People who died in 1997
Mother Teresa
1910
– 1997
· Age 87
Deceased
Diana, Princess of Wales
1961
– 1997
· Age 36
Deceased
Deng Xiaoping
1904
– 1997
· Age 92
Deceased
Toshirō Mifune
1920
– 1997
· Age 77
Deceased
Jacques Cousteau
1910
– 1997
· Age 87
Deceased
James Stewart
1908
– 1997
· Age 89
Deceased
Allen Ginsberg
1926
– 1997
· Age 70
Deceased
Mobutu Sese Seko
1930
– 1997
· Age 66
Deceased
Viktor Frankl
1905
– 1997
· Age 92
Deceased
Isaiah Berlin
1909
– 1997
· Age 88
Deceased
William S. Burroughs
1914
– 1997
· Age 83
Deceased
Edward Mills Purcell
1912
– 1997
· Age 84
Deceased
Hastings Banda
1898
– 1997
· Age 99
Deceased
Jeanne Calment
1875
– 1997
· Age 122
Deceased
Robert Mitchum
1917
– 1997
· Age 79
Deceased
The Notorious B.I.G.
1972
– 1997
· Age 24
Deceased
Clyde Tombaugh
1906
– 1997
· Age 90
Deceased
Melvin Calvin
1911
– 1997
· Age 85
Deceased
Yuri Nikulin
1921
– 1997
· Age 75
Deceased
John Kendrew
1917
– 1997
· Age 80
Deceased
Anton LaVerga
1930
– 1997
· Age 67
Deceased
Burgess Meredith
1907
– 1997
· Age 89
Deceased
John Denver
1943
– 1997
· Age 53
Deceased
Chien-Shiung Wu
1912
– 1997
· Age 84
Deceased
Paulo Freire
1921
– 1997
· Age 75
Deceased