# Deaths in July 1997
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The following is a list of notable deaths in July 1997.
Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
* Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.

## July 1997
### 1

* Lester Asheim, 83, American librarian and scholar of library science.
* Annie Fratellini, 64, French circus artist, film actress and clown, cancer.
* Joshua Hassan, 81, Gibraltarian politician and Chief Minister of Gibraltar.
* David Martin, 81, Australian novelist, poet, playwright, journalist, and reviewer and lecturer.
* Harold McQueen, Jr., 44, American convicted murderer, execution by electric chair.
* Robert Mitchum, 79, American actor (The Story of G.I. Joe, Cape Fear, The Night of the Hunter), complications from lung cancer and emphysema.
* Mohammad Ali Mojtahedi, 88, Iranian University professor.
* Gerhard Wiltfang, 51, German equestrian and Olympic champion.

### 2

* George Antonio, 82, English footballer.
* Chiquito, 65, Filipino actor and comedian, liver cancer.
* Flint Gregory Hunt, 38, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
* Dee Moore, 83, American Major League Baseball player.
* James Stewart, 89, American actor (It's a Wonderful Life, Rear Window, Vertigo), Oscar winner (1941), heart attack as a result of pulmonary embolism.

### 3

* Johnny Copeland, 60, American blues guitarist and singer, complications during heart surgery.
* Gloster B. Current, 84, American NAACP activist, leukemia and pneumonia.
* Natalia Dumitresco, 81, French-Romanian abstract painter.
* Rufe Gentry, 79, American baseball player.
* Michael James MacDonald, 87, Canadian politician and union leader.
* Thomas Sgovio, 80, American artist and Soviet Union Gulag inmate.
* Stanley Stanczyk, 72, American weightlifter and Olympian.

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* William Cadogan, 7th Earl Cadogan, British peer and military officer.
* Bengt Danielsson, 75, Swedish anthropologist, writer, and a crew member on the Kon-Tiki raft expedition.
* Charles Kuralt, 62, American journalist, complications from lupus.
* Slobodan Mišković, 52, Serbian handball coach and player.
* Miguel Najdorf, 87, Polish-Argentinian chess grandmaster.
* Amado Carrillo Palomino, 40, Mexican drug lord, complications during cosmetic surgery.
* Bevis Reid, 78, British track and field athlete and Olympian.
* Eddie Smith, 70, Australian racing cyclist.
* John Zachary Young, 90, English zoologist and neurophysiologist.

### 5

* Bob Dees, 67, American gridiron football player.
* Jean-Marie Domenach, 75, French writer and intellectual.
* Mrs. Miller, 89, American singer.
* Les Norman, 83, Australian politician.
* Arunasalam Thangathurai, 61, Sri Lankan Tamil politician.

### 6

* Chetan Anand, 76, Indian Hindi film producer, screenwriter and director.
* Gabriel Asaad, 90, Turkish-Swedish Assyrian composer and musician.
* Dorothy Buffum Chandler, 96, American cultural leader.
* Stanisław Horno-Popławski, 94, Russian-Polish painter, sculptor and pedagogue.
* Gene James, 72, American basketball player.
* Brun Smith, 75, New Zealand cricket player.

### 7

* Mate Boban, 57, Bosnian Croat politician and the only president of the Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia, stroke.
* Alfons De Winter, 88, Belgian football player.
* Jerry Doggett, 80, American sportscaster.
* Raffaele Dolfato, 34, Italian rugby player and entrepreneur, traffic collision.
* Henry Howell, 76, American politician, cancer.
* Sven Håkansson, 87, Swedish long-distance runner and Olympian.
* Jean Luciano, 76, French football player and manager.
* Oku Mumeo, 101, Japanese politician and feminist.
* Luis Aguirre Pinto, 89, Chilean composer, folk musician and folklorist.
* Royston Tickner, 74, British actor.
* Rolando Tinio, 60, Filipino poet, dramatist, actor, and essayist.
* Erik Zetterström, 92, Swedish writer and playwright.

### 8

* Charles L. Drake, 73, American geologist, heart failure.
* Dick van Dijk, 51, Dutch football player (FC Twente, Ajax Amsterdam), acute endocarditis.
* Georges Gay, 71, French racing cyclist.
* Guy Murchie, 90, American author and aviator.
* Abu Sadat Mohammad Sayem, 81, Bangladeshi jurist and statesman.
* Charles P. B. Taylor, 65,Canadian journalist, author, and thoroughbred racehorse owner and breeder, cancer.
* Tony Thomas, 69, British-American film historian, author, and producer, pneumonia.
* Max E. Youngstein, 84, American film producer.

### 9

* Carol Forman, 79, American actress.
* Aurelio González, 91, Paraguayan football player.
* Walter Korn, 89, Czech-American writer of books and magazine articles about chess.
* Georgeta Năpăruș, 66, Romanian modernist painter.
* David Pitblado, British principal private secretary to successive Prime Ministers.
* Stan Rojek, 78, American baseball player.
* Marianne Schönauer, 77, Austrian actress.

### 10

* Ivor Allchurch, 67, Welsh football player.
* Dwight Lowry, 39, American baseball player, heart attack.
* Abe Okpik, 69, Canadian Inuit community leader.
* Frank R. Parker, 57, American civil rights lawyer and activist, complications from an aortic aneurysm.

### 11

* Felix Barker, 80, British drama critic and historian.
* Fred Beavis, 82, Canadian politician, pneumonia.
* Joe Hauser, 98, American baseball player.
* Edward Lasker, 85, American businessman and thoroughbred racehorse owner.
* Alfred Mellows, 75, English rower and Olympic medalist.
* Jock Sturrock, 82, Australian yachtsman and Olympian.
* Robert V. Whitlow, 78, American military officer, football coach, and sports club executive.

### 12

* Pietro Buscaglia, 86, Italian football player.
* Meribeth E. Cameron, 92, American historian of China and academic.
* Blas Chumacero, 92, Mexican trade union leader.
* François Furet, 70, French historian, head injury while playing tennis, heart failure.
* Douglas Huebler, 72, American conceptual artist.
* Steve Karrys, 73, Canadian football player.
* Vinko Nikolić, 85, Croatian writer, poet and journalist.
* Frank Shuter, 54, New Zealand speedway rider, traffic collision.
* Jean Varenne, 71, French indologist.
* Miroslav Wiecek, 65, Czech football player.

### 13

* Garfield Barwick, 94, Australian politician, lawyer, and Chief Justice of Australia.
* Miguel Ángel Blanco, 29, Spanish politician and ETA victim, executed.
* Alexandra Danilova, 93, Russian-American prima ballerina.
* Rosy Gibb, 54, Irish social worker, clown, and magician, cancer.
* Ekaterina Kalinchuk, 74, Soviet gymnast and Olympic champion.
* Kurt Land, 84, Austrian-Argentine film director.
* Edi Rada, 74, Austrian figure skater and Olympic medalist.
* Alf Tveten, 84, Norwegian sailor and Olympian.

### 14

* Eddie Finnigan, 84, Canadian ice hockey player.
* Eugene Goossen, 76, American art critic and art historian, pneumonia.
* Joseph F. Holt, 73, American politician.
* Isaac Nicola, Cuban guitarist.
* Polly Shackleton, 87, American politician.
* Hilda Watson, 75, Canadian politician.

### 15

* Alan J. Charig, 70, English palaeontologist, stroke.
* Dick Chorovich, 64, American gridiron football player.
* Cheryl Glass, 35, American racing driver, suicide by jumping.
* Eve Greene, 91, American screenwriter.
* Rosamund Greenwood, 90, British actress.
* Justinas Lagunavičius, 72, Lithuanian basketball player.
* Stefan Marinov, 66, Bulgarian physicist, suicide by jumping.
* Gianni Versace, 50, Italian fashion designer and founder of the Versace fashion house, shot.

### 16

* Ron Berry, 77, Welsh author and novelist.
* Dora Maar, 89, French photographer, painter, and poet.
* William H. Reynolds, 87, American film editor (The Godfather, The Sound of Music, The Sting), Oscar winner (1966, 1974), cancer.
* Franciszek Sulik, 88-89, Polish-Australian chess master.

### 17

* Bianco Bianchi, 80, Italian cyclist.
* Don Bingham, 67, American gridiron football player.
* R. Krishnan, 87, Indian film director.
* Thomas Mellon Evans, 86, American financier, complications following a fall.
* Arthur Jepson, 82, English cricket player.
* Hugo Gunckel Lüer, 95, Chilean pharmacist and botanist.
* Dave Peterson, 66, American ice hockey coach
* Birgitte Price, 63, Danish actress.
* Gene Warren, 80, American visual effects artist (The Time Machine) and television producer (Land of the Lost), Oscar winner (1961), cancer.
* Robert C. Weaver, 89, American economist and academic.

### 18

* André Drobecq, 96, French racing cyclist.
* Léon Gaultier, 82, French nazi collaborator during World War II and founding member of Front National.
* James Goldsmith, 64, Anglo-French financier, tycoon, and politician, pancreatic cancer.
* Igor Linchevski, Russian botanist.
* Oddvar Richardsen, 60, Norwegian football player and manager.
* Eugene Merle Shoemaker, 69, American geologist and planetary science pioneer, traffic collision.
* Harold Spina, 91, American composer of popular songs.
* Gregorio Weber, 81, Argentinian biochemist.

### 19

* Frank Farrell, 50, British rock musician (Supertramp).
* Hec Gervais, 63, Canadian curler.
* John E. Hines, 86, American Episcopal Church bishop.
* Jim Peebles, 76, American football player (Washington Redskins).
* Tugolbay Sydykbekov, 85, Kyrgyzstani writer.

### 20

* Puneet Nath Datt, 24, Indian Army officer, killed in action.
* Alf Engen, 88, Norwegian-American skier.
* Ed Klewicki, 85, American football player.
* M. E. H. Maharoof, 58, Sri Lankan politician, gunshot wounds.
* Drummond Matthews, 66, British marine geologist and geophysicist.
* Eric Charles Milner, 69, Canadian mathematician.
* Arshi Pipa, 76, Albanian-American philosopher, writer and poet.
* Linda Stirling, 75, American showgirl, model, and actress, cancer.

### 21

* Tony Alvarez, 40, Spanish Australian actor and singer, AIDS-related cancer.
* Sjaak Alberts, 71, Dutch football player.
* Paul K. Benedict, 85, American anthropologist and linguist, traffic collision.
* Roger Bowman, 69, American baseball player.
* Růžena Grebeníčková, 71, Czech literary historian and theorist.
* Ernst Majonica, 76, German politician (CDU).

### 22

* Khalil Ahmed, 61, Pakistani composer.
* Irving Geis, 88, American artist.
* Vincent Hanna, 57, Northern Irish television journalist, heart attack.
* Jean-Jacques Herbulot, 88, French sailor and Olympian.
* Kevin Howley, 73, English football referee.
* János Mogyorósi-Klencs, 75, Hungarian gymnast and Olympian.
* Sondra Rodgers, 94, American actress.
* Fritz Scheller, 82, German cyclist.

### 23

* Walter Behrendt, 82, German politician.
* Jeff Cross, 78, American baseball player.
* Andrew Cunanan, 27, American spree killer and murderer of Gianni Versace, suicide by gunshot.
* Dequinha, 69, Brazilian football player.
* Andrea Domburg, 74, Dutch actress.
* Chūhei Nambu, 93, Japanese track and field athlete, pneumonia.
* Simon Pierre Tchoungui, 80, First Prime Minister of Cameroon.
* David Warbeck, 55, New Zealand actor and model, cancer.

### 24

* William J. Brennan, 91, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (1956–1990).
* Bob Gaddy, 73, American East Coast blues and R&B pianist, singer and songwriter, lung cancer.
* Edward Gardère, 88, French fencer and Olympian.
* Brian Glover, 63, English actor (Alien 3, Kes, An American Werewolf in London) and writer, brain tumor, brain cancer.
* László Görög, 93, Hungarian-American screenwriter.
* Saw Maung, 69, Burmese army general and statesman, heart attack.
* Frank Parker, 81, American tennis player.
* Bill Shine, 85, British actor.

### 25

* Natallia Arsiennieva, 93, Belarusian playwright, poet and translator.
* Jack Bickham, 66, American novelist, lymphoma.
* Peter Carmichael, 73, British fighter pilot during World War II and the Korean War.
* Jack Davies, 80, New Zealand swimmer.
* Ralph Goldstein, 83, American épée fencer and Olympian, traffic collision.
* Ben Hogan, 84, American golf champion.
* David McFaull, 48, American sailor and Olympian.
* Boris Novikov, 72, Soviet actor, complications from diabetes.
* Matiu Rata, 63, New Zealand Māori politician, traffic collision.

### 26

* Jaime Milans del Bosch, 82, Spanish lieutenant general and co-leader of 1981 coup d'état, brain tumor.
* Kunihiko Kodaira, 82, Japanese mathematician.
* Bob Nussbaumer, 73, American gridiron football player.
* Denis Smallwood, 78, British Royal Air Force senior commander.

### 27

* Muhammad Mahdi Al-Jawahiri, 98, Iraqi poet.
* Isabel Dean, 79, English actress.
* Heinrich Liebe, 89, German naval officer during World War II.
* René Persillon, 78, French football player.
* K'tut Tantri, 99, Scottish American hotelier and broadcaster known as "Surabaya Sue".

### 28

* Rosalie Crutchley, 77, British actress.
* John FitzPatrick, 82, Australian politician.
* Bud Hardin, 75, American baseball player.
* Leo Loudenslager, 53, American aviator, traffic collision.
* Gordon McMaster, 37, Scottish politician, suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning.
* Seni Pramoj, 92, Thai politician and Prime Minister, heart disease and kidney failure.

### 29

* Jack Archer, 75, English sprinter.
* Mykhailo Byelykh, 38, Soviet/Ukrainian football player and a coach, traffic collision.
* Shinsaku Himeda, 80, Japanese cinematographer (Tora! Tora! Tora!).
* Edward A. Kawānanakoa, 72, American member of the Hawaiian House of Kawānanakoa.
* John H. Ware III, 88, American politician.
* Chuck Wayne, 74, American jazz guitarist.

### 30

* Giuseppe Anedda, 85, Italian mandolin player.
* Robert Bryce, 87, Canadian civil servant.
* Emil J. Husak, 66, American politician.
* Charlotte van Pallandt, 98, Dutch painter and sculptor.

### 31

* Bảo Đại, 83, Vietnamese emperor of the Nguyễn dynasty, brain cancer.
* Hepi Te Heuheu, 78, New Zealand Māori chief.
* Vichit Kounavudhi, 75, Thai film director and screenwriter.
* Eddie Miller, 80, American baseball player.
* Vern Riffe, 72, American politician and speaker.
* Frans Schoubben, 63, Belgian racing cyclist.