List of Famous people who died in 1997
Jennifer Holt
Jennifer Holt was an American actress.
Jean Hoerni
Jean Amédée Hoerni was a Swiss-American engineer. He was a silicon transistor pioneer, and a member of the "traitorous eight". He developed the planar process, an important technology for reliably fabricating and manufacturing semiconductor devices, such as transistors and integrated circuits.
Giuseppe De Santis
Giuseppe De Santis was an Italian film director. One of the most idealistic neorealist filmmakers of the 1940s and 1950s, he wrote and directed films punctuated by ardent cries for social reform.
Marjorie Best
Marjorie Best was an American Hollywood costume designer known for her period designs.
Mary Wills
Mary Wills was an American costume designer.
Robert C. Weaver
Robert Clifton Weaver was an American economist, academic, and political administrator; he served as the first United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (H.U.D.) from 1966 to 1968, when the department was newly established by President Lyndon B. Johnson. Weaver was the first African American to be appointed to a US cabinet-level position.
Robert Browning
Robert Browning, FBA was a Scottish Byzantinist and university professor.
Saul Chaplin
Saul Chaplin was an American composer and musical director.
Robert H. Dicke
Robert Henry Dicke was an American astronomer and physicist who made important contributions to the fields of astrophysics, atomic physics, cosmology and gravity. He was the Albert Einstein Professor in Science at Princeton University (1975–1984).
Victor Oehrn
Victor Otto Oehrn was a Fregattenkapitän with the Kriegsmarine during World War II. He commanded the U-boats U-14 and U-37, sinking twenty-four ships on four patrols, for a total of 104,846 tons of Allied shipping, to stand 28th on the list of highest scoring U-Boat aces of World War II.