List of Famous people who died in 1997
Margaret Stuart Baird
Diosdado Macapagal
Diosdado Pangan Macapagal Sr. was the ninth President of the Philippines, serving from 1961 to 1965, and the sixth Vice-President, serving from 1957 to 1961. He also served as a member of the House of Representatives, and headed the Constitutional Convention of 1970. He was the father of Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, who followed his path as President of the Philippines from 2001 to 2010.
Barbara Mary Kidston
Al Berto
Al Berto was the pseudonym used by the Portuguese poet, painter, editor and cultural programmer Alberto Raposo Pidwell Tavares.
Christopher Scott, 12th of Gala
Kathleen Richardson-Bunbury
Constance Helena Stuart-Stevenson
Sir Thomas Stafford Bazley, 3rd Bt.
Winifred Mary Cooper
Michael Manley
Michael Norman Manley ON OCC was a Jamaican politician who served as the fourth Prime Minister of Jamaica from 1972 to 1980 and from 1989 to 1992. Manley championed a democratic socialist program, and has been described as a populist. According to opinion polls, he remains one of Jamaica's most popular prime ministers.