Deaths in July 1997

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.

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

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

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

 * Giuseppe Anedda, 85, Italian mandolin player.
 * Robert Bryce, 87, Canadian civil servant.
 * Emil J. Husak, 66, American politician.
 * Charlotte van Pallandt, 98, Dutch painter and sculptor.

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.