Deaths in June 1997

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

  June 1997

1

• Florence Wysinger Allen, 84, African American artists' model.
• Ruth Atkinson, 78, American cartoonist, cancer.
• Garland T. Byrd, 72, American politician from Georgia.
• Giorgos P. Livanos, 70, Greek-American shipping magnate.
• Fred Rauch, 87, Austrian singer and songwriter.
• Mickey Rocco, 81, American baseball player.
• Bernard Segal, 89, American lawyer civil rights activist, cancer.
• Robert Serber, 88, American physicist, brain cancer.
• Irvin Studer, 96, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada.
• Nikolai Tikhonov, 92, Soviet Russian-Ukrainian statesman.

  2

• Lukas Aurednik, 79, Austrian football player and football manager.
• Zhenya Belousov, 32, Soviet/Ukrainian pop singer, stroke.
• Martin Bronfenbrenner, 82, American economist.
• Doc Cheatham, 91, American jazz trumpeter, singer, and bandleader.
• Corwin Clatt, 73, American gridiron football player.
• Louise Huntington, 92, American actress.
• Helen Jacobs, 88, American tennis champion, heart failure.
• William Alexander Levy, 87, American architect.
• Kenneth McNaught, 78, Canadian historian.
• Nikolai Ozerov, 74, Soviet tennis player and actor.
• Eddie Thomas, 70, Welsh boxer and manager, cancer.
• Ida Turay, 89, Hungarian film actress.

  3

• Pidge Browne, 68, American baseball player.
• Salvatore Fiume, 81, Italian painter, sculptor, architect and writer.
• John Holt, 73, Jamaican cricket player.
• Dennis James, 79, American television personality and philanthropist, lung cancer.
• Meenakshi Shirodkar, 80, Indian actress.

  4

• Thomas Boylston Adams, 86, American business executive and writer.
• Katherine Esau, 99, German-American botanist.
• Robert E. Jones Jr., 84, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives.
• Ronnie Lane, 51, English musician, songwriter, and producer, pneumonia.
• Johnny "Hammond" Smith, 63, American soul jazz and hard bop organist, cancer.
• Pedro Zaballa, 58, Spanish football player.

  5

• Jack Wilson Evans, 74, American politician and mayor of Dallas, Texas, cancer.
• Elaine Ryan Hedges, 69, American feminist.
• Olga Kirsch, 72, South African and Israeli poet, brain tumor, brain cancer.
• J. Anthony Lukas, 64, American journalist and author, suicide by hanging.
• Gustav Richter, 84, German SS officer and aide to Adolf Eichmann during World War II.

  6

• Eitel Cantoni, 90, Uruguayan racecar driver.
• Jeffrey Ethell, 49-50, American author and pilot, plane crash.
• Magda Gabor, 81, Hungarian-American actress and socialite, and sister of Zsa Zsa and Eva Gabor, kidney failure.
• Monica Golding, 94, British Army nurse and nursing administrator.
• Jack Gravell, 83, Australian rules footballer.
• Charles Jones, 86, Canadian-American composer of contemporary classical music.
• Hannu Leminen, 87, Finnish film director, set designer and screenwriter.
• Ted Nathanson, 72, American television director, lung cancer.
• Richard Neilson, 59, British diplomat.
• Eero Salminen, 63, Finnish Olympic high jumper.
• Liao Shantao, 77, Chinese mathematician.
• Alangudi Somu, 64, Indian Tamil film lyricist.

  7

• Raghu Raj Bahadur, 73, Indian statistician.
• Lewis White Beck, 83, American philosopher and scholar of German philosophy.
• Jacques Canetti, 88, French music executive and talent manager.
• Victor Codron, 82, French cyclist.
• Stan Goletz, 79, American baseball player.
• Paul Reade, 54, English composer.
• Stanley Schachter, 75, American social psychologist, colon cancer.
• Nadezhda Simonyan, 75, Soviet and Russian composer.

  8

• Betty Andujar, 84, American civic activist and politician.
• Norman Cleaveland, 96, American rugby player and Olympian.
• Ken Hunt, 62, American baseball player.
• Park Jaesam, 64, Korean poet.
• Reid Shelton, 72, American actor, stroke.
• George Turner, 80, Australian writer and critic.
• Amos Tutuola, 76, Nigerian writer, diabetes.
• Karen Wetterhahn, 48, American professor of chemistry, mercury poisoning.

  9

• Károly Bajkó, 52, Hungarian Olympic wrestler.
• Robert W. Hansen, 86, American lawyer and jurist.
• Ismael Huerta, 80, Chilean admiral and politician, cardiac embolism.
• Stanley Knowles, 88, Canadian politician.
• Yevgeni Lebedev, 80, Soviet and Russian film and theater actor.
• Thornton Lee, 90, American baseball player.
• Witness Lee, 91-92, Chinese christian preacher and hymnist, cancer.
• V.L. Nakum, 72, Indian cricketer.

  10

• Hilton de Almeida, 64, Brazilian Olympic water polo player.
• Carolina Cotton, 71, American singer and actress, ovarian cancer.
• Leo Fuld, 84, Dutch singer.
• Kim Ki-soo, 57, South Korean boxing champion and Olympian, liver cancer.
• Ernst Krebs, 82, Swiss Olympic wrestler.
• Zhou Lin, 85, Chinese politician.
• Renato Reyes, 52, Filipino basketball player and Olympian.

  11

• Herman Basudde, 38, Ugandan kadongo kamu musician, traffic accident.
• Robert Bates, 48, Northern Irish Ulster loyalist, shot.
• Noel Burrows, 86, Australian rules footballer.
• Thalassa Cruso, 88, British-American presenter and author on horticulture, Alzheimer's disease.
• Ben Dunkelman, 83, Canadian-Israeli military officer, heart attack.
• Gonzalo Fonseca, 74, Uruguayan artist, stroke.
• Ralph Kohl, 73, American football player, coach and scout.
• Jakob Nirschl, 72, German bobsledder and Olympian.
• Satyanarayan Rajguru, 93, Indian litterateur, epigraphist and historian.
• Mihir Sen, 66, Indian long distance swimmer, combination of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease.
• Kurt Stöpel, 89, German road bicycle racer.
• Lütfiye Sultan, 87, Turkish Ottoman princess.
• Yrjö Uimonen, 65, Finnish Olympic speed skater.

  12

• Jo Backaert, 75, Belgian football player.
• Rick Baldwin, 42, American racing driver, racing accident.
• Pieter d'Hont, 80, Dutch sculptor.
• Colette Magny, 70, French singer and songwriter.
• Vittorio Mussolini, 80, Italian film critic and producer.
• Bulat Okudzhava, 73, Soviet/Russian poet, writer, musician, and singer-songwriter.
• André Prébolin, 91, French Olympic long jumper.
• Arnaldo Sentimenti, 83, Italian football player and coach.
• Veikko Vennamo, 84, Finnish politician.
• Joe Ben Wheat, 81, American archaeologist and author.

  13

• Al Berto, 49, Portuguese poet and painter, lymphoma.
• Ladislau Bonyhádi, 74, Romanian football player of Hungarian ethnicity.
• Fredrik Hultén, 30, Swedish Olympic rower.
• Anand Narain Mulla, 95, Indian Urdu poet.
• George Strugar, 63. American gridiron football player, lung cancer.

  14

• Marjorie Best, 94, American costume designer.
• Helmut Fischer, 70, German actor, carcinoma.
• Jean Fournel, 40, Canadian Olympic canoeist.
• Richard Jaeckel, 70, American actor, melanoma.
• Dorothy Prior, 85, Canadian Olympic swimmer.
• Helena Sanders, 86, British India-born British cultural activist, politician, poet, and activist for feline welfare,, she was both the founder and the first leader of the Cornish political party Mebyon Kernow, she won a seat on the Camborne–Redruth Urban District Council in 1953

  15

• Nicholas Danby, British organist and composer.
• George Denholm, 88, British flying ace during World War II.
• Frode Jakobsen, 90, Danish author and politician.
• Bill Lawrence, 91, American baseball player.
• Edmond Leburton, 82, Belgian politician and Prime Minister.
• Robert C. McEwen, 77, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives.
• Attilio Redolfi, 73, Italian-French racing cyclist.
• Son Sen, 67, Cambodian communist politician and soldier, summary execution.
• Dal Stivens, 85, Australian writer.

  16

• Bill Barwick, 92, Australian Olympic middle-distance runner.
• Mariya Batrakova, 74, Soviet and Russian Red Army officer and Hero of the Soviet Union.
• Rolf Ericson, 74, Swedish jazz trumpeter.
• Badi-ud-din Mahmud, 92, Sri Lankan politician.
• Elizabeth McBride, 42, American costume designer, cancer.
• Michael O'Herlihy, 68, Irish television producer and director.
• Sukumaran, 49, Indian film actor and producer, heart attack.
• Sue Sumii, 95, Japanese social reformer, writer, and novelist.
• Tom Søndergaard, 53, Danish football player.
• Inge Wersin-Lantschner, 92, Austrian alpine skier and world champion.

  17

• Frances Foster, 73, American film, television and stage actress, cerebral hemorrhage.
• Bernhard Jensen, 85, Danish flatwater canoeist and Olympian.
• Maurice Rootes, 80, British film editor.
• Hari Krishna Shastri, 59, Indian politician.

  18

• Waldo Don Carlos, 87, American football player.
• James Willard Hurst, 86, American legal scholar and law history pioneer, cancer.
• Lev Kopelev, 85, Soviet author and dissident.
• Devon Russell, Jamaican rocksteady and reggae singer and record producer, brain tumour.
• Arvid Syrrist, 92, Norwegian footballer.
• Cândido Tavares, 85, Portuguese football goalkeeper and manager.
• José María Fernández Unsáin, 78, Argentine film director, screenwriter, and playwright.
• C. Martin Wilbur, 89, American historian and professor at Columbia University.
• Héctor Yazalde, 51, Argentine footballer, heart failure.

  19

• Basu Bhattacharya, Indian film director, acute pancreatitis.
• Robert Francis Byrnes, 79, American professor of history, heart attack.
• Jiří David, 74, Czech Olympic sprinter.
• Cathleen Delany, 89, Irish actress.
• Olga Georges-Picot, 57, French actress, suicide.
• Thurman Green, 56, American jazz trombonist.
• Bobby Helms, 63, American country music singer, emphysema and asthma.
• Robert Henrion, 81, Belgian politician and Olympic fencer.
• Ed Scheiwe, 79, American basketball player.
• Julia Smith, 70, English television director and producer, cancer.
• Stan Stasiak, 60, Canadian professional wrestler known as Stan Stasiak, heart failure.