1997 deaths
Category: 1997 deaths

Marion Powell
Physician, activist, leader in sex education and birth control in Canada. Known as the "mother of birth control" in Canada

Chandrakant Sangani
Gujarati language director, writer and actor from Gujarat

Sammie Haynes
American baseball player

Jim Bratchford
Australian cricketer

Ted Bond
American baseball player

Norman B. Ture
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Brown Meggs
American writer and record executive

Lesley Cunliffe
American journalist and writer

David Semah
Scholar of Arabic Language and Literature

Alexandru Mari
Romanian association football player

Dorotea de Armas
Spanish ceramist

Fred A. Blanche Jr.
American judge

Mohan Punamia
Indian trade unionist and politician

Nino Salvatore

Pepper Sharpe
American baseball player

Ani Hona
Maori writer

Shiro Kashino
American soldier

Simon Le Borgne
French cyclist

Daniel Nugent
American anthropologist

Gran Harrison
American football end

Stillman Rouse
American football player

Heather Child
British painter

Josephine Cheesman

Hank Rockwell
American football player

Alex Crowe
Scottish footballer

Tom Sebina
South African political spokesman

Amos Watson
American baseball player

Marcia Herndon
American ethnomusicologist and anthropologist

Kay Curley Bennett
Navajo artist, author, and dollmaker

Frazier Robinson
American baseball player

Aileen Cole Stewart
Aileen Cole Stewart became one of the first African American women to serve in the Army Nursing Corps.

Gerd Wenzinger
Suspected German serial killer

William John Virgin
Indian Medical Service Officer & Founding Principal, Dhaka Medical College

John Austin Meyer
American aerial photographer and chemist

Ken Tasaka
Japanese painter

Lino Businco
Italian pathologist

Frank Mennie
Scottish footballer

William D. Mundell
American poet

Ang Kok Peng
Chemistry professor and politician

Hadzhera Avidzba
First female pianist from Abkhazia