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

## 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.
* 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

* 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.

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* Thomas Boylston Adams, 86, American business executive and writer.
* Stewart Anderson, 85, Australian rules football player.
* Katherine Esau, 99, German-American botanist.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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 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.

### 10

* Carolina Cotton, 71, American singer and actress, ovarian cancer.
* Leo Fuld, 84, Dutch singer.
* Kim Ki-soo, 57, South Korean boxing champion, liver cancer.
* Zhou Lin, 85, Chinese politician.

### 11

* Herman Basudde, 38, Ugandan kadongo kamu musician, traffic accident.
* Robert Bates, 48, Northern Irish Ulster loyalist, shot.
* 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.
* 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.

### 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.
* 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.
* Anand Narain Mulla, 95, Indian Urdu poet.
* George Strugar, 63. American gridiron football player, lung cancer.

### 14

* Marjorie Best, 94, American costume designer (Giant, Rio Bravo, The Greatest Story Ever Told, Oscar winner (1950).
* Helmut Fischer, 70, German actor, carcinoma.
* Richard Jaeckel, 70, American actor (The Dirty Dozen, Sometimes a Great Notion. Starman), melanoma.
* Helena Sanders, 86, British cultural activist, politician and poet.

### 15

* Nicholas Danby, British organist and composer.
* George Denholm, 88, British flying ace during World War II.
* Frode Jakobsen, 90, Danish author and politician.
* Edmond Leburton, 82, Belgian politician and Prime Minister.
* Robert C. McEwen, 77, American politician.
* Attilio Redolfi, 73, Italian-French racing cyclist.
* Son Sen, 67, Cambodian communist politician and soldier, summary execution.
* Dal Stivens, 85, Australian writer.

### 16

* 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 (Driving Miss Daisy, Thelma & Louise, The Shawshank Redemption), 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

* 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.
* 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 sprinter and Olympian.
* 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.
* Julia Smith, 70, English television director and producer, cancer.
* Stan Stasiak, 60, Canadian professional wrestler known as Stan Stasiak, heart failure.

### 20

* John Akii-Bua, 47, Ugandan hurdler and the nation's first Olympic champion.
* Armando Brancia, 79, Italian film and television actor.
* Paul Carell, 85, German Nazi politician and propagandist.
* Henri Haest, 70, Belgian hammer thrower and Olympian.
* Cahit Külebi, 80, Turkish poet and author, cancer.
* John Michael Macdonald, 91, Canadian politician.
* Lawrence Payton, 59, American tenor, songwriter, musician, and record producer, liver cancer.
* Alberto Rivera, 61, Spanish anti-Catholic religious activist, colon cancer.

### 21

* Shintarō Katsu, 65, Japanese actor, singer, producer, and director, pharyngeal cancer.
* Shantilal Jamnadas Mehta, 92, Indian surgeon and medical academic.
* Arthur Prysock, 68, American jazz and R&B singer.
* Karl Ridderbusch, 65, German operatic bass.
* Fidel Velázquez Sánchez, 97, Mexican union leader, cardiac and respiratory failure.
* Vladimir Vinogradov, 75, Soviet diplomat.

### 22

* Lars Bergendahl, 88, Norwegian cross-country skier.
* William Slater Brown, 100, American novelist, biographer, and translator of French literature.
* Larry Grossman, 53, Canadian politician (Legislative Assembly of Ontario), brain cancer.
* Ted Gärdestad, 41, Swedish singer, songwriter, musician, and actor, suicide.
* Don Henderson, 65, English actor (Star Wars, The Paradise Club, Strangers), throat cancer.
* Paul Napolitano, 74, American basketball player.
* Gérard Pelletier, 78, Canadian journalist and politician.

### 23

* Tom Calder, 79, Australian rules football player.
* Rosina Lawrence, 84, British-Canadian actress and singer, cancer.
* Prince Nico Mbarga, 47, Nigerian Igbo highlife musician, motorcycle accident.
* Don Norton, 59, American gridiron football player.
* Betty Shabazz, 63, American civil rights advocate and widow of Malcolm X, burns.
* Acharya Tulsi, 82, Indian Jain religious leader.

### 24

* Brian Keith, 75, American actor (Family Affair, The Parent Trap, The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming), suicide.
* Paul Lavalle, 88, American conductor, composer, arranger and peron clarinet and saxophone.
* Sanjukta Panigrahi, 52, Indian Odissi dancer, cancer.
* Leonard B. Strang, 72, British professor of paediatric sciences, cancer.

### 25

* Bobby Blackwood, 62, Scottish footballer.
* Jacques Cousteau, 87, French explorer, conservationist, and oceanographer, heart attack.
* William Grinnell, 87, American football player and coach, congestive heart failure.
* Mario Salvadori, 90, American structural engineer and professor at Columbia University.
* Sotim Ulugzoda, 85, Soviet and Tajik writer.

### 26

* George Bassman, 83, American composer and arranger.
* Don Bradley, 72, English football player.
* Charlie Chester, 83, English comedian, radio and television presenter and writer.
* Robert Frucht, 90, German-Chilean mathematician.
* Don Hutson, 84, American football player (Green Bay Packers) and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
* Israel Kamakawiwoʻole, 38, Native Hawaiian musician and activist, respiratory failure.
* Thomas Joseph Murphy, 64, American prelate in the Catholic Church, cerebral hemorrhage.
* William Turnbull, 62, American architect, cancer.

### 27

* Ray Benge, 95, American baseball player.
* Narinder Biba, 56, Indian Punjabi singer.
* Samuel L. Devine, 81, American politician, cancer.
* Joseph Zong Huaide, 80, Chinese Roman Catholic Bishop.
* W. O. G. Lofts, 73, British researcher and author.
* Harrison Marks, 70, English glamour photographer and director of pornographic films.
* Kenneth Neate, 82, Australian tenor, opera producer, composer and author.
* Ken Richardson, 85, English racing and test driver.
* Ondino Viera, 95, Uruguayan football manager.

### 28

* Gary DeVore, 55, American Hollywood screenwriter, murdered.
* Forest Dewey Dodrill, 95, American doctor and inventor of the Dodrill-GMR heart machine.
* Jack Hinton, 87, New Zealand soldier during World War II and recipient of the Victoria Cross.
* Hubert Lamb, 83, English climatologist.
* Hildegard Ochse, 61, German photographer, leukemia.
* Friedrich von Mellenthin, 92, German Wehrmacht general during World War II.
* Yang Yichen, 83, Chinese politician.

### 29

* Nicholas Cleaveland Bodman, 83, American linguist.
* William Hickey, 69, American actor (Prizzi's Honor, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, The Nightmare Before Christmas), emphysema and bronchitis.
* Marjorie Linklater, 88, Scottish arts and environment campaigner, cancer and heart failure.
* Tom Lovell, 88, American illustrator and painter, car accident.
* Petey Rosenberg, 79, American basketball player.

### 30

* Gyula Benkő, 78, Hungarian actor and father of actor Péter Benkő.
* Su Bingqi, 87, Chinese archaeologist.
* William Bradley, 64, English bicycle racer and Olympian.
* Larry O'Dea, 53, Australian professional wrestler, liver cancer.
* Alcira Soust Scaffo, 73, Uruguayan teacher and poet, respiratory disease.