Deaths in July 1997
The following is a list of notable deaths in July 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.
July 1997
1
- Lester Asheim, 83, American librarian and scholar of library science.
- Annie Fratellini, 64, French circus artist, film actress and clown, cancer.
- Joshua Hassan, 81, Gibraltarian politician and Chief Minister of Gibraltar.
- David Martin, 81, Australian novelist, poet, playwright, journalist, and reviewer and lecturer.
- Harold McQueen, Jr., 44, American convicted murderer, execution by electric chair.
- Robert Mitchum, 79, American actor (The Story of G.I. Joe, Cape Fear, The Night of the Hunter), complications from lung cancer and emphysema.
- Mohammad Ali Mojtahedi, 88, Iranian University professor.
- Gerhard Wiltfang, 51, German equestrian and Olympic champion.
2
- George Antonio, 82, English footballer.
- Chiquito, 65, Filipino actor and comedian, liver cancer.
- Flint Gregory Hunt, 38, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
- Dee Moore, 83, American Major League Baseball player.
- James Stewart, 89, American actor (It's a Wonderful Life, Rear Window, Vertigo), Oscar winner (1941), heart attack as a result of pulmonary embolism.
3
- Johnny Copeland, 60, American blues guitarist and singer, complications during heart surgery.
- Gloster B. Current, 84, American NAACP activist, leukemia and pneumonia.
- Natalia Dumitresco, 81, French-Romanian abstract painter.
- Rufe Gentry, 79, American baseball player.
- Michael James MacDonald, 87, Canadian politician and union leader.
- Thomas Sgovio, 80, American artist and Soviet Union Gulag inmate.
- Stanley Stanczyk, 72, American weightlifter and Olympian.
4
- William Cadogan, 7th Earl Cadogan, British peer and military officer.
- Bengt Danielsson, 75, Swedish anthropologist, writer, and a crew member on the Kon-Tiki raft expedition.
- Charles Kuralt, 62, American journalist, complications from lupus.
- Slobodan Mišković, 52, Serbian handball coach and player.
- Miguel Najdorf, 87, Polish-Argentinian chess grandmaster.
- Amado Carrillo Palomino, 40, Mexican drug lord, complications during cosmetic surgery.
- Bevis Reid, 78, British track and field athlete and Olympian.
- Eddie Smith, 70, Australian racing cyclist.
- John Zachary Young, 90, English zoologist and neurophysiologist.
5
- Bob Dees, 67, American gridiron football player.
- Jean-Marie Domenach, 75, French writer and intellectual.
- Mrs. Miller, 89, American singer.
- Les Norman, 83, Australian politician.
- Arunasalam Thangathurai, 61, Sri Lankan Tamil politician.
6
- Chetan Anand, 76, Indian Hindi film producer, screenwriter and director.
- Gabriel Asaad, 90, Turkish-Swedish Assyrian composer and musician.
- Dorothy Buffum Chandler, 96, American cultural leader.
- Stanisław Horno-Popławski, 94, Russian-Polish painter, sculptor and pedagogue.
- Gene James, 72, American basketball player.
- Brun Smith, 75, New Zealand cricket player.
7
- Mate Boban, 57, Bosnian Croat politician and the only president of the Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia, stroke.
- Alfons De Winter, 88, Belgian football player.
- Jerry Doggett, 80, American sportscaster.
- Raffaele Dolfato, 34, Italian rugby player and entrepreneur, traffic collision.
- Henry Howell, 76, American politician, cancer.
- Sven Håkansson, 87, Swedish long-distance runner and Olympian.
- Jean Luciano, 76, French football player and manager.
- Oku Mumeo, 101, Japanese politician and feminist.
- Luis Aguirre Pinto, 89, Chilean composer, folk musician and folklorist.
- Royston Tickner, 74, British actor.
- Rolando Tinio, 60, Filipino poet, dramatist, actor, and essayist.
- Erik Zetterström, 92, Swedish writer and playwright.
8
- Charles L. Drake, 73, American geologist, heart failure.
- Dick van Dijk, 51, Dutch football player (FC Twente, Ajax Amsterdam), acute endocarditis.
- Georges Gay, 71, French racing cyclist.
- Guy Murchie, 90, American author and aviator.
- Abu Sadat Mohammad Sayem, 81, Bangladeshi jurist and statesman.
- Charles P. B. Taylor, 65,Canadian journalist, author, and thoroughbred racehorse owner and breeder, cancer.
- Tony Thomas, 69, British-American film historian, author, and producer, pneumonia.
- Max E. Youngstein, 84, American film producer.
9
- Alexander Cordell, 82, Welsh novelist and author, (body found on this date).
- Carol Forman, 79, American actress.
- Aurelio González, 91, Paraguayan football player.
- Walter Korn, 89, Czech-American writer of books and magazine articles about chess.
- Georgeta Năpăruș, 66, Romanian modernist painter.
- David Pitblado, British principal private secretary to successive Prime Ministers.
- Stan Rojek, 78, American baseball player.
- Marianne Schönauer, 77, Austrian actress.
10
- Ivor Allchurch, 67, Welsh football player.
- Dwight Lowry, 39, American baseball player, heart attack.
- Abe Okpik, 69, Canadian Inuit community leader.
- Frank R. Parker, 57, American civil rights lawyer and activist, complications from an aortic aneurysm.
11
- Felix Barker, 80, British drama critic and historian.
- Fred Beavis, 82, Canadian politician, pneumonia.
- Joe Hauser, 98, American baseball player.
- Edward Lasker, 85, American businessman and thoroughbred racehorse owner.
- Alfred Mellows, 75, English rower and Olympic medalist.
- Jock Sturrock, 82, Australian yachtsman and Olympian.
- Robert V. Whitlow, 78, American military officer, football coach, and sports club executive.
12
- Pietro Buscaglia, 86, Italian football player.
- Meribeth E. Cameron, 92, American historian of China and academic.
- Blas Chumacero, 92, Mexican trade union leader.
- François Furet, 70, French historian, head injury while playing tennis, heart failure.
- Douglas Huebler, 72, American conceptual artist.
- Steve Karrys, 73, Canadian football player.
- Vinko Nikolić, 85, Croatian writer, poet and journalist.
- Frank Shuter, 54, New Zealand speedway rider, traffic accident.
- Jean Varenne, 71, French indologist.
- Miroslav Wiecek, 65, Czech football player.
13
- Garfield Barwick, 94, Australian politician, lawyer, and Chief Justice of Australia.
- Miguel Ángel Blanco, 29, Spanish politician and ETA victim, executed.
- Alexandra Danilova, 93, Russian-American prima ballerina.
- Rosy Gibb, 54, Irish social worker, clown, and magician, cancer.
- Ekaterina Kalinchuk, 74, Soviet gymnast and Olympic champion.
- Kurt Land, 84, Austrian-Argentine film director.
- Edi Rada, 74, Austrian figure skater and Olympic medalist.
- Alf Tveten, 84, Norwegian sailor and Olympian.
14
- Eddie Finnigan, 84, Canadian ice hockey player.
- Eugene Goossen, 76, American art critic and art historian, pneumonia.
- Joseph F. Holt, 73, American politician.
- Isaac Nicola, Cuban guitarist.
- Polly Shackleton, 87, American politician.
- Hilda Watson, 75, Canadian politician.
15
- Alan J. Charig, 70, English palaeontologist, stroke.
- Dick Chorovich, 64, American gridiron football player.
- Cheryl Linn Glass, 35, American racing driver, suicide.
- Eve Greene, 91, American screenwriter.
- Rosamund Greenwood, 90, British actress.
- Justinas Lagunavičius, 72, Lithuanian basketball player.
- Stefan Marinov, 66, Bulgarian physicist, suicide.
- Gianni Versace, 50, Italian fashion designer and founder of the Versace fashion house, shot.
16
- Ron Berry, 77, Welsh author and novelist.
- Dora Maar, 89, French photographer, painter, and poet.
- William H. Reynolds, 87, American film editor (The Godfather, The Sound of Music, The Sting), Oscar winner (1966, 1974), cancer.
- Franciszek Sulik, 88-89, Polish-Australian chess master.
17
- Bianco Bianchi, 80, Italian cyclist.
- Don Bingham, 67, American gridiron football player.
- R. Krishnan, 87, Indian film director.
- Thomas Mellon Evans, 86, American financier, complications following a fall.
- Arthur Jepson, 82, English cricket player.
- Hugo Gunckel Lüer, 95, Chilean pharmacist and botanist.
- Dave Peterson, 66, American ice hockey coach
- Birgitte Price, 63, Danish actress.
- Gene Warren, 80, American visual effects artist (The Time Machine) and television producer (Land of the Lost), Oscar winner (1961), cancer.
- Robert C. Weaver, 89, American economist and academic.
18
- André Drobecq, 96, French racing cyclist.
- Léon Gaultier, 82, French nazi collaborator during World War II and founding member of Front National.
- James Goldsmith, 64, Anglo-French financier, tycoon, and politician, pancreatic cancer.
- Igor Linchevski, Russian botanist.
- Oddvar Richardsen, 60, Norwegian football player and manager.
- Eugene Merle Shoemaker, 69, American geologist and planetary science pioneer, car accident.
- Harold Spina, 91, American composer of popular songs.
- Gregorio Weber, 81, Argentinian biochemist.
19
- Frank Farrell, 50, British rock musician (Supertramp).
- Hec Gervais, 63, Canadian curler.
- John E. Hines, 86, American Episcopal Church bishop.
- Jim Peebles, 76, American football player (Washington Redskins).
- Tugelbay Sydykbekov, 85, Kyrgyzstani writer.
20
- Puneet Nath Datt, 24, Indian Army officer, killed in action.
- Alf Engen, 88, Norwegian-American skier.
- Ed Klewicki, 85, American football player.
- M. E. H. Maharoof, 58, Sri Lankan politician, gunshot wounds.
- Drummond Matthews, 66, British marine geologist and geophysicist.
- Eric Charles Milner, 69, Canadian mathematician.
- Arshi Pipa, 76, Albanian-American philosopher, writer and poet.
- Linda Stirling, 75, American showgirl, model, and actress, cancer.
21
- Tony Alvarez, 40, Spanish Australian actor and singer, AIDS-related cancer.
- Sjaak Alberts, 71, Dutch football player.
- Paul K. Benedict, 85, American anthropologist and linguist, traffic accident.
- Roger Bowman, 69, American baseball player.
- Růžena Grebeníčková, 71, Czech literary historian and theorist.
- Ernst Majonica, 76, German politician (CDU).
22
- Khalil Ahmed, 61, Pakistani composer.
- Irving Geis, 88, American artist.
- Vincent Hanna, 57, Northern Irish television journalist, heart attack.
- Jean-Jacques Herbulot, 88, French sailor and Olympiian.
- Kevin Howley, 73, English football referee.
- János Mogyorósi-Klencs, 75, Hungarian gymnast and Olympian.
- Sondra Rodgers, 94, American actress.
- Fritz Scheller, 82, German cyclist.
23
- Walter Behrendt, 82, German politician.
- Jeff Cross, 78, American baseball player.
- Andrew Cunanan, 27, American spree killer and murderer of Gianni Versace, suicide by gunshot.
- Dequinha, 69, Brazilian football player.
- Andrea Domburg, 74, Dutch actress.
- Chūhei Nambu, 93, Japanese track and field athlete, pneumonia.
- Simon Pierre Tchoungui, 80, First Prime Minister of Cameroon.
- David Warbeck, 55, New Zealand actor and model, cancer.
24
- William J. Brennan, 91, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (1956–1990).
- Bob Gaddy, 73, American East Coast blues and R&B pianist, singer and songwriter, lung cancer.
- Edward Gardère, 88, French fencer and Olympian.
- Brian Glover, 63, English actor (Alien 3, Kes, An American Werewolf in London) and writer, brain tumor, brain cancer.
- László Görög, 93, Hungarian-American screenwriter.
- Saw Maung, 69, Burmese army general and statesman, heart attack.
- Frank Parker, 81, American tennis player.
- Bill Shine, 85, British actor.
25
- Natallia Arsiennieva, 93, Belarusian playwright, poet and translator.
- Jack Bickham, 66, American novelist, lymphoma.
- Peter Carmichael, 73, British fighter pilot during World War II and the Korean War.
- Jack Davies, 80, New Zealand swimmer.
- Ralph Goldstein, 83, American épée fencer and Olympian, car accident.
- Ben Hogan, 84, American golf champion.
- David McFaull, 48, American sailor and Olympian.
- Boris Novikov, 72, Soviet actor, complications from diabetes.
- Matiu Rata, 63, New Zealand Māori politician, traffic accident.
26
- Jaime Milans del Bosch, 82, Spanish lieutenant general and co-leader of 1981 coup d'état, brain tumor.
- Kunihiko Kodaira, 82, Japanese mathematician.
- Bob Nussbaumer, 73, American gridiron football player.
- Denis Smallwood, 78, British Royal Air Force senior commander.
27
- Muhammad Mahdi Al-Jawahiri, 98, Iraqi poet.
- Isabel Dean, 79, English actress.
- Heinrich Liebe, 89, German naval officer during World War II.
- René Persillon, 78, French football player.
- K'tut Tantri, 99, Scottish American hotelier and broadcaster known as "Surabaya Sue".
28
- Rosalie Crutchley, 77, British actress.
- John FitzPatrick, 82, Australian politician.
- Bud Hardin, 75, American baseball player.
- Leo Loudenslager, 53, American aviator, motorcycle accident.
- Gordon McMaster, 37, Scottish politician, suicide.
- Seni Pramoj, 92, Thai politician and Prime Minister, heart disease and kidney failure.
29
- Jack Archer, 75, English sprinter.
- Mykhailo Byelykh, 38, Soviet/Ukrainian football player and a coach, traffic collision.
- Shinsaku Himeda, 80, Japanese cinematographer (Tora! Tora! Tora!).
- Edward A. Kawānanakoa, 72, American member of the Hawaiian House of Kawānanakoa.
- John H. Ware III, 88, American politician.
- Chuck Wayne, 74, American jazz guitarist.
30
- Giuseppe Anedda, 85, Italian mandolin player.
- Robert Bryce, 87, Canadian civil servant.
- Emil J. Husak, 66, American politician.
- Charlotte van Pallandt, 98, Dutch painter and sculptor.
31
- Bảo Đại, 83, Vietnamese emperor of the Nguyễn dynasty, brain cancer.
- Hepi Te Heuheu, 78, New Zealand Māori chief.
- Vichit Kounavudhi, 75, Thai film director and screenwriter.
- Eddie Miller, 80, American baseball player.
- Vern Riffe, 72, American politician and speaker.
- Frans Schoubben, 63, Belgian racing cyclist.