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1997
Tony Blair is sworn in as British Prime Minister on May 2, 1997 .	Hale-Bopp , the Great Comet of 1997 , is visible to the unaided eye for several months.
Princess Diana died in a car accident in Paris on August 31, 1997. The funeral will take place in London on September 6, 1997 in front of a worldwide TV audience.

1997 in other calendars
Ab urbe condita	2750
Armenian calendar	1445-1446
Ethiopian calendar	1989-1990
Badi calendar	153-154
Bengali calendar	1403-1404
Berber calendar	2947
Buddhist calendar	2541
Burmese calendar	1359
Byzantine calendar	7505-7506
Chinese calendar
- era	4693-4694 or 4633-4634
– 60-year cycle	Fire Rat (丙子, 13) - Fire Ox (丁丑, 14)
French Revolutionary Calendar	CCV - CCVI 205-206
Hindu calendar
– Vikram Sambat	2053-2054
– Shaka Samvat	1919-1920
Iranian calendar	1375-1376
Islamic calendar	1417-1418
Japanese calendar
– Nengō (era):	heisei 9
- Koki	2657
Jewish calendar	5757-5758
Coptic calendar	1713-1714
Korean calendar
– Dangun era	4330
– Juche era	86
Minguo calendar	86
Modern Olympics	XXVI
Seleucid calendar	2308-2309
Thai solar calendar	2540

annual dedications

• The lady 's russula (Russula cyanoxantha) is mushroom of the year (German Society for Mycology)
• Great Spotted Woodpecker ( Dendrocopos major) is Bird of the Year ( NABU /Germany)
• The mountain ash (Sorbus aucuparia) is Tree of the Year (Tree of the Year Board of Trustees/Germany)
• The bug orchid (Orchis coriophora) is orchid of the year (working group on native orchids/Germany)
• The alpine ibex (Capra ibex) is Animal of the Year (German Wildlife Protection Association)
• The European Grayling (Thymallus thymallus) is the Fish of the Year (Association of German Sport Fishermen e. V.)

events

politics and world affairs

January

• 0January 1: Arnold Koller becomes President of Switzerland again .
• January 15: Andorra is admitted to the World Health Organization ( WHO ).
• January 16: Yahya Jammeh becomes President of State and Government of The Gambia .
• January 19: Bulgaria : Petar Stoyanov becomes President.
• January 21: The German-Czech declaration on mutual relations and their future development is signed in Prague. Among other things, it resulted in the establishment of the German-Czech Future Fund on December 29, 1997.
• January 23: Madeleine Albright becomes US Secretary of State .
• January 28: Viktor Klima becomes Chancellor of Austria.

February

• 0February 3 Pakistan : Parliament again dissolved.
• 0February 4 South Africa gets a new constitution.
• 08 February: Snap general elections in Nauru
• 13 February: Snap presidential elections in Nauru. The new President will be Kinza Clodumar .
• February 17: Bulgaria applies for full NATO membership .
• February 28: Beginning of the “postmodern”, “soft” or “silent” coup in Turkey: At the urging of the military leadership, the National Security Council decides on a memorandum against Islamist tendencies. The process thus initiated leads to the disempowerment of Prime Minister Necmettin Erbakan ( Welfare Party )

March

• 0March 1 Albania : The government of President Sali Berisha resigns.
• 0March 1: Major riots in Albania (“ Lottery Uprising ”)
• 0March 9: US rapper The Notorious BIG is shot dead in Los Angeles.
• March 14: Bundeswehr evacuation measure in Albania “ Operation Libelle ”

April

• 01 April: Rear Admiral Rudolf Lange becomes commander of the Bundeswehr Command and Staff Academy after his predecessor had to resign because of the affair surrounding the appearance of the well-known historical revisionist Manfred Roeder .
• 0April 9: The MPs in Angola meet for the first time .
• April 11 Angolan government formed
• April 11: Deployment of an international protection force to Albania on behalf of the OSCE
• April 13: Presidential elections in Mali
• April 26: German President Roman Herzog delivers his well-known Berlin speech , in which he calls for a "jolt" to go through Germany.
• April 27 Second democratic elections in Yemen
• April 29: The Chemical Weapons Convention came into force.

May

• 01 May: The Labor Party under Tony Blair wins the British House of Commons elections , bringing about a change of government after 18 years. He succeeds John Major of the Conservative Party .
• May 15: The German Bundestag resolves on the legal equality of marital and extramarital rape , making marital rape a punishable offense under Section 177 of the Criminal Code.
• May 21 Bulgaria: Ivan Kostov becomes prime minister.
• May 21: Signing of the declaration of reconciliation between Poland and Ukraine
• May 21: Meeting between Hosni Mubarak and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat
• May 23: Prime Minister of Iran becomes Hojatoleslam Mohammad Chātami .
• May 27: The NATO-Russia Founding Act is signed in Paris ( France ).

June

• 0June 2: Federal elections in Canada
• June 11: Concordat between the Holy See and Thuringia
• June 20: Natsagiin Bagabandi becomes President of Mongolia .
• June 27: Moscow. After five years of civil war , the President of Tajikistan , Emomalij Rahmonov , and the leader of the Muslim opposition, Said Abdullo Nuri, sign a peace treaty. The agreement mediated by Russia, Iran and the UN provides, among other things, participation of the opposition in the government and army.
• June 29: Albania. First new elections after the riots
• 30 June: British colonial rule over the New Territories in Hong Kong ends at the end of the agreed 99-year lease . In line with the previously agreed Sino-British Joint Declaration on Hong Kong , the United Kingdom is handing over sovereignty over the entire Hong Kong territory to the People's Republic of China .

July

• 0July 1: Britain rejoins UNESCO .
• 01 July: The People's Republic of China takes control of Hong Kong
• 0July 5: Cambodia coup d'état . Many politicians go into exile.
• 0July 6: Federal congressional elections in Mexico
• 0July 8: NATO-Ukraine Charter signed
• 0July 9 Macedonia : Riots in Gostivar and Tetovo
• July 15: The resigned Serbian head of state Slobodan Milošević is elected President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia by the Yugoslav federal parliament.
• July 23 Laos becomes a member of ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations).
• July 25: Kocheril Raman Narayanan becomes India 's first casteless president.

August

• 0August 6: Bolivia : Hugo Banzer becomes president.
• August 29 Armenia and Russia sign a treaty of friendship.

September

• 01 September: A Universal Declaration of Human Responsibilities is proposed by the InterAction Council .
• 01 September: Opening of the Tallinn German Gymnasium ( Estonia )
• September 11: In a referendum , the people of Scotland decide with a clear majority to set up a Scottish regional parliament
• September 15: Concordat between the Holy See and Mecklenburg-West Pomerania
• September 18: In a referendum , the people of Wales vote by a narrow majority to set up a Welsh regional parliament
• September 18: A terrorist attack on tourists in front of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo , Egypt kills ten people, including nine Germans, and injures 24.
• 21 September: Parliamentary elections in Poland

October

• 02 October: The Treaty of Amsterdam is signed . It comes into force in 1999, is mainly intended to prepare the EU for eastward enlargement and creates, among other things, the post of High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy .
• 0October 7th: Entry into force of the new constitution in Poland
• October 11: After lengthy deliberations, a new, largely liberal constitution comes into force in Thailand.
• 12 October: Cameroon : Paul Biya is confirmed in office as President.
• October 15: ThrustSSC sets a land speed record as the fastest car
• October 29: The United Nations Security Council imposes sanctions on Angola.
• October 30: Mary McAleese becomes President of Ireland .
• October 31: Letsie III. is crowned King of Lesotho .

November

• November 16: The People's Republic of China releases dissident Wei Jingsheng from prison and deports him to the United States .
• November 17: Terrorist attack on tourists in front of the Hatshepsut temple in Luxor (Egypt): 68 people die.

December

• 01st to 10th December: An international climate conference takes place in Kyoto ( Japan ), at which the industrialized countries commit to reducing their greenhouse gas emissions .
• 0December 4: The London conference on Nazi gold draws to a close. There was no general approval for the return of 5.5 tons of gold still in Allied administration to victims of the Holocaust .
• December 10: Kazakhstan : renaming of the capital Akmola to Astana
• December 18: The presidential election in South Korea leads to a change of office. Opposition politician Kim Dae-jung is preferred to incumbent Kim Young-sam by voters.
• December 19: General elections in Djibouti
• December 28: To stop the spread of H5N1 , the virus that causes H5N1 bird flu , Hong Kong authorities killed about 1.5 million chickens.
• December 30: During the Algerian civil war , massacres are committed in several villages in the province of Relizane , leaving more than 500 dead.

business

• Company mergers relating to Germany had a volume of around DM 150 billion.
• The takeover of MCI by WorldCom and the merger into MCI WorldCom was the most expensive company takeover to date, at around DM 60 billion.
• February 21: Double taxation agreement between Germany and Latvia
• March 10th: the Neuer Markt is launched on the German Stock Exchange
• April 8: Forty years after it was first published, the German publisher Bastei discontinued the series of dime books Wildwest-Roman with volume 1859.
• April 20: A container ship from Xiamen in Red China arrives in the Taiwanese port of Kaohsiung after a 48-year break in trade across the Taiwan Strait .
• May 14: The five global airlines Air Canada , United Airlines , Lufthansa , SAS Scandinavian Airlines and Thai Airways form the Star Alliance to bring about increased efficiency in their business operations. Other companies will be added over time to benefit from the success.
• June 6: Double taxation agreement between Germany and Finland
• July 22: Double taxation agreement between Germany and Lithuania
• July: Beginning of the Asian crisis
• 12 September: Air France acquires French domestic carrier Air Inter .
• November 26: Double taxation agreement between Germany and Kazakhstan
• December 8: The Union de Banques Suisses and the Swiss Bank Corporation announce their merger , which will create UBS AG .
• Establishment of Edelaraudtee in Estonia
• Boeing acquires McDonnell Douglas
• Allianz AG takes over 51% of the share capital of the second largest French insurance company, Assurances Générales de France ( AGF ), worth DM 9.2 billion
• The French insurance company AXA takes over the company Colonia
• The packaging group Schmalbach-Lubeca partially merges to form Impress BV
• The German pharmaceutical company Boehringer Mannheim is sold to the Swiss pharmaceutical company Hoffmann-La Roche .

science and technology

• February 24: The cloned sheep Dolly , born last summer, is presented to the public
• July 4: The Pathfinder probe with the Sojourner SUV lands on Mars
• September 6: Uranus ' small moons Caliban and Sycorax are discovered by Brett J. Gladman , Phil Nicholson , Joseph A. Burns , and John J. Kavelaars using the Hale Observatory 's 5-meter reflecting telescope .
• September 7: The Lockheed Martin F - 22 Raptor fighter prototype is tested on its maiden flight.
• September 18th: After almost 60 years, the first Zeppelin NT breathes new life into Zeppelin airship travel on Lake Constance

OMEGA system on Reunion

• September 30: The OMEGA radio navigation system is switched off.
• October 3: The first cloned rodent , the mouse Cumulina , is born in Honolulu .

Culture

• 1 May: Cultural agreement between Germany and Slovakia . In force since May 28, 1998
• June 26: Joanne K. Rowling : Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone is released
• July 14: Cultural agreement between Germany and Poland . In force since January 4, 1999
• July 19: Gunter Demnig lays the first of over 20,000 stumbling blocks in St. Georgen near Salzburg .
• August 28: Cultural agreement between Germany and Turkmenistan . In force since June 19, 2002
• September 16: Cultural agreement between Germany and Mongolia . In force since June 15, 1998
• October 16: Cultural agreement between Germany and Macedonia . In force since January 13, 1999
• November 3: Opening of the Miho Museum in Japan.
• November 7: Adoption of the Rhine Valley Charter in Mainz .
• 7 November: Cultural Agreement between Germany and Australia . In force since June 15, 2000
• November 21: A Dutch man stabbed Barnett Newman 's painting Cathedra in the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam
• 31 December: The Hainich National Park is founded.
• November: Opening of the German Guggenheim Museum in Berlin.
• The documenta X - world exhibition of art - takes place from June 21 to September 28 in Kassel
• Ultima Online , the first major online game goes online
• The news magazine Der Spiegel is celebrating its 50th birthday
• Foundation of the Transport Protocol Experts Group
• Art Exhibition Sensation of the YBAs .
• The Museum Villa Haiss is opened
• LILALU takes place for the first time
• World premiere of the musical Dance of the Vampires by Jim Steinman and Michael Kunze at the Raimund Theater in Vienna

music

• January 26: Premiere of “Music with Pictures” by Helmut Lachenmann at the Hamburg State Opera
• 3 May: Katrina and the Waves win the 42nd edition of the Eurovision Song Contest in Dublin with the song Love Shine a Light for Great Britain .
• Black Sabbath reunite with old line-up.
• Soundgarden dissolve.
• Rammstein release Sehnsucht .
• Oasis release Be Here Now , Radiohead OK Computer and Blur release their fifth album of the same name .
• Michael Jackson is also making a guest appearance in Germany with his history tour .

See also: Number one hits 1997 in Australia , Austria , Belgium , Canada , Denmark , Finland , France , Germany , Hungary , Ireland , Italy , Japan , New Zealand , Netherlands , Norway , Spain , Sweden , Switzerland , United States States and the United Kingdom .

See also: Category:Music 1997

society

Logo of the student strike 1997/98 (traced)

• July 12: Berlin . As a protest against musical exclusion and the commercialization of the Love Parade , the Hateparade took place, which later developed into the Fuckparade demonstration .
• July 15: Italian fashion designer Gianni Versace is shot dead in front of his Miami Beach home by wanted serial killer Andrew Phillip Cunanan .

Diana's funeral

• September 6: About three million people take to the streets of London to attend the funeral ceremony for Diana, Princess of Wales , first wife of Charles , heir to the British throne. With an estimated 2.5 billion viewers, watching the television broadcast is the world's largest media event to date .
• October: The Museo Guggenheim Bilbao opens in Bilbao .
• December: High point of the nationwide student strike

religion

Ibrahim al-Ibrahim Mosque in Gibraltar

• April 12: The fire in the Shroud Chapel destroys parts of Turin Cathedral and Turin Castle ; the Shroud of Turin is rescued from the flames undamaged.
• August 8: The Ibrahim al-Ibrahim Mosque is inaugurated in Gibraltar . The current southernmost mosque in Europe is a gift from the Saudi Arabian King Fahd ibn Abd al-Aziz .
• 2 December: The Principality of Liechtenstein receives its own archdiocese , which is separated from the Swiss diocese of Chur . Catholics in the country are having heated debates about the papal decision.

natural events

• March 9: Total solar eclipse in eastern Siberia
• Dubbed the Great Comet of 1997 , Comet Hale-Bopp is visible to the naked eye for about 18 months and evolved into one of the most unusual comets in terms of brightness, duration, and distinct trajectory, well ahead of either Halley (1986) or Hyakutake (1996). history.

Sports

Entries of athletics world records see under the respective discipline under athletics .

• March 9th to October 26th: Hosting of the 48th Formula 1 World Championship
• 13 April to 5 October: hosting of the 49th FIM Motorcycle Road World Championship
• 28 May: Borussia Dortmund wins the UEFA Champions League final in Munich thanks to goals from Karl-Heinz Riedle (2) and Lars Ricken with a 3-1 goal against Juventus Turin , for which Alessandro Del Piero scores the only goal.
• July 30: The Stadium of Light , newly built for football matches, is officially opened in Sunderland , UK.
• July 27: Jan Ullrich becomes the first German to win the Tour de France .
• October 26: Canadian Jacques Villeneuve becomes world champion in Formula 1 with his Williams-Renault racing car . Third place on the Spanish Circuito de Jerez is enough for him in the last race of the season .
• FC Schalke 04 won the UEFA Cup on penalties at the Giuseppe Meazza Stadium against Inter Milan 3-1, having won the previous two games 1-0 by the hosts after 90 and 120 minutes respectively.
• Jan Ullrich becomes the first German to win the Tour de France . At the age of 23, he was also one of the youngest winners of the toughest cycling race in the world.
• Thomas Hellriegel is the first German to win the Ironman Hawaii .
• US professional golfer Tiger Woods wins his first major tournament, the US Masters , in April .
• The Mercedes-Benz CLK GTR from Mercedes-Benz wins all eleven championship races of the FIA GT Championship straight away , unbeaten

disasters

Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Disaster .

CFIT – Korean Air Flight 801 on August 6, 1997 (228 people die, 26 survive)

• February 24: A 6.5 magnitude earthquake struck Turkmenistan and Iran . 100 dead
• February 28: A 6.1 magnitude earthquake struck Armenia and Azerbaijan ; approx. 1,100 dead
• February 28: North Hollywood shooting
• March 28: During an attempt to intercept the refugee ship Kater i Rades by the Italian warship F 558 Sibilla , a collision occurs and over 80 people die.
• May 10: A 7.5 magnitude earthquake hits Iran , killing 1,560
• June 28: At an anniversary concert by Toten Hosen in Düsseldorf's Rheinstadion in front of 60,000 spectators, a sixteen-year-old girl dies in the crowd in front of the stage. The rock band interrupts the concert, but plays it to the end on the advice of the chief of operations of the professional fire brigade to prevent panic.
• July–August: Oder floods in Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic
• August 6: Agana , Guam . Korean Air Boeing 747 crashed about three miles from the airport. 228 people die, 26 can be saved
• 13 September: Off the coast of Namibia . Collision of a German Tupolev Tu-154M with a US Air Force Lockheed C-141 Starlifter. All 24 occupants on board the Tupolev and the nine crew members of the C-141 are killed
• September 26: near Medan , Sumatra , Indonesia . Garuda Indonesia Airbus A300 crash . All 234 people on board Flight 152 die

Born

January

Angelino (2020)

• 0January 1 Ross Gunn , British motor racing driver
• 0January 3: Romain Beney , Swiss telemarker
• 0January 3 Jérémie Boga , French footballer
• 0January 3 Anna Gasper , German soccer player
• 0January 4 Angeliño , Spanish footballer
• 0January 4: Gino Mäder , Swiss cyclist
• 0January 5 Dario Flick , German musician and actor
• 0January 5: Jesús Vallejo , Spanish footballer
• 0January 6 Nathalie Volk , German model
• 0January 8 Jack Andraka , American inventor and cancer researcher
• 0January 8 Julen Arellano , Spanish footballer
• 0January 9: Asja Maregotto , Italian rower
• January 11: Luna Schweiger , German actress
• January 11 Cody Simpson , Australian R&B and pop musician
• January 13: Egan Bernal , Colombian cyclist
• January 14 Francesco Bagnaia , Italian motorcycle racer
• January 14 Joey Luthman , American actor
• January 14: Cedric Teuchert , German footballer
• January 14: Tolmacheva sisters , children's singers and winners of the JESC
• January 15: Lisa Karl , German soccer player
• January 16 Carlos Anguita , Spanish carom player and world and European champion
• January 17: Remo Arnold , Swiss footballer
• January 18 Emil Audero , Italian footballer
• January 18: Robin Becker , German soccer player
• January 20: Johnathan Michael Porter , American rapper
• January 23 Steven Da Costa , French karateka
• January 23: Toni Kraus , German singer, songwriter and record producer
• January 28: Amrita Cheema , German-Indian actress
• January 29: Jessica Barreira , Portuguese track and field athlete

February

Benjamin Henrichs (2015)

• 0February 2 Mario Leitner , Austrian canoeist
• 0February 4: Leon scratches , German basketball player
• 0February 5: Françoise Abanda , Canadian tennis player
• 0February 5 Patrick Roberts , English footballer
• 0February 6: Nicklas Nielsen , Danish racing car driver
• 0February 7 Nicolò Barella , Italian footballer
• 0February 8 Kathryn Newton , American actress
• 0February 9: Ruben Katoatau , Kiribati weightlifter
• February 10 Chloë Grace Moretz , American actress
• February 11 Rosé , South Korean singer and member of kpop group Blackpink
• February 11 Lisa Vicari , German up -and-coming actress
• February 12: Nele Guderian , German actress
• February 14: Breel Embolo , Swiss footballer
• February 17: Gaetano Castrovilli , Italian footballer
• February 17: Felix Jaeger , German handball player
• February 17 Simon Martirosyan , Armenian weightlifter
• February 18: Konstanze Klosterhalfen , German track and field athlete
• February 19: Benedikt Gimber , German footballer
• February 20: Sturla Holm Lægreid , Norwegian biathlete
• February 21: Henrike Sahlmann , German soccer player
• February 22: Nina Ehegötz , German soccer player
• February 23: Benjamin Henrichs , German-Ghanaian footballer
• February 23: Laura Suemilch , German cyclist
• February 24: Marvin Dienst , German racing driver
• February 24: Rey Manaj , Albanian footballer
• February 25: Santiago Ascacíbar , Argentine footballer
• February 25 Isabelle Fuhrman , American actress
• February 26: Adonis Ajeti , Swiss footballer
• February 26: Albian Ajeti , Swiss footballer
• February 26: Malcom , Brazilian soccer player
• February 28: Michael Storer , Australian cyclist

March

Daniel DeSilva (2013)

• 0March 1 Brian Gipperich , German handball player
• 0March 1: Klauss , Brazilian soccer player
• 0March 2 Becky G , American singer and dancer
• 0March 3 Allan , Brazilian soccer player
• 0March 3: David Neres , Brazilian soccer player
• 0March 3 Camila Cabello , Cuban-American singer
• 0March 4: Leonie Brill , German actress
• 0March 4: Jhonatan Narváez , Ecuadorian cyclist
• 0March 4 Dominik Schad , German footballer
• 0March 6 Alisha Boe , Norwegian-American actress
• 0March 6 Daniel De Silva , Australian footballer
• 0March 6: Felix Komolong , Papua New Guinean footballer
• March 10 Belinda Bencic , Swiss tennis player
• March 10: Ana Carrasco , Spanish motorcycle racer
• March 10: Gabi Nunes , Brazilian soccer player
• March 12 Tae Crowder , American football player
• March 14 Simone Biles , American gymnast
• March 14: Dawid Kownacki , Polish footballer
• March 15: Franziska Gritsch , Austrian alpine skier
• March 15 Nima Mirkhoshhal , German pianist
• March 16: Florian Neuhaus , German footballer
• March 17 Katie Ledecky , American swimmer
• March 17: Nico Gleirscher , Austrian luger
• March 17 Nico Langmann , Austrian wheelchair tennis player
• March 18 Ciara Bravo , American actress and voice actress
• March 19: Rūta Meilutytė , Lithuanian swimmer
• March 20 Joe Davis , English darts player
• March 22: Alex Meret , Italian football goalkeeper
• March 23: Iago , Brazilian soccer player
• March 25: Florian Baltram , Austrian ice hockey player
• March 28: Marko Dabro , Croatian footballer
• March 29: Stefanos Ntouskos , Greek rower
• March 29: Arón Piper , German-Spanish actor

April

• 0April 1 Asa Butterfield , British actor
• 0April 1 Andrea Cistana , Italian footballer
• 0April 1 Alex Palou , Spanish racing driver
• 0April 2: Bjorg Lambrecht , Belgian racing cyclist (died 2019)
• 0April 5: Ida Lien , Norwegian biathlete
• 0April 7 Oliver Burke , Scottish footballer
• 0April 9 Luis Arráez , Venezuelan baseball player
• April 10 Martin Hamann , German ski jumper
• April 10 Nino , Brazilian soccer player
• April 10: Simon van Dorp , Dutch rower
• April 11 Bianca Brösamle , German soccer player
• April 11: Elie Nabot , French telemarker
• April 15 Marie Holstein , German volleyball player
• April 15: Maisie Williams , British actress
• April 15: Aleksander Fjeld Andersen , Norwegian biathlete
• April 16 Hugo Gießler , German actor
• April 17 Tilen Bartol , Slovenian ski jumper
• April 18: Matthias Blübaum , German chess grandmaster
• April 18 Lukas Boeder , German footballer
• April 19: Atte Korhonen , Finnish Nordic combined athlete
• April 20 Florian Burmeister , German handball player
• April 20: Alexander Zverev , German tennis player
• April 21 Matteo Pessina , Italian footballer
• April 22: Louis Delétraz , Swiss racing car driver
• April 22: Joël Eisenblätter , German actor
• April 22: Yannick Hölzl , German handball player
• April 22: Aaron Martín , Spanish footballer
• April 23 Alex Ferris , Canadian actor
• April 24: Florian Latorre , French auto racer
• April 25 Daniel Guttenberger , Austrian pool player
• April 28 Olivia Nova , American pornographic actress († 2018)
• April 28: Niklas Feierabend , German soccer player (died 2016)
• April 29 Sebastián Cal , Uruguayan footballer
• April 29 Hisaki Nagamine , Japanese Nordic combined athlete
• April 29: Eetu Nousiainen , Finnish ski jumper
• April 30 Daisy Cleverley , New Zealand soccer player

May

Lana Condor (2015)

Ousmane Dembele (2018)

• 0May 2: Tuncay Kılıç , Turkish footballer
• 0May 3: Desiigner , American rapper and songwriter
• 0May 4: Ben Dolic , Slovenian singer
• 0May 6 Elisa Mörzinger , Austrian alpine skier
• 0May 7 Youri Tielemans , Belgian footballer
• May 10: Enes Ünal , Turkish footballer
• May 11 Lana Condor , Vietnamese-American actress
• May 12 Ismael Díaz , Panamanian footballer
• May 14: Luka Andres , German voice actor and actor
• May 14: Kristijan Jakić , Croatian footballer
• May 14 Matteo Sobrero , Italian cyclist
• May 15: Ousmane Dembélé , Franco-Malian footballer
• May 16 Moritz Baer , German ski jumper
• May 17 Daniel Asenow , Bulgarian boxer
• May 17 Yulia Mikhailovna Pleshkova , Russian alpine skier
• May 21 Federico Bonazzoli , Italian footballer
• May 21: Lucas Ribamar , Brazilian soccer player
• May 23: Cassandre Beaugrand , French triathlete
• May 23 Coy Craft , American soccer player
• May 23: Emily Dickson , Canadian biathlete
• May 24 Olivia Podmore , New Zealand track cyclist († 2021)
• May 25: Sofia Asoumanaki , Greek rower
• May 25 Tobias Foss , Norwegian cyclist
• May 26 Jessica Hilzinger , German alpine skier
• May 27 Lina von der Ahe , German dubbing and radio play speaker
• May 27 Soccer Mommy , American singer-songwriter and musician
• May 28 Lucas Leppert , German actor
• May 30: Peter Lenz , American motorcycle racer (died 2010)
• May 30 Endija Tērauda , Latvian skeleton rider
• May 31 CupcakKe , American rapper
• May 31 Marharyta Fjafilawa , Belarusian pool player

June

Rebecca Black (2014)

• 0June 2 Luis Figge , German basketball player
• 0June 3 Louis Hofmann , German actor
• 0June 8 Jeļena Ostapenko , Latvian tennis player
• 0June 9: Dren Feka , German-Albanian footballer
• June 10: Dylan Pereira , Luxembourg auto racer
• June 11: Kodak Black , American rapper
• June 13 Kristin Hetfleisch , Austrian grass skier
• June 14 Fabio Gstrein , Austrian alpine skier
• June 16 Jean-Kévin Augustin , French footballer
• June 16 Katharina Gallhuber , Austrian alpine skier
• June 16: Pius Krätschmer , German footballer
• June 17 KJ Apa , New Zealand actor
• June 17: Julija Sršen , Slovenian ski jumper
• June 17 Harm Vanhoucke , Belgian cyclist
• June 18 Amine Harit , French footballer
• June 18: Max Records , American actor
• June 19 Vitaly Pazura , Ukrainian pool player
• June 20 Jost Arens , German skateboarder
• June 21 Rebecca Black , American singer
• June 21: Ferdinand Habsburg , Austrian racing driver
• June 22: Kirill Alexejenko , Russian chess grandmaster
• June 22 Dinah Jane Hansen , American singer
• June 22 Lorenzo Dalla Porta , Italian motorcycle racer
• June 25: Rodrigo Bentancur , Uruguayan footballer
• June 25 Henry Horn , German singer and actor
• June 26: Tatsuya Itō , Japanese soccer player
• June 27: Kim Kalicki , German bobsledder
• June 27 Shannon Purser , American actress
• June 28 Tadasuke Makino , Japanese automobile racer
• June 29 Rolando Mandragora , Italian footballer

July

Malala Yousafzai (2013)

• 0July 2 Maximilian Günther , German racing driver
• 0July 2: Jackson Odell , American actor (died 2018)
• 0July 4 Jason Spevack , Canadian actor
• 0July 6: Fabian Bösch , Swiss freestyle skier
• 0July 6 Franziska Harsch , German soccer player
• 0July 7: Melita Abraham , Chilean rower
• 0July 7 Stefania Buttignon , Italian rower
• 0July 7 Saša Kalajdžić , Austrian footballer
• 0July 7 Giorgi Sogoiani , Georgian luger
• July 10 Marilena Kirchner , German folk music singer
• July 11 Pavel Sivakov , Russian-French cyclist
• July 12: Malala Yousafzai , Pakistani child rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate
• July 16 Francesco Cassata , Italian footballer
• July 16: Nadia Moser , Canadian biathlete
• July 16: Hugo de Sadeleer , Swiss racing car driver
• July 18: Alperen Babacan , Turkish footballer
• July 18: Chiara Kreuzer , Austrian ski jumper
• July 18: Viktor Polášek , Czech ski jumper
• July 21 Tim Häußler , German footballer
• July 23 Olamide Zaccheaus , American football player
• July 24: Vinzenz Geiger , German Nordic combined athlete
• July 24: Emre Mor , Turkish footballer
• July 29 Tobias Birchler , Swiss ski jumper
• July 29 Jana Halliday , Belarusian billiards player
• July 30 Finneas O'Connell , American singer-songwriter, record producer and actor

August

Greyson Chance (2011)

• 0August 1 Lara Hess , German soccer player
• 0August 1 Sergio Higuita , Colombian cyclist
• 0August 1 Marie Schölzel , German volleyball player
• 0August 2: Yuto Nakamura , Japanese Nordic combined athlete
• 0August 2 Christina Robinson , American actress
• 0August 3 Tim Fuchs , German ski jumper
• 0August 5 Olivia Holt , American actress and singer
• 0August 5 Adam Irigoyen , American actor and voice actor
• 0August 6 Marcus Thuram , French footballer
• 0August 8: Denika Kassim , Comorian track and field athlete
• 0August 8 Antonee Robinson , United States-English footballer
• 0August 9 Leon Bailey , Jamaican soccer player
• 0August 9: Frederic Funk , German triathlete
• 0August 9: Cristian Manea , Romanian footballer
• August 10: Alina Kenzel , German track and field athlete
• August 10 Luca Marini , Italian motorcycle racer
• August 10: Sara Takatsuki , Japanese singer and actress
• August 12: Taiwo Awoniyi , Nigerian footballer

Renato Sanches (2016)

• August 12 Isabella Hartig , German soccer player
• August 13 Pol Lirola , Spanish footballer
• August 16 Greyson Chance , American singer
• August 16 Piper Curda , American actress
• August 17 Dastan Lepshakov , Kyrgyz billiards player and world champion
• August 18: Renato Sanches , Portuguese footballer
• August 19 Joseph Castanon , American actor
• August 19: Julian Rehrl , German actor and voice actor
• August 22: Lautaro Martínez , Argentine footballer
• August 24 Amber Bongard , German actress
• August 24: Heinz Mörschel , German footballer
• August 24: Alan Walker , British-Norwegian music producer
• August 25 Bryana Salaz , American actress and singer
• August 28 Sascha Pfattheicher , German handball player
• August 29 Nina Monka , German actress

September

• 0September 1 Jungkook , South Korean singer
• 0September 1: Joan Mir , Spanish motorcycle racer
• 0September 4 Niklas Kiel , German basketball player
• 0September 5: Endre Strømsheim , Norwegian biathlete
• 0September 6 Stefanie Fleckenstein , Canadian alpine skier
• 0September 7: Arianit Ferati , German-Kosovar footballer
• 0September 8 Sydney Scotia , American actress
• September 12 Sydney Sweeney , American actress
• September 13: Törles Knöll , German footballer
• September 19: Erika Karata , Japanese actress
• September 19 Renan Martins , Brazilian soccer player († 2017)
• September 20 Itamar Einhorn , Israeli cyclist
• September 23: Ralph Boschung , Swiss automobile racer
• September 24 Tatsuki Suzuki , Japanese motorcycle racer
• September 27: Dirngulbai Misech , Palau swimmer
• September 30 Nouran Gohar , Egyptian squash player
• September 30 Yana Alexeyevna Kudryavtseva , Russian rhythmic gymnast
• September 30: Max Verstappen , Dutch racing car driver

October

Bella Thorne (2014)

• 0October 1 Maximilian Kappler , German motorcycle racer
• 0October 1 Jeffrey Read , Canadian alpine skier
• 0October 1 Mattia Vitale , Italian footballer
• 0October 2 Joshua Filler , German pool player
• 0October 5 Henrieke Fritz , German actress
• 0October 7 Kira Kosarin , American actress and singer
• 0October 7: Vanessa Voigt , German biathlete
• 0October 8: Vijona Kryeziu , Kosovar sprinter
• 0October 8 Bella Thorne , American actress and model
• October 11: Omar Pašagić , Bosnian-Herzegovinian footballer
• October 11 Nico Rinderknecht , German footballer
• October 11 Georg Zimmermann , German cyclist
• October 14: Hans-Laurin Beyerling , German child actor
• October 14: Felix Hoffmann , German ski jumper
• October 14 Andriy Klyestov , Ukrainian billiards player
• 15 October: Jarl Magnus Riiber , Norwegian Nordic Combined
• October 15: Andreja Slokar , Slovenian alpine skier
• October 16: Charles Leclerc , Monegasque automobile racer
• October 16: Naomi Osaka , Japanese tennis player
• October 22: Žiga Jelar , Slovenian ski jumper
• October 22: Max Kanter , German cyclist
• October 24: Cristo , Spanish footballer
• October 24 Martina Peterlini , Italian alpine skier
• October 24 Raye , British singer-songwriter
• October 25: Federico Chiesa , Italian footballer
• October 26 Rhenzy Feliz , American actor
• October 28 Sierra McCormick , American actress
• October 28: Alexander Schulze , German handball player
• October 29: Uladsislau Radsiwonau , Belarusian billiards player
• October 30 Lucy Hochschartner , American biathlete
• October 31 Itzan Escamilla , Spanish actor
• October 31: Siobhan Bernadette Haughey , Chinese swimmer competing for Hong Kong
• October 31: Holly Taylor , Canadian actress

November

• 0November 6 Hero Fiennes Tiffin , British actor
• 0November 7 Christian Rubio Sivodedov , Swedish footballer
• November 12: Tom Baumgart , German footballer
• November 14: Noussair Mazraoui , Moroccan-Dutch footballer
• November 17 Maximilian Pronichev , Russian-German footballer
• November 26: Béla Gabor Lenz , German actor
• November 26: Robeilys Peinado , Venezuelan pole vaulter
• November 28: Thor Salden , Belgian singer
• November 29 Nina O'Brien , American alpine skier
• November 29: Fabian Reese , German soccer player

December

Zara Larson (2015)

• 0December 1 Jung Chae-yeon , South Korean pop singer and actress
• 0December 1: Karitaake Tewaaki , Kiribati sprinter
• December 10 Phillip Kinono , swimmer from Marshall Islands
• December 14 Arianna Noseda , Italian rower
• December 15 Zack Moss , American football player
• December 15 Lina Larissa Strahl , German actress and singer
• December 16: Hidefumi Denda , Japanese Nordic combined athlete
• December 16 Zara Larsson , Swedish pop singer
• December 16 Marcos Ramírez , Spanish motorcycle racer
• December 19: Alex Insam , Italian ski jumper
• December 20: Suzuka Nakamoto , Japanese singer
• December 20: Nazlati Mohamed , Comorian swimmer
• December 23: Luka Jović , Serbian footballer
• December 26: Lisa-Marie Koroll , German actress
• December 29: Aimee Richardson , British actress
• December 30: Enea Bastianini , Italian motorcycle racer
• December 30 Lina Hausicke , German soccer player
• December 30: Christian Mora , Italian footballer

day unknown

• Oskar Bökelmann , German actor
• Melina Fabian , German actress
• Caroline Hartig , German actress
• Nicole Horrion , German model

Died

This is a list of the most important people who died in 1997. For a more detailed list, see 1997 obituary .

January

• 0January 1: Aenne Brauksiepe , German politician (born 1912)
• 0January 9: Nils Ahrbom , Swedish architect (born 1905)
• 0January 9: Edward Osóbka-Morawski , Polish politician and Prime Minister (b. 1909)
• January 10: Darrell Arlynn Amyx , American classical archaeologist (b. 1911)
• January 10: Alexander Robert Todd , British chemist, Nobel laureate (born 1907)
• January 12: Raymond Arveiller , French Romanist and lexicologist (b. 1914)
• January 13: Ernst Nils Sivar Erik Arnér , Swedish novelist, radio playwright and playwright (born 1909)
• January 13: Aloys Felke , German politician (born 1927)
• January 15: Elisabeth Adler , German director of a Protestant academy (b. 1926)
• January 16: Romano Amerio , Italian theologian (b. 1905)
• January 16: Juan Landázuri Ricketts , Archbishop of Lima and Cardinal (b. 1913)
• January 17: Clyde Tombaugh , American astronomer and discoverer of the dwarf planet Pluto (b. 1906)
• January 18: Frankie Bastille , American stand-up comedian (born 1952 or 1953)
• January 24: Hermann Auer , German physicist (born 1902)
• January 25: Karl Werner Aspenström , Swedish poet and essayist (born 1918)
• January 25: Elisabeth Rögner-Seeck , German painter, children's book author and art teacher (b. 1904)
• January 26: Shūhei Fujisawa , Japanese writer (b. 1927)
• January 28: Bruce Jennings , American racing driver (b. 1927)
• January 28: Mikel Koliqi , Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (b. 1902)
• January 28: Edmond de Stoutz , Swiss conductor (b. 1920)
• January 30: Frank Tejeda , American politician (b. 1945)

February

• 0February 1 Ed Danowski , American football player (b. 1911)
• 0February 3: Bohumil Hrabal , Czech writer (b. 1914)
• 0February 3: Johnny Rodríguez , Puerto Rican singer and composer (b. 1912)
• 0February 4: Alberto Beltrán , Dominican singer (b. 1924)
• 0February 4: Paul Kuën , German opera singer (born 1910)
• 0February 5: Roland Adolph , German clergyman (b. 1946)
• 0February 6: Roger Laurent , Belgian motorcycle and automobile racer (b. 1913)
• 0February 6: Rolf Rodenstock , German entrepreneur, 1978–1984 Chairman of the Federation of German Industries (b. 1917)
• 0February 7: Owen Stuart Aspinall , American politician (b. 1927)
• 0February 7: Allan Edwall , Swedish actor, writer, director and musician (b. 1924)
• 0February 9: Maria Anders , German historian (born 1926)
• February 10 Brian Connolly , lead singer of British rock group The Sweet (b. 1945)
• February 13: Carl Appel , Austrian architect (b. 1911)
• February 16: Chien-Shiung Wu , Chinese-American physicist (b. 1912)
• February 17: Darcy Ribeiro , Brazilian anthropologist, politician and writer (b. 1922)
• February 19: Oswald Andrae , German writer (b. 1926)
• February 19: Lois Marshall , Canadian singer and singing teacher (b. 1925)

Deng Xiaoping (died February 19)

• February 19: Deng Xiaoping , Chinese politician (b. 1904)
• February 19: Haniya Yutaka , Japanese writer (born 1910)
• February 20: Affonso Guimarães da Silva , Brazilian soccer player (b. 1914)
• February 21: Hans Bambey , German general (b. 1915)
• February 22: Fritz Eschmann , German politician (born 1909)
• February 23: Abdelkader Ben Bouali , Algerian footballer (b. 1912)
• February 25: Louis Auslander , American mathematician (b. 1928)
• February 25: Ugo Poletti , Archbishop of Spoleto and Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (b. 1914)
• February 26: Joseph A. LeFante , American politician (b. 1928)
• February 27: Karl Anders , German politician, journalist and publisher (born 1907)

March

• 0March 1: Heinz Abosch , German writer (b. 1918)
• 0March 1: Alfons Beil , German priest and author (b. 1896)
• 0March 2: Karl Heinz Jakob , German artist, printmaker and painter (b. 1929)
• 0March 6: Cheddi Jagan , Guyanese politician (b. 1918)
• 0March 7: Edward Mills Purcell , American physicist (b. 1912)
• 0March 9: The Notorious BIG , American rapper (b. 1972)
• March 10: Lars Ahlin , Swedish writer (born 1915)
• March 11: Hugo Weisgall , American composer and conductor (b. 1912)
• March 14: Jurek Becker , German writer (b. 1937)
• March 14: Joseph Fuchs , American violinist and music teacher (b. 1899)
• March 14: Ivan Romanoff , Canadian conductor, violinist, arranger and composer (b. 1914)
• March 14: Fred Zinnemann , American film director (born 1907)

Willem de Kooning , 1961

• March 19: Willem de Kooning , Dutch painter (b. 1904)
• March 20: Tony Zale , American middleweight boxer (b. 1913)
• March 24: Marcelle de Lacour , French harpsichordist (b. 1896)
• March 26: Otto John , first President of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (b. 1909)
• March 27: Charles Lillard , Canadian poet and historian (born 1944)
• March 29: Finn Høffding , Danish composer and music educator (b. 1899)
• March 30: George Huntoon , American racing driver (b. 1913)
• March 31: Arthur Cunningham , American composer (b. 1928)
• March 31: Friedrich Hund , German physicist (b. 1896)
• March 31 Lyman Spitzer , American astronomer and physicist (b. 1914)

April

• 0April 3: Lonnie Austin , American old-time musician (b. 1905)
• 0April 4: Sugimura Haruko , Japanese actress (born 1909)
• 0April 5: Allen Ginsberg , American writer (b. 1926)
• 0April 6: Stephan Hermlin , German writer (b. 1915)
• 0April 6: Jesús López Pacheco , Spanish writer (born 1930)
• 0April 6: Rosita Serrano , Chilean singer and actress (born 1914)
• 0April 6: Gabriel Toubia , Lebanese Archbishop (b. 1930)
• 0April 7: Rainer Arlt , German agricultural law scholar, university lecturer and politician (born 1928)
• 0April 7: James Gayfer , Canadian military bandmaster, clarinetist, organist and choirmaster, composer and music teacher (b. 1916)
• April 10: Erik Blumenfeld , German businessman and politician (b. 1915)
• April 10: Toshiro Mayuzumi , Japanese composer and professor (born 1929)
• April 10: Martin Schwarzschild , American astrophysicist (b. 1912)
• April 16: Jan Bruins , Dutch motorcycle racer (born 1940)
• April 16: Sam Waagenaar , Dutch photographer and author (b. 1908)

Chaim Herzog († April 17)

• April 17: Chaim Herzog , President of Israel (b. 1918)
• April 18: Herbert Czaja , German politician (b. 1914)
• April 21: Diosdado Macapagal , Filipino politician and President (b. 1910)
• April 22: Isawa Taka , Japanese writer (born 1933)
• April 23: Fritz Senft , Swiss writer (b. 1922)
• April 24: Robert Erickson , American composer (born 1917)
• April 26: Peng Zhen , Chinese politician (b. 1902)
• April 27: Dulce María Loynaz , Cuban poet (b. 1903)
• April 28 Peter Murray Taylor , Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales (1992–1996) (b. 1930)

May

• 0May 2: John Carew Eccles , Australian physiologist (born 1903)
• 0May 2: Heinz Ellenberg , German biologist, botanist, landscape ecologist (b. 1913)
• 0May 2: Paulo Freire , Brazilian educator, jurist, historian, philosopher (b. 1921)
• 0May 3: Narciso Yepes , classical guitarist (b. 1927)
• 0May 5: Karl Lottes , German motorcycle racer (b. 1912)
• 0May 5: Tolia Nikiprowetzky , Russian composer (b. 1916)
• 0May 6: Günther Jerschke , German actor (b. 1921)
• 0May 7: Siegfried Theodor Arndt , German pastor (b. 1915)
• 0May 8: Joachim Angermeyer , German politician (b. 1923)
• 0May 8: Kai-Uwe von Hassel , German politician (born 1913)
• 0May 9: Marco Ferreri , Italian film director (born 1928)
• May 10: John P. Austin , American production designer (b. 1906)
• May 11: Ernie Fields , American jazz trombonist and bandleader (b. 1904)
• May 11: Marco Richterich , Swiss painter (born 1929)
• May 12: Willi Laatsch , German soil scientist and forest scientist (b. 1905)
• May 13: Bernard Brindel , American composer, music teacher and violinist (b. 1912)
• May 14: Boris Parsadanyan , Estonian composer (b. 1925)
• May 18: Marriah Bridget Andersen , American film actress and fashion model (b. 1975)
• May 19: Troy Ruttman , American racing driver (b. 1930)
• May 20: Roland Amstutz , Swiss actor (b. 1942)
• May 20: Stanisław Has , Polish composer and conductor (born 1914)
• May 20: Edwin Kowalik , Polish pianist, publicist and composer (b. 1928)
• May 20: Richard Leising , German lyric poet (b. 1934)
• May 20: Virgilio Barco Vargas , politician and President of the Republic of Colombia (b. 1921)
• May 21: Jan Paul Nagel , Sorbian composer and Domowina chairman (b. 1934)
• May 22 Alfred Day Hershey , American biologist (born 1908)
• May 23: James Lee Byars , American artist (b. 1932)
• May 24: Edward Mulhare , American actor (b. 1923)
• May 24: Kimu Tarusu , Japanese writer (b. 1919)

Manfred of Ardenne , 1933

• May 26: Manfred von Ardenne , German naturalist (b. 1907)
• May 27: Gerhard Wollner , German actor and cabaret artist (born 1917)
• May 28 Ronald V. Book , American computer scientist (b. 1937)
• May 29: Jeff Buckley , American singer and guitarist (b. 1966)
• May 29: Victor Kirst , politician, member of the German Bundestag from 1969 to 1976 (b. 1925)
• May 29: Herbert Weicker , German actor and voice actor (born 1921)
• May 30: Aaron West Arkeen , American musician (b. 1960)
• May 30: Béla Barényi , Austrian designer of the VW Beetle, doyen of passive safety in automobile construction (b. 1907)
• May 31: Günter Luther , German admiral (b. 1922)

June

• 0June 1: Ruth Atkinson , Canadian comics writer and comics artist (b. 1918)
• 0June 1 - Fred Rauch , Austrian singer, lyricist and radio presenter (born 1909)
• 0June 1: Nikolai Alexandrovich Tikhonov , Soviet politician (b. 1905)
• 0June 2: Lukas Aurednik , Austrian footballer (b. 1918)
• 0June 2: Helen Jacobs , American tennis player (b. 1908)
• 0June 3 Marta Schanzenbach , German politician (born 1907)
• 0June 4: Erwin Amend , German composer and concertmaster (born 1919)
• 0June 4: Ronnie Lane , British rock musician (b. 1946)
• 0June 6: Eitel Cantoni , racing car driver from Uruguay (b. 1906)
• 0June 8: Karen Wetterhahn , American chemist (b. 1948)
• June 11: Kurt Stöpel , German racing cyclist (b. 1908)
• June 12: Bulat Shalvovich Okudzhava , Russian poet and songwriter (b. 1924)
• June 14 Marjorie Best , American costume designer (b. 1903)
• June 14: Helmut Fischer , German actor (born 1926)
• June 16: Michael O'Herlihy , Irish film and television director and producer (b. 1929)
• June 16: Lieselotte Quilling , German actress (born 1921)
• June 16: Sumii Sue , Japanese writer (b. 1902)
• June 18: Lev Zinovievich Kopelev , Russian writer (b. 1912)
• June 18: Héctor Yazalde , Argentine footballer (b. 1946)
• June 20: John Akii-Bua , Ugandan track and field athlete (b. 1949)
• June 22: Hans Hausmann , Swiss actor, director, translator and radio play author (b. 1923)
• June 22: Peter Woydt , German sports journalist (b. 1941)
• June 23: Betty Shabazz , widow of Malcolm X (b. 1936)
• June 24: Brian Keith , American actor (b. 1921)

Jacques Yves Cousteau

• June 25: Jacques-Yves Cousteau , French marine explorer (b. 1910)
• June 25: Adolf Kabatek , German manager (born 1931)
• June 26 – Don Hutson , American football player and coach (b. 1913)
• June 26 Israel Kamakawiwoʻole , American singer (b. 1959)
• June 27: Samuel L. Devine , American singer (b. 1915)
• June 28: Helmut Leherbauer , Austrian painter (born 1933)

July

• 0July 1: Robert Mitchum , American actor (b. 1917)
• 0July 1: Gerd Wiltfang , German show jumper, World Championship winner 1978 (b. 1946)

James Stewart , 1934

• 0July 2: James Stewart , American actor (b. 1908)
• 0July 3: Johnny Copeland , American blues musician (b. 1937)
• 0July 5: Miguel Najdorf , Polish-Argentine chess player (b. 1910)
• 0July 6: Gabriel Asaad , Assyrian composer and musician (b. 1907)
• 0July 7: Luis Aguirre Pinto , Chilean composer (b. 1907)
• 0July 7 Heino Jaeger , German painter, graphic artist and satirist (b. 1938)
• 0July 8: Tony Thomas , British-American film historian, television and music producer (b. 1927)
• July 10: Chetan Anand , Indian film director and producer (b. 1915)
• July 10: Erwin Seeler , German soccer player (b. 1910)
• July 11: Carl Dolmetsch , English recorder player (born 1911)
• July 12: François Furet , French historian (b. 1927)
• July 12: Ernst Riedelbauch , German motorcycle racer (born 1997)
• July 12: Raimund Weissensteiner , Austrian priest and composer (born 1905)
• July 15 Gianni Versace , Italian fashion designer (b. 1946)
• July 16: Dora Maar , French photographer and painter (born 1907)
• July 16: Fritz Rühs , German mathematician (born 1920)
• July 18: Eugene Shoemaker , American astronomer (b. 1928)
• July 20: Arshi Pipa , Albanian man of letters (b. 1920)
• July 21: Ernst Majonica , German politician (born 1920)
• July 22: Josef Veleba , Austrian horn player (b. 1914)
• July 23: Chuhei Nambu , Japanese athlete and Olympic gold medalist (b. 1904)
• July 24: Frank Parker , American tennis player (b. 1916)
• July 25: Ben Hogan , American golfer (b. 1912)
• July 26: Kunihiko Kodaira , Japanese professor of mathematics (b. 1915)
• July 27: Gerhard Baumgärtel , Lord Mayor of Weimar and Minister of the GDR (b. 1931)
• July 28: Seni Pramoj , Prime Minister of Thailand (b. 1905)
• July 29: Alexander Archer , British ice hockey player and coach (b. 1910)
• July 29: John Archer , British sprinter (b. 1921)
• July 30: Bảo Đại , last Emperor of Vietnam (b. 1913)

August

Diana Spencer (died August 31)

• 0August 1: Svyatoslav Richter , Soviet pianist (b. 1915)
• 0August 2: William S. Burroughs , American writer (b. 1914)
• 0August 2: James Krüss , German novelist and poet (b. 1926)
• 0August 2: Paul Kurzbach , German composer (b. 1902)
• 0August 2: Fela Kuti , Nigerian musician (b. 1938)
• 0August 4: Jeanne Calment , French, human with the longest verifiable lifespan (b. 1875)
• 0August 4: Jean-Claude Vidilles , French racing driver (b. 1928)
• 0August 5: Elisabeth Höngen , German singer (mezzo-soprano) (b. 1906)
• 0August 6: Jürgen Kuczynski , German historian and economist (b. 1904)
• August 10: Jean-Claude Lauzon , Canadian director (b. 1953)
• August 10: Conlon Nancarrow , Mexican composer of American descent (b. 1912)
• August 12: Luther Allison , American blues guitarist (b. 1939)
• August 14: Gustav Wellenstein , German zoologist and forest scientist (b. 1906)
• August 16: Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan , Pakistani musician (b. 1948)
• August 16: Jacques Pollet , French racing driver (b. 1922)
• August 17: Lee Moore , American country musician (b. 1914)
• August 18 Domenico Amoroso , Italian religious priest and bishop (b. 1927)
• August 20: Yoshio Atoji , Japanese sociologist (b. 1913)
• August 24: Werner Abrolat , German actor (b. 1924)
• August 24: Luigi Villoresi , Italian Formula One racing driver (b. 1909)
• August 25: Manolo Monterrey , Venezuelan singer and composer (b. 1914)
• August 25: Robert Pinget , Swiss writer (b. 1919)
• August 27: Eduard Heilingsetzer , Austrian politician and minister (b. 1905)

Julio Musimessi

• August 27: Julio Musimessi , Argentine footballer (b. 1923)
• August 28: Frank Bencriscutto , American composer and music educator (b. 1928)
• August 30: Ernst Willimowski , German-Polish footballer (b. 1916)
• August 31: Dodi Al-Fayed , film producer and businessman (b. 1955)
• August 31: Diana of Wales , wife of the heir to the English throne Prince Charles (b. 1961)

September

Mother Teresa (died September 5)

• 01 September: Karl Berg , Austrian Archbishop (b. 1908)
• 0September 2: Viktor Frankl , neurologist and psychiatrist, founder of logotherapy and existential analysis (b. 1905)
• 0September 3 Ernst C. Stiefel , German-American jurist (b. 1907)
• 0September 4: Chuck Arnold , American racing driver (b. 1926)
• 0September 4: Pierre Bergé , French experimental physicist (born 1934)
• 0September 4 Hans Jürgen Eysenck , German-British psychologist (born 1916)
• 0September 4: Aldo Rossi , architect and designer (b. 1931)
• 0September 5: Heinz Luthringshauser , German motorcycle racer (b. 1931)
• 05 September: Georg Solti , Hungarian conductor (b. 1912)
• 0September 5: Mother Teresa , founder of a charity (b. 1910)
• 0September 6: Salvador Artigas Sahún , Spanish football player and coach (b. 1913)
• 0September 7: Connie Clausen , American actress, writer and literary agent (b. 1923)

Mobutu Sese Seko (died September 7)

• 0September 7: Mobutu Sese Seko , President of Zaire (b. 1930)
• 0September 9: Don Richard Ashburn , American baseball player (born 1927)
• September 10: Walter Ohm , German radio play and theater director (b. 1915)
• September 12: Stikkan Anderson , Swedish businessman, producer, music publisher and lyricist (born 1931)
• September 14: Arno Wyzniewski , German actor (b. 1938)
• September 17: Benjamin Atkins , American serial killer (b. 1968)
• September 17: Red Skelton , American actor and comedian (b. 1913)
• September 17: Jan Peder Syse , Norwegian Conservative politician (b. 1930)
• September 19: Ludwig Kraus , German engineer (b. 1911)
• September 20: Kurt Gloor , Swiss film director (b. 1942)
• September 20: Gerhard Menzel , grandson of Carl Menzel and entrepreneur in the glass industry (b. 1911)
• September 22: Joaquín Mendivel , Cuban pianist, arranger, composer, orchestra leader and music teacher (b. 1919)
• September 25: Jean Françaix , French pianist and composer (born 1912)
• September 25: Carl Heinz Löwen , German physician (b. 1912)
• September 25: Egon Seefehlner , Austrian jurist, editor and artistic director (b. 1912)
• September 27: Rolf Ulrici , German writer (b. 1922)

Roy Lichtenstein , 1967

• September 29 Roy Lichtenstein , American pop art teacher and painter (b. 1923)
• September 29: Fyodor Zakharovitch Sakharov , Russian-Ukrainian painter (b. 1919)
• September 30: Erik Aalbæk Jensen , Danish writer (b. 1923)
• September 30: Wanda Wróblewska , Polish theater director (b. 1911)

October

• 0October 1: Francisco Aramburu , Brazilian soccer player (b. 1922)
• 0October 3: John Ashley , American actor and singer (b. 1934)
• 0October 4: Henry Holt , American conductor, opera director and music educator (b. 1934)
• 0October 4: Otto Ernst Remer , German Wehrmacht officer (b. 1912)
• 0October 4 Gunpei Yokoi , game developer at video game company Nintendo (b. 1941)
• 0October 5: Brian Pillman , American professional wrestler (b. 1962)
• 0October 5: Bernard Yago , Archbishop of Abidjan and Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (b. 1916)
• 0October 6 Orlando Ramón Agosti Echenique , Argentine politician and military (born 1924)
• 0October 6: Hartwig Schlegelberger , German politician (born 1913)
• 0October 7: Adolf Brockhoff , Catholic priest (b. 1919)
• 0October 7: Paul Limberg , German crop production scientist (b. 1917)
• 0October 8: Nando Barbieri , Italian racing driver (b. 1907)
• October 11: Käthe Gold , Austrian actress (b. 1907)
• October 12: Raúl Arellano , Mexican soccer player (b. 1935)
• October 12: John Denver , American country and folk singer (b. 1943)
• October 13: Adil Çarçani , Albanian leader (b. 1922)
• October 14: Harold Robbins , American writer (b. 1916)
• October 15: Walter Fritzsch , German football player and coach (b. 1920)

James A Michener, 1991

• October 16: James A. Michener , American writer (b. 1907)
• October 17: Julius Hackethal , physician (b. 1921)
• October 17: Antonio Ruiz-Pipó , Spanish composer and pianist (born 1934)
• October 18 Adolf Schröter , German portrait and landscape painter, printmaker and art teacher (b. 1904)
• October 20: Henry Vestine , American guitarist (b. 1944)
• October 22: Hermann Höhn , German Protestant pastor (b. 1912)
• October 23: Pinchas Lapide , Jewish religious scholar and Israeli diplomat (b. 1922)
• October 23: Luther George Simjian , inventor (b. 1905)
• October 24: Luis Aguilar , Mexican actor and singer (b. 1918)
• October 24: Janine Andrade , French violinist (born 1918)
• October 25: Virgilio Expósito , Argentine tango composer and pianist (b. 1924)
• October 25: Hans Löfflad , German politician (b. 1922)
• October 27: Achim Gercke , German biologist (born 1902)
• October 27: Franz Kain , Austrian journalist, writer and politician (b. 1922)
• October 28: Klaus Wunderlich , German musician (born 1931)
• October 29: Anton Szandor LaVey , founder of the American Church of Satan (b. 1930)
• October 30: Samuel Fuller , American director, screenwriter and actor (b. 1912)
• October 31: Abraham Leonardus Appel , Dutch football player and coach (b. 1921)
• October 31: Hans Bauer , German footballer (b. 1927)

November

• 0November 1: Wolfgang Abel , Austrian anthropologist (b. 1905)
• 0November 1: Karl Rührschneck , German motorcycle racer (b. 1911)
• 0November 2: Günter Biermann , German politician and MP (born 1931)
• 0November 2: Ayya ​​Khema , Buddhist nun (b. 1923)
• 0November 2: Helen Stevenson Meyner , American politician (b. 1929)
• 0November 5: James Robert Baker , American screenwriter and novelist (b. 1946)
• 0November 5: Isaiah Berlin , political philosopher and historian of ideas (b. 1909)
• 0November 6: Anne-Stine Ingstad , Norwegian archaeologist (b. 1918)
• 0November 6: Josef Pieper , Christian philosopher (b. 1904)
• 0November 7: Werner Giggenbach , German geochemist, geologist and volcanologist (b. 1937)
• 0November 7: Josef Müller , German politician (b. 1919)
• 0November 9: Carl Gustav Hempel , German philosopher (b. 1905)
• 0November 9: Helenio Herrera , Argentine football manager (b. 1910)
• November 12: Lucy Ackerknecht , German psychotherapist and author (born 1913)
• November 12: Maria Gräfin von Maltzan , German veterinarian and resistance fighter (b. 1909)
• November 13: André Boucourechliev , French composer and writer on music (b. 1925)
• November 14: Knud Erik Andersen , Danish racing cyclist (b. 1922)
• November 14: Eddie Edward Arcaro , American jockey (b. 1916)
• November 15: Coen van Vrijberghe de Coningh , Dutch actor (born 1950)
• November 16: José Behra , French automobile racer (b. 1924)
• November 16: Georges Marchais , French politician and trade unionist (b. 1920)
• November 17: Gert Günther Hoffmann , German voice actor (born 1929)
• November 17: John Wimber , American musician, theologian and founder of the Vineyard church movement (born 1934)
• November 21: Julian Jaynes , American psychologist (b. 1920)
• November 21: Erna Raupach-Petersen , German folk actress (b. 1904)
• November 21: Robert Simpson , English composer (born 1921)
• November 22: Michael Hutchence , lead singer of Australian rock band INXS (b. 1960)
• November 23: Jorge Más Canosa , entrepreneur and Cuban exile in the United States (b. 1939)
• November 24: Barbara , French chanson singer and composer (b. 1930)
• November 25: Hastings Kamuzu Banda , President and former Dictator of Malawi (b. 1896)
• November 25: Stephen McNichols , American politician (b. 1914)
• November 25: Richard M. Noyes , American chemist (b. 1919)
• November 25: Marcel Saucier , Canadian violinist, composer and music teacher (b. 1912)
• November 26: Werner Höfer , German journalist (born 1913)
• November 26: Okuno Takeo , Japanese literary critic (born 1926)
• November 27: Pietro Scarpini , Italian pianist and music teacher (b. 1911)
• November 28: Elisabeth Schindler , Austrian politician (born 1927)
• November 30: Kathy Acker , American writer (b. 1947)
• 000November : Thomas Viktor Adolph , German journalist (born 1914)

December

• 0December 1: Stéphane Grappelli , French jazz violinist (b. 1908)
• 0December 2: Guido Brunner , German FDP politician, EC Commissioner 1974–1980 (b. 1930)
• 02 December: Siegfried Meurer , developer of the MAN M engine (b. 1908)
• 0December 4: Ilse Schüle , type cutter and typographer (b. 1903)
• 0December 5 Rudolf Bahro , German journalist, politician and philosopher (born 1935)
• 0December 7: Günter Bast , German internal medicine doctor (b. 1922)
• 0December 7: Billy Bremner , Scottish footballer (b. 1942)
• 0December 7: Barry S. Brook , American musicologist and college teacher (b. 1918)
• 0December 9: Hans Achim Gussone , German forest scientist (b. 1926)
• December 10 - Anatoly Andreyevich Banishevsky , Azerbaijani footballer (b. 1946)
• December 12: Alfred Ackermann , Swiss politician and entrepreneur (b. 1907)
• December 14 Edna F. Kelly , American politician (b. 1906)
• December 15: Jaromír Borek , Austrian actor (b. 1928)
• December 19: Jimmy Rogers , American blues guitarist (b. 1924)
• December 19: David Schramm , American astrophysicist (b. 1945)
• December 20: Richard Glazar , one of the few survivors of Treblinka death camp (b. 1920)
• December 20: Juzo Itami , Japanese actor and film director. (*1933)
• December 21: Joseph Ahrens , German composer and organist (b. 1904)
• December 21: Johnny Coles , American jazz trumpeter (b. 1926)
• December 21: Amie Comeaux , American country music singer (b. 1976)
• 22 December: Clodwig Kapferer , German pioneer in the fields of market research, export promotion and development aid (b. 1901)
• December 24: Toshirō Mifune , Japanese actor (born 1920)
• December 25: Nakamura Shin'ichirō , Japanese writer (b. 1918)
• December 25: Giorgio Strehler , Italian director (born 1921)
• December 26: Cahit Arf , Turkish mathematician (b. 1910)
• December 26: Cornelius Castoriadis , Greek psychoanalyst, jurist and resistance fighter (b. 1922)
• December 26: Victor Oehrn , German naval officer (b. 1907)
• December 27: Hans Blickensdörfer , German sports journalist and writer (b. 1923)
• December 27: Saïd Brahimi , Algerian-French football player and coach (b. 1931)
• December 29: Joyce Mekeel , American composer, harpsichordist and music teacher (b. 1931)
• December 31: Floyd Cramer , pianist and composer, representative of country music (b. 1933)
• December 31: Nicolin Kunz , Austrian actress (born 1953)

day unknown

• Stabben Ahlner , Swedish sports official (born 1915)
• Anna Semyonovna Andreyeva , Soviet shot putter (born 1915)
• Karl Höll , German food chemist (born 1901)
• Barbara von Kalckreuth , German sculptor (born 1905)
• Gisela Kleinschmidt , watercolor painter (b. 1926)
• José Martí Llorca , Argentine violinist and composer (born 1903)
• Frank Weymann , German writer (born 1948)

Nobel prizes

• Physics : Steven Chu , Claude Cohen-Tannoudji , and William D. Phillips
• Chemistry : Paul D. Boyer , John Ernest Walker , and Jens C. Skou
• Medicine : Stanley Prusiner
• Literature : Dario Fo
• Nobel Peace Prize : International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) and Jody Williams
• Economics : Robert Merton and Myron Scholes

web links

Commons : 1997  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Annual review from tagesschau.de
• Annual chronicle from the house of the history of the FRG