page_title: 1997
section_title: April – June
hierarchical_section_title: 1997 / Deaths / April – June
caption_attribution_description: Allen Ginsberg, Frankfurt Airport, 1978.
context_page_description: 1997 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar.
context_section_description: April 5 – Allen Ginsberg, American poet (b. 1926)
  April 7 – Georgi Shonin, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1935)
  April 7 – Witto Aloma, Major League Baseball player (b. 1923)
  April 11 – Wang Xiaobo, Chinese writer
  April 12 – George Wald, American scientist (b. 1903)
  April 17 – Chaim Herzog, President of Israel (b. 1918)
  May 2 – John Eccles, Australian neuropsychologist (b. 1903)
  May 16 – Giuseppe De Santis, Italian movie director (b. 1917)
  May 22 – Alfred Hershey, American biochemist (b. 1908)
  May 29 – Jeff Buckley, American musician (accidental drowning) (b. 1966)
  June 2 – Helen Jacobs, American tennis player (b. 1908)
  June 6 – Magda Gabor, American actress (b. 1914)
  June 14 – Richard Jaeckel, American actor (b. 1926)
  June 23 – Betty Shabazz, American widow of Malcolm X (b. 1936)
  June 25 – Jacques-Yves Cousteau, French underwater explorer and movie maker (b. 1910)
  June 26 – Israel Kamakawiwo'ole, Hawaiian singer (b. 1959)
  June 29 – William Hickey, American actor (b. 1927)
caption: Allen Ginsberg 1926–1997
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