This is a list of people who died during 1997.

January 01	Graham Kersey, cricket wicket keeper, dies in car crash
January 01	Joan Rice, actress (Payroll, Steel Key, Curtain Up), dies at 66
January 01	John Burgess, rugby administrator, dies at 71
January 01	Townes Van Zandt, musician, dies at 52
January 02	Jim Rodger, sports writer, dies at 75
January 02	Randy California, [Wolfe], rock guitarist, dies at 45
January 03	Burton Lane, composer, dies at 84
January 04	Harry B Helmsley, owner (Empire State Building), dies at 87
January 05	Andre Franquin, cartoonist, dies at 72
January 06	Ian Peter Leslie Smith, journalist, dies at 52
January 06	Litz Pisk, movement teacher, dies at 87
January 06	Vince Williams, actor (Hamp-Guiding Light), dies of cancer at 39
January 07	Desmond Flower, publisher, dies at 89
January 07	Sandor Vegh, violinist teacher/conductor, dies at 84
January 08	Carole Carr, singer/actress (Down Among the Z Men), dies at 68
January 08	Jesse White, actor (Maytag repairman), dies at 77
January 08	Joseph George Handy Hendleman, musician, dies at 76
January 08	Melvin Calvin, scientist, dies at 85
January 08	Phyllis Hartnoll, writer/editor, dies at 90
January 08	Ronald William Eastman, cinematogrpaher, dies at 60
January 09	Edward Osobka-Morawski, prime minister of Poland (1945-47), dies
January 09	Junaidu ibn Buhari, scholar, dies at 90
January 10	Alvinio Misciano, Italian tenor, killed in a fall from a window
January 10	Elspeth Josceline Huxley, writer, dies at 96
January 10	George Young, footballer, dies at 74
January 10	Hilary Grover Barratt Brown, conservationist, dies at 71
January 11	Cavan O'Connor, singer, dies at 97
January 11	Duncan Wood, television director/producer, dies at 71
January 11	Helen Foster Snow, writer, dies at 89
January 11	Joshua William Steward, polymath, dies at 83
January 11	Sheldon Leonard, producer/director (Dick Van Dyke), dies at 89
January 12	Charles Huggins, surgeon/medical researcher, dies at 95
January 12	Jean Writer-Edern Hallier, dies at 60
January 12	Jill Summers, actress (Agatha Coronation Street), dies at 86
January 13	William Mills, painter, dies at 74
January 14	King Hu, film director, dies at 64
January 15	Jose Ignacio Domecq, wine maker, dies at 82
January 15	Kenneth Thimann, botanist, dies at 92
January 16	Charlie Alfred Galbraith, jazz trombonist, dies at 76
January 16	Innis Cosby, son of Bill Cosby, murdered on LA highway at 29
January 16	Jim Kensil, NFL president (NY Jets), dies of heart failure at 66
January 16	Stephen Fitz-Simon, entrepreneur, dies at 59
January 17	Andrea Fisher, artist, dies at 21
January 17	Asfa Wossen, [Amha Selassie], crown emperor of Ethiopia in exile, dies
January 17	Clyde William Tombaugh, discoverer (Pluto), dies at 90
January 18	Myfanwy Piper, librettist, dies at 85
January 18	Neville Crump, racehorse trainer, dies at 86
January 18	Paul Tsongas, (Sen-D-Mass), dies at 55
January 19	Adriana Caseloti, voice (Snow White), dies at 70
January 19	George Armin Goyder, businessman/social philosopher, dies at 88
January 19	James Dickey, poet/novelist, dies at 84
January 20	Curt Flood, centerfielder (Cards), dies of throat cancer at 59
January 20	Edith Haisman, the oldest survivor of Titanic, dies at 100
January 20	Vladimir Yamnikov, owner (Kristall vodka), dies of cirrhosis at 56
January 21	Colonel Tom Parker, manager (Elvis Presley), dies at 87
January 21	Dennis Main Wilson, TV/radio producer, dies at 72
January 21	Michael Duane, educationalist, dies at 81
January 22	Ian Arthur Hoyle Munro, medical journalist, dies at 73
January 22	Irwin Levine, composer (Tie a Yellow Ribbon), dies at 58
January 22	Mollie Panter-Downes, writer , dies at 90
January 22	Wally Whyton, musician/broadcaster, dies at 66
January 23	Charles Craig, opera singer, dies at 77
January 23	David Waller, actor (Lady Jane, Perfect Friday, Hannay), dies at 76
January 23	Jeremy Stephen Maas, writer/art dealer, dies at 68
January 23	Laura "Dinky" Patterson, dies bungee jump at Superbowl rehearsal at 43
January 23	Randy Greenawalt, convicted killer, executed by injection at 47
January 23	Richard Berry, lyricist (Louie Louie), dies at 61
January 23	Roger John Tayler, astrophysicist, dies at 67
January 24	Callum Alexander MacDonald, historian, dies at 49
January 25	Herbert Eugene Caen, columnist, dies at 80
January 25	Jean Dixon, psychic (Gift of Prophecy), dies of a heart attack at 79
January 26	Margaret Hesse, princess of Hesse/the Rhine, dies at 83
January 26	Sarah Lucas, theatre Administrator, dies at 53
January 27	Cecil Lewis, airman/writer, dies at 98
January 27	Matthew Coady, journalist, dies at 73
January 28	James Colin Ross Welch, journalist, dies at 72
January 28	Pietro Cavallero, bandit, dies at 68
January 28	Vivien Signy, nurse, dies at 80
January 29	Eric Schneider, murderer of 2 teachers, executed in MO at 35
January 29	Louis Pauwels, writer/editor, dies at 76
January 29	Osvaldo Soriano, writer, dies at 54
January 31	Eve Lister, actress/singer (No Limit, Hyde Park), dies at 84
February 01	Herb Caen, columnist, Lung cancer, dies at 80
February 01	Mitchell Goodman, writer, dies at 71
February 01	Peter Morris, historian of France, dies at 50
February 01	Thelma Moss, psychologist, dies at 78
February 02	Chico Science Francisco Franca, musician, dies at 40
February 02	Godfrey Baseley, British radio executive, dies at 92
February 03	Anthony Cuthbert Baines, writer/curator, dies at 84
February 03	Bohumil Hrabal, writer, dies at 82
February 03	William Geoffrey Biddle, bomb disposal expert, dies at 79
February 04	James Friell, political cartoonist, dies at 84
February 05	John Richard Patterson, businessman, dies at 51
February 05	Pamela Harriman, US Ambassador (to France), dies of stroke at 76
February 07	Danil Shafran, cellist, dies at 74
February 08	Roy George Elroy Josephs, jazz dance teacher, dies at 57
February 09	Barry Evans, actor (Dr Upton-Dr in the House), dies at 53
February 10	Brian McManus Connolly, musician, dies at 47
February 10	Milton Cato, PM of San Vincent & Grenadines (1979-84), dies
February 11	Don Porter, actor (Gidget), dies at 84
February 12	Nora Beloff, journalist, dies at 78
February 12	Walter Ritchie, sculptor, dies at 77
February 18	Emily Hahn, writer, dies at 91
February 18	Enrique Peralta Azurdia, milt pres of Guatemala in (1963-66), dies
February 18	Eric William Fenby, musician, dies at 90
February 19	Deng Xiaoping, head (Chinese Communist Party), dies at 92
February 19	Leo Rosten, writer/humourist (Joys of Yiddish), dies at 88
February 19	Stanley Pearson, footballer, dies at 76
February 21	Kenneth Rowntree, painter, dies at 81
February 21	Michael Hollings, catholic priest/crusader, dies at 75
February 22	Austin Andrew Wright, sculptor, dies at 85
February 22	Frank Launder, director/scriptwriter, dies at 91
February 23	Oscar Lewenstein, impressario, dies at 80
February 23	Tony Williams, jazz musician, dies at 51
February 24	Isabelle Harriet Lucas, actress/singer (Outland, Comics), dies at 69
February 25	Andrei Donatovich Sinyavsky, writer/critic, dies at 71
February 25	Tony Williams, jazz drummer (Miles Davis), dies at 51
February 26	David Doyle, actor (Charlie's Angels), dies at 67
February 26	Giuseppe 'Nuccio' Bertone, car Designer, dies at 82
March 03	Stanislav Shatalin, Russian economist (500 Days), dies
March 06	Anthony Hopkins, clinical Neurologist, dies at 59
March 06	Jagan Guyanes, PM of Guyana (1953, 57-64), dies
March 06	Michael Manley, Jamaican PM (PNP, 1972-80, 89-92), dies
March 08	Alexander Salkind, producer (Superman), dies at 75
March 09	Notorius B I G, [Biggie Small, Chris Walkin], rapper, shot dead at 24
March 09	Terry Nation, writer (Dr Who, Blake 7) at 66
March 14	Fred Zinnemann (director), dies of heart attack at 89
March 14	John Curtis Jr, pres/CEO (Luby's Cafe), commits suicide at 58
March 15	Gail Davis, ( Annie Oakley), dies at 72
March 17	Gail Davis, actress (Annie Oakley), dies at 71
March 18	?, raped comatose woman who bore a child 1 year earlier, dies at 30
March 18	Willem de Kooning (abstract artist), dead Alzheimer's at 92
March 19	Willem De Kooning, artists (Abstract), dies of Alzheimer at 92
March 20	Carlo Fassi, figure skating coach (Fleming, Hamill), dies at 67
March 25	Roberto Sanchez Vilella, governor of Puerto Rico in (1965-69), dies
March 29	Eddie Ryder, actor (Slick Jones-General Hospital), dies at 74
March 29	Ellen Clara Pollock, actress (Wicked Lady, Fake), dies at 94
March 31	Edwin Alberian, TV celebrity (Clarabell), dies at 76
March 31	Laxmishankar Pathak, food retailer, dies at 62
April 01	Jolie Gabor, mother of Zsa Zsa & Eva, dies at 97
April 01	Nancy Woodhull, news editor (USA Today), dies of cancer at 52
April 02	Tomoyuki Tanaka, producer (Godzilla), dies of a stroke at 86
April 03	Judy Flannery, master triathelete, killed by a car at 56
April 05	Allen Ginsberg, beat poet, dies at 80
April 05	Alparslan Turkes, Turkish politician (MHP), dies
April 06	Jack Kent Cooke, NFL owner (Wash Redskins), dies at 84
April 08	Laura Nyro, singer, dies of ovarian cancer at 49
April 09	Helene Hanff, author (84 Charing Cross Road), dies at 80
April 11	Michael Dorris, writer, commits suicide at 52
April 12	George Wald, scientist, dies at 90
April 13	Ann Craft, researcher/writer, dies at 53
April 13	George Wald, scientist (Nobel Prize, vitamin A in retina), dies at 80
April 15	Sam Moskowitz, SF fandom historian, dies at 76
April 15	Zdenek Mlynar, Sec of Czech Communist Central Committee (1968), dies
April 16	Emilio Azcarraga Milmo, media tycoon, dies at 66
April 16	Mae Boren Axton, song writer (Heartbreak Hotel), dies at 82
April 16	Michael Stroka, actor (Aristede-Dark Shadows), dies of cancer at 57
April 17	Chaim Herzog, President of Israel (1983-93), dies at 78
April 18	Edward Barker, cartoonist, dies at 46
April 21	Andres Rodriguez, Paraguayan president (1989-93), dies
April 21	Diosdado Macapagal, Philippine president (1961-65), dies
April 24	Pat Paulsen, comedian (Smothers Brothers Show), dies at 69
April 26	Joey Faye, comic (Fruit of the Loom grapes), dies at 86
April 26	Peng Zhen, mayor of Beijing China (1951-66), dies
April 26	Yegorov, Russian leader (1994-95), dies
April 27	Paul Lambert, actor (Tom-Executive Suite), dies at 73
April 28	Susan Seddon Boulet, artist, dies of cancer at 45
April 29	Keith Ferguson, blues (Fabulous Thunderbirds), dies of overdose at 50
April 29	Mike Royko, columnist, dies of stroke at 64
April 29	Peter Tali Coleman, gov of Americ Samoa (1956-61, 78-85, 89-93), dies
May 01	Bebe, AKA Flipper, dolphin, dies at 40
May 04	Alvy Moore, actor/producer (Mr Kimball-Green Acres), dies at 75
May 04	Vijayananda Dahanayake, PM of Sri Lanka (1959-60), dies
May 08	Kai-Uwe Von Hassel, German Pres of Bundestag (CDU 1969-72), dies
May 10	Joanie Weston, roller derby queen (Bay Bombers), dies at 61
May 11	Brenda Carlin, TV producer/wife of comedian George Carlin, dies at 57
May 14	Harry Blackstone Jr, magician, dies of cancer at 62
May 14	Laurie Lee, writer, dies at 42
May 14	Princess Caradja-Kretzulesco, descendant of Dracula, dies at 76
May 14	Thelma Carpenter, singer, dies at 76
May 19	Millie, dog of President Bush (Millie's Book), dies at 12
May 20	Virgilio Boat, president of Colombia (1986-90), dies
May 24	Edward Mulhare, actor (Ghost & Mrs Muir), dies of lung cancer at 74
May 25	Muhammad Fadhel, PM of Iraq (1953-54), dies
May 26	Manfred Von Ardenne, German scientific pioneer, dies at 90
May 29	George Fenneman, announcer (You Bet Your Life), dies at 77
May 29	Jeff Buckley, musician, drowns at 30
May 29	John Sengstacke, publisher (Defender), dies at 84
May 31	Rosie Will Monroe, WW II icon (Rosie the riveter), dies at 76
June --	Peter Blos, psychoanalyst/writer (Adolescent Passage), dies at 92
June 01	Nikolai Tikhonov, Soviet PM (1980-85), dies at 92
June 02	Doc Cheatham, jazz musician, dies of stroke at 91
June 04	Kurt Adler, therapist/writer, dies at 92
June 04	Ronnie Lane, bassist (Faces), dies of multiple sclerosis at 50
June 05	J Anthony Lukas, writer (Pulitizer, Common Ground), suicide at 64
June 09	Reid Shelton, actor (Daddy Warbucks-Annie), dies of stroke at 71
June 11	Thalassa Cruso, gardening expert (PBS), dies of Alzheimer's at 87
June 14	Henry C Gordon, USAF/astronaut (Dynasoar), dies at 71
June 14	Richard Jaeckel, actor (Starman, The Dark), dies of cancer at 70
June 19	Bobby Helms, singer (Jingle Bell Rock), dies at 63
June 20	Bobby Helms, composer (Jingle Bell Rock), dies at 61
June 20	Lawrence Payton, rocker (4 Tops-I'll Be There), dies at 59
June 21	Art Prysock, jazz musician, dies at 68
June 23	"Wino" Willie Forkner, biker (Wild One), dies of heart attack at 77
June 23	Betty Shabazz, widow of Malcolm X, suffering from burns, dies at 63
June 24	Brian Keith, actor (Family Affair), commits suicide at 75
June 25	Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Fren oceanographer, dies of heart attack at 87
June 25	William Lyle Woratzeck, convicted killer, executed in Ariz at 51
June 29	William Hickey, actor (Prizzi's Honor), dies of emphysema at 68
July 01	Joshua Hassan, head of Gibraltar (1964-69, 72-87), dies
July 01	Robert Mitchum, actor (Winds of War), dies at 79
July 02	Jimmy Stewart, actor (It's a Wonderful Life), dies at 89
July 04	Charles Kuralt, news anchor (CBS Sunday Morning), dies at 62
July 07	Jerry Doggett, sportscaster (Bkln/LA Dodgers), dies at 80
July 08	Charles Drake, geologist, dies of heart attack at 92
July 13	Alexandra Danilova, ballet great, dies at 92
July 15	Alan Chaig, paleontologist (Carl Sagan of BBC), dies at 70
July 15	Gianni Versace, designer, shot to death by Andrew Cunanan at 50
July 18	Eugene Shoemaker, astronomer (Shoemaker-Levy comet), dies at 69
July 20	Linda Stirling, college prof/B movie actress (Pretender), dies at 75
July 23	Andrew Cunanan, serial killer (Gianni Versage), commits suicide
July 24	Saw Maung, general/president of Myanmar (Burma) (1988-92), dies
July 24	William J Brennan, supreme court justice (1956-90), dies at 91
July 25	Ben Hogan, golfer (Masters, Brit Open, US Open-1953), dies at 84
July 25	Dora Maar, Picasso model/companion, dies at 89
July 25	Margaret Farrer, midwife, dies at 83
July 27	K'Tut Tantri, broadcaster/hotelier, dies at 99
July 28	Louis Cohen, physicist, dies at 71
July 28	Seni Pramoj, PM of Thailand (1945-46, 75, 76), dies
July 31	Beam Dai, head of South Vietnam (1949-55), dies
July 31	Bo Dai, Last emporer of Vietnam, dies at 85
July 31	Edith Fore, pitchwoman (I've fallen and I can't get up!), dies at 81
July 31	Ulrich Ernst Simon, theologian, dies at 63
August 01	Ngiratkel Etpison, president of Palau (1989-92), dies
August 01	Svyatoslav Richter, Russian pianist, dies of heart attack at 82
August 02	William S Burroughs, author (Naked Lunch), dies at 83
August 04	Jeanne Calment, world's oldest person (Feb 21 1875), dies at 122
August 05	Don Steele, LA radio personality (KRTH), dies of cancer at 61
August 07	Douglas Gray, archivist, dies at 74
August 07	Vincent Gulliver, Britain's oldest man, dies at 109
August 08	Duncan Swift, jazz pianist, dies at 74
August 10	Jean-Claude Lauzon, director/writer (Leola), dies in air crash at 43
August 12	Luther Allison, blues performer (Motown), dies of cancer at 57
August 16	Gerard McLarnon, actor/writer, dies at 82
August 21	Misael Pastrana Borrero, Pres of Colombia (1970-74), dies
August 22	Mary Louise Smith, chairman (Rep), dies at 82
August 23	Eric Gairy, PM of Grenada (1974-79), dies
August 24	Phillip Humphrey Vellacott, classicist, dies at 90
August 25	Clodomiro Almeyda Medina, Chilean external minister (1970-73), dies
August 25	James Dewar, journalist/documentary film-maker, dies at 70
August 25	Robert Pinget, novelist/Playwright, dies at 78
August 27	Brandon Tartikoff, TV exec (NBC), dies at 48
August 27	Jeep Swenson, actor (Batman & Robin), dies of heart failure at 40
August 31	Diana Spencer, princess of England, dies in car crash in Paris at 36
September 02	Rudolf Bing, opera manager (NY Met Opera), dies at 95
September 02	Viktor Frankl, psychotherapist (Man's Search for Meaning), dies at 92
September 04	Belle Stewart, singer, dies at 91
September 05	Georg Solti, conductor, dead, dies at 84
September 05	Leon Edel, biographer, dies at 89
September 05	Mother Teresa, Nobel (1979), dies of cardiac arrest at 87
September 06	Philippe Rossillon, administrator, dies at 66
September 07	Alex Macintosh, broadcaster/actor (Hell Fight), dies at 72
September 07	Derek Taylor, Beatles publicist, dies of cancer at 65
September 07	Mobutu Sese Seko, president of Zaire (1965-97), dies at 66
September 09	Myra McCulloch, teacher academic/administrator, dies at 48
September 09	Richie Ashburn, HOF baseball player (Phillies, Mets), dies at 70
September 10	Burgess Meredith, actor (Penguin-Batman, Rocky), dies at 88
September 12	Janet Leach, potter, dies at 79
September 12	Judith Merril [Grossman], science fiction writer, dies at 74
September 12	Stikkan Stig Anderson, music entrepreneur (Polar), dies at 66
September 16	Antony Kearey, television producer, dies at 77
September 17	Jan Peder Syse, PM of Norway (1989-90), dies
September 17	John Seldon Whale, theologian, dies at 100
September 17	Red Skelton, comedian (Red Skelton Show), dies at 84
September 18	Harry Brian Boyne, journalist, dies at 87
September 18	Jimmy Witherspoon, singer, dies at 65
September 19	Clive Brain, educationalist, dies at 57
September 19	Kathy Keeton Guccione, CEO (General Media Intl), dies at 58
September 19	Malcolm Hughes, artist, dies at 77
September 20	Edmund Falkiner, jazz saxophinist/probation officer, dies at 59
September 21	Tommy Cecil, ferryman, dies at 51
September 22	Bryan Woods, soldier/clerk, dies at 76
September 22	Eric William Hunter Christie, barrister, dies at 77
September 22	George Bryan Ingham, artist, dies at 61
September 22	Ruth Picardie, journalist, dies at 33
September 22	Shoichi Yokoi, Jap WW II fighter (surrendered in 1972), dies at 82
September 23	Abe Gibron, head coach (Chicago Bears), dies at 72
September 23	Murray Burnett, writer (Everybody Goes to Rick-Casablanca), dies at 86
September 23	Shirley Clarke, actress (Cool World), dies at 78
September 24	Jonathon Silver, entrepreneur/arts patron, dies at 47
September 25	Sayed Mutawli ad Imam scholar/broadcaster-Darsh, dies at 66
September 29	Milner Connorton Gray, designer, dies at 97
September 29	Robert Arthur Thornbury Campbell, journalist/musician, dies at 55
September 29	Roy Lichtenstein, pop artist, dies of pneumonia at 73
September 30	male alligator, largest in Florida (14 feet), killed at about 65
October 01	Gul Mohammed, world's shortest man (22.1"/56.16 cm), dies at 36
October 03	Alfred Leslie Rowse, historian, dies at 93
October 05	Andrew Keir, actor (Rob Roy, Absolution, Blood Hunt), dies at 71
October 05	Dave Marr, golfer/commentator, dies at 63
October 06	Johnny Vander Meer, pitched consecutive no-hitters, dies at 82
October 08	Brown Meggs, CEO (Capitol Records), dies of a brain hemorrhage at 66
October 09	Arthur Tracy, radio personality (Street Singer), dies at 98
October 10	Brian Connolly, lead singer (Sweet), dies of heart failure at 52
October 12	John Denver, country star (Country Boy), dies in plain crash at 53
October 13	Adil Carcani, prime minister of Albania (1982-91), dies
October 14	Harold Robbins, salacious novelist, dies at 81
October 16	Audra Lindley, actress (Helen Roper-3's Company, Ropers), dies at 79
October 16	James Mitchner, author (Hawaii), dies of kidney failure at 90
October 17	Paul Edwin Zimmer, sci-fi writer, dies of heart attack at 54
October 18	Bill Rotsler, cartoonist/writer, dies of cancer at 62
October 18	Nancy Dickerson, 1st female news correspondent (CBS), dies at 70
October 18	Roberto C Goizueta, CEO (Coca-Cola), dies of lung cancer at 65
October 19	Glen Buxton, guitarist (Alice Cooper), dies of pneumonia at 49
October 21	Dolph Camilli, Bkln Dodger/MVP (1941), dies at 90
October 24	Don Messick, cartoon voice (Astro-Jetsons, Bamm Bamm), dies at 62
October 28	Toni Carabillo, writer (Feminist Chronicles), dies of lymphoma at 71
October 30	Sam Fuller, director/writer (Big Red One), dies at 86
October 31	Wilfrid Ewart Oulton, airman, dies at 86
November 02	G Harry Stine, writer, dies at 69
November 02	Roy McMillan, baseball player (Reds), dies of heart failure at 68
November 04	George Chambers, PM of Trinidad & Tobago (1981-86), dies
November 04	H Richard Hornberger, surgeon (inspired M*A*S*H), dies at 73
November 04	Wally Bruner, journalist (ABC, What's My Line), dies at 66
November 06	Phillipo Seed, social work academic, dies at 67
November 10	William Alland, actor (Citizen Kane), dies at 81
November 12	William Matthews, poet, dies at 55
November 13	William John Elwyn Davies, painter, dies at 80
November 14	Eddie Arcaro, jockey (won 2 Triple Crowns), dies at 81
November 14	Stefan Lorant, writer/actor, dies at 96
November 15	Saul Chaplin, director (West Side Story), dies at 85
November 15	William Perrie, prison governor, dies at 79
November 16	George Petrie, actor (Honeymooners), dies on 85th birthday
November 16	Georges Marchais, Sec Gen of French Communist Party (1972-94), dies
November 16	Russ "Mad Monk" Meyer, pitcher (Phila Phillies), dies at 74
November 19	Christina Corrigan, obese girl (680 lbs), dies at 13
November 19	Durlyn Eddmonds, murderer, executed at 45
November 19	Frank Joseph Kofsky, teacher/writer, dies at 62
November 19	Walter Stewart, murderer, executed at 42
November 20	Gary Burris, murderer (Kenneth Chambers), executed in Indiana
November 20	Robert Palmer, rock critic, dies at 52
November 21	Ismail Fahmi, external minister of Egypt in (1973-77), dies
November 22	Joanna Moore, actress (Bronx, Hindenburg), dies at 63
November 22	Michael Hutchence, rocker (INXS), commits suicide at 37
November 22	Tom Blackburn, writer, dies at 71
November 25	Charles Hallahan, actor (Hunter), dies of heart attack at 54
November 25	Fenton Robinson, US blues guitarist (Tennessee Woman), dies at 62
November 25	Hastings Kamuzu Band, PM/Pres of Malawi (1964-66/66-94), dies
November 26	Francis Paudras, designer/jazz fan, dies at 62
November 27	Buck Leonard, Hall of Famer in Negro League, dies at 90
November 27	Henry Charnock, oceanographer, dies at 76
November 28	Georges Marchal, actor (Dirty Game, Blondine), dies at 77
November 29	Coleman Young, 1st black mayor of a major city, dies at 79
November 30	Clare Lucy Madeleine Evans, historian, dies at 37
November 30	Kathy Acker, writer, dead Cancer Died, dies at 54
November 30	Ron Gulliford, educationalist, dies at 76
December 01	Denis Gerald Barrington, artist, dies at 67
December 01	Stephane Grappelli, French jazz violinist, dies at 89
December 03	Marian Kratochwil, artist, dies at 91
December 03	Steve Hamilton, pitcher (NY Yankees), dies of cancer at 63
December 04	David Abell Wood, priest, dies at 72
December 04	Richard Vernon, British actor (Gandhi, Hard Days Night), dies at 72
December 05	Colin Franklin, doctor, dies at 67
December 05	Daphne Fielding, socialite/writer, dies at 93
December 06	Alan Mouncer, film director/producer, dies at 68
December 06	Edmund Charles Wolf Myers, soldier/engineer, dies at 91
December 06	Eliot Daniel, composer (I Love Lucy theme), dies at 89
December 08	Bob Bell, clown (WGN's 1st Bozo), dies at 75
December 08	Leon Poliakov, historian, dies at 87
December 09	Tamara Geva, dancer, dies at 91
December 10	Violet Carlson, stage dancer/singer, dies at 97
December 11	Kenneth WIlliam Gatland, aerospace scientist, dies at 73
December 13	Alexander Oppenheim, mathematician, dies at 94
December 13	Martin Carter, poet/critic, dies at 70
December 13	Rafael Jose Fernandez de la Calzada y Ferrer, restaurateur, dies at 83
December 14	Owen Barfield, philosopher of language, dies at 99
December 14	Robert Sutton, electronics engineer, dies at 82
December 14	Stubby Kaye, actor (Guys & Dolls, Sweet Charity), dies at 79
December 15	Lillian Disney, widow of Walt Disney, dies at 98
December 15	Pananayiotis Taki Vatikiotis, middle east scholar, dies at 69
December 16	Nicolette Larson, singer (Lotta Love), dies from brain seizure at 45
December 16	Richard Warwick, actor (Johnny Dangerously, Sebastine, If), dies at 52
December 17	Reginald Victor Jones, scientist, dies at 86
December 18	Chris Farley, comedian (SNL, Tommy Boy), dies at 33
December 19	David Norman Schramm, physicist, dies at 52
December 19	Masaru Ibuka, co-founder (Sony Corp), dies at 89
December 20	Dawn Steel, film maker (When Harry Met Sally), dies at 51
December 20	Denise Levertov, poet, dies at 74
December 20	Vincent Ciccone, inventor (Blow-Pops candy), dies at 81
December 21	Bruce Woodcock, boxer, dies at 76
December 21	Juzo Itami, film director/actor (Lord Jim, Yuuguremade), dies at 64
December 21	Michael Lyne, air-marshal, dies at 78
December 22	Dawn Steel, producer/pres (Col TriStar), dies of brain tumor at 51
December 22	Douglas Ranger, surgeon, dies at 81
December 22	Hugh Edward Conway Seymour, marquis of Hertford, dies at 67
December 22	John Pinkerton, compuer scientist, dies at 78
December 22	Johnny Coles, trumpeter, dies at 71
December 22	Juzo Itami, Japanese director, commits suicide at 64
December 23	Austin Whitaker, schoolmaster classical scholar/archivist, dies at 90
December 23	Brian Malzard Foss, psychologist, dies at 76
December 23	Donald Gunn MacRae, sociologist, dies at 76
December 23	Hrvoje Horvatic, video artist, dies at 39
December 23	Keith Bentley, international racing cyclist, dies at 72
December 23	Stanley Cortez, cinematographer (Magnificent Ambersons), dies at 92
December 23	Stanlye Cortez, cinematographer, dies at 89
December 24	Alan Fluck, musical educationalist, dies at 69
December 24	Anthea Joseph, music producer, dies at 57
December 24	James Komack, producer (Courtship of Eddie's Father), dies at 67
December 24	Toshiro Mifune, Japanese actor (Shogun), dies at 77
December 25	Anatoli Boukreev, mountaineer, dies at 39
December 25	Denver Pyle, actor (Dukes of Hazzard), dies at 77
December 25	Giorgio Strehler, theatre director, dies at 76
December 25	Laurence Gower, academic, dies at 84
December 26	John Hinde, photographer/circus promoter, dies at 81
December 26	John Whitley, air-Marshal, dies at 92
December 27	Brendan Gill, journalist, dies at 83
December 27	Dorothy Stroud, garden historian, dies at 87
December 27	Ewart G Abner Jr, president (Motown Records), dies at 74
December 27	Tom Hudson, artist/teacher, dies at 75
December 28	George Fleming, cyclist, dies at 80
December 28	James Lees-Milne, architecural historian, dies at 89
December 28	Ronald Clive Williams, actor/comedian, dies at 68
December 29	(Hanlon) Pat Clarke, cyclist, dies at 82
December 29	Robert Steel, academic, dies at 82
December 31	76 law enforcement officers, killed by felons in US this year
December 31	Dominique de Menil, arts patron/human rights advocate, dies at 89
December 31	Floyd Cramer, pianist (Nashville Sound), dies of cancer at 64
December 31	Lillian Billie Dove Bohney, actress, dies at 96
December 31	Michael Kennedy, son of Robert Kennedy, dies in ski accident at 39