List of Famous people who died in 1997

Édouard Muller was a French professional road bicycle racer.

Armando Brancia was an Italian film and television actor.

Richard Berry, Jr. was an American singer, songwriter and musician, who performed with many Los Angeles doo-wop and close harmony groups in the 1950s, including The Flairs and The Robins.

Paul Haghedooren was a Belgian cyclist. He rode in five editions of the Tour de France and two editions of the Vuelta a España.

Ricky Lee Green was an American serial killer who murdered at least four people in Texas. He is also a suspect in eight more murders.

Don Jordan was an American boxer born in Los Angeles, California and was the Welterweight Champion of the World from 1958 to 1960. His nickname was ‘Geronimo’. He was of Mexican and African American descent.

Ngiratkel Etpison was a politician from Palau.

Vasile Hossu was a Romanian Greek Catholic hierarch. He was bishop of the Romanian Catholic Eparchy of Oradea Mare from 1990 to 1997.

Odette Bancilhon was a French astronomer. She is known for her work during the 1930s and 1940s at the Algiers Observatory, where she discovered 1333 Cevenola, a stony Eunomian asteroid from the main-belt. All of her publications are signed O. Bancilhon, a practice of her profession at that time.