Deaths in September 1997

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

September 1997

1

• Boris Balinsky, 91, Ukrainian and South African biologist, embryologist and entomologist.
• Gordon Blake, 87, U.S. Air Force lieutenant general.
• Harriet Browne, 65, American tap dancer and choreographer.
• Zoltán Czibor, 68, Hungarian footballer and Olympian.
• Joseph Abel Francis, 73, American Catholic bishop.
• Reidar Olsen, 86, Norwegian footballer.

2

• Robert Abernathy, 80, American baseball player.
• George E. Allen, 85, American football player and coach.
• Sir Rudolf Bing, 95, Austrian-born opera manager, Alzheimer's disease.
• Viktor Frankl, 92, Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist.
• Warner T. Koiter, 83, Dutch mechanical engineer and professor.
• Joseph Thomas O'Keefe, 78, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church, heart failure.
• Germán Rieckehoff, 82, Puerto Rican politician.
• Mary Sears, 92, American oceanographer.
• John Stanes, 86, Australian cricketer.

3

• Arthur Chin, 83, American pilot and World War II flying ace.
• Tony Demers, 80, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Harold G. Dick, 90, American mechanical engineer.
• Hal Goodman, 82, American producer and screenwriter.
• Hans Niclaus, 83, German Olympic basketball player.
• Ernst C. Stiefel, 89, German-American jurist.

4

• Khaled Abdul-Wahab, 86, Tunisian rescuer of Jews.
• Chuck Arnold, 71, American racecar driver.
• Bernard Batillat, 89, French rower and Olympian.
• Jeffrey Bernard, 65, British journalist, renal failure.
• Dharamvir Bharati, 70, Indian poet, author and playwright, heart disease.
• Pierre Chatenet, 80, French politician.
• Natko Devčić, 83, Croatian composer.
• Hans Eysenck, 81, German-born British psychologist, brain cancer.
• Alfred Kałuziński, 44, Polish handball player and Olympian.
• Ivan Nenov, 95, Bulgarian painter.
• Jan Opperman, 58, American racecar driver.
• Florence Engel Randall, 79, American author.
• Aldo Rossi, 66, Italian architect and designer, traffic collision.
• Belle Stewart, 91, Scottish traditional singer.

5

• Mildred Dein, 85, American screenwriter.
• Ann Dunnigan, 87, American actress and teacher.
• Leon Edel, 89, American literary critic and biographer.
• Polly Lada-Mocarski, 94, American rare book scholar, educator, and bookbinder.
• Manuel Martin, 79, American soccer player-coach and Olympian.
• Andrej Prean Nagy, 76, Romanian-Hungarian football player and coach.
• Fred Rubi, 70, Swiss Olympic alpine skier.
• Eddie Little Sky, 71, Native American actor, lung cancer.
• Georg Solti, 84, Hungarian conductor, heart attack.
• Mother Teresa, 87, Albanian missionary and humanitarian, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, heart failure.

6

• Salvador Artigas, 84, Spanish football player and manager.
• Edward Dumbauld, 91, American district judge.
• Edward H. Hurst, 80, United States Marine Corps officer.
• Roy Huskey, Jr., 40, American upright bass player, lung cancer.
• Mary Lawson, 73, American baseball player.
• P. H. Newby, 79, English novelist.
• H. W. L. Poonja, Indian sage and jivanmukta, pneumonia.
• Refik Resmja, 66, Albanian footballer.
• Jean-Pierre Sudre, 75, French photographer.
• Uglješa Uzelac, 59, Bosnian politician and diplomat.

7

• Abdullah al-Tariki, 78, Saudi politician and government official, heart attack.
• Mukul S. Anand, 45, Indian film director and producer, heart attack.
• Edwin Brock, 69, British poet.
• Elisabeth Brooks, 46, Canadian actress, brain cancer.
• John Carden, 66, English-born American Olympic soccer player.
• Connie Clausen, 74, American actress, author, and literary agent, stroke.
• George W. Crockett, Jr., 88, African-American attorney, jurist, and congressman.
• Héctor Espino, 58, Mexican baseball player and manager.
• Mark Holtz, 51, American sportscaster, leukemia.
• Edgar Kaplan, 72, American bridge player, cancer.
• Mobutu Sese Seko, 66, Congolese politician and president of Zaire, prostate cancer.
• Bill Strannigan, 78, American basketball coach.
• Brian Whittaker, 40, Scottish football player.

8

• Marie Bedford, 90, South African Olympic swimmer.
• René Bihel, 81, French football player.
• Yu Jim-yuen, 92, Chinese opera singer and actor, heart attack.
• Sabatino Moscati, 74, Italian archaeologist and linguist.
• Helen Shaw, 100, American actress.
• Vladimír Sommer, 76, Czech composer.
• Derek Taylor, 65, English journalist, writer and record producer, throat cancer.

9

• Richie Ashburn, 70, American baseball player and broadcaster and member of the MLB Hall of Fame, heart attack.
• Alvaro Banchi, 72, Italian Olympic rower.
• Dick Beckner, 69, American gymnast and Olympian.
• Rowland George, 92, British rower and Olympian.
• John Hackett, 86, Australian-born British army general and painter.
• Predrag Laković, 68, Yugoslavian/Serbian actor.
• Walt Lautenbach, 74, American basketball player.
• Alexandru Mari, 77, Romanian footballer.
• Burgess Meredith, 89, American actor, Emmy winner, melanoma.

10

• Satish Chandra Agarwal, Indian politician.
• Abraham Akaka, 80, American clergyman.
• Richard Brandt, 86, American philosopher.
• Mollie Dive, 84, Australian cricketer and scientist.
• Jacques Leguerney, 90, French composer.
• Kurt Loserth, 82, Austrian Olympic bobsledder.
• George Schaefer, 76, American television and theatre director.
• Fritz Von Erich, 68, American professional wrestler, cancer.

11

• Fernando Ayala, 77, Argentine film director, screenwriter and producer.
• Mel Groomes, 70, American football player.
• Camille Henry, 64, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Iliya Kirchev, 64, Bulgarian football player and Olympian.
• Matrika Prasad Koirala, 85, Prime Minister of Nepal.
• Hugo B. Margáin, 84, Mexican economist, politician and diplomat.
• Anatoli Polosin, 62, Russian football coach.
• Margaret Scrivener, 75, Canadian politician
• Xhevdet Shaqiri, 74, Albanian football player and coach.
• Hannah Weiner, 68, American poet.

12

• Stig Anderson, 66, Swedish music manager and publisher, heart attack.
• Leslie E. Brown, 77, United States Marine Corps aviator.
• Elsa De Giorgi, 82, Italian actress and writer.
• Leonard Maguire, 73, Scottish actor.
• Judith Merril, 74, American-Canadian science fiction writer.
• Eddie O'Toole, 76, American Olympic long-distance runner, heart attack.
• Georges Valade, 75, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada.
• Heorhiy Zhylin, 72, Ukrainian rower and Olympian.

13

• Anjaan, 67, Indian lyricist.
• Paul Brechler, 86, American athletic director.
• Roger O. Egeberg, 94, American medical educator and administrator.
• Roger Frey, 84, French politician.
• Georges Guétary, 82, French singer, dancer and actor, heart attack.
• Kauko Helovirta, 72, Finnish film actor.
• Giorgos Mitsibonas, 34, Greek football player, traffic collision.
• Agnete Olsen, 87, Danish Olympic swimmer.
• Margo Rose, 94, American puppeteer.
• Donald Schön, 66, American philosopher and professor in urban planning.
• Victor Szebehely, 76, Hungarian-American physicist.
• Myra Tanner Weiss, 80, American trotskyist politician.

14

• Basri Dirimlili, 68, Turkish football player and Olympian.
• Andrew Fountaine, 78, British far right activist.
• C. Warren Hollister, 66, American author and historian.
• Clyde Johnson, 80, American football player.
• Donato Piazza, 67, Italian racing cyclist.

15

• Aleksanteri Ahola-Valo, 97, Finnish artist and architect.
• Angel Balevski, 87, Bulgarian inventor and engineer.
• Bulldog Brower, 63, American professional wrestler, complications from hip surgery.
• Edna Mae Harris, 82, American actress and singer, heart attack.
• Jim Kekeris, 73, American football player.
• Thomas J. Parmley, 99, American physicist.
• Hubert Petschnigg, 83, Austrian architect.
• Gertrude Pitzinger, 93, German contralto.

16

• Barbara Cage, 55, Australian Olympic gymanst.
• Terence Cooper, 64, British film actor.
• James Milton Ham, 76, Canadian engineer and university official.
• Helen Jepson, 92, American lyric soprano.
• William N. Oatis, 83, American journalist, Alzheimer's disease.
• Fred Robertson, 85, British-born Canadian ice hockey player.
• Dušan Škvarenina, 57, Slovak Olympic cyclist.
• Gerry Turpin, 72, English cinematographer.
• José Valle, 77, Argentine football player and coach.

17

• Benjamin Atkins, 29, American serial killer and rapist, AIDS-related complications.
• Anthony Franchini, 99, American guitarist.
• Nelson G. Gross, 65, American politician, slashed and bludgeoned.
• Brian Hall, 59, English actor, cancer.
• Harry Jago, 84, Australian politician.
• Walter Kremershof, 74, German Olympic ice hockey player.
• Meena, 56, Indian actress.
• Trevor Redmond, 70, New Zealand speedway rider.
• Amanoyama Shizuo, 43, Japanese sumo wrestler.
• Red Skelton, 84, American comedian, pneumonia.
• Jan P. Syse, 66, Prime Minister of Norway, cerebral hemorrhage.

18

• Fernand Fayolle, 93, French racing cyclist.
• Patricia Pulling, 49, American anti-role-playing games activist, lung cancer.
• Walpola Rahula, 90, Sri Lankan Buddhist monk, scholar and writer.
• Yehuda Sha'ari, 77, Israeli politician.
• Ganesh Man Singh, 81, Nepali politician.
• Seigo Tada, 75, Japanese founder of Goju-Ryu Seigokan Karatedo.
• Jimmy Witherspoon, 77, American blues singer, cancer.

19

• Józef Bielawski, 87, Polish Arabist and scholar of Islam.
• Bill Butland, 79, American baseball pitcher.
• Moses ǁGaroëb, 55, Namibian politician and founding member of SWAPO.
• Kathy Keeton, 58, American editor and publisher of Penthouse magazine, complications from surgery.
• Jack May, 75, English actor.
• Rich Mullins, 41, American Christian musician, traffic collision.
• Ambar Roy, 52, Indian cricket player.

20

• Matt Christopher, 80, American children's author.
• Virginia d'Albert-Lake, 87, American French Resistance agent during World War II.
• Kurt Gloor, 54, Swiss film director, screenwriter and producer, suicide.
• Jim Hickey, 76, American baseball player.
• Anoop Kumar, 71, Indian film actor.
• Nick Traina, 19, American punk band singer, suicide by morphine overdose.

21

• Juan Burgueño, 74, Uruguayan football player.
• Lydia Eberhardt, 84, German Olympic javelin thrower.
• Teuku Muhammad Hasan, 91, Indonesian politician.
• Jennifer Holt, 76, American actress, cancer.
• Maurice Kaufmann, 70, British actor, cancer.
• Sepp Paar, 84, German Olympic wrestler.

22

• Beatrice Aitchison, 89, American mathematician, statistician, and economist.
• Deolindo Bittel, 75, Argentine politician.
• Pedro Carrizo, 76, Uruguayan Olympic boxer.
• William Craig, 68, American author and historian.
• Robert E. Huyser, 73, United States Air Force general.
• Karl Koopman, 77, American zoologist.
• Manabu Mabe, 73, Japanese-Brazilian painter, diabetes.
• Pierre Petit, 77, French cinematographer.
• Ruth Picardie, 33, English journalist and editor, breast cancer.
• Eddie Sawyer, 87, American Major League Baseball scout.
• George Thomas, 1st Viscount Tonypandy, 88, British politician.
• Chiang Wei-kuo, 80, Secretary-General of the National Security Council of the Republic of China, diabetes.
• Shoichi Yokoi, 82, Japanese soldier, heart attack.

23

• Darko Bratina, 55, Italian sociologist, film theorist and politician, heart attack.
• Dolf Brouwers, 85, Dutch comedian, singer, and television actor.
• Shirley Clarke, 77, American filmmaker, stroke.
• Art Dorfman, 89, American football player.
• Dick Flanagan, 70, American gridiron football player.
• Abe Gibron, 72, American gridiron football player, and coach.
• Cary Lu, 51, American science writer, cancer.
• Doug Million, 21, American baseball player, asthma.
• Jonas Pipynė, 61, Lithuanian track and field runner, skier, and Olympian.
• Ray Poage, 56, American gridiron football player.
• Lu Sheng, 85, Chinese military officer.
• J.D. Thottan, 75, Indian director of Malayalam language films.
• Pedro de Castro van Dúnem, 55, Angolan politician.
• Torgny Wickman, 86, Swedish screenwriter and film director.

24

• T. Emmet Clarie, 84, American district judge.
• Aobayama Hirotoshi, 47, Japanese sumo wrestler.
• Anton Kehle, 49, German Olympic ice hockey goaltender, cancer.
• William M. Miley, 99, United States Army officer and a professor.
• Alby Morrison, 88, Australian rules football player and coach.
• Yen Shui-long, 94, Taiwanese painter and sculptor, surgical complications after fall.
• Jai Pal Singh, 67, Indian physician and educator.
• Engalaguppe Seetharamiah Venkataramiah, 72, Chief Justice of India.
• Remy Wagner, 75, Luxembourgish football player.
• Ernest Will, 84, French archaeologist and professor.

25

• John Ahern, 86, Irish Roman Catholic bishop.
• Hélène Baillargeon, 81, Canadian singer, actor and folklorist.
• Paul Bernard, 68, English television director and production designer.
• Guillermo Díaz, 66, Chilean football player.
• Bill Donovan, 81, American baseball player.
• Jean Françaix, 85, French musician and composer.
• Juan José Gámez, 58, Costa Rican football player and manager, cardiac arrest.
• Jim Kemmy, 61, Irish politician.
• Viktor Lipsnis, 63, Soviet Ukrainian shot putter and Olympian.
• George MacDonald, 90, Canadian rower and Olympian.
• Phonse Marshall, 80, Australian rules footballer.
• Egon Seefehlner, 85, Austrian lawyer and opera director.
• Włodzimierz Śpiewak, 59, Polish footballer.
• Komil Yashin, 87, Soviet and Uzbekistani poet and screenwriter.

26

• Nick Carter, 95, American track and field athlete, coach and Olympian.
• Woody English, 91, American baseball player.
• Richard Geoffrey Gerard, 92, New Zealand politician and cabinet minister.
• Dorothy Kingsley, 87, American screenwriter, heart failure.
• Egon Scheibe, 88, German aviation engineer.
• John Schubeck, 61, American television reporter and anchor, kidney and liver failure.
• Samuel W. Taylor, 90, American novelist, scriptwriter, and historian.
• Péter Zsoldos, 67, Hungarian science fiction author.

27

• Bob Evans, 72, American basketball player.
• Atilio François, 75, Uruguayan Olympic cyclist.
• Alex Konikowski, 69, American baseball player.
• Allan MacRae, 95, American Christian theologian.
• Margot Mahler, 52, German actress.
• Adriana Marines, 5, American girl of Mexican descent, shot.
• Jacques Mercanton, 87, French cinematographer.
• Mandali Venkata Krishna Rao, 71, Indian politician.
• Walter Trampler, 82, American violist.

28

• Munir Bashir, 66-67, Iraqi musician, stroke.
• Frank D'Agostino, 63, American gridiron football player.
• David Gill, 69, British film historian, preservationist and documentarian, heart attack.
• Connie Grob, 64, American baseball player.
• Ho Feng-Shan, 96, Chinese diplomat.
• Günther Maul, 88, German ichthyologist and taxidermist.
• Lage Thunberg, 92, Swedish Air Force officer.
• Elfriede Vey, 75, German cyclist.

29

• William Goddard, 84, American engineer and inventor.
• Roy Lichtenstein, 73, American pop artist, pneumonia.
• Georg Nowka, 86, German Olympic sailor.
• Edith Ballinger Price, 100, American children's author and illustrator.
• Fritz Schär, 71, Swiss cyclist.
• Volodymyr Sterniuk, 90, Ukrainian Greek Catholic archbishop and the acting head of the UGCC.
• Aaron D. Wyner, 58, American information theorist.

30

• Al "Jazzbo" Collins, 78, American disc jockey and musician, pancreatic cancer.
• Nobuo Fujita, Japanese pilot and warrant officer during World War II.
• Pierre Granche, 49, French-Canadian sculptor, lung cancer.
• Edward L. Kessel, 93, American biologist.
• Graeme MacDonald, 67, British television producer and executive.
• Don Martin, 77, American basketball player.
• Ernst van Heerden, 81, South African poet.