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. July 1997
1 Lester Asheim , 83, American librarian and scholar of library science . Annie Fratellini , 64, French circus artist, film actress and clown, cancer. Joshua Hassan , 81, Gibraltarian politician and Chief Minister of Gibraltar . David Martin , 81, Australian novelist, poet, playwright, journalist, and reviewer and lecturer. Harold McQueen, Jr. , 44, American convicted murderer, execution by electric chair. Robert Mitchum , 79, American actor (The Story of G.I. Joe , Cape Fear , The Night of the Hunter ), complications from lung cancer and emphysema. Mohammad Ali Mojtahedi , 88, Iranian University professor. Gerhard Wiltfang , 51, German equestrian and Olympic champion. 2 George Antonio , 82, English footballer. Chiquito , 65, Filipino actor and comedian, liver cancer. Flint Gregory Hunt , 38, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection. Dee Moore , 83, American Major League Baseball player. James Stewart , 89, American actor (It's a Wonderful Life , Rear Window , Vertigo ), Oscar winner (1941 ), heart attack as a result of pulmonary embolism . 3 Johnny Copeland , 60, American blues guitarist and singer, complications during heart surgery. Gloster B. Current , 84, American NAACP activist, leukemia and pneumonia. Natalia Dumitresco , 81, French-Romanian abstract painter. Rufe Gentry , 79, American baseball player. Michael James MacDonald , 87, Canadian politician and union leader. Thomas Sgovio , 80, American artist and Soviet Union Gulag inmate. Stanley Stanczyk , 72, American weightlifter and Olympian. 4 William Cadogan, 7th Earl Cadogan , British peer and military officer. Bengt Danielsson , 75, Swedish anthropologist, writer, and a crew member on the Kon-Tiki raft expedition . Charles Kuralt , 62, American journalist, complications from lupus . Slobodan Mišković , 52, Serbian handball coach and player. Miguel Najdorf , 87, Polish-Argentinian chess grandmaster. Amado Carrillo Palomino , 40, Mexican drug lord, complications during cosmetic surgery. Bevis Reid , 78, British track and field athlete and Olympian. Eddie Smith , 70, Australian racing cyclist. John Zachary Young , 90, English zoologist and neurophysiologist . 5 Bob Dees , 67, American gridiron football player. Jean-Marie Domenach , 75, French writer and intellectual. Mrs. Miller , 89, American singer. Les Norman , 83, Australian politician. Arunasalam Thangathurai , 61, Sri Lankan Tamil politician. 6 Chetan Anand , 76, Indian Hindi film producer, screenwriter and director. Gabriel Asaad , 90, Turkish-Swedish Assyrian composer and musician. Dorothy Buffum Chandler , 96, American cultural leader. Stanisław Horno-Popławski , 94, Russian-Polish painter, sculptor and pedagogue. Gene James , 72, American basketball player. Brun Smith , 75, New Zealand cricket player. 7 Mate Boban , 57, Bosnian Croat politician and the only president of the Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia , stroke. Alfons De Winter , 88, Belgian football player. Jerry Doggett , 80, American sportscaster. Raffaele Dolfato , 34, Italian rugby player and entrepreneur, traffic collision. Henry Howell , 76, American politician, cancer. Sven Håkansson , 87, Swedish long-distance runner and Olympian. Jean Luciano , 76, French football player and manager. Oku Mumeo , 101, Japanese politician and feminist. Luis Aguirre Pinto , 89, Chilean composer, folk musician and folklorist. Royston Tickner , 74, British actor. Rolando Tinio , 60, Filipino poet, dramatist, actor, and essayist. Erik Zetterström , 92, Swedish writer and playwright. 8 Charles L. Drake , 73, American geologist , heart failure. Dick van Dijk , 51, Dutch football player (FC Twente , Ajax Amsterdam ), acute endocarditis . Georges Gay , 71, French racing cyclist. Guy Murchie , 90, American author and aviator. Abu Sadat Mohammad Sayem , 81, Bangladeshi jurist and statesman. Charles P. B. Taylor , 65,Canadian journalist, author, and thoroughbred racehorse owner and breeder, cancer. Tony Thomas , 69, British-American film historian , author, and producer, pneumonia. Max E. Youngstein , 84, American film producer. 9 Alexander Cordell , 82, Welsh novelist and author, (body found on this date). Carol Forman , 79, American actress. Aurelio González , 91, Paraguayan football player. Walter Korn , 89, Czech-American writer of books and magazine articles about chess . Georgeta Năpăruș , 66, Romanian modernist painter. David Pitblado , British principal private secretary to successive Prime Ministers. Stan Rojek , 78, American baseball player. Marianne Schönauer , 77, Austrian actress. 10 Ivor Allchurch , 67, Welsh football player. Dwight Lowry , 39, American baseball player, heart attack. Abe Okpik , 69, Canadian Inuit community leader. Frank R. Parker , 57, American civil rights lawyer and activist, complications from an aortic aneurysm. 11 Felix Barker , 80, British drama critic and historian. Fred Beavis , 82, Canadian politician, pneumonia. Joe Hauser , 98, American baseball player. Edward Lasker , 85, American businessman and thoroughbred racehorse owner. Alfred Mellows , 75, English rower and Olympic medalist. Jock Sturrock , 82, Australian yachtsman and Olympian. Robert V. Whitlow , 78, American military officer, football coach, and sports club executive. 12 Pietro Buscaglia , 86, Italian football player. Meribeth E. Cameron , 92, American historian of China and academic. Blas Chumacero , 92, Mexican trade union leader. François Furet , 70, French historian, head injury while playing tennis, heart failure. Douglas Huebler , 72, American conceptual artist. Steve Karrys , 73, Canadian football player. Vinko Nikolić , 85, Croatian writer, poet and journalist. Frank Shuter , 54, New Zealand speedway rider, traffic accident. Jean Varenne , 71, French indologist . Miroslav Wiecek , 65, Czech football player. 13 Garfield Barwick , 94, Australian politician, lawyer, and Chief Justice of Australia . Miguel Ángel Blanco , 29, Spanish politician and ETA victim, executed. Alexandra Danilova , 93, Russian-American prima ballerina. Rosy Gibb , 54, Irish social worker, clown, and magician, cancer. Ekaterina Kalinchuk , 74, Soviet gymnast and Olympic champion. Kurt Land , 84, Austrian-Argentine film director. Edi Rada , 74, Austrian figure skater and Olympic medalist. Alf Tveten , 84, Norwegian sailor and Olympian. 14 Eddie Finnigan , 84, Canadian ice hockey player. Eugene Goossen , 76, American art critic and art historian, pneumonia. Joseph F. Holt , 73, American politician. Isaac Nicola , Cuban guitarist. Polly Shackleton , 87, American politician. Hilda Watson , 75, Canadian politician. 15 Alan J. Charig , 70, English palaeontologist, stroke. Dick Chorovich , 64, American gridiron football player. Cheryl Glass , 35, American racing driver, suicide. Eve Greene , 91, American screenwriter. Rosamund Greenwood , 90, British actress. Justinas Lagunavičius , 72, Lithuanian basketball player. Stefan Marinov , 66, Bulgarian physicist, suicide . Gianni Versace , 50, Italian fashion designer and founder of the Versace fashion house, shot. 16 Ron Berry , 77, Welsh author and novelist. Dora Maar , 89, French photographer, painter, and poet. William H. Reynolds , 87, American film editor (The Godfather , The Sound of Music , The Sting ), Oscar winner (1966 , 1974 ), cancer. Franciszek Sulik , 88-89, Polish-Australian chess master. 17 Bianco Bianchi , 80, Italian cyclist. Don Bingham , 67, American gridiron football player. R. Krishnan , 87, Indian film director. Thomas Mellon Evans , 86, American financier, complications following a fall. Arthur Jepson , 82, English cricket player. Hugo Gunckel Lüer , 95, Chilean pharmacist and botanist . Dave Peterson , 66, American ice hockey coach Birgitte Price , 63, Danish actress. Gene Warren , 80, American visual effects artist (The Time Machine ) and television producer (Land of the Lost ), Oscar winner (1961 ), cancer. Robert C. Weaver , 89, American economist and academic. 18 André Drobecq , 96, French racing cyclist. Léon Gaultier , 82, French nazi collaborator during World War II and founding member of Front National . James Goldsmith , 64, Anglo-French financier, tycoon, and politician, pancreatic cancer. Igor Linchevski , Russian botanist. Oddvar Richardsen , 60, Norwegian football player and manager. Eugene Merle Shoemaker , 69, American geologist and planetary science pioneer, car accident. Harold Spina , 91, American composer of popular songs. Gregorio Weber , 81, Argentinian biochemist. 19 Frank Farrell , 50, British rock musician (Supertramp ). Hec Gervais , 63, Canadian curler . John E. Hines , 86, American Episcopal Church bishop. Jim Peebles , 76, American football player (Washington Redskins ). Tugelbay Sydykbekov , 85, Kyrgyzstani writer. 20 Puneet Nath Datt , 24, Indian Army officer, killed in action . Alf Engen , 88, Norwegian-American skier. Ed Klewicki , 85, American football player. M. E. H. Maharoof , 58, Sri Lankan politician, gunshot wounds. Drummond Matthews , 66, British marine geologist and geophysicist. Eric Charles Milner , 69, Canadian mathematician. Arshi Pipa , 76, Albanian-American philosopher, writer and poet. Linda Stirling , 75, American showgirl, model, and actress, cancer. 21 Tony Alvarez , 40, Spanish Australian actor and singer, AIDS -related cancer. Sjaak Alberts , 71, Dutch football player. Paul K. Benedict , 85, American anthropologist and linguist , traffic accident. Roger Bowman , 69, American baseball player. Růžena Grebeníčková , 71, Czech literary historian and theorist. Ernst Majonica , 76, German politician (CDU ). 22 Khalil Ahmed , 61, Pakistani composer. Irving Geis , 88, American artist. Vincent Hanna , 57, Northern Irish television journalist, heart attack. Jean-Jacques Herbulot , 88, French sailor and Olympiian. Kevin Howley , 73, English football referee. János Mogyorósi-Klencs , 75, Hungarian gymnast and Olympian. Sondra Rodgers , 94, American actress. Fritz Scheller , 82, German cyclist. 23 Walter Behrendt , 82, German politician. Jeff Cross , 78, American baseball player. Andrew Cunanan , 27, American spree killer and murderer of Gianni Versace , suicide by gunshot. Dequinha , 69, Brazilian football player. Andrea Domburg , 74, Dutch actress. Chūhei Nambu , 93, Japanese track and field athlete, pneumonia. Simon Pierre Tchoungui , 80, First Prime Minister of Cameroon. David Warbeck , 55, New Zealand actor and model, cancer. 24 William J. Brennan , 91, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (1956–1990). Bob Gaddy , 73, American East Coast blues and R&B pianist, singer and songwriter, lung cancer. Edward Gardère , 88, French fencer and Olympian. Brian Glover , 63, English actor (Alien 3 , Kes , An American Werewolf in London ) and writer, brain tumor, brain cancer. László Görög , 93, Hungarian-American screenwriter. Saw Maung , 69, Burmese army general and statesman, heart attack. Frank Parker , 81, American tennis player. Bill Shine , 85, British actor. 25 Natallia Arsiennieva , 93, Belarusian playwright, poet and translator. Jack Bickham , 66, American novelist, lymphoma. Peter Carmichael , 73, British fighter pilot during World War II and the Korean War . Jack Davies , 80, New Zealand swimmer. Ralph Goldstein , 83, American épée fencer and Olympian, car accident. Ben Hogan , 84, American golf champion. David McFaull , 48, American sailor and Olympian. Boris Novikov , 72, Soviet actor, complications from diabetes. Matiu Rata , 63, New Zealand Māori politician, traffic accident. 26 27 Muhammad Mahdi Al-Jawahiri , 98, Iraqi poet. Isabel Dean , 79, English actress. Heinrich Liebe , 89, German naval officer during World War II. René Persillon , 78, French football player. K'tut Tantri , 99, Scottish American hotelier and broadcaster known as "Surabaya Sue" . 28 Rosalie Crutchley , 77, British actress. John FitzPatrick , 82, Australian politician. Bud Hardin , 75, American baseball player. Leo Loudenslager , 53, American aviator, motorcycle accident. Gordon McMaster , 37, Scottish politician, suicide. Seni Pramoj , 92, Thai politician and Prime Minister , heart disease and kidney failure . 29 Jack Archer , 75, English sprinter. Mykhailo Byelykh , 38, Soviet/Ukrainian football player and a coach, traffic collision. Shinsaku Himeda , 80, Japanese cinematographer (Tora! Tora! Tora! ). Edward A. Kawānanakoa , 72, American member of the Hawaiian House of Kawānanakoa . John H. Ware III , 88, American politician. Chuck Wayne , 74, American jazz guitarist . 30 31 Bảo Đại , 83, Vietnamese emperor of the Nguyễn dynasty , brain cancer. Hepi Te Heuheu , 78, New Zealand Māori chief. Vichit Kounavudhi , 75, Thai film director and screenwriter. Eddie Miller , 80, American baseball player. Vern Riffe , 72, American politician and speaker . Frans Schoubben , 63, Belgian racing cyclist. References
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