Deaths Date 1997 P 4 | History by KabAstro

Deaths 601 - 667 of 667

Chris Farley (1964-1997)

Dec 18 American actor and comedian (SNL, Wayne's World, Coneheads), dies of a drug overdose at 33

Dec 19 David Schramm, American astrophysicist (pioneer in establishing particle astrophysics as a vibrant research field), dies at 52
Dec 19 Jimmy Rogers, American blues musician (Muddy Waters' Band), dies at 73

Masaru Ibuka (1908-1997)

Dec 19 Japanese electronics industrialist (Sony Corp), dies at 89

Dec 20 Dawn Steel, American filmmaker, 1st woman to head Hollywood studio, dies of cancer at 51
Dec 20 Denise Levertov, American poet and essayist (Joy Beneath the Skin), dies at 74
Dec 20 Dick Spooner, English cricket wicket-keeper (7 Tests; 12 dismissals), dies at 77
Dec 20 Vincent Ciccone, inventor (Blow-Pops candy), dies at 81
Dec 21 Amie Comeaux, American country music singer, dies at 21
Dec 21 Bruce Woodcock, English boxer, European Heavyweight Champion, dies at 76
Dec 21 Harold Roxbee Cox, Baron Kings Norton, British aeronautical engineer, dies at 95
Dec 21 Juzo Itami, film director/actor (Lord Jim, Yuuguremade), dies at 64
Dec 21 Michael Lyne, British Air Vice-Marshal, dies at 78
Dec 22 Douglas Ranger, British surgeon, dies at 81
Dec 22 Hugh Edward Conway Seymour, 8th Marquess of Hertford, dies at 67
Dec 22 John Pinkerton, English computer scientist who designed the first business computer in England, the LEO computer, dies at 78
Dec 22 Johnny Coles, trumpeter, dies at 71
Dec 22 Juzo Itami, Japanese director, commits suicide at 64
Dec 23 Brian Malzard Foss, British psychologist, dies at 76
Dec 23 Donald Gunn MacRae, British sociologist, dies at 76
Dec 23 Hrvoje Horvatic, Croatian filmmaker (Hand on the Shoulder), dies from chicken pox at 39
Dec 23 Keith Bentley, English international racing cyclist, dies at 72
Dec 23 Stanley Cortez, American cinematographer (Magnificent Ambersons), dies at 89
Dec 24 Alan Fluck, Scottish musical educator, dies at 69
Dec 24 James Komack, American writer, director, and actor (The Courtship of Eddie's Father; Chico and the Man; Welcome Back, Kotter), dies at 73
Dec 24 Pierre Péladeau, Canadian businessman and founder of Quebecor, dies at 72

Toshiro Mifune (1920-1997)

Dec 24 Japanese writer and actor (Rashomon, Seven Samurai, Shogun), dies at 77

Dec 25 Anatoli Boukreev, mountaineer, dies at 39
Dec 25 Denver Pyle, American actor (The Dukes of Hazzard, The Andy Griffith Show), dies of lung cancer at 77
Dec 25 Giorgio Strehler, Italian opera and theatre director, dies at 76
Dec 25 Laurence Gower, academic, dies at 84
Dec 26 Cornelius Castoriadis, Greek philosopher and economist, dies at 75
Dec 26 John Hinde, English pioneering color photographer (color postcards, documented circus life), dies at 81 [1]
Dec 26 John Whitley, British air-marshal, dies at 92
Dec 27 Anthea Joseph, British music promoter, dies at 57
Dec 27 Billy Wright, Irish Protestant paramilitary leader (b. 1960)
Dec 27 Brendan Gill, American critic (The New Yorker), dies at 83
Dec 27 Buxton Orr, Anglo-Scottish composer, dies at 73
Dec 27 Dorothy Stroud, garden historian, dies at 87
Dec 27 Ewart Abner, American record label executive, President of Motown Records, manager of Stevie Wonder), dies at 74
Dec 27 Tom Hudson, British artist and teacher, dies at 75
Dec 28 Henry Barraud, French composer, dies at 97
Dec 28 James Lees-Milne, English writer and architectural historian, dies at 89
Dec 28 Ronald Clive Williams, Welsh actor and comedian (Twin Town), dies at 68
Dec 29 Pat Clarke, British cyclist, dies at 82
Dec 30 Shinichi Hoshi, Japanese novelist (b. 1926)
Dec 31 76 law enforcement officers, killed by felons in US this year
Dec 31 Billie Dove [Lilian Bohny], American actress (Black Pirate, Stolen Bride), dies at 96
Dec 31 Dominique de Menil, French-American arts patron (Menil Collection Houston) and human rights advocate, dies at 89
Dec 31 Floyd Cramer, American Country Music Hall of Fame pianist ("Last Date"; "On the Rebound"), dies of cancer at 64
Dec 31 Michael Kennedy, son of Robert F. Kennedy, dies in ski accident at 39

Famous People Who Died in 1997 (Part 4)

Chris Farley (1964-1997)

Masaru Ibuka (1908-1997)

Toshiro Mifune (1920-1997)

Famous People by Cause of Death