Deaths in April 1997
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The following is a list of notable deaths in April 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.
April 1997
[edit]1
[edit]- Milton Brunson, 67, American gospel musician and pastor.
- Evsey Domar, 82, Russian American economist.[1]
- Jolie Gabor, 100, Hungarian-American socialite.[2]
- Makar Honcharenko, 84, Soviet-Ukrainian football player and coach.
- Jerry Pacht, 75, American judge, cerebral hemorrhage.[3]
2
[edit]- Zaki Badr, 71, Egyptian general and politician.
- Al Blanche, 87, American baseball player.[4]
- Anthony Bushell, 92, English film actor and director.[5]
- Craig D. Button, 32, United States Air Force pilot, suicide by plane crash.[6]
- Zsolt Durkó, 62, Hungarian composer.[7]
- Reg Lewis, 77, English football player.
- Yulii Meitus, 94, Ukrainian composer.[8]
- David Shahar, 70, Israeli fiction writer, translator, and editor.[9]
- Tomoyuki Tanaka, 86, Japanese film producer, stroke.[10]
3
[edit]- Thomas Barthel, 74, German ethnologist and epigrapher.[11]
- Jerome Cosentino, 65, American politician.[12]
- Sergei Filatov, 70, Soviet and Russian equestrian.[13]
- Dan Swartz, 62, American basketball player.[14]
- John Ugelstad, 76, Norwegian chemical engineer and inventor.
- Robert W. Ward, 67, American businessman and politician, cancer.
- Henriette Wyeth, 79, American artist.[15]
4
[edit]- Lawrence A. Appley, 93, American organizational theorist.[16]
- Herta Ehlert, 92, German nazi camp guard during World War II.
- Sugimura Haruko, 88, Japanese actress.[17]
- Leo Picard, 96, Israeli geologist.
- Mike Raven, 72, British radio disc jockey, actor and sculptor.
- Vladimir Soloukhin, 72, Russian poet and writer.[18]
- Shoichiro Takenaka, 84, Japanese long-distance runner and Olympian.[19]
- Alparslan Türkeş, 79, Turkish politician, heart attack.[20]
- Rudolf Ulrich, 75, German film actor.[21]
5
[edit]- Ignazio Buttitta, 97, Italian poet.[22]
- Heberto Castillo, 58, Mexican political activist.[23]
- Richard Clifton-Dey, 66, British artist.[24]
- Paul W. Cronin, 59, American politician, brain cancer.
- Paul de Bruyn, 89, German athlete.[25]
- Stoney Edwards, 67, American country singer, stomach cancer.[26]
- Allen Ginsberg, 70, American poet and writer, liver cancer.[27]
- Warren Godfrey, 66, Canadian ice hockey player.
- August Heckscher II, 83, American public intellectual and writer, heart failure.[28]
- Aklilu Lemma, 61, Ethiopian scientist.
- John R. McKinney, 76, American soldier and recipient of the Medal of Honor.
- Riley Morris, 62-63, American football player (Oakland Raiders, Boston/New Bedford Sweepers).[29]
6
[edit]- Max Alvarado, 68, Filipino actor, heart failure.
- Bernard Chevallier, 84, French equestrian and Olympic champion.[30]
- Jack Kent Cooke, 84, Canadian-American businessman, cardiac arrest, heart attack.[31]
- Stephan Hermlin, 81, German author.[32]
- Peter Jeffrey, 83, Royal Australian Air Force officer and flying ace.[33]
- David Keith-Lucas, 86, British aeronautical engineer.[34]
- Barbara Yu Ling, Singapore-British actress.
- Joaquin Mazdak Luttinger, 73, American physicist.
- Rosita Serrano, 84, Chilean singer, chronic bronchitis.[35]
- Pierre-Henri Teitgen, 88, French lawyer, professor and politician.[36]
7
[edit]- Luis Aloma, 73, Cuban baseball player.[37]
- Aaron Kramer, 75, American poet and social activist.[38]
- Sam Parks, Jr., 87, American golfer.
- Georgy Shonin, 61, Soviet cosmonaut, heart attack.
8
[edit]- Kwame Baah, 58, Ghanaian soldier and politician.
- Bob Cain, 72, American baseball player, cancer.[39]
- Charles Hayes, 79, American politician, lung cancer.[40]
- Laura Nyro, 49, American songwriter, singer, and pianist, ovarian cancer.[41]
- Homer Peel, 94, American baseball player and manager.[42]
- Alejo Peralta, 80, Mexican baseball executive.
9
[edit]- Mae Boren Axton, 82, American songwriter and music promoter.[43]
- Joe Coleman, 74, American baseball player.[44]
- Helene Hanff, 80, American writer, peritonitis, diabetes.[45]
- Geoffrey Hardy-Roberts, 89, British Army officer, politician and courtier.
- Yank Rachell, 94, American country blues musician.[46]
- Stevo Teodosievski, 72, Macedonian artist and humanist.
- Wu Zuoren, 88, Chinese painter.
10
[edit]- Erik Blumenfeld, 82, German politician.
- Michael Dorris, 52, American novelist and scholar, suicide.[47]
- Fred Emery, 71, Australian psychologist.[48]
- Andrew Joseph Galambos, 72, Hungarian astrophysicist and philosopher.
- Alan Gibson, 73, English journalist, writer and radio broadcaster.
- Gösta Johansson, 68, Swedish ice hockey player, liver cancer.[49]
- Marcel Maes, 52, Belgian cyclist.[50]
- Toshiro Mayuzumi, 68, Japanese composer.[51]
- Mehtab, 78, Indian actress.
- Martin Schwarzschild, 84, German-American astrophysicist.[52]
- Francis Walder, 90, Belgian writer and soldier.
- Glanville Williams, 86, Welsh legal scholar.[53]
11
[edit]- Castor de Andrade, 71, Brazilian mobster and bicheiro.
- Muriel McQueen Fergusson, 97, Canadian activist, judge and politician.[54]
- Rajko Kojić, 40, Serbian/Yugoslav guitarist.
- Milt Smith, 68, American baseball player.[55]
- Radovan Stojičić, 46, Serbian police general, leader of the Public Security Service and acting Minister of Internal Affairs of Serbia.
- Wang Xiaobo, 44, Chinese novelist and essayist, heart attack.[56]
- Junzō Yoshimura, 88, Japanese architect.
12
[edit]- Kevin Belcher, 35, American football player.[57]
- Ivar Eriksson, 87, Swedish football defender.[58]
- Nechama Leibowitz, 91, Israeli bible scholar and commentator.[59]
- Moro Lorenzo, Filipino basketball player and executive.
- Dorothy Norman, 92, American photographer, writer, and arts patron.[60]
- Eric Pearce, 92, Australian broadcaster.
- James Ross, 85, Scottish surgeon.[61]
- George Wald, 90, American scientist and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.[62]
13
[edit]- Mustafa Amin or Mostafa Amin, 83, Egyptian columnist and journalist.[63]
- Madhava Ashish, 77, British-Indian spiritualist, mystic, writer and agriculturist.
- Dorothy Frooks, 101, American author, lawyer, and suffragist.[64]
- David McCord, 99, American poet.[65]
- Shuhei Nishida, 86, Japanese Olympic pole vaulter, heart failure.[66]
- Harry Rosenberg, 88, American baseball player.[67]
- Voldemar Väli, 94, EstonianGreco-Roman wrestler and Olympic medalist.[68]
14
[edit]- Gerda Christian, 83, German private secretary of Adolf Hitler during World War II, cancer.
- Count Geoffrey Potocki de Montalk, 93, New Zealand poet, polemicist and pretender to the Polish throne.[69]
- Kit Denton, 68, Australian writer and broadcaster.
- Gus Dugas, 90, Canadian-born baseball outfielder.[70]
- John Jennings, 94, English footballer.
- Michael Stroka, 58, American television actor, kidney cancer.
- Walter Taylor, 84, American anthropologist and archaeologist.
- Finn Wold, 69, Norwegian-American biochemist, cancer.[71]
15
[edit]- Don Bexley, 87, American actor and comedian, heart and kidney failure.
- L. Brent Bozell, Jr., 71, American conservative activist and Roman Catholic writer.[72]
- David Dockendorf, 73, American sound engineer.
- Zdeněk Mlynář, 66, Czech politic writer, political analyst and lawyer.[73]
- Sam Moskowitz, 76, American writer, critic, and science fiction historian.[74]
- Harry Nicholas, 92, British trade unionist.
- Kō Nishimura, 74, Japanese actor.[75]
- Sipan Shiraz, 29, Armenian poet, sculptor and painter.
- Carlos Enrique Taboada, 67, Mexican screenwriter and director.
- Richard Tousey, 88, American astronomer, pneumonia.[76]
16
[edit]- Doris Angleton, 46, American socialite and murder victim, shot.[77]
- Jan Bruins, 56, Dutch motorcycle road racer.
- Esmeralda Arboleda Cadavid, 76, Colombian activist, politician and diplomat, kidney failure.
- Thaddeus Golas, 72, American writer.
- Doug McMahon, 79, Canadian soccer player.
- Emilio Azcárraga Milmo, 66, Mexican newspaper publisher, pancreatic cancer.[78]
- Roland Topor, 59, French graphic artist, author and actor, cerebral hemorrhage.[79]
- Claude Tresmontant, 71, French philosopher, hellenist and theologian.[80]
17
[edit]- Mitsu Arakawa, 69, American professional wrestler, heart failure.
- Dale Burnett, 88, American gridiron football player.
- Tom Franckhauser, 59, American gridiron football player, heart attack.[81]
- Allan Francovich, 56, American film maker, heart attack.[82]
- Chaim Herzog, 78, Israeli politician, general, and author.[83]
- Henry George Lang, 78, New Zealand economist, university professor and company director.
- Gérard Lecomte, 70, French arabist.
- Biju Patnaik, 81, Indian politician, aviator and businessman.[84]
- Mary French Rockefeller, 86, American heiress, socialite and philanthropist.
- Hena Rodríguez, 81, Colombian sculptor.
18
[edit]- Rolf Andersson, 67, Swedish football player.[85]
- Edward Barker, 46, English cartoonist.[86]
- Bob Carpenter, 79, American basketball player.[87]
- Herbert Czaja, 82, German politician.
- Jeanne Hoban, 72, British Trotskyist, Alzheimer's disease.
- Francis Johnson, 86, American basketball player.[88]
- Don Pietromonaco, 61, American actor and radio personality, complications from emphysema.[89]
- Eddie Quigley, 75, English football player and manager.[90]
- Juan Félix Sánchez, 95, Venezuelan folk artist.
19
[edit]- Walter Gordon, 77, United States Army soldier during World War II.
- Eldon Hoke, 39, American musician, railroad accident.[91]
- Carl Walter Liner, 82, Swiss painter.[92]
- Alexander Slawik, 96, German nazi cryptographer and Japanese ethnologist.
- Maria Wittek, 97, Polish officer during World War II.
20
[edit]- Eva Blanco, 16, Spanish girl and murder victim, stabbed.
- Pai Hsiao-yen, 16, Taiwanese girl and murder victim, murdered.
- Jean Louis, 89, French-American costume designer.[93]
- Henry Mucci, 88, United States Army Rangers colonel, stroke.[94]
- Sun Ma Sze Tsang, 80, Cantonese opera singer and actor in Hong Kong.
- Henri Vilbert, 93, French actor.
21
[edit]- Alfred Bailey, 92, Canadian poet, anthropologist and ethno-historian.[95]
- Diosdado Macapagal, 86, President of the Philippines and poet, heart failure and pneumonia.[96]
- Thomas H. D. Mahoney, 83, American professor and politician.[97]
- Sayed Mekawy, 69, Egyptian singer and composer.
- József Mészáros, 74, Hungarian football player and football manager.
- Andrés Rodríguez, 73, President of Paraguay (1989–1993), cancer.[98]
- Magda Staudinger, 94, Latvian biologist and botanist.
- Aníbal Tarabini, 55, Argentine football player, traffic collision.
- Nicolas Eugene Walsh, 80, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
- Herbert Zipper, 92, Austrian-American composer, conductor, and Dachau concentration camp inmate.[99]
22
[edit]- Jean Carlu, 96, French graphic designer.[100]
- Néstor Cerpa Cartolini, 43, Peruvian communist and revolutionary, killed in action.
- Moelwyn Merchant, 83, Welsh academic, novelist, sculptor, poet and Anglican priest.[101]
- Elliott Merrick, 91, American author.[102]
- Pete Petrow, 72, Canadian football player.
23
[edit]- Thomas Carr, 89, American actor and film director.[103]
- Denis Compton, 78, English cricketer, sepsis.[104]
- Esther Schiff Goldfrank, 100-101, American anthropologist.[105]
- Dorothy Hill, 89, Australian geologist and palaeontologist.[106]
- Camillo Ripamonti, 77, Italian politician and engineer.
- Beatrice Seear, Baroness Seear, 83, British social scientist and politician.
- Inge Viermetz, 89, Nazi Germany official.
24
[edit]- Abdurakhman Avtorkhanov, 88, Soviet/Chechen historian and writer.[107]
- John A. Brown Jr., 35, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
- Robert Erickson, 80, American composer and author, polymyositis.[108]
- Felice Ippolito, 81, Italian geologist and politician.[109]
- Bill McArthur, 78, American football player and coach.[110]
- Hubert McLean, 89, New Zealand rugby player.
- Eugene Stoner, 74, American firearms designer, cancer.[111]
25
[edit]- Aleksejs Auziņš, 86, Latvian football and ice hockey player.[112]
- Nicholas Baker, 58, British politician and minister.[113]
- Lidia Istrati, 55, Moldovan writer and politician.
- Frank Joyner, 78, Scottish football player and manager.
- Brian May, 62, Australian film composer (Mad Max) and conductor, heart attack.[114]
- Pat Paulsen, 69, American comedian and satirist, complications of pneumonia and kidney failure.[115]
- Gino Pernice, 69, Italian actor.[116]
- Dudley Pope, 71, British writer .[117]
- Andreas Rett, 73, Austrian neurologist and author.
- Bernard Vonnegut, 82, American atmospheric scientist, cancer.[118]
- Joan Yarde-Buller, 89, English socialite.
- Nikolai Yegorov, 45, Russian politician, lung cancer.
- Chia-Shun Yih, 78, Chinese-American engineer and physicist, heart failure.[119]
26
[edit]- John Beal, 87, American actor, stroke.[120]
- J. J. Colledge, 89, British naval historian and author.
- Wilhelm Crinius, 76, German Luftwaffe flying ace during World War II.
- Joey Faye, American comedian and actor.[121]
- Hideo Fujimoto, 78, Japanese baseball pitcher, heart attack.[122]
- Valery Obodzinsky, 55, Soviet and Russian tenor, heart attack.
- Howard Ensign Simmons, Jr., 67, American chemist.[123]
- Peng Zhen, 94, Chinese politician and chairman of the NPCSC (1983–1988).[124]
27
[edit]- Lew Dietz, 90, American writer.[125]
- Gabriel Figueroa, 90, Mexican cinematographer.[126]
- Paul Lambert, 74, American actor.[127]
- Dulce María Loynaz, 94, Cuban poet, and is, cancer.[128]
- Bunny Roger, 85, English couturier and socialite.
- Piotr Skrzynecki, 66, Polish choreographer, director and cabaret impresario, cancer.[129]
- Peter Winch, 71, British philosopher.
28
[edit]- Peter Tali Coleman, 77, Samoan Governor of American Samoa (1956–1961; 1978–1985; 1989–1993), liver cancer.
- Steve Conte, 77, Italian-American actor, Alzheimer's disease.
- Ashley Harvey-Walker, 52, English cricketer (Derbyshire County Cricket Club), murdered.
- Una Johnson, 91, American curator and art historian.[130]
- Ann Petry, 88, American children's author, novelist and journalist.[131]
- William Percy Rogers, 82, Australian zoologist.[132]
- John P. Snyder, 71, American cartographer.[133]
- Peter Taylor, Baron Taylor of Gosforth, 66, British Lord Chief Justice of England (1992–1996), cancer.
- Doc Urich, 68, American football player and coach, heart attack.[134]
29
[edit]- Keith Ferguson, 50, American bass guitarist, liver failure.[135]
- Georgy Klimov, 68, Russian linguist.
- Günther Laukien, 72, German physicist and entrepreneur.
- R. N. Malhotra, 71, Indian banker.
- Mike Royko, 64, American newspaper columnist, brain aneurysm.[136]
30
[edit]- Miklós Fodor, 88, Hungarian field handball player and Olympian.[137]
- Michael Harbottle, 80, British Army officer.[138]
- Josiah Lincoln Lowe, 92, American mycologist.
- Jorge Mondragón, 93, Mexican actor.
- Henry Gilford Picard, 90, American golfer.[139]
- Roohangiz Saminejad, 80, Iranian actress.
- Wolfgang Späte, 85, German Luftwaffe flying ace during World War II.
- Vladimir Sukharev, 72, Soviet sprinter and Olympian.[140]
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