List of Famous people who died at 97

Varvara Jmoudsky, better known as Barbara Karinska or simply Karinska, was costumer of the New York City Ballet, and the first costume designer ever to win the Capezio Dance Award, for costumes "of visual beauty for the spectator and complete delight for the dancer".

Li Shouxin was a pro-Japanese commander in the Manchukuo Imperial Army and later the Mengjiang National Army.

Manoel Wenceslau Leite de Barros was a Brazilian poet. He won many awards for his work, including twice the Prêmio Jabuti, the most important literary award in Brazil.

Masao Sugiuchi was a professional Go player.

Aleksanteri Ahola-Valo was a Finnish artist, architect and thinker. Inventor of "AE-evohomology" life philosophy. He was a witness to the Russian Revolution.

Elisa Frota Pessoa, born Elisa Esther Habbema de Maia, was a Brazilian experimental physicist. She was one of the first women to graduate in physics in Brazil, in 1942, and a founding member of the Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas. She was distinguished by her studies of radioactivity with nuclear emulsions; reactions and disintegrations of K and π mesons in nuclear emulsions; and reactions of protons and deuterons with nuclei of average masses.