List of Famous people who died in 1997

Louis Auslander was a Jewish American mathematician. He had wide-ranging interests both in pure and applied mathematics and worked on Finsler geometry, geometry of solvmanifolds and nilmanifolds, locally affine spaces, many aspects of harmonic analysis, representation theory of solvable Lie groups, and multidimensional Fourier transforms and the design of signal sets for communications and radar. He is the author of more than one hundred papers and ten books.

Maurice Clifford Rootes was a British film editor.

Donato Piazza was an Italian racing cyclist. He won stage 22 of the 1956 Giro d'Italia.

David K. Stewart was a visual effects artist who was nominated at the 52nd Academy Awards for Best Visual Effects for Star Trek: The Motion Picture. He shared his nomination with John Dykstra, Grant McCune, Robert Swarthe, Douglas Trumbull and Richard Yuricich.