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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.
• Georg Bodenhausen, 92, Dutch civil servant.
• Jerome H. Lemelson, 74, American engineer, inventor and patent holder, liver cancer.
• Gul Mohammed, 40, Shortest adult human, heart attack.
• Inbal Perlmuter, 26, Israeli rock musician, singer, composer and lyricist, traffic collision.

2

• Carybé, 86, Argentine-Brazilian artist, historian and journalist, heart failure.
• Douglas Fairbairn, 70, American author.
• Esa Seeste, 84, Finnish gymnast.
• Guillermo Meza Álvarez, 80, Mexican painter.

3

• Michael Adekunle Ajasin, 88, Nigerian politician.
• John Ashley, 62, American actor, producer and singer, heart attack.
• Walter Baumgartner, 92, Swiss film composer.
• Richard Gilkey, 72, American painter, suicide by gunshot.
• Verna Hillie, 83, American film actress, stroke.
• Jarl Kulle, 70, Swedish actor and director, bone cancer.
• Millard Lampell, 78, American movie and television screenwriter, lung cancer.
• Phil Medley, 81, American songwriter.
• Charlie Parsley, 71, American basketball player and college coach.
• Hadassah Rosensaft, 85, Polish Holocaust survivor, liver failure.
• A. L. Rowse, 93, British historian and author.
• George Urban, 76, Hungarian writer.
• Blake Wayne Van Leer, 71, United States Navy officer.

4

• Nelson Coral 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.
• Georgi Yumatov, 71, Soviet and Russian film actor, aneurysm.

5

• Chitta Basu, 70, Indian politician, heart attack.
• Mary Jayne Gold, 88, American heiress, pancreatic cancer.
• Andrew Keir, 71, Scottish actor (Cleopatra, Rob Roy, Mary, Queen of Scots).
• Debbie Linden, 36, British glamour model and actress, heroin overdose.
• Dave Marr, 63, American golfer and sportscaster, stomach cancer.
• Brian Pillman, 35, American professional wrestler (WCW, WWF, ECW), heart attack.
• Tommy Ring, 67, Scottish footballer.
• Larisa Rozanova, 78, Soviet and Ukrainian pilot and navigator during World War II.
• Curtis Williams Sabrosky, 87, American entomologist.
• Arthur Tracy, 98, American vocalist and actor, heart attack.
• Bernard Yago, 81, Ivoirian cardinal of the Catholic Church.

6

• Orlando Ramón Agosti, 73, Argentine general and part of the military junta, cancer.
• 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.
• Adrienne Hill, 60, English actress (Doctor Who), cancer.
• Yevgeny Khaldei, 80, Soviet naval officer and photographer.
• Johnny Vander Meer, 82, American baseball player, abdominal aneurysm.

7

• Felicisimo Ampon, 76, Filipino tennis player.
• Johnny Darrell, 57, American country music artist, diabetes.
• Gus Marker, 92, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Aldo Sebben, 77, American football, cross country, and track and field coach.
• Janez Vrhovec, 76, Yugoslav actor of Slovenian-German origin.
• Wan Laiming, 97, Chinese animator.

8

• Henryk Bista, 63, Polish actor.
• Albert Blumberg, 91, American philosopher and political activist.
• Bertrand Goldberg, 84, American architect and industrial designer.
• Robin Lee, 77, American figure skater.
• Brown Meggs, 66, American writer and music executive.
• Nininho, 73, Brazilian football player.
• Desmond J. Scott, 79, New Zealand flying ace during World War II.
• Sant Singh Sekhon, 89, Indian playwright and writer.
• George Everard Kidder Smith, 84, American architectural writer and photographer.
• William Spong Jr., 77, American politician.

9

• Michael Cummings, 78, British newspaper cartoonist.
• Monty Hoyt, 53, American figure skater and Olympian, melanoma.
• Arch Johnson, 75, American actor, cancer.
• Jean Pasqualini, French/Chinese journalist.
• Joel Pritchard, 72, American politician, lymphoma.
• Roy Rappaport, 71, American anthropologist.

10

• D. J. Ambalavanar, 69, Sri Lankan Tamil bishop.
• Marjorie Harris Carr, 82, American scientist and environmental activist.
• Michael J. S. Dewar, 79, American theoretical chemist.
• Hans-Joachim Kasprzik, 69, German film and television director and screenwriter.
• George Malcolm, 80, English pianist, harpsichordist, composer, and conductor.
• Anne Marriott, 83, Canadian writer, stroke.
• Dencio Padilla, 69, Filipino actor and comedian, heart attack.
• Walt Simon, 57, American basketball player.
• Thomas Whiteside, 79, American journalist, heart failure.

11

• Paul Doughty Bartlett, 90, American chemist.
• Giacinto Bosco, 92, Italian jurist, academic and politician.
• Lina Gennari, 86, Italian actress and operetta singer.
• Käthe Gold, 90, Austrian actress.
• Will Sherman, 69, American gridiron football player.
• Ivan Yarygin, 48, Soviet / Russian heavyweight freestyle wrestler, traffic collision.

12

• Raúl Arellano, 62, Mexican football forward.
• John Denver, 53, American singer ("Take Me Home, Country Roads", "Poems, Prayers & Promises", "Annie's Song") and activist, plane crash.
• Talib El-Shibib, 63, Iraqi politician.
• Draga Garašanin, 76, Serbian archaeologist.
• Kenneth Hahn, 77, American civil servant, heart failure.
• Fred McCain, 79, Canadian politician.
• Isadore Twersky, 67, American orthodox rabbi and professor.

13

• Ian Stuart Black, 82, British novelist, playwright and screenwriter.
• Joyce Compton, 90, American actress.
• Gary Lee Davis, 53, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
• Kārlis Irbītis, 92, Latvian aeroplane designer.
• Richard Mason, 78, British novelist, lung cancer.
• William Staveley, 68, Royal Navy officer, heart attack.
• Adil Çarçani, 75, Albanian politician.

14

• Hy Averback, 76, American actor, producer and director.
• Piedade Coutinho, 77, Brazilian swimmer and Olympian.
• Jacqueline Delubac, 90, French stage and film actress, traffic collision.
• George Forrest, 72, British classicist and academic, cancer.
• Henry Pelling, 77, British historian.
• Harold Robbins, 81, American writer, heart failure.
• Barbara Slater, 76, American film actress.

15

• MacDonald Critchley, 97, British neurologist.
• Peter J. Dalessandro, 79, United States Army soldier and Medal of Honor recipient.
• Jack Dwyer, 70, American gridiron football player.
• Walter Fritzsch, 76, German football player and manager.
• Parker T. Hart, 87, American diplomat.
• Bill McKay, 76, Irish rugby player.
• John Merricks, 26, English sailor and Olympian, traffic collision.

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, Alzheimer's disease.
• Noel Ferrier, 66, Australian comedian, actor, and theatrical producer.
• Lotte Goslar, 90, German-American dancer.
• Adam Kennedy, 75, American actor, novelist, and painter, heart attack.
• Audra Lindley, 79, American actress (Three's Company, Another World, The Heartbreak Kid), leukemia.
• James A. Michener, 90, American author, kidney failure.

17

• Larry Jennings, 64, American magician.
• Giorgio Pisanò, 73, Italian journalist, essayist and neo-fascist politician.
• László Szabados, 86, Hungarian swimmer and Olympic medalist.
• Ben Welden, 96, American actor.
• Fang Yi, 81, Chinese Communist revolutionary, diplomat, and politician.

18

• Leonard Andrzejewski, 73, Polish actor.
• Ramiro Castillo, 31, Bolivian footballer, suicide by hanging.
• Gordon Clark, 83, English football player.
• Walter William Curtis, 84, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church, pneumonia.
• Nancy Dickerson, 70, American radio and television journalist, stroke.
• Trude Eipperle, 89, German operatic soprano.
• Vince Gironda, 79, American bodybuilder, personal trainer and author.
• Roberto Goizueta, 65, Cuban businessman and CEO of The Coca-Cola Company, cancer.
• Milt Neil, 83, American animator (Fantasia, Dumbo, The Three Caballeros).
• William Rotsler, 71, American artist, cartoonist, pornographer and author.
• Paul Edwin Zimmer, 54, American poet and author, heart attack.

19

• Donald R. Bensen, 70, American editor and science fiction writer.
• Glen Buxton, 49, American guitarist and composer, complications from pneumonia.
• Claudia Drake, 79, American actress and singer.
• Harold French, 100, English film director, screenwriter and actor.
• Arthur Ibbetson, 75, British cinematographer (Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, Where Eagles Dare, The Bounty).
• Francisco Guerrero Marín, 46, Spanish composer.
• William J. McGill, 75, American psychologist and author.
• Pilar Mercedes Miró Romero, 57, Spanish screenwriter and film director, heart attack.
• Stella Sierra, 80, Panamanian poet and prose writer.

20

• John Jacobs, 50, American student and anti-war activist, complications from melanoma.
• Frank Robert Miller, 89, Canadian air chief marshal.
• Manush Myftiu, 78, Albanian politician.
• Manuel Rodríguez Barros, 71, Spanish racing cyclist.
• Li Ruishan, 76, Chinese politician.
• Ron Tarr, 60, British actor, cancer.
• Henry Vestine, 52, American guitarist, heart and respiratory failure.
• Robin Woods, 83, English Anglican bishop.

21

• Dolph Camilli, 90, American baseball player.
• John Whitney Hall, 81, American Japanologist.
• Lorenzo Sumulong, 92, Filipino politician.
• Aale Tynni, 84, Finnish poet and translator.
• Waldemar F. A. Wendt, 85, United States Navy admiral.
• Dick Wilkins, 72, American gridiron football player.

22

• Leonid Amalrik, 92, Soviet animator.
• Reinhard Lauck, 51, German footballer, traffic collision.
• Quentin Smythe, 81, South African sergeant and recipient of the Victoria Cross, cancer.
• Valerie Taylor, 84, American author and feminist.
• Matthew Trupiano, 58, American mobster, heart attack.

23

• Ann Devroy, 49, American political journalist, uterine cancer.
• Claire Falkenstein, 89, American visual artist, stomach cancer.
• Bert Haanstra, 81, Dutch filmmaker, Alzheimer's disease.
• Pinchas Lapide, 74, Israeli theologian and historian.
• Kim Lim, 61, Singaporean-British sculptor and printmaker.
• Bob Manning, 71, American big band singer, pneumonia.
• Michael Peter, 48, Field hockey player from West Germany.
• Georges Pianta, 85, French politician .
• Babette Rosmond, 75, American author.
• Alfredo dos Santos, 77, Brazilian footballer.
• Luther George Simjian, 92, Armenian-American inventor and entrepreneur.
• Trevor Smith, 87, English footballer and manager.
• Gerd Tacke, 91, German businessman and CEO of Siemens.

24

• Luis Aguilar, 79, Mexican actor, and singer.
• Skip Alexander, 79, American golfer.
• Michael Balfour, 79, English actor, cancer.
• Don Messick, 71, American voice actor (Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?, The Yogi Bear Show, The Jetsons), stroke.

25

• William J. Hirsch, 88, American thoroughbred racehorses trainer, Alzheimer's disease.
• Tina Lattanzi, 99, Italian actress and voice actress.
• Jamie Livingston, 41, American photographer and film maker, brain tumor.
• Mina Rees, 95, American mathematician.

26

• Georg Adelly, 78, Swedish film actor.
• Teng Haiqing, 88, Chinese military officer and a politician.
• William B. Hutchinson, 88, American physician.
• Rolf Kukowitsch, 84-85, German football coach.
• Donald Ray Matthews, 90, American politician.
• Rankin M. Smith, Sr., 72, American businessman and philanthropist.

27

• Mahala Andrews, 58, British vertebrae palaeontologist.
• Achim Gercke, 95, German Nazi politician.
• Vladimir Sokoloff, 84, American pianist and accompanist.
• Thomas Dale Stewart, 96, American anthropologist.
• Reuben Sturman, 73, American businessman and pornographer.
• 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.
• Paul Jarrico, 82, American screenwriter, traffic collision.
• Marian E. Koshland, 76, American immunologist, lung cancer.
• Bryan Lefley, 49, Canadian ice hockey player (New York Islanders) and coach, traffic collision.
• Billy Neill, 47, Northern Irish football player.
• 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.
• William Crook, 72, American politician and ambassador, congestive heart failure.
• Alexander zu Dohna-Schlobitten, 97, German junker, businessman and author.
• Paul Guth, 87, French journalist and writer.
• Anton LaVey, 67, American author, musician, and occultist, pulmonary edema.
• Andreas Gerasimos Michalitsianos, 50, Greek-American astronomer and astrophysicist, brain tumor.
• Big Nick Nicholas, 75, American jazz saxophonist and singer, heart failure.
• Anthony Velonis, 86, American painter and designer.

30

• Jacques Derogy, 72, French journalist, cancer.
• Samuel Fuller, 85, American screenwriter, novelist, and film director.
• Barney Martin, 74, American baseball player.
• Sydney Newman, 80, Canadian film and television producer (The Avengers, Doctor Who), heart attack.

31

• Zubeida Agha, 75, Pakistani artist.
• Bram Appel, 75, Dutch footballer.
• Hans Bauer, 70, German footballer.
• Sidney Darlington, 91, American electrical engineer.
• Tadeusz Janczar, 71, Polish film actor.
• Taisto Kangasniemi, 73, Finnish heavyweight wrestler.
• Wilfrid Oulton, 86, British Royal Air Force officer, cancer.
• George Roth, 86, American gymnast and Olympic champion.

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109. Richard Goldstein (22 October 1997). "Dolph Camilli, Who Led Dodgers to '41 Pennant, Dies at 90". The New York Times. p. A 25. Retrieved 1 August 2021.
110. Janny Scott (24 October 1997). "John W. Hall, Historian of Japan, Dies at 81". The New York Times. p. D 23. Retrieved 15 November 2020.
111. "Frauendatenbank fembio.org". fembio.org (in German). Retrieved 7 April 2022.
112. "Waldemar F. A. Wendt - Social Networks and Archival Context". snaccooperative.org. Retrieved 7 April 2022.
113. "Dick Wilkins Stats - Pro-Football-Reference.com". pro-football-reference.com. Retrieved 7 April 2022.
114. "Leonid Amalrik". data.bnf.fr (in French). Bibliothèque nationale de France. Retrieved 7 April 2022.
115. "Olympedia – Reinhard Lauck". olympedia.org. OlyMADMen. Retrieved 7 April 2022.
116. "Obituary: Captain Quentin Smythe, VC". The Times. London. 1997-10-25.
117. "Valerie Taylor - Social Networks and Archival Context". snaccooperative.org. Retrieved 7 April 2022.
118. Henry Levins (October 24, 1997). "MATTHEW TRUPIANO, KNOWN AS LEADER OF AREA MOB, DIES AT 58". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. pp. 1C.
119. Smith, J. Y. (October 24, 1997). "Ann Devroy Dies; Covered White House for Post". The Washington Post. Retrieved 20 June 2020.
120. Oliver, Myrna (October 25, 1997). "Claire Falkenstein; Prolific and Innovative Sculptor". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on November 5, 2012. Retrieved 20 June 2020.
121. "Bert Haanstra". biografischportaal.nl (in Dutch). Retrieved 7 April 2022.
122. "Pinchas Lapide". data.bnf.fr (in French). Bibliothèque nationale de France. Retrieved 7 April 2022.
123. "Bob Manning; Singer With Big Bands". The LA Times. 28 October 1997. Retrieved 20 June 2020.
124. "Olympedia – Michael Peter". olympedia.org. OlyMADMen. Retrieved 7 April 2022.
125. "Georges Pianta". data.bnf.fr (in French). Bibliothèque nationale de France. Retrieved 7 April 2022.
126. "Babette Rosmond - Social Networks and Archival Context". snaccooperative.org. Retrieved 7 April 2022.
127. Kenneth N. Gilpin (2 November 1997). "Luther Simjian Is Dead at 92; Held More Than 200 Patents". The New York Times. p. 1 45. Retrieved 1 August 2021.
128. "Luis Aguilar". catalogue.bnf.fr (in French). Bibliothèque nationale de France. Retrieved 7 April 2022.
129. "Michael Balfour". catalogue.bnf.fr (in French). Bibliothèque nationale de France. Retrieved 7 April 2022.
130. Evanier, Mark (21 November 1997). "Comics Buyer's Guide". newsfromme.com. Retrieved 20 June 2020.
131. Dee, Johnny (2008-08-13). "Instant recall". The Guardian. Retrieved 2020-06-20.
132. Wolfgang Saxon (28 October 1997). "Mina S. Rees, Mathematician And CUNY Leader, Dies at 95". The New York Times. p. B 10. Retrieved 1 November 2020.
133. "Dr. William Hutchinson, founder of research centers, dies in Seattle". Spokesman-Review. Spokane, Washington. Associated Press. October 28, 1997. p. B6. Retrieved 21 June 2020.
134. "Donald Ray Matthews - Social Networks and Archival Context". snaccooperative.org. Retrieved 7 April 2022.
135. "Rankin Smith, 72, the Owner Of the Falcons". The New York Times. 27 October 1997. p. B 7. Retrieved 15 November 2020.
136. "Vladimir Sokoloff, 84, Pianist Who Accompanied the Famous". The New York Times. 4 November 1997. Retrieved 21 June 2020.
137. Pace, Eric (30 October 1997). "T. Dale Stewart Dies at 96; Anthropologist at Smithsonian". The New York Times. p. B16. Retrieved 10 February 2023.
138. "Porn figure Sturman dies in prison at 73". Las Vegas Review-Journal, October 29, 1997 Archived January 1, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
139. "Walter Capps - Social Networks and Archival Context". snaccooperative.org. Retrieved 7 April 2022.
140. Oliver, Myrna (October 29, 1997). "Toni Carabillo; Feminist Leader and Historian". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 21 June 2020.
141. Wolfgang Saxon (30 October 1997). "Paul Jarrico, 82, Blacklisted Screenwriter". The New York Times. p. B 16. Retrieved 15 November 2020.
142. James Barron (30 October 1997). "Marian Koshland, 76, Expert On How Antibodies Fight Ills". The New York Times. p. B 16. Retrieved 21 June 2020.
143. "Bryan Lefley Stats - Hockey-Reference.com". hockey-reference.com. Retrieved 7 April 2022.
144. "Billy Neill". worldfootball.net. Retrieved 4 November 2024.
145. Clyde H. Farnsworth (5 November 1997). "Herbert Coombs, 91, Economist And Australian Bank Governor". The New York Times. p. D 24. Retrieved 1 August 2021.
146. Robert McG. Thomas Jr. (31 October 1997). "William Crook, 72, Ambassador To Australia and Johnson Aide". The New York Times. p. D 23. Retrieved 7 April 2022.
147. "Paul Guth". data.bnf.fr (in French). Bibliothèque nationale de France. Retrieved 7 April 2022.
148. "Anton LaVey; Founded the Church of Satan". The Los Angeles Times. 8 November 1997. Retrieved 21 June 2020.
149. Ben Ratliff (16 November 1997). "Big Nick Nicholas, 75, Singer And Jazz-Band Saxophonist". The New York Times. p. 1 50. Retrieved 15 November 2020.
150. "Anthony Velonis - Library of Congress". id.loc.gov. Retrieved 7 April 2022.
151. "Jacques Derogy". data.bnf.fr (in French). Bibliothèque nationale de France. Retrieved 7 April 2022.
152. Richard Severo (1 November 1997). "Samuel Fuller, Director, Is Dead at 85; A Master of Unsettling Low-Budget Films". The New York Times. p. D 16. Retrieved 15 November 2020.
153. "Barney Martin Stats - Baseball-Reference.com". baseball-reference.com. Retrieved 7 April 2022.
154. Miall, Leonard (November 4, 1997). "Obituary: Sydney Newman". The Independent. London. p. 22. Retrieved 21 June 2020.
155. "Hans Bauer". worldfootball.net. Retrieved 7 April 2022.
156. Ford Burkhart (8 November 1997). "Sidney Darlington, 91, Dies; Leader in Design of Circuitry". The New York Times. p. D 16. Retrieved 1 August 2021.
157. "Tadeusz Janczar". data.bnf.fr (in French). Bibliothèque nationale de France. Retrieved 7 April 2022.
158. "Olympedia – Taisto Kangasniemi". olympedia.org. OlyMADMen. Retrieved 7 April 2022.
159. Foxley-Norris, Christopher (21 November 1997). "Obituary: Air Vice-Marshal Wilfrid Oulton". The Independent. Retrieved 21 June 2020.
160. "Olympedia – George Roth". olympedia.org. OlyMADMen. Retrieved 7 April 2022.

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• 1997 deaths
• Lists of deaths in 1997