Lista de Personas Famosas que murieron en 1997

Mae Boren Axton was known in the music industry as the "Queen Mother of Nashville." She co-wrote the Elvis Presley hit single "Heartbreak Hotel" with Tommy Durden. She worked with Mel Tillis, Reba McEntire, Willie Nelson, Eddy Arnold, Tanya Tucker, Johnny Tillotson, and Blake Shelton.

Air Vice-Marshal Wilfrid Ewart Oulton, was an officer in the Royal Air Force. During the Second World War he was credited with sinking three German U-boats—U-463, U-663, and U-563—in one month while serving in RAF Coastal Command. He was in charge of the British nuclear tests of hydrogen bombs in the Pacific Ocean in Operation Grapple in 1957.

Charles Weldon Cannon, known as Tooter Cannon, was a widely recognized manufacturer of boots and saddles in rural Dickens, Texas.

James Lafayette Dickey was an American poet and novelist. He was appointed the eighteenth United States Poet Laureate in 1966. He also received the Order of the South award.

Craig David Button was a United States Air Force pilot who died when he crashed a Fairchild A-10 Thunderbolt II aircraft under mysterious circumstances on 2 April 1997. During the incident, Captain Button inexplicably flew hundreds of miles off-course without radio contact, appeared to maneuver purposefully and did not attempt to eject before the crash. His death is regarded as a suicide because no other hypothesis explains the events. His aircraft carried live bombs which were never recovered. It took three weeks to find the crash site. During that time, there was widespread public speculation about Button's intentions and whereabouts.

António Gedeão fue un poeta, ensayista y dramaturgo portugués, que también publicó diversas obras científicas. Sus poesías más conocidas son Pedra Filosofal y Lágrima de Preta.

Jean-Dominique Bauby fue un periodista francés, editor de la revista de moda francesa Elle. A los 43 años Bauby sufrió un ataque cerebrovascular por el cual quedó cuadripléjico y mudo, solo pudiendo parpadear con su ojo izquierdo; esta dolencia se denomina síndrome de enclaustramiento. Aun así logró escribir sus memorias en el libro La escafandra y la mariposa, bajo un sistema especial por el cual una asistente soterrada le dictaba las letras del abecedario en un orden especial siendo las primeras las más utilizadas, y él parpadeaba si era la letra que quería usar.

Norio Nagayama fue un asesino y novelista japonés.

Vásárhelyi Győző, fue un artista al que se ha considerado a menudo como el padre del op art.

Rudolf Bahro fue un político y filósofo ecosocialista alemán.