The following is a list of notable deaths in July 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.

July 1997

1

• Lester Asheim, 83, American librarian and scholar of library science.^[1]
• Annie Fratellini, 64, French circus artist, film actress and clown, cancer.^[2]
• Joshua Hassan, 81, Gibraltarian politician and Chief Minister of Gibraltar.
• David Martin, 81, Australian novelist, poet, playwright, journalist, and reviewer and lecturer.^[3]
• Harold McQueen, Jr., 44, American convicted murderer, execution by electric chair.^[4]
• Robert Mitchum, 79, American actor (The Story of G.I. Joe, Cape Fear, The Night of the Hunter), complications from lung cancer and emphysema.^[5]
• Mohammad Ali Mojtahedi, 88, Iranian University professor.
• Gerhard Wiltfang, 51, German equestrian and Olympic champion.^[6]

2

• George Antonio, 82, English footballer.^[7]
• Chiquito, 65, Filipino actor and comedian, liver cancer.
• Flint Gregory Hunt, 38, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.^[8]
• Dee Moore, 83, American Major League Baseball player.^[9]
• James Stewart, 89, American actor (It's a Wonderful Life, Rear Window, Vertigo), Oscar winner (1941), heart attack as a result of pulmonary embolism.^[10]

3

• Johnny Copeland, 60, American blues guitarist and singer, complications during heart surgery.^[11]
• Gloster B. Current, 84, American NAACP activist, leukemia and pneumonia.^[12]
• Natalia Dumitresco, 81, French-Romanian abstract painter.^[13]
• Rufe Gentry, 79, American baseball player.^[14]
• Michael James MacDonald, 87, Canadian politician and union leader.
• Thomas Sgovio, 80, American artist and Soviet Union Gulag inmate.^[15]
• Stanley Stanczyk, 72, American weightlifter and Olympian.^[16]

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.^[17]
• Slobodan Mišković, 52, Serbian handball coach and player.
• Miguel Najdorf, 87, Polish-Argentinian chess grandmaster.^[18]
• Amado Carrillo Palomino, 40, Mexican drug lord, complications during cosmetic surgery.
• Bevis Reid, 78, British track and field athlete and Olympian.^[19]
• Eddie Smith, 70, Australian racing cyclist.^[20]
• John Zachary Young, 90, English zoologist and neurophysiologist.^[21]

5

• Bob Dees, 67, American gridiron football player.^[22]
• Jean-Marie Domenach, 75, French writer and intellectual.^[23]
• Mrs. Miller, 89, American singer.^[24]
• Les Norman, 83, Australian politician.^[25]
• 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.^[26]
• Stanisław Horno-Popławski, 94, Russian-Polish painter, sculptor and pedagogue.
• Gene James, 72, American basketball player.^[27]
• 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.^[28]
• Alfons De Winter, 88, Belgian football player.
• Jerry Doggett, 80, American sportscaster.^[29]
• Raffaele Dolfato, 34, Italian rugby player and entrepreneur, traffic collision.
• Henry Howell, 76, American politician, cancer.^[30]
• Sven Håkansson, 87, Swedish long-distance runner and Olympian.^[31]
• Jean Luciano, 76, French football player and manager.^[32]
• 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.^[33]
• Dick van Dijk, 51, Dutch football player (FC Twente, Ajax Amsterdam), acute endocarditis.^[34]
• Georges Gay, 71, French racing cyclist.^[35]
• Guy Murchie, 90, American author and aviator.^[36]
• Abu Sadat Mohammad Sayem, 81, Bangladeshi jurist and statesman.
• Charles P. B. Taylor, 65,Canadian journalist, author, and thoroughbred racehorse owner and breeder, cancer.^[37]
• Tony Thomas, 69, British-American film historian, author, and producer, pneumonia.^[38]
• Max E. Youngstein, 84, American film producer.^[39]

9

• Alexander Cordell, 82, Welsh novelist and author, (body found on this date).^[40]
• Carol Forman, 79, American actress.^[41]
• 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.^[42]
• David Pitblado, British principal private secretary to successive Prime Ministers.^[43]
• Stan Rojek, 78, American baseball player.^[44]
• Marianne Schönauer, 77, Austrian actress.^[45]

10

• Ivor Allchurch, 67, Welsh football player.^[46]
• Dwight Lowry, 39, American baseball player, heart attack.^[47]
• Abe Okpik, 69, Canadian Inuit community leader.
• Frank R. Parker, 57, American civil rights lawyer and activist, complications from an aortic aneurysm.^[48]

11

• Felix Barker, 80, British drama critic and historian.^[49]
• Fred Beavis, 82, Canadian politician, pneumonia.
• Joe Hauser, 98, American baseball player.^[50]
• Edward Lasker, 85, American businessman and thoroughbred racehorse owner.^[51]
• Alfred Mellows, 75, English rower and Olympic medalist.^[52]
• Jock Sturrock, 82, Australian yachtsman and Olympian.^[53]
• Robert V. Whitlow, 78, American military officer, football coach, and sports club executive.

12

• Pietro Buscaglia, 86, Italian football player.^[54]
• Meribeth E. Cameron, 92, American historian of China and academic.^[55]
• Blas Chumacero, 92, Mexican trade union leader.
• François Furet, 70, French historian, head injury while playing tennis, heart failure.^[56]
• Douglas Huebler, 72, American conceptual artist.^[57]
• Steve Karrys, 73, Canadian football player.
• Vinko Nikolić, 85, Croatian writer, poet and journalist.^[58]
• 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.^[59]
• Miguel Ángel Blanco, 29, Spanish politician and ETA victim, executed.
• Alexandra Danilova, 93, Russian-American prima ballerina.^[60]
• Rosy Gibb, 54, Irish social worker, clown, and magician, cancer.^[61]
• Ekaterina Kalinchuk, 74, Soviet gymnast and Olympic champion.^[62]
• Kurt Land, 84, Austrian-Argentine film director.
• Edi Rada, 74, Austrian figure skater and Olympic medalist.^[63]
• Alf Tveten, 84, Norwegian sailor and Olympian.^[64]

14

• Eddie Finnigan, 84, Canadian ice hockey player.^[65]
• Eugene Goossen, 76, American art critic and art historian, pneumonia.^[66]
• Joseph F. Holt, 73, American politician.
• Isaac Nicola, Cuban guitarist.
• Polly Shackleton, 87, American politician.^[67]
• Hilda Watson, 75, Canadian politician.

15

• Alan J. Charig, 70, English palaeontologist, stroke.^[68]
• Dick Chorovich, 64, American gridiron football player.^[69]
• Cheryl Linn Glass, 35, American racing driver, suicide.
• Eve Greene, 91, American screenwriter.^[70]
• Rosamund Greenwood, 90, British actress.
• Justinas Lagunavičius, 72, Lithuanian basketball player.^[71]
• Stefan Marinov, 66, Bulgarian physicist, suicide.
• Gianni Versace, 50, Italian fashion designer and founder of the Versace fashion house, shot.^[72][73]

16

• Ron Berry, 77, Welsh author and novelist.
• Dora Maar, 89, French photographer, painter, and poet.^[74]
• William H. Reynolds, 87, American film editor (The Godfather, The Sound of Music, The Sting), Oscar winner (1966, 1974), cancer.^[75]
• Franciszek Sulik, 88-89, Polish-Australian chess master.

17

• Bianco Bianchi, 80, Italian cyclist.^[76]
• Don Bingham, 67, American gridiron football player.^[77]
• R. Krishnan, 87, Indian film director.
• Thomas Mellon Evans, 86, American financier, complications following a fall.^[78]
• Arthur Jepson, 82, English cricket player.
• Hugo Gunckel Lüer, 95, Chilean pharmacist and botanist.
• Dave Peterson, 66, American ice hockey coach^[79]
• 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.^[80]

18

• André Drobecq, 96, French racing cyclist.^[81]
• Léon Gaultier, 82, French nazi collaborator during World War II and founding member of Front National.^[82]
• James Goldsmith, 64, Anglo-French financier, tycoon, and politician, pancreatic cancer.^[83]
• Igor Linchevski, Russian botanist.
• Oddvar Richardsen, 60, Norwegian football player and manager.^[84]
• Eugene Merle Shoemaker, 69, American geologist and planetary science pioneer, car accident.^[85]
• Harold Spina, 91, American composer of popular songs.
• Gregorio Weber, 81, Argentinian biochemist.^[86]

19

• Frank Farrell, 50, British rock musician (Supertramp).
• Hec Gervais, 63, Canadian curler.
• John E. Hines, 86, American Episcopal Church bishop.^[87]
• Jim Peebles, 76, American football player (Washington Redskins).^[88]
• Tugelbay Sydykbekov, 85, Kyrgyzstani writer.

20

• Puneet Nath Datt, 24, Indian Army officer, killed in action.
• Alf Engen, 88, Norwegian-American skier.^[89]
• Ed Klewicki, 85, American football player.^[90]
• M. E. H. Maharoof, 58, Sri Lankan politician, gunshot wounds.
• Drummond Matthews, 66, British marine geologist and geophysicist.^[91]
• Eric Charles Milner, 69, Canadian mathematician.
• Arshi Pipa, 76, Albanian-American philosopher, writer and poet.
• Linda Stirling, 75, American showgirl, model, and actress, cancer.^[92]

21

• Tony Alvarez, 40, Spanish Australian actor and singer, AIDS-related cancer.
• Sjaak Alberts, 71, Dutch football player.^[93]
• Paul K. Benedict, 85, American anthropologist and linguist, traffic accident.
• Roger Bowman, 69, American baseball player.^[94]
• 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.^[95]
• Vincent Hanna, 57, Northern Irish television journalist, heart attack.^[96]
• Jean-Jacques Herbulot, 88, French sailor and Olympiian.^[97]
• Kevin Howley, 73, English football referee.^[98]
• János Mogyorósi-Klencs, 75, Hungarian gymnast and Olympian.^[99]
• Sondra Rodgers, 94, American actress.
• Fritz Scheller, 82, German cyclist.^[100]

23

• Walter Behrendt, 82, German politician.
• Jeff Cross, 78, American baseball player.^[101]
• Andrew Cunanan, 27, American spree killer and murderer of Gianni Versace, suicide by gunshot.^[102]
• Dequinha, 69, Brazilian football player.^[103]
• Andrea Domburg, 74, Dutch actress.^[104]
• Chūhei Nambu, 93, Japanese track and field athlete, pneumonia.^[105]
• Simon Pierre Tchoungui, 80, First Prime Minister of Cameroon.
• David Warbeck, 55, New Zealand actor and model, cancer.^[106]

24

• William J. Brennan, 91, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (1956–1990).^[107]
• Bob Gaddy, 73, American East Coast blues and R&B pianist, singer and songwriter, lung cancer.^[108]
• Edward Gardère, 88, French fencer and Olympian.^[109]
• Brian Glover, 63, English actor (Alien 3, Kes, An American Werewolf in London) and writer, brain tumor, brain cancer.^[110]
• László Görög, 93, Hungarian-American screenwriter.
• Saw Maung, 69, Burmese army general and statesman, heart attack.^[111]
• Frank Parker, 81, American tennis player.^[112]
• Bill Shine, 85, British actor.^[113]

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.^[114]
• Ben Hogan, 84, American golf champion.^[115]
• David McFaull, 48, American sailor and Olympian.^[116]
• Boris Novikov, 72, Soviet actor, complications from diabetes.
• Matiu Rata, 63, New Zealand Māori politician, traffic accident.^[117]

26

• Jaime Milans del Bosch, 82, Spanish lieutenant general and co-leader of 1981 coup d'état, brain tumor.^[118]
• Kunihiko Kodaira, 82, Japanese mathematician.^[119]
• Bob Nussbaumer, 73, American gridiron football player.^[120]
• Denis Smallwood, 78, British Royal Air Force senior commander.

27

• Muhammad Mahdi Al-Jawahiri, 98, Iraqi poet.^[121]
• Isabel Dean, 79, English actress.^[122]
• Heinrich Liebe, 89, German naval officer during World War II.
• René Persillon, 78, French football player.^[123]
• K'tut Tantri, 99, Scottish American hotelier and broadcaster known as "Surabaya Sue".^[124]

28

• Rosalie Crutchley, 77, British actress.^[125]
• John FitzPatrick, 82, Australian politician.^[126]
• Bud Hardin, 75, American baseball player.^[127]
• 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.^[128]

29

• Jack Archer, 75, English sprinter.^[129]
• 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.^[130]

30

• Giuseppe Anedda, 85, Italian mandolin player.^[131]
• Robert Bryce, 87, Canadian civil servant.^[132]
• Emil J. Husak, 66, American politician.
• Charlotte van Pallandt, 98, Dutch painter and sculptor.^[133]

31

• Bảo Đại, 83, Vietnamese emperor of the Nguyễn dynasty, brain cancer.^[134]
• Hepi Te Heuheu, 78, New Zealand Māori chief.^[135]
• Vichit Kounavudhi, 75, Thai film director and screenwriter.
• Eddie Miller, 80, American baseball player.^[136]
• Vern Riffe, 72, American politician and speaker.
• Frans Schoubben, 63, Belgian racing cyclist.^[137]