Deaths in September 1997

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The following is a list of notable deaths in September 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.

## September 1997

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### 1

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* Boris Balinsky, 91, Ukrainian and South African biologist, embryologist and entomologist.
* Gordon Blake, 87, U.S. Air Force lieutenant general.[1]
* Harriet Browne, 65, American tap dancer and choreographer.[2]
* Zoltán Czibor, 68, Hungarian Olympic football player (1952 gold medal).[3]
* Joseph Abel Francis, 73, American Catholic bishop.
* Reidar Olsen, 86, Norwegian footballer.[4]

### 2

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* George E. Allen, 85, American football player and coach.
* Sir Rudolf Bing, 95, Austrian-born opera manager, Alzheimer's disease.[5]
* Viktor Frankl, 92, Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist.[6]
* Warner T. Koiter, 83, Dutch mechanical engineer and professor.[7]
* Joseph Thomas O'Keefe, 78, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church, heart failure.
* Germán Rieckehoff, 82, Puerto Rican politician.
* Mary Sears, 92, American oceanographer.[8]

### 3

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* Arthur Chin, 83, American pilot and World War II flying ace.
* Harold G. Dick, 90, American mechanical engineer.[9]
* Hal Goodman, 82, American producer and screenwriter.
* Hans Niclaus, 83, German basketball player.[10]
* Ernst C. Stiefel, 89, German-American jurist.[11]

### 4

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* Khaled Abdul-Wahab, 86, Tunisian rescuer of Jews.
* Chuck Arnold, 71, American racecar driver.
* Jeffrey Bernard, 65, British journalist, renal failure.
* Dharamvir Bharati, 70, Indian poet, author and playwright, heart disease.[12]
* Pierre Chatenet, 80, French politician.[13]
* Natko Devčić, 83, Croatian composer.[14]
* Hans Eysenck, 81, German-born British psychologist, brain cancer.[15]
* Alfred Kałuziński, 44, Polish handball player and Olympian.[16]
* Ivan Nenov, 95, Bulgarian painter.[17]
* Jan Opperman, 58, American racecar driver.
* Florence Engel Randall, 79, American author.[18]
* Aldo Rossi, 66, Italian architect and designer, traffic collision.[19]
* Belle Stewart, 91, Scottish traditional singer.[20]

### 5

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* Mildred Dein, 85, American screenwriter.[21]
* Ann Dunnigan, 87, American actress and teacher.[22]
* Leon Edel, 89, American literary critic and biographer.[23]
* Polly Lada-Mocarski, 94, American rare book scholar, educator, and bookbinder.
* Manuel Martin, 79, American soccer player-coach.[24]
* Andrej Prean Nagy, 76, Romanian-Hungarian football player and coach.
* Eddie Little Sky, 71, Native American actor, lung cancer.
* Georg Solti, 84, Hungarian conductor, heart attack.[25]
* Mother Teresa, 87, Albanian missionary and humanitarian, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, heart failure.[26]

### 6

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* Salvador Artigas, 84, Spanish football player and manager.
* Edward H. Hurst, 80, United States Marine Corps officer.
* Roy Huskey, Jr., 40, American upright bass player, lung cancer.
* P. H. Newby, 79, English novelist.[27]
* H. W. L. Poonja, Indian sage and jivanmukta, pneumonia.[28]
* Refik Resmja, 66, Albanian footballer.
* Jean-Pierre Sudre, 75, French photographer.[29]
* Uglješa Uzelac, 59, Bosnian politician and diplomat.

### 7

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* Abdullah al-Tariki, 78, Saudi politician and government official, heart attack.
* Mukul S. Anand, 45, Indian film director and producer, heart attack.
* Edwin Brock, 69, British poet.[30]
* Elisabeth Brooks, 46, Canadian actress (The Howling), brain cancer.
* Connie Clausen, 74, American actress, author, and literary agent, stroke.[31]
* George W. Crockett, Jr., 88, African-American attorney, jurist, and congressman.[32]
* Héctor Espino, 58, Mexican baseball player and manager.[33]
* Mark Holtz, 51, American sportscaster, leukemia.
* Edgar Kaplan, 72, American bridge player, cancer.[34]
* Mobutu Sese Seko, 66, Congolese politician and president of Zaire, prostate cancer.[35]
* Bill Strannigan, 78, American basketball coach.[36]
* Brian Whittaker, 40, Scottish football player.[37]

### 8

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* Marie Bedford, 90, South African freestyle swimmer.
* René Bihel, 81, French football player.
* Yu Jim-yuen, 92, Chinese opera singer and actor, heart attack.
* Sabatino Moscati, 74, Italian archaeologist and linguist.[38]
* Helen Shaw, 100, American actress.
* Vladimír Sommer, 76, Czech composer.[39]
* Derek Taylor, 65, English journalist, writer and record producer, throat cancer.[40]

### 9

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* Richie Ashburn, 70, American baseball player and broadcaster (Philadelphia Phillies) and member of the MLB Hall of Fame, heart attack.[41]
* Rowland George, 92, British rower.[42]
* John Hackett, 86, Australian-born British army general and painter.[43]
* Predrag Laković, 68, Yugoslavian/Serbian actor.
* Burgess Meredith, 89, American actor (Rocky, Batman, The Day of the Locust), Emmy winner (1977), melanoma.[44]

### 10

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* Satish Chandra Agarwal, Indian politician.
* Abraham Akaka, 80, American clergyman.[45]
* Richard Brandt, 86, American philosopher.[46]
* Jacques Leguerney, 90, French composer.[47]
* George Schaefer, 76, American television and theatre director.[48]
* Fritz Von Erich, 68, American professional wrestler, cancer.[49]

### 11

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* Fernando Ayala, 77, Argentine film director, screenwriter and producer.[50]
* Camille Henry, 64, Canadian ice hockey player.[51]
* Iliya Kirchev, 64, Bulgarian football player.
* Matrika Prasad Koirala, 85, Prime Minister of Nepal.
* Hugo B. Margáin, 84, Mexican economist, politician and diplomat.
* Anatoli Polosin, 62, Russian football coach.
* Margaret Scrivener, 75, Canadian politician
* Xhevdet Shaqiri, 74, Albanian football player and coach.
* Hannah Weiner, 68, American poet.[52]

### 12

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* Stig Anderson, 66, Swedish music manager and publisher, heart attack.[53]
* Leslie E. Brown, 77, United States Marine Corps aviator.
* Elsa De Giorgi, 82, Italian actress and writer.[54]
* Leonard Maguire, 73, Scottish actor.
* Judith Merril, 74, American-Canadian science fiction writer.[55]
* Eddie O'Toole, 76, American long-distance runner, heart attack.[56]
* Heorhiy Zhylin, 72, Ukrainian rower and Olympian.[57]

### 13

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* Anjaan, 67, Indian lyricist.
* Paul Brechler, 86, American athletic director (University of Iowa).[58]
* Roger O. Egeberg, 94, American medical educator and administrator.
* Roger Frey, 84, French politician.[59]
* Georges Guétary, 82, French singer, dancer and actor, heart attack.[60]
* Kauko Helovirta, 72, Finnish film actor.
* Giorgos Mitsibonas, 34, Greek football player, traffic collision.
* Margo Rose, 94, American puppeteer.[61]
* Donald Schön, 66, American philosopher and professor in urban planning.
* Victor Szebehely, 76, Hungarian-American physicist.[62]
* Myra Tanner Weiss, 80, American trotskyist politician.

### 14

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* Basri Dirimlili, 68, Turkish football player.[63]
* Andrew Fountaine, 78, British far right activist.[64]
* C. Warren Hollister, 66, American author and historian.[65]
* Clyde Johnson, 80, American football player.[66]
* Donato Piazza, 67, Italian racing cyclist.[67]

### 15

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* Aleksanteri Ahola-Valo, 97, Finnish artist and architect.
* Angel Balevski, 87, Bulgarian inventor and engineer.[68]
* Bulldog Brower, 63, American professional wrestler, complications from hip surgery.
* Edna Mae Harris, 82, American actress and singer, heart attack.[69]
* Thomas J. Parmley, 99, American physicist.[70]
* Hubert Petschnigg, 83, Austrian architect.
* Gertrude Pitzinger, 93, German contralto.[71]

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* Terence Cooper, 64, British film actor.[72]
* James Milton Ham, 76, Canadian engineer and university official.
* Helen Jepson, 92, American lyric soprano.[73]
* William N. Oatis, 83, American journalist, Alzheimer's disease.[74]
* Gerry Turpin, 72, English cinematographer.
* José Valle, 77, Argentine football player and coach.

### 17

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* Benjamin Atkins, 29, American serial killer and rapist, AIDS-related complications.
* Anthony Franchini, 99, American guitarist.[75]
* Nelson G. Gross, 65, American politician, slashed and bludgeoned.[76]
* Brian Hall, 59, English actor (Fawlty Towers), cancer.
* Harry Jago, 84, Australian politician.
* Meena, 56, Indian actress.
* Trevor Redmond, 70, New Zealand speedway rider.[77]
* Red Skelton, 84, American comedian (The Red Skelton Show), pneumonia.[78]
* Jan P. Syse, 66, Prime Minister of Norway (1989–1990), cerebral hemorrhage.

### 18

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* Fernand Fayolle, 93, French racing cyclist.[79]
* Patricia Pulling, 49, American anti-role-playing games activist, lung cancer.[80]
* Walpola Rahula, 90, Sri Lankan Buddhist monk, scholar and writer.
* Yehuda Sha'ari, 77, Israeli politician.
* Ganesh Man Singh, 81, Nepali politician.
* Seigo Tada, 75, Japanese founder of Goju-Ryu Seigokan Karatedo.
* Jimmy Witherspoon, 77, American blues singer, cancer.[81]

### 19

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* Józef Bielawski, 87, Polish Arabist and scholar of Islam.[82]
* Bill Butland, 79, American baseball pitcher (Boston Red Sox).[83]
* Moses ǁGaroëb, 55, Namibian politician and founding member of SWAPO.
* Kathy Keeton, 58, American editor and publisher of Penthouse magazine, complications from surgery.[84]
* Jack May, 75, English actor.
* Rich Mullins, 41, American Christian musician, traffic collision.[85]
* Ambar Roy, 52, Indian cricket player.

### 20

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* Matt Christopher, 80, American children's author.[86]
* Virginia d'Albert-Lake, 87, American French Resistance agent during World War II.[87]
* Kurt Gloor, 54, Swiss film director, screenwriter and producer, suicide.[88]
* Anoop Kumar, 71, Indian film actor.
* Nick Traina, 19, American punk band singer, suicide by morphine overdose.[89]

### 21

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* Juan Burgueño, 74, Uruguayan football player.
* Teuku Muhammad Hasan, 91, Indonesian politician.
* Jennifer Holt, 76, American actress, cancer.[90]
* Maurice Kaufmann, 70, British actor, cancer.[91]

### 22

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* Beatrice Aitchison, 89, American mathematician, statistician, and economist.
* Deolindo Bittel, 75, Argentine politician.
* William Craig, 68, American author and historian.[92]
* Robert E. Huyser, 73, United States Air Force general.
* Karl Koopman, 77, American zoologist.[93]
* Manabu Mabe, 73, Japanese-Brazilian painter, diabetes.
* Pierre Petit, 77, French cinematographer.
* Ruth Picardie, 33, English journalist and editor, breast cancer.
* Eddie Sawyer, 87, American Major League Baseball scout.[94]
* George Thomas, 1st Viscount Tonypandy, 88, British politician.[95]
* Chiang Wei-kuo, 80, Secretary-General of the National Security Council of the Republic of China (1986–1993), diabetes.
* Shoichi Yokoi, 82, Japanese soldier, heart attack.[96]

### 23

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* Darko Bratina, 55, Italian sociologist, film theorist and politician, heart attack.
* Dolf Brouwers, 85, Dutch comedian, singer, and television actor.
* Shirley Clarke, 77, American filmmaker, stroke.[97]
* Dick Flanagan, 69, American gridiron football player.[98]
* Abe Gibron, 72, American gridiron football player and coach.[99]
* Cary Lu, 51, American science writer, cancer.[100]
* Doug Million, 21, American baseball player, asthma.[101]
* Jonas Pipynė, 61, Lithuanian track and field runner, skier, and Olympian.[102]
* Ray Poage, 56, American gridiron football player.[103]
* Lu Sheng, 85, Chinese military officer.
* J.D. Thottan, 75, Indian director of Malayalam language films.
* Pedro de Castro van Dúnem, 55, Angolan politician.[104]
* Torgny Wickman, 86, Swedish screenwriter and film director.

### 24

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* Anton Kehle, 49, German ice hockey goaltender, cancer.
* William M. Miley, 99, United States Army officer and a professor.[105]
* Alby Morrison, 88, Australian rules football player and coach.
* Yen Shui-long, 94, Taiwanese painter and sculptor, surgical complications after fall.
* Jai Pal Singh, 67, Indian physician and educator.
* Engalaguppe Seetharamiah Venkataramiah, 72, Chief Justice of India.
* Remy Wagner, 75, Luxembourgish football player.[106]
* Ernest Will, 84, French archaeologist and professor.[107]

### 25

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* John Ahern, 86, Irish Roman Catholic bishop.
* Hélène Baillargeon, 81, Canadian singer, actor and folklorist.[108]
* Paul Bernard, 68, English television director and production designer.
* Guillermo Díaz, 66, Chilean football player.
* Jean Françaix, 85, French musician and composer.[109]
* Juan José Gámez, 58, Costa Rican football player and manager, cardiac arrest.
* Jim Kemmy, 61, Irish politician.[110]
* Viktor Lipsnis, 63, Soviet shot putter and Olympian.[111]
* George MacDonald, 90, Canadian rower and Olympian.[112]
* Egon Seefehlner, 85, Austrian lawyer and opera director.
* Komil Yashin, 87, Soviet and Uzbekistani poet and screenwriter.[113]

### 26

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* Nick Carter, 95, American track and field athlete, coach and official.[114]
* Woody English, 91, American baseball player.[115]
* Richard Geoffrey Gerard, 92, New Zealand politician and cabinet minister.
* Dorothy Kingsley, 87, American screenwriter (Angels in the Outfield, Valley of the Dolls, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers), heart failure.[116]
* Egon Scheibe, 88, German aviation engineer.
* John Schubeck, 61, American television reporter and anchor, kidney and liver failure.[117]
* Samuel W. Taylor, 90, American novelist, scriptwriter, and historian.[118]
* Péter Zsoldos, 67, Hungarian science fiction author.

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* Alex Konikowski, 69, American baseball player.[119]
* Allan MacRae, 95, American Christian theologian.
* Margot Mahler, 52, German actress.[120]
* Adriana Marines, 5, American girl of Mexican descent, shot.
* Jacques Mercanton, 87, French cinematographer.
* Mandali Venkata Krishna Rao, 71, Indian politician.
* Walter Trampler, 82, American violist.[121]

### 28

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* Munir Bashir, 66-67, Iraqi musician, stroke.[122]
* Frank D'Agostino, 63, American gridiron football player.[123]
* David Gill, 69, British film historian, preservationist and documentarian, heart attack.[124]
* Ho Feng-Shan, 96, Chinese diplomat.
* Günther Maul, 88, German ichthyologist and taxidermist.
* Lage Thunberg, 92, Swedish Air Force officer.[125]
* Elfriede Vey, 75, German cyclist.[126]

### 29

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* William Goddard, 84, American engineer and inventor.
* Roy Lichtenstein, 73, American pop artist, pneumonia.[127]
* Edith Ballinger Price, 100, American children's author and illustrator.[128]
* Fritz Schär, 71, Swiss cyclist.[129]
* Volodymyr Sterniuk, 90, Ukrainian Greek Catholic archbishop and the acting head of the UGCC (1972–91).
* Aaron D. Wyner, 58, American information theorist.[130]

### 30

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* Al "Jazzbo" Collins, 78, American disc jockey and musician, pancreatic cancer.[131]
* Nobuo Fujita, Japanese pilot and warrant officer during World War II.[132]
* Pierre Granche, 49, French-Canadian sculptor, lung cancer.
* Edward L. Kessel, 93, American biologist.[133]
* Graeme MacDonald, 67, British television producer and executive.[134]
* Don Martin, 77, American basketball player.[135]
* Ernst van Heerden, 81, South African poet.[136]

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