page_title: 1997 in the United Kingdom
section_title: Deaths
hierarchical_section_title: 1997 in the United Kingdom / Deaths
caption_attribution_description: John Cowdery Kendrew (24 March 1917 – 23 August 1997)
context_page_description: Events from the year 1997 in the United Kingdom. This year is noted for a landslide general election victory for the Labour Party under Tony Blair; the transfer of Hong Kong, the largest remaining British colony, to China; and the death of Diana, Princess of Wales.
context_section_description: 1 January – Graham Kersey, cricketer (born 1971); died in a car crash
  10 January – Alexander R. Todd, Baron Todd, biochemist (born 1907)
  13 January – Iain Mills, Member of Parliament (born 1940)
  16 January – Martin Redmond, Member of Parliament (born 1937)
  20 January – Dennis Main Wilson, broadcast producer (born 1924)
  9 February – Barry Evans, actor (born 1943)
  6 March – Ursula Torday, British writer (b. 1912)
  21 March – Rev. W. V. Awdry, children's writer (born 1911)
  1 April – Norman Carr, English environmentalist and author (born 1912)
  22 April
  Reg Gammon, English painter and illustrator (b. 1894)
  Baroness Seear, British politician (b. 1913)
  23 April – Denis Compton, footballer and cricketer (born 1918)
  13 May – Laurie Lee, poet and author (born 1914)
  20 May – Gavin Hills, journalist (born 1966)
  30 June – Dame Sylvia Crowe, landscape architect (born 1901)
  4 July – John Zachary Young, biologist (born 1907)
  7 July – Royston Tickner, English actor (b. 1922)
  10 July – Ivor Allchurch, former footballer (born 1929)
  18 July – Sir James Goldsmith, financier and politician, founder of the Referendum Party (born 1933)
  24 July – Brian Glover, actor (born 1934)
  29 July – Jack Archer, former sprinter (born 1921)
  23 August – John Kendrew, molecular biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (born 1917)
  24 August – Louis Essen, physicist (born 1908)
  31 August
  Dodi Fayed, Egyptian film producer and heir to Harrods department store (born 1955); died in Paris car crash
  Diana, Princess of Wales (born 1961); died in hospital after being seriously injured in the same crash
  6 September – P. H. Newby, novelist (born 1918)
  17 September – Brian Hall, actor (born 1937)
  19 September – Jack May, actor (born 1922)
  3 October – A. L. Rowse, historian (born 1903)
  6 October – Adrienne Hill, actress (born 1937)
  13 October – Richard Mason, British novelist (b. 1919)
  18 November – Joyce Wethered, Lady Heathcoat-Amory, golfer (born 1901)
  2 December – Shirley Crabtree, "Big Daddy", wrestler (born 1930)
  4 December – Richard Vernon, actor (born 1925)
  7 December – Billy Bremner, footballer and football manager (born 1942)
  27 December – Billy Wright, Northern Irish loyalist leader (born 1960); murdered in prison
caption: John Kendrew
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