Famous People Who Died In 1997
Discover the most famous people died who died in the year 1997. This list includes people like The Notorious B.I.G., Mother Teresa, John Denver, Andrew Cunanan, Chris Farley and many more. This list of celebrities is loosely sorted by popularity. People featured on this list, include artists, political leaders, poets and philosophers who died in 1997. This list includes people from United States, United Kingdom, France & Germany and many more countries.
Chris Farley15 February 1964, American
Andrew Cunanan31 August 1969, American
American Spree Killer
The Notorious B.I.G.21 May 1972, American
Rapper
Mother Teresa26 August 1910, Albanian, Indian
Founder of Missionaries of Charity
John Denver31 December 1943, American
Singer-songwriter
John Kendrew24 March 1917, British
Biochemist and Crystallographer
James Stewart20 May 1908, American
Actor
Michael Hutchence22 January 1960, Australian
Musician
Jeff Buckley17 November 1966, American
Singer-Songwriter, Guitarist
Robert Mitchum06 August 1917, American
Film actor
Deng Xiaoping22 August 1904, Chinese
Allen Ginsberg03 June 1926, American
Poet
Dodi Fayed15 April 1955, Egyptian
Ex-Lover of Princess Diana
Jeanne Calment21 February 1875, French
Oldest Person Ever
Ben Hogan13 August 1912, American
American professional golfer
Burgess Meredith16 November 1907, American
Actor
Anton LaVey11 April 1930, American
Occultist
Jacques Cousteau11 June 1910, French
French Explorer
William S. Burroughs05 February 1914, American
Novelist, Short Story Writer
Brian Keith14 November 1921, American
Actor
Joanna Moore10 November 1934, American
Actress
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan13 October 1948, Pakistani
Qawwal and Ghazal Singer
Townes Van Zandt07 March 1944, American
Singer & Songwriter
Fela Kuti15 October 1938, Nigerian
Multi-instrumentalist
Mobutu Sese Seko14 October 1930, Congolese, Moroccan
Dictator
Roy Lichtenstein27 October 1923, American
Painter, Sculptor
Denver Pyle11 May 1920, American
Actor
Red Skelton18 July 1913, American
Comedian, Pantomimist
Paulo Freire19 September 1921, Brazilian
Educator and Philosopher
Audra Lindley24 September 1918, American
Actress
Anatoli Boukreev16 January 1958, Kazakh, Nepalese, Russian
Mountaineer
James A. Michener03 February 1907, American
Adriana Caselotti06 May 1916, American
Voice Actor
Princess Diana01 July 1961, British
Jolie Gabor29 September 1896, American
Entrepreneur, Socialite
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Hans Eysenck04 March 1916, German
Fred Zinnemann29 April 1907, Austrian, British, American
Film Director
Cheddi Jagan22 March 1918, Guyanese
Guyana's Father of Nation
Melvin Calvin08 April 1911, American
Biochemist
Edward Mills Purcell30 August 1912, American
Physicist
George Wald18 November 1906, American
Scientist
Leo Rosten11 April 1908, American
American humorist
Charles Brenton Huggins22 September 1901, Canadian, American
Physician & Surgeon
Alfred Day Hershey04 December 1908, American
Nobel Prize Winner in Medicine
Sir John Eccles27 January 1903, Australian
Neurophysiologist
Diana, Princess of Wales01 July 1961, French
Princess
Gianni Versace02 December 1946, Italian
Entrepreneur, Designer
Gulshan Kumar05 May 1956, Indian
Businessperson, Film producer
Viktor Frankl26 March 1905, Austrian
Surgeon, Psychotherapist, Psychologist,
Betty Shabazz28 May 1934
Civil Rights Activist, Nurse, Educator
Clyde Tombaugh04 February 1906, American
Astronomer, University teacher
Michael LeMoyne Kennedy27 February 1958, American
Lawyer
Toshiro Mifune01 April 1920, Chinese, Japanese
Actor, Film producer, Film actor
Magda Gabor11 June 1915, American
Actor, Socialite, Television actor
Richard Jaeckel10 October 1926, American
Actor
Nicolette Larson17 July 1952, American
Musician, Singer, Songwriter
Ronnie Lane01 April 1946, British
Musician, Singer-songwriter, Guitarist
Rich Mullins21 October 1955, American
Singer, Musician, Composer
Dora Maar22 November 1907, French
Photographer, Artist, Painter, Poet,
Willem de Kooning24 April 1904, Dutch, American
Artist, Painter, Sculptor, University teacher
Henri Paul03 July 1956, French
Lillian Disney15 February 1899, American
Philanthropist, Secretary, Artist
Hughie Green02 February 1920, British
Television presenter, Actor, Television producer
Isaiah Berlin06 June 1909, Latvian, British
Philosopher, Historian, University teacher,
James Goldsmith26 February 1933, French
Politician
Michael Manley10 December 1924, Jamaican
Politician
Michael Hedges31 December 1953, American
Guitarist, Musician
Don Messick07 September 1926, American
Actor, Dub actor, Stage actor
Vittorio Mussolini27 September 1916, Italian
Screenwriter, Film producer, Film critic,
Pamela Harriman20 March 1920, British
Diplomat, Socialite
Billy Bremner09 December 1942, British
Association football player, Association football
Georg Solti21 October 1912, Hungarian
Conductor, Pianist, Musician, Composer, Music
Davide Sorrenti09 July 1976, American
Photographer
Coleman Young24 May 1918, American
Former Mayor of Detroit
Chien-Shiung Wu31 May 1912, Chinese
Physicist
Diosdado Macapagal28 September 1910, Filipino
Economist
Hastings Banda15 February 1898, Malawian
President
William J. Brennan Jr.25 April 1906, American
lawyer, judge
Eldon Hoke23 March 1958, American
Singer
Victor Vasarely09 April 1906, French, Hungarian
Painter, Visual artist, Sculptor
Jeane Dixon05 January 1904, American
Real estate broker, Astrologer
Walter Gotell15 March 1924, German
Actor
James Dickey02 February 1923, American
American poet
Otto Ernst Remer18 August 1912, German
Writer
Stéphane Grappelli26 January 1908, French, Italian
Street artist, Composer, Jazz musician, Pianist
Charles Kuralt10 September 1934, American
Journalist, Correspondent, News presenter
Chiang Wei-kuo06 October 1916
Politician
Jean-Dominique Bauby23 April 1952, French
Journalist, Autobiographer, Writer
K. Shivaram Karanth10 October 1902, Indian
Author, Poet
Laurie Lee26 June 1914, British
Screenwriter, Poet, Autobiographer, Journalist
Jean Louis05 October 1907, French, Haitian, American
Artist, Screenwriter, Costume designer
Robert Irsay05 March 1923, American
Chaim Herzog17 September 1918, Israeli
Former President of Israel
Aldo Rossi03 May 1931, Italian
architect, designer, urban planner, screenwriter,
Cornelius Castoriadis11 March 1922, French, Greek
Philosopher, Economist, Writer, University
Eugene Merle Shoemaker28 April 1928, American
Astronomer, Geologist, Physicist