Deaths in October 1997

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

October 1997

1

• Francisco Aramburu, 75, Brazilian footballer.
• Georg Bodenhausen, 92, Dutch civil servant.
• John Bredice, 63, American football player.
• Jerome H. Lemelson, 74, American engineer, inventor and patent holder, liver cancer.
• Gul Mohammed, 40, Shortest adult human, heart attack.
• Inbal Perlmuter, 26, Israeli rock musician, singer, composer and lyricist, traffic collision.

2

• Carybé, 86, Argentine-Brazilian artist, historian and journalist, heart failure.
• Douglas Fairbairn, 70, American author.
• Esa Seeste, 84, Finnish Olympic gymnast.
• Guillermo Meza Álvarez, 80, Mexican painter.

3

• Michael Adekunle Ajasin, 88, Nigerian politician.
• John Ashley, 62, American actor, producer and singer, heart attack.
• Walter Baumgartner, 92, Swiss film composer.
• Richard Gilkey, 72, American painter, suicide by gunshot.
• Verna Hillie, 83, American film actress, stroke.
• Jarl Kulle, 70, Swedish actor and director, bone cancer.
• Millard Lampell, 78, American movie and television screenwriter, lung cancer.
• Phil Medley, 81, American songwriter.
• Charlie Parsley, 71, American basketball player, and college coach.
• Hadassah Rosensaft, 85, Polish Holocaust survivor, liver failure.
• A. L. Rowse, 93, British historian and author.
• George Urban, 76, Hungarian writer.
• Blake Wayne Van Leer, 71, United States Navy officer.

4

• Helmut Cämmerer, 86, German canoeist and Olympian.
• Montanino Nuvoli, 66, Italian Olympic rower.
• Nelson Coral Nye, 90, American author and editor.
• Otto Ernst Remer, 85, German Wehrmacht officer during World War II.
• Anne Strachan Robertson, 87, Scottish archaeologist, numismatist and writer.
• Gunpei Yokoi, 56, Japanese video game designer and creator of the Game Boy, traffic collision.
• Georgi Yumatov, 71, Soviet and Russian film actor, aneurysm.

5

• Chitta Basu, 70, Indian politician, heart attack.
• Mary Jayne Gold, 88, American heiress, pancreatic cancer.
• Andrew Keir, 71, Scottish actor.
• Debbie Linden, 36, British glamour model and actress, heroin overdose.
• John Chester MacRae, 85, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada.
• Dave Marr, 63, American golfer and sportscaster, stomach cancer.
• Brian Pillman, 35, American professional wrestler, heart attack.
• Tommy Ring, 67, Scottish footballer.
• Larisa Rozanova, 78, Soviet and Ukrainian pilot and navigator during World War II.
• Curtis Williams Sabrosky, 87, American entomologist.
• Arthur Tracy, 98, American vocalist and actor, heart attack.
• Bernard Yago, 81, Ivorian cardinal of the Catholic Church.

6

• Orlando Ramón Agosti, 73, Argentine general and part of the military junta, cancer.
• George T. Barclay, 87, American football player and coach.
• Warren Louis Boudreaux, 79, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church, heart failure.
• Robert Endean, 71, Australian marine scientist.
• Otto Grolimund, 79, Swiss Olympic field hockey player.
• Adrienne Hill, 60, English actress, cancer.
• Yevgeny Khaldei, 80, Soviet naval officer and photographer.
• Johnny Vander Meer, 82, American baseball player, abdominal aneurysm.

7

• Arvo Ala-Pöntiö, 55, Finnish Olympic weightlifter.
• Felicisimo Ampon, 76, Filipino tennis player.
• Johnny Darrell, 57, American country music artist, diabetes.
• Gus Marker, 92, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Lou Possehl, 71, American baseball player.
• Aldo Sebben, 77, American football, cross country, and track and field coach.
• Janez Vrhovec, 76, Yugoslav actor of Slovenian-German origin.
• Wan Laiming, 97, Chinese animator.

8

• Henryk Bista, 63, Polish actor.
• Albert Blumberg, 91, American philosopher and political activist.
• Bertrand Goldberg, 84, American architect and industrial designer.
• Robin Lee, 77, American figure skater and Olympian.
• Brown Meggs, 66, American writer and music executive.
• John Merricks, 26, English sailor and Olympian.
• Nininho, 73, Brazilian football player.
• Desmond J. Scott, 79, New Zealand flying ace during World War II.
• Sant Singh Sekhon, 89, Indian playwright and writer.
• George Everard Kidder Smith, 84, American architectural writer and photographer.
• William Spong Jr., 77, American politician, member of the United States Senate.
• Mel Thurston, 78, American basketball player.

9

• Michael Cummings, 78, British newspaper cartoonist.
• Monty Hoyt, 53, American figure skater and Olympian, melanoma.
• Arch Johnson, 75, American actor, cancer.
• Peter O'Malley, 70, New Zealand cricketer.
• Jean Pasqualini, French/Chinese journalist.
• Joel Pritchard, 72, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives, lymphoma.
• Roy Rappaport, 71, American anthropologist.
• Chuck Templeton, 65, American baseball player.

10

• D. J. Ambalavanar, 69, Sri Lankan Tamil bishop.
• Marjorie Harris Carr, 82, American scientist and environmental activist.
• Michael J. S. Dewar, 79, American theoretical chemist.
• Hans-Joachim Kasprzik, 69, German film and television director and screenwriter.
• George Malcolm, 80, English pianist, harpsichordist, composer, and conductor.
• Anne Marriott, 83, Canadian writer, stroke.
• Dencio Padilla, 69, Filipino actor and comedian, heart attack.
• Marjorie McQuade, 63, Australian swimmer and Olympian.
• Walt Simon, 57, American basketball player.
• Thomas Whiteside, 79, American journalist, heart failure.

11

• Paul Doughty Bartlett, 90, American chemist.
• Giacinto Bosco, 92, Italian jurist, academic and politician.
• Lina Gennari, 86, Italian actress and operetta singer.
• Käthe Gold, 90, Austrian actress.
• Will Sherman, 69, American gridiron football player.
• Ivan Yarygin, 48, Soviet / Russian heavyweight freestyle wrestler, traffic collision.

12

• Raúl Arellano, 62, Mexican football forward.
• Rodrigue Bourdages, 73, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada.
• John Denver, 53, American singer and activist, plane crash.
• Talib El-Shibib, 63, Iraqi politician.
• Draga Garašanin, 76, Serbian archaeologist.
• Kenneth Hahn, 77, American civil servant, heart failure.
• Fred McCain, 79, Canadian politician.
• Isadore Twersky, 67, American orthodox rabbi and professor.

13

• Ian Stuart Black, 82, British novelist, playwright and screenwriter.
• Joyce Compton, 90, American actress.
• Gary Lee Davis, 53, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
• Kārlis Irbītis, 92, Latvian aeroplane designer.
• Yasuo Kawamura, 89, Japanese Olympic speed skater.
• Obie Layton, 86, American baseball player.
• Richard Mason, 78, British novelist, lung cancer.
• Malte Möller, 83, Swedish Olympic wrestler.
• Frazier Robinson, 87, American baseball player.
• William Staveley, 68, Royal Navy officer, heart attack.
• Adil Çarçani, 75, Albanian politician.

14

• Hy Averback, 76, American actor, producer and director.
• Piedade Coutinho, 77, Brazilian swimmer and Olympian.
• Jacqueline Delubac, 90, French stage and film actress, traffic collision.
• George Forrest, 72, British classicist and academic, cancer.
• Henry Pelling, 77, British historian.
• Harold Robbins, 81, American writer, heart failure.
• Barbara Slater, 76, American film actress.

15

• Jack Arnold, 78, Australian rugby league footballer.
• MacDonald Critchley, 97, British neurologist.
• Peter J. Dalessandro, 79, United States Army soldier and Medal of Honor recipient.
• Jack Dwyer, 70, American gridiron football player.
• Walter Fritzsch, 76, German football player and manager.
• Parker T. Hart, 87, American diplomat.
• Bill McKay, 76, Irish rugby player.
• Käthe Sohnemann, 85, German Olympic gymnast.

16

• A. H. Armstrong, 88, English educator and author.
• Dick Cavalli, 74, American cartoonist, heart attack.
• Princess Olga of Greece and Denmark, 94, Greek princess, Alzheimer's disease.
• Noel Ferrier, 66, Australian comedian, actor, and theatrical producer.
• Lotte Goslar, 90, German-American dancer.
• Adam Kennedy, 75, American actor, novelist, and painter, heart attack.
• Audra Lindley, 79, American actress, leukemia.
• James A. Michener, 90, American author, kidney failure.

17

• Joyce Christ, 76, Australian cricketer.
• Larry Jennings, 64, American magician.
• Sergei Kalinin, 70, Soviet Russian sports shooter and Olympian.
• Jim O'Neil, 84, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Giorgio Pisanò, 73, Italian journalist, essayist and neo-fascist politician.
• László Szabados, 86, Hungarian swimmer and Olympic medalist.
• Ben Welden, 96, American actor.
• Fang Yi, 81, Chinese Communist revolutionary, diplomat, and politician.

18

• Leonard Andrzejewski, 73, Polish actor.
• Ramiro Castillo, 31, Bolivian footballer, suicide by hanging.
• Gordon Clark, 83, English football player.
• Walter William Curtis, 84, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church, pneumonia.
• Nancy Dickerson, 70, American radio and television journalist, stroke.
• Trude Eipperle, 89, German operatic soprano.
• Vince Gironda, 79, American bodybuilder, personal trainer and author.
• Roberto Goizueta, 65, Cuban businessman and CEO of The Coca-Cola Company, cancer.
• J. Smith Henley, 80, American judge.
• Étienne Laisné, 92, French Olympic racewalker.
• Milt Neil, 83, American animator.
• William Rotsler, 71, American artist, cartoonist, pornographer and author.
• Paul Edwin Zimmer, 54, American poet and author, heart attack.

19

• Donald R. Bensen, 70, American editor and science fiction writer.
• Glen Buxton, 49, American guitarist and composer, complications from pneumonia.
• Claudia Drake, 79, American actress and singer.
• Harold French, 100, English film director, screenwriter and actor.
• Arthur Ibbetson, 75, British cinematographer.
• Ragnar Larsen, 66, Norwegian footballer.
• Francisco Guerrero Marín, 46, Spanish composer.
• William J. McGill, 75, American psychologist and author.
• Brenton Miels, 49, Australian rules footballer.
• Pilar Mercedes Miró Romero, 57, Spanish screenwriter and film director, heart attack.
• Stella Sierra, 80, Panamanian poet and prose writer.

20

• John Jacobs, 50, American student and anti-war activist, complications from melanoma.
• Frank Robert Miller, 89, Canadian air chief marshal.
• Manush Myftiu, 78, Albanian politician.
• Thormod Næs, 67, Norwegian Olympic sports shooter.
• Manuel Rodríguez Barros, 71, Spanish racing cyclist.
• Li Ruishan, 76, Chinese politician.
• Ron Tarr, 60, British actor, cancer.
• Henry Vestine, 52, American guitarist, heart and respiratory failure.
• Robin Woods, 83, English Anglican bishop.

21

• Dolph Camilli, 90, American baseball player.
• John Whitney Hall, 81, American Japanologist.
• Lorenzo Sumulong, 92, Filipino politician.
• Aale Tynni, 84, Finnish poet and translator.
• Waldemar F. A. Wendt, 85, United States Navy admiral.
• Dick Wilkins, 72, American gridiron football player.

22

• Leonid Amalrik, 92, Soviet animator.
• Edoardo Casciano, 61, Italian Olympic sports shooter.
• Reinhard Lauck, 51, German footballer and Olympian, traffic collision.
• Charles McCallister, 94, American Olympic water polo player.
• Kelly Rodriguez, 90, Spanish-American football player.
• Quentin Smythe, 81, South African sergeant and recipient of the Victoria Cross, cancer.
• C. S. A. Swami, 83, Indian journalist, athlete, and Olympian.
• Valerie Taylor, 84, American author and feminist.
• Matthew Trupiano, 58, American mobster, heart attack.

23

• Alan Broadley, 77, Australian rules footballer.
• Ann Devroy, 49, American political journalist, uterine cancer.
• Claire Falkenstein, 89, American visual artist, stomach cancer.
• Bert Haanstra, 81, Dutch filmmaker, Alzheimer's disease.
• Arthur Stephen Lane, 86, American district judge.
• Pinchas Lapide, 74, Israeli theologian and historian.
• Kim Lim, 61, Singaporean-British sculptor and printmaker.
• Bob Manning, 71, American big band singer, pneumonia.
• Michael Peter, 48, German Olympic field hockey player.
• Georges Pianta, 85, French politician.
• Babette Rosmond, 79, American author.
• Alfredo dos Santos, 77, Brazilian footballer.
• Luther George Simjian, 92, Armenian-American inventor and entrepreneur.
• Trevor Smith, 87, English footballer and manager.
• Gerd Tacke, 91, German businessman and CEO of Siemens.

24

• Luis Aguilar, 79, Mexican actor, and singer.
• Skip Alexander, 79, American golfer.
• Michael Balfour, 79, English actor, cancer.
• Don Messick, 71, American voice actor, stroke.

25

• William J. Hirsch, 88, American thoroughbred racehorses trainer, Alzheimer's disease.
• Tina Lattanzi, 99, Italian actress and voice actress.
• Jamie Livingston, 41, American photographer and film maker, brain tumor.
• Mina Rees, 95, American mathematician.

26

• Georg Adelly, 78, Swedish film actor.
• Teng Haiqing, 88, Chinese military officer and a politician.
• William B. Hutchinson, 88, American physician.
• Rolf Kukowitsch, 84-85, German football coach.
• Donald Ray Matthews, 90, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives.
• Rankin M. Smith, Sr., 72, American businessman and philanthropist.

27

• Mahala Andrews, 58, British vertebrae palaeontologist.
• Achim Gercke, 95, German Nazi politician.
• Angèle Picado, 62, French Olympic sprinter.
• Pentti Repo, 67, Finnish Olympic discus thrower.
• Vladimir Sokoloff, 84, American pianist and accompanist.
• Thomas Dale Stewart, 96, American anthropologist.
• Reuben Sturman, 73, American businessman and pornographer.
• François-Henri de Virieu, 65, French journalist and television presenter, pancreatic cancer.

28

• Walter Capps, 63, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives, heart attack.
• Toni Carabillo, 71, American feminist, graphic designer, and historian, lung cancer.
• Paul Jarrico, 82, American screenwriter, traffic collision.
• Marian E. Koshland, 76, American immunologist, lung cancer.
• Bryan Lefley, 49, Canadian ice hockey player and coach, traffic collision.
• Billy Neill, 47, Northern Irish football player.
• Klaus Wunderlich, 66, German musician, heart attack.

29

• Robert Allart, 83, Belgian weightlifter and Olympian.
• Len Beurton, 83, English communist and Soviet agent.
• H. C. Coombs, 91, Australian economist and public servant.
• William Crook, 72, American politician and ambassador, congestive heart failure.
• Alexander zu Dohna-Schlobitten, 97, German junker, businessman and author.
• Paul Guth, 87, French journalist and writer.
• Anton LaVey, 67, American author, musician, and occultist, pulmonary edema.
• Andreas Gerasimos Michalitsianos, 50, Greek-American astronomer and astrophysicist, brain tumor.
• Big Nick Nicholas, 75, American jazz saxophonist and singer, heart failure.
• Anthony Velonis, 86, American painter and designer.

30

• Jacques Derogy, 72, French journalist, cancer.
• Samuel Fuller, 85, American screenwriter, novelist, and film director.
• Barney Martin, 74, American baseball player.
• Sydney Newman, 80, Canadian film and television producer, heart attack.

31

• Zubeida Agha, 75, Pakistani artist.
• Bram Appel, 75, Dutch footballer and Olympian.
• Hans Bauer, 70, German footballer.
• Loh Ah Chee, 75, Malaysian Olympic sports shooter.
• Sidney Darlington, 91, American electrical engineer.
• Sam Hairston, 77, American baseball player.
• Tadeusz Janczar, 71, Polish film actor.
• Taisto Kangasniemi, 73, Finnish heavyweight wrestler and Olympian.
• Wilfrid Oulton, 86, British Royal Air Force officer, cancer.
• George Roth, 86, American gymnast and Olympic champion.