List of Famous people who died in 1997

Giorgio Strehler was an Italian opera and theatre director.

Lucy Weston Pickett was a Mary Lyon Professor and Camille and Henry Dreyfus Chair in Chemistry at Mount Holyoke College.

Sivar Arnér was a Swedish novelist and playwright.

Félix Candela Outeriño was a Spanish and Mexican architect who was born in Madrid and at the age of 26, emigrated to Mexico, acquiring double nationality.

Ave Maria Ninchi was an Italian supporting actress who played character roles on stage, television, and in over 98 feature films that included Tomorrow Is Too Late (1949) and Louis Malle's Murmur of the Heart (1971) and Lacombe Lucien (1974).

Arno Wyzniewski was an East German actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films from 1959 to 1997.

Bertram Myron Gross was an American social scientist, Federal bureaucrat and Professor of Political Science at Hunter College (CUNY). He is known from his book Friendly Fascism: The New Face of Power in America from 1980, and as primary author of the Humphrey–Hawkins Full Employment Act.

Lester Eugene Asheim was an American librarian and scholar of library science. He was on the faculty of the University of Chicago and the University of North Carolina and held positions in the American Library Association (ALA). He was included among the "100 most important leaders we had in the 20th century" by the American Library Association.

Donald Earle Messick was an American voice actor, best known for his performances in Hanna-Barbera cartoons.

Ruth Nadine Picardie was an English journalist and editor.