The following is a list of notable deaths in March 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.
March 1997
1
Stanislaus Joseph Brzana , 79, American bishop of the Roman Catholic Church.[ 1]
Hans Robert Jauss , 75, German academic.[ 2]
Martin Furnival Jones , 84, British Director General of MI5 (1965–1972).[ 3]
Monte Kennedy , 74, American baseball player.[ 4]
Václav Roziňák , 74, Czechoslovak ice hockey player.[ 5]
Annie Beatrice van der Biest Thielan Wetmore , 87, Dutch-American ornithologist.[ 6]
2
Yahaya Ahmad , 49, Malaysian businessman, helicopter crash.[ 7]
Abdel Azim Ashry , 85, Egyptian basketball player and referee.
Judi Bari , 47, American environmentalist, feminist, and labor leader, breast cancer.[ 8]
Douglas Blackwood , 87, British publisher and fighter pilot during World War II.[ 9]
Horace Cutler , 84, British politician.[ 10]
Richard De Smet , 81, Belgian Jesuit priest , missionary and indologist .
Amleto Frignani , 64, Italian football player.
Herman H. Fussler , 82, American librarian, writer and editor.[ 11]
Albert Gazier , 88, French trade union leader and politician.[ 12]
Grete Heublein , 89, German track and field athlete and Olympian.[ 13]
Walter Leinweber , 89, German ice hockey player.[ 14]
J. Carson Mark , 83, Canadian-American mathematician, complications from a fall.[ 15]
Waldo Nelson , 98, American pediatrician, stroke.[ 16]
Vicente Parra , 66, Spanish actor, lung cancer.[ 17]
Wendell Thompson Perkins , 69, American painter.[ 18]
Martin Smith , 50, English rock drummer, internal bleeding.
3
Bradford Angier , 86, American wilderness survivalist.[ 19]
Jascha Brodsky , 89, Russian-American violinist.[ 20]
Eric Edwards, Baron Chelmer , 82, English peer and solicitor.[ 21]
Harry Davis , 88, American baseball player.[ 22]
Lola Beer Ebner , 86, Israeli fashion designer.
Billy Jurges , 88, American baseball player.[ 23]
Mulumba Lukoji , 53, Congolese politician and professor.
William Edward McManus , 83, American prelate of the Catholic Church .
Santiago Ojeda Pérez , 52, Spanish judoka .
Erik Waaler , 94, Norwegian professor of medicine.[ 24]
4
Joe Baker-Cresswell , 96, English Royal Navy officer and aide-de-camp to King George VI .[ 25]
Roger Brown , 54, American basketball player, colon cancer.[ 26]
Leo Catozzo , 84, Italian film editor.
Robert H. Dicke , 80, American astronomer and physicist.[ 27]
Stanley Fink , 61, American lawyer and politician, cancer.[ 28]
Edward Klabiński , 76, Polish racing cyclist.
Robert Lampman , 76, American economist, lung cancer.[ 29]
Carey Loftin , 83, American actor and stuntman.
Paul Préboist , 70, French actor.
József Simándy , 80, Hungarian tenor .
5
Zalman Abramov , 88, Israeli politician.
Amjad Ali , 89, Pakistani politician and a civil servant.[ 30]
Samm Sinclair Baker , 87, American self-help writer.[ 31]
Ralph Bass , 85, American R&B record producer.[ 32]
Frank Brennan , 72, Scottish footballer.[ 33]
Jean Dréville , 90, French film director.[ 34]
William Roberts , 83, American screenwriter, respiratory failure.[ 35]
Edmund Brinsley Teesdale , 81, Hong Kong Colonial Secretary .
6
Frank Anderson , 83, Australian rules football player.
Rosalyn Boulter , 80, British film actress.[ 36]
Ed Furgol , 79, American golfer.[ 37]
Cheddi Jagan , 78, President of Guyana .[ 38]
Michael Manley , 72, Prime Minister of Jamaica (1972–1980; 1989–1992), prostate cancer.[ 39]
7
Wilfred Conwell Bain , 89, American music educator.[ 40]
Gösta Brännström , 70, Swedish sprinter and Olympian.[ 41]
Chuck Green , 77, American tap dancer.[ 42]
Martin Kippenberger , 44, German artist and sculptor, liver cancer.[ 43]
Agnieszka Osiecka , 60, Polish poet, writer, film director and journalist, cancer.[ 44]
Edward Mills Purcell , 84, American physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics , respiratory failure.[ 45]
Kim Yale , 43, American comic book writer and editor (Suicide Squad , Deadshot , Sgt. Rock ), breast cancer.
8
Leon Danielian , 76, American ballet dancer, teacher, and choreographer.[ 46]
Masuo Ikeda , 63, Japanese painter, printmaker, illustrator, sculptor, ceramist, novelist, and film director from Nagano Prefecture.[ 47]
Gershon Liebman , 92, French rabbi and Holocaust survivor.
Lefter Millo , 30, Albanian football player, traffic collision.[ 48]
Alexander Salkind , 75, French-Mexican film producer (Superman ).[ 49]
Alfred Sheinwold , 85, American bridge player and writer, stroke.[ 50]
9
The Notorious B.I.G. , 24, American rapper ("Juicy ", "Big Poppa ", "Mo Money Mo Problems "), shot.[ 51]
Jean-Dominique Bauby , 44, French journalist and author (Elle magazine ), pneumonia during locked-in syndrome .[ 52]
John Boyd , 70, United States Air Force fighter pilot and military strategist, cancer.[ 53]
Robert B. Leighton , 77, American experimental physicist.[ 54]
John S. McKiernan , 85, American politician.
Terry Nation , 66, Welsh television writer (Doctor Who ), emphysema.[ 55]
Ray Prochaska , 77, American gridiron football player and coach.[ 56]
Bezawada Gopala Reddy , 89, Indian politician.
Alice Sommerlath , 90, Brazilian-born entrepreneur and mother of Queen Silvia of Sweden .[ 57]
Veronica Wedgwood , 86, English historian.[ 58]
Dwight Locke Wilbur , 93, American medical doctor and president of the A.M.A. [ 59]
10
Jimmy Airlie , 60, Scottish trade unionist, cancer.[ 60]
LaVern Baker , 67, American R&B singer, cardiovascular disease .[ 61]
Raymond Bass , 87, American Navy rear admiral, gymnast and Olympian.[ 62]
Stan Drake , 75, American cartoonist.[ 63]
Yorozuya Kinnosuke , 64, Japanese kabuki actor, pneumonia, laryngeal cancer.[ 64]
David Moroder , 66, Italian luger and sculptor.
Imam Mustafayev , 87, Azerbaijani communist politician.
Ossie O'Brien , 68, British politician.[ 65]
Wesley Ramey , 87, American boxer.
Ghulam Rasool Santosh , 68, Indian painter and poet.[ 66]
Johannes Theodor Suhr , 101, Danish Roman Catholic bishop.[ 67]
Wilf Wooller , 84, Welsh cricketer, rugby player, and journalist.
Hideo Ōba , 87, Japanese film director and screenwriter.
11
Lars Ahlin , 81, Swedish author and aesthetician.[ 68]
Robert Browning , 83, Scottish Byzantinist .[ 69]
Stefan Fernholm , 37, Swedish discus thrower , shot putter , and Olympian.[ 70]
Hugh Lawson , 61, American jazz pianist, cancer.[ 71]
Thikkurissy Sukumaran Nair , 80, Indian poet, playwright, film director and actor, kidney failure .
Hugo Weisgall , 84, American composer and conductor.[ 72]
12
Shamsul-hasan Shams Barelvi , 79-80, Pakistani Islamic scholar.
Hendrik Brugmans , 90, Dutch academic and linguist.[ 73]
Ernst-Georg Drünkler , 76, German Luftwaffe fighter ace during World War II.
Bertram Myron Gross , 84, American social scientist , congestive heart failure.[ 74]
William Hare, 5th Earl of Listowel , 90, Anglo-Irish peer and Labour politician.
Wally Wolf , 66, American swimmer, water polo player, and Olympic champion.[ 75]
13
14
Jurek Becker , 59, Polish-German writer, film author and GDR dissident, colorectal cancer.[ 78]
Joseph Fuchs , 97, American classical violinist.[ 79]
Alija Isaković , 65, Bosnian writer, publicist, and playwright.[ 80]
Jim McConn , 68, American politician and mayor of Houston , Texas .
Nicolas Morn , 65, Luxembourgish cyclist and Olympian.[ 81]
Terence O'Sullivan , 73, Irish Fianna Fáil politician.
Veerendra Patil , 73, Indian politician.[ 82]
Fred Zinnemann , 89, Austrian-American film director (From Here to Eternity , A Man for All Seasons , High Noon ), Oscar winner (1954 ), heart attack.[ 83]
15
C. Arulampalam , 88, Sri Lankan Tamil politician.
Gail Davis , 71, American actress (Annie Oakley ) and singer, cancer.[ 84]
Victor Dumitrescu , 72, Romanian football player.
Svend Wiig Hansen , 74, Danish sculptor and painter.
Vernon Harrell , 56, American R&B singer and songwriter.
Kåre Holt , 80, Norwegian author.
Ed Kullman , 73, Canadian ice hockey player.[ 85]
Dorab Patel , 72, Pakistani jurist and lawmaker, leukemia .
Victor Vasarely , 90, Hungarian-French artist, cancer.[ 86]
16
Berta Bojetu , 51, Slovene writer, poet and actress.
Paal Frisvold , 89, Norwegian general.
Leda Gloria , 88, Italian actress.[ 87]
Harry Holgate , 63, Australian politician and Premier of Tasmania , cancer.[ 88]
Zvonko Monsider , 76, Croatian football goalkeeper.[ 89]
John Montague Stow , 85, British colonial official.[ 90]
Star Stowe , 40, American model and Playboy centerfold , strangled.
John White , 80, American rower and Olympian.[ 91]
17
Prem Jayanth , 64, Sri Lankan actor and film producer.
Fritz Moravec , 74, Austrian mountaineer and author.
Charles G. Overberger , 76, American chemist, Parkinson's disease .[ 92]
Ferenc Sipos , 64, Hungarian football player and trainer.[ 93]
Jermaine Stewart , 39, American R&B singer, AIDS-related liver cancer.
18
19
José Crespo , 96, Spanish film actor.
Willem de Kooning , 92, Dutch abstract expressionist artist, Alzheimer's disease .[ 96]
Jacques Foccart , 83, French businessman and politician.[ 97]
Eugène Guillevic , 89, French poet.[ 98]
Purnendu Pattrea , 66, Indian poet, writer, illustrator and film director.
Claude Pierson , 66, French film director, writer and producer.[ 99]
Shoukry Sarhan , 72, Egyptian actor.
Mac Van Valkenburg , 75, American electrical engineer and university professor.[ 100]
20
Ronnie Barron , 53, American actor and musician, heart attack.[ 101]
Jean Engstrom , 76, American actress.
Carlo Fassi , 67, Italian figure skater and coach.[ 102]
Britt G. Hallqvist , 83, Swedish hymnwriter, poet, and translator.
Marino Marini , 72, Italian musician.[ 103]
V. S. Pritchett , 96, British writer and literary critic.[ 104]
Tony Zale , 83, American boxer, Alzheimer's disease.[ 105]
21
22
23
24
Martin Caidin , 69, American author, screenwriter, and aviator, cancer.[ 113]
U. Alexis Johnson , 88, American diplomat, pneumonia .[ 114]
Bill Miller , 69, American professional wrestler, heart attack.
Roberto Sánchez Vilella , 84, Governor of Puerto Rico (1965–1969).[ 115]
25
Baltazar , 71, Brazilian footballer.[ 116]
Stan Coster , 66, Australian country music singer-songwriter.
Rosario Granados , 72, Argentine-Mexican film actress, heart attack.[ 117]
Pedro Medina , 39, Cuban refugee and murder convict, execution by electric chair.[ 118]
Norm Ryan , 86, Australian politician.
C. J. F. Williams , 66, British philosopher, cardiac arrest.[ 119]
26
Norman Alexander , 89, New Zealand physicist.[ 120]
Marshall Applewhite , 65, leader of the Heaven's Gate cult group, suicide by asphyxiation.
Otto John , 88, German defector and spy.[ 121]
Hartmut Losch , 53, German athlete.[ 122]
George Post , 90, American watercolorist and art educator, pneumonia.[ 123]
Nina Mason Pulliam , 90, American journalist, author, and civic leader, complications from respiratory infection.
Dickie Williams , 72, Welsh rugby player.
27
George Malcolm Brown , 71, English geologist.[ 124]
David A. Clarke , 53, American civil-rights worker, attorney, and politician, PCNSL .
Bob Dillabough , 55, Canadian ice hockey player.[ 125]
Lane Dwinell , 90, American manufacturer and politician, heart failure.[ 126]
Hugh Horner , 72, Canadian physician and politician, heart attack.
Charles Lillard , 53, American-Canadian poet and historian.[ 127]
Ella Maillart , 94, Swiss adventurer, travel writer and photographer.[ 128]
Benno Premsela , 76, Dutch designer, visual artist and art collector.[ 129]
Émile Stijnen , 89, Belgian footballer.[ 130]
28
Arthur Arntzen , 90, Norwegian politician.[ 131]
Lesley Cunliffe , 51, American journalist and writer, stomach cancer .[ 132]
Claro Duany , 79, Cuban baseball player.[ 133]
Tai Kanbara , 98, Japanese poet, painter, author, art critic and Japanese futurism pioneer, heart failure.[ 134]
29
George William Gregory Bird , 80, British medical doctor, researcher and haematologist , renal failure .
Hans-Walter Eigenbrodt , 61, German football player.[ 135]
Wilhelm Friedrich de Gaay Fortman , 85, Dutch politician and jurist.[ 136]
Finn Høffding , 98, Danish composer.[ 137]
Aleksandr Ivanov , 68, Soviet football player.[ 138]
Pupul Jayakar , 81, Indian cultural activist and writer.[ 139]
Norman Pirie , 89, British biochemist and virologist.[ 140]
Ellen Pollock , 94, British actress.[ 141]
Hans Quest , 81, German actor and film director, cancer.[ 142]
Anthony Roberts , 41, American basketball player, shot.[ 143]
Eddie Ryder , 74, American actor, writer, and television director.
Ruth Sager , 79, American geneticist , bladder cancer.[ 144]
Gordon Stephenson , 88, British-Australian town planner and architect.
Edmundo Pisano Valdés , 77, Chilean plant ecologist , botanist and agronomist , stomach cancer.
30
Jack Bernhard , 82, American film and television director.[ 145]
Bill Smith , 62, American baseball player.[ 146]
Jon Stone , 64, American writer, director and producer, ALS .[ 147]
Maria Śliwka , 61, Polish volleyball player.[ 148]
Tadeusz Żenczykowski , 90, Polish lawyer and political activist.
31
Eugenie Anderson , 87, American diplomat.[ 149]
Friedrich Hund , 101, German physicist .[ 150]
John Norman Davidson Kelly , 87, British theologian and academic.[ 151]
Marvin Liebman , 73, American activist and gay rights advocate.[ 152]
Dorothy Liu , 62, Hong Kong pro-Beijing politician and lawyer, pancreatic cancer.[ 153]
Stephen Kalong Ningkan , 76, Malaysian politician.[ 154]
Lyman Spitzer , 82, American theoretical physicist and astronomer , heart disease.[ 155]
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