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1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1997th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 997th year of the 2nd millennium, the 97th year of the 20th century, and the 8th year of the 1990s decade.

Events

January

• January 1 - the Emergency Alert System is introduced in the United States of America
• January 11 – Turkey threatens Cyprus on account of a deal to buy Russian S-300 missiles, prompting the Cypriot Missile Crisis.
• January 17 – A Delta II rocket carrying a military GPS payload explodes, shortly after liftoff from Cape Canaveral.
• January 18 – In northwest Rwanda, Hutu militia members kill 6 Spanish aid workers and three soldiers, and seriously wound another.
• January 19 – Yasser Arafat returns to Hebron after more than 30 years, and joins celebrations over the handover of the last Israeli-controlled West Bank city.
• January 20 – Bill Clinton is sworn in for a second term as President of the United States.
• January 23 – Madeleine Albright becomes the first female Secretary of State of the United States, after confirmation by the United States Senate.

February

• February 4
  • On their way to Lebanon, two Israeli troop-transport helicopters collide, killing all 73 on board.
  • After at first contesting the results, Serbian President Slobodan Milošević recognizes opposition victories in the November 1996 elections.
  • A magnitude 6.5 earthquake strikes North Khorasan province, Iran, killing 88 people and injuring 1,948.
• February 10 – Sandline affair: Australian newspapers publish stories that the government of Papua New Guinea has brought mercenaries onto Bougainville Island.
• February 13 – STS-82: Tune-up and repair work on the Hubble Space Telescope is started by astronauts from the Space Shuttle Discovery.
• February 28 – North Hollywood shootout: Two robbers, wearing kevlar body armor, and armed with AK-47s containing armor-piercing bullets, injure 17 police officers and civilians in a gun battle. The incident sparks debate on the appropriate firepower for United States patrol officers to have available in similar situations in the future.

March

• March 4 – U.S. President Bill Clinton bans federal funding for any research on human cloning.
• March 7 – In Sri Lanka, the Tamil Tigers overrun a military base and kill over 100 Sri Lankan troops.
• March 13
  • India's Missionaries of Charity chooses Sister Nirmala, to succeed Mother Teresa as its leader.
  • The National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China creates a new Chongqing Municipality, out of part of Sichuan.
• March 14 – A study of gender reassignment of a boy who lost his penis to a botched circumcision is refuted by a follow-up study. The supposedly successful outcome had been widely cited as proof that gender was determined by nurture, yet the patient, David Reimer, was deeply unhappy and had returned to his original gender by the age of 15, thus indicating the opposite thesis.
• March 16 – Sandline affair: On Bougainville Island, soldiers of commander Jerry Singirok arrest Tim Spicer and his mercenaries of the Sandline International.
• March 18 – The tail of a Russian An-24 charter plane breaks off while en route to Turkey, causing the plane to crash, killing all 50 on board, and resulting in the grounding of all An-24s.
• March 21 – In Zaire, Étienne Tshisekedi is appointed prime minister; he ejects supporters of Mobutu Sese Seko from his cabinet.
• March 22 – The Comet Hale–Bopp makes its closest approach to Earth.
• March 24 – The 69th Academy Awards, hosted by Billy Crystal, are held at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, with The English Patient winning Best Picture. During the event, the DVD format is launched in the United States.
• March 24 – 26 – In San Diego, 39 Heaven's Gate cultists commit mass suicide at their compound.
• March 26 – Julius Chan resigns as prime minister of Papua New Guinea, effectively ending the Sandline affair.

April

• April 3 – The Thalit massacre in Algeria: all but 1 of the 53 inhabitants of Thalit are killed by guerrillas.
• April 14
  • Fire breaks out in a pilgrim camp on the Plain of Mena, 11 kilometres (6.8 mi) from Mecca; 343 die.
  • Former S.S. Captain Erich Priebke is retried; on July 22 he is sentenced to fifteen years in prison.
• April 18 – The Red River of the North breaks through dikes and floods Grand Forks, North Dakota, and East Grand Forks, Minnesota, causing US$2 billion in damage.
• April 21 – A Pegasus rocket carries the remains of 24 people into earth orbit, in the first space burial.
• April 22
  • Haouch Khemisti massacre: 93 villagers are killed in Algeria.
  • A 126-day hostage crisis at the residence of the Japanese ambassador in Lima, Peru.
• April 23 – 42 villagers are killed in the Omaria massacre in Algeria.
• April 29
  • The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), CWC treaty enters into force.
  • Two trains crash at Hunan, China; 126 are killed.

May

• May 1 - Tony Blair becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, as the Labour Party wins the 1997 United Kingdom general election and returns to government for the first time in 18 years.
• May 3 – Katrina and the Waves win the Eurovision Song Contest 1997 for the United Kingdom with "Love Shine a Light".
• May 9 – The first genetically modified three-parent baby is born.
• May 10 – The 7.3 M_w  Qayen earthquake strikes eastern Iran with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme). At least 1,567 were killed and 2,300 were injured.
• May 11 – IBM's Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov in the last game of the rematch, the first time a computer beats a chess World champion in a match.
• May 12
  • The Russian–Chechen Peace Treaty is signed.
  • An F1-rated tornado strikes downtown Miami, causing $525,000 in damages. Pictures and videos of this tornado made news headlines around the world.
• May 15 – The United States government acknowledges existence of the "Secret War" in Laos (1953–1975) during the Vietnam War, and dedicates the Laos Memorial in honor of Hmong and other "Secret War" veterans.
• May 16
  • President Mobutu Sese Seko is exiled from Zaire.
  • U.S. President Bill Clinton issues a formal apology to the surviving victims of the Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male and their families.
• May 17 – Troops of Laurent Kabila march into Kinshasa.
• May 23 – Mohammad Khatami wins the 1997 Iranian presidential election and becomes the first Iranian Reformist president.
• May 25 – A military coup in Sierra Leone replaces President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah with Major Johnny Paul Koroma.
• May 27 – The second-deadliest tornado of the 1990s hits in Jarrell, Texas, killing 27 people.
• May 31 – The 13-kilometer Confederation Bridge, the world's longest bridge spanning ice-covered waters, opens between Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick, Canada.

June

• June 1
  • Socialist Party-led Centre-left coalition won the second-round in 1997 French legislative elections, began with the third Cohabitation (1997–2002).
  • Hugo Banzer wins the Presidential elections in Bolivia.
• June 2 – In Denver, Colorado, Timothy McVeigh is convicted on 15 counts of murder and conspiracy for his role in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.
• June 10 – Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot orders the killing of his defense chief, Son Sen, and 11 of Sen's family members, before Pol Pot flees his northern stronghold.
• June 11 – In the United Kingdom, the House of Commons votes for a total ban on handguns.
• June 13 – A jury sentences Timothy McVeigh to death for his part in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.
• June 16 – About 50 people are killed in the Daïat Labguer (M'sila) massacre in Algeria.
• June 21 – The Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) plays its first game at The Great Western Forum in Los Angeles.
• June 25
  • A massive eruption of the Soufrière Hills volcano on the island of Montserrat leads to evacuation and eventual abandonment of the capital, Plymouth.
  • An unmanned Progress spacecraft collides with the Russian space station Mir.
• June 26 – Bertie Ahern is appointed as the 10th Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland and Mary Harney is appointed as the 16th, and first female, Tánaiste, after their parties, Fianna Fáil and the Progressive Democrats respectively, win the 1997 General Election.
• June 26 – Bloomsbury Publishing publishes J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone in London.

July

• July – The 1997 Central European flood occurs across Poland, Germany, and the Czech Republic.
• July 1 – The United Kingdom hands sovereignty of Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China.
• July 2 – The Bank of Thailand floats the baht, triggering the Asian financial crisis.
• July 4 – NASA's Pathfinder space probe lands on the surface of Mars.
• July 5
  • In Cambodia, Hun Sen of the Cambodian People's Party overthrows Norodom Ranariddh in a coup.
  • The Egyptian Islamic Group announces a cessation-of-violence initiative.
• July 8 – NATO invites the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland to join the alliance in 1999.
• July 10 – In London, scientists report their DNA analysis findings from a Neanderthal skeleton, which support the out of Africa theory of human evolution, placing an "African Eve" at 100,000 to 200,000 years ago.
• July 11 – Thailand's worst hotel fire at Pattaya kills 90.
• July 13 – The remains of Che Guevara are returned to Cuba for burial, alongside some of his comrades. Guevara and his comrades were executed on October 9 1967 in Bolivia.
• July 15 – Spree killer Andrew Cunanan shoots fashion designer Gianni Versace dead outside Versace's Miami Beach residence.
• July 17 – The F. W. Woolworth Company closes after 117 years in business.
• July 25 – K. R. Narayanan is sworn in as India's 10th president and the first member of the Dalit caste to hold this office.
• July 27 – About 50 are killed in the Si Zerrouk massacre in Algeria.
• July 30 – 18 people are killed in the Thredbo landslide in the Snowy Mountains resort in Australia.

August

• August 1 – Boeing and McDonnell Douglas complete a merger.
• August 3 – Between 40 and 76 villagers are killed in the Oued El-Had and Mezouara massacre in Algeria.
• August 3 – 11 – Two of the three islands of the Union of the Comoros – Anjouan and Mohéli – attempt to revert to colonial rule by France. The plan fails when the French government of President Jacques Chirac refuses to recolonize them, resulting in the two islands being reintegrated into the Comoros over the next two years.
• August 6 – Korean Air Flight 801 crash lands west of Guam International Airport, resulting in the deaths of 228 people.
• August 13 - Trey Parker and Matt Stone's South Park aired its first episode on Comedy Central, becoming one of the most infamous and celebrated sitcoms ever made.
• August 20 – More than 60 are killed, 15 kidnapped in the Souhane massacre in Algeria.
• August 26
  • 60–100 are killed in the Beni Ali massacre in Algeria.
  • The Independent International Commission on Decommissioning is set up in Northern Ireland, as part of a peace process.
• August 29 – Over 98 (and possibly up to 400) are killed in the Rais massacre in Algeria.
• August 31 – Death of Diana, Princess of Wales: Diana, Princess of Wales is taken to a hospital after a car accident shortly after midnight, in the Pont de l'Alma road tunnel in Paris. She is pronounced dead at 4:00 am.

September

• September 1 – Dublin Regulation on treatment of applications for right of asylum under European Union law first comes into force.
• September 5
  • Over 87 are killed in the Beni Messous massacre in Algeria.
  • The International Olympic Committee picks Athens, Greece, to be the host city for the 2004 Summer Olympics.
• September 6 – The funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales, takes place at Westminster Abbey, watched by over two billion people worldwide.
• September 11 – Scotland votes in favour of a devolved Parliament, forming the Scottish Parliament less than two years later
• September 15 – The Norwegian parliamentary election was held in Norway.
• September 17 – Iraq disarmament crisis: While waiting for access to a site, UNSCOM inspectors witness and videotape Iraqi guards moving files, burning documents, and dumping waste cans into a nearby river.
• September 18
  • Al-Qaeda carries out a terrorist attack in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
  • Wales votes in favour of devolution and the formation of a National Assembly for Wales.
• September 19 – 53 are killed in the Guelb El-Kebir massacre in Algeria.
• September 21
  • The Islamic Salvation Army, the Islamic Salvation Fronts' armed wing, declares a unilateral ceasefire in Algeria.
  • St. Olaf's Church, a stone church from the 16th century in Tyrvää, Finland, is burnt down.
• September 25 – Iraq disarmament crisis: UNSCOM inspector Dr. Diane Seaman catches several Iraqi men sneaking out the back door of an inspection site, with log books for the creation of prohibited bacteria and chemicals.
• September 26
  • Garuda Indonesia Flight 152 crashes while on approach to Medan, North Sumatra, during the 1997 Southeast Asian haze, killing all 234 people on board. This becomes the deadliest aviation accident in Indonesian history.
  • An earthquake strikes the Italian regions of Umbria and Marche, causing part of the Basilica of St. Francis at Assisi to collapse.

October

• October 2 – British scientists Moira Bruce and John Collinge, with their colleagues, independently show that the new variant form of the Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease is the same disease as Bovine spongiform encephalopathy.
• October 3 – The President of Paraguay, Juan Carlos Wasmosy, orders the arrest of political opponent Lino Oviedo.
• October 4 – Loomis Fargo Bank Robbery: The second largest cash robbery in U.S. history ($17.3 million, mostly in small bills) occurs at the Charlotte, North Carolina office of Wells Fargo. An FBI investigation eventually results in 24 convictions and the recovery of approximately 95% of the stolen cash.
• October 10 – Uruguay's worst air disaster occurs when Austral Líneas Aéreas Flight 2553 crashes near Nuevo Berlín, killing all 74 on board.
• October 12 – Sidi Daoud massacre: 43 are killed at a false roadblock in Algeria.
• October 15
  • Andy Green sets the first supersonic land speed record for the ThrustSSC team, led by Richard Noble of the UK. ThrustSSC goes through the flying mile course at Black Rock Desert, Nevada at an average speed of 1,227.985 km/h (763.035 mph).
  • NASA launches the Cassini–Huygens probe to Saturn.
• October 16 – The first color photograph appears on the front page of The New York Times.
• October 17 – The remains of Che Guevara are laid to rest with full military honours in a specially built mausoleum in the city of Santa Clara, Cuba, where he had won the decisive battle of the Cuban Revolution 39 years before.
• October 22 – Danish escaped criminal Steen Christensen robs the Hotel Palace in Helsinki, Finland, killing two police officers while evading capture.
• October 29 – Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraq says it will begin shooting down Lockheed U-2 surveillance planes being used by UNSCOM inspectors.

November

• November 11 – Telecom companies WorldCom and MCI Communications announce a US$37 billion merger to form MCI WorldCom, the largest merger in U.S. history.
• November 12 – Mary McAleese is elected the eighth President of Ireland in succession to Mary Robinson, the first time in the world that one woman has succeeded another as elected head of state.
• November 13 – Ramzi Yousef is found guilty of masterminding the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
• November 17 – In Luxor, Egypt, 62 people are killed by 6 Islamic militants outside the Temple of Hatshepsut.
• November 19 – In Des Moines, Iowa, Bobbi McCaughey gives birth to septuplets in the second known case where all seven babies are born alive, and the first in which all survive infancy.
• November 27
  • NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission is launched, the start of the satellite component of the Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System.
  • The 71st Annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade was held in New York City with high winds gusting up to 50 mph which lead to The Cat in the Hat balloon crashing into the lamppost between 72nd and Central Park West injuring 4 people, in addition, The Pink Panther balloon went out of control shortly after reaching Broadway and was shredded by a stoplight and a row of lampposts at 4 Times Square in which the balloon was removed. The balloon of Barney was torn in the side by a lamppost between 55th and Broadway which the balloon would later be removed and the accident would be viral in 2013 in a video titled, “Thanksgiving ‘97. The Day Barney Was Killed.” The balloon of Quik Bunny had his left ear poked by a tree while starting the parade, he continued with a deflated ear until he reached Times Square, when his hat was ripped open by a stoplight caused by high winds, the balloon would continue until 36th Street when it was removed from the lineup.

December

• December 1 – In the Indian state of Bihar, Ranvir Sena attacks the CPI(ML) Party Unity stronghold Lakshmanpur-Bathe, killing 63 lower caste people.
• December 3 – In Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, representatives from 121 countries sign a treaty prohibiting the manufacture and deployment of anti-personnel land mines. However, the United States, the People's Republic of China, Russia, South Korea and 32 other nations do not sign and/or ratify the treaty.
• December 10 – The capital of Kazakhstan is moved from Almaty to Astana.
• December 11 – The Kyoto Protocol is adopted by a United Nations committee.
• December 16 – In Japan, over 700 children suffer epileptic attacks due to an episode of the anime Pokémon.
• December 18 – In Australia, 20th Century Fox releases a feature-length film about a children's group named The Wiggles called The Wiggles Movie.
• December 19
  • Janet Jagan (widow of Cheddi Jagan) takes office in Guyana.
  • James Cameron's Titanic, the then highest-grossing film of all time, premieres in the U.S.
  • SilkAir Flight 185 crashes into the Musi River, near Palembang in Indonesia, killing 104.
• December 21 – Brazil beats Australia 6–0 in the Confederations Cup final.
• December 24 – 50–100 villagers are killed in the Sid El-Antri massacre in Algeria.
• December 27 – Ulster loyalist paramilitary leader Billy Wright is assassinated in Northern Ireland, inside Long Kesh prison.
• December 29 – Hong Kong begins to kill all the chickens within its territory (1.25 million) to stop the spread of a potentially deadly influenza strain.
• December 30 – Wilaya of Relizane massacres of December 30, 1997: In the worst incident in Algeria's insurgency, 400 are killed from four villages in the wilaya of Relizane.

Births

January

• January 1
  • Chidozie Awaziem, Nigerian footballer
  • Chloé Dygert, American professional cyclist
• January 2 – Gabriel Carlsson, Swedish ice hockey player
• January 4 – Pauline Schäfer, German gymnast
• January 5 – Mikhail Vorobyev, Russian ice hockey player
• January 7
  • Lamar Jackson, American football player
  • Ozzie Albies, professional baseball player
• January 9 – Elvira Herman, Belarusian athlete
• January 11 – Cody Simpson, Australian singer-songwriter
• January 12 – Felix Sandström, Swedish ice hockey player
• January 13
  • Egan Bernal, Colombian road bicycle racer
  • Connor McDavid, Canadian ice hockey player
• January 14
  • Francesco Bagnaia, Italian motorcycle racer
  • Denice Zamboanga, Filipina mixed martial artist
• January 15 – Valentina Zenere, Argentine actress, model, and singer
• January 17
  • Jake Paul, American boxer, actor and social media personality
  • Maxwell Frost, American activist and politician
• January 18 – Denis Malgin, Swiss ice hockey player
• January 20 – Blueface, American rapper
• January 21
  • Jeremy Shada, American actor, voice actor, singer and musician
  • Ilia Topuria, German-Georgian mixed martial artist
  • Yang Yang, Chinese paralympic swimmer
• January 23
  • Sophie Hahn, English paralympic sprinter
  • Ramadan Sobhi, Egyptian footballer
  • Gudaf Tsegay, Ethiopian middle-distance runner
• January 25 – Noah Hanifin, American ice hockey player
• January 29 – Jack Roslovic, American ice hockey player
• January 30 – Shim Suk-hee, South Korean speed skater
• January 31 – Melvyn Richardson, French handball player

February

• February 1 - Jihyo, South Korean singer
• February 2 – Jaheel Hyde, Jamaican sprinter
• February 8 – Kathryn Newton, American actress
• February 10
  • Josh Jackson, American basketball player
  • Lilly King, American swimmer
  • Chloë Grace Moretz, American actress
  • Rozaliya Nasretdinova, Russian swimmer
• February 11
  • Hubert Hurkacz, Polish tennis player
  • Rosé, New Zealand singer
• February 14
  • Jaehyun, South Korean singer and actor
  • Breel Embolo, Swiss footballer
• February 21 –
  • Ben Rhodes, American professional stock car racing driver
  • Malik Newman, American professional basketball player
• February 22 – Anton Chupkov, Russian swimmer
• February 23
  • Érick Aguirre, Mexican footballer
  • Jamal Murray, Canadian basketball player
• February 24 – César Montes, Mexican footballer
• February 25
  • Isabelle Fuhrman, American actress
  • Santiago Ascacíbar, Argentinian footballer
  • Katsiaryna Halkina, Belarusian rhythmic gymnast
• February 26 – Zheng Siwei, Chinese badminton player

March

• March 2 – Becky G, American singer
• March 3
  • Camila Cabello, Cuban-American singer
  • David Neres, Brazilian footballer
• March 4 – Matisse Thybulle, American basketball player
• March 5 – Romain Lagarde, French handball player
• March 6
  • Alisha Boe, Norwegian actress
  • Bojana Milenković, Serbian volleyball player
• March 8
• March 9

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• • Tijana Bošković, Serbian volleyball player
  • Jurina Matsui, Japanese singer
• March 10 – Belinda Bencic, Swiss tennis player
• March 13 – Rúben Neves, Portuguese footballer
• March 14
  • Simone Biles, American gymnast
  • Dawid Kownacki, Polish footballer
  • Harrie Lavreysen, Dutch track cyclist
• March 17
  • Konrad Bukowiecki, Polish athlete
  • Katie Ledecky, American swimmer
  • Nijirō Murakami, Japanese actor
• March 18
  • Ciara Bravo, American actress, voice artist, singer, and comedian
  • Mario Burke, Barbadian sprinter
• March 19 – Rūta Meilutytė, Lithuanian swimmer
• March 21 – Martina Stoessel, Argentine actress, singer, dancer, and model
• March 22 – Harry Wilson, Welsh footballer
• March 23 – Thiago Maia, Brazilian footballer
• March 24 – Mina, Japanese singer and dancer
• March 27 – Lisa, Thai rapper, singer, dancer, and model
• March 30
  • Gideon Adlon, American actress
  • Cha Eun-woo, South Korean singer
  • Shervin Hajipour, Iranian singer

April

• April 1 – Asa Butterfield, English actor
• April 3 – Gabriel Jesus, Brazilian footballer
• April 6 – Pavel Zacha, Czech ice hockey player
• April 8 – Roquan Smith, American football player
• April 9 – Michael Špaček, Czech ice hockey player
• April 11 – Mélovin, Ukrainian singer-songwriter
• April 12 – Katelyn Ohashi, American artistic gymnast
• April 14 – D. J. Moore, American football player
• April 15 – Maisie Williams, English actress
• April 16 – Daniel Rioli, Australian rules footballer
• April 18 – Donny van de Beek, Dutch footballer
• April 20 – Alexander Zverev, German tennis player
• April 21 – Mikel Oyarzabal, Spanish footballer
• April 23
  • Zach Apple, American swimmer
  • Peng Cheng, Chinese figure skater
• April 24
  • Lydia Ko, South Korean-born New Zealand golfer
  • Veronika Kudermetova, Russian tennis player
• April 26 – Moritz Wagner, German basketball player
• April 27
  • Livio Loi, Belgian motorcycle racer
  • Nellys Pimentel, Puerto Rican model and beauty queen who was crowned Miss Earth 2019.
• April 28 – Denzel Ward, American football player
• April 30 – T. J. Leaf, American basketball player

May

• May 2 – BamBam, Thai singer
• May 3 – Desiigner, American rapper and singer
• May 4 – Ben Dolic, Slovenian singer
• May 5 – Mitch Marner, Canadian ice hockey player
• May 6 – Duncan Scott, Scottish swimmer
• May 7
  • Daria Kasatkina, Russian tennis player
  • Youri Tielemans, Belgian footballer
• May 10
  • Richarlison, Brazilian footballer
  • Enes Ünal, Turkish footballer
• May 11 – Lana Condor, American actress and dancer
• May 12
  • Frenkie de Jong, Dutch footballer
  • Morgan Lake, English athlete
  • Odeya Rush, Israeli-born American actress
• May 14 – Manushi Chhillar, Indian model, actress and Miss World 2017
• May 15 – Ousmane Dembélé, French footballer
• May 19
  • Oliver Kylington, Swedish ice hockey player
  • Víctor Robles, Dominican baseball outfielder
• May 21 – Kevin Quinn, American actor
• May 22 – Lauri Markkanen, Finnish basketball player
• May 23 – Joe Gomez, English footballer
• May 27
  • Daron Payne, American football player
  • Liam Nolan, British Muay Thai kickboxer
• May 30 – Jake Short, American actor
• May 31 – Cupcakke, American rapper

June

• June 1 – Youssef En-Nesyri, Moroccan footballer
• June 5
  • Sam Darnold, American football quarterback
  • Henry Onyekuru, Nigerian footballer
• June 6 – Maja Aleksić, Serbian volleyball player
• June 7 – David Montgomery, American football player
• June 8 – Jeļena Ostapenko, Latvian tennis player
• June 9 – Shen Duo, Chinese swimmer
• June 10 – Sviatoslav Mykhailiuk, Ukrainian basketball player
• June 11
  • Kodak Black, American hip-hop artist
  • Jorja Smith, English singer
• June 13
  • Katie Lou Samuelson, American basketball player
  • Yuta Watanabe, Japanese badminton player
• June 14 – Fujii Kaze, Japanese singer-songwriter
• June 15 – Madison Kocian, American artistic gymnast
• June 16
  • Orlane Kanor, French handball player
  • Camila Morrone, American-Argentine model and actress
• June 17
  • KJ Apa, New Zealand actor
  • Alexander Bublik, Russian born-Kazakh tennis player
• June 21 – Rebecca Black, American singer
• June 22 – Dinah Jane, American singer
• June 23
  • Chen Qingchen, Chinese badminton player
  • Antoine Olivier Pilon, French-Canadian actor
• June 25
  • Rodrigo Bentancur, Uruguayan footballer
  • Bassem Srarfi, Tunisian footballer
• June 27
  • H.E.R., American singer
  • Shannon Purser, American actress
• June 28 – Shakur Stevenson, American boxer
• June 29 – Jia Yifan, Chinese badminton player
• June 30 – Avika Gor, Indian actress

July

• July 2
  • Marquese Chriss, American basketball player
  • Jackie Buntan, Filipino-American Muay Thai kickboxer and former ONE Women's Stawweight Muay Thai title challenger
• July 3 – Georgios Papagiannis, Greek basketball player
• July 4 – Daniela Nieves, Venezuelan-American actress
• July 7 – Magnus Abelvik Rød, Norwegian handball player
• July 10
  • Ebba Andersson, Swedish cross-country skier
  • Alba Baptista, Portuguese actress
• July 12 – Malala Yousafzai, Pakistani activist and Nobel Prize laureate
• July 13 – Leo Howard, American actor and martial artist
• July 14 – Cengiz Ünder, Turkish footballer
• July 17 – Amadou Diawara, Guinese footballer
• July 18
  • Bam Adebayo, American basketball player
  • Chiara Kreuzer, Austrian ski jumper
  • Noah Lyles, American sprinter
  • Fionn Whitehead, English actor
• July 19 – Zach Werenski, American ice hockey player
• July 24 – Emre Mor, Turkish footballer
• July 26 – Ewa Swoboda, Polish track and field sprinter
• July 27 – Rai Benjamin, American hurdler
• July 30
  • Teófimo López, American boxer
  • Finneas O'Connell, American musician and actor
• July 31 – Jordyn Poulter, American volleyball player

August

• August 2
  • Ke Jie, Chinese professional go player
  • Triston McKenzie, American baseball pitcher
  • Christina Robinson, American actress
• August 3 – Ronald Jones II, American football player
• August 5
  • Olivia Holt, American actress and singer
  • Adam Irigoyen, American actor
• August 7 – Kyler Murray, American football player
• August 9 – Leon Bailey, Jamaican footballer
• August 10 – Kylie Jenner, American reality television personality
• August 16
  • Greyson Chance, American singer, songwriter and pianist
  • Piper Curda, American actress
• August 18
  • Josephine Langford, Australian actress
  • Renato Sanches, Portuguese footballer
• August 19 – Florian Wellbrock, German swimmer
• August 22 – Lautaro Martínez, Argentine footballer
• August 23 – Lil Yachty, American rapper, singer and songwriter
• August 24 – Alan Walker, British-Norwegian music producer
• August 28 – Bazzi, American singer-songwriter
• August 31 – Dika Mem, French handball player

September

• September 1
  • Joan Mir, Spanish Grand Prix motorcycle racer
  • Jungkook, South Korean singer, member of BTS
• September 2 – Brandon Ingram, American basketball player
• September 3 – Hana Kimura, Japanese professional wrestler (d. 2020)
• September 7 – Dean-Charles Chapman, English actor
• September 9 – Yahia Omar, Egyptian handball player
• September 12 – Sydney Sweeney, American actress
• September 14 – Benjamin Ingrosso, Swedish singer-songwriter
• September 15 – Jonatan Christie, Indonesian badminton player
• September 16
  • Elena Kampouris, American actress
  • Jackie Young, American basketball player
• September 17
  • Luke Greenbank, British swimmer
  • Guan Xiaotong, Chinese actress
  • Auston Matthews, American ice hockey player
• September 19 – Chase Jeter, American basketball player
• September 23 – John Collins, American basketball player
• September 30
  • Yana Kudryavtseva, Russian rhythmic gymnast
  • Max Verstappen, Dutch racing driver

October

• October 1 –
  • Jade Bird, English singer-songwriter
  • Dedric Lawson, American professional basketball player
• October 3 – Jonathan Isaac, American professional basketball player
• October 6 – Kasper Dolberg, Danish footballer
• October 7 – Kira Kosarin, American actress and singer
• October 8
  • Steven Bergwijn, Dutch footballer
  • Marco Odermatt, Swiss alpine skier
  • Bella Thorne, American actress and singer
• October 10 – Fabricio Andrade, Brazilian mixed martial artist, former Muay Thai kickboxer, and ONE Bantamweight World Champion
• October 16
  • Charles Leclerc, Monégasque racing driver
  • Naomi Osaka, Japanese tennis player
• October 20 – Andrey Rublev, Russian tennis player
• October 21 – Anderson Peters, Grenadian javelin thrower
• October 25 – Federico Chiesa, Italian footballer
• October 27 – Lonzo Ball, American basketball player
• October 28
  • Taylor Fritz, American tennis player
  • Sierra McCormick, American actress
• October 31 – Marcus Rashford, English footballer and activist

November

• November 1 – Alex Wolff, American singer-songwriter, musician, and actor
• November 3 – Lázaro Martínez, Cuban triple jumper
• November 4 – Bea Binene, Filipino actress
• November 6 – Hero Fiennes Tiffin, English actor and model
• November 7 - The8, Chinese singer and dancer
• November 10 – Daniel James, English-born Welsh footballer
• November 16 – Stamp Fairtex, Thai Muay Thai kickboxer, mixed martial artist and former two-sport and current MMA grand-prix world champion
• November 19 – Grant Holloway, American hurdler
• November 23 – Akari Takeuchi, Japanese singer
• November 25 – Dennis Smith Jr., American professional basketball player
• November 26 – Aubrey Joseph, American actor and rapper
• November 28 – Yuliya Levchenko, Ukrainian high jumper
• November 29 – William Byron, American racing driver
• November 30 – Liu Huixia, Chinese diver

December

• December 2 – Afra Saraçoğlu, Turkish actress and model
• December 3 – Michael Norman, American sprinter
• December 5
  • Khaleel Ahmed, Indian cricketer
  • Clara Rugaard, Danish actress and singer
• December 14 – DK Metcalf, American football wide receiver
• December 15 – Maude Apatow, American actress
• December 16
  • Zara Larsson, Swedish singer and songwriter
  • Bassam Al-Rawi, Iraqi-born Qatari footballer
• December 17 – Shoma Uno, Japanese figure skater
• December 18 – Ronald Acuña Jr., Venezuelan baseball outfielder
• December 20
  • De'Aaron Fox, American basketball player
  • Suzuka Nakamoto, Japanese singer
• December 21
  • Madelyn Cline, American actress
  • Charlie McAvoy, American ice hockey player
• December 22 – Taylor Rapp, American football player
• December 23
  • Luka Jović, Serbian footballer
  • Park Yoo-na, South Korean actress
• December 24 — Stefan Airapetjan, Estonian Singer
• December 27 – Vachirawit Chivaaree, Thai actor and singer

Deaths

January

• January 1 – Townes Van Zandt, American folk singer (b. 1944)
• January 5
  • Bertil, Swedish prince, Duke of Halland (b. 1912)
  • Burton Lane, American composer and lyricist (b. 1912)
• January 6
  • Teiichi Matsumaru, Japanese footballer (b. 1909)
  • Catherine Scorsese, Italian-American actress (b. 1912)
• January 8 – Melvin Calvin, American chemist (b. 1911)
• January 9
  • Edward Osóbka-Morawski, Polish politician (b. 1909)
  • Jesse White, American actor (b. 1917)
• January 10
  • Sheldon Leonard, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1907)
  • Alexander R. Todd, Scottish chemist (b. 1907)
• January 12 – Charles Brenton Huggins, Canadian-born cancer researcher (b. 1901)
• January 14 – King Hu, Chinese film director and actor (b. 1932)
• January 17
  • Amha Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1916)
  • Clyde Tombaugh, American astronomer (b. 1906)
• January 18
  • Adriana Caselotti, American actress, voice actress and singer (b. 1916)
  • Paul Tsongas, American politician (b. 1941)
• January 19 – James Dickey, American poet and novelist (b. 1923)
• January 21
  • Colonel Tom Parker, Dutch-born celebrity manager (b. 1909)
  • Polly Ann Young, American actress (b. 1908)
• January 25 – Jeane Dixon, American astrologer (b. 1904)
• January 28 – Mikel Koliqi, Albanian cardinal (b. 1900)

February

• February 1 – Marjorie Reynolds, American actress (b. 1917)
• February 5 – Pamela Harriman, American diplomat (b. 1920)
• February 9
  • Brian Connolly, Scottish musician (b. 1945)
  • Barry Evans, English actor (b. 1943)
• February 10 – Milton Cato, Prime Minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (b. 1915)
• February 19 – Deng Xiaoping, Chinese revolutionary, communist leader, and statesman (b. 1904)
• February 23 – Tony Williams, American musician (b. 1945)
• February 26 – David Doyle, American actor (b. 1929)

March

• March 4 – Robert H. Dicke, American experimental physicist (b. 1916)
• March 6
  • Cheddi Jagan, President of Guyana (b. 1918)
  • Michael Manley, 2-Time Prime Minister of Jamaica (b. 1924)
• March 7
  • Edward Mills Purcell, American physicist (b. 1912)
  • Martin Kippenberger, German artist (b. 1953)
• March 9
  • The Notorious B.I.G., American rapper (b. 1972)
  • Terry Nation, Welsh screenwriter (b. 1930)
  • Jean-Dominique Bauby, French journalist and author (b. 1952)
• March 10 – LaVern Baker, American singer (b. 1929)
• March 11 – Lars Ahlin, Swedish author and aesthetician (b. 1915)
• March 14
  • Jurek Becker, Polish-born German writer (b. 1937)
  • Fred Zinnemann, Austrian-born American film director (b. 1907)
• March 15 – Victor Vasarely, Hungarian-French artist (b. 1906)
• March 17 – Jermaine Stewart, American singer (b. 1957)
• March 19 – Willem de Kooning, Dutch artist (b. 1904)
• March 20 – Tony Zale, American boxer (b. 1913)
• March 21 – Wilbert Awdry, British children's writer (b. 1911)
• March 26 – Marshall Applewhite, American cult leader (b. 1931)
• March 31
  • Friedrich Hund, German physicist (b. 1896)
  • Lyman Spitzer, American theoretical physicist and astronomer (b. 1914)

April

• April 4 – Alparslan Türkeş, Turkish politician (b. 1917)
• April 5
  • Allen Ginsberg, American poet (b. 1926)
  • Ignazio Buttitta, Sicilian dialectal poet (b. 1899)
• April 8 – Laura Nyro, American singer and composer (b. 1947)
• April 7 – Georgy Shonin, Russian cosmonaut (b. 1935)
• April 12 – George Wald, American scientist (b. 1906)
• April 13 – Shuhei Nishida, Japanese athlete (b. 1910)
• April 16 – Roland Topor, French illustrator (b. 1938)
• April 17 – Chaim Herzog, Israel politician, 6th President of Israel (b. 1918)
• April 20 – Jean Louis, American costume designer (b. 1907)
• April 21
  • Andrés Rodríguez, 47th President of Paraguay (b. 1923)
  • Diosdado Macapagal, 9th President of the Philippines (b. 1910)
• April 23 - Denis Compton, English cricketer (b. 1918)
• April 24 – Eugene Stoner, American firearms designer and engineer (b. 1922)
• April 26 – John Beal, American actor (b. 1909)

May

• May 1 – Bo Widerberg, Swedish film director (b. 1930)
• May 2
  • John Eccles, Australian neurophysiologist (b. 1903)
  • Paulo Freire, Brazilian educator and philosopher (b. 1921)
• May 3, Narciso Yepes, Spanish guitarist (b. 1927)
• May 4 – Wijeyananda Dahanayake, 5th Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (b. 1901)
• May 5 – Walter Gotell, German actor (b. 1924)
• May 13 – Laurie Lee, English author (b. 1914)
• May 16 – Giuseppe De Santis, Italian film director (b. 1917)
• May 20 – Virgilio Barco Vargas, 27th President of Colombia (b. 1921)
• May 22 – Alfred Hershey, American biochemist (b. 1908)
• May 24 – Edward Mulhare, Irish actor (b. 1923)
• May 26 – Manfred von Ardenne, German physicist and inventor (b. 1907)
• May 29 – Jeff Buckley, American musician (b. 1966)

June

• June 1
  • Robert Serber, American physicist (b. 1909)
  • Nikolai Tikhonov, Soviet-Russian statesman (b. 1905)
• June 2 – Helen Jacobs, American tennis champion (b. 1908)
• June 4 – Ronnie Lane, English musician (b. 1946)
• June 6 – Magda Gabor, Hungarian-American actress (b. 1915)
• June 12 – Bulat Okudzhava, Soviet singer (b. 1924)
• June 14 – Richard Jaeckel, American actor (b. 1926)
• June 15
  • Edmond Leburton, 42nd Prime Minister of Belgium (b. 1915)
  • Son Sen, Cambodian politician and criminal (b. 1930)
• June 18
  • Lev Kopelev, Soviet writer and dissident (b. 1912)
  • Héctor Yazalde, Argentine footballer (b. 1946)
• June 21 – Shintaro Katsu, Japanese actor, singer, producer, and director (b. 1931)
• June 22 – Ted Gärdestad, Swedish singer, songwriter, and musician (b. 1956)
• June 23 – Betty Shabazz, American educator and activist (b. 1934)
• June 24
  • Don Hutson, American football player (b. 1913)
  • Brian Keith, American actor (b. 1921)
• June 25 – Jacques Cousteau, French explorer (b. 1910)
• June 26 – Israel Kamakawiwoʻole, Hawaiian singer (b. 1959)
• June 29 – William Hickey, American actor (b. 1927)

July

• July 1 – Robert Mitchum, American actor (b. 1917)
• July 2 – James Stewart, American actor and soldier (b. 1908)
• July 8 – Abu Sadat Mohammad Sayem, 6th President of Bangladesh (b. 1916)
• July 9 – Aurelio González, Paraguayan footballer (b. 1905)
• July 13 – Alexandra Danilova, Russian-American ballerina and dance instructor (b. 1903)
• July 15 – Gianni Versace, Italian fashion designer (b. 1946)
• July 17 – Robert C. Weaver, American economist and academic (b. 1907)
• July 18 – Eugene Merle Shoemaker, American astronomer (b. 1928)
• July 20 – John Akii-Bua, Ugandan hurdler (b. 1949)
• July 23
  • Andrew Cunanan, American serial killer (b. 1969)
  • Chūhei Nambu, Japanese athlete (b. 1904)
• July 24 – Frank Parker, American tennis champion (b. 1916)
• July 25 – Ben Hogan, American golf champion (b. 1912)
• July 26 – Jaime Milans del Bosch, Spanish general and insurgent (b. 1915)
• July 28
  • Rosalie Crutchley, English actress (b. 1920)
  • Seni Pramoj, Thai politician, 6th Prime Minister of Thailand (b. 1905)
• July 30 – Bảo Đại, Emperor of Vietnam (b. 1913)

August

• August 1
  • Ngiratkel Etpison, 5th President of Palau (b. 1925)
  • Sviatoslav Richter, Ukrainian pianist (b. 1915)
• August 2
  • William S. Burroughs, American author (b. 1914)
  • Fela Kuti, Nigerian musician and political activist (b. 1938)
• August 4 – Jeanne Calment, French supercentenarian, oldest person ever lived (b. 1875)
• August 6 – Jürgen Kuczynski, German economist and communist (b. 1904)
• August 10 – Conlon Nancarrow, American-born composer (b. 1912)
• August 12 – Luther Allison, American musician (b. 1939)
• August 16 – Sultan Ahmad Nanupuri, Bangladeshi Islamic scholar and teacher (b. 1914)
• August 20 – Norris Bradbury, American physicist (b. 1909)
• August 21
  • Misael Pastrana Borrero, 23rd President of Colombia (b. 1923)
  • Yuri Nikulin, Soviet and Russian actor and clown (b. 1921)
• August 22 – Matti Sippala, Finnish athlete (b. 1908)
• August 23
  • Eric Gairy, 1st Prime Minister of Grenada (b. 1922)
  • John Kendrew, British molecular biologist (b. 1917)
• August 24 – Louis Essen, English physicist (b. 1908)
• August 27 – Sally Blane, American actress (b. 1910)
• August 30 – Ernst Wilimowski, German–Polish footballer (b. 1916)
• August 31
  • Diana, Princess of Wales (b. 1961)
  • Dodi Fayed, Egyptian film producer (b. 1955)

September

• September 1 – Zoltán Czibor, Hungarian footballer (b. 1929)
• September 2 – Viktor Frankl, Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist (b. 1905)
• September 4
  • Hans Eysenck, German-born British psychologist (b. 1916)
  • Aldo Rossi, Italian architect and designer (b. 1931)
• September 5
  • Sir Georg Solti, Hungarian-born British conductor (b. 1912)
  • Mother Teresa, Albanian-born Indian nun, missionary and saint (b. 1910)
• September 7 – Mobutu Sese Seko, 2nd President of Zaire (b. 1930)
• September 9 – Burgess Meredith, American actor (b. 1907)
• September 10 – Fritz Von Erich, American professional wrestler (b. 1929)
• September 12 – Stig Anderson, Swedish talent manager (b. 1931)
• September 17
  • Red Skelton, American actor and comedian (b. 1913)
  • Jan P. Syse, Norwegian politician, Prime Minister of Norway (b. 1930)
• September 18 – Jimmy Witherspoon, American blues singer (b. 1920)
• September 19 – Rich Mullins, American Christian musician (b. 1955)
• September 23 – Shirley Clarke, American filmmaker (b. 1919)
• September 25 – Jean Françaix, French composer (b. 1912)
• September 28 – Ho Feng-Shan, Chinese diplomat (b. 1901)
• September 29 – Roy Lichtenstein, American artist (b. 1923)

October

• October 1 – Francisco Aramburu, Brazilian footballer (b. 1922)
• October 4
  • Otto Ernst Remer, German Wehrmacht officer (b. 1912)
  • Gunpei Yokoi, Japanese video game franchise creator (b. 1941)
• October 5 – Brian Pillman, American professional wrestler (b. 1962)
• October 7 − Orlando Ramón Agosti, Argentine general (b. 1924)
• October 11 – Ivan Yarygin, Soviet and Russian heavyweight wrestler (b. 1948)
• October 12 – John Denver, American musician (b. 1943)
• October 13 – Adil Çarçani, Albanian politician (b. 1922)
• October 14 – Harold Robbins, American writer (b. 1916)
• October 16
  • Princess Olga of Greece and Denmark (b. 1903)
  • Audra Lindley, American actress (b. 1918)
  • James A. Michener, American writer (b. 1907)
• October 19
  • Glen Buxton, American guitarist (b. 1947)
  • Pilar Miró, Spanish screenwriter and film director (b. 1940)
• October 23
  • Bert Haanstra, Dutch filmmaker (b. 1916)
  • Luther Simjian, Armenian-American inventor (b. 1905)
• October 29 – Anton LaVey, American author, musician, and occultist (b. 1930)
• October 30 – Samuel Fuller, American screenwriter and director (b. 1912)

November

• November 2 – Shōshin Nagamine, Japanese author and soldier, police officer, and karate master (b. 1907)
• November 5 – Isaiah Berlin, Russian-British social and political theorist (b. 1909)
• November 8 – Mohammad-Ali Jamalzadeh, Iranian author (b. 1892)
• November 9 - Carl Gustav Hempel, German philosopher from the Vienna and the Berlin Circle (b. 1905)
• November 11 – Rod Milburn, American athlete (b. 1950)
• November 16 - George O. Petrie, American actor and director (b. 1912)
• November 21 – Robert Simpson, English composer (b. 1921)
• November 22
  • Joanna Moore, American actress (b. 1934)
  • Michael Hutchence, Australian singer-songwriter (b. 1960)
• November 24 – Barbara, French singer (b. 1930)
• November 25 – Hastings Banda, 1st President of Malawi (b. 1898)
• November 30 – Kathy Acker, American author (b. 1947)

December

• December 1 – Stéphane Grappelli, French violinist (b. 1908)
• December 2 – Michael Hedges, American composer and guitarist (b. 1953)
• December 7 – Billy Bremner, British footballer (b. 1942)
• December 14
  • Stubby Kaye, American actor (b. 1918)
  • Owen Barfield, British philosopher, poet, and critic (b. 1898)
• December 16
  • Lillian Disney, American artist (b. 1899)
  • Nicolette Larson, American pop singer (b. 1952)
• December 18 – Chris Farley, American actor and comedian (b. 1964)
• December 19
  • Masaru Ibuka, Japanese electronics industrialist (b. 1908)
  • Jimmy Rogers, American musician (b. 1924)
• December 20
  • Juzo Itami, Japanese film director (b. 1933)
  • Denise Levertov, English-born American poet (b. 1923)
• December 23 – Stanley Cortez, American cinematographer (b. 1908)
• December 24 – Toshiro Mifune, Japanese actor (b. 1920)
• December 25
  • Denver Pyle, American actor (b. 1920)
  • Anita Conti, French explorer and photographer (b. 1899)
  • Anatoli Boukreev, Russian mountain climber (b. 1958)
• December 31 – Billie Dove, American actress (b. 1903)

Nobel Prizes

• Chemistry – Paul D. Boyer, John E. Walker, Jens C. Skou
• Economics – Bank of Sweden – Robert C. Merton, Myron Scholes
• Literature – Dario Fo
• Peace – International Campaign to Ban Landmines and Jody Williams
• Physics – Steven Chu, Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, William D. Phillips
• Medicine – Stanley B. Prusiner

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External links

• 1997 Year in Review – CNN

• 1997