Deaths in September 1997

The following is a list of notable deaths in September 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.

September 1997

1

• Boris Balinsky, 91, Ukrainian and South African biologist, embryologist and entomologist.
• Gordon Blake, 87, U.S. Air Force lieutenant general.^[1]
• Harriet Browne, 65, American tap dancer and choreographer.^[2]
• Zoltán Czibor, 68, Hungarian footballer and Olympian (1952).^[3]
• Joseph Abel Francis, 73, American Catholic bishop.
• Reidar Olsen, 86, Norwegian footballer.^[4]

2

• Robert Abernathy, 80, American baseball player.^[5]
• George E. Allen, 85, American football player and coach.
• Sir Rudolf Bing, 95, Austrian-born opera manager, Alzheimer's disease.^[6]
• Viktor Frankl, 92, Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist.^[7]
• Warner T. Koiter, 83, Dutch mechanical engineer and professor.^[8]
• Joseph Thomas O'Keefe, 78, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church, heart failure.
• Germán Rieckehoff, 82, Puerto Rican politician.
• Mary Sears, 92, American oceanographer.^[9]

3

• Arthur Chin, 83, American pilot and World War II flying ace.
• Tony Demers, 80, Canadian ice hockey player (Montreal Canadiens, New York Rangers).^[10]
• Harold G. Dick, 90, American mechanical engineer.^[11]
• Hal Goodman, 82, American producer and screenwriter.
• Hans Niclaus, 83, German basketball player.^[12]
• Ernst C. Stiefel, 89, German-American jurist.^[13]

4

• Khaled Abdul-Wahab, 86, Tunisian rescuer of Jews.
• Chuck Arnold, 71, American racecar driver.
• Bernard Batillat, 89, French rower and Olympian (1936).^[14]
• Jeffrey Bernard, 65, British journalist, renal failure.
• Dharamvir Bharati, 70, Indian poet, author and playwright, heart disease.^[15]
• Pierre Chatenet, 80, French politician.^[16]
• Natko Devčić, 83, Croatian composer.^[17]
• Hans Eysenck, 81, German-born British psychologist, brain cancer.^[18]
• Alfred Kałuziński, 44, Polish handball player and Olympian.^[19]
• Ivan Nenov, 95, Bulgarian painter.^[20]
• Jan Opperman, 58, American racecar driver.
• Florence Engel Randall, 79, American author.^[21]
• Aldo Rossi, 66, Italian architect and designer, traffic collision.^[22]
• Belle Stewart, 91, Scottish traditional singer.^[23]

5

• Mildred Dein, 85, American screenwriter.^[24]
• Ann Dunnigan, 87, American actress and teacher.^[25]
• Leon Edel, 89, American literary critic and biographer.^[26]
• Polly Lada-Mocarski, 94, American rare book scholar, educator, and bookbinder.
• Manuel Martin, 79, American soccer player-coach.^[27]
• Andrej Prean Nagy, 76, Romanian-Hungarian football player and coach.
• Eddie Little Sky, 71, Native American actor, lung cancer.
• Georg Solti, 84, Hungarian conductor, heart attack.^[28]
• Mother Teresa, 87, Albanian missionary and humanitarian, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, heart failure.^[29]

6

• Salvador Artigas, 84, Spanish football player and manager.
• Edward Dumbauld, 91, American district judge (United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania).^[30]
• Edward H. Hurst, 80, United States Marine Corps officer.
• Roy Huskey, Jr., 40, American upright bass player, lung cancer.
• P. H. Newby, 79, English novelist.^[31]
• H. W. L. Poonja, Indian sage and jivanmukta, pneumonia.^[32]
• Refik Resmja, 66, Albanian footballer.
• Jean-Pierre Sudre, 75, French photographer.^[33]
• Uglješa Uzelac, 59, Bosnian politician and diplomat.

7

• Abdullah al-Tariki, 78, Saudi politician and government official, heart attack.
• Mukul S. Anand, 45, Indian film director and producer, heart attack.
• Edwin Brock, 69, British poet.^[34]
• Elisabeth Brooks, 46, Canadian actress (The Howling), brain cancer.
• John Carden, 66, English-born American Olympic soccer player (1956).^[35]
• Connie Clausen, 74, American actress, author, and literary agent, stroke.^[36]
• George W. Crockett, Jr., 88, African-American attorney, jurist, and congressman.^[37]
• Héctor Espino, 58, Mexican baseball player and manager.^[38]
• Mark Holtz, 51, American sportscaster, leukemia.
• Edgar Kaplan, 72, American bridge player, cancer.^[39]
• Mobutu Sese Seko, 66, Congolese politician and president of Zaire, prostate cancer.^[40]
• Bill Strannigan, 78, American basketball coach.^[41]
• Brian Whittaker, 40, Scottish football player.^[42]

8

• Marie Bedford, 90, South African Olympic swimmer (1928).^[43]
• René Bihel, 81, French football player.
• Yu Jim-yuen, 92, Chinese opera singer and actor, heart attack.
• Sabatino Moscati, 74, Italian archaeologist and linguist.^[44]
• Helen Shaw, 100, American actress.
• Vladimír Sommer, 76, Czech composer.^[45]
• Derek Taylor, 65, English journalist, writer and record producer, throat cancer.^[46]

9

• Richie Ashburn, 70, American baseball player and broadcaster (Philadelphia Phillies) and member of the MLB Hall of Fame, heart attack.^[47]
• Alvaro Banchi, 72, Italian Olympic rower (1956).^[48]
• Dick Beckner, 69, American gymnast and Olympian (1956).^[49]
• Rowland George, 92, British rower and Olympian (1932).^[50]
• John Hackett, 86, Australian-born British army general and painter.^[51]
• Predrag Laković, 68, Yugoslavian/Serbian actor.
• Burgess Meredith, 89, American actor (Rocky, Batman, The Day of the Locust), Emmy winner (1977), melanoma.^[52]

10

• Satish Chandra Agarwal, Indian politician.
• Abraham Akaka, 80, American clergyman.^[53]
• Richard Brandt, 86, American philosopher.^[54]
• Mollie Dive, 84, Australian cricketer and scientist.^[55]
• Jacques Leguerney, 90, French composer.^[56]
• George Schaefer, 76, American television and theatre director.^[57]
• Fritz Von Erich, 68, American professional wrestler, cancer.^[58]

11

• Fernando Ayala, 77, Argentine film director, screenwriter and producer.^[59]
• Mel Groomes, 70, American football player (Detroit Lions).^[60]
• Camille Henry, 64, Canadian ice hockey player.^[61]
• Iliya Kirchev, 64, Bulgarian football player.
• Matrika Prasad Koirala, 85, Prime Minister of Nepal.
• Hugo B. Margáin, 84, Mexican economist, politician and diplomat.
• Anatoli Polosin, 62, Russian football coach.
• Margaret Scrivener, 75, Canadian politician
• Xhevdet Shaqiri, 74, Albanian football player and coach.
• Hannah Weiner, 68, American poet.^[62]

12

• Stig Anderson, 66, Swedish music manager and publisher, heart attack.^[63]
• Leslie E. Brown, 77, United States Marine Corps aviator.
• Elsa De Giorgi, 82, Italian actress and writer.^[64]
• Leonard Maguire, 73, Scottish actor.
• Judith Merril, 74, American-Canadian science fiction writer.^[65]
• Eddie O'Toole, 76, American long-distance runner, heart attack.^[66]
• Heorhiy Zhylin, 72, Ukrainian rower and Olympian.^[67]

13

• Anjaan, 67, Indian lyricist.
• Paul Brechler, 86, American athletic director (University of Iowa).^[68]
• Roger O. Egeberg, 94, American medical educator and administrator.
• Roger Frey, 84, French politician.^[69]
• Georges Guétary, 82, French singer, dancer and actor, heart attack.^[70]
• Kauko Helovirta, 72, Finnish film actor.
• Giorgos Mitsibonas, 34, Greek football player, traffic collision.
• Margo Rose, 94, American puppeteer.^[71]
• Donald Schön, 66, American philosopher and professor in urban planning.
• Victor Szebehely, 76, Hungarian-American physicist.^[72]
• Myra Tanner Weiss, 80, American trotskyist politician.

14

• Basri Dirimlili, 68, Turkish football player and Olympian (1952).^[73]
• Andrew Fountaine, 78, British far right activist.^[74]
• C. Warren Hollister, 66, American author and historian.^[75]
• Clyde Johnson, 80, American football player.^[76]
• Donato Piazza, 67, Italian racing cyclist.^[77]

15

• Aleksanteri Ahola-Valo, 97, Finnish artist and architect.
• Angel Balevski, 87, Bulgarian inventor and engineer.^[78]
• Bulldog Brower, 63, American professional wrestler, complications from hip surgery.
• Edna Mae Harris, 82, American actress and singer, heart attack.^[79]
• Thomas J. Parmley, 99, American physicist.^[80]
• Hubert Petschnigg, 83, Austrian architect.
• Gertrude Pitzinger, 93, German contralto.^[81]

16

• Barbara Cage, 55, Australian Olympic gymanst (1964).^[82]
• Terence Cooper, 64, British film actor.^[83]
• James Milton Ham, 76, Canadian engineer and university official.
• Helen Jepson, 92, American lyric soprano.^[84]
• William N. Oatis, 83, American journalist, Alzheimer's disease.^[85]
• Gerry Turpin, 72, English cinematographer.
• José Valle, 77, Argentine football player and coach.

17

• Benjamin Atkins, 29, American serial killer and rapist, AIDS-related complications.
• Anthony Franchini, 99, American guitarist.^[86]
• Nelson G. Gross, 65, American politician, slashed and bludgeoned.^[87]
• Brian Hall, 59, English actor (Fawlty Towers), cancer.
• Harry Jago, 84, Australian politician.
• Meena, 56, Indian actress.
• Trevor Redmond, 70, New Zealand speedway rider.^[88]
• Amanoyama Shizuo, 43, Japanese sumo wrestler.^[89]
• Red Skelton, 84, American comedian (The Red Skelton Show), pneumonia.^[90]
• Jan P. Syse, 66, Prime Minister of Norway (1989–1990), cerebral hemorrhage.

18

• Fernand Fayolle, 93, French racing cyclist.^[91]
• Patricia Pulling, 49, American anti-role-playing games activist, lung cancer.^[92]
• Walpola Rahula, 90, Sri Lankan Buddhist monk, scholar and writer.
• Yehuda Sha'ari, 77, Israeli politician.
• Ganesh Man Singh, 81, Nepali politician.
• Seigo Tada, 75, Japanese founder of Goju-Ryu Seigokan Karatedo.
• Jimmy Witherspoon, 77, American blues singer, cancer.^[93]

19

• Józef Bielawski, 87, Polish Arabist and scholar of Islam.^[94]
• Bill Butland, 79, American baseball pitcher (Boston Red Sox).^[95]
• Moses ǁGaroëb, 55, Namibian politician and founding member of SWAPO.
• Kathy Keeton, 58, American editor and publisher of Penthouse magazine, complications from surgery.^[96]
• Jack May, 75, English actor.
• Rich Mullins, 41, American Christian musician, traffic collision.^[97]
• Ambar Roy, 52, Indian cricket player.

20

• Matt Christopher, 80, American children's author.^[98]
• Virginia d'Albert-Lake, 87, American French Resistance agent during World War II.^[99]
• Kurt Gloor, 54, Swiss film director, screenwriter and producer, suicide.^[100]
• Anoop Kumar, 71, Indian film actor.
• Nick Traina, 19, American punk band singer, suicide by morphine overdose.^[101]

21

• Juan Burgueño, 74, Uruguayan football player.
• Lydia Eberhardt, 84, German Olympic javelin thrower (1936).^[102]
• Teuku Muhammad Hasan, 91, Indonesian politician.
• Jennifer Holt, 76, American actress, cancer.^[103]
• Maurice Kaufmann, 70, British actor, cancer.^[104]

22

• Beatrice Aitchison, 89, American mathematician, statistician, and economist.^[105]
• Deolindo Bittel, 75, Argentine politician.
• Pedro Carrizo, 76, Uruguayan Olympic boxer (1948).^[106]
• William Craig, 68, American author and historian.^[107]
• Robert E. Huyser, 73, United States Air Force general.
• Karl Koopman, 77, American zoologist.^[108]
• Manabu Mabe, 73, Japanese-Brazilian painter, diabetes.
• Pierre Petit, 77, French cinematographer.
• Ruth Picardie, 33, English journalist and editor, breast cancer.
• Eddie Sawyer, 87, American Major League Baseball scout.^[109]
• George Thomas, 1st Viscount Tonypandy, 88, British politician.^[110]
• Chiang Wei-kuo, 80, Secretary-General of the National Security Council of the Republic of China (1986–1993), diabetes.
• Shoichi Yokoi, 82, Japanese soldier, heart attack.^[111]

23

• Darko Bratina, 55, Italian sociologist, film theorist and politician, heart attack.
• Dolf Brouwers, 85, Dutch comedian, singer, and television actor.
• Shirley Clarke, 77, American filmmaker, stroke.^[112]
• Art Dorfman, 89, American football player.^[113]
• Dick Flanagan, 70, American gridiron football player (Chicago Bears, Detroit Lions, Pittsburgh Steelers).^[114]
• Abe Gibron, 72, American gridiron football player (Cleveland Browns, Philadelphia Eagles, Chicago Bears), and coach.^[115]
• Cary Lu, 51, American science writer, cancer.^[116]
• Doug Million, 21, American baseball player, asthma.^[117]
• Jonas Pipynė, 61, Lithuanian track and field runner, skier, and Olympian.^[118]
• Ray Poage, 56, American gridiron football player.^[119]
• Lu Sheng, 85, Chinese military officer.
• J.D. Thottan, 75, Indian director of Malayalam language films.
• Pedro de Castro van Dúnem, 55, Angolan politician.^[120]
• Torgny Wickman, 86, Swedish screenwriter and film director.

24

• T. Emmet Clarie, 84, American district judge (United States District Court for the District of Connecticut).^[121]
• Aobayama Hirotoshi, 47, Japanese sumo wrestler.^[122]
• Anton Kehle, 49, German ice hockey goaltender, cancer.
• William M. Miley, 99, United States Army officer and a professor.^[123]
• Alby Morrison, 88, Australian rules football player and coach.
• Yen Shui-long, 94, Taiwanese painter and sculptor, surgical complications after fall.
• Jai Pal Singh, 67, Indian physician and educator.
• Engalaguppe Seetharamiah Venkataramiah, 72, Chief Justice of India.
• Remy Wagner, 75, Luxembourgish football player.^[124]
• Ernest Will, 84, French archaeologist and professor.^[125]

25

• John Ahern, 86, Irish Roman Catholic bishop.
• Hélène Baillargeon, 81, Canadian singer, actor and folklorist.^[126]
• Paul Bernard, 68, English television director and production designer.
• Guillermo Díaz, 66, Chilean football player.
• Bill Donovan, 81, American baseball player (Boston Braves).^[127]
• Jean Françaix, 85, French musician and composer.^[128]
• Juan José Gámez, 58, Costa Rican football player and manager, cardiac arrest.^[129]
• Jim Kemmy, 61, Irish politician.^[130]
• Viktor Lipsnis, 63, Soviet shot putter and Olympian.^[131]
• George MacDonald, 90, Canadian rower and Olympian.^[132]
• Egon Seefehlner, 85, Austrian lawyer and opera director.
• Komil Yashin, 87, Soviet and Uzbekistani poet and screenwriter.^[133]

26

• Nick Carter, 95, American track and field athlete, coach and Olympian (1928).^[134]
• Woody English, 91, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs, Brooklyn Dodgers).^[135]
• Richard Geoffrey Gerard, 92, New Zealand politician and cabinet minister.
• Dorothy Kingsley, 87, American screenwriter (Angels in the Outfield, Valley of the Dolls, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers), heart failure.^[136]
• Egon Scheibe, 88, German aviation engineer.
• John Schubeck, 61, American television reporter and anchor, kidney and liver failure.^[137]
• Samuel W. Taylor, 90, American novelist, scriptwriter, and historian.^[138]
• Péter Zsoldos, 67, Hungarian science fiction author.

27

• Bob Evans, 72, American basketball player (Indianapolis Olympians).^[139]
• Atilio François, 75, Uruguayan Olympic cyclist (1948, 1952).^[140]
• Alex Konikowski, 69, American baseball player.^[141]
• Allan MacRae, 95, American Christian theologian.
• Margot Mahler, 52, German actress.^[142]
• Adriana Marines, 5, American girl of Mexican descent, shot.
• Jacques Mercanton, 87, French cinematographer.
• Mandali Venkata Krishna Rao, 71, Indian politician.
• Walter Trampler, 82, American violist.^[143]

28

• Munir Bashir, 66-67, Iraqi musician, stroke.^[144]
• Frank D'Agostino, 63, American gridiron football player (Philadelphia Eagles, New York Titans).^[145]
• David Gill, 69, British film historian, preservationist and documentarian, heart attack.^[146]
• Connie Grob, 64, American baseball player (Washington Senators).^[147]
• Ho Feng-Shan, 96, Chinese diplomat.
• Günther Maul, 88, German ichthyologist and taxidermist.
• Lage Thunberg, 92, Swedish Air Force officer.^[148]
• Elfriede Vey, 75, German cyclist.^[149]

29

• William Goddard, 84, American engineer and inventor.
• Roy Lichtenstein, 73, American pop artist, pneumonia.^[150]
• Edith Ballinger Price, 100, American children's author and illustrator.^[151]
• Fritz Schär, 71, Swiss cyclist.^[152]
• Volodymyr Sterniuk, 90, Ukrainian Greek Catholic archbishop and the acting head of the UGCC (1972–91).
• Aaron D. Wyner, 58, American information theorist.^[153]

30

• Al "Jazzbo" Collins, 78, American disc jockey and musician, pancreatic cancer.^[154]
• Nobuo Fujita, Japanese pilot and warrant officer during World War II.^[155]
• Pierre Granche, 49, French-Canadian sculptor, lung cancer.
• Edward L. Kessel, 93, American biologist.^[156]
• Graeme MacDonald, 67, British television producer and executive.^[157]
• Don Martin, 77, American basketball player.^[158]
• Ernst van Heerden, 81, South African poet.^[159]

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External links

• List of September 1997 deaths at IMDb