Deaths in April 1997
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
1
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 [ 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
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
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
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
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
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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