1997 deaths

American professional wrestler (1962–1997)

Swedish author and aesthetiian (1915–1997)

Uruguayan racing driver (1906-1997)

British writer (1914-1997)

Soviet film director, screenwriter, playwright (1908-1997)

Swedish musician (1956–1997)

American racing driver

French footballer (1924-1997)

Catholic cardinal (1912–1997)

Swedish ethnographer and anthropologist (1921–1997)

athletics competitor (1908-1997)

American politician (1941–1997)

Japanese artist and writer (1926-1997)

French singer and actor (1915–1997)

German footballer (1946–1997)

Soviet footballer (1931-1997)

General of the Republic of China, adopted son of President Chiang Kai-shek (1916-1997)

American composer (1912–1997)

Catholic cardinal (1902-1997)

Prime Minister of Burma (1928-1997)

American jump blues singer (1920–1997)

English novelist and broadcasting administrator (1918–1997)

Russian artist (1917-1997)

Dutch footballer (1946-1997)

Prime Minister of Grenada (1922-1997)

Brazilian association football player (1920–1997)

Australian geologist and palaeontologist (1907 - 1997)

Italian footballer (1932-1997)

American actress (1908-1997)

swimmer (1911-1992)

American rower (1916–1997)

racecar driver

American Chicago blues musician (1924–1997)

American artist and philanthropist (1899–1997)

American astrologer and psychic

American silent film actress; aviator (1903–1997)

German-American botanist (1898-1997)

shortest adult human (1957–1997)

Argentine association football player (1941-1997)

President of Guatemala (1908-1997)

French-British tycoon and politician (1933–1997)

former racing driver and motorcycle racer from Belgium

Chinese Christian preacher (1905–1997)

American blues guitarist (1939–1997)

German Romance philologist (1921-1997)

Film director, Screenwriter (1940-1997)

electrical engineer and inventor of a transistor configuration

American film actress (1907-1997)

German sprinter (1905–1997)

French foil and sabre fencer (1909-1997)

French historian (1910–1997)

Czechoslovak graphic, illustrator and painter (1935-1997)

Sportwomen, explorator, traveler and writer (1903–1997)

Hungarian engineer and inventor (1907–1997)

American singer-songwriter

Italian fencer (1917–1997)

American actor (1943–1997)

American science fiction writer and editor (1923-1997)

East German ski jumper (1930-1997)

Soviet footballer (1928-1997)