The following is a list of notable deaths in February 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.
February 1997
1
Simion Bughici , 82, Romanian politician.
Herb Caen , 80, American journalist and columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle , lung cancer.[ 1]
Heiner Carow , 67, German film director and screenwriter.[ 2]
Ed Danowski , 85, American football player.[ 3]
Mitchell Goodman , 73, American writer, teacher, and activist.[ 4]
William Kintner , 81, American soldier, foreign policy analyst, and diplomat.[ 5]
Kiki Kogelnik , 62, Austrian painter, sculptor and printmaker, cancer.[ 6]
Thelma Moss , 79, American actress, psychologist and parapsychologist.[ 7]
Lillian Porter , 79, American film and television actress.
Marjorie Reynolds , 79, American actress and dancer, heart failure.[ 8]
Bo Russell , 81, American gridiron football player.[ 9]
Francisco Tobar García , 68, Ecuadorian poet, playwright, journalist, and diplomat, lung cancer.
Wilcomb E. Washburn , American historian, prostate cancer.[ 10]
2
Godfrey Baseley , 92, British radio executive.[ 11]
Raúl de Anda , 88, Mexican actor, screenwriter, film producer and director.
Erich Eliskases , 83, Austrian-Argentinian chess grandmaster.
Qin Jiwei , 82, Chinese general and member of the Politburo .
Sanford Meisner , 91, American actor and acting teacher.[ 12]
Art Merewether , 94, American baseball player.[ 13]
Martin Mussgnug , 60, German politician.
Raimundo Saporta , 70, Spanish club basketball administrator.[ 14]
Chico Science , 30, Brazilian singer and composer, traffic collision.[ 15]
Theodoros Stamos , 74, Greek-American painter.[ 16]
Seán Ó Síocháin , 82, Irish Gaelic footballer, hurler, and broadcaster.
3
Boris de Rachewiltz , 70, Italian-Russian egyptologist and writer.
Jerry Beit haLevi , 84, Israeli football player and manager.[ 17]
Bohumil Hrabal , 82, Czech writer, fall.[ 18]
Agi Jambor , 87, Hungarian-American pianist.[ 19]
Stan Kostka , 84, American football player and coach.[ 20]
Harry H. Wachtel , 79, American lawyer and civil rights activist, Parkinson's disease .[ 21]
Mikhail Yakushin , 86, Russian football player and manager.
4
Henry H. Barschall , 81, German-American physicist.[ 22]
Robert Clouse , 68, American film director and producer (Enter the Dragon ), kidney failure.[ 23]
Benjamin David de Jesus , 56, Philippine prelate of the Catholic Church, shot.[ 24]
Ross Lee Finney , 90, American composer.[ 25]
Paulo Francis , 66, Brazilian journalist, novelist and critic, heart attack.[ 26]
Robi Ghosh , 65, Indian actor.[ 27]
A R Mallick , 78, Bangladeshi historian and educationist.
Alek Rapoport , 63, Russian nonconformist artist.[ 28]
Davide Sorrenti , 20, Italian-American photographer.
James Tattersall , 56, British tennis player.
Cyril Toumanoff , 83, Russian-American historian.
Darrell Tully , 79, American football player and coach.[ 29]
5
Frederick J. Almgren, Jr. , 63, American mathematician, complication following surgery.[ 30]
Bob Brown , 58, Canadian professional wrestler ("Bulldog" Bob Brown ).
Robert Elem , 69, American blues guitarist and singer.[ 31]
Dorothy Fosdick , 83, American foreign policy expert.[ 32]
Pamela Harriman , 76, English-American political activist, diplomat, and socialite, cerebral hemorrhage.[ 33]
René Huyghe , 90, French art historian.[ 34]
Jürgen Neukirch , 59, German mathematician.[ 35]
Harry Trotsek , 84, American Thoroughbred racehorses trainer and owner.
6
Ernie Anderson , 73, American disc jockey, and television and radio announcer, cancer.[ 36]
Harry Essex , 86, American screenwriter and director.[ 37]
Roger Laurent , 83, Belgian racing driver.
Riza Lushta , 81, Kosovar Albanian football striker.
7
Nina Albright , 89, American comic book artist.
Owen Aspinall , 69, American politician and Governor of American Samoa .
John Baker , 59, British musician and composer.
Sam DeCavalcante , 84, American mobster, heart attack.
Allan Edwall , 72, Swedish actor, author, composer and singer, prostate cancer.[ 38]
Maynard Pirsig , 95, American legal scholar.
Daniil Shafran , 74, Soviet/Russian cellist.[ 39]
Rösli Streiff , 96, Swiss alpine skier and world champion.
Jose Garcia Villa , 88, Filipino poet, novelist, and painter.[ 40]
Mary Wills , 82, American costume designer, kidney failure.
8
Nathan Lerner , 83, American photographer.[ 41]
Henry Margenau , 95, German-American physicist and philosopher of science.[ 42]
Robert Ridgely , 65, American actor (Philadelphia , Beverly Hills Cop II , Blazing Saddles ), cancer.[ 43]
Corey Scott , 28, American motorcycle stunt rider, traffic collision.[ 44]
Michael Voslenski , 76, Soviet and Russian writer, scientist, diplomat and dissident.[ 45]
Walter Wiora , 90, German musicologist and music historian.
9
David Austick , 76, British politician and bookshop owner.[ 46]
Brian Connolly , 51, Scottish singer-songwriter, musician and actor.
Taylor Drysdale , 83, American swimmer and swimming coach.[ 47]
Barry Evans , 53, English actor.[ 48]
Fritz Grasshoff , 83, German painter, poet and songwriter.
Leni Junker , 91, German sprint runner and Olympian.[ 49]
Jack Owens , 92, American blues singer and guitarist.[ 50]
Williams Sassine , 53, Guinean novelist.[ 51]
Max Tetley , 87, Australian rules footballer.
Luis Velásquez , 77, Guatemalan long-distance runner and Olympian.[ 52]
10
Harriet Andreassen , 71, Norwegian labour activist and politician.
Conrad M. Arensberg , 86, American anthropologist and scholar, respiratory failure.[ 53]
Lou Bennett , 70, American jazz organist.[ 54]
Milton Cato , 81, Saint Vincentian politician and first Prime Minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines .
Robert Mallary , 79, American sculptor and computer art pioneer, leukemia.[ 55]
Jerome Namias , 86, American meteorologist .[ 56]
11
Nalanda Ellawala , 29, Sri Lankan politician, shot.
Robert A. Graham , 84, American Jesuit priest and historian.[ 57]
Lewis Jacobs , 92, American screenwriter, film director and critic.[ 58]
Don Porter , 84, American actor.[ 59]
Ray Terrell , 77, American gridiron football player.[ 60]
12
Nora Beloff , 78, English journalist and political writer.[ 61]
James Cossins , 63, English actor, heart disease.[ 62]
Francis Healy , 86, American Major League Baseball player.[ 63]
Ruth Winifred Howard , 96, American psychologist.
Federico Pisani , 22, Italian footballer, traffic collision.[ 64]
13
Bobby Adams , 75, American baseball player.[ 65]
Thies Christophersen , 79, German neo-nazi and Holocaust denier .
Robert Klark Graham , 90, American eugenicist and businessman.
Robert Herman , 82, American scientist.[ 66]
Don Jordan , 62, American boxer, complications following robbery.
Ernő Rubik , 86, Hungarian aircraft designer.
Reg Ryan , 71, Irish football player.[ 67]
Atta Shad , 57, Pakistani poet, playwright, and intellectual.
14
Lélia Gousseau , 88, 20th-century French classical pianist.[ 68]
Jack Matheson , 76, American gridiron football player.[ 69]
Charles Moffett , 67, American free jazz drummer.[ 70]
Miguel Rodriguez , 35, Filipino actor and model, pancreatitis .
William L. Scott , 81, American politician, Alzheimer's disease.[ 71]
Chōbyō Yara , 94, Japanese politician and teacher.
Mohammed Yousuf , 57, Pakistani singer.
15
Oscar W. Adams Jr. , 72, American lawyer and first African-American Alabama Supreme Court justice.[ 72]
Arne Berg , 87, Swedish road racing cyclist.[ 73]
Philip Hershkovitz , 87, American mammalogist .[ 74]
Billie-Jo Jenkins , 13, English murder victim.
Paul Page , 69, American gridiron football player.[ 75]
Frode Rinnan , 91, Norwegian architect and politician.
Jack Sparling , 80, Canadian comic book artist (Claire Voyant , Strange Adventures , Ghost Rider ).[ 76]
16
Abd al-Fattah Abu Ghudda , 79, Syrian leader of the Muslim Brotherhood .[ 77]
Ethel Owen , 103, American actress.
Alvis Vītoliņš , 50, Latvian chess master, suicide by jumping.
Jack Wilson , 82, British rower and Olympic champion.[ 78]
Chien-Shiung Wu , 84, Chinese-American experimental physicist, watershed stroke.[ 79]
17
Spartaco Bandinelli , 75, Italian boxer and Olympian.[ 80]
Kenny Graham , 72, British jazz saxophonist, arranger and composer.[ 81]
Leonard Ho , 72, Hong Kong film producer.[ 82]
Ichimaru , 90, Japanese recording artist and geisha.
Bärbel Inhelder , 83, Swiss psychologist.[ 83]
Joe Kieyoomia , 77, American Navajo prisoner of war during World War II.
Darcy Ribeiro , 74, Brazilian anthropologist, historian, sociologist, author and politician, cancer.[ 84]
Georg L. Samuelsen , 87, Faroese editor and voice actor.
18
Bozorg Alavi , 93, Iranian writer, novelist, and intellectual, heart attack.
Enrique Peralta Azurdia , 88, President of Guatemala .
Antonio de Almeida , 69, French conductor and musicologist, lung cancer, liver cancer.[ 85]
Gerd Domhardt , 51, German composer.
Eric Fenby , 90, English composer, conductor, pianist and organist.[ 86]
Reggie Forte , 47, American activist and founding member of the Black Panther Party .
Jnan Prakash Ghosh , 87, Indian harmonium and tabla player and musicologist .[ 87]
Emily Hahn , 92, American journalist and author.[ 88]
Austin Knickerbocker , 78, American baseball player.[ 89]
Geoffrey Swaebe , 86, American diplomat and ambassador, complications of pneumonia.[ 90]
19
David Ashkenazi , 81, Russian pianist, accompanist and composer.
Jarmil Burghauser , 75, Czech composer, conductor, and musicologist.
Frank Delfino , 86, American actor, bone marrow cancer.
Buddy Edelen , 59, American marathon runner.[ 91]
António Gedeão , 90, Portuguese poet, essayist, writer and playwright.[ 92]
Yutaka Haniya , 87, Japanese writer and critic.
Karin Magnussen , 89, German nazi eugenicist , biologist, and researcher during World War II.[ 93]
Lois Marshall , 73, Canadian soprano.[ 94]
Leo Rosten , 78, American humorist.[ 95]
Edsall Walker , 86, American Negro league baseball player.[ 96]
Deng Xiaoping , 92, Chinese politician leader of the People's Republic of China , complications of lung infections.[ 97]
20
Ruth Clark (pollster) , American pollster and researcher.[ 98]
Afonsinho , 82, Brazilian football player.[ 99]
Paul Anxionnaz , 94, French politician.[ 100]
Zachary Breaux , 36, American jazz guitarist, drowned.[ 101]
Pierre Gascar , 80, French journalist, literary critic, writer, and screenwriter.[ 102]
Thomas G. Kavanagh , 79, American judge, Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court (1975–1979).[ 103]
Arthur Machado , 88, Brazilian football player and manager.
Stan Pearson , 78, English footballer.[ 104]
21
Ziya Bunyadov , 73, Azerbaijani historian and scientist, shot.[ 105]
Luitgard Im , 67, German actress.
Choe Kwang , 78, North Korean army general and politician, heart attack.[ 106]
Mohamed Nasir , 81, Malaysian politician.
Merle Pertile , 55, American model and actress.
Josef Posipal , 69, Romanian-German footballer, heart failure.
Kenneth Rowntree , 81, British artist.[ 107]
Leo Sjogren , 82, American racewalker and Olympian.[ 108]
Eleanor Butler, Lady Wicklow , 82, Irish politician and architect.
22
Joseph Aiuppa , 89, American mobster.[ 109]
Urmila Bhatt , 62/63, Indian actress, homicide.
William Karush , 79, American mathematician.
James A. Lewis , 63, American Libertarian Party politician.[ 110]
Harold Nichols , 79, American wrestler and wrestling coach.
Albert Shanker , 68, American labor leader, bladder cancer.[ 111]
Charlie Toogood , 69, American gridiron football player.
23
Abdelkader Ben Bouali , 84, French football player.
Gordon Glisson , 66, American jockey.
Ephraim P. Holmes , 88, United States Navy admiral.[ 112]
Frank Launder , 91, British writer, film director and producer.[ 113]
Oscar Lewenstein , 80, British theatre and film producer.[ 114]
Olivier Masson , 74, French linguist .[ 115]
Jack Slater , 69, Australian politician.
Tony Williams , 51, American jazz drummer, heart attack.[ 116]
24
Astrid Fagraeus , 83, Swedish immunologist .[ 117]
Nils-Olof Franzén , 80, Swedish writer.
Wolfgang Heinrich Johannes Fuchs , 81, British mathematician.[ 118]
Raymond Lambert , 72, Swiss mountaineer, complications of a lung disorder.[ 119]
Isabelle Lucas , 69, Canadian-British actress and singer, heart attack.
Ernest C. Pollard , 90, British professor of physics and biophysics , stroke.[ 120]
Len Vlahov , 56, Australian discus thrower, cancer.
Ion Voicu , 73, Romanian violinist and orchestral conductor.
25
Cal Abrams , 72, American baseball player, heart attack.[ 121]
Hoss Allen , 74, American radio disc jockey.
Louis Auslander , 68, American mathematician.[ 122]
Earle Edwards , 88, American football player and coach.
Scott Forbes , 76, British actor and screenwriter.[ 123]
Yi Han-yong , 36, North Korean defector, shot.
Arthur Hewlett , 89, British actor.
Danielle de St. Jorre , 55, Seychelles politician.
Ugo Poletti , 82, Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, heart attack.
Ted Roach , 87, Australian trade unionist and member of the Communist Party of Australia .[ 124]
Andrei Sinyavsky , 71, Russian writer and Soviet dissident.[ 125]
John Williams , 70, Australian politician.
26
Nuccio Bertone , 82, Italian automobile designer and constructor.[ 126]
Mildred Clingerman , 78, American science fiction author.
David Doyle , 67, American actor (Charlie's Angels , Capricorn One , Rugrats ), heart attack.[ 127]
Vincent Gaddis , 83, American author.
Giovanni Ghiselli , 62, Italian sprinter and Olympian.[ 128]
Joseph Anthony Lefante , 68, American politician.[ 129]
Tom O'Connor , 78, Irish Gaelic footballer.
Ben Raleigh , 83, American lyricist and composer.
Wende Wagner , 55, American actress (The Green Hornet , Rosemary's Baby , Destination Inner Space ), cancer.[ 130]
27
Kingsley Davis , 88, American sociologist and demographer.[ 131]
Patricia Felicien , 30, Saint Lucian cricket player.
William Gear , 81, Scottish painter.[ 132]
Indeevar , 73, Indian film lyricist.
Alpo Jaakola , 67, Finnish painter and sculptor.
Mieczysław Jagielski , 73, Polish politician and economist, heart attack.
Kim Kwang-jin , 69, North Korean general and politician.
Harry Love , 85, American animator, effects animator, and writer, heart attack.[ 133]
William R. Maples , 59, American forensic anthropologist , brain cancer.[ 134]
Edward J. McCormack, Jr. , 73, American lawyer and politician, complications from lung cancer.
28
Osvaldo Bailo , 84, Italian road cyclist.[ 135]
Donald Carrick , 90, Canadian lawyer, politician, sportsman and Olympian.[ 136]
Harold Dean , 84, Australian politician.
Mohammad Moustafa Haddara , 67, Arabic scholar and writer.
Örjan Martinsson , 60, Swedish football player.
Giuseppe Migneco , 89, Italian painter.
Larry Tillman , 88, American professional wrestler and promoter.
Hal Turpin , 93, American baseball player.[ 137]
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