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

## February 1997
### 1

* Simion Bughici, 82, Romanian politician.
* Herb Caen, 80, American journalist and columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle, lung cancer.
* Heiner Carow, 67, German film director and screenwriter.
* Ed Danowski, 85, American football player.
* Mitchell Goodman, 73, American writer, teacher, and activist.
* William Kintner, 81, American soldier, foreign policy analyst, and diplomat.
* Kiki Kogelnik, 62, Austrian painter, sculptor and printmaker, cancer.
* Thelma Moss, 79, American actress, psychologist and parapsychologist.
* Lillian Porter, 79, American film and television actress.
* Marjorie Reynolds, 79, American actress and dancer, heart failure.
* Bo Russell, 81, American gridiron football player.
* Francisco Tobar García, 68, Ecuadorian poet, playwright, journalist, and diplomat, lung cancer.
* Wilcomb E. Washburn, American historian, prostate cancer.

### 2

* Godfrey Baseley, 92, British radio executive.
* Raúl de Anda, 88, Mexican actor, screenwriter, film producer and director.
* Erich Eliskases, 83, Austrian-Argentinian chess grandmaster.
* Qin Jiwei, 82, Chinese general and member of the Politburo.
* Sanford Meisner, 91, American actor and acting teacher.
* Art Merewether, 94, American baseball player.
* Martin Mussgnug, 60, German politician.
* Raimundo Saporta, 70, Spanish club basketball administrator.
* Chico Science, 30, Brazilian singer and composer, traffic collision.
* Theodoros Stamos, 74, Greek-American painter.
* Seán Ó Síocháin, 82, Irish Gaelic footballer, hurler, and broadcaster.

### 3

* Boris de Rachewiltz, 70, Italian-Russian egyptologist and writer.
* Jerry Beit haLevi, 84, Israeli football player and manager.
* Bohumil Hrabal, 82, Czech writer, fall.
* Agi Jambor, 87, Hungarian-American pianist.
* Stan Kostka, 84, American football player and coach.
* Harry H. Wachtel, 79, American lawyer and civil rights activist, Parkinson's disease.
* Mikhail Yakushin, 86, Russian football player and manager.

### 4

* Henry H. Barschall, 81, German-American physicist.
* Robert Clouse, 68, American film director and producer (Enter the Dragon), kidney failure.
* Benjamin David de Jesus, 56, Philippine prelate of the Catholic Church, shot.
* Ross Lee Finney, 90, American composer.
* Paulo Francis, 66, Brazilian journalist, novelist and critic, heart attack.
* Robi Ghosh, 65, Indian actor.
* A R Mallick, 78, Bangladeshi historian and educationist.
* Alek Rapoport, 63, Russian nonconformist artist.
* Davide Sorrenti, 20, Italian-American photographer.
* James Tattersall, 56, British tennis player.
* Cyril Toumanoff, 83, Russian-American historian.
* Darrell Tully, 79, American football player and coach.

### 5

* Frederick J. Almgren, Jr., 63, American mathematician, complication following surgery.
* Bob Brown, 58, Canadian professional wrestler ("Bulldog" Bob Brown).
* Robert Elem, 69, American blues guitarist and singer.
* Dorothy Fosdick, 83, American foreign policy expert.
* Pamela Harriman, 76, English-American political activist, diplomat, and socialite, cerebral hemorrhage.
* René Huyghe, 90, French art historian.
* Jürgen Neukirch, 59, German mathematician.
* Harry Trotsek, 84, American Thoroughbred racehorses trainer and owner.

### 6

* Ernie Anderson, 73, American disc jockey, and television and radio announcer, cancer.
* Harry Essex, 86, American screenwriter and director.
* Roger Laurent, 83, Belgian racing driver.
* Riza Lushta, 81, Kosovar Albanian football striker.

### 7

* Nina Albright, 89, American comic book artist.
* Owen Aspinall, 69, American politician and Governor of American Samoa.
* John Baker, 59, British musician and composer.
* Sam DeCavalcante, 84, American mobster, heart attack.
* Allan Edwall, 72, Swedish actor, author, composer and singer, prostate cancer.
* Maynard Pirsig, 95, American legal scholar.
* Daniil Shafran, 74, Soviet/Russian cellist.
* Rösli Streiff, 96, Swiss alpine skier and world champion.
* Jose Garcia Villa, 88, Filipino poet, novelist, and painter.
* Mary Wills, 82, American costume designer, kidney failure.

### 8

* Nathan Lerner, 83, American photographer.
* Henry Margenau, 95, German-American physicist and philosopher of science.
* Robert Ridgely, 65, American actor (Philadelphia, Beverly Hills Cop II, Blazing Saddles), cancer.
* Corey Scott, 28, American motorcycle stunt rider, traffic collision.
* Michael Voslenski, 76, Soviet and Russian writer, scientist, diplomat and dissident.
* Walter Wiora, 90, German musicologist and music historian.

### 9

* David Austick, 76, British politician and bookshop owner.
* Taylor Drysdale, 83, American swimmer and swimming coach.
* Barry Evans, 53, English actor.
* Fritz Grasshoff, 83, German painter, poet and songwriter.
* Leni Junker, 91, German sprint runner and Olympian.
* Jack Owens, 92, American blues singer and guitarist.
* Williams Sassine, 53, Guinean novelist.
* Max Tetley, 87, Australian rules footballer.
* Luis Velásquez, 77, Guatemalan long-distance runner and Olympian.

### 10

* Harriet Andreassen, 71, Norwegian labour activist and politician.
* Conrad M. Arensberg, 86, American anthropologist and scholar, respiratory failure.
* Lou Bennett, 70, American jazz organist.
* Milton Cato, 81, Saint Vincentian politician and first Prime Minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
* Brian Connolly, 51, Scottish singer-songwriter, musician and actor.
* Robert Mallary, 79, American sculptor and computer art pioneer, leukemia.
* Jerome Namias, 86, American meteorologist.

### 11

* Nalanda Ellawala, 29, Sri Lankan politician, shot.
* Robert A. Graham, 84, American Jesuit priest and historian.
* Lewis Jacobs, 92, American screenwriter, film director and critic.
* Don Porter, 84, American actor.
* Ray Terrell, 77, American gridiron football player.

### 12

* Nora Beloff, 78, English journalist and political writer.
* James Cossins, 63, English actor, heart disease.
* Francis Healy, 86, American Major League Baseball player.
* Ruth Winifred Howard, 96, American psychologist.
* Federico Pisani, 22, Italian footballer, traffic collision.

### 13

* Bobby Adams, 75, American baseball player.
* Thies Christophersen, 79, German neo-nazi and Holocaust denier.
* Robert Klark Graham, 90, American eugenicist and businessman.
* Robert Herman, 82, American scientist.
* Don Jordan, 62, American boxer, complications following robbery.
* Ernő Rubik, 86, Hungarian aircraft designer.
* Reg Ryan, 71, Irish football player.
* Atta Shad, 57, Pakistani poet, playwright, and intellectual.

### 14

* Lélia Gousseau, 88, 20th-century French classical pianist.
* Jack Matheson, 76, American gridiron football player.
* Charles Moffett, 67, American free jazz drummer.
* Miguel Rodriguez, 35, Filipino actor and model, pancreatitis.
* William L. Scott, 81, American politician, Alzheimer's disease.
* Chōbyō Yara, 94, Japanese politician and teacher.
* Mohammed Yousuf, 57, Pakistani singer.

### 15

* Oscar W. Adams Jr., 72, American lawyer and first African-American Alabama Supreme Court justice.
* Arne Berg, 87, Swedish road racing cyclist.
* Philip Hershkovitz, 87, American mammalogist.
* Billie-Jo Jenkins, 13, English murder victim.
* Paul Page, 69, American gridiron football player.
* Frode Rinnan, 91, Norwegian architect and politician.
* Jack Sparling, 80, Canadian comic book artist (Claire Voyant, Strange Adventures, Ghost Rider).

### 16

* Abd al-Fattah Abu Ghudda, 79, Syrian leader of the Muslim Brotherhood.
* Ethel Owen, 103, American actress.
* Alvis Vītoliņš, 50, Latvian chess master, suicide by jumping.
* Jack Wilson, 82, British rower and Olympic champion.
* Chien-Shiung Wu, 84, Chinese-American experimental physicist, watershed stroke.

### 17

* Spartaco Bandinelli, 75, Italian boxer and Olympian.
* Kenny Graham, 72, British jazz saxophonist, arranger and composer.
* Leonard Ho, 72, Hong Kong film producer.
* Ichimaru, 90, Japanese recording artist and geisha.
* Bärbel Inhelder, 83, Swiss psychologist.
* Joe Kieyoomia, 77, American Navajo prisoner of war during World War II.
* Darcy Ribeiro, 74, Brazilian anthropologist, historian, sociologist, author and politician, cancer.
* Georg L. Samuelsen, 87, Faroese editor and voice actor.

### 18

* Bozorg Alavi, 93, Iranian writer, novelist, and intellectual, heart attack.
* Enrique Peralta Azurdia, 88, President of Guatemala.
* Antonio de Almeida, 69, French conductor and musicologist, lung cancer, liver cancer.
* Gerd Domhardt, 51, German composer.
* Eric Fenby, 90, English composer, conductor, pianist and organist.
* Reggie Forte, 47, American activist and founding member of the Black Panther Party.
* Jnan Prakash Ghosh, 87, Indian harmonium and tabla player and musicologist.
* Emily Hahn, 92, American journalist and author.
* Austin Knickerbocker, 78, American baseball player.
* Geoffrey Swaebe, 86, American diplomat and ambassador, complications of pneumonia.

### 19

* David Ashkenazi, 81, Russian pianist, accompanist and composer.
* Jarmil Burghauser, 75, Czech composer, conductor, and musicologist.
* Frank Delfino, 86, American actor, bone marrow cancer.
* Buddy Edelen, 59, American marathon runner.
* António Gedeão, 90, Portuguese poet, essayist, writer and playwright.
* Yutaka Haniya, 87, Japanese writer and critic.
* Karin Magnussen, 89, German nazi eugenicist, biologist, and researcher during World War II.
* Lois Marshall, 73, Canadian soprano.
* Leo Rosten, 78, American humorist.
* Edsall Walker, 86, American Negro league baseball player.
* Deng Xiaoping, 92, Chinese politician leader of the People's Republic of China, complications of lung infections.

### 20

* Ruth Clark (pollster), American pollster and researcher.
* Afonsinho, 82, Brazilian football player.
* Paul Anxionnaz, 94, French politician.
* Zachary Breaux, 36, American jazz guitarist, drowned.
* Pierre Gascar, 80, French journalist, literary critic, writer, and screenwriter.
* Thomas G. Kavanagh, 79, American judge, Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court (1975–1979).
* Arthur Machado, 88, Brazilian football player and manager.
* Stan Pearson, 78, English footballer.

### 21

* Ziya Bunyadov, 73, Azerbaijani historian and scientist, shot.
* Luitgard Im, 67, German actress.
* Choe Kwang, 78, North Korean army general and politician, heart attack.
* Mohamed Nasir, 81, Malaysian politician.
* Merle Pertile, 55, American model and actress.
* Josef Posipal, 69, Romanian-German footballer, heart failure.
* Kenneth Rowntree, 81, British artist.
* Leo Sjogren, 82, American racewalker and Olympian.
* Eleanor Butler, Lady Wicklow, 82, Irish politician and architect.

### 22

* Joseph Aiuppa, 89, American mobster.
* Urmila Bhatt, 62/63, Indian actress, homicide.
* William Karush, 79, American mathematician.
* James A. Lewis, 63, American Libertarian Party politician.
* Harold Nichols, 79, American wrestler and wrestling coach.
* Albert Shanker, 68, American labor leader, bladder cancer.
* Charlie Toogood, 69, American gridiron football player.

### 23

* Abdelkader Ben Bouali, 84, French football player.
* Gordon Glisson, 66, American jockey.
* Ephraim P. Holmes, 88, United States Navy admiral.
* Frank Launder, 91, British writer, film director and producer.
* Oscar Lewenstein, 80, British theatre and film producer.
* Olivier Masson, 74, French linguist.
* Jack Slater, 69, Australian politician.
* Tony Williams, 51, American jazz drummer, heart attack.

### 24

* Astrid Fagraeus, 83, Swedish immunologist.
* Nils-Olof Franzén, 80, Swedish writer.
* Wolfgang Heinrich Johannes Fuchs, 81, British mathematician.
* Raymond Lambert, 72, Swiss mountaineer, complications of a lung disorder.
* Isabelle Lucas, 69, Canadian-British actress and singer, heart attack.
* Ernest C. Pollard, 90, British professor of physics and biophysics, stroke.
* Len Vlahov, 56, Australian discus thrower, cancer.
* Ion Voicu, 73, Romanian violinist and orchestral conductor.

### 25

* Cal Abrams, 72, American baseball player, heart attack.
* Hoss Allen, 74, American radio disc jockey.
* Louis Auslander, 68, American mathematician.
* Earle Edwards, 88, American football player and coach.
* Scott Forbes, 76, British actor and screenwriter.
* Yi Han-yong, 36, North Korean defector, shot.
* Arthur Hewlett, 89, British actor.
* Danielle de St. Jorre, 55, Seychellois politician, cancer.
* Ugo Poletti, 82, Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, heart attack.
* Ted Roach, 87, Australian trade unionist and member of the Communist Party of Australia.
* Andrei Sinyavsky, 71, Russian writer and Soviet dissident.
* John Williams, 70, Australian politician.

### 26

* Nuccio Bertone, 82, Italian automobile designer and constructor.
* Mildred Clingerman, 78, American science fiction author.
* David Doyle, 67, American actor (Charlie's Angels, Capricorn One, Rugrats), heart attack.
* Vincent Gaddis, 83, American author.
* Giovanni Ghiselli, 62, Italian sprinter and Olympian.
* Joseph Anthony Lefante, 68, American politician.
* Tom O'Connor, 78, Irish Gaelic footballer.
* Ben Raleigh, 83, American lyricist and composer.
* Wende Wagner, 55, American actress (The Green Hornet, Rosemary's Baby, Destination Inner Space), cancer.

### 27

* Kingsley Davis, 88, American sociologist and demographer.
* Patricia Felicien, 30, Saint Lucian cricket player.
* William Gear, 81, Scottish painter.
* Indeevar, 73, Indian film lyricist.
* Alpo Jaakola, 67, Finnish painter and sculptor.
* Mieczysław Jagielski, 73, Polish politician and economist, heart attack.
* Kim Kwang-jin, 69, North Korean general and politician.
* Harry Love, 85, American animator, effects animator, and writer, heart attack.
* William R. Maples, 59, American forensic anthropologist, brain cancer.
* Edward J. McCormack, Jr., 73, American lawyer and politician, complications from lung cancer.

### 28

* Osvaldo Bailo, 84, Italian road cyclist.
* Donald Carrick, 90, Canadian lawyer, politician, sportsman and Olympian.
* Harold Dean, 84, Australian politician.
* Mohammad Moustafa Haddara, 67, Egyptian Arabic scholar and writer.
* Örjan Martinsson, 60, Swedish football player.
* Giuseppe Migneco, 89, Italian painter.
* Larry Tillman, 88, American professional wrestler and promoter.
* Hal Turpin, 93, American baseball player.