Remembered
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Daulatunnesa Khatun
1918 – 1997
Politician, Writer
Daulatunnesa Khatun (Bengali: দৌলতুননেসা খাতুন; 1918 - 4 August 1997) was a Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician and member of the Bangladesh Parliament in a…
Jeanne Calment
1875 – 1997
Housewife
Jeanne Louise Calment (French: [ʒan lwiz kalmɑ̃] ; 21 February 1875 – 4 August 1997) was a French supercentenarian who is the oldest person in recorded history…
Fela Kuti
1938 – 1997
Musician, Composer, Political activist
Fela Kuti was a Nigerian musician, bandleader and political activist who created and popularized Afrobeat, blending West African music with jazz and funk. His s…
William S. Burroughs
1914 – 1997
Writer, Poet, Novelist, Essayist, Painter, Screenwriter
William Seward Burroughs II (; February 5, 1914 – August 2, 1997) was an American writer and visual artist. He is widely considered a primary figure of the Beat…
Momtazur Rahman Tarafdar
1928 – 1997
Writer
Momtazur Rahman Tarafdar (Bengali: মমতাজুর রহমান তরফদার; 1928–1997) was a Bangladeshi historian and academic. Awards: Bangla Academy Literary Award Education:…
Abu Sadat Mohammad Sayem
1916 – 1997
Politician, Judge
Mirza Abu Sadat Mohammad Sayem (29 March 1916 – 8 July 1997) was a Bangladeshi jurist and statesman. He was the chief justice of Bangladesh from 1972 to 1975. H…
James Stewart
1908 – 1997
Military officer, Aircraft pilot, Film actor, Television director, Screenwriter, Military personnel
James Maitland Stewart (May 20, 1908 – July 2, 1997) was an American actor and military aviator. Known for his distinctive drawl and everyman screen persona, S…
Robert Mitchum
1917 – 1997
Actor, Singer, Military officer, Film actor, Film director, Television actor
Robert Charles Durman Mitchum (August 6, 1917 – July 1, 1997) was an American actor and singer. He is known for his antihero roles and film noir appearances. He…
Jacques Cousteau
1910 – 1997
Zoologist, Explorer, Filmmaker, Innovator, Photographer, Conservationist
Jacques-Yves Cousteau (, also UK: ; French: [ʒak iv kusto]; 11 June 1910 – 25 June 1997) was a French naval officer, oceanographer, filmmaker and author. He co-…
Biju Patnaik
1916 – 1997
Politician, Aviator
Bijayananda Patnaik, known as Biju Patnaik, was an Indian politician, aviator and freedom activist. He served twice as chief minister of Odisha and founded the…
Allen Ginsberg
1926 – 1997
Playwright, Poet, Writer, Autobiographer, Screenwriter, Musician
Irwin Allen Ginsberg (; June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) was an American poet and writer. As a student at Columbia University in the 1940s, he befriended Lucien Ca…
The Notorious B.I.G.
1972 – 1997
Rapper, Songwriter, Musician
Christopher George Latore Wallace (May 21, 1972 – March 9, 1997), known professionally as the Notorious B.I.G. or Biggie Smalls, was an American rapper and song…
Edward Mills Purcell
1912 – 1997
Physicist, Nuclear physicist, University teacher
Edward Mills Purcell (August 30, 1912 – March 7, 1997) was an American physicist who shared the 1952 Nobel Prize in Physics with Felix Bloch for his independen…
Deng Xiaoping
1904 – 1997
Politician, Journalist, Diplomat, Head of state
Deng Xiaoping (22 August 1904 – 19 February 1997) was a Chinese statesman, revolutionary, and political theorist who served as the paramount leader of the Peopl…
Chien-Shiung Wu
1912 – 1997
Physicist
Chien-Shiung Wu was a Chinese-American experimental physicist whose work in nuclear physics included the experiment that demonstrated parity violation in weak i…
Clyde Tombaugh
1906 – 1997
Astronomer, University teacher
Clyde William Tombaugh (; February 4, 1906 – January 17, 1997) was an American astronomer and telescope maker, best known for discovering Pluto in 1930, marking…
Shamsuddin Abul Kalam
— – 1997
Writer
Shamsuddin Abul Kalam (1926 – 10 January 1997) was an author of Bengali literature from Bangladesh. His most notable work is a novel, Kashboner Konya (1954). He…
Akhteruzzaman Elias
1943 – 1997
Writer
Akhteruzzaman Elias (Bengali: আখতারুজ্জামান ইলিয়াস, pronounced [akʰt̪aɾud͡ʒːaman ili̯as] ; 12 February 1943 – 4 January 1997) was a Bangladeshi novelist and sh…
Abdul Haque
1918 – 1997
Writer, Essayist
Abdul Haque (Bengali: আবদুল হক; 1918–1997) was a Bangladeshi essayist, journalist and writer. He served as a deputy director of the Bangla Academy, a government…
Carl Sagan
1934 – 1996
Cosmologist, Astrophysicist, Novelist, Planetary scientist, Space scientist, Science communicator
Carl Edward Sagan (; SAY-gən; November 9, 1934 – December 20, 1996) was an American astronomer, planetary scientist and science communicator. Initially an assis…