Deaths in 1997

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This is a list in 1997 of dead famous people. The entries are made within each data alphabetically. Animals found in the obituary for animals.

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Deaths in 1998 Deaths in 1999 Deaths in 2000 Deaths in 2001 Deaths in 2002 Lists of deaths by year#2007 1997 in film 1997 in literature 1997 in sports Aenne Brauksiepe Arnoldo Devonish Caspar Diethelm Hagood Hardy Joan Rice Townes Van Zandt Richard Baumann Randy California James Dickey Harry Helmsley Harry P. Jeffrey Bill Lancaster Peter Zack Geer Burton Lane Catherine Scorsese Vince Williams Melvin Calvin George Handy Seymour Halpern Sheldon Leonard John Rodgers (New Zealand bishop) Alexander R. Todd, Baron Todd Albert Wohlstetter Jean-Edern Hallier Aloys Felke Penelope Wallace King Hu John Lettengarver Clyde Tombaugh Ruth Brinkmann Henry Hermansen Paul Tsongas Schalk Verhoef Adriana Caselotti Ernst Knoll Hiram Keller Marion Freisler Hans Egon Holthusen Irwin Levine Ron Holden Billy MacKenzie Willard Wheatley Richard Berry (musician) Paul Egli Paul G. Hahnemann Alois Hudec Suzy Vernon Dan Barry (cartoonist) James Boyd (Boxer) Exuma (musician) Seldon Powell Jeane Dixon Cecil Arthur Lewis Aleksandr Zarkhi Antônio Callado Edmond de Stoutz Antal Benda Ida Kohlmeyer Osvaldo Soriano Teodomiro Leite de Vasconcelos Henry Bentinck, 11th Earl of Portland Charles Hargens Frank Tejeda Heiner Carow Edward Quinn Rolling Thunder (person) Georg Ay Kiki Kogelnik Sanford Meisner Raimundo Saporta Chico Science Theodoros Stamos Bohumil Hrabal Robert Clouse Ross Lee Finney Frederick J. Almgren, Jr. Pamela Harriman Oren Harris Harry Essex Roger Laurent Rolf Rodenstock Owen Aspinall Allan Edwall Mary Wills Brian Connolly Lou Bennett Milton Cato Amrom Harry Katz Jerome Namias Bob Welborn Otto Beckmann Robert Herman William L. Scott February 16 Amha Selassie Stan Pearson Darcy Ribeiro Gerd Domhardt Emily Hahn Jarmil Burghauser Buddy Edelen Karin Magnussen Enrique Peralta Azurdia Zachary Breaux Harry Kramer (artist) Josef Posipal Abdelkader Ben Bouali Ephraim P. Holmes Frank Launder Louis Auslander Raymond Lambert Ugo Poletti Danielle de St. Jorre Nuccio Bertone David Doyle (actor) Joseph A. LeFante Wende Wagner Stefan Dakon Kingsley Davis February 28 Grete Heublein Martin Smith (musician) Jascha Brodsky Eric Edwards, Baron Chelmer William Edward McManus Roger Brown (basketball, born 1942) Carey Loftin Josef Ackermann (politician) Ralph Bass Cheddi Jagan Michael Manley Martin Kippenberger Agnieszka Osiecka Alexander Salkind Robert B. Leighton John S. McKiernan Lars Ahlin LaVern Baker Stan Drake Johannes Theodor Suhr Robert Browning (Byzantinist) Hugh Lawson (jazz pianist) Hugo Weisgall Hendrik Brugmans Ronald Fraser (actor) Jurek Becker Fred Zinnemann Fritz Moravec Ferenc Sipos Jermaine Stewart Wilbur Knorr Ilse Schwidetzky Willem de Kooning Carlo Fassi Marino Marini (musician) V. S. Pritchett Tony Zale Mary Peters Fieser James G. Stewart Herbert Bauer (Pilot) U. Alexis Johnson Marcelle de Lacour Baltazar (footballer) Hartmut Losch Lane Dwinell Charles Lillard Hans-Walter Eigenbrodt Norman Pirie Hans Quest Dieter Claessens Arthur Cunningham Friedrich Hund Lyman Spitzer Walter Leinweber April 1 April 2 April 3 Robert W. Ward April 4 Herta Ehlert Rudolf Ulrich April 5 Paul W. Cronin Allen Ginsberg August Heckscher II April 6 Jack Kent Cooke Stephan Hermlin Joaquin Mazdak Luttinger Rosita Serrano Pierre-Henri Teitgen April 7 April 8 Charles Hayes (politician) Laura Nyro April 9 Helene Hanff April 10 Michael Dorris Martin Schwarzschild April 11 April 12 Nechama Leibowitz George Wald April 13 Rodolfo Oroz April 14 April 15 Sam Moskowitz Richard Tousey April 16 Jan Bruins Thaddeus Golas Doug McMahon Roland Topor April 17 Chaim Herzog April 18 Herbert Czaja April 19 April 20 Jean Louis April 21 Luitgard Im Diosdado Macapagal Herbert Zipper April 22 April 23 Beatrice Seear, Baroness Seear April 24 Robert Erickson Eugene Stoner April 25 Brian May (composer) Dudley Pope Andreas Rett Bernard Vonnegut Chia-Shun Yih April 26 Peng Zhen April 27 Gabriel Figueroa Joachim Hahn Piotr Skrzynecki Peter Winch April 28 Peter Tali Coleman Ann Petry April 29 Wolfgang Heinrich Johannes Fuchs April 30 May 1 Elena Altieri May 2 Heinz Ellenberg May 3 Narciso Yepes May 4 Wijeyananda Dahanayake Rudolf Edinger Lyman Bradford Smith May 5 David Scherman May 6 May 7 George Lynch (racing driver) May 8 Kai-Uwe von Hassel Pat Hughes (tennis) May 9 Marco Ferreri Willy Hess (composer) Paul Zastupnevich May 10 Louis Remacle May 11 Ernie Fields May 12 Louis Barbarin May 13 Laurie Lee Murder of Marta Russo May 14 Thelma Carpenter May 15 David Martin (Nebraska politician) Tommy Turrentine Saadallah Wannous May 16 May 17 May 18 Bridgette Andersen Antonio Cornejo Polar Horst Lippmann May 19 Asie Payton May 20 Virgilio Barco Vargas May 21 May 22 Klaus von Bismarck Renzo Montagnani May 23 Noël Browne James Lee Byars May 24 Edward Mulhare May 25 May 26 Manfred von Ardenne May 27 May 28 May 29 Jeff Buckley Alexander Kazhdan May 30 May 31 Garland T. Byrd Eddie Jones (jazz musician) Anton Zischka June 1 Robert Serber Nikolai Tikhonov June 2 Doc Cheatham William Alexander Levy June 3 June 4 Johnny "Hammond" Smith June 5 June 6 Eitel Cantoni June 7 Jacques Canetti Arthur Prysock Stanley Schachter June 8 George Turner (writer) Amos Tutuola Karen Wetterhahn June 9 Witness Lee June 10 Leo Fuld Son Sen June 11 Gonzalo Fonseca June 12 Veikko Vennamo June 13 Vittorio Mussolini June 14 Marjorie Best Helmut Fischer Vincent Gaddis Richard Jaeckel June 15 Desmond Banks, Baron Banks Love Is... Robert C. McEwen Dal Stivens June 16 Elizabeth McBride June 17 June 18 Edmond Leburton June 19 Olga Georges-Picot Thurman Green Milka Hartman Bobby Helms June 20 Alberto Rivera June 21 Karl Ridderbusch June 22 Lars Bergendahl June 23 June 24 Brian Keith Prince Nico Mbarga June 25 June 26 George Bassman Robert Frucht Thomas Joseph Murphy Adolf Weidmann June 27 Samuel L. Devine Ken Richardson (racing driver) Ondino Viera June 28 Friedrich von Mellenthin Mrs. Elva Miller June 29 William Hickey (actor) June 30 July 1 Joshua Hassan David Lerner Robert Mitchum Mohammad Ali Mojtahedi Gerhard Wiltfang July 2 Stan Barker July 3 Johnny Copeland Stanley Stanczyk July 4 Bengt Danielsson Amado Carrillo Fuentes July 5 July 6 Gabriel Asaad July 7 Mate Boban Henry Howell July 8 Dick van Dijk July 9 July 10 Chetan Anand (director) July 11 Fred Beavis July 12 Douglas Huebler Miroslav Wiecek July 13 July 14 Garfield Barwick Joseph F. Holt Isaac Nicola July 15 Alan J. Charig Stanley R. Lee Gianni Versace July 16 Dora Maar William H. Reynolds July 17 Robert C. Weaver July 18 July 19 John E. Hines July 20 Arshi Pipa July 21 July 22 July 23 Walter Behrendt David Warbeck July 24 Brian Glover Saw Maung July 25 Ben Hogan July 26 Kunihiko Kodaira Jaime Milans del Bosch July 27 Raymond Jackson ("JAK") Heinrich Liebe July 28 Seni Pramoj July 29 Alex Archer John Archer (athlete) Chuck Wayne July 30 July 31 John H. Ware III Simon Pierre Tchoungui August 1 Lawrence Alexander Sidney Johnson August 2 William S. Burroughs Frank E. Smith August 3 Peter A. Carruthers August 4 Dick Bush Tom Eckersley August 5 Clarence M. Kelley August 6 Eike Geisel Samuel Paul Welles August 7 Volker Prechtel August 8 August 9 Max Blösch August 10 Jean-Claude Lauzon Conlon Nancarrow August 11 August 12 Luther Allison Jack Delano Dick Marx Conrad von Molo Achilles Papapetrou Albert L. Smith, Jr. August 13 Robert L. Leggett Harlow Rothert August 14 Eric Von Essen August 15 Lubka Kolessa August 16 Jacques Pollet August 17 August 18 Burnum Burnum Robert Swenson August 19 Mario Velarde August 20 Norris Bradbury August 21 Misael Pastrana Borrero August 22 James Edmund Jeffries Matti Sippala August 23 Eric Gairy August 24 Louis Essen Karl Kessel Tete Montoliu Luigi Villoresi August 25 Clodomiro Almeyda Camilla Spira August 26 Sotiria Bellou August 28 Ludwig Gramminger August 29 August 30 August 31 Dodi Fayed Heinz Kaufmann September 1 Gordon Blake September 2 Rudolf Bing September 3 September 4 Chuck Arnold Dharamvir Bharati Pierre Chatenet Aldo Rossi September 5 Georg Solti September 6 Salvador Artigas September 7 George W. Crockett, Jr. September 8 Sabatino Moscati Yu Jim-Yuen September 9 Richie Ashburn John Hackett (British Army officer) Burgess Meredith September 10 September 11 Camille Henry Matrika Prasad Koirala September 12 September 13 September 14 Basri Dirimlili Lucy Hillebrand September 15 Hubert Petschnigg September 16 Ernst Behler Terence Cooper September 17 Benjamin Atkins Red Skelton Jan P. Syse September 18 September 19 September 20 Kurt Gloor Nick Traina September 21 Jennifer Holt September 22 Chiang Wei-kuo Ruth Picardie George Thomas, 1st Viscount Tonypandy September 23 Shirley Clarke September 24 Anton Kehle September 25 Egon Seefehlner September 26 Dorothy Kingsley Egon Scheibe September 27 September 28 Ho Feng Shan September 29 Roy Lichtenstein October 1 October 2 October 3 John Ashley (actor) Jarl Kulle October 4 Romano Amerio Otto Ernst Remer October 5 Andrew Keir Brian Pillman Bernard Yago October 6 Orlando Ramón Agosti October 7 Janez Vrhovec October 8 Bertrand Goldberg Robin Lee October 9 Monty Hoyt October 10 Michael J. S. Dewar Harold French Hans-Joachim Kasprzik October 11 October 12 Wolfgang Pepper October 13 Richard Mason (novelist 1919–1997) October 14 Harold Robbins October 15 Henryk Bista Walter Fritzsch October 16 Audra Lindley James A. Michener Princess Olga of Greece and Denmark October 17 October 18 Walter William Curtis October 19 Arthur Ibbetson October 20 Manush Myftiu Henry Vestine Robin Woods October 21 Jean Rabier Lorenzo Sumulong Aale Tynni October 22 Reinhard Lauck October 23 Bert Haanstra Pinchas Lapide Michael Peter Gerd Tacke October 25 Mina Rees October 26 October 27 Achim Gercke October 28 Walter Capps Klaus Wunderlich October 29 Paul Guth Big Nick Nicholas October 30 Samuel Fuller October 31 Sidney Darlington John Whitney Hall November 1 Wolfgang Abel Roger Marche November 2 Ayya Khema Helen Stevenson Meyner Gerhard Neumann Bernhard Plettner Carson Smith November 3 Antoine Cuissard Edmond Adolphe de Rothschild November 4 George Chambers November 5 James Robert Baker Isaiah Berlin Epic Soundtracks November 6 Luigi Cantone Anne-Stine Ingstad Annie Llewelyn-Davies, Baroness Llewelyn-Davies of Hastoe Josef Pieper November 7 Paul Ricard November 8 Lam Ching Ying Michael Ward (actor) November 9 Douglas Feaver Helenio Herrera Joe Roccisano November 10 Oliver McGregor, Baron McGregor of Durris Tommy Tedesco November 11 William Alland Shake Keane Gintaras Ramonas November 12 Alberto Cavallone November 13 James Couttet Dietrich Lohmann November 14 Knud Andersen (cyclist) Stefan Lorant November 15 Saul Chaplin Douglas MacArthur II Coen van Vrijberghe de Coningh November 16 Georges Marchais George O. Petrie November 17 Edwin Mansfield Orlando Ribeiro John Wimber November 18 November 19 November 20 Robert Palmer (writer) November 21 Bill Boyd (poker player) Jack Purvis (actor) Robert Simpson (composer) November 22 November 23 Jorge Mas Canosa Henry Wilson, Baron Wilson of Langside November 24 November 25 James H. Ellis Charles Hallahan Richard M. Noyes November 26 Rudolf Buhse Erna Fentsch November 27 Eduardo Kingman Malcolm Knowles Eric Laithwaite November 28 Tom Evenson Georges Marchal November 29 November 30 Farpi Vignoli December 1 Michael Hedges Endicott Peabody Edwin Rosario December 2 Robert A. Hall, Jr. December 3 Benito Jacovitti December 4 Joe Brown (Boxer) Richard Vernon Joseph Wolpe December 5 Rudolf Bahro Eugen Cicero John E. Moss December 6 December 7 Billy Bremner Karl August Folkers December 8 Laurean Rugambwa December 9 December 10 December 11 Eddie Chapman December 12 R. Stanton Avery Mouse Randolph December 13 Paddy DeMarco Don E. Fehrenbacher David Rousset December 14 Owen Barfield Stubby Kaye Edna F. Kelly Torsten Nilsson December 15 December 16 Lillian Disney Nicolette Larson Frans Stafleu December 17 Karl Kainberger December 18 Chris Farley Michel Quoist December 19 Josef Rettemeier Jimmy Rogers December 20 Jim Gibbons (Irish politician) Denise Levertov December 21 Joseph Ahrens Johnny Coles Roxbee Cox, Baron Kings Norton Sholom Schwadron Bruce Woodcock (boxer) December 22 December 23 Stanley Cortez December 24 James Komack Lotte Motz December 25 Myriam Marbe Jerry March Denver Pyle Giorgio Strehler December 26 Cahit Arf Dale Milford December 27 Brendan Gill Pan Chengdong Tamara Tyshkevich December 28 Heikki A. Alikoski Corneliu Baba Henry Barraud Vassily Solomin December 29 Joyce Mekeel December 30 Danilo Dolci Ede Tomori December 31 Floyd Cramer Michael LeMoyne Kennedy Lyutvi Ahmedov Frances Baard Anatoliy Banishevskiy Jean Carlu Bertram Myron Gross Charles Jones (composer) Ekaterina Kalinchuk Bohumil Kosour Ernst Lerch Angus McPhee Fernando Mencherini Frederik Paulsen Sr Erik Pausin Roy Rappaport Bill Smith (poker player) Cecil Smith (figure skater) G. E. Kidder Smith Brendan Smyth John Montague Stow Claude Tresmontant Mervyn Wall Kim Yale
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