Lista de Personas Famosas que murieron en 1997

Cahit Arf was a Turkish mathematician. He is known for the Arf invariant of a quadratic form in characteristic 2 in topology, the Hasse–Arf theorem in ramification theory, Arf semigroups, and Arf rings.

Durgabai Kamat was a Marathi actress, who was the first actress in Indian cinema. In the early 1900s, acting in film or theatre was a taboo for women, so much so Dadasaheb Phalke, the father of Indian cinema, had to use male actors for female roles in first Indian film, Raja Harishchandra. However with its success, female actresses were encouraged. Thus he introduced Kamat in his 1913 second movie Mohini Bhasmasur as a leading lady Parvati, while her daughter Kamlabai Gokhale, played the role of Mohini, thus becoming the first female child actress of Indian cinema. After Kamat, other actresses started working in cinema.

Evgeny Viktorovich Belousov, better known as Zhenya Belousov was a Soviet and Ukrainian pop singer, popular in the late 1980s — early 1990s. His best-known hits include My Blue-Eyed Girl, Night Taxi, Alyoshka, Girl girl, Evening-evening, Hair cloud, Golden domes, Short summer, Dunya-Dunyasha, In the evening on a bench.

Georgi Aleksandrovich Yumatov was a Soviet and Russian film actor. He appeared in 72 films between 1946 and 1994. He was a People’s Artist of the RSFSR (1982).

Stig Erik Leopold Stikkan Anderson fue un músico y compositor sueco, famoso por ser el mánager del grupo ABBA.

Townes Van Zandt fue un cantautor estadounidense de música folk y country.

Bulat Shálvovich Okudzhava fue un cantautor ruso de origen georgiano, uno de los fundadores del género ruso llamado «canción de autor» (ávtorskaya pesnya). Escribió unas 200 canciones, mezcla de la poesía y las tradiciones folclóricas rusas y el estilo chansonnier francés, representado por contemporáneos de Okudzhava tales como Georges Brassens.

Emanuel Theodore Bronner was the maker of Dr. Bronner's Magic Soaps. He used product labels to promote his moral and religious ideas, including a belief in the goodness and unity of humanity.

Josef «Jupp» Posipal fue un futbolista alemán que jugaba como defensa.

Clyde William Tombaugh fue un astrónomo estadounidense, descubridor del planeta enano Plutón en 1930. Para localizarlo utilizó un microscopio de parpadeo, con el que comparó fotografías de una región del cielo que habían sido tomadas con varios días de diferencia.