Deaths in 1997

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The following is a list of notable deaths in 1997. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:

• Name, age, country of citizenship and reason for notability, established cause of death, reference.

January

• January 1
  • Aenne Brauksiepe, German politician (b. 1912)
  • Townes Van Zandt, American folk singer (b. 1944)
• January 2
  • Leighton Buckwell, Canadian politician (b. 1918)
  • Randy California, American guitarist, singer and songwriter (b. 1951)
  • Samuel Carlisi, Chicago gangster (b. 1914)
• January 4
  • Hédi Berkhissa, Tunisian footballer (b. 1972)
  • Dwight Billings, American ecologist (b. 1910)
  • Harry Helmsley, American real estate mogul (b. 1909)
• January 5
  • Prince Bertil, Duke of Halland, Prince of Sweden (b. 1912)
  • Peter Cain, American artist (b. 1959)
  • Burton Lane, American composer and lyricist (b. 1912)
• January 6
  • Herbert Blitzstein, Chicago Outfit mobster (b. 1934)
  • Catherine Scorsese, Italian-American actress (b. 1912)
• January 8
  • Sidney M. Aronovitz, American lawyer (b. 1920)
  • Melvin Calvin, American chemist (b. 1911)
• January 9
  • Karol Borhy, Slovak football coach (b. 1912)
  • Jesse White, American actor (b. 1917)
• January 10
  • Darrell A. Amyx, American classical archaeologist (b. 1911)
  • Francisco Aramburu, Brazilian footballer (b. 1922)
  • Robert Atwood, American newspaper publishers (b. 1907)
  • Samuel Preston Bayard, American folklorist and musicologist (b. 1908)
  • Sheldon Leonard, American producer, actor, director (b. 1907)
  • Alexander R. Todd, Baron Todd, Scottish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1907)
• January 11 – Cliff Birkett, English footballer (b. 1933)
• January 12
  • Charles Brenton Huggins, Canadian-born cancer researcher, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1901)
  • Jill Summers, English actress (b. 1910)
• January 13 – Ernest Bayer, American rower (b. 1904)
• January 14 – John Amdisen, Danish footballer (b. 1934)
• January 15 – Oscar Auerbach, American physician (b. 1905)
• January 16 – Ennis Cosby, comedian Bill Cosby's son (b. 1969)
• January 17
  • Karel Benedík, Czech painter (b. 1923)
  • W. A. Camps, British classical scholar (b. 1910)
  • Clyde Tombaugh, American astronomer (b. 1906)
• January 18
  • Herbert A. Allen, Sr., American stock broker (b. 1908)
  • Paul Tsongas, U.S. Senator from (Massachusetts) and one-time candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination (b. 1941)
• January 19 – James Dickey, American poet and novelist (b. 1923)
• January 20
  • Edith Brown, one of the last remaining and oldest survivors of the sinking of the RMS Titanic in April 1912 (b. 1896)
  • Albín Brunovský, Slovak painter, graphic artist, lithographer, illustrator and pedagogue (b. 1935)
  • Curt Flood, American baseball player (b. 1938)
• January 21 – Colonel Tom Parker, Dutch-born celebrity manager (b. 1909)
• January 22
  • Ênio Andrade, Brazillian football player and manager (b. 1928)
  • Pilar Barbosa, Puerto Rican educator and historian (b. 1898)
  • Billy Mackenzie, Scottish singer (b. 1957)
• January 23 – Richard Berry African-American singer and composer (b. 1935)
• January 24 – Lourdino Barreto, Indian musicologist and composer (b. 1938)
• January 25
  • Werner Aspenström, Soviet poet (b. 1918)
  • Dan Barry, American cartoonist (b. 1923)
  • James Boyd, American boxer (b. 1930)
  • José Luis Cabezas, Argentine news photographer (b. 1961)
  • Jeane Dixon, American astrologer (b. 1904)
• January 26 – Sufi Barkat Ali, Muslim Sufi saint (b. 1911)
• January 27 – Cecil Arthur Lewis MC, British fighter pilot who flew in World War I and last surviving World War I ace (b. 1898)
• January 28
  • Abdelhak Benhamouda, Algerian trade unionist (b. 1946)
  • Antônio Callado, Brazilian journalist, playwright, and novelist (b. 1917)
• January 29 – Antal Benda, Hungarian field handball player (b. 1910)
• January 30 – Henry Bentinck, 11th Earl of Portland, British earl and activist (b. 1919)
• January 31
  • Harold Raymond Ballard, Canadian MP (b. 1918)
  • Johnny Klein, American drummer (b. 1918)

February

Deng Xiaoping

• February 1
  • Georg Ay, German politician (b. 1900)
  • Allen J. Bartunek, American politician (b. 1928)
  • Simion Bughici, Romanian communist politician (b. 1914)
  • Herb Caen, American newspaper columnist (b. 1916)
  • Marjorie Reynolds, American actress (b. 1917)
• February 2
  • Godfrey Baseley, British radio executive (b. 1904)
  • Chico Science, Brazilian musician (b. 1967)
• February 3
  • Richard Andvord, Norwegian businessperson and resistance member (b. 1920)
  • John J. Buckley, American politician (b. 1916)
• February 4 – Henry H. Barschall, German-American physicist (b. 1915)
• February 5
  • Frederick J. Almgren, Jr., American mathematician (b. 1933)
  • Bob Brown, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1938)
  • Pamela Harriman, U.S. Ambassador to France (b. 1920)
• February 6 – Ernie Anderson, American disc jockey, and television and radio announcer/voiceover artist (b. 1923)
• February 7
  • Owen Aspinall, American attorney and politician (b. 1927)
  • John Baker, British musician and composer (b. 1937)
• February 9
  • David Austick, British Liberal Party politician and bookshop owner (b. 1920)
  • Brian Connolly, Scottish musician (b. 1945)
• February 10
  • Harriet Andreassen, Norwegian labour activist and politician (b. 1925)
  • Lou Bennett, American jazz organist (b. 1926)
• February 11 – Don Porter, American actor (b. 1912)
• February 12 – James Cossins, English actor (b. 1933)
• February 13
  • Bobby Adams, American Major League Baseball player (b. 1921)
  • John Ries Bartels, United States federal judge (b. 1897)
  • Otto Beckmann, Austrian sculptor and pioneer of media and computer art (b. 1908)
• February 15
  • Oscar Adams, African-American Alabama Supreme Court justice (b. 1925)
  • Arne Berg, Swedish road racing cyclist (b. 1909)
  • Georges Bergé, French Army general who served during World War II (b. 1909)
• February 16 – Leon Bankoff, American dentist and mathematician (b. 1908)
• February 17
  • Amha Selassie of Ethiopia, the last Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1916)
  • Zein Isa, Palestinian militant imprisoned in the United States for the honor killing of his daughter
• February 18
  • Bozorg Alavi, Iranian writer, novelist, and political intellectual (b. 1904)
  • Antonio de Almeida, French conductor and musicologist (b. 1928)
• February 19
  • David Ashkenazi, Russian pianist, concertmaster and composer (b. 1915)
  • Jarmil Burghauser, Czech composer, conductor, and musicologist (b. 1921)
  • Afonso Guimarães da Silva, Brazilian footballer (b. 1914)
  • Deng Xiaoping, leader of the People's Republic of China (b. 1904)
• February 20 – Zachary Breaux, American jazz guitarist (b. 1960)
• February 21 – Ziya Bunyadov, Azerbaijani historian, academician, and Vice-President of the National Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan (b. 1921)
• February 22 – Joseph Aiuppa, American mobster (b. 1907)
• February 23
  • Abdelkader Ben Bouali, French footballer (b. 1912)
  • Tony Williams, American musician (b. 1945)
• February 24 – Isabelle Lucas, Canadian-born British actress (b. 1927)
• February 25
  • Cal Abrams, American Major League Baseball player (b. 1924)
  • Bill "Hoss" Allen, American radio disc jockey (b. 1922)
  • Louis Auslander, American mathematician (b. 1928)
• February 26
  • Nuccio Bertone, Italian automobile designer and constructor (b. 1914)
  • David Doyle, American actor (b. 1929)
• February 27 – Helen Boyce, American film actress (b. 1918)
• February 28 – Ivan Arkhipov, Soviet-Russian statesman (b. 1907)

March

• March 1

Stanislaus Joseph Brzana, the tenth Roman Catholic Bishop of Ogdensburg (b. 1917)

Miltiades Caridis, German-Greek conductor (b. 1923)

• March 2
  • Abdel Azim Ashry, Egyptian basketball player, referee and sports administrator (b. 1911)
  • Judi Bari, American environmentalist and labor leader (b. 1949)
  • Douglas Blackwood, British publisher (b. 1909)
• March 3
  • Bradford Angier, American wilderness survivalist and proponent of back to earth living (b. 1910)
  • Jascha Brodsky, Russian-American violinist (b. 1907)
• March 4
  • Joe Baker-Cresswell, British Royal Navy officer (b. 1901)
  • Roger Brown, American basketball player (b. 1942)
  • Robert H. Dicke, American experimental physicist (b. 1916)
  • Carey Loftin, American actor and stuntman (b. 1914)
• March 5
  • Zalman Abramov, Israeli politician (b. 1908)
  • Josef Ackermann, German politician (b. 1905)
  • Amjad Ali, Pakistani civil servant (b. 1907)
  • Samm Sinclair Baker, American health and wellness writer (b. 1909)
  • Ralph Bass, American musician (b. 1911)
  • Frank Brennan, Scottish footballer (b. 1924)
• March 6 – Cheddi Jagan, President of Guyana (b. 1918)
• March 7
  • Wilfred Conwell Bain, American music educator (b. 1908)
  • Emanuel Bronner, the maker of Dr. Bronner's castile soap (b. 1908)
  • Martin Kippenberger, German artist (b. 1953)
  • Edward Mills Purcell, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1912)
• March 9
  • Jean-Dominique Bauby, French journalist, author and editor of the French fashion magazine ELLE (b. 1952)
  • John Boyd, American military strategist (b. 1927)
  • The Notorious B.I.G., American rapper (b. 1972)
  • Terry Nation, Welsh screenwriter (b. 1930)
• March 10
  • Jimmy Airlie, Scottish trade unionist (b. 1936)
  • La Vern Baker, American singer (b. 1929)
  • Raymond Bass, American gymnast (b. 1910)
  • Peter H. Behr, American politician (b. 1915)
• March 11
  • Lars Ahlin, Swedish author and aesthetician (b. 1915)
  • Hubert de Bèsche, Swedish Olympic fencer (b. 1911)
  • Paul Archibald Brent, American musician, the first African American to attend the prestigious Peabody Conservatory (b. 1907)
  • Robert Browning, Scottish Byzantinist (b. 1914)
• March 12
  • Shamsul-hasan Shams Barelvi, Pakistani Islamic scholar and a prolific translator of classical Islamic texts (b. 1917)
  • Hendrik Brugmans, Dutch academic and linguist (b. 1906)
• March 14
  • Jurek Becker, Polish-born German writer, film-author and GDR dissident (b. 1937)
  • Charles Weldon Cannon, American rancher (b. 1915)
  • Fred Zinnemann, Austrian-born director (b. 1907)
• March 15

Boediardjo, Indonesian politician (b. 1921)

Gail Davis, American actress (b. 1925)

• March 17 – Jermaine Stewart, American singer (b. 1957)
• March 19
  • Johannes Bråten, Norwegian politician (b. 1920)
  • Willem de Kooning, Dutch artist (b. 1904)
• March 20
  • Ronnie Barron, American musician (b. 1943)
  • Tony Zale, American boxer (b. 1913)
• March 21
  • Liv Andersen, Norwegian politician (b. 1919)
  • Wilbert Awdry, British children's writer (b. 1911)
  • John Nemechek, NASCAR driver (b. 1970)
• March 24
  • Herbert Bauer, German pilot (b. 1919)
  • Martin Caidin, American author and an authority on aeronautics and aviation (b. 1927)
• March 25
  • Robert Arthur, American radio announcer (b. 1921)
  • Baltazar, Brazilian footballer (b. 1926)
• March 26
  • Norman Alexander, New Zealand physicist (b. 1907)
  • Marshall Applewhite, leader of the Heaven's Gate religious group (b. 1931)
• March 27 – George Malcolm Brown, English geologist (b. 1925)
• March 28 – Arthur Arntzen, Norwegian politician (b. 1906)
• March 31
  • Ed Alberian, American stage and television actor (b. 1920)
  • Eugenie Anderson, United States diplomat (b. 1909)
  • Karl Auer, German military officer (b. 1916)

April

Allen Ginsberg

• April 1 – Jolie Gabor, Hungarian socialite (b. 1896)
• April 2
  • Anthony Bushell, English film actor and director (b. 1904)
  • Craig D. Button, United States Air Force pilot (b. 1964)
• April 3
  • Isaac Felipe Azofeifa, Costa Rican poet, politician and educator (b. 1909)
  • Thomas Barthel, German ethnologist and epigrapher (b. 1923)
• April 4 – Leo Picard, Israeli geologist and an expert in the field of hydrology (b. 1900)
• April 5
  • Paul de Bruyn, German athlete (b. 1907)
  • Ignazio Buttitta, Sicilian dialectal poet (b. 1899)
  • Allen Ginsberg, American poet (b. 1926)
  • August Heckscher II, American public intellectual and author (b. 1913)
• April 6
  • Max Alvarado, Filipino film actor (b. 1929)
  • Arturo de Ascanio, Spanish magician (b. 1929)
  • William T. Brotherton, Jr., Democratic President of the West Virginia Senate (b. 1926)
• April 7
  • Witto Aloma, Cuban baseball player (b. 1923)
  • Georgi Shonin, Russian cosmonaut (b. 1935)
• April 8
  • Audrey Atterbury, British puppeter (b. 1921)
  • Bob Cain, Major League Baseball pitcher (b. 1924)
  • Laura Nyro, American singer and composer (b. 1947)
• April 9 – Mae Boren Axton, American songwriter and music promoter (b. 1914)
• April 10 – Robert Aitken, New Zealand physician and university administrator (b. 1901)
• April 11 – Faith Burrows, nationally syndicated cartoonist during the Jazz Age (b. 1904)
• April 12 – George Wald, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1903)
• April 13
  • Mustafa Amin, Egyptian columnist and journalist (b. 1914)
  • Bryant Bowles, American white supremacist (b. 1920)
• April 15
  • Don Bexley, American actor and comedian (b. 1910)
  • L. Brent Bozell, Jr., American conservative activist and Catholic writer (b. 1926)
  • Mildred Cleghorn, Chairwoman of the Fort Sill Apache tribe (b. 1910)
• April 16
  • Doris Angleton, American socialite (b. 1951)
  • Emilio Azcárraga Milmo, Mexican businessman, newspaper publisher, and television executive (b. 1930)
  • Jan Bruins, Dutch motorcycle racer (b. 1940)
  • Roland Topor, French illustrator (b. 1938)
• April 17 – Dale Burnett, American football running back for the New York Giants (b. 1909)
• April 18
  • Carlos Auyero, Argentine politician (b. 1936)
  • Edward Barker, English cartoonist (b. 1950)
• April 19 – El Duce, American singer and drummer (b. 1958)
• April 20
  • Jean Louis, American costume designer (b. 1907)
  • Henry Mucci, American Colonel of the 98th Ranger Battalion (b. 1909)
• April 21
  • Alfred Bailey, Canadian educator, poet, anthropologist, ethno-historian, and academic administrator (b. 1905)
  • Diosdado Macapagal, 9th President of the Philippines (b. 1910)
• April 22 – Baroness Seear, President of the UK Liberal Party (b. 1913)
• April 23 – Brian Alderson, Scottish footballer (b. 1950)
• April 24
  • Abdurakhman Avtorkhanov, Soviet historian and writer turned anti-communist (c. 1908/10)
  • Assen Bossev, Bulgarian author of children's literature (b. 1913)
  • John A. Brown, American murderer
  • Pat Paulsen, American comedian (b. 1927)
• April 25
  • Aleksejs Auziņš, Latvian football midfielder, manager and also an ice hockey player (b. 1910)
  • Nicholas Baker, British MP (b. 1938)
  • Kay Blumetta, American baseball player (b. 1923)
• April 26 – John Beal, American actor (b. 1909)
• April 30
  • Heinz Bergmann, German military officer (b. 1914)
  • Henry Picard, American golfer (b. 1906)

May

• May 1
  • Charles Baron, American minor league baseball player and manager
  • Bo Widerberg, Swedish film director (b. 1930)
• May 2
  • Kenneth Allen, British nuclear physicist (b. 1923)
  • John Eccles, Australian neurophysiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1903)
• May 3
  • Bruce Beetham, New Zealand academic and politician (b. 1936)
  • Gerrit den Braber, Dutch song writer and lyricist (b. 1929)
• May 4
  • Jerome Alden, American playwright and screenwriter for television and documentary films (b. 1921)
  • Alvy Moore, American actor (b. 1921)
• May 5
  • Bob Briggs, American football player (b. 1945)
  • George Burns, British Army officer (b. 1911)
  • Walter Gotell, German actor (b. 1924)
• May 8 – Ralph Wendell Burhoe, American theologian (b. 1911)
• May 9 – Rawya Ateya, Egyptian woman who became the first female parliamentarian in the Arab world (b. 1926)
• May 11
  • William Ragsdale Cannon, American theologian (b. 1916)
  • Howard Morton, American actor (b. 1925)
• May 12 – Louis Barbarin, New Orleans jazz drummer (b. 1902)
• May 14
  • Jambyn Batmönkh, Mongolian communist political leader (b. 1926)
  • Mel Bay, American musician (b. 1913)
  • Rouville Beaudry, Canadian politician (b. 1904)
  • Harry Blackstone Jr., American magician (b. 1934)
  • Thelma Carpenter, American singer and actress (b. 1922)
• May 15 – Oscar Berger, American editorial cartoonist (b. 1901)
• May 16
  • Friedrich Bader, German military officer (b. 1908)
  • Giuseppe De Santis, Italian film director (b. 1917)
• May 17 – Mikhail Bychkov, Russian ice hockey player (b. 1926)
• May 18
  • Bridgette Andersen, American actress (b. 1975)
  • Mikhail Anikushin, Soviet Russian sculptor (b. 1917)
• May 19 – John Browell, British radio producer (b. 1917)
• May 20 – Virgilio Barco Vargas, Colombian Liberal Party politician (b. 1921)
• May 21
  • William Arthur, Australian politician (b. 1918)
  • William Aston, Australian politician (b. 1916)
  • Amasa Stone Bishop, American nuclear physicist (b. 1921)
  • Noël Browne, Irish politician and doctor (b. 1915)
• May 22
  • Klaus von Bismarck, German radio executive (b. 1912)
  • Alfred Hershey, American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1908)
• May 23
  • Anne Anstine, American politician
  • James Lee Byars, American artist (b. 1932)
• May 24
  • Kinpei Azusa, Japanese voice actor (b. 1931)
  • Robbie Branscum, American writer of children's books and young adult fiction (b. 1937)
  • Edward Mulhare, Irish actor (b. 1923)
• May 25 – Syd Bidwell, British Labour politician (b. 1917)
• May 26
  • Manfred von Ardenne, German physicist and inventor (b. 1907)
  • Cezar Baltag, Romanian poet (b. 1937)
• May 27
  • Henry Barakat, Egyptian film director (b. 1912)
  • Edilberto Campadese, Italian bobsledder (b. 1915)
• May 28
  • Lynn Archibald, American basketball coach (b. 1944)
  • Conway Baker, American football offensive tackle (b. 1911)
  • Ronald V. Book, American theoretical computer scientist 1937)
• May 29
  • Jeff Buckley, American musician (b. 1966)
  • George Fenneman, American radio and television announcer (b. 1919)
• May 30
  • West Arkeen, American musician (b. 1960)
  • Béla Barényi, Austro-Hungarian automotive engineer (b. 1907)

• May 31
  • Donald Beer, American rower (b. 1935)
  • James Bennett Griffin, American archaeologist (b. 1905)
  • Lionel Booth, Irish Fianna Fáil politician and businessman (b. 1914)

June

Jacques-Yves Cousteau

• June 1
  • Florence Wysinger Allen, African American artists' model (b. 1913)
  • Ruth Atkinson, American cartoonist (b. 1918)
  • Garland T. Byrd, United States Democratic politician from Georgia (b. 1924)
• June 2
  • Lukas Aurednik, Austrian footballer and football manager (b. 1918)
  • Martin Bronfenbrenner, American economist (b. 1914)
  • Helen Jacobs, American tennis champion (b. 1908)
• June 3
  • Pidge Browne, American professional baseball player (b. 1929)
  • Dennis James, American game show host (b. 1917)
• June 6
  • Eitel Cantoni, Uruguayan racecar driver (b. 1906)
  • Magda Gabor, American actress (b. 1914)
• June 7
  • Diogenes Angelakos, American electrical engineer and academic (b. 1920)
  • Lewis White Beck, American philosopher and scholar of German philosophy (b. 1913)
  • Jacques Canetti, French talent manager
• June 8
  • Betty Andujar, American politician (b. 1912)
  • Reid Shelton, American actor (b. 1924)
• June 9 – Christina Kokubo, American actress (b. 1950)
• June 11 – Robert Bates, Ulster loyalist from Belfast, Northern Ireland (b. 1948)
• June 12
  • Rick Baldwin, American racing driver (b. 1955)
  • Bulat Okudzhava, Soviet non-mainstream singer of Georgian descent (b. 1924)
• June 13 – Al Berto, Portuguese poet (b. 1948)
• June 14
  • Marjorie Best, American Hollywood costume designer (b. 1903)
  • Richard Jaeckel, American actor (b. 1926)
• June 15 – Desmond Banks, Baron Banks, British Liberal Party politician (b. 1918)
• June 18 – Waldo Don Carlos, American football center (b. 1909)
• June 20
  • John Akii-Bua, Ugandan hurdler and the first Olympic champion from his country (b. 1949)
  • Paul Carell, German Nazi politician (b. 1911)
• June 22
  • Lars Bergendahl, Norwegian cross country skier (b. 1909)
  • Don Henderson, British actor (b. 1932)
  • Gérard Pelletier, French journalist, politician and diplomat (b. 1919)
• June 23
  • Len Bailey, British automobile designer (b. 1926)
  • Harry Botterell, Canadian neurosurgeon (b. 1906)
  • William Slater Brown, American novelist, biographer and translator of French literature (b. 1895)
  • Betty Shabazz, American widow of Malcolm X (b. 1936)
• June 24
  • Marion Jones Callister, United States federal judge (b. 1921)
  • Don Hutson, American football player (b. 1913)
  • Brian Keith, American actor (b. 1921)
• June 25
  • Elmer Batters, German erotic photographer (b. 1919)
  • Jacques-Yves Cousteau, French explorer (b. 1910)
• June 26
  • George Bassman, American composer and arranger (b. 1914)
  • Don Bradley, English footballer (b. 1924)
  • Israel Kamakawiwo'ole, Hawaiian singer (b. 1959)
• June 27

Cesar Y. Alzona, Filipino songwriter (b. 1926)

Ray Benge, American baseball pitcher (b. 1907)

• June 28 – Mrs. Miller, American singer (b. 1907)
• June 29
  • Griffith Borgeson, American race car historian (b. 1918)
  • William Hickey, American actor (b. 1927)
• June 30 – Bill Bradley, English cyclist (b. 1933)

July

James Stewart

• July 1
  • Lester Asheim, American librarian and scholar of library science (b. 1914)
  • Robert Mitchum, American actor (b. 1917)
• July 2
  • Stan Barker, English jazz pianist (b. 1926)
  • Jimmy Stewart, American actor (b. 1908)
• July 4
  • William Cadogan, 7th Earl Cadogan, British peer and professional soldier (b. 1914)
  • Charles Kuralt, American television reporter (b. 1934)
  • John Zachary Young, British biologist (b. 1907)
• July 5 – Arunasalam Thangathurai, Sri Lankan Tamil politician
• July 6
  • Chetan Anand, Hindi film producer, screenwriter and director (b. 1915)
  • Gabriel Asaad, Assyrian composer and musician (b. 1907)
  • Ajaib Singh, Sant of Surat Shabd Yoga (b. 1926)
• July 7
  • Raghu Raj Bahadur, Indian mathematician (b. 1924)
  • Mate Boban, Bosnian Croat politician and the only president of the short lived and self proclaimed Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia (b. 1940)
  • Leonid Bykovets, Soviet airman (b. 1921)
  • Royston Tickner, English actor (b. 1922)
• July 10 – Ivor Allchurch, Welsh international footballer (b. 1929)
• July 11
  • Felix Barker, British drama critic and historian (b. 1917)
  • Fred Beavis, Canadian politician (b. 1914)
• July 12 – Pietro Buscaglia, Italian professional football player (b. 1911)
• July 13
  • Garfield Barwick, Australian politician, lawyer, and Chief Justice of Australia (b. 1903)
  • Miguel Ángel Blanco, Spanish politician for the People's Party (b. 1968)
  • Alexandra Danilova, Russian dancer (b. 1903)
• July 14 – Sir Garfield Barwick, Australian Chief Justice (b. 1903)
• July 15
  • Sennen Andriamirado, Malagasy journalist (b. 1945)
  • Gordie Bruce, Canadian professional ice hockey forward (b. 1919)
  • Gianni Versace, Italian fashion designer (b. 1946)
• July 16 – Ron Berry, Welsh author of novels and short stories (b. 1920)
• July 18 – Eugene Merle Shoemaker, American astronomer (b. 1928)
• July 20 – John Akii-Bua, Ugandan hurdler (b. 1949)
• July 21
  • Tony Alvarez, Spanish actor (b. 1956)
  • Roger Bowman, pitcher in Major League Baseball (b. 1927)
• July 22
  • Khalil Ahmed, Pakistani composer (b. 1936)
  • Marilyn Brown, American actress (b. 1953)
  • Ephraim John Burford, English historian and author (b. 1905)
• July 23
  • Walter Behrendt, German politician of the Social Democratic Party and president of the European parliament (b. 1914)
  • Norman William Black, American federal judge (b. 1931)
  • Barney Bright, American sculptor (b. 1927)
  • Chuhei Nambu, Japanese athlete (b. 1904)
• July 24
  • William J. Brennan, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1906)
  • Frank Parker, American tennis champion (b. 1916)
• July 25
  • Jack Bickham, American novelist (b. 1930)
  • Ben Hogan, American golf champion (b. 1912)
• July 29
  • Alex Archer, British Ice Hockey player (b. 1911)
  • John Archer, English sprinter (b. 1921)
• July 30
  • Robert Bryce, Canadian civil servant (b. 1910)
  • Bao Dai, Emperor of Vietnam (b. 1913)

August

Diana, Princess of Wales

• August 1

Berta Alves de Sousa, Portuguese pianist and composer (b. 1906)

Kenneth W. Bilby, executive vice president of RCA (b. 1918)

• August 2
  • William S. Burroughs, American author (b. 1914)
  • Fela Kuti, Nigerian musician and political activist (b. 1938)
• August 4
  • Ján Brezina, Slovak poet, literally historian and theoretician (b. 1917)
  • Horace Bristol, American photographer (b. 1908)
  • Dick Bush, English cinematographer (b. 1931)
  • Jeanne Calment, French supercentenarian and the oldest living person ever documented in history. (b. 1875)
  • Jean Pierre Capron, French painter (b. 1921)
• August 6
  • Lance Barnard, Australian politician (b. 1919)
  • Sandy Beadle, Canadian ice hockey left winger (b. 1960)
  • Birendra Kumar Bhattacharya, Indian writer (b. 1924)
• August 8
  • Joseph Aquilina, Maltese author and linguist (b. 1911)
  • Sviatoslav Richter, Ukrainian pianist (b. 1915)
• August 9
  • Maria Antonietta Beluzzi, Italian actress (b. 1930)
  • Max Blösch, Olympic Swiss field handball player (b. 1908)
• August 10
  • Peter Braestrup, American journalist (b. 1929)
  • Conlon Nancarrow, American-born composer (b. 1912)
• August 12
  • Luther Allison, American musician (b. 1939)
  • Rex Barney, Major League Baseball pitcher for the Brooklyn Dodgers (b. 1924)
  • Gösta Bohman, Swedish politician (b. 1911)
  • Henry Calley, English pilot, owner and manager of a stud farm, and Conservative politician (b. 1914)
• August 16
  • Esmeralda Arboleda Cadavid, Colombian activist, politician and diplomat (b. 1921)
  • Mercedes Alison Bates, American magazine editor, buisnessperson, and director of the Betty Crocker division of General Mills (b. 1916)
  • Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan (Punjabi: نصرت فتح علی خان (Shahmukhi)), Pakistani Qawwali musician (b. 1948)
  • Hendrik van den Bergh, South African police official who founded the Bureau of State Security (b. 1914)
• August 17

Geoffrey Burnand, English painter, theatrical designer and mural artist (b. 1912)

Jorge Cañas, Salvadoran football player (b. 1942)

Doug Carl, American politician from Michigan (b. 1951)

• August 18 – Burnum Burnum, Australian Aboriginal activist, actor, and author (b. 1936)
• August 20 – Norris Bradbury, American physicist (b. 1909)
• August 22 – Infante Alvaro, Duke of Galliera, Prince of the Royal House of France and the 6th Duke of Galliera (b. 1910)
• August 23 – John Kendrew, British molecular biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (b. 1917)
• August 24
  • Werner Abrolat, German actor (b. 1924)
  • Hardial Bains, founder of the Communist Party of Canada (b. 1939)
  • Louis Essen, English physicist (b. 1908)
• August 25 – Clodomiro Almeyda, Chilean politician (b. 1923)
• August 27
  • Sally Blane, American actress (b. 1910)
  • Sotiria Bellou, Greek singer (b. 1921)
  • Basu Bhattacharya, Hindi film director (b. 1934)
  • Brandon Tartikoff, American television executive (b. 1949)
• August 28 – Masaru Takumi, Japanese yakuza lord (b. 1936)
• August 31
  • Diana, Princess of Wales (b. 1961)
  • Dodi Al-Fayed, Egyptian businessman (b. 1955)

September

Mother Teresa

• September 1 – Gordon Blake, U.S. Air Force lieutenant general (b. 1910)
• September 2
  • George E. Allen, American football player and coach of football and basketball (b. 1911)
  • Julien Binford, American painter (b. 1909)
  • Rudolph Bing, Austrian opera manager (b. 1902)
  • Boris Brunov, Soviet actor and entertainer (b. 1922)
  • Karl Buckel, German military officer (b. 1920)
  • Viktor Frankl, Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist (b. 1905)
• September 3 – George Henry Andrews, Liberian sports journalist and minister of Tourism and Cultural Affairs of Liberia (b. 1926)
• September 4
  • Chuck Arnold, American racecar driver (b. 1926)
  • Jeffrey Bernard, British journalist (b. 1932)
  • Dharamvir Bharati, Hindi poet, author, playwright and a social thinker of India (b. 1926)
• September 5
  • Georg Solti, Hungarian conductor (b. 1912)
  • Mother Teresa, Albanian missionary and humanitarian, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1910)
• September 6 – Salvador Artigas, Spanish former footballer and manager (b. 1913)
• September 7
  • Mukul S. Anand, Indian film director and producer (b. 1951)
  • Elisabeth Brooks, Canadian actress (The Howling) (b. 1951)
  • Edwin Brock, British poet (b. 1927)
  • Mobutu Sese Seko, president of Zaire (b. 1930)
• September 8 – René Bihel, French footballer (b. 1916)
• September 9
  • Richie Ashburn, American center fielder in Major League Baseball (b. 1927)
  • Burgess Meredith, American actor (b. 1907)
• September 10
  • Satish Chandra Agarwal, Bharatiya Janata Party politician
  • Abraham Akaka, American clergyman (b. 1917)
  • Richard Brandt, American philosopher (b. 1910)
  • Bakeer Markar, Sri Lankan politician (b. 1917)
• September 11
  • Fernando Ayala, Argentine film producer, film director, screenwriter and film producer (b. 1920)
  • Cay-Lorenz Baron von Brockdorff, German military officer (b. 1923)
• September 12
  • Stig Anderson, Swedish talent manager (b. 1931)
  • Constantin Andronikof, French theologian (b. 1916)
  • Leslie E. Brown, United States Marine Corps aviator (b. 1920)
  • Leonard Maguire, Scottish actor (b. 1924)
• September 13
  • Paul Brechler, athletic director for the University of Iowa (b. 1911)
  • Robert Cant, British Labour politician (b. 1915)
• September 15
  • Aleksanteri Ahola-Valo, Finnish artist and architect (b. 1900)
  • Angel Balevski, Bulgarian inventor and engineer (b. 1910)
  • Bulldog Brower, American professional wrestler (b. 1933)
• September 16 – Bill Burns, American journalist and news anchor (b. 1913)
• September 17
  • Benjamin Atkins, American serial killer (b. 1968)
  • Red Skelton, American comedian (b. 1913)
  • Aida Yūji, Japanese historian (b. 1916)
• September 18 – Jimmy Witherspoon, American blues singer (b. 1920)
• September 19
  • Józef Bielawski, Polish arabist and Muslim scholar (b. 1910)
  • Louis Bisson, Canadian aviator (b. 1909)
  • Bill Butland, pitcher for the Boston Red Sox (b. 1918)
  • Jack May, English actor (b. 1922)
  • Rich Mullins, American musician (b. 1955)
• September 22 – Deolindo Bittel, Argentine politician (b. 1922)
• September 23
  • Darko Bratina, Italian sociologist, film theorist and politician (b. 1942)
  • Shirley Clarke, American filmmaker (b. 1919)
• September 25
  • Hélène Baillargeon, Canadian singer, actor and folklorist (b. 1916)
  • Paul Bernard, British television director (b. 1929)
  • Jean Françaix, French composer (b. 1912)
• September 27 – Walter Trampler, American violist (b. 1915)
• September 28 – Munir Bashir, Assyrian musician in Iraq and one of the most famous musicians in the Middle East during the 20th century (b. 1930)
• September 29 – Roy Lichtenstein, American artist (b. 1923)

October

James A. Michener

Samuel Fuller

• October 1 – Jerome H. Lemelson, American inventor (b. 1923)
• October 3
  • Michael Adekunle Ajasin, Nigerian politician (b. 1908)
  • John Ashley, American actor (b. 1934)
• October 4
  • Romano Amerio, Roman Catholic theologian (b. 1905)
  • Gunpei Yokoi, Japanese video game franchise creator (b. 1941)
• October 5
  • Chitta Basu, Indian politician and a leader of the All India Forward Bloc (b. 1926)
  • Brian Pillman, American professional wrestler (b. 1962)
  • Arthur Tracy, American singer (b. 1899)
• October 6
  • Orlando Ramón Agosti, Argentine general (b. 1924)
  • Warren Louis Boudreaux, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church (b. 1918)
  • Adrienne Hill, British actress (b. 1937)
  • Johnny Vander Meer, baseball player (b. 1914)
• October 8
  • William H. Amoss, American politician (b. 1936)
  • Henryk Bista, Polish actor (b. 1934)
  • Albert Blumberg, American philosopher and political activist (b. 1906)
• October 10
  • Chuck Andrus, American jazz double-bassist (b. 1928)
  • Stella Bonheur, Stella Bonheur (b. 1904)
• October 11
  • Udo Anneken, German military officer (b. 1917)
  • Gordon Arnold, American man who claimed to have witnessed the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy (b. 1943)
  • Paul Doughty Bartlett, American chemist (b. 1907)
• October 12
  • Rodrigue Bourdages, Canadian politician (b. 1923)
  • John Denver, American musician (b. 1943)
• October 13
  • Ian Stuart Black, British novelist, playwright and screenwriter (b. 1915)
  • Adil Çarçani, Albanian politician (b. 1922)
• October 14
  • Hy Averback, American radio, television, and film actor who eventually became a producer and director (b. 1920)
  • Harold Robbins, American writer (b. 1916)
• October 16
  • A. H. Armstrong, English educator and author (b. 1909)
  • Audra Lindley, American actress (b. 1918)
  • James A. Michener, American writer (b. 1907)
• October 18 – Leonard Andrzejewski, Polish actor (b. 1924)
• October 19
  • Donald R. Bensen, American book editor and science fiction writer (b. 1927)
  • Glen Buxton, American guitarist (b. 1947)
• October 20 – Ron Tarr, English actor (b. 1936)
• October 21 – Dolph Camilli, American first baseman in Major League Baseball (b. 1907)
• October 22 – Leonid Amalrik, Russian animator (b. 1905)
• October 23
  • Wilhelm Berkenbusch, German military officer (b. 1918)
  • Scrappy Blumer, American pilot (b. 1917)
  • Hedley Bunton, missionary in China and a Minister in the Congregational Church in Australia (b. 1906)
  • Bert Haanstra, Dutch filmmaker (b. 1916)
• October 24
  • Skip Alexander, American golfer (b. 1918)
  • Don Messick, American voice actor (b. 1926)
• October 26 – Georg Adelly, Swedish film actor (b. 1919)
• October 28
  • Walter Capps, American politician (b. 1934)
  • Paul Jarrico, American screenwriter (b. 1915)
• October 29
  • Andreas Gerasimos Michalitsianos, Greek-American NASA astrophysicist (b. 1947)
  • Anton Szandor LaVey, American founder of the Church of Satan (b. 1930)
• October 30 – Samuel Fuller, American screenwriter and director (b. 1912)
• October 31
  • Bram Appel, Dutch footballer (b. 1921)
  • Hans Bauer, German footballer (b. 1927)

November

• November 1 – Wolfgang Abel, Austrian anthropologist and one of Nazi Germany's racial biologists (b. 1905)
• November 3 – Wally Bruner, American journalist and television host (b. 1931)
• November 4 – Eddie Arcaro, American jockey (b. 1916)
• November 5
  • James Robert Baker, American novelist and screenwriter (b. 1946)
  • Isaiah Berlin, British social and political theorist, philosopher and historian of ideas of Russian-Jewish origin (b. 1909)
• November 6
  • Abdelaziz Ben Sediq, Muslim scholar from Morocco (b. 1920)
  • Luigi Cantone, Italian fencer and Olympic champion (b. 1917)
• November 7 – Sheila Bellush, American woman whose murder created a media frenzy and inspired several books
• November 9 – William Browning, American concert pianist, vocal coach and piano pedagogue
• November 10 – Lloyd Cardwell, American football player and coach (b. 1913)
• November 11
  • William Alland, American actor, producer, writer and director of science fiction and western films (b. 1916)
  • Rod Milburn, American athlete (b. 1950)
• November 12
  • Luke Brown, American professional wrestler (b. 1935)
  • Carlos Surinach, Spanish composer (b. 1915)
• November 13
  • Dorothy Arnold, American film actress (b. 1917)
  • André Boucourechliev, French composer (b. 1925)
• November 14
  • Eddie Arcaro, American jockey (b. 1916)
  • Ann Bishop, American broadcast journalist (b. 1931)
• November 15
  • Aaron Brown, American football defensive lineman (b. 1943)
  • Saul Chaplin, American composer (b. 1912)
  • Douglas MacArthur II, nephew of World War II General Douglas MacArthur (b. 1909)
• November 17 – John Wimber, American leader of the Vineyard Movement (b. 1934)
• November 20 – Asbjørn Aavik, Norwegian Lutheran missionary to China and writer (b. 1902)
• November 21
  • George Araujo, American lightweight professional boxer (b. 1931)
  • Bill Boyd, American poker player (b. 1906)
  • Robert Simpson, English composer (b. 1921)
• November 22
  • Roger Brown, American artist (b. 1941)
  • Michael Hutchence, Australian musician (b. 1960)
• November 24
  • Barbara, French singer (b. 1930)
  • Bonnie HeavyRunner, founder of the Native American Studies program at the University of Montana
  • Czeslaw Brzozowicz, Canadian engineer (b. 1911)
• November 25
  • Monique Serf, French singer (b. 1930)
  • Hastings Kamuzu Banda, former President of Malawi (b. 1896)
• November 26 – Rudolf Buhse, Bundeswehr general (b. 1905)
• November 27
  • David ''D'' Barron, Mexican Gang member (b. 1963)
  • Buck Leonard, American baseball player (b. 1907)
• November 28 – Qemal Butka, Albanian architect, painter, politician, and postage stamps engraver (b. 1907)
• November 29
  • Thomas E. Autzen, American philanthropist (b. 1918)
  • Coleman Young, Detroit mayor (b. 1918)
• November 30 – Kathy Acker, American author (b. 1947)

December

Stephane Grappelli

• December 1
  • Julius Barnathan, American broadcast engineer (b. 1927)
  • Michel Bélanger, Canadian businessman and banker (b. 1929)
  • Stephane Grappelli, French violinist (b. 1908)
• December 2
  • Shirley Crabtree, British wrestler best known as Big Daddy (b. 1930)
  • Michael Hedges, American composer and guitarist (b. 1953)
• December 3
  • Stan Anderson, Scottish footballer (b. 1939)
  • Abe Bluestein, American anarchist (b. 1909)
• December 4
  • Leo August, American philatelist (b. 1914)
  • Buck Barry, American actor and radio and television personality (b. 1917)
  • Joe Brown, American boxer (b. 1925)
• December 5 – Rudolf Bahro, German politician (b. 1935)
• December 6
  • Bob Adkins, American National Football League player (b. 1917)
  • Mario Benazzi, Italian zoologist (b. 1902)
• December 7
  • Billy Bremner, British footballer (b. 1942)
  • Barry S. Brook, American musicologist (b. 1918)
  • Félix Candela, Spanish architect (b. 1910)
• December 8 – Bob Bell, American actor famous for his alter-ego, Bozo the Clown (b. 1922)
• December 10 – Anatoliy Banishevskiy, Azerbaijani footballer (b. 1946)
• December 11 – Roger Brown, American social psychologist (b. 1925)
• December 12 – R. Stanton Avery, American inventor (b. 1907)
• December 14
  • John Adair, American anthropologist (b. 1913)
  • Owen Barfield, British philosopher, author, poet, and critic (b. 1898)
  • Frank Baumholtz, American outfielder for Major League Baseball's Cincinnati Reds (b. 1918)
  • Stubby Kaye, American actor (b. 1918)
• December 15
  • Karsten Andersen, Norwegian conductor (b. 1920)
  • Cosmo Campoli,American sculptor (b. 1923)
• December 16 – Emilio Attard Alonso, Spanish politician (b. 1915)
• December 17
  • Juan Francisco Barraza, Salvadoran footballer (b. 1935)
  • Katharine Fowler-Billings, American writer, naturalist, and geologist (b. 1902)
  • Ernest Bromley, American minister and civil rights and peace activist (b. 1912)
• December 18 – Chris Farley, American actor and comedian (b. 1964)
• December 19
  • Michael Alldredge, American actor (b. 1941)
  • David Bradley, American motion picture director, actor, film collector, and university instructor (b. 1920)
  • David Schramm, American astrophysicist (b. 1945)
• December 20
  • Juzo Itami, Japanese film director (b. 1933)
  • Denise Levertov, English-born American poet (b. 1923)
• December 21
  • Joseph Ahrens, German composer and organist (b. 1904)
  • Roger Barkley, American radio personality (b. 1936)
  • Amie Comeaux, American country singer (b. 1976)
• December 22 – Sebastian Arcos Bergnes, Cuban human rights activist (b. 1931)
• December 23
  • Felix Bwalya, Olympic boxer from Zambia (b. 1970)
  • Stanley Cortez, American cinematographer (b. 1908)
• December 24 – Toshirō Mifune, Japanese actor (b. 1920)
• December 25
  • Anatoli Boukreev, Kazakhstani (USSR/Kazakhstan) climber (b. 1958)
  • Denver Pyle, American actor (b. 1920)
• December 26 – Cahit Arf, Turkish mathematician (b. 1910)
• December 27
  • Ewart Abner, American record company executive (b. 1923)
  • Said Brahimi, Algerian-born French international football player (b. 1931)
  • Billy Wright, Northern Irish paramilitary leader (b. 1960)
• December 28
  • Heikki A. Alikoski, Finnish astronomer (b. 1912)
  • Shaikh Ayaz, Sindhi poet (b. 1923)
  • Corneliu Baba, Romanian painter (b. 1906)
  • Henry Barraud, French composer (b. 1900)
• December 29
  • Richard Lindsey Batten, English orthopaedic surgeon (b. 1920)
  • Ignácz Berecz, Hungarian cross country skier (b. 1912)
• December 31 – Billie Dove, American actress (b. 1903)

Date unknown

• William Allsop, English footballer (b. 1912)
• Elena Altieri, Italian film actress (b. 1910)
• Giacomo Amari, American mobster
• Bernard Anderson, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1919)
• George Antonio, English professional footballer (b. 1914)
• Ken Arensbak, Danish lithographer and artist (b. 1923)
• Phyllis Arkle, English children's writer (b. 1910)
• Gurgen Askaryan, Soviet physicist (b. 1928)
• George Assang, American singer and actor (b. 1927)

• Frances Baard, South African trade unionist, organiser for the African National Congress Women's League and a Patron of the United Democratic Front (b. 1909)
• Anthony Baines, English organologist (b. 1912)
• Peter Baines, Australian footballer (b. 1918)
• Andrei Bantaş, Romanian dictionary author, translator and teacher (b. 1930)
• George Barclay, American football player
• Evgenia Baykova, Russian Soviet realist painter and graphic artist (b. 1907)
• Jerry Beit haLevi, Israeli football player and manager (b. 1912)
• Mary Bernheim, British biochemist (b. 1902)
• Trygve Bjørgo, Norwegian educator and lyricist (b. 1916)
• Bobby Blackwood, Scottish footballer (b. 1934)
• Malvina Bolus, Canadian historian and art collector (b. 1906)
• Charles Brady, American artist (b. 1926)
• Braaq, English painter (b. 1951)
• Umberto Branchini, Italian boxing promoter and manager (b. 1914)
• Paul Brown, senior journalist and presenter of Channel Report (b. 1950)
• Eugen Buktenica, Croatian painter (b. 1914)
• Eleanor Butler, Lady Wicklow, Irish Labour Party politician and architect (b. 1915)
• Tim Byrne, Canadian university administrator (b. 1907)

• Geoff Campion, British comics artist (b. 1916)
• Piero Camporesi, Italian historian (b. 1926)
• Ricardo Caputo, Argentine serial killer (b. 1949)
• Jacques Carayon, French entomologist (b. 1916)
• Laurence Henry Hicks, Australian composer (b. 1912)