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.

17

• Susanna Al-Hassan, 69, Ghanaian author and politician.
• Earl Girard, 69, American football player.
• Robert Giraud, 75, French journalist, poet and lexicographer.
• Björn Isfält, 54, Swedish composer, cancer.
• Bill Kardash, 84, Canadian politician.
• Bert Kelly, 84, Australian politician and government minister.
• Amha Selassie, 80, Ethiopian Emperor-in-exile and son of Haile Selassie I.
• Clyde Tombaugh, 90, American astronomer.
• Theo Wilson, 79, American reporter, cerebral hemorrhage.

18

• Herbert A. Allen, Sr., 88, American stockbroker.
• Ruth Brinkmann, 62, American actress and founder of Vienna's English Theatre, ovarian cancer.
• Keith Diamond, 46, American songwriter and producer, heart attack.
• Jean Gravelle, 69, Canadian ice hockey player and Olympian.
• Henry Hermansen, 75, Norwegian cross-country skier and Olympian.
• Ardis Krainik, 67, American mezzo-soprano opera singer.
• Diana Lewis, 77, American film actress, pancreatic cancer.
• Myfanwy Piper, 85, British art critic and opera librettist.
• Gilberto Martínez Solares, 90, Mexican actor, cinematographer, screenwriter, and director.
• Darío Suro, 79, Dominican Republic art critic, diplomat and painter.
• Paul Tsongas, 55, American politician, non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

19

• Adriana Caselotti, 80, American actress and singer, lung cancer.
• Robert Chapatte, 75, French cyclist and sports journalist.
• James Dickey, 73, American poet and novelist.
• Richard E. Jennings, 75, English comics artist, pneumonia.
• Ernst Knoll, 56, German Olympic wrestler.
• Bert Kuczynski, 77, American baseball, and football player.
• William Laing, 68, Ghanaian triple jumper and Olympian.
• Tamara Makarova, 89, Soviet actress.
• Vasily Nalimov, 86, Russian philosopher and humanist.
• Charles Nelson, 95, American film editor, Oscar winner.
• Charlie Price, 79, Australian cricketer.
• Sudhir, 75, Pakistani film actor, director and producer.

20

• Eric Andersen, 92, Australian rules footballer.
• Albín Brunovský, 61, Slovak painter and graphic artist.
• Curt Flood, 59, American baseball player, pneumonia.
• Edith Haisman, 100, South African-born RMS Titanic survivor
• Johannes Human, 66, South African Olympic sports shooter.
• Giorgio Jegher, 59, Italian Olympic long-distance runner.
• Hiram Keller, 52, American actor, liver cancer.
• Joseph J. Loferski, 71, American physicist.
• Ashious Melu, 39, Zambian footballer, coach, and Olympian.
• Konrad Püschel, 89, German architect, town planner, and university professor.
• Dennis Main Wilson, 72, British radio and television producer, lung cancer.

21

• Eduardo Assam, 77, Mexican Olympic wrestler.
• John Glyn-Jones, 87, British actor.
• Hans Egon Holthusen, 83, German nazi, writer and academic.
• Sourendra Nath Kohli, 80, Indian Navy admiral.
• Irwin Levine, 58, American songwriter.
• Bill McWilliams, 86, American baseball player.
• Louis Miehe-Renard, 77, Danish film actor.
• Shinroku Momose, 77, Japanese aircraft/automotive engineer.
• Eduardo Morera, 91, Argentine film director.
• Colonel Tom Parker, 87, Dutch-American manager of Elvis Presley, stroke.
• Giorgio Prosperi, 85, Italian screenwriter.
• Polly Ann Young, 88, American actress, cancer.

22

• Ênio Andrade, 68, Brazilian football player and manager.
• L. Kijungluba AO, 90, Indian baptist missionary.
• Pilar Barbosa, 98, Puerto Rican educator, historian and political activist.
• George Dockins, 79, American baseball player.
• Ron Holden, 57, American pop and R&B singer, heart attack.
• Elwyn Lynn, 79, Australian artist, author and art critic.
• Billy Mackenzie, 39, Scottish singer and songwriter, suicide by drug overdose.
• Cornelio Reyna, 56, Mexican singer, composer and actor.
• Willy Van Rompaey, 85, Belgian Olympic sailor.
• Willard Wheatley, 81, British Virgin Islands politician and Chief Minister.
• Wally Whyton, 67, British musician, songwriter and radio and TV personality.

23

• Richard Berry, 61, American singer, songwriter and musician, aneurysm.
• Paul Egli, 85, Swiss road bicycle racer.
• Randy Greenawalt, 47, American serial killer, execution by lethal injection.
• Alois Hudec, 88, Czechoslovak gymnast and World and Olympic Champion.
• Lyudmila Marchenko, 56, Soviet film actress.
• Hardy Rafn, 66, Danish film actor.
• Roger Tayler, 67, British astronomer, cancer.
• Rolling Thunder, 80, American hippy spiritual leader, complications of diabetes.
• David Waller, 76, English actor.
• Bill Zuckert, 81, American actor, pneumonia.

24

• William Alexander, 81, German painter and television host.
• Lourdino Barreto, 58, Indian musicologist and composer.
• Dr. Jerry Graham, 75, American professional wrestler, cerebrovascular disease.
• Jack Halloran, 81, American composer and choral director.
• Sisko Heikkilä, 75, Finnish Olympic high jumper.
• Ida Kohlmeyer, 84, American painter.
• Roy Sproson, 66, English footballer and manager.
• Suzy Vernon, 95, French film actress.

25

• Werner Aspenström, 78, Swedish poet.
• Dan Barry, 73, American cartoonist.
• Donald Beer, 61, American rower and Olympic champion, brain cancer.
• James Boyd, 66, American boxer and Olympian, cancer.
• Manuel Tuñón de Lara, 81, Spanish historian.
• Jeane Dixon, 93, American astrologer, heart failure.
• Exuma, 54, Bahamian musician, artist, playwright and author, heart attack.
• Carlton Benjamin Goodlett, 82, American physician and newspaper publisher.
• Edith Thacher Hurd, 86, American children's author.
• Nikola Koljević, 60, Bosnian Serb politician, essayist, and scholar, suicide by gunshot.
• George W. Mitchell, 92, American economist.
• Seldon Powell, 68, American jazz, music, and R&B tenor saxophonist and flautist.
• Elizabeth Rudel Smith, 85, American politician.
• Bill Wightkin, 69, American gridiron football player.

26

• Sufi Barkat Ali, 85, Indian muslim sufi.
• Jack Clayton, 82, American football, basketball, and baseball coach, congestive heart failure.
• Mercer Davies, 72, South African Olympic long distance runner.
• Frank Dilio, 84, Canadian ice hockey administrator.
• Norman Fawcett, 86, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada.
• Shūhei Fujisawa, 69, Japanese author.
• Cornelius Herman Muller, 87, American botanist and ecologist.
• Roberto Queralt, 66, Spanish Olympic swimmer and water polo player.
• Guy Raymond, 85, American actor.
• Margaret Hessen und bei Rhein, 83, German princess.
• Laurence Stoddard, 93, American Olympic rowing coxswain.
• Donald E. Stokes, 69, American political scientist, acute leukemia.
• Mira Zimińska, 95, Polish actress.

27

• Kathryn Beare, 79, American baseball player.
• George Kanngieser, 84, Australian rules footballer.
• Bill Kennedy, 88, American actor and television show host.
• Cecil Arthur Lewis, 98, British last surviving World War I fighter ace.
• Gerald Marks, 96, American composer.
• Louis E. Martin, 84, American journalist, newspaper publisher and civil rights activist.
• Zia Sarhadi, 83, Pakistani screenwriter and film director.
• Harish Chandra Sarin, 82, Indian civil servant, writer and defence secretary of India.
• Richard X. Slattery, 71, American actor.
• Slick Smith, 67, American racing driver.
• David Townsend, 84, English cricket player.
• Aleksandr Zarkhi, 88, Soviet film director, screenwriter, and playwright.

28

• Antônio Callado, 80, Brazilian journalist, playwright, and novelist.
• Edmond de Stoutz, 76, Swiss conductor.
• Anna Galmarini, 54, Italian figure skater and Olympian.
• Raya Garbousova, 87, Russian-American cellist.
• Alfred Gell, 51, British social anthropologist.
• Mikel Koliqi, 96, Albanian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.
• Wong Shun Leung, 61, Hong Kong martial artist, stroke.
• Louis Pauwels, 76, French journalist and writer, heart attack.
• Geoffrey Rippon, 72, British politician.
• Pandurang Vasudeo Sukhatme, 85, Indian statistician.

29

• Antal Benda, 86, Hungarian Olympic handball player.
• Irma Greta Blohm, 85, German politician.
• Ken Harada, 77, Japanese politician.
• Daniel P. Mannix, 85, American writer, journalist, animal trainer, and performer.
• Mumtaz Mirza, 57, Indian Urdu poet.
• Clifford Richmond, 82, New Zealand lawyer and judge.
• Osvaldo Soriano, 54, Argentine journalist and writer, lung cancer.
• Thomas Daniel Young, 77, American academic.

30

• Charles Hargens, 103, American painter.
• Willis Harman, 78, American engineer, futurist, and author, brain cancer.
• Harold Jackson, 79, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Duane Josephson, 54, American baseball player.
• Nicholas Mallett, 51, British television director.
• Henry Bentinck, 11th Earl of Portland, 77, British noble and activist.
• Stan Raiman, 82, American basketball player.
• Frank Tejeda, 51, United States Marine and politician, brain cancer, member of the United States House of Representatives.

31

• Harold Raymond Ballard, 78, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada.
• Raymond Coxon, 100, British artist.
• Hedy Graf, 70, Spanish-Swiss soprano.
• Eve Lister, 83, British actress.
• Seth Lover, 87, American inventor.
• Zahir Pajaziti, 34, Kosovo Albanian guerilla commander, killed in action.
• John Joseph Scanlan, 90, American catholic bishop.
• Eugenia Smith, 98, American Romanov impostor.
• Alexander Solonik, 36, Russian gangster, strangled.
• Andrzej Szczepkowski, 73, Polish actor.
• Hans Tisdall, 86, German-British artist.