Deaths in September 1997

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.

1

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

2

 * George E. Allen, 85, American football player and coach.
 * Rudolf Bing, 95, Austrian-born opera manager, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Viktor Frankl, 92, Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist.
 * Warner T. Koiter, 83, Dutch mechanical engineer and professor.
 * 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.

3

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

4

 * 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.
 * Pierre Chatenet, 80, French politician.
 * Natko Devčić, 83, Croatian composer.
 * Hans Eysenck, 81, German-born British psychologist, brain cancer.
 * Alfred Kałuziński, 44, Polish handball player and Olympian.
 * Ivan Nenov, 95, Bulgarian painter.
 * Jan Opperman, 58, American racecar driver.
 * Florence Engel Randall, 79, American author.
 * Aldo Rossi, 66, Italian architect and designer, car accident.
 * Belle Stewart, 91, Scottish traditional singer.

5

 * Mildred Dein, 85, American screenwriter.
 * Ann Dunnigan, 87, American actress and teacher.
 * Leon Edel, 89, American literary critic and biographer.
 * Polly Lada-Mocarski, 94, American rare book scholar, educator, and bookbinder.
 * Manuel Martin, 79, American soccer player-coach.
 * 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.
 * Mother Teresa, 87, Albanian missionary and humanitarian, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, heart failure.

6

 * 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.
 * H. W. L. Poonja, Indian sage and jivanmukta, pneumonia.
 * Refik Resmja, 66, Albanian footballer.
 * Jean-Pierre Sudre, 75, French photographer.
 * Uglješa Uzelac, 59, Bosnian politician and diplomat.

7

 * 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.
 * Elisabeth Brooks, 46, Canadian actress (The Howling), brain cancer.
 * Connie Clausen, 74, American actress, author, and literary agent, stroke.
 * George W. Crockett, Jr., 88, African-American attorney, jurist, and congressman.
 * Héctor Espino, 58, Mexican baseball player and manager.
 * Mark Holtz, 51, American sportscaster, leukemia.
 * Edgar Kaplan, 72, American bridge player, cancer.
 * Mobutu Sese Seko, 66, Congolese politician and president of Zaire, prostate cancer.
 * Bill Strannigan, 78, American basketball coach.
 * Brian Whittaker, 40, Scottish football player.

8

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

9

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

10

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

11

 * Fernando Ayala, 77, Argentine film director, screenwriter and producer.
 * Camille Henry, 64, Canadian ice hockey player.
 * 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.

12

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

13

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

14

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

15

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

16

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

17

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

18

 * Fernand Fayolle, 93, French racing cyclist.
 * Patricia Pulling, 49, American anti-role-playing games activist, lung cancer.
 * 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.

19

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

20

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

21

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

22

 * Beatrice Aitchison, 89, American mathematician, statistician, and economist.
 * Deolindo Bittel, 75, Argentine politician.
 * William Craig, 68, American author and historian.
 * Robert E. Huyser, 73, United States Air Force general.
 * Karl Koopman, 77, American zoologist.
 * 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.
 * George Thomas, 1st Viscount Tonypandy, 88, British politician.
 * 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.

23

 * 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.
 * Dick Flanagan, 69, American gridiron football player.
 * Abe Gibron, 72, American gridiron football player and coach.
 * Cary Lu, 51, American science writer, cancer.
 * Doug Million, 21, American baseball player, asthma.
 * Jonas Pipynė, 61, Lithuanian track and field runner, skier, and Olympian.
 * Ray Poage, 56, American gridiron football player.
 * Lu Sheng, 85, Chinese military officer.
 * J.D. Thottan, 75, Indian director of Malayalam language films.
 * Pedro de Castro van Dúnem, 55, Angolan politician.
 * Torgny Wickman, 86, Swedish screenwriter and film director.

24

 * Anton Kehle, 49, German ice hockey goaltender, cancer.
 * William M. Miley, 99, United States Army officer and a professor.
 * 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, Luxembourgian football player.
 * Ernest Will, 84, French archaeologist and professor.

25

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

26

 * Nick Carter, 95, American track and field athlete, coach and official.
 * Woody English, 91, American baseball player.
 * 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.
 * Egon Scheibe, 88, German aviation engineer.
 * John Schubeck, 61, American television reporter and anchor, kidney and liver failure.
 * Samuel W. Taylor, 90, American novelist, scriptwriter, and historian.
 * Péter Zsoldos, 67, Hungarian science fiction author.

27

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

28

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

29

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

30

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