List of Famous people who died at 97

Christine Berthe Claude Denis de Rivoyre was a French journalist and writer.

Marcelle Duc, known professionally as Hélène Duc, was a French actress. She appeared in Edward and Caroline (1951), Je sais rien, mais je dirai tout (1973), and Tanguy (2001).

Muriel Lilian Pavlow was an English actress. Her mother was French and her father was Russian.

Mabuni Kenei was a Japanese martial arts expert, holder of the 10th Dan.

Dana Zátopková was a Czech javelin thrower. She won the gold medal for javelin at the 1952 Summer Olympics, and the silver medal in the 1960 Summer Olympics. She was the European champion in 1954 and 1958. She also set a world record in 1958 when she was 35, making her the oldest woman to break one in an outdoor athletics event.

Jacques Debary was a French actor.

Magdalene Epply-Staudinger was an Austrian diver. She competed in two events at the 1932 Summer Olympics.

Avraham Marek Klingberg, known as Marcus A. Klingberg, was an Israeli scientist and the highest ranking Soviet spy ever caught in Israel. The case of Klingberg is regarded as one of the most destructive spy scandals in the history of the State of Israel.

Marjorie Eileen Doris Courtenay-Latimer was a South African museum official, who in 1938, brought to the attention of the world the existence of the coelacanth, a fish thought to have been extinct for sixty-five million years.

Rafael Iriondo Aurtenetxea was a Spanish football forward and manager.