Deaths in December 1997

List of deaths in December 1997

Name	Date of birth	Date of death	Age	Gender	Cause of death	Country of death	Citizenship
Albert Celerin	1921-07-05	1997-12-31	76	male		Austria	Germany
Aleksej Avdysjev	1928-09-19	1997-12-31	69	male		Russia	Soviet Union
Angus Julian Drummond	1910-01-02	1997-12-31	87	male
Augusto Marinoni	1911-06-15	1997-12-31	86	male		Italy	Kingdom of Italy
Billie Dove	1903-05-14	1997-12-31	94	female	natural causes	United States of America	United States of America
Capiba	1904-10-28	1997-12-31	93	male			Brazil
Dominique de Menil	1908-03-23	1997-12-31	89	female		United States of America	United States of America
Donald Leake	1931-11-06	1997-12-31	66	male			United States of America
Donald William Roy	1908-01-21	1997-12-31	89	male
Floyd Cramer	1933-10-27	1997-12-31	64	male	natural causes	United States of America	United States of America
Grellmund	1901-01-01	1997-12-31	96	male			Norway
Harold Grant	1900-01-16	1997-12-31	97	male		United States of America	United States of America
Helmut Kriegbaum	1956-02-08	1997-12-31	41	male
Herbert Puchert	1914-04-02	1997-12-31	83	male			German Democratic Republic
Jean-Pierre Lanvin	1924-05-08	1997-12-31	73	male		France	France
Jim Chambers	1927-03-16	1997-12-31	70	male			Canada
José Leyra	1912-05-06	1997-12-31	85	male		Spain	Spain
Józef Zembaczyński	1909-01-01	1997-12-31	88	male
Ken Olfson	1937-04-02	1997-12-31	60	male			United States of America
Kin Ishii	1927-11-30	1997-12-31	70	male	natural causes		Japan
Ko Stijger	1915-05-01	1997-12-31	82	male
Liu Lantao	1910-11-01	1997-12-31	87	male			People's Republic of China
Michael Brodrick Hicks-Beach	1942-01-09	1997-12-31	55	male
Michael LeMoyne Kennedy	1958-02-27	1997-12-31	39	male		United States of America	United States of America
Nəsibə Mahmudbəyova-Vəlizadə	1916-03-28	1997-12-31	81	female		Azerbaijan
Nicolin Kunz	1953-12-09	1997-12-31	44	female		Austria	Austria
Pablo Barcos Plaza	1913-01-26	1997-12-31	84	male		Mexico	Spain
Peter Bayfield Egerton-Warburton	1909-01-01	1997-12-31	88	male
Pouwel Kuiper	1928-09-27	1997-12-31	69	male		Netherlands	Kingdom of the Netherlands
Richard Elman	1934-04-23	1997-12-31	63	male			United States of America
Sandy McPeak	1936-02-21	1997-12-31	61	male		United States of America	United States of America
Sten Kärrby	1921-11-26	1997-12-31	76	male			Sweden
Toyohiko Miura	1913-11-24	1997-12-31	84	male
Vytautas Liutikas	1930-09-17	1997-12-31	67	male			Lithuania
Walter Pietsch	1905-01-03	1997-12-31	92	male		Austria
Yehuda Elitzur	1911-07-23	1997-12-31	86	male		Israel	Israel
Молодых, Павел Петрович	1915-03-08	1997-12-31	82	male		Belarus
Панайот Каракачанов	1917-11-01	1997-12-31	80	male		Bulgaria
Смуров, Николай Васильевич	1924-01-14	1997-12-31	73	male		Russia
Վրեժ Զիլֆյան	1921-01-03	1997-12-31	76	male		Armenia	Turkey
Anatoly Zubkov	1924-07-03	1997-12-30	73	male		Russia	Soviet Union
Ben Henry Weil	1916-01-01	1997-12-30	81	male
Bernard Girard	1918-02-22	1997-12-30	79	male		United States of America	United States of America
Bernard Soysa	1914-01-01	1997-12-30	83	male
Carlos Santamaría Ansa	1909-12-25	1997-12-30	88	male		Spain	Spain
Christian Charlotte Murray		1997-12-30		female
Danilo Dolci	1924-06-28	1997-12-30	73	male		Italy	Kingdom of Italy
Ede Tomori	1920-04-28	1997-12-30	77	male		Hungary	Hungary
Émile Halbout	1905-02-15	1997-12-30	92	male		France	France
Harald Saarniit	1925-06-29	1997-12-30	72	male			Estonia
Helen Tibbetts	1924-01-01	1997-12-30	73	female			United States of America
Henny ten Dam	1945-10-14	1997-12-30	52	male			Kingdom of the Netherlands
Hermann Smeets	1910-01-01	1997-12-30	87	male		Germany	Germany
Hugh Wordsworth Cornford	1921-10-18	1997-12-30	76	male
Iiro Kajanto	1925-06-07	1997-12-30	72	male		Finland	Finland
Jan Amos Dvořáček	1920-09-22	1997-12-30	77	male		Czech Republic
Ján Mužlay	1909-01-01	1997-12-30	88	male			Slovakia
Johannes Elke	1927-01-01	1997-12-30	70	male			Brazil
John Howard Yoder	1927-12-29	1997-12-30	70	male		United States of America	United States of America
John Malcolm Hirst	1921-04-20	1997-12-30	76	male
Johnnie Phelps	1922-04-04	1997-12-30	75	female
Karel Wagner	1917-07-02	1997-12-30	80	male		Czech Republic	Czechoslovakia
Kim Seon-ja	1939-01-01	1997-12-30	58	female			South Korea
Luciano Bettarini	1914-05-11	1997-12-30	83	male		Italy	Kingdom of Italy
Luis Astey	1921-04-12	1997-12-30	76	male			Mexico
Masato Uchida	1940-09-21	1997-12-30	57	male
Nicolás Frei	1962-01-01	1997-12-30	35	male		Argentina	Argentina
Pablo García	1923-06-23	1997-12-30	74	male		Cuba	Cuba
P Singaram	1920-08-12	1997-12-30	77	male			Dominion of India
Ray Crawford	1924-02-07	1997-12-30	73	male		United States of America	United States of America
Raymond Ericson	1915-01-01	1997-12-30	82	male			United States of America
Raymond Pauwels	1926-05-12	1997-12-30	71	male			Belgium
René Debernardi	1923-01-01	1997-12-30	74	male			France
Richard Allen Lester	1908-03-01	1997-12-30	89	male
Richard Louis Daus	1917-11-20	1997-12-30	80	male
Shân Emlyn Jones	1936-02-08	1997-12-30	61	female		United Kingdom
Shinichi Hoshi	1926-09-06	1997-12-30	71	male		Japan	Japan
Sofiq Hüseynov	1950-07-22	1997-12-30	47	male		Azerbaijan
Stanko Fabris	1909-03-07	1997-12-30	88	male
Warren Mehrtens	1920-11-05	1997-12-30	77	male			United States of America
Zbigniew J. Lipowski	1924-11-22	1997-12-30	73	male
Болотинський Евгений Наумович	1927-09-09	1997-12-30	70	male
Васильев, Гавриил Тимофеевич	1928-02-24	1997-12-30	69	male		Russia	Soviet Union
Мікалай Уладзіміравіч Мяцельскі	1919-09-16	1997-12-30	78	male			Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic
Ребенок, Павел Иванович	1913-01-09	1997-12-30	84	male		Russia
Adrienne d'Aulnis de Bourouill	1920-09-03	1997-12-29	77	female		Netherlands	Kingdom of the Netherlands
André Marchand	1907-02-10	1997-12-29	90	male		France	France
Bernhard Ludwig Uffrecht	1923-10-15	1997-12-29	74	male		Germany
Czesław Byszewski	1915-02-27	1997-12-29	82	male		Poland	Poland
Douglas Nation	1916-03-31	1997-12-29	81	male			United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Eileen Hetty Lowick		1997-12-29		female
Fritz Klenner	1906-08-13	1997-12-29	91	male		Austria	Austria
Futoshi Anai	1926-12-28	1997-12-29	71	male			Japan
George S. Elrick	1921-10-07	1997-12-29	76	male		United States of America	United States of America
Hans Buchner	1906-10-06	1997-12-29	91	male		Germany	Germany
Heinrich Rohr	1902-03-18	1997-12-29	95	male		Germany	Germany
Heinz Perschke	1926-02-26	1997-12-29	71	male			Germany
Helen Kirkpatrick	1909-10-18	1997-12-29	88	female		United States of America	United States of America
Helmut Schulz	1922-02-23	1997-12-29	75	male		Germany
Henny Götze	1901-07-19	1997-12-29	96	female		Germany	Germany
Ignácz Berecz	1912-03-21	1997-12-29	85	male		Hungary	Hungary
István Kiss	1927-06-08	1997-12-29	70	male		Hungary	Hungary
Jacques Tessier	1914-05-23	1997-12-29	83	male	natural causes	France	France
John Graham	1915-01-01	1997-12-29	82	male			United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
John Nicholas Horace Lysaght, 7th Baron Lisle of Mountnorth	1903-08-10	1997-12-29	94	male			United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Joyce Mekeel	1931-01-01	1997-12-29	66	female		United States of America	United States of America
J. Richardson Dilworth	1916-01-01	1997-12-29	81	male
Karl Bachmann	1911-10-15	1997-12-29	86	male			Germany
Karl Enigk	1906-10-23	1997-12-29	91	male		Germany
Kirsten Borch	1921-07-05	1997-12-29	76	female
Léo Devantéry	1937-08-02	1997-12-29	60	male			Switzerland
Mark Tennant	1913-06-27	1997-12-29	84	male		Canada	Canada
Orlando Bertoli	1927-06-29	1997-12-29	70	male			Brazil
Patrocinio García Barriuso	1909-01-01	1997-12-29	88	male		Spain	Spain
Pierre Briquet	1917-12-28	1997-12-29	80	male		France	France
Richard Lindsey Batten	1920-09-29	1997-12-29	77	male			Nigeria
Robert Walter Steel	1915-07-31	1997-12-29	82	male			United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Shingo Hoshino	1923-08-15	1997-12-29	74	male			Japan
Sir Richard Dyce Duckworth, 3rd Bt.	1918-09-30	1997-12-29	79	male
Takeshi Kayano	1910-01-01	1997-12-29	87	male			Japan
Teresa Lelińska	1942-09-21	1997-12-29	55
Wanda Pachlowa	1919-12-25	1997-12-29	78	female			Poland
Νικόλαος Τσαγκρίδης		1997-12-29		male			Greece
Aleksander Kivilaan	1906-07-20	1997-12-28	91	male
Antoine De Smet	1909-08-10	1997-12-28	88	male		Belgium	Belgium
Bill Anderson	1911-10-12	1997-12-28	86	male		United States of America	United States of America
Bob Bosustow	1934-06-08	1997-12-28	63	male
Čedomil Veljačić	1915-01-01	1997-12-28	82	male
Corneliu Baba	1906-11-18	1997-12-28	91	male		Romania	Romania
Doda Conrad	1905-02-19	1997-12-28	92	male		France	Poland
Harley Sanford Jones	1902-11-10	1997-12-28	95	male		United States of America	United States of America
Heikki A. Alikoski	1912-01-01	1997-12-28	85	male		Finland	Finland
Henry Barraud	1900-04-23	1997-12-28	97	male		France	France
Herb Drinkwater	1936-01-01	1997-12-28	61	male			United States of America
Ion Anghel	1928-10-16	1997-12-28	69	male			Romania
Iris Marga	1901-01-18	1997-12-28	96	female		Argentina	Argentina
James Lees-Milne	1908-08-06	1997-12-28	89	male		United Kingdom	United Kingdom
John George Williams	1913-04-04	1997-12-28	84	male		United Kingdom	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Mafat Oza	1944-03-01	1997-12-28	53	male		India
Maria Dziewicka	1912-06-14	1997-12-28	85	female			Poland
Nicodemus Atle Basili Hhando	1926-04-02	1997-12-28	71	male
Nobuyuki Saga	1902-04-18	1997-12-28	95	male			Japan
Pieter Jacobus Rabie	1917-01-01	1997-12-28	80	male			South Africa
Pucho Portela	2000-01-01	1997-12-28	-3	male		Spain	Spain
Richard S. Thompson	1916-12-30	1997-12-28	80	male			United States of America
Roald Dysthe	1903-04-16	1997-12-28	94	male			Norway
Romanas Andriuškevičius	1931-05-20	1997-12-28	66	male			Lithuania
Rudolf Svačina	1900-02-24	1997-12-28	97	male
Shaikh Ayaz	1923-03-23	1997-12-28	74	male		Pakistan	British India
Steve Musseau	1923-07-15	1997-12-28	74	male		United States of America	United States of America
Vassily Solomin	1953-01-05	1997-12-28	44	male	natural causes	Russia	Soviet Union
Wacław Wójcik	1919-11-19	1997-12-28	78	male		Poland	Poland
William Martínez	1928-01-13	1997-12-28	69	male			Uruguay
Zdeněk Paděra	1927-07-16	1997-12-28	70	male
Мостовщиков, Александр Михайлович	1939-04-01	1997-12-28	58	male		Russia
ישראל לוין (שופט)	1904-12-01	1997-12-28	93	male			Israel
이추림	1933-01-01	1997-12-27	64				South Korea
Anatoliy Ivanovitsj Alekseev	1909-11-29	1997-12-27	88	male		Russia	Russian Empire
André Bordier	1913-11-15	1997-12-27	84	male		France	France
Bess Whitehead Scott	1890-12-13	1997-12-27	107	female
Billy Wright	1960-07-07	1997-12-27	37	male		United Kingdom	United Kingdom
Brendan Gill	1914-10-04	1997-12-27	83	male		United States of America	United States of America
Buxton Orr	1924-04-18	1997-12-27	73	male		United Kingdom	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Christian Florence Irby	1921-11-27	1997-12-27	76	female
Danny Wagner	1922-08-01	1997-12-27	75	male		United States of America	United States of America
Dan Wagoner	1959-12-12	1997-12-27	38	male		United States of America
Dorothy Stroud	1910-01-11	1997-12-27	87	female		United Kingdom
Dumitru Popescu	1942-03-17	1997-12-27	55	male			Romania
Elias Bengtsson	1918-04-17	1997-12-27	79	male
Ewart Abner	1923-05-11	1997-12-27	74	male		United States of America	United States of America
George Mearns	1922-04-18	1997-12-27	75	male		United States of America	United States of America
George W Irving		1997-12-27		male
G. R. Parvin	1917-07-20	1997-12-27	80	male			United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Hans A. Hansen	1925-11-22	1997-12-27	72	male
Hans Blickensdörfer	1923-02-21	1997-12-27	74	male		Germany	Germany
Ivan Michaylovitsj Fedortsjenko	1909-10-31	1997-12-27	88	male			Soviet Union
Ivan Oja	1909-06-29	1997-12-27	88	male			Russia
James Nabrit, Jr.	1900-01-01	1997-12-27	97	male
Jan Snoek	1921-03-16	1997-12-27	76	male			Kingdom of the Netherlands
Jesús Suárez	1912-01-09	1997-12-27	85	male	natural causes	Spain	Spain
Jim Hickey	1920-01-22	1997-12-27	77	male		United States of America	United States of America
Joe Todd	1916-01-03	1997-12-27	81	male			New Zealand
John Megaw	1909-09-16	1997-12-27	88	male		United Kingdom
Juan Francisco Barraza	1935-03-12	1997-12-27	62	male			El Salvador
Karel Kuneš	1920-12-12	1997-12-27	77	male		Czech Republic
Keith Woodrow	1927-08-27	1997-12-27	70	male
Kent Robbins	1947-04-23	1997-12-27	50	male	accident		United States of America
Kjell Mellberg	1930-10-22	1997-12-27	67	male			Sweden
Knud Erik Larsen	1923-08-07	1997-12-27	74	male			Denmark
László Szekeres	1931-09-12	1997-12-27	66	male		Serbia
Leonid Velilayev	1916-06-28	1997-12-27	81	male		Ukraine
Malayattoor Ramakrishnan	1927-05-27	1997-12-27	70	male		India	Dominion of India
Malcolm Diamond	1924-11-06	1997-12-27	73	male	natural causes		United States of America
Maria Petronella van der Klugt-Witteman	1926-10-11	1997-12-27	71	female		Netherlands	Kingdom of the Netherlands
Masahiro Tatemoto	1924-01-01	1997-12-27	73	male			Japan
Olivia Hester Rachel Brewis	1916-01-12	1997-12-27	81	female
Ondrej Bagoňa	1936-11-26	1997-12-27	61	male			Czechoslovakia
Pan Chengdong	1934-05-26	1997-12-27	63	male		People's Republic of China	Republic of China (1912–1949)
Patricio Silva Echenique	1934-09-18	1997-12-27	63	male			Chile
Penelope Katherine Piercy	1916-04-15	1997-12-27	81	female