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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.
• Hans Robert Jauss, 75, German academic.
• Martin Furnival Jones, 84, British Director General of MI5 (1965–1972).
• Monte Kennedy, 74, American baseball player.
• Václav Roziňák, 74, Czechoslovak ice hockey player.
• Annie Beatrice van der Biest Thielan Wetmore, 87, Dutch-American ornithologist.

2

• Yahaya Ahmad, 49, Malaysian businessman, helicopter crash.
• Abdel Azim Ashry, 85, Egyptian basketball player and referee.
• Judi Bari, 47, American environmentalist, feminist, and labor leader, breast cancer.
• Douglas Blackwood, 87, British publisher and fighter pilot during World War II.
• Horace Cutler, 84, British politician.
• 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.
• Albert Gazier, 88, French trade union leader and politician.
• Grete Heublein, 89, German track and field athlete and Olympian.
• Walter Leinweber, 89, German ice hockey player.
• J. Carson Mark, 83, Canadian-American mathematician, complications from a fall.
• Waldo Nelson, 98, American pediatrician, stroke.
• Vicente Parra, 66, Spanish actor, lung cancer.
• Wendell Thompson Perkins, 69, American painter.
• Martin Smith, 50, English rock drummer, internal bleeding.

3

• Bradford Angier, 86, American wilderness survivalist.
• Jascha Brodsky, 89, Russian-American violinist.
• Eric Edwards, Baron Chelmer, 82, English peer and solicitor.
• Harry Davis, 88, American baseball player.
• Lola Beer Ebner, 86, Israeli fashion designer.
• Billy Jurges, 88, American baseball player.
• 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.

4

• Joe Baker-Cresswell, 96, English Royal Navy officer and aide-de-camp to King George VI.
• Roger Brown, 54, American basketball player, colon cancer.
• Leo Catozzo, 84, Italian film editor.
• Robert H. Dicke, 80, American astronomer and physicist.
• Stanley Fink, 61, American lawyer and politician, cancer.
• Edward Klabiński, 76, Polish racing cyclist.
• Robert Lampman, 76, American economist, lung cancer.
• 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.
• Samm Sinclair Baker, 87, American self-help writer.
• Ralph Bass, 85, American R&B record producer.
• Frank Brennan, 72, Scottish footballer.
• Jean Dréville, 90, French film director.
• William Roberts, 83, American screenwriter, respiratory failure.
• Edmund Brinsley Teesdale, 81, Hong Kong Colonial Secretary.

6

• Frank Anderson, 83, Australian rules football player.
• Rosalyn Boulter, 80, British film actress.
• Ed Furgol, 79, American golfer.
• Cheddi Jagan, 78, President of Guyana.
• Michael Manley, 72, Prime Minister of Jamaica (1972–1980; 1989–1992), prostate cancer.

7

• Wilfred Conwell Bain, 89, American music educator.
• Gösta Brännström, 70, Swedish sprinter and Olympian.
• Chuck Green, 77, American tap dancer.
• Martin Kippenberger, 44, German artist and sculptor, liver cancer.
• Agnieszka Osiecka, 60, Polish poet, writer, film director and journalist, cancer.
• Edward Mills Purcell, 84, American physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics, respiratory failure.
• 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.
• Masuo Ikeda, 63, Japanese painter, printmaker, illustrator, sculptor, ceramist, novelist, and film director from Nagano Prefecture.
• Gershon Liebman, 92, French rabbi and Holocaust survivor.
• Lefter Millo, 30, Albanian football player, traffic collision.
• Alexander Salkind, 75, French-Mexican film producer (Superman).
• Alfred Sheinwold, 85, American bridge player and writer, stroke.

9

• The Notorious B.I.G., 24, American rapper ("Juicy", "Big Poppa", "Mo Money Mo Problems"), shot.
• Jean-Dominique Bauby, 44, French journalist and author (Elle magazine), pneumonia during locked-in syndrome.
• John Boyd, 70, United States Air Force fighter pilot and military strategist, cancer.
• Robert B. Leighton, 77, American experimental physicist.
• John S. McKiernan, 85, American politician.
• Terry Nation, 66, Welsh television writer (Doctor Who), emphysema.
• Ray Prochaska, 77, American gridiron football player and coach.
• Bezawada Gopala Reddy, 89, Indian politician.
• Alice Sommerlath, 90, Brazilian-born entrepreneur and mother of Queen Silvia of Sweden.
• Veronica Wedgwood, 86, English historian.
• Dwight Locke Wilbur, 93, American medical doctor and president of the A.M.A.

10

• Jimmy Airlie, 60, Scottish trade unionist, cancer.
• LaVern Baker, 67, American R&B singer, cardiovascular disease.
• Raymond Bass, 87, American Navy rear admiral, gymnast and Olympian.
• Stan Drake, 75, American cartoonist.
• Yorozuya Kinnosuke, 64, Japanese kabuki actor, pneumonia, laryngeal cancer.
• David Moroder, 66, Italian luger and sculptor.
• Imam Mustafayev, 87, Azerbaijani communist politician.
• Ossie O'Brien, 68, British politician.
• Wesley Ramey, 87, American boxer.
• Ghulam Rasool Santosh, 68, Indian painter and poet.
• Johannes Theodor Suhr, 101, Danish Roman Catholic bishop.
• 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.
• Robert Browning, 83, Scottish Byzantinist.
• Stefan Fernholm, 37, Swedish discus thrower, shot putter, and Olympian.
• Hugh Lawson, 61, American jazz pianist, cancer.
• Thikkurissy Sukumaran Nair, 80, Indian poet, playwright, film director and actor, kidney failure.
• Hugo Weisgall, 84, American composer and conductor.

12

• Shamsul-hasan Shams Barelvi, 79-80, Pakistani Islamic scholar.
• Hendrik Brugmans, 90, Dutch academic and linguist.
• Ernst-Georg Drünkler, 76, German Luftwaffe fighter ace during World War II.
• Bertram Myron Gross, 84, American social scientist, congestive heart failure.
• William Hare, 5th Earl of Listowel, 90, Anglo-Irish peer and Labour politician.
• Wally Wolf, 66, American swimmer, water polo player, and Olympic champion.

13

• Ronald Fraser, 66, English actor, haemorrhage.
• Horace Kolimba, 57, Tanzanian politician.
• Leo O'Brien, 89, Australian cricket player and sportsman.
• Joe Repko, 76, American football coach and player.

14

• Jurek Becker, 59, Polish-German writer, film author and GDR dissident, colorectal cancer.
• Joseph Fuchs, 97, American classical violinist.
• Alija Isaković, 65, Bosnian writer, publicist, and playwright.
• Jim McConn, 68, American politician and mayor of Houston, Texas.
• Nicolas Morn, 65, Luxembourgish cyclist and Olympian.
• Terence O'Sullivan, 73, Irish Fianna Fáil politician.
• Veerendra Patil, 73, Indian politician.
• Fred Zinnemann, 89, Austrian-American film director (From Here to Eternity, A Man for All Seasons, High Noon), Oscar winner (1954), heart attack.

15

• C. Arulampalam, 88, Sri Lankan Tamil politician.
• Gail Davis, 71, American actress (Annie Oakley) and singer, cancer.
• 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.
• Dorab Patel, 72, Pakistani jurist and lawmaker, leukemia.
• Victor Vasarely, 90, Hungarian-French artist, cancer.

16

• Berta Bojetu, 51, Slovene writer, poet and actress.
• Paal Frisvold, 89, Norwegian general.
• Leda Gloria, 88, Italian actress.
• Harry Holgate, 63, Australian politician and Premier of Tasmania, cancer.
• Zvonko Monsider, 76, Croatian football goalkeeper.
• John Montague Stow, 85, British colonial official.
• Star Stowe, 40, American model and Playboy centerfold, strangled.
• John White, 80, American rower and Olympian.

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.
• Ferenc Sipos, 64, Hungarian football player and trainer.
• Jermaine Stewart, 39, American R&B singer, AIDS-related liver cancer.

18

• Erik de Mauny, 76, English journalist and author.
• Jean Fievez, 86, Belgian football player.
• Wilbur Knorr, 51, American historian of mathematics, melanoma.
• Ilse Schwidetzky, 89, German anthropologist.

19

• José Crespo, 96, Spanish film actor.
• Willem de Kooning, 92, Dutch abstract expressionist artist, Alzheimer's disease.
• Jacques Foccart, 83, French businessman and politician.
• Eugène Guillevic, 89, French poet.
• Purnendu Pattrea, 66, Indian poet, writer, illustrator and film director.
• Claude Pierson, 66, French film director, writer and producer.
• Shoukry Sarhan, 72, Egyptian actor.
• Mac Van Valkenburg, 75, American electrical engineer and university professor.

20

• Ronnie Barron, 53, American actor and musician, heart attack.
• Jean Engstrom, 76, American actress.
• Carlo Fassi, 67, Italian figure skater and coach.
• Britt G. Hallqvist, 83, Swedish hymnwriter, poet, and translator.
• Marino Marini, 72, Italian musician.
• V. S. Pritchett, 96, British writer and literary critic.
• Tony Zale, 83, American boxer, Alzheimer's disease.

21

• Wilbert Awdry, 85, British children's author and The Railway Series creator.
• Charles Booth, 72, British diplomat.
• John Nemechek, 27, American NASCAR race car driver, complications from racing accident.
• Pekka Parikka, 57, Finnish film director and screenwriter.

22

• Lauritz Royal Christensen, 82, American epidemiologist.
• Mary Peters Fieser, 87, American chemist.
• James G. Stewart, 89, American sound engineer.
• Harry Thode, 86, Canadian geochemist and nuclear chemist.

23

• Timothy Joseph Harrington, 78, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
• Hugh Lawson, 85, British politician.
• Pyotr Lushev, 73, Soviet Army general during the Cold War.
• Pearson Mwanza, 29, Zambian football player.

24

• Martin Caidin, 69, American author, screenwriter, and aviator, cancer.
• U. Alexis Johnson, 88, American diplomat, pneumonia.
• Bill Miller, 69, American professional wrestler, heart attack.
• Roberto Sánchez Vilella, 84, Governor of Puerto Rico (1965–1969).

25

• Baltazar, 71, Brazilian footballer.
• Stan Coster, 66, Australian country music singer-songwriter.
• Rosario Granados, 72, Argentine-Mexican film actress, heart attack.
• Pedro Medina, 39, Cuban refugee and murder convict, execution by electric chair.
• Norm Ryan, 86, Australian politician.
• C. J. F. Williams, 66, British philosopher, cardiac arrest.

26

• Norman Alexander, 89, New Zealand physicist.
• Marshall Applewhite, 65, leader of the Heaven's Gate cult group, suicide by asphyxiation.
• Otto John, 88, German defector and spy.
• Hartmut Losch, 53, German athlete.
• George Post, 90, American watercolorist and art educator, pneumonia.
• 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.
• David A. Clarke, 53, American civil-rights worker, attorney, and politician, PCNSL.
• Bob Dillabough, 55, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Lane Dwinell, 90, American manufacturer and politician, heart failure.
• Hugh Horner, 72, Canadian physician and politician, heart attack.
• Charles Lillard, 53, American-Canadian poet and historian.
• Ella Maillart, 94, Swiss adventurer, travel writer and photographer.
• Benno Premsela, 76, Dutch designer, visual artist and art collector.
• Émile Stijnen, 89, Belgian footballer.

28

• Arthur Arntzen, 90, Norwegian politician.
• Lesley Cunliffe, 51, American journalist and writer, stomach cancer.
• Claro Duany, 79, Cuban baseball player.
• Tai Kanbara, 98, Japanese poet, painter, author, art critic and Japanese futurism pioneer, heart failure.

29

• George William Gregory Bird, 80, British medical doctor, researcher and haematologist, renal failure.
• Hans-Walter Eigenbrodt, 61, German football player.
• Wilhelm Friedrich de Gaay Fortman, 85, Dutch politician and jurist.
• Finn Høffding, 98, Danish composer.
• Aleksandr Ivanov, 68, Soviet football player.
• Pupul Jayakar, 81, Indian cultural activist and writer.
• Norman Pirie, 89, British biochemist and virologist.
• Ellen Pollock, 94, British actress.
• Hans Quest, 81, German actor and film director, cancer.
• Anthony Roberts, 41, American basketball player, shot.
• Eddie Ryder, 74, American actor, writer, and television director.
• Ruth Sager, 79, American geneticist, bladder cancer.
• 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.
• Bill Smith, 62, American baseball player.
• Jon Stone, 64, American writer, director and producer, ALS.
• Maria Śliwka, 61, Polish volleyball player.
• Tadeusz Żenczykowski, 90, Polish lawyer and political activist.

31

• Eugenie Anderson, 87, American diplomat.
• Friedrich Hund, 101, German physicist.
• John Norman Davidson Kelly, 87, British theologian and academic.
• Marvin Liebman, 73, American activist and gay rights advocate.
• Dorothy Liu, 62, Hong Kong pro-Beijing politician and lawyer, pancreatic cancer.
• Stephen Kalong Ningkan, 76, Malaysian politician.
• Lyman Spitzer, 82, American theoretical physicist and astronomer, heart disease.

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112. "Pearson Mwanza". national-football-teams.com. Retrieved September 21, 2020.
113. "Martin Caidin". data.bnf.fr (in French). Bibliothèque nationale de France. Retrieved March 30, 2022.
114. Wolfgang Saxon (March 27, 1997). "U. Alexis Johnson Dies at 88; Led Arms Talks With Moscow". The New York Times. p. B 19. Retrieved August 21, 2020.
115. Robert McG. Thomas Jr. (March 26, 1997). "Roberto Sanchez Vilella, 84, Puerto Rican Governor, Dies". The New York Times. p. D 19. Retrieved August 21, 2020.
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121. Eric Pace (March 31, 1997). "Otto John, 88, Bonn Official At Center of Counterspy Mystery". The New York Times. p. B 5. Retrieved August 21, 2020.
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126. "Lane Dwinell, 90, New Hampshire Governor". The New York Times. March 29, 1997. p. 1 20. Retrieved March 30, 2022.
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128. Robert McG. Thomas Jr. (March 31, 1997). "Ella Maillart, a Swiss Writer and Adventurer, Is Dead at 94". The New York Times. p. B 5. Retrieved August 21, 2020.
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155. Wolfgang Saxon (April 2, 1997). "Lyman Spitzer Jr. Dies at 82; Inspired Hubble Telescope". The New York Times. p. A 19. Retrieved September 26, 2020.

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