Deaths in June 1997

The following is a list of notable deaths in June 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

 * Florence Wysinger Allen, 84, African American artists' model.
 * Ruth Atkinson, 78, American cartoonist, cancer.
 * Garland T. Byrd, 72, American politician from Georgia.
 * Giorgos P. Livanos, 70, Greek-American shipping magnate.
 * Fred Rauch, 87, Austrian singer and songwriter.
 * Mickey Rocco, 81, American baseball player.
 * Bernard Segal, 89, American lawyer civil rights activist, cancer.
 * Robert Serber, 88, American physicist, brain cancer.
 * Nikolai Tikhonov, 92, Soviet Russian-Ukrainian statesman.

2

 * Lukas Aurednik, 79, Austrian football player and football manager.
 * Zhenya Belousov, 32, Soviet/Ukrainian pop singer, stroke.
 * Martin Bronfenbrenner, 82, American economist.
 * Doc Cheatham, 91, American jazz trumpeter, singer, and bandleader.
 * Corwin Clatt, 73, American gridiron football player.
 * Louise Huntington, 92, American actress.
 * Helen Jacobs, 88, American tennis champion, heart failure.
 * William Alexander Levy, 87, American architect.
 * Kenneth McNaught, 78, Canadian historian.
 * Nikolai Ozerov, 74, Soviet tennis player and actor.
 * Eddie Thomas, 70, Welsh boxer and manager, cancer.
 * Ida Turay, 89, Hungarian film actress.

3

 * Salvatore Fiume, 81, Italian painter, sculptor, architect and writer.
 * John Holt, 73, Jamaican cricket player.
 * Dennis James, 79, American television personality and philanthropist, lung cancer.
 * Meenakshi Shirodkar, 80, Indian actress.

4

 * Thomas Boylston Adams, 86, American business executive and writer.
 * Stewart Anderson, 85, Australian rules football player.
 * Katherine Esau, 99, German-American botanist.
 * Ronnie Lane, 51, English musician, songwriter, and producer, pneumonia.
 * Johnny "Hammond" Smith, 63, American soul jazz and hard bop organist, cancer.
 * Pedro Zaballa, 58, Spanish football player.

5

 * Jack Wilson Evans, 74, American politician and mayor of Dallas, Texas, cancer.
 * Elaine Ryan Hedges, 69, American feminist.
 * Olga Kirsch, 72, South African and Israeli poet, brain tumor, brain cancer.
 * J. Anthony Lukas, 64, American journalist and author, suicide by hanging.
 * Gustav Richter, 84, German SS officer and aide to Adolf Eichmann during World War II.

6

 * Eitel Cantoni, 90, Uruguayan racecar driver.
 * Magda Gabor, 81, Hungarian-American actress and socialite, and sister of Zsa Zsa and Eva Gabor, kidney failure.
 * Monica Golding, 94, British Army nurse and nursing administrator.
 * Charles Jones, 86, Canadian-American composer of contemporary classical music.
 * Hannu Leminen, 87, Finnish film director, set designer and screenwriter.
 * Ted Nathanson, 72, American television director, lung cancer.
 * Richard Neilson, 59, British diplomat.
 * Liao Shantao, 77, Chinese mathematician.
 * Alangudi Somu, 64, Indian Tamil film lyricist.

7

 * Raghu Raj Bahadur, 73, Indian statistician.
 * Lewis White Beck, 83, American philosopher and scholar of German philosophy.
 * Jacques Canetti, 88, French music executive and talent manager.
 * Paul Reade, 54, English composer.
 * Stanley Schachter, 75, American social psychologist, colon cancer.
 * Nadezhda Simonyan, 75, Soviet and Russian composer.

8

 * Betty Andujar, 84, American civic activist and politician.
 * Norman Cleaveland, 96, American rugby player and Olympian.
 * Ken Hunt, 62, American baseball player.
 * Park Jaesam, 64, Korean poet.
 * Reid Shelton, 72, American actor, stroke.
 * George Turner, 80, Australian writer and critic.
 * Amos Tutuola, 76, Nigerian writer, diabetes.
 * Karen Wetterhahn, 48, American professor of chemistry, mercury poisoning.

9

 * Károly Bajkó, 52, Hungarian wrestler.
 * Robert W. Hansen, 86, American lawyer and jurist.
 * Ismael Huerta, 80, Chilean admiral and politician, cardiac embolism.
 * Stanley Knowles, 88, Canadian politician.
 * Yevgeni Lebedev, 80, Soviet and Russian film and theater actor.
 * Thornton Lee, 90, American baseball player.
 * Witness Lee, 91-92, Chinese christian preacher and hymnist, cancer.

10

 * Carolina Cotton, 71, American singer and actress, ovarian cancer.
 * Leo Fuld, 84, Dutch singer.
 * Kim Ki-soo, 57, South Korean boxing champion, liver cancer.
 * Zhou Lin, 85, Chinese politician.

11

 * Herman Basudde, 38, Ugandan kadongo kamu musician, traffic accident.
 * Robert Bates, 48, Northern Irish Ulster loyalist, shot.
 * Thalassa Cruso, 88, British-American presenter and author on horticulture, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Ben Dunkelman, 83, Canadian-Israeli military officer, heart attack.
 * Gonzalo Fonseca, 74, Uruguayan artist, stroke.
 * Ralph Kohl, 73, American football player, coach and scout.
 * Satyanarayan Rajguru, 93, Indian litterateur, epigraphist and historian.
 * Mihir Sen, 66, Indian long distance swimmer, combination of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease.
 * Kurt Stöpel, 89, German road bicycle racer.
 * Lütfiye Sultan, 87, Turkish Ottoman princess.

12

 * Jo Backaert, 75, Belgian football player.
 * Rick Baldwin, 42, American racing driver, racing accident.
 * Pieter d'Hont, 80, Dutch sculptor.
 * Colette Magny, 70, French singer and songwriter.
 * Vittorio Mussolini, 80, Italian film critic and producer.
 * Bulat Okudzhava, 73, Soviet/Russian poet, writer, musician, and singer-songwriter.
 * Arnaldo Sentimenti, 83, Italian football player and coach.
 * Veikko Vennamo, 84, Finnish politician.
 * Joe Ben Wheat, 81, American archaeologist and author.

13

 * Al Berto, 49, Portuguese poet and painter, lymphoma.
 * Ladislau Bonyhádi, 74, Romanian football player of Hungarian ethnicity.
 * Anand Narain Mulla, 95, Indian Urdu poet.
 * George Strugar, 63. American gridiron football player, lung cancer.

14

 * Marjorie Best, 94, American costume designer (Giant, Rio Bravo, The Greatest Story Ever Told, Oscar winner (1950).
 * Helmut Fischer, 70, German actor, carcinoma.
 * Richard Jaeckel, 70, American actor (The Dirty Dozen, Sometimes a Great Notion. Starman), melanoma.
 * Helena Sanders, 86, British cultural activist, politician and poet.

15

 * Nicholas Danby, British organist and composer.
 * George Denholm, 88, British flying ace during World War II.
 * Frode Jakobsen, 90, Danish author and politician.
 * Edmond Leburton, 82, Belgian politician and Prime Minister.
 * Robert C. McEwen, 77, American politician.
 * Attilio Redolfi, 73, Italian-French racing cyclist.
 * Son Sen, 67, Cambodian communist politician and soldier, summary execution.
 * Dal Stivens, 85, Australian writer.

16

 * Mariya Batrakova, 74, Soviet and Russian Red Army officer and Hero of the Soviet Union.
 * Rolf Ericson, 74, Swedish jazz trumpeter.
 * Badi-ud-din Mahmud, 92, Sri Lankan politician.
 * Elizabeth McBride, 42, American costume designer (Driving Miss Daisy, Thelma & Louise, The Shawshank Redemption), cancer.
 * Michael O'Herlihy, 68, Irish television producer and director.
 * Sukumaran, 49, Indian film actor and producer, heart attack.
 * Sue Sumii, 95, Japanese social reformer, writer, and novelist.
 * Tom Søndergaard, 53, Danish football player.
 * Inge Wersin-Lantschner, 92, Austrian alpine skier and world champion.

17

 * Frances Foster, 73, American film, television and stage actress, cerebral hemorrhage.
 * Bernhard Jensen, 85, Danish flatwater canoeist and Olympian.
 * Maurice Rootes, 80, British film editor.
 * Hari Krishna Shastri, 59, Indian politician.

18

 * James Willard Hurst, 86, American legal scholar and law history pioneer, cancer.
 * Lev Kopelev, 85, Soviet author and dissident.
 * Devon Russell, Jamaican rocksteady and reggae singer and record producer, brain tumour.
 * Cândido Tavares, 85, Portuguese football goalkeeper and manager.
 * José María Fernández Unsáin, 78, Argentine film director, screenwriter, and playwright.
 * C. Martin Wilbur, 89, American historian and professor at Columbia University.
 * Héctor Yazalde, 51, Argentine footballer, heart failure.

19

 * Basu Bhattacharya, Indian film director, acute pancreatitis.
 * Robert Francis Byrnes, 79, American professor of history, heart attack.
 * Jiří David, 74, Czech sprinter and Olympian.
 * Cathleen Delany, 89, Irish actress.
 * Olga Georges-Picot, 57, French actress, suicide.
 * Thurman Green, 56, American jazz trombonist.
 * Bobby Helms, 63, American country music singer, emphysema and asthma.
 * Robert Henrion, 81, Belgian politician.
 * Julia Smith, 70, English television director and producer, cancer.
 * Stan Stasiak, 60, Canadian professional wrestler known as Stan Stasiak, heart failure.

20

 * John Akii-Bua, 47, Ugandan hurdler and the nation's first Olympic champion.
 * Armando Brancia, 79, Italian film and television actor.
 * Paul Carell, 85, German Nazi politician and propagandist.
 * Henri Haest, 70, Belgian hammer thrower and Olympian.
 * Cahit Külebi, 80, Turkish poet and author, cancer.
 * John Michael Macdonald, 91, Canadian politician.
 * Lawrence Payton, 59, American tenor, songwriter, musician, and record producer, liver cancer.
 * Alberto Rivera, 61, Spanish anti-Catholic religious activist, colon cancer.

21

 * Shintarō Katsu, 65, Japanese actor, singer, producer, and director, pharyngeal cancer.
 * Shantilal Jamnadas Mehta, 92, Indian surgeon and medical academic.
 * Arthur Prysock, 68, American jazz and R&B singer.
 * Karl Ridderbusch, 65, German operatic bass.
 * Fidel Velázquez Sánchez, 97, Mexican union leader, cardiac and respiratory failure.
 * Vladimir Vinogradov, 75, Soviet diplomat.

22

 * Lars Bergendahl, 88, Norwegian cross-country skier.
 * William Slater Brown, 100, American novelist, biographer, and translator of French literature.
 * Larry Grossman, 53, Canadian politician (Legislative Assembly of Ontario), brain cancer.
 * Ted Gärdestad, 41, Swedish singer, songwriter, musician, and actor, suicide.
 * Don Henderson, 65, English actor (Star Wars, The Paradise Club, Strangers), throat cancer.
 * Paul Napolitano, 74, American basketball player.
 * Gérard Pelletier, 78, Canadian journalist and politician.

23

 * Tom Calder, 79, Australian rules football player.
 * Rosina Lawrence, 84, British-Canadian actress and singer, cancer.
 * Prince Nico Mbarga, 47, Nigerian Igbo highlife musician, motorcycle accident.
 * Don Norton, 59, American gridiron football player.
 * Betty Shabazz, 63, American civil rights advocate and widow of Malcolm X, burns.
 * Acharya Tulsi, 82, Indian Jain religious leader.

24

 * Brian Keith, 75, American actor (Family Affair, The Parent Trap, The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming), suicide.
 * Paul Lavalle, 88, American conductor, composer, arranger and peron clarinet and saxophone.
 * Sanjukta Panigrahi, 52, Indian Odissi dancer, cancer.
 * Leonard B. Strang, 72, British professor of paediatric sciences, cancer.

25

 * Bobby Blackwood, 62, Scottish footballer.
 * Jacques Cousteau, 87, French explorer, conservationist, and oceanographer, heart attack.
 * William Grinnell, 87, American football player and coach, congestive heart failure.
 * Mario Salvadori, 90, American structural engineer and professor at Columbia University.
 * Sotim Ulugzoda, 85, Soviet and Tajik writer.

26

 * George Bassman, 83, American composer and arranger.
 * Don Bradley, 72, English football player.
 * Charlie Chester, 83, English comedian, radio and television presenter and writer.
 * Robert Frucht, 90, German-Chilean mathematician.
 * Don Hutson, 84, American football player (Green Bay Packers) and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
 * Israel Kamakawiwoʻole, 38, Native Hawaiian musician and activist, respiratory failure.
 * Thomas Joseph Murphy, 64, American prelate in the Catholic Church, cerebral hemorrhage.
 * William Turnbull, 62, American architect, cancer.

27

 * Ray Benge, 95, American baseball player.
 * Narinder Biba, 56, Indian Punjabi singer.
 * Samuel L. Devine, 81, American politician, cancer.
 * Joseph Zong Huaide, 80, Chinese Roman Catholic Bishop.
 * W. O. G. Lofts, 73, British researcher and author.
 * Harrison Marks, 70, English glamour photographer and director of pornographic films.
 * Kenneth Neate, 82, Australian tenor, opera producer, composer and author.
 * Ken Richardson, 85, English racing and test driver.
 * Ondino Viera, 95, Uruguayan football manager.

28

 * Gary DeVore, 55, American Hollywood screenwriter, murdered.
 * Forest Dewey Dodrill, 95, American doctor and inventor of the Dodrill-GMR heart machine.
 * Jack Hinton, 87, New Zealand soldier during World War II and recipient of the Victoria Cross.
 * Hubert Lamb, 83, English climatologist.
 * Hildegard Ochse, 61, German photographer, leukemia.
 * Friedrich von Mellenthin, 92, German Wehrmacht general during World War II.
 * Yang Yichen, 83, Chinese politician.

29

 * Nicholas Cleaveland Bodman, 83, American linguist.
 * William Hickey, 69, American actor (Prizzi's Honor, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, The Nightmare Before Christmas), emphysema and bronchitis.
 * Marjorie Linklater, 88, Scottish arts and environment campaigner, cancer and heart failure.
 * Tom Lovell, 88, American illustrator and painter, car accident.
 * Petey Rosenberg, 79, American basketball player.

30

 * Gyula Benkő, 78, Hungarian actor and father of actor Péter Benkő.
 * Su Bingqi, 87, Chinese archaeologist.
 * William Bradley, 64, English bicycle racer and Olympian.
 * Larry O'Dea, 53, Australian professional wrestler, liver cancer.
 * Alcira Soust Scaffo, 73, Uruguayan teacher and poet, respiratory disease.