List of Famous people who died at 97

Rose Director Friedman (; born Rose Director, was a free-market economist and co-founder of the Milton and Rose D. Friedman Foundation.

Freda Leslie Whitlam, was an Australian educator and feminist. Whitlam was a leader in the Uniting Church. She is best known for her work as the principal of the Presbyterian Ladies' College (PLC), at Croydon in inner-west Sydney, where she worked for 18 years.

Amalia Alejandra Solórzano Bravo was the First Lady of Mexico from 1934 to 1940. She was the spouse of president Lázaro Cárdenas, the mother of the thrice ex-presidential candidate and former Head of Government of the Federal District, Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, and the grandmother of the former Governor of Michoacán, Lázaro Cárdenas Batel.

Hansa Jivraj Mehta was a reformist, social activist, educator, independence activist, feminist and writer from India.

Liselotte Landbeck was an Austrian athlete who competed at a high level in both figure skating and speed skating in the 1930s. In figure skating, she won the bronze medal at the 1934 World Championships. In speed skating, she won the first unofficial World Championship for ladies in 1933, and held the ladies' world record in the 500m as well as the 1000 m.

Clarence Leon Brown was an American film director.

Léo Bergoffen was a German Jew who emigrated to France in 1938. Deported to Auschwitz, he married former French Resistance fighter and Righteous Among the Nations member Odette Blanchet.