comedian, heart attack.

  10

• Mary Bancroft, 93, American novelist and spy.
• Samuel Preston Bayard, 88, American folklorist and musicologist.
• Emmet Reid Blake, 88, American ornithologist and museum curator.
• Gordon W. Burrows, 70, American politician, cardiac arrest.
• André Caron, 52, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada, cancer.
• Bela Čuzdi, 70, Yugoslavian Olympic wrestler.
• János Erdei, 77, Hungarian Olympic boxer.
• Seymour Halpern, 83, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives.
• Elspeth Huxley, 89, English author, journalist, broadcaster, and government adviser.
• Valentin Koptyug, 65, Soviet/Russian chemist.
• Allan Livingstone, 68, Australian Olympic canoeist.
• Phil Marchildon, 83, Canadian Major League Baseball player.
• Tordis Maurstad, 95, Norwegian stage actress.
• Nick Picciuto, 75, American baseball player.
• Martin Pike, 76, British athlete and Olympian.
• Alec Todd, Baron Todd, 89, Scottish biochemist and Nobel Prize laureate, heart attack.
• Shiv Verma, 92, Indian revolutionary.
• Lee Willerman, 57, American psychologist.
• Albert Wohlstetter, 83, American nuclear strategist.
• George Young, 74, Scottish footballer.

  11

• Arild Andersen, 68, Norwegian racing cyclist.
• William Byrne, 90, American painter.
• Bhabatosh Datta, 85, Indian economist, academic and writer.
• Carol Habben, 63, American baseball player.
• Rosalind Hill, 88, English historian, heart failure.
• Pancheti Koteswaram, 81, Indian meteorologist, hydrologist, and atmospheric physicist.
• Sheldon Leonard, 89, American actor, producer, director, and writer.
• Stu Martin, 84, American Major League Baseball player.
• Jerry Neudecker, 66, American MLB umpire, cancer.
• Helen Foster Snow, 89, American journalist.
• Jill Summers, 86, English music hall performer and comedian, kidney failure.
• Ian White-Thomson, 92, British Anglican priest.

  12

• Harold Brown, 76, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Jean-Edern Hallier, 60, French writer, critic and editor, cerebral haemorrhage after fall, heart attack, traffic collision.
• Jean Hoerni, 72, Swiss-American engineer.
• Charles Brenton Huggins, 95, Canadian-American cancer researcher and Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate.
• Ewa Larysa Krause, 22, Polish Olympic judoka, traffic collision.
• Wally Rose, 83, American jazz and ragtime pianist.
• Joe Scott, 78, American baseball player.
• Jorge Suárez, 51, Salvadoran football player, cancer.

  13

• Sivar Arnér, 87, Swedish novelist and playwright.
• Burton Barr, 79, American businessman and politician, kidney failure.
• Ernest Bayer, 92, American Olympic rower.
• Johannes Coleman, 86, South African marathon runner and Olympian.
• Archibald Jack, 83, British Olympic modern pentathlete.
• Max Kaser, 90, German academic and professor of jurisprudence.
• Leo Margolis, 69, Canadian parasitologist, heart attack.
• Baburaoji Parkhe, 84, Indian industrialist.
• Jack Simpson, 76, Irish cricketer.
• Ruslan Stratonovich, 66, Russian physicist and engineer.
• Herman V. Wall, 91, American combat photographer during World War II.

  14

• John Amdisen, 62, Danish football player.
• Shalva Chikhladze, 84, Soviet Georgian light-heavyweight wrestler and Olympian.
• Leonard Dodson, 84, American golfer.
• Celso Ferreira, 46, Brazilian Olympic football player.
• King Hu, 64, Chinese film director and actor, complications from angioplasty.
• Robert Irsay, 73, American football team owner.
• Tommy Laskey, 83, Australian rules footballer.
• John Lettengarver, 67, American figure skater and Olympian.
• Ebba Lodden, 83, Norwegian civil servant and politician.
• Roland Martin, 84, French archaeologist.
• Dollard Ménard, 83, Canadian general.
• Knud Nellemose, 88, Danish sculptor.

  15

• Oscar Auerbach, 92, American physician and pathologist.
• Jean-Marie Grenot, 67, French Olympic boxer.
• Burrell Shields, 67, American football player.
• Edwin Smith, 74, New Zealand rower.
• Ahmad Tafazzoli, 59, Iranian Iranist and professor of ancient Iranian languages, homicide.
• Kenneth V. Thimann, 92, English-American plant physiologist and microbiologist.

  16

• Romano Amerio, 91, Swiss Italian theologian.
• Ödön Gróf, 81, Hungarian Olympic swimmer.
• Roy Henderson, 73, Scottish football player.
• Markus Hoffmann, 26, German actor, suicide by jumping.
• Nils Katajainen, 77, Finnish flying ace during World War II.
• Erik Källström, 88, Swedish Olympic football player.
• Fritzi Metznerová, 81, Czech Olympic figure skater.
• Iain Mills, 56, English politician.
• Shinobu Muraki, 73, Japanese production designer and art director.
• Beverly Peer, 84, American jazz double-bassist, cancer.
• Martin Redmond, 59, British politician.
• Juan Landázuri Ricketts, 83, Peruvian catholic cardinal.
• Jeff Teale, 57, British international athlete and Olympian.
• Rajagopala Tondaiman, 74, Indian monarch and the last Raja of Pudukkottai.
• Barbara Woodell, 86, American actress.
• Willie Yeadon, 89, British railway historian.