Deaths in October 1997
The following is a list of notable deaths in October 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.
October 1997
1
- Francisco Aramburu, 75, Brazilian footballer.[1]
- George Kisevalter, 87, American operations officer of the CIA.
- Jerome H. Lemelson, 74, American engineer, inventor and patent holder, liver cancer.[2]
- Neil O'Connor, 80, Australian experimental psychologist, traffic incident.
- Inbal Perlmuter, 26, Israeli rock musician, singer, composer and lyricist, car accident.
2
- Carybé, 86, Argentine-Brazilian artist, historian and journalist, heart failure.
- Douglas Fairbairn, 70, American author.
- William J. Maguire, 81, American politician.
- Guillermo Meza, 80, Mexian painter.[3]
3
- Michael Adekunle Ajasin, 88, Nigerian politician.
- John Ashley, 62, American actor, producer and singer, heart attack.[4]
- Helen Brook, 89, British family planning adviser and author.
- Richard Gilkey, 72, American painter, suicide[5]
- Verna Hillie, 83, American film actress, stroke.
- Jarl Kulle, 70, Swedish actor and director, bone cancer.
- Blake Wayne Van Leer, 71, United States Navy officer.
- Hadassah Rosensaft, 85, Polish holocaust survivor, liver failure.[6]
- A. L. Rowse, 93, British historian and author.[7]
- George Urban, 76, Hungarian writer.
4
- Romano Amerio, 92, Roman Catholic theologian.
- Nelson C. Nye, 90, American author and editor.
- Otto Ernst Remer, 85, German Wehrmacht officer during World War II.
- Anne Strachan Robertson, 87, Scottish archaeologist, numismatist and writer.
- Gunpei Yokoi, 56, Japanese video game designer and creator of the Game Boy, traffic collision.[8]
5
- Babatunde Kwaku Adadevoh, 64, Nigerian physician.
- Chitta Basu, 70, Indian politician, cardiac arrest.
- Andrew Keir, 71, Scottish actor.[9]
- Dave Marr, 63, American golfer and sportscaster.[10]
- Brian Pillman, 35, American professional wrestler, heart attack.
- Tommy Ring, 67, Scottish footballer.
- Larisa Rozanova, 78, Soviet/Ukrainian pilot and navigator during World War II.
- Arthur Tracy, 98, American vocalist and actor.[11]
6
- Orlando Ramón Agosti, 73, Argentine general and part of the military junta.[12]
- George T. Barclay, 87, American football player and coach.
- Warren Louis Boudreaux, 79, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church, heart failure.
- Robert Endean, 71, Australian marine scientist.[13]
- Adrienne Hill, 60, English actress.
- Yevgeny Khaldei, 80, Soviet naval officer and photographer.[14]
- Debbie Linden, 36, Scottish model and actress, heroin overdose.
- Johnny Vander Meer, 82, American baseball player, abdominal aneurysm.[15]
- Georgi Yumatov, 71, Soviet/Russian film actor.
7
- Felicisimo Ampon, 76, Filipino tennis player.
- Johnny Darrell, 57, American country music artist, diabetes.[16]
- Wan Laiming, 97, Chinese animator.
- Gus Marker, 92, Canadian ice hockey player.
- Aldo Sebben, 77, American football, cross country, and track and field coach.
8
- William H. Amoss, 60, American politician.
- Henryk Bista, 63, Polish actor.
- Albert Blumberg, 91, American philosopher and political activist.[17]
- Bertrand Goldberg, 84, American architect and industrial designer.[18]
- Ricky Lee Green, 36, American serial killer, execution by lethal injection.
- Robin Lee, 77, American figure skater.
- Brown Meggs, 66, American writer and music executive.[19]
- Desmond J. Scott, 79, New Zealand flying ace during World War II.
- William B. Spong Jr., 77, American politician.[20]
9
- Michael Cummings, 78, British newspaper cartoonist.[21]
- Monty Hoyt, 53, American figure skater, melanoma.
- Arch Johnson, 75, American actor, cancer.
- Jean Pasqualini, French/Chinese journalist.[22]
- Joel Pritchard, 72, American politician, lymphoma.
10
- D. J. Ambalavanar, 69, Sri Lankan Tamil bishop.[23]
- Phyllis Arkle, 87, English children's author.[24]
- Marjorie Harris Carr, 82, American scientist and environmental activist.
- Michael J. S. Dewar, 79, American theoretical chemist.[25]
- Anne Marriott, 83, Canadian writer, stroke.
- Dencio Padilla, 69, Filipino actor and comedian.
- Thomas Whiteside, 79, American journalist, heart failure.[26]
11
- Paul Doughty Bartlett, 90, American chemist.[27]
- Arnold Beck, 81, British scientist and electrical engineer.
- Patrick McTaggart-Cowan, 85, Canadian meteorologist.
- Ivan Yarygin, 48, Soviet / Russian heavyweight freestyle wrestler, car crash.[28]
12
- John Denver, 53, American musician and activist, plane crash.[29]
- Draga Garašanin, 76, Serbian archaeologist.
- Kenneth Hahn, 77, American civil servant, heart failure.[30]
13
- Alexandru Bârlădeanu, 86, Romanian politician.
- Ian Stuart Black, 82, British novelist, playwright and screenwriter.
- Adil Çarçani, 75, Albanian politician.[31]
- Joyce Compton, 90, American actress.
- Richard Mason, 78, British novelist.[32]
- Marian Pepler, 93, British architect and textile designer.
- Raf, 68, Spanish comic author, heart disease.
- William Staveley, 68, Royal Navy officer, heart attack.[33]
14
- Hy Averback, 76, American actor, producer and director.[34]
- Piedade Coutinho, 77, Brazil Olympic swimmer.
- George Forrest, 72, British classicist and academic, cancer.
- Harold Robbins, 81, American writer.[35]
- Barbara Slater, 76, American film actress.
- Ian Tampion, 59, Australian scientologist and sportsman, cancer.
15
- Peter J. Dalessandro, 79, United States Army soldier and Medal of Honor recipient.
- Walter Fritzsch, 76, German football player and manager.
- Bill McKay, 76, Irish rugby player.
16
- A. H. Armstrong, 88, English educator and author.
- Dick Cavalli, 74, American cartoonist, heart attack.
- Princess Olga of Greece and Denmark, 94, Greek princess.[36]
- Noel Ferrier, 66, Australian comedian, actor, and theatrical producer.
- Adam Kennedy, 75, American actor, novelist, and painter, heart attack.
- Audra Lindley, 79, American actress, leukemia.[37]
- James A. Michener, 90, American author.[38]
- Jackie O'Connell, 85, Irish hurler.
17
- Carlos Escaleras, 39, Honduran politician and environmental activist, shot.
- Larry Jennings, 64, American magician.
- Ben Welden, 96, American actor.[39]
- Fang Yi, 81, Chinese Communist revolutionary, diplomat, and politician.
18
- Ramiro Castillo, 31, Bolivian footballer, suicide by hanging.
- Walter William Curtis, 84, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church, pneumonia.[40]
- Nancy Dickerson, 70, American radio and television journalist.[41]
- Vince Gironda, 79, American bodybuilder, personal trainer and author.
- Roberto Goizueta, 65, Cuban businessman and CEO of The Coca-Cola Company, cancer.[42]
- Natalia Magnat, 42, Soviet / Russian translator, Crohn's disease.
- William Rotsler, 71, American artist, cartoonist, pornographer and author.
- Paul Edwin Zimmer, 54, American poet and author, heart attack.[43]
19
- Donald R. Bensen, 70, American editor and science fiction writer.
- Glen Buxton, 49, American guitarist and composer, complications from pneumonia.[44]
- Claudia Drake, 79, American actress and singer.
- Harold French, 100, English film director, screenwriter and actor.
- William J. McGill, 75, American psychologist and author.
- Pilar Miró, 57, Spanish screenwriter and film director, heart attack.
20
- Frank Worth Elliott Jr., 72, United States Air Force Major General.
- John Jacobs, 50, American student and anti-war activist, complications from melanoma.[45]
- Frank Robert Miller, 89, Canadian air chief marshal.
- Manush Myftiu, 78, Albanian politician.
- Omar August Pinson, 79, American robber and murderer.
- Ron Tarr, 60, British actor, cancer.
- Henry Vestine, 52, American guitarist, heart and respiratory failure.[46]
- Robin Woods, 83, English Anglican bishop.
21
- Dolph Camilli, 90, American baseball player.[47]
- John Whitney Hall, 81, American Japanologist.[48]
- Lorenzo Sumulong, 92, Filipino politician.
- Waldemar F. A. Wendt, 85, United States Navy admiral.
- Dick Wilkins, 72, American gridiron football player.
22
- Leonid Amalrik, 92, Soviet animator.
- Stratton Hammon, 93, American architect.
- Reinhard Lauck, 51, German footballer.
- Mian Mohammed Sharif, 79, Pakistani mathematician.
- Quentin Smythe, 81, South African sergeant and recipient of the Victoria Cross.[49]
- Matthew Trupiano, 58, American mobster.
23
- Alfredo II, 77, Brazilian footballer.
- Scrappy Blumer, 80, American pilot during World War II, leukemia.
- Alan Broadley, 77, Australian footballer.
- Hedley Bunton, 91, Australian missionary in China.
- Ann Devroy, 49, American political journalist, uterine cancer.[50]
- Claire Falkenstein, 89, American visual artist, stomach cancer.[51]
- Barbara Goette, 89, German/British/Australian academic.
- Bert Haanstra, 81, Dutch filmmaker, Alzheimer's disease.
- Kim Lim, 61, Singaporean-British sculptor and printmaker.
- Bob Manning, 71, American big band singer, pneumonia.[52]
- Leticia Ocharan, Mexican artist.
- Georges Pianta, 85, French politician .
- Babette Rosmond, 75, American author.
- Luther Simjian, 92, Armenian-American inventor and entrepreneur.[53]
- Trevor Smith, 87, English footballer and manager.
24
- Skip Alexander, 79, American golfer.
- Michael Balfour, 79, English actor.
- Don Messick, 71, American voice actor, stroke.[54]
25
- William J. Hirsch, 88, American Hall of Fame trainer of Thoroughbred racehorses.
- Tina Lattanzi, 99, Italian actress and voice actress.
- Jamie Livingston, 41, American photographer and film maker, brain tumor.[55]
- Mina Rees, 95, American mathematician.[56]
- Firudin Shushinski, 72, Azerbaijani musicologist and scholar.
26
- Georg Adelly, 78, Swedish film actor.
- Donald Ray Matthews, 90, American politician.
- William B. Hutchinson, 88, American physician.[57]
- Rankin M. Smith Sr., 72, American businessman and philanthropist.[58]
27
- Mahala Andrews, 58, British vertebrae palaeontologist.
- Achim Gercke, 95, German Nazi politician.
- Jane McCarty Mauldin, 61, American Choctaw artist, brain tumor.
- Vladimir Sokoloff, 84, American pianist and accompanist.[59]
- François-Henri de Virieu, 65, French journalist and television presenter, pancreatic cancer.
28
- Walter Capps, 63, American politician, heart attack.
- Toni Carabillo, 71, American feminist, graphic designer, and historian, lung cancer.[60]
- Doraiswamy Iyengar, 77, Indian musician.
- Paul Jarrico, 82, American screenwriter.[61]
- Marian Koshland, 76, American immunologist, lung cancer.[62]
- Bryan Lefley, 49, Canadian ice hockey player and coach, car accident.
- Klaus Wunderlich, 66, German musician, heart attack.
29
- Len Beurton, 83, English communist and Soviet agent.
- H. C. Coombs, 91, Australian economist and public servant.[63]
- Alexander zu Dohna-Schlobitten, 97, German junker, businessman and author.
- Andreas Gerasimos Michalitsianos, 50, Greek-American astronomer and astrophysicist, brain tumor.
- Anton LaVey, 67, American author, musician, and occultist, pulmonary edema.[64]
- Big Nick Nicholas, 75, American jazz saxophonist and singer, heart failure.[65]
- Anthony Velonis, 86, American painter and designer.
30
- Mary Syme Boyd, 87, Scottish artist and sculptor.
- Samuel Fuller, 85, American screenwriter, novelist, and film director.[66]
- Barney Martin, 74, American baseball player.
- Sydney Newman, 80, Canadian film and television producer, heart attack.[67]
31
- Zubeida Agha, 75, Pakistani artist.
- Bram Appel, 75, Dutch footballer.
- Hans Bauer, 70, German footballer.
- Sidney Darlington, 91, American electrical engineer.[68]
- Wilfrid Oulton, 86, British Royal Air Force officer, cancer.[69]
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