page_title: 1997
section_title: July – September
hierarchical_section_title: 1997 / Deaths / July – September
caption_attribution_description: Screenshot of Robert Mitchum from the trailer for the film The Sundowners
context_page_description: 1997 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar.
context_section_description: July 1 – Robert Mitchum, American actor (b. 1917)
  July 2 – James Stewart, American actor (b. 1908)
  July 15 – Gianni Versace, Italian fashion designer (b. 1946)
  July 18 – Eugene Shoemaker, American astronomer (b. 1928)
  July 24 – Frank Parker, American tennis player (b. 1916)
  August 2 – William S. Burroughs, American writer (b. 1914)
  August 4 – Jeanne Calment, French supercentenarian, longest-lived human ever (b. 1875)
  August 8 – Sviatoslav Richter, Ukrainian pianist (b. 1915)
  August 12 – Luther Allison, American musician (b. 1939)
  August 23 – John Kendrew, British molecular biologist (b. 1917)
  August 30 – Ernst Willimowski, Polish footballer (b. 1931)
  August 31 – Diana, Princess of Wales (b. 1961)
  August 31 – Dodi al-Fayed, Egyptian businessman (b. 1955)
  September 5 – Mother Teresa, Albanian nun and missionary (b. 1910)
  September 7 – Mobutu Sese Seko, President of Zaire (b. 1930)
  September 9 – Burgess Meredith, American actor (b. 1907)
  September 18 – Jimmy Witherspoon, American blues singer (b. 1920)
  September 29 – Roy Lichtenstein, American artist (b. 1923)
caption: Robert Mitchum 1917-1997
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