Death year 1997 celebrities
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Cecil Arthur Lewis MC (29 March 1898 – 27 January 1997) was a British fighter pilot who flew in World War I. He went on to co-found the British Broadcasting Company and enjoy a long career as a writer, notably of the aviation classic Sagittarius Ri
George Bassman (February 7, 1914 – June 26, 1997) was an American composer and arranger.
Gary Lee Davis (August 13, 1944 – October 13, 1997) was a convicted murderer and rapist who was executed by the U.S. state of Colorado in 1997. He is the only person to date to have been subject to the death penalty in Colorado since its reinstatem
Marion Freisler (10 February 1910 in Hamburg – 21 January 1997 in Munich), née Russegger was the wife of Roland Freisler, the infamous judge and chairman of the Nazi Volksgerichtshof (People’s Court), who died in 1945 during an air raid in Berlin.
Paul Guhl (1 June 1916 — 16 April 1997) was a Sturmbannführer (Major), in the Waffen-SS who as awarded the Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross on the 4 June 1944. When he was the commander of the 3rd (Armoured) Battalion, 2nd Panzer Grenadier Regimen
Camilla Spira (1 March 1906 – 25 August 1997) was a German film actress. She appeared in 68 films between 1924 and 1986. She was born in Hamburg, Germany, of Jewish ancestry, and died in Berlin, Germany. Her father was the Austrian actor Fritz Spir
Rodrigue Bourdages (born October 22, 1923 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada-died October 12, 1997) was a Canadian politician and contractor. He was elected to the Canadian House of Commons as a Member of the Progressive Conservative Party in 1958 to re
Roger William Brown (May 22, 1942 – March 4, 1997) was an American professional basketball player. Brown was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame on September 8, 2013.
Michael Ward (9 April 1909 – 8 November 1997) was an English character actor who appeared in nearly eighty films between 1947 and 1978.
Michael “Mike” Royko (September 19, 1932 – April 29, 1997) was a Chicago newspaper columnist, winner of the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for commentary. Over his 30-year career, he wrote over 7,500 daily columns for three newspapers, the Chicago Daily News,