1997 suicides

Czech writer (1914–1997)

Australian singer (1960–1997)

American spree killer (1969–1997)

American actor (1921–1997)

1997 plane crash in Indonesia

American cult leader (1931–1997)

Swedish musician (1956–1997)

Bolivian footballer (1966-1997)

Japanese actor, film director (1933–1997)

French actress (1940-1997)

American author (1946–1997)

Scottish singer (1957–1997)

Japanese actor and singer (1964-1997)

Serbian politician and scholar (1936-1997)

American fiction writer, essayist, memoirist (1945–1997)

Czech-bon survivor of Treblinka extermination camp (1920-1997)

East German gymnast (1959–1997)

French singer-songwriter

Swiss film director, screenwriter, film producer (1942-1997)

Latvian chess player (1946–1997)

British student victim of bullying (1984–1997)

Bulgarian physicist, dissident (1931-1997)

Finnish musicologist, music critic, writer and translator (1938–1997)

German actor (1971-1997)