Deaths Date 1997 July | History by KabAstro

Jul 1 Joshua Hassan, Gibraltarian lawyer and politician (Chief Minister of Gibraltar, 1964-69, and 1972-87), dies at 81
Jul 1 Robert Mitchum, American actor (Out of the Past, Winds of War, North & South), dies of lung cancer and emphysema at 79

James Stewart (1908-1997)

Jul 2 American actor (The Philadelphia Story; It's a Wonderful Life; Mr Smith Goes to Washington; Vertigo), dies of a pulmonary embolism at 89

Jul 4 Amado Carrillo Fuentes, Mexican drug lord (Juárez Cartel), dies at 40
Jul 4 Charles Kuralt, American news anchor (CBS Sunday Morning), dies at 62
Jul 5 Mrs. Miller, American singer (A Lover's Missouri), dies at 89
Jul 6 Brun Smith, New Zealand cricket batsman (4 Tests @ 47.40), dies at 75
Jul 7 Jerry Doggett, American sportscaster, 1956-87 (Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers), dies at 80
Jul 13 Alexandra Danilova, Russian-American ballerina (The Turning Point), dies at 92
Jul 13 Michael Jaffe, English professor and museum director (Fitzwilliam Museum), dies at 74
Jul 13 Miguel Ángel Blanco, Spanish politician (b. 1968)
Jul 15 Alan Chaig, paleontologist (Carl Sagan of BBC), dies at 70

Jul 15 Italian fashion designer (Versace), shot and murdered by Andrew Cunanan at 50

Jul 16 Dora Maar [Markovitch], French photographer, painter, poet, model, and lover of Pablo Picasso, dies at 89
Jul 17 Arthur L. Liman, American trial lawyer (Oliver North), dies of bladder cancer at 64 [1]
Jul 18 Eugene M. Shoemaker, American planetary scientist and geologist (Shoemaker-Levy comet), dies at 69
Jul 18 James Goldsmith, French-British business tycoon and politician (Member of European Parliament, 1994-97; founder of UK's Referendum Party), dies of pancreatic cancer at 64
Jul 20 Clifford McWatt, West Indian cricket wicketkeeper (6 Tests, 10 dismissals; British Guiana), dies in a car crash at 75
Jul 20 Linda Stirling, college prof/B movie actress (Pretender), dies at 75
Jul 23 Chūhei Nambu, Japanese athlete (Olympic gold triple jump 1932; only person to have held WRs in both long jump & triple jump), dies at 93
Jul 24 Andrew Cunanan, American serial killer (Gianni Versace), commits suicide at 27
Jul 24 Brian Glover, British actor and wrestler (Alien 3, Kes), dies of a brain tumor at 63
Jul 24 Frank Parker, American tennis player (4-time Grand Slam singles winner), dies at 81
Jul 24 Saw Maung, Burmese general (President of Myanmar (Burma) (1988-92), dies at 68
Jul 24 William J. Brennan, Jr. American Supreme Court judge (1956-90), dies at 91

Jul 25 American golfer (9-time major title winner; US masters 1951, 53), dies of a stroke at 84

Jul 25 Margaret Farrer, English midwife, dies at 83
Jul 27 Isabel Dean, English actress (Five Days One Summer Virgin Island, Ransom), dies at 79
Jul 27 K'Tut Tantri [Muriel Stuart Walker], Scottish-American broadcaster during Indonesian National Revolution, dies at 99
Jul 27 Raymond Jackson, British illustrator and political cartoonist (Evening Standard, 1952-97), dies at 70
Jul 28 Rosalie Crutchley, British actress (Armchair Theatre: Black Limelight, Four Weddings and a Funeral), dies at 77
Jul 28 Seni Pramoj, Prime Minister of Thailand (1945-46, 75, 76), dies at 92
Jul 29 Chuck Wayne [Jagelka], America session and bebop jazz guitarist (Woody Herman's First Herd; George Shearing Quintet; Gil Evans; Tony Bennett), dies of emphysema at 74

Jul 30 Vietnamese emperor and chief of state (Annam 1926-1945; State of Vietnam, 1949-1955), dies at 85

Jul 31 Edith Fore, American pitchwoman (ad for LifeCall alarm - I've fallen and I can't get up!), dies at 81
Jul 31 Ulrich Ernst Simon, German-Jewish Anglican theologian, dies at 63