The following is a list ofnotable deaths in October 1997.

Entries for each day are listedalphabetically 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.

• Francisco Aramburu, 75, Brazilian footballer.^[1]
• Georg Bodenhausen, 92, Dutch civil servant.
• John Bredice, 63, American football player (Philadelphia Eagles).^[2]
• Jerome H. Lemelson, 74, American engineer, inventor and patent holder, liver cancer.^[3]
• Gul Mohammed, 40, Shortest adult human, heart attack.
• Inbal Perlmuter, 26, Israeli rock musician, singer, composer and lyricist, traffic collision.

• Carybé, 86, Argentine-Brazilian artist, historian and journalist, heart failure.
• Douglas Fairbairn, 70, American author.^[4]
• Esa Seeste, 84, Finnish Olympic gymnast (1936).^[5]
• Guillermo Meza Álvarez, 80, Mexican painter.^[6]

• Michael Adekunle Ajasin, 88, Nigerian politician.
• John Ashley, 62, American actor, producer and singer, heart attack.^[7]
• Walter Baumgartner, 92, Swiss film composer.^[8]
• Richard Gilkey, 72, American painter, suicide by gunshot.^[9]
• Verna Hillie, 83, American film actress, stroke.^[10]
• Jarl Kulle, 70, Swedish actor and director, bone cancer.^[11]
• Millard Lampell, 78, American movie and television screenwriter, lung cancer.^[12]
• Phil Medley, 81, American songwriter.^[13]
• Charlie Parsley, 71, American basketball player (Philadelphia Warriors), and college coach.^[14]
• Hadassah Rosensaft, 85, Polish Holocaust survivor, liver failure.^[15]
• A. L. Rowse, 93, British historian and author.^[16]
• George Urban, 76, Hungarian writer.^[17]
• Blake Wayne Van Leer, 71,United States Navy officer.

• Helmut Cämmerer, 86, German canoeist and Olympian (1936).^[18]
• Montanino Nuvoli, 66, Italian Olympic rower (1952).^[19]
• Nelson Coral Nye, 90, American author and editor.^[20]
• Otto Ernst Remer, 85, GermanWehrmacht officer during World War II.
• Anne Strachan Robertson, 87, Scottish archaeologist,numismatist and writer.
• Gunpei Yokoi, 56, Japanese video game designer and creator of theGame Boy,traffic collision.^[21]
• Georgi Yumatov, 71, Soviet and Russian film actor,aneurysm.

• Chitta Basu, 70, Indian politician, heart attack.
• Mary Jayne Gold, 88, American heiress,pancreatic cancer.^[22]
• Andrew Keir, 71, Scottish actor (Cleopatra,Rob Roy,Mary, Queen of Scots).^[23]
• Debbie Linden, 36, British glamour model and actress,heroin overdose.
• John Chester MacRae, 85, Canadian politician, member of theHouse of Commons of Canada (1957-1972).^[24]
• Dave Marr, 63, American golfer and sportscaster,stomach cancer.^[25]
• Brian Pillman, 35, American professional wrestler (WCW,WWF,ECW), heart attack.
• Tommy Ring, 67, Scottish footballer.^[26]
• Larisa Rozanova, 78, Soviet and Ukrainian pilot and navigator during World War II.
• Curtis Williams Sabrosky, 87, Americanentomologist.^[27]
• Arthur Tracy, 98, American vocalist and actor, heart attack.^[28]
• Bernard Yago, 81, Ivorian cardinal of theCatholic Church.^[29]

• Orlando Ramón Agosti, 73, Argentine general and part of themilitary junta, cancer.^[30]
• George T. Barclay, 87, American football player and coach.^[31]
• Warren Louis Boudreaux, 79, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church, heart failure.^[32]
• Robert Endean, 71, Australian marine scientist.^[33]
• Otto Grolimund, 79, Swiss Olympic field hockey player (1948).^[34]
• Adrienne Hill, 60, English actress (Doctor Who), cancer.
• Yevgeny Khaldei, 80, Soviet naval officer and photographer.^[35]
• Johnny Vander Meer, 82, American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds,Chicago Cubs,Cleveland Indians), abdominal aneurysm.^[36]

• Arvo Ala-Pöntiö, 55, Finnish Olympic weightlifter (1972,1976).^[37]
• Felicisimo Ampon, 76, Filipino tennis player.
• Johnny Darrell, 57, American country music artist,diabetes.^[38]
• Gus Marker, 92, Canadian ice hockey player.^[39]
• Lou Possehl, 71, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies).^[40]
• Aldo Sebben, 77, American football, cross country, and track and field coach.
• Janez Vrhovec, 76, Yugoslav actor of Slovenian-German origin.^[41]
• Wan Laiming, 97, Chineseanimator.

• Henryk Bista, 63, Polish actor.^[42]
• Albert Blumberg, 91, American philosopher and political activist.^[43]
• Bertrand Goldberg, 84, American architect and industrial designer.^[44]
• Robin Lee, 77, American figure skater and Olympian (1936).^[45]
• Brown Meggs, 66, American writer andmusic executive.^[46]
• John Merricks, 26, English sailor and Olympian (1996).^[47]
• Nininho, 73, Brazilian football player.
• Desmond J. Scott, 79, New Zealandflying ace during World War II.^[48]
• Sant Singh Sekhon, 89, Indian playwright and writer.^[49]
• George Everard Kidder Smith, 84, American architectural writer and photographer.^[50]
• William Spong Jr., 77, American politician, member of theUnited States Senate (1966-1973).^[51]
• Mel Thurston, 78, American basketball player (Tri-Cities Blackhawks,Providence Steamrollers).^[52]

• Michael Cummings, 78, British newspaper cartoonist.^[53]
• Monty Hoyt, 53, American figure skater and Olympian (1964),melanoma.^[54]
• Arch Johnson, 75, American actor, cancer.^[55]
• Peter O'Malley, 70, New Zealand cricketer.^[56]
• Jean Pasqualini, French/Chinese journalist.^[57]
• Joel Pritchard, 72, American politician, member of theUnited States House of Representatives (1973-1985),lymphoma.^[58]
• Roy Rappaport, 71, Americananthropologist.^[59]
• Chuck Templeton, 65, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers).^[60]

• D. J. Ambalavanar, 69, Sri Lankan Tamil bishop.^[61]
• Marjorie Harris Carr, 82, American scientist and environmental activist.
• Michael J. S. Dewar, 79, Americantheoretical chemist.^[62]
• Hans-Joachim Kasprzik, 69, German film and television director and screenwriter.^[63]
• George Malcolm, 80, English pianist,harpsichordist, composer, and conductor.^[64]
• Anne Marriott, 83, Canadian writer, stroke.^[65]
• Dencio Padilla, 69, Filipino actor and comedian, heart attack.
• Marjorie McQuade, 63, Australian swimmer and Olympian (1948,1952).^[66]
• Walt Simon, 57, American basketball player (New Jersey Americans/Nets,Kentucky Colonels).^[67]
• Thomas Whiteside, 79, American journalist, heart failure.^[68]

• Paul Doughty Bartlett, 90, American chemist.^[69]
• Giacinto Bosco, 92, Italian jurist, academic and politician.
• Lina Gennari, 86, Italian actress and operetta singer.
• Käthe Gold, 90, Austrian actress.^[70]
• Will Sherman, 69, American gridiron football player (Dallas Texans,Los Angeles Rams,Minnesota Vikings).^[71]
• Ivan Yarygin, 48, Soviet / Russian heavyweight freestyle wrestler and Olympian (1972,1976), traffic collision.^[72]

• Raúl Arellano, 62, Mexican football forward.
• Rodrigue Bourdages, 73, Canadian politician, member of theHouse of Commons of Canada (1958-1962).^[73]
• John Denver, 53, American singer ("Take Me Home, Country Roads", "Poems, Prayers & Promises", "Annie's Song") and activist, plane crash.^[74]
• Talib El-Shibib, 63, Iraqi politician.
• Draga Garašanin, 76, Serbian archaeologist.^[75]
• Kenneth Hahn, 77, American civil servant, heart failure.^[76]
• Fred McCain, 79, Canadian politician.
• Isadore Twersky, 67, Americanorthodox rabbi and professor.^[77]

• Ian Stuart Black, 82, British novelist, playwright and screenwriter.^[78]
• Joyce Compton, 90, American actress.^[79]
• Gary Lee Davis, 53, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.^[80]
• Kārlis Irbītis, 92, Latvian aeroplane designer.
• Yasuo Kawamura, 89, Japanese Olympic speed skater (1932,1936).^[81]
• Obie Layton, 86, American baseball player.^[82]
• Richard Mason, 78, British novelist, lung cancer.^[83]
• Malte Möller, 83, Swedish Olympic wrestler (1948).^[84]
• Frazier Robinson, 87, American baseball player.^[85]
• William Staveley, 68, Royal Navy officer, heart attack.^[86]
• Adil Çarçani, 75, Albanian politician.^[87]

• Hy Averback, 76, American actor, producer and director.^[88]
• Piedade Coutinho, 77, Brazilian swimmer and Olympian (1936,1948,1952).^[89]
• Jacqueline Delubac, 90, French stage and film actress, traffic collision.^[90]
• George Forrest, 72, British classicist and academic, cancer.^[91]
• Henry Pelling, 77, British historian.^[92]
• Harold Robbins, 81, American writer, heart failure.^[93]
• Barbara Slater, 76, American film actress.

• Jack Arnold, 78, Australian rugby league footballer.^[94]
• MacDonald Critchley, 97, British neurologist.^[95]
• Peter J. Dalessandro, 79,United States Army soldier andMedal of Honor recipient.
• Jack Dwyer, 70, American gridiron football player (Washington Redskins,Los Angeles Rams).^[96]
• Walter Fritzsch, 76, German football player and manager.^[97]
• Parker T. Hart, 87, American diplomat.^[98]
• Bill McKay, 76, Irish rugby player.
• Käthe Sohnemann, 85, German Olympic gymnast (1936).^[99]

• A. H. Armstrong, 88, English educator and author.^[100]
• Dick Cavalli, 74, American cartoonist, heart attack.^[101]
• Princess Olga of Greece and Denmark, 94, Greek princess, Alzheimer's disease.^[102]
• Noel Ferrier, 66, Australian comedian, actor, and theatrical producer.^[103]
• Lotte Goslar, 90, German-American dancer.^[104]
• Adam Kennedy, 75, American actor, novelist, and painter, heart attack.^[105]
• Audra Lindley, 79, American actress (Three's Company,Another World,The Heartbreak Kid), leukemia.^[106]
• James A. Michener, 90, American author, kidney failure.^[107]

• Joyce Christ, 76, Australian cricketer.^[108]
• Larry Jennings, 64, American magician.
• Sergei Kalinin, 70, Soviet Russian sports shooter and Olympian (1960,1964).^[109]
• Jim O'Neil, 84, Canadian ice hockey player (Boston Bruins,Montreal Canadiens).^[110]
• Giorgio Pisanò, 73, Italian journalist, essayist andneo-fascist politician.^[111]
• László Szabados, 86, Hungarian swimmer and Olympic medalist (1932).^[112]
• Ben Welden, 96, American actor.^[113]
• Fang Yi, 81, Chinese Communist revolutionary, diplomat, and politician.

• Leonard Andrzejewski, 73, Polish actor.
• Ramiro Castillo, 31, Bolivian footballer, suicide by hanging.^[114]
• Gordon Clark, 83, English football player.^[115]
• Walter William Curtis, 84, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church, pneumonia.^[116]
• Nancy Dickerson, 70, American radio and television journalist, stroke.^[117]
• Trude Eipperle, 89, Germanoperatic soprano.^[118]
• Vince Gironda, 79, American bodybuilder, personal trainer and author.^[119]
• Roberto Goizueta, 65, Cuban businessman andCEO ofThe Coca-Cola Company, cancer.^[120]
• J. Smith Henley, 80, American judge.^[121]
• Étienne Laisné, 92, French Olympic racewalker (1936).^[122]
• Milt Neil, 83, American animator (Fantasia,Dumbo,The Three Caballeros).
• William Rotsler, 71, American artist, cartoonist, pornographer and author.
• Geoff Walker, 45, New Zealand Olympic canoeist (1980).^[123]
• Paul Edwin Zimmer, 54, American poet and author, heart attack.^[124]

• Donald R. Bensen, 70, American editor and science fiction writer.^[125]
• Glen Buxton, 49, American guitarist and composer, complications from pneumonia.^[126]
• Claudia Drake, 79, American actress and singer.^[127]
• Harold French, 100, English film director, screenwriter and actor.^[128]
• Arthur Ibbetson, 75, British cinematographer (Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory,Where Eagles Dare,The Bounty).
• Ragnar Larsen, 66, Norwegian footballer.^[129]
• Francisco Guerrero Marín, 46, Spanish composer.^[130]
• William J. McGill, 75, American psychologist and author.^[131]
• Brenton Miels, 49, Australian rules footballer.^[132]
• Pilar Mercedes Miró Romero, 57, Spanish screenwriter and film director, heart attack.^[133]
• Stella Sierra, 80, Panamanian poet and prose writer.

• John Jacobs, 50, American student and anti-war activist, complications from melanoma.^[134]
• Frank Robert Miller, 89, Canadian air chief marshal.
• Manush Myftiu, 78, Albanian politician.
• Thormod Næs, 67, Norwegian Olympic sports shooter (1964).^[135]
• Manuel Rodríguez Barros, 71, Spanish racing cyclist.^[136]
• Li Ruishan, 76, Chinese politician.
• Ron Tarr, 60, British actor, cancer.
• Henry Vestine, 52, American guitarist, heart and respiratory failure.^[137]
• Robin Woods, 83, English Anglican bishop.^[138]

• Dolph Camilli, 90, American baseball player.^[139]
• John Whitney Hall, 81, AmericanJapanologist.^[140]
• Lorenzo Sumulong, 92, Filipino politician.
• Aale Tynni, 84, Finnish poet and translator.^[141]
• Waldemar F. A. Wendt, 85,United States Navy admiral.^[142]
• Dick Wilkins, 72, Americangridiron football player (Los Angeles Dons,Dallas Texans,New York Giants).^[143]

• Leonid Amalrik, 92, Soviet animator.^[144]
• Edoardo Casciano, 61, Italian Olympic sports shooter (1960).^[145]
• Reinhard Lauck, 51, German footballer and Olympian (1976), traffic collision.^[146]
• Charles McCallister, 94, American Olympic water polo player (1932,1936).^[147]
• Kelly Rodriguez, 90, Spanish-American football player.^[148]
• Quentin Smythe, 81, South African sergeant and recipient of theVictoria Cross, cancer.^[149]
• C. S. A. Swami, 83, Indian journalist, athlete, and Olympian (1936).^[150]
• Valerie Taylor, 84, American author andfeminist.^[151]
• Matthew Trupiano, 58, American mobster, heart attack.^[152]

• Alan Broadley, 77, Australian rules footballer.^[153]
• Ann Devroy, 49, American political journalist, uterine cancer.^[154]
• Claire Falkenstein, 89, American visual artist,stomach cancer.^[155]
• Bert Haanstra, 81, Dutch filmmaker,Alzheimer's disease.^[156]
• Arthur Stephen Lane, 86, American district judge (United States District Court for the District of New Jersey).^[157]
• Pinchas Lapide, 74, Israeli theologian and historian.^[158]
• Kim Lim, 61, Singaporean-British sculptor and printmaker.
• Bob Manning, 71, American big band singer,pneumonia.^[159]
• Michael Peter, 48, German Olympic field hockey player (1972,1976,1984).^[160]
• Georges Pianta, 85, French politician .^[161]
• Babette Rosmond, 79, American author.^[162]
• Alfredo dos Santos, 77, Brazilian footballer.
• Luther George Simjian, 92, Armenian-American inventor and entrepreneur.^[163]
• Trevor Smith, 87, English footballer and manager.
• Gerd Tacke, 91, German businessman and CEO ofSiemens.

• Luis Aguilar, 79, Mexican actor, and singer.^[164]
• Skip Alexander, 79, American golfer.
• Michael Balfour, 79, English actor, cancer.^[165]
• Don Messick, 71, American voice actor (Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?,The Yogi Bear Show,The Jetsons), stroke.^[166]

• William J. Hirsch, 88, Americanthoroughbred racehorses trainer,Alzheimer's disease.
• Tina Lattanzi, 99, Italian actress and voice actress.
• Jamie Livingston, 41, American photographer and film maker, brain tumor.^[167]
• Mina Rees, 95, American mathematician.^[168]

• Georg Adelly, 78, Swedish film actor.
• Teng Haiqing, 88, Chinese military officer and a politician.
• William B. Hutchinson, 88, American physician.^[169]
• Rolf Kukowitsch, 84-85, German football coach.
• Donald Ray Matthews, 90, American politician, member of theUnited States House of Representatives (1953-1967).^[170]
• Rankin M. Smith, Sr., 72, American businessman andphilanthropist.^[171]

• Mahala Andrews, 58, Britishvertebraepalaeontologist.
• Achim Gercke, 95, GermanNazi politician.
• Angèle Picado, 62, French Olympic sprinter (1956).^[172]
• Pentti Repo, 67, Finnish Olympic discus thrower (1960,1964).^[173]
• Vladimir Sokoloff, 84, American pianist andaccompanist.^[174]
• Thomas Dale Stewart, 96, American anthropologist.^[175]
• Reuben Sturman, 73, American businessman andpornographer.^[176]
• François-Henri de Virieu, 65, French journalist and television presenter,pancreatic cancer.

• Walter Capps, 63, American politician, member of theUnited States House of Representatives (1997), heart attack.^[177]
• Toni Carabillo, 71, American feminist, graphic designer, and historian, lung cancer.^[178]
• Paul Jarrico, 82, American screenwriter, traffic collision.^[179]
• Marian E. Koshland, 76, Americanimmunologist, lung cancer.^[180]
• Bryan Lefley, 49, Canadian ice hockey player (New York Islanders,Kansas City Scouts,Colorado Rockies) and coach, traffic collision.^[181]
• Billy Neill, 47, Northern Irish football player.^[182]
• Klaus Wunderlich, 66, German musician, heart attack.

• Robert Allart, 83, Belgian weightlifter and Olympian (1948,1952).^[183]
• Len Beurton, 83, Englishcommunist andSoviet agent.
• H. C. Coombs, 91, Australian economist and public servant.^[184]
• William Crook, 72, American politician and ambassador,congestive heart failure.^[185]
• Alexander zu Dohna-Schlobitten, 97, Germanjunker, businessman and author.
• Paul Guth, 87, French journalist and writer.^[186]
• Anton LaVey, 67, American author, musician, and occultist,pulmonary edema.^[187]
• Andreas Gerasimos Michalitsianos, 50, Greek-American astronomer and astrophysicist, brain tumor.
• Big Nick Nicholas, 75, American jazz saxophonist and singer, heart failure.^[188]
• Anthony Velonis, 86, American painter and designer.^[189]

• Jacques Derogy, 72, French journalist, cancer.^[190]
• Samuel Fuller, 85, American screenwriter, novelist, and film director.^[191]
• Barney Martin, 74, American baseball player (Cincinnati Redlegs).^[192]
• Sydney Newman, 80, Canadian film and television producer (The Avengers,Doctor Who), heart attack.^[193]

• Zubeida Agha, 75, Pakistani artist.
• Bram Appel, 75, Dutch footballer and Olympian (1948).^[194]
• Hans Bauer, 70, German footballer.^[195]
• Loh Ah Chee, 75, Malaysian Olympic sports shooter (1964).^[196]
• Sidney Darlington, 91, American electrical engineer.^[197]
• Sam Hairston, 77, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox).^[198]
• Tadeusz Janczar, 71, Polish film actor.^[199]
• Taisto Kangasniemi, 73, Finnish heavyweight wrestler and Olympian (1948,1952,1956,1964).^[200]
• Wilfrid Oulton, 86, BritishRoyal Air Force officer, cancer.^[201]
• George Roth, 86, Americangymnast and Olympic champion (1932).^[202]

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