# Deaths in September 1997
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The following is a list of notable deaths in September 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.

## 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 Olympic football player (1952 gold medal).
* Joseph Abel Francis, 73, American Catholic bishop.
* Reidar Olsen, 86, Norwegian footballer.

### 2

* George E. Allen, 85, American football player and coach.
* 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.

### 3

* Arthur Chin, 83, American pilot and World War II flying ace.
* Harold G. Dick, 90, American mechanical engineer.
* Hal Goodman, 82, American producer and screenwriter.
* Hans Niclaus, 83, German basketball player.
* Ernst C. Stiefel, 89, German-American jurist.

### 4

* Khaled Abdul-Wahab, 86, Tunisian rescuer of Jews.
* Chuck Arnold, 71, American racecar driver.
* 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.
* Andrej Prean Nagy, 76, Romanian-Hungarian football player and coach.
* 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 H. Hurst, 80, United States Marine Corps officer.
* Roy Huskey, Jr., 40, American upright bass player, lung cancer.
* 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 (The Howling), brain cancer.
* 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 freestyle 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 (Philadelphia Phillies) and member of the MLB Hall of Fame, heart attack.
* Rowland George, 92, British rower.
* John Hackett, 86, Australian-born British army general and painter.
* Predrag Laković, 68, Yugoslavian/Serbian actor.
* Burgess Meredith, 89, American actor (Rocky, Batman, The Day of the Locust), Emmy winner (1977), melanoma.

### 10

* Satish Chandra Agarwal, Indian politician.
* Abraham Akaka, 80, American clergyman.
* Richard Brandt, 86, American philosopher.
* Jacques Leguerney, 90, French composer.
* 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.
* Camille Henry, 64, Canadian ice hockey player.
* Iliya Kirchev, 64, Bulgarian football player.
* 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 long-distance runner, heart attack.
* Heorhiy Zhylin, 72, Ukrainian rower and Olympian.

### 13

* Anjaan, 67, Indian lyricist.
* Paul Brechler, 86, American athletic director (University of Iowa).
* 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.
* 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.
* 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.
* Thomas J. Parmley, 99, American physicist.
* Hubert Petschnigg, 83, Austrian architect.
* Gertrude Pitzinger, 93, German contralto.

### 16

* 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.
* 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 (Fawlty Towers), cancer.
* Harry Jago, 84, Australian politician.
* Meena, 56, Indian actress.
* Trevor Redmond, 70, New Zealand speedway rider.
* Red Skelton, 84, American comedian (The Red Skelton Show), pneumonia.
* Jan P. Syse, 66, Prime Minister of Norway (1989–1990), 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 (Boston Red Sox).
* 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.
* Anoop Kumar, 71, Indian film actor.
* Nick Traina, 19, American punk band singer, suicide by morphine overdose.

### 21

* Juan Burgueño, 74, Uruguayan football player.
* Teuku Muhammad Hasan, 91, Indonesian politician.
* Jennifer Holt, 76, American actress, cancer.
* Maurice Kaufmann, 70, British actor, cancer.

### 22

* Beatrice Aitchison, 89, American mathematician, statistician, and economist.
* Deolindo Bittel, 75, Argentine politician.
* 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 (1986–1993), 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.
* Dick Flanagan, 69, 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

* Anton Kehle, 49, German 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.
* 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 shot putter and Olympian.
* George MacDonald, 90, Canadian rower and Olympian.
* Egon Seefehlner, 85, Austrian lawyer and opera director.
* Komil Yashin, 87, Soviet and Uzbekistani poet and screenwriter.

### 26

* Nick Carter, 95, American track and field athlete, coach and official.
* Woody English, 91, American baseball player.
* Richard Geoffrey Gerard, 92, New Zealand politician and cabinet minister.
* Dorothy Kingsley, 87, American screenwriter (Angels in the Outfield, Valley of the Dolls, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers), 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

* 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.
* 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.
* 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 (1972–91).
* 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.