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

## January 1997
### 1

* Prince Eugen of Bavaria, 71, German noble.
* Aenne Brauksiepe, 84, German politician.
* Asnoldo Devonish, 64, Venezuelan track and field athlete.
* Al Eugster, 87, American animator, writer, and film director.
* Jean Feller, 77, Luxembourgish footballer.
* Ivan Graziani, 51, Italian singer-songwriter and guitarist, colon cancer.
* Hagood Hardy, 59, Canadian composer, pianist, and vibraphonist, lymphoma.
* Mohammed Hafez Ismail, 77, Egyptian diplomat and ambassador.
* Graham Kersey, 25, English cricketer, traffic collision.
* Hans-Martin Majewski, 85, German composer of film scores.
* James B. Pritchard, 87, American archeologist.
* Joan Rice, 66, English film actress.
* Franco Volpi, 75, Italian actor and voice actor, cancer.
* Townes Van Zandt, 52, American singer-songwriter, cardiac arrhythmia.
* Ladislau Zilahi, 74, Romanian football player and manager.

### 2

* Randy California, 45, American guitarist, singer and songwriter, drowned.
* Samuel Carlisi, 82, American mobster, heart attack.
* Joan Coromines, 91, Spanish linguist.
* Antonio Giordani Soika, 83, Italian entomologist and ecologist.
* Moshe Wilensky, 86, Polish-Israeli composer.

### 3

* Werner Genuit, 59, German classical pianist and composer.
* Roger Goeb, 82, American composer.
* Michel Heller, 74, Russian historian, heart attack.
* Pieter Keuneman, 79, Sri Lankan communist politician.
* Jon Lennart Mjøen, 84, Norwegian actor, film director and screenwriter.
* Gianfranco Pandolfini, 76, Italian water polo player.
* Marie Torre, 72, American television journalist, lung cancer.
* Odd Øyen, 82, Norwegian physician and resistance member during World War II.

### 4

* Hédi Berkhissa, 24, Tunisian footballer, heart attack.
* Akhteruzzaman Elias, 53, Bangladeshi novelist and short story writer.
* Harry Helmsley, 87, American real estate mogul, pneumonia.
* Harry P. Jeffrey, 95, American attorney and politician.
* Bill Lancaster, 49, American screenwriter (The Thing, The Bad News Bears) and actor (Moses the Lawgiver).
* Lucien Rebuffic, 75, French basketball player.
* Tormod Skagestad, 76, Norwegian poet, novelist, playwright and actor.
* Richard Taitano, 75, Guamanian politician.

### 5

* André Franquin, 73, Belgian comics artist, (Spirou & Fantasio, Gaston, Marsupilami), heart attack.
* Peter Zack Geer, 68, American politician, cancer.
* Prince Bertil, Duke of Halland, 84, Swedish royal, third son of King Gustaf VI Adolf.
* Homer Hobbs, 73, American football player and coach.
* Burton Lane, 84, American composer and lyricist.
* Frans Piët, 91, Dutch comics artist (Sjors en Sjimmie).
* Emil Roy, 89, American baseball player.
* V. C. Wynne-Edwards, 90, English zoologist.

### 6

* Herbert Blitzstein, 62, American mobster, shot.
* Dick Donovan, 69, American MLB baseball player, cancer.
* Kalevi Laitinen, 78, Finnish gymnast and Olympic champion.
* Teiichi Matsumaru, 87, Japanese football player.
* Charles Murphy, 88, Australian politician.
* Catherine Scorsese, 84, Italian-American actress (Goodfellas), Alzheimer's disease.

### 7

* Tod Goodwin, 85, American gridiron football player.
* Paul-Werner Hozzel, 86, Nazi Germany Luftwaffe pilot during World War II.
* Christopher Mayhew, 81, British politician.
* Patricia McLaughlin, 80, Northern Irish politician.
* Sándor Végh, 84, Hungarian-French violinist and conductor.

### 8

* Smiley Bates, 59, Canadian country singer, songwriter, and musician, cancer.
* Melvin Calvin, 85, American biochemist, heart failure.
* Paul Endacott, 94, American basketball player.
* James Fraser, 72, Scottish surgeon.
* Harold Foote Gosnell, 100, American political scientist and author.
* George Handy, 76, American jazz arranger, composer and pianist.
* Phyllis Hartnoll, 90, British poet, author and editor.
* Alfred John Markiewicz, 68, American prelate of the Catholic Church.

### 9

* Karol Borhy, 84, Czechoslovak football coach.
* Ove Dahlberg, 65, Swedish ice hockey referee, heart attack.
* Angelo Drossos, 68, American basketball executive, Parkinson's disease.
* Ellen Griffin Dunne, 64, American actress and activist, multiple sclerosis.
* Muhammadu Junaidu, 91, Nigerian historian and writer.
* Shorty McWilliams, 70, American football player.
* Edward Osóbka-Morawski, 87, Polish activist and politician.
* Jesse White, 79, American actor and comedian, heart attack.

### 10

* Mary Bancroft, 93, American novelist and spy.
* Samuel Preston Bayard, 88, American folklorist and musicologist.
* Emmet Reid Blake, 88, American ornithologist and museum curator.
* Gordon W. Burrows, 70, American politician, cardiac arrest.
* André Caron, 52, member of the House of Commons of Canada from 1993 to 1997, cancer.
* Seymour Halpern, 83, American politician.
* Elspeth Huxley, 89, English author, journalist, broadcaster, and government adviser.
* Valentin Koptyug, 65, Soviet/Russian chemist.
* Phil Marchildon, 83, Canadian Major League Baseball player.
* Tordis Maurstad, 95, Norwegian stage actress.
* Martin Pike, 76, British athlete.
* Alexander R. Todd, Baron Todd, 89, Scottish biochemist and Nobel Prize laureate, heart attack.
* Shiv Verma, 92, Indian revolutionary.
* Lee Willerman, 57, American psychologist.
* Albert Wohlstetter, 83, American nuclear strategist.
* George Young, 74, Scottish footballer.

### 11

* Arild Andersen, 68, Norwegian racing cyclist.
* Bhabatosh Datta, 85, Indian economist, academic and writer.
* Rosalind Hill, 88, English historian, heart failure.
* Pancheti Koteswaram, 81, Indian meteorologist, hydrologist, and atmospheric physicist.
* Sheldon Leonard, 89, American actor, producer, director, and writer.
* Stu Martin, 84, American Major League Baseball player.
* Jerry Neudecker, 66, American MLB umpire, cancer.
* Helen Foster Snow, 89, American journalist.
* Jill Summers, 86, English music hall performer and comedian, kidney failure.
* Ian White-Thomson, 92, British Anglican priest.

### 12

* Jean-Edern Hallier, 60, French writer, critic and editor, cerebral haemorrhage after fall, heart attack, traffic collision.
* Jean Hoerni, 72, Swiss-American engineer.
* Charles Brenton Huggins, 95, Canadian-American cancer researcher and Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate.
* Ewa Larysa Krause, 22, Polish judoka, traffic collision.
* Wally Rose, 83, American jazz and ragtime pianist.
* Jorge Suárez, 51, Salvadoran football player, cancer.

### 13

* Sivar Arnér, 87, Swedish novelist and playwright.
* Burton Barr, 79, American businessman and politician, kidney failure.
* Johannes Coleman, 86, South African marathon runner and Olympian.
* Max Kaser, 90, German academic and professor of jurisprudence.
* Leo Margolis, 69, Canadian parasitologist, heart attack.
* Baburaoji Parkhe, 84, Indian industrialist.
* Ruslan Stratonovich, 66, Russian physicist and engineer.
* Herman V. Wall, 91, American combat photographer during World War II.

### 14

* John Amdisen, 62, Danish football player.
* Shalva Chikhladze, 84, Soviet light-heavyweight wrestler and Olympian.
* Leonard Dodson, 84, American golfer.
* Celso Ferreira, 46, Brazilian football player.
* King Hu, 64, Chinese film director and actor, complications from angioplasty.
* Robert Irsay, 73, American football team owner.
* Ebba Lodden, 83, Norwegian civil servant and politician.
* Roland Martin, 84, French archaeologist.
* Dollard Ménard, 83, Canadian general.
* Knud Nellemose, 88, Danish sculptor.

### 15

* Oscar Auerbach, 92, American physician and pathologist.
* Edwin Smith, 74, New Zealand rower.
* Ahmad Tafazzoli, 59, Iranian Iranist and professor of ancient Iranian languages, homicide. (body discovered on this date)
* Kenneth V. Thimann, 92, English-American plant physiologist and microbiologist.

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* Romano Amerio, 91, Swiss Italian theologian.
* Ödön Gróf, 81, Hungarian swimmer and Olympian.
* Roy Henderson, 73, Scottish football player.
* Markus Hoffmann, 26, German actor, suicide by jumping.
* Nils Katajainen, 77, Finnish flying ace during World War II.
* Erik Källström, 88, Swedish football player.
* Iain Mills, 56, English politician.
* Shinobu Muraki, 73, Japanese production designer and art director (Ran).
* Beverly Peer, 84, American jazz double-bassist, cancer.
* Martin Redmond, 59, British politician.
* Juan Landázuri Ricketts, 83, Peruvian catholic cardinal.
* Jeff Teale, 57, British international athlete and Olympian.
* Rajagopala Tondaiman, 74, Indian monarch and the last Raja of Pudukkottai.
* Barbara Woodell, 86, American actress.
* Willie Yeadon, 89, British railway historian.

### 17

* Susanna Al-Hassan, 69, Ghanaian author and politician.
* Earl Girard, 69, American football player.
* Robert Giraud, 75, French journalist, poet and lexicographer.
* Björn Isfält, 54, Swedish composer, cancer.
* Bill Kardash, 84, Canadian politician.
* Bert Kelly, 84, Australian politician and government minister.
* Amha Selassie, 80, Ethiopian Emperor-in-exile and son of Haile Selassie I.
* Clyde Tombaugh, 90, American astronomer.
* Theo Wilson, 79, American reporter, cerebral hemorrhage.

### 18

* Herbert A. Allen, Sr., 88, American stockbroker.
* Ruth Brinkmann, 62, American actress and founder of Vienna's English Theatre, ovarian cancer.
* Adriana Caselotti, 80, American actress and singer (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs), lung cancer.
* Keith Diamond, 46, American songwriter and producer, heart attack.
* Jean Gravelle, 69, Canadian ice hockey player.
* Henry Hermansen, 75, Norwegian cross-country skier and Olympian.
* Ardis Krainik, 67, American mezzo-soprano opera singer.
* Diana Lewis, 77, American film actress, pancreatic cancer.
* Myfanwy Piper, 85, British art critic and opera librettist.
* Gilberto Martínez Solares, 90, Mexican actor, cinematographer, screenwriter, and director.
* Darío Suro, 79, Dominican Republic art critic, diplomat and painter.
* Paul Tsongas, 55, American politician, non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

### 19

* Robert Chapatte, 75, French cyclist and sports journalist.
* James Dickey, 73, American poet and novelist.
* Richard E. Jennings, 75, English comics artist, pneumonia.
* Tamara Makarova, 89, Soviet actress.
* Vasily Nalimov, 86, Russian philosopher and humanist.
* Charles Nelson, 95, American film editor (Picnic, Cat Ballou, A Song to Remember), Oscar winner (1956).
* Sudhir, 75, Pakistani film actor, director and producer.

### 20

* Albín Brunovský, 61, Slovak painter and graphic artist.
* Curt Flood, 59, American baseball player, pneumonia.
* Edith Haisman, 100, South African-born RMS Titanic survivor
* Hiram Keller, 52, American actor, liver cancer.
* Joseph J. Loferski, 71, American physicist.
* Ashious Melu, 39, Zambian footballer and coach.
* Konrad Püschel, 89, German architect, town planner, and university professor.
* Dennis Main Wilson, 72, British radio and television producer, lung cancer.

### 21

* John Glyn-Jones, 87, British actor.
* Hans Egon Holthusen, 83, German nazi, writer and academic.
* Sourendra Nath Kohli, 80, Indian Navy admiral.
* Irwin Levine, 58, American songwriter.
* Louis Miehe-Renard, 77, Danish film actor.
* Shinroku Momose, 77, Japanese aircraft/automotive engineer.
* Eduardo Morera, 91, Argentine film director.
* Colonel Tom Parker, 87, Dutch-American manager of Elvis Presley, stroke.
* Giorgio Prosperi, 85, Italian screenwriter.
* Polly Ann Young, 88, American actress, cancer.

### 22

* Ênio Andrade, 68, Brazilian football player and manager.
* L. Kijungluba AO, 90, Indian baptist missionary.
* Pilar Barbosa, 98, Puerto Rican educator, historian and political activist.
* George Dockins, 79, American baseball player.
* Ron Holden, 57, American pop and R&B singer, heart attack.
* Elwyn Lynn, 79, Australian artist, author and art critic.
* Billy Mackenzie, 39, Scottish singer and songwriter, suicide by drug overdose.
* Cornelio Reyna, 56, Mexican singer, composer and actor.
* Willard Wheatley, 81, British Virgin Islands politician and Chief Minister.
* Wally Whyton, 67, British musician, songwriter and radio and TV personality.

### 23

* Richard Berry, 61, American singer, songwriter and musician, aneurysm.
* Paul Egli, 85, Swiss road bicycle racer.
* Randy Greenawalt, 47, American serial killer, execution by lethal injection.
* Alois Hudec, 88, Czechoslovak gymnast and World and Olympic Champion.
* Lyudmila Marchenko, 56, Soviet film actress.
* Hardy Rafn, 66, Danish film actor.
* Roger Tayler, 67, British astronomer, cancer.
* Rolling Thunder, 80, American hippy spiritual leader, complications of diabetes.
* David Waller, 76, English actor.
* Bill Zuckert, 81, American actor, pneumonia.

### 24

* William Alexander, 81, German painter and television host.
* Lourdino Barreto, 58, Indian musicologist and composer.
* Dr. Jerry Graham, 75, American professional wrestler, cerebrovascular disease.
* Jack Halloran, 81, American composer and choral director.
* Ida Kohlmeyer, 84, American painter.
* Roy Sproson, 66, English footballer and manager.
* Suzy Vernon, 95, French film actress.

### 25

* Werner Aspenström, 78, Swedish poet.
* Dan Barry, 73, American cartoonist.
* Donald Beer, 61, American rower and Olympic champion, brain cancer.
* James Boyd, 66, American boxer, cancer.
* Manuel Tuñón de Lara, 81, Spanish historian.
* Jeane Dixon, 93, American astrologer, heart failure.
* Exuma, 54, Bahamian musician, artist, playwright and author, heart attack.
* Carlton Benjamin Goodlett, 82, American physician and newspaper publisher.
* Edith Thacher Hurd, 86, American children's author.
* Nikola Koljević, 60, Bosnian Serb politician, essayist, and scholar, suicide by gunshot.
* George W. Mitchell, 92, American economist.
* Seldon Powell, 68, American jazz, music, and R&B tenor saxophonist and flautist.
* Elizabeth Rudel Smith, 85, American politician.
* Bill Wightkin, 69, American gridiron football player.

### 26

* Sufi Barkat Ali, 85, Indian muslim sufi.
* Jack Clayton, 82, American football, basketball, and baseball coach, congestive heart failure.
* Shūhei Fujisawa, 69, Japanese author.
* Cornelius Herman Muller, 87, American botanist and ecologist.
* Guy Raymond, 85, American actor.
* Margaret Hessen und bei Rhein, 83, German princess.
* Laurence Stoddard, 93, American rowing coxswain.
* Donald E. Stokes, 69, American political scientist, acute leukemia.
* Mira Zimińska, 95, Polish actress.

### 27

* Bill Kennedy, 88, American actor and television show host.
* Cecil Arthur Lewis, 98, British last surviving World War I fighter ace.
* Gerald Marks, 96, American composer.
* Louis E. Martin, 84, American journalist, newspaper publisher and civil rights activist.
* Zia Sarhadi, 83, Pakistani screenwriter and film director.
* Harish Chandra Sarin, 82, Indian civil servant, writer and defence secretary of India.
* Richard X. Slattery, 71, American actor.
* David Townsend, 84, English cricket player.
* Aleksandr Zarkhi, 88, Soviet film director, screenwriter, and playwright.

### 28

* Antônio Callado, 80, Brazilian journalist, playwright, and novelist.
* Edmond de Stoutz, 76, Swiss conductor.
* Anna Galmarini, 54, Italian figure skater.
* Raya Garbousova, 87, Russian-American cellist.
* Alfred Gell, 51, British social anthropologist.
* Mikel Koliqi, 96, Albanian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.
* Wong Shun Leung, 61, Hong Kong martial artist, stroke.
* Louis Pauwels, 76, French journalist and writer, heart attack.
* Geoffrey Rippon, 72, British politician.
* Pandurang Vasudeo Sukhatme, 85, Indian statistician.

### 29

* Antal Benda, 86, Hungarian field handball player.
* Irma Greta Blohm, 85, German politician.
* Ken Harada, 77, Japanese politician.
* Daniel P. Mannix, 85, American writer, journalist, animal trainer, and performer.
* Mumtaz Mirza, 57, Indian Urdu poet.
* Clifford Richmond, 82, New Zealand lawyer and judge.
* Osvaldo Soriano, 54, Argentine journalist and writer, lung cancer.
* Thomas Daniel Young, 77, American academic.

### 30

* Charles Hargens, 103, American painter.
* Willis Harman, 78, American engineer, futurist, and author, brain cancer.
* Duane Josephson, 54, American baseball player.
* Nicholas Mallett, 51, British television director.
* Henry Bentinck, 11th Earl of Portland, 77, British noble and activist.
* Frank Tejeda, 51, United States Marine and politician, brain cancer.

### 31

* Raymond Coxon, 100, British artist.
* Hedy Graf, 70, Spanish-Swiss soprano.
* Eve Lister, 83, British actress.
* Seth Lover, 87, American inventor.
* Zahir Pajaziti, 34, Kosovo Albanian guerilla commander, killed in action.
* John Joseph Scanlan, 90, American catholic bishop.
* Eugenia Smith, 98, American Romanov impostor.
* Alexander Solonik, 36, Russian gangster, strangled.
* Andrzej Szczepkowski, 73, Polish actor.
* Hans Tisdall, 86, German-British artist.