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The following is a list of notable deaths in January 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.

January 1997

1

• Prince Eugen of Bavaria, 71, German noble.
• Aenne Brauksiepe, 84, German politician.
• Asnoldo Devonish, 64, Venezuelan track and field athlete.
• Al Eugster, 87, American animator, writer, and film director.
• Jean Feller, 77, Luxembourgian footballer.
• Ivan Graziani, 51, Italian singer-songwriter and guitarist, colon cancer.
• Hagood Hardy, 59, Canadian composer, pianist, and vibraphonist, lymphoma.
• Mohammed Hafez Ismail, 77, Egyptian diplomat and ambassador.
• Graham Kersey, 25, English cricketer, traffic collision.
• Hans-Martin Majewski, 85, German composer of film scores.
• James B. Pritchard, 87, American archeologist.
• Joan Rice, 66, English film actress.
• Franco Volpi, 75, Italian actor and voice actor, cancer.
• Townes Van Zandt, 52, American singer-songwriter, cardiac arrhythmia.
• Ladislau Zilahi, 74, Romanian football player and manager.

2

• Randy California, 45, American guitarist, singer and songwriter, drowned.
• Samuel Carlisi, 82, American mobster, heart attack.
• Joan Coromines, 91, Spanish linguist.
• Antonio Giordani Soika, 83, Italian entomologist and ecologist.
• Moshe Wilensky, 86, Polish-Israeli composer.

3

• Werner Genuit, 59, German classical pianist and composer.
• Roger Goeb, 82, American composer.
• Michel Heller, 74, Russian historian, heart attack.
• Pieter Keuneman, 79, Sri Lankan communist politician.
• Jon Lennart Mjøen, 84, Norwegian actor, film director and screenwriter.
• Gianfranco Pandolfini, 76, Italian water polo player.
• Marie Torre, 72, American television journalist, lung cancer.
• Odd Øyen, 82, Norwegian physician and resistance member during World War II.

4

• Hédi Berkhissa, 24, Tunisian footballer, heart attack.
• Akhteruzzaman Elias, 53, Bangladeshi novelist and short story writer.
• Harry Helmsley, 87, American real estate mogul, pneumonia.
• Harry P. Jeffrey, 95, American attorney and politician.
• Bill Lancaster, 49, American screenwriter (The Thing, The Bad News Bears) and actor (Moses the Lawgiver).
• Lucien Rebuffic, 75, French basketball player.
• Tormod Skagestad, 76, Norwegian poet, novelist, playwright and actor.
• Richard Taitano, 75, Guamanian politician.

5

• André Franquin, 73, Belgian comics artist, (Spirou & Fantasio, Gaston, Marsupilami), heart attack.
• Peter Zack Geer, 68, American politician, cancer.
• Prince Bertil, Duke of Halland, 84, Swedish royal, third son of King Gustaf VI Adolf.
• Homer Hobbs, 73, American football player and coach.
• Burton Lane, 84, American composer and lyricist.
• Frans Piët, 91, Dutch comics artist (Sjors en Sjimmie).
• Emil Roy, 89, American baseball player.
• V. C. Wynne-Edwards, 90, English zoologist.

6

• Herbert Blitzstein, 62, American mobster, shot.
• Dick Donovan, 69, American MLB baseball player, cancer.
• Kalevi Laitinen, 78, Finnish gymnast and Olympic champion.
• Teiichi Matsumaru, 87, Japanese football player.
• Charles Murphy, 88, Australian politician.
• Catherine Scorsese, 84, Italian-American actress (Goodfellas), Alzheimer's disease.

7

• Tod Goodwin, 85, American gridiron football player.
• Paul-Werner Hozzel, 86, Nazi Germany Luftwaffe pilot during World War II.
• Christopher Mayhew, 81, British politician.
• Patricia McLaughlin, 80, Northern Irish politician.
• Sándor Végh, 84, Hungarian-French, violinist and conductor.

8

• Smiley Bates, 59, Canadian country singer, songwriter, and musician, cancer.
• Melvin Calvin, 85, American biochemist, heart failure.
• Paul Endacott, 94, American basketball player.
• James Fraser, 72, Scottish surgeon.
• Harold Foote Gosnell, 100, American political scientist and author.
• George Handy, 76, American jazz arranger, composer and pianist.
• Phyllis Hartnoll, 90, British poet, author and editor.
• Alfred John Markiewicz, 68, American prelate of the Catholic Church.

9

• Karol Borhy, 84, Czechoslovak football coach.
• Ove Dahlberg, 65, Swedish ice hockey referee, heart attack.
• Angelo Drossos, 68, American basketball executive, Parkinson's disease.
• Ellen Griffin Dunne, 64, American actress and activist, multiple sclerosis.
• Muhammadu Junaidu, 91, Nigerian historian and writer.
• Shorty McWilliams, 70, American football player.
• Edward Osóbka-Morawski, 87, Polish activist and politician.
• Jesse White, 80, American actor and comedian, heart attack.

10

• Mary Bancroft, 93, American novelist and spy.
• Samuel Preston Bayard, 88, American folklorist and musicologist.
• Emmet Reid Blake, 88, American ornithologist and museum curator.
• Gordon W. Burrows, 70, American politician, cardiac arrest.
• André Caron, 52, member of the House of Commons of Canada from 1993 to 1997, cancer.
• Seymour Halpern, 83, American politician.
• Elspeth Huxley, 89, English author, journalist, broadcaster, and government adviser.
• Valentin Koptyug, 65, Soviet/Russian chemist.
• Phil Marchildon, 83, Canadian Major League Baseball player.
• Tordis Maurstad, 95, Norwegian stage actress.
• Martin Pike, 76, British athlete.
• Alexander R. Todd, Baron Todd, 89, Scottish biochemist and Nobel Prize laureate, heart attack.
• Shiv Verma, 92, Indian revolutionary.
• Lee Willerman, 57, American psychologist.
• Albert Wohlstetter, 83, American nuclear strategist.
• George Young, 74, Scottish footballer.

11

• Arild Andersen, 68, Norwegian racing cyclist.
• Bhabatosh Datta, 85, Indian economist, academic and writer.
• Rosalind Hill, 88, English historian, heart failure.
• Pancheti Koteswaram, 81, Indian meteorologist, hydrologist, and atmospheric physicist.
• Sheldon Leonard, 89, American actor, producer, director, and writer.
• Stu Martin, 84, American Major League Baseball player.
• Jerry Neudecker, 66, American MLB umpire, cancer.
• Helen Foster Snow, 89, American journalist.
• Jill Summers, 86, English music hall performer and comedian, kidney failure.
• Ian White-Thomson, 92, British Anglican priest.

12

• Jean-Edern Hallier, 60, French writer, critic and editor, cerebral haemorrhage after fall, heart attack, traffic collision.
• Jean Hoerni, 72, Swiss-American engineer.
• Charles Brenton Huggins, 95, Canadian-American cancer researcher and Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate.
• Ewa Larysa Krause, 22, Polish judoka, traffic collision.
• Wally Rose, 83, American jazz and ragtime pianist.
• Jorge Suárez, 51, Salvadoran football player, cancer.

13

• Sivar Arnér, 87, Swedish novelist and playwright.
• Burton Barr, 79, American businessman and politician, kidney failure.
• Johannes Coleman, 86, South African marathon runner and Olympian.
• Max Kaser, 90, German academic and professor of jurisprudence.
• Leo Margolis, 69, Canadian parasitologist, heart attack.
• Baburaoji Parkhe, 84, Indian industrialist.
• Ruslan Stratonovich, 66, Russian physicist and engineer.
• Herman V. Wall, 91, American combat photographer during World War II.

14

• John Amdisen, 62, Danish football player.
• Shalva Chikhladze, 84, Soviet light-heavyweight wrestler and Olympian.
• Leonard Dodson, 84, American golfer.
• Celso Ferreira, 46, Brazilian football player.
• King Hu, 64, Chinese film director and actor, complications from angioplasty.
• Robert Irsay, 73, American football team owner.
• Ebba Lodden, 83, Norwegian civil servant and politician.
• Roland Martin, 84, French archaeologist.
• Dollard Ménard, 83, Canadian general.
• Knud Nellemose, 88, Danish sculptor.

15

• Oscar Auerbach, 92, American physician and pathologist.
• Edwin Smith, 74, New Zealand rower.
• Ahmad Tafazzoli, 59, Iranian Iranist and professor of ancient Iranian languages, homicide. (body discovered on this date)
• Kenneth V. Thimann, 92, English-American plant physiologist and microbiologist.

16

• Romano Amerio, 91, Swiss Italian theologian.
• Ödön Gróf, 81, Hungarian swimmer and Olympian.
• Roy Henderson, 73, Scottish football player.
• Markus Hoffmann, 26, German actor, suicide by jumping.
• Nils Katajainen, 77, Finnish flying ace during World War II.
• Erik Källström, 88, Swedish football player.
• Iain Mills, 56, English politician.
• Shinobu Muraki, 73, Japanese production designer and art director (Ran).
• Beverly Peer, 84, American jazz double-bassist, cancer.
• Martin Redmond, 59, British politician.
• Juan Landázuri Ricketts, 83, Peruvian catholic cardinal.
• Jeff Teale, 57, British international athlete and Olympian.
• Rajagopala Tondaiman, 74, Indian monarch and the last Raja of Pudukkottai.
• Barbara Woodell, 86, American actress.
• Willie Yeadon, 89, British railway historian.

17

• Susanna Al-Hassan, 69, Ghanaian author and politician.
• Earl Girard, 69, American football player.
• Robert Giraud, 75, French journalist, poet and lexicographer.
• Björn Isfält, 54, Swedish composer, cancer.
• Bill Kardash, 84, Canadian politician.
• Bert Kelly, 84, Australian politician and government minister.
• Amha Selassie, 80, Ethiopian Emperor-in-exile and son of Haile Selassie I.
• Clyde Tombaugh, 90, American astronomer.
• Theo Wilson, 79, American reporter, cerebral hemorrhage.

18

• Herbert A. Allen, Sr., 88, American stockbroker.
• Ruth Brinkmann, 62, American actress and founder of Vienna's English Theatre, ovarian cancer.
• Adriana Caselotti, 80, American actress and singer (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs), lung cancer.
• Keith Diamond, 46, American songwriter and producer, heart attack.
• Jean Gravelle, 69, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Henry Hermansen, 75, Norwegian cross-country skier and Olympian.
• Ardis Krainik, 67, American mezzo-soprano opera singer.
• Diana Lewis, 77, American film actress, pancreatic cancer.
• Myfanwy Piper, 85, British art critic and opera librettist.
• Gilberto Martínez Solares, 90, Mexican actor, cinematographer, screenwriter, and director.
• Darío Suro, 79, Dominican Republic art critic, diplomat and painter.
• Paul Tsongas, 55, American politician, non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

19

• Robert Chapatte, 75, French cyclist and sports journalist.
• James Dickey, 73, American poet and novelist.
• Richard E. Jennings, 75, English comics artist, pneumonia.
• Tamara Makarova, 89, Soviet actress.
• Vasily Nalimov, 86, Russian philosopher and humanist.
• Charles Nelson, 95, American film editor (Picnic, Cat Ballou, A Song to Remember), Oscar winner (1956).
• Sudhir, 75, Pakistani film actor, director and producer.

20

• Albín Brunovský, 61, Slovak painter and graphic artist.
• Curt Flood, 59, American baseball player, pneumonia.
• Edith Haisman, 100, South African-born RMS Titanic survivor
• Hiram Keller, 52, American actor, liver cancer.
• Joseph J. Loferski, 71, American physicist.
• Ashious Melu, 39, Zambian footballer and coach.
• Konrad Püschel, 89, German architect, town planner, and university professor.
• Dennis Main Wilson, 72, British radio and television producer, lung cancer.

21

• John Glyn-Jones, 87, British actor.
• Hans Egon Holthusen, 83, German nazi, writer and academic.
• Sourendra Nath Kohli, 80, Indian Navy admiral.
• Irwin Levine, 58, American songwriter.
• Louis Miehe-Renard, 77, Danish film actor.
• Shinroku Momose, 77, Japanese aircraft/automotive engineer.
• Eduardo Morera, 91, Argentine film director.
• Colonel Tom Parker, 87, Dutch-American manager of Elvis Presley, stroke.
• Giorgio Prosperi, 85, Italian screenwriter.
• Polly Ann Young, 88, American actress, cancer.

22

• Ênio Andrade, 68, Brazilian football player and manager.
• L. Kijungluba AO, 90, Indian baptist missionary.
• Pilar Barbosa, 98, Puerto Rican educator, historian and political activist.
• George Dockins, 79, American baseball player.
• Ron Holden, 57, American pop and R&B singer, heart attack.
• Elwyn Lynn, 79, Australian artist, author and art critic.
• Billy Mackenzie, 39, Scottish singer and songwriter, suicide by drug overdose.
• Cornelio Reyna, 56, Mexican singer, composer and actor.
• Willard Wheatley, 81, British Virgin Islands politician and Chief Minister.
• Wally Whyton, 67, British musician, songwriter and radio and TV personality.

23

• Richard Berry, 61, American singer, songwriter and musician, aneurysm.
• Paul Egli, 85, Swiss road bicycle racer.
• Randy Greenawalt, 47, American serial killer, execution by lethal injection.
• Alois Hudec, 88, Czechoslovak gymnast and World and Olympic Champion.
• Lyudmila Marchenko, 56, Soviet film actress.
• Hardy Rafn, 66, Danish film actor.
• Roger Tayler, 67, British astronomer, cancer.
• Rolling Thunder, 80, American hippy spiritual leader, complications of diabetes.
• David Waller, 76, English actor.
• Bill Zuckert, 81, American actor, pneumonia.

24

• William Alexander, 81, German painter and television host.
• Lourdino Barreto, 58, Indian musicologist and composer.
• Dr. Jerry Graham, 75, American professional wrestler, cerebrovascular disease.
• Jack Halloran, 81, American composer and choral director.
• Ida Kohlmeyer, 84, American painter.
• Roy Sproson, 66, English footballer and manager.
• Suzy Vernon, 95, French film actress.

25

• Werner Aspenström, 78, Swedish poet.
• Dan Barry, 73, American cartoonist.
• Donald Beer, 61, American rower and Olympic champion, brain cancer.
• James Boyd, 66, American boxer, cancer.
• Manuel Tuñón de Lara, 81, Spanish historian.
• Jeane Dixon, 93, American astrologer, heart failure.
• Exuma, 54, Bahamian musician, artist, playwright and author, heart attack.
• Carlton Benjamin Goodlett, 82, American physician and newspaper publisher.
• Edith Thacher Hurd, 86, American children's author.
• Nikola Koljević, 60, Bosnian Serb politician, essayist, and scholar, suicide by gunshot.
• George W. Mitchell, 92, American economist.
• Seldon Powell, 68, American jazz, music, and R&B tenor saxophonist and flautist.
• Elizabeth Rudel Smith, 85, American politician.
• Bill Wightkin, 69, American gridiron football player.

26

• Sufi Barkat Ali, 85, Indian muslim sufi.
• Jack Clayton, 82, American football, basketball, and baseball coach, congestive heart failure.
• Shūhei Fujisawa, 69, Japanese author.
• Cornelius Herman Muller, 87, American botanist and ecologist.
• Guy Raymond, 85, American actor.
• Margaret Hessen und bei Rhein, 83, German princess.
• Laurence Stoddard, 93, American rowing coxswain.
• Donald E. Stokes, 69, American political scientist, acute leukemia.
• Mira Zimińska, 95, Polish actress.

27

• Bill Kennedy, 88, American actor and television show host.
• Cecil Arthur Lewis, 98, British last surviving World War I fighter ace.
• Gerald Marks, 96, American composer.
• Louis E. Martin, 84, American journalist, newspaper publisher and civil rights activist.
• Zia Sarhadi, 83, Pakistani screenwriter and film director.
• Harish Chandra Sarin, 82, Indian civil servant, writer and defence secretary of India.
• Richard X. Slattery, 71, American actor.
• David Townsend, 84, English cricket player.
• Aleksandr Zarkhi, 88, Soviet film director, screenwriter, and playwright.

28

• Antônio Callado, 80, Brazilian journalist, playwright, and novelist.
• Edmond de Stoutz, 76, Swiss conductor.
• Anna Galmarini, 54, Italian figure skater.
• Raya Garbousova, 87, Russian-American cellist.
• Alfred Gell, 51, British social anthropologist.
• Mikel Koliqi, 96, Albanian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.
• Wong Shun Leung, 61, Hong Kong martial artist, stroke.
• Louis Pauwels, 76, French journalist and writer, heart attack.
• Geoffrey Rippon, 72, British politician.
• Pandurang Vasudeo Sukhatme, 85, Indian statistician.

29

• Antal Benda, 86, Hungarian field handball player.
• Irma Greta Blohm, 85, German politician.
• Ken Harada, 77, Japanese politician.
• Daniel P. Mannix, 85, American writer, journalist, animal trainer, and performer.
• Mumtaz Mirza, 57, Indian Urdu poet.
• Clifford Richmond, 82, New Zealand lawyer and judge.
• Osvaldo Soriano, 54, Argentine journalist and writer, lung cancer.
• Thomas Daniel Young, 77, American academic.

30

• Charles Hargens, 103, American painter.
• Willis Harman, 78, American engineer, futurist, and author, brain cancer.
• Duane Josephson, 54, American baseball player.
• Nicholas Mallett, 51, British television director.
• Henry Bentinck, 11th Earl of Portland, 77, British noble and activist.
• Frank Tejeda, 51, United States Marine and politician, brain cancer.

31

• Raymond Coxon, 100, British artist.
• Hedy Graf, 70, Spanish-Swiss soprano.
• Eve Lister, 83, British actress.
• Seth Lover, 87, American inventor.
• Zahir Pajaziti, 34, Kosovo Albanian guerilla commander, killed in action.
• John Joseph Scanlan, 90, American catholic bishop.
• Eugenia Smith, 98, American Romanov impostor.
• Alexander Solonik, 36, Russian gangster, strangled.
• Andrzej Szczepkowski, 73, Polish actor.
• Hans Tisdall, 86, German-British artist.

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82. William Dicke (20 January 1997). "Clyde W. Tombaugh, 90, Discoverer of Pluto". The New York Times. p. B 8. Retrieved 30 September 2020.
83. "Theo Wilson, 79, Newspaper Reporter". The New York Times. February 9, 1997. Retrieved 4 October 2020.
84. "Ruth Brinkmann, 62, Actress, Director and Theater Founder". The New York Times. 9 February 1997. p. 1 46. Retrieved 30 September 2020.
85. "Adriana Caselotti, 80, Voice of Snow White". The New York Times. January 21, 1997. Retrieved October 4, 2020.
86. "Keith Diamond, 46; Produced Pop Songs". The New York Times. 27 January 1997. p. B 10. Retrieved 30 September 2020.
87. "Olympedia – Henry Hermansen". olympedia.org. OlyMADMen. Retrieved 15 March 2022.
88. Allan Kozinn (20 January 1997). "Ardis Krainik, 67, Dies; Directed Lyric Opera of Chicago". The New York Times. p. B 9. Retrieved 14 November 2020.
89. Vosburgh, Dick (31 January 1997). "Obituary: Diana Lewis". The Independent. Retrieved 4 October 2020.
90. Allan Kozinn (25 January 1997). "Myfanwy Piper, 85, Art Critic Who Wrote Britten's Librettos". The New York Times. p. 1 11. Retrieved 16 March 2022.
91. "Darío Suro - Social Networks and Archival Context". snaccooperative.org. Retrieved 15 March 2022.
92. Karen de Witt (20 January 1997). "Paul Tsongas, Who Made Presidential Bid, Dies at 55". The New York Times. p. B 8. Retrieved 30 September 2020.
93. "Robert Chapatte". data.bnf.fr (in French). Bibliothèque nationale de France. Retrieved 15 March 2022.
94. Albin Krebs (21 January 1997). "James Dickey, Two-Fisted Poet and the Author of 'Deliverance,' Is Dead at 73". The New York Times. p. D 22. Retrieved 30 September 2020.
95. "Richard Jennings - Lambiek Comiclopedia". lambiek.net. Retrieved 2020-10-04.
96. "Vasily Nalimov - Social Networks and Archival Context". snaccooperative.org. Retrieved 15 March 2022.
97. "Albín Brunovský". catalogue.bnf.fr (in French). Bibliothèque nationale de France. Retrieved 15 March 2022.
98. Joseph Durso (21 January 1997). "Curt Flood Is Dead at 59; Outfielder Defied Baseball". The New York Times. p. D 23. Retrieved 30 September 2020.
99. Edith Eileen Brown
100. "Hiram Keller - filmportal.de". filmportal.de (in German). Retrieved 15 March 2022.
101. Tim Hilchey (23 January 1997). "Joseph J. Loferski, Pioneer in Development of Solar Cells, Dies at 71". The New York Times. p. D 24. Retrieved 14 November 2020.
102. Took, Barry (23 January 1997). "Obituary: Dennis Main Wilson". The Independent. Retrieved 4 October 2020.
103. "John Glyn-Jones". bfi.org.uk. Archived from the original on December 30, 2017. Retrieved 4 October 2020.
104. "Hans Egon Holthusen". catalogue.bnf.fr (in French). Bibliothèque nationale de France. Retrieved 15 March 2022.
105. "Irwin Levine - Broadway Cast & Staff - IBDB". ibdb.com. Retrieved 15 March 2022.
106. Welch, Chris (23 January 1997). "Obituary: Col Tom Parker". The Independent. Retrieved 4 October 2020.
107. "Polly Ann Young". data.bnf.fr (in French). Bibliothèque nationale de France. Retrieved 15 March 2022.
108. "George Dockins Stats". baseball-reference.com. Retrieved 4 October 2020.
109. Brown, Marisa. "Ron Holden Biography". allmusic.com.
110. "Elwyn Lynn - Social Networks and Archival Context". snaccooperative.org. Retrieved 15 March 2022.
111. Perrone, Pierre (25 January 1997). "Obituary: Billy MacKenzie". The Independent. Retrieved 4 October 2020.
112. "Wally Whyton". catalogue.bnf.fr (in French). Bibliothèque nationale de France. Retrieved 15 March 2022.
113. Jon Pareles (25 January 1997). "Richard Berry, Songwriter of 'Louie Louie,' Dies at 61". The New York Times. p. 1 11. Retrieved 30 September 2020.
114. "Paul Egli". procyclingstats.com. Retrieved 15 March 2022.
115. "Olympedia – Alois Hudec". olympedia.org. OlyMADMen. Retrieved 15 March 2022.
116. "Roger Tayler, 67; Briton Advanced Knowledge of Stars". The New York Times. 3 February 1997. p. B 8. Retrieved 30 September 2020.
117. "David Waller". catalogue.bnf.fr (in French). Bibliothèque nationale de France. Retrieved 15 March 2022.
118. "Bill Zuckert - Broadway Cast & Staff - IBDB". ibdb.com. Retrieved 15 March 2022.
119. Roberta Smith (26 January 1997). "Ida Kohlmeyer, 84; Known as Pictographic Painter". The New York Times. p. 1 28. Retrieved 30 September 2020.
120. "Roy Sproson". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved 4 November 2024.
121. "Suzy Vernon - filmportal.de". filmportal.de (in German). Retrieved 15 March 2022.
122. "Werner Aspenström - Social Networks and Archival Context". snaccooperative.org. Retrieved 15 March 2022.
123. "Donald Beer, 61; Won Olympic Gold in Rowing". The New York Times. 27 January 1997. p. B 11. Retrieved 16 March 2022.
124. "Olympedia – James Boyd". olympedia.org. OlyMADMen. Retrieved 15 March 2022.
125. "Manuel Tuñón de Lara - DB~e". dbe.rah.es (in Spanish). Real Academia de la Historia. Retrieved 15 March 2022.
126. Eric Pace (27 January 1997). "Jeane Dixon, 79, Astrologer Claiming Psychic Power, Dies". The New York Times. p. B 11. Retrieved 30 September 2020.
127. "Exuma - Social Networks and Archival Context". snaccooperative.org. Retrieved 15 March 2022.
128. "Carlton Goodlett, 82, Doctor And a Campaigning Publisher". The New York Times. 2 February 1997. p. 1 38. Retrieved 30 September 2020.
129. Wolfgang Saxon (28 January 1997). "Edith Hurd, 86, Who Introduced The Planet to Young Readers". The New York Times. p. B 8. Retrieved 30 September 2020.
130. "Nikola Koljević". data.bnf.fr (in French). Bibliothèque nationale de France. Retrieved 15 March 2022.
131. Barry Meier (1 February 1997). "George W. Mitchell, 92, Ex-Official at the Fed". The New York Times. p. 1 26. Retrieved 30 September 2020.
132. "Seldon Powell". data.bnf.fr (in French). Bibliothèque nationale de France. Retrieved 15 March 2022.
133. "Elizabeth Rudel Smith - Social Networks and Archival Context". snaccooperative.org. Retrieved 15 March 2022.
134. "Bill Wightkin Stats - Pro-Football-Reference.com". pro-football-reference.com. Retrieved 15 March 2022.
135. "Legendary Northwestern State football coach Jack Clayton dies". The Times. Shreveport, Louisiana. Associated Press. January 27, 1997. p. 16. Retrieved 4 October 2020 – via Newspapers.com .
136. "Shūhei Fujisawa". data.bnf.fr (in French). Bibliothèque nationale de France. Retrieved 15 March 2022.
137. "Cornelius H. Muller, Biological Sciences: Santa Barbara". cdlib.org. Retrieved 4 October 2020.
138. "Guy Raymond - Broadway Cast & Staff - IBDB". ibdb.com. Retrieved 15 March 2022.
139. "Margaret, Princess of Hesse and by Rhine". catalogue.bnf.fr (in French). Bibliothèque nationale de France. Retrieved 15 March 2022.
140. "Olympedia - ChickStoddard". olympedia.org. OlyMADMen. Retrieved 15 March 2022.
141. Eric Pace (29 January 1997). "Donald E. Stokes, 69, Leading Political Scientist". The New York Times. p. D 22. Retrieved 30 September 2020.
142. "Mira Zimińska - Library of Congress". id.loc.gov. Retrieved 15 March 2022.
143. Bridgewater, T. H. (29 January 1997). "Obituary: Cecil Lewis". The Independent. London. Retrieved October 4, 2020.
144. "Gerald Marks - Broadway Cast & Staff - IBDB". ibdb.com. Retrieved 16 March 2022.
145. Neil A. Lewis (30 January 1997). "Louis E. Martin, 84, Aide To 3 Democratic Presidents". The New York Times. p. D 21. Retrieved 30 September 2020.
146. "Zia Sarhadi". catalogue.bnf.fr (in French). Bibliothèque nationale de France. Retrieved 16 March 2022.
147. Oliver, Myrna (January 29, 1997). "Richard Slattery; 'Murph' in Union Oil Commercials". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved October 4, 2020.
148. "Aleksandr Zarkhi". catalogue.bnf.fr (in French). Bibliothèque nationale de France. Retrieved 16 March 2022.
149. "Antônio Callado". data.bnf.fr (in French). Bibliothèque nationale de France. Retrieved 16 March 2022.
150. "Olympedia – Anna Galmarini". olympedia.org. OlyMADMen. Retrieved 16 March 2022.
151. Allan Kozinn (30 January 1997). "Raya Garbousova, 87, Cellist Honored by Composers". The New York Times. p. D 21. Retrieved 30 September 2020.
152. "Alfred Gell". data.bnf.fr (in French). Bibliothèque nationale de France. Retrieved 16 March 2022.
153. Wolfgang Saxon (2 February 1997). "Mikel Cardinal Koliqi of Albania Dies at 94". The New York Times. p. 1 38. Retrieved 30 September 2020.
154. "Louis Pauwels". data.bnf.fr (in French). Bibliothèque nationale de France. Retrieved 16 March 2022.
155. Cosgrave, Patrick (30 January 1997). "Obituary: : Lord Rippon of Hexham". The Independent. Retrieved 4 October 2020.
156. "Pandurang Vasudeo Sukhatme - Social Networks and Archival Context". snaccooperative.org. Retrieved 16 March 2022.
157. "Olympedia – Antal Benda". olympedia.org. OlyMADMen. Retrieved 16 March 2022.
158. "Daniel P. Mannix". data.bnf.fr (in French). Bibliothèque nationale de France. Retrieved 16 March 2022.
159. "Osvaldo Soriano". data.bnf.fr (in French). Bibliothèque nationale de France. Retrieved 16 March 2022.
160. "Thomas D. Young, English Professor, 77". The New York Times. 9 February 1997. p. 1 46. Retrieved 30 September 2020.
161. "Charles Hargens, Western Artist, 103". The New York Times. The Associated Press. 9 February 1997. Retrieved 4 October 2020.
162. "Duane Josephson Stats". baseball-reference.com. Retrieved 4 October 2020.
163. Robert McG. Thomas Jr. (2 February 1997). "Frank Tejeda, 51, Congressman From Texas and Former Marine". The New York Times. p. 1 39. Retrieved 1 August 2021.
164. Michael Perkin (18 February 1997). "Obituary: Raymond Coxon". The Independent. Retrieved 4 October 2020.
165. "Lister, Eve". bfi.org.uk. Archived from the original on 15 January 2009. Retrieved 4 November 2024.
166. "Bishop John Joseph Scanlan [Catholic-Hierarchy]". www.catholic-hierarchy.org. Retrieved 2024-11-04.
167. Powers, Alan (7 February 1997). "Obituary: Hans Tisdall". The Independent. Retrieved 4 October 2020.

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