File:1997 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The movie set
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of ''Titanic
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'', the highest-grossing movie in history at the time; '' Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'', is published; Comet Hale-Bopp
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passes by Earth
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and becomes one of the most observed comets of the 20th century
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January 1, 1901 ( MCMI), and ended on December 31, 2000 ( MM). The 20th century was dominated by significant events that defined the modern era: Spanish flu pandemic, World War I and World War II, nuclear ...
; Golden Bauhinia Square
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, where sovereignty
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of Hong Kong
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is handed over from the United Kingdom
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to the People's Republic of China
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; the 1997 Central European flood
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kills 114 people in the Czech Republic
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, Poland
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, and Germany
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; Korean Air Flight 801
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crashes during heavy rain
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on Guam
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, killing 229; Mars Pathfinder
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and Sojourner
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...
land on Mars
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; flower
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s left outside Kensington Palace
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following the death of Diana, Princess of Wales
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, in a car crash in Paris
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rect 0 200 300 400 Death of Diana, Princess of Wales
In the early hours of 31 August 1997, Diana, Princess of Wales died from injuries sustained earlier that day in a car crash in the Pont de l'Alma tunnel in Paris, France. Dodi Fayed, Diana's partner, and Henri Paul, their chauffeur, were found d ...
rect 300 200 600 400 Handover of Hong Kong
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rect 0 400 200 600 Mars Pathfinder
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rect 200 400 400 600 Korean Air Flight 801
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rect 400 400 600 600 1997 Central European flood
The 1997 Central European flood or the 1997 Oder Flood of the Oder and Morava (river), Morava river basins in July 1997 affected Poland, the Czech Republic and Germany, taking the lives of 114 people and causing material damages estimated at $4.5 ...
Events
January
*
January 11
Events Pre-1600
* 532 – Nika riots in Constantinople: A quarrel between supporters of different chariot teams—the Blues and the Greens—in the Hippodrome escalates into violence.
* 630 – Conquest of Mecca: The prophet Muhamma ...
–
Turkey
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threatens
Cyprus
Cyprus ; tr, Kıbrıs (), officially the Republic of Cyprus,, , lit: Republic of Cyprus is an island country located south of the Anatolian Peninsula in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Its continental position is disputed; while it is geo ...
on account of a deal to buy
Russian S-300 missiles, prompting the
Cypriot Missile Crisis.
*
January 17
Events Pre-1600
* 38 BC – Octavian divorces his wife Scribonia and marries Livia Drusilla, ending the fragile peace between the Second Triumvirate and Sextus Pompey.
* 1362 – Saint Marcellus' flood kills at least 25,000 people on ...
– A
Delta II
Delta II was an expendable launch system, originally designed and built by McDonnell Douglas. Delta II was part of the Delta rocket family and entered service in 1989. Delta II vehicles included the Delta 6000, and the two later Delta 7000 va ...
rocket carrying a military
GPS
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payload explodes, shortly after liftoff from
Cape Canaveral
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January 18
Events Pre-1600
* 474 – Seven-year-old Leo II succeeds his maternal grandfather Leo I as Byzantine emperor. He dies ten months later.
* 532 – Nika riots in Constantinople fail.
* 1126 – Emperor Huizong abdicates the Chi ...
– In northwest
Rwanda
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,
Hutu
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militia members kill 6 Spanish aid workers and three soldiers, and seriously wound another.
*
January 19
Events Pre-1600
* 379 – Emperor Gratian elevates Flavius Theodosius at Sirmium to ''Augustus'', and gives him authority over all the eastern provinces of the Roman Empire.
* 649 – Conquest of Kucha: The forces of Kucha surrender ...
–
Yasser Arafat returns to
Hebron
Hebron ( ar, الخليل or ; he, חֶבְרוֹן ) is a Palestinian. city in the southern West Bank, south of Jerusalem. Nestled in the Judaean Mountains, it lies above sea level. The second-largest city in the West Bank (after East J ...
after more than 30 years, and joins celebrations over the handover of the last Israeli-controlled
West Bank
The West Bank ( ar, الضفة الغربية, translit=aḍ-Ḍiffah al-Ġarbiyyah; he, הגדה המערבית, translit=HaGadah HaMaʽaravit, also referred to by some Israelis as ) is a landlocked territory near the coast of the Mediter ...
city.
*
January 20
Events Pre-1600
* 250 – Pope Fabian is martyred during the Decian persecution.
* 649 – King Chindasuinth, at the urging of bishop Braulio of Zaragoza, crowns his son Recceswinth as co-ruler of the Visigothic Kingdom.
* 1156 &ndas ...
–
Bill Clinton
William Jefferson Clinton ( né Blythe III; born August 19, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 42nd president of the United States from 1993 to 2001. He previously served as governor of Arkansas from 1979 to 1981 and agai ...
is
sworn in
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for a second term as President of the United States.
*
January 23
Events Pre-1600
* 393 – Roman emperor Theodosius I proclaims his eight-year-old son Honorius co-emperor.
* 971 – Using crossbows, Song dynasty troops soundly defeat a war elephant corps of the Southern Han at Shao.
*1264 & ...
–
Madeleine Albright
Madeleine Jana Korbel Albright (born Marie Jana Korbelová; May 15, 1937 – March 23, 2022) was an American diplomat and political scientist who served as the 64th United States secretary of state from 1997 to 2001. A member of the Democratic ...
becomes the first female Secretary of State of the United States, after confirmation by the
United States Senate
The United States Senate is the upper chamber of the United States Congress, with the House of Representatives being the lower chamber. Together they compose the national bicameral legislature of the United States.
The composition and pow ...
.
February
*
February 4
Events Pre–1600
* 211 – Following the death of the Roman Emperor Septimius Severus at Eboracum (modern York, England) while preparing to lead a campaign against the Caledonians, the empire is left in the control of his two quarrellin ...
** On their way to
Lebanon
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, two Israeli troop-transport helicopters
collide, killing all 73 on board.
** After at first contesting the results,
Serbia
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n President
Slobodan Milošević
Slobodan Milošević (, ; 20 August 1941 – 11 March 2006) was a Yugoslav and Serbian politician who was the president of Serbia within Yugoslavia from 1989 to 1997 (originally the Socialist Republic of Serbia, a constituent republic of ...
recognizes opposition victories in the November 1996 elections.
** A
magnitude 6.5 earthquake strikes
North Khorasan province, Iran, killing 88 people and injuring 1,948.
[ National Geophysical Data Center / World Data Service (NGDC/WDS): NCEI/WDS Global Significant Earthquake Database. ]NOAA
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National Centers for Environmental Information
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. do
10.7289/V5TD9V7K
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February 10
Events Pre-1600
* 1258 – Mongol invasions: Baghdad falls to the Mongols, bringing the Islamic Golden Age to an end.
* 1306 – In front of the high altar of Greyfriars Church in Dumfries, Robert the Bruce murders John Comyn, sparkin ...
–
Sandline affair
The Sandline affair was a political scandal that became one of the defining moments in the history of Papua New Guinea, and particularly the conflict in Bougainville. It brought down the government of Sir Julius Chan, and took Papua New Guinea to ...
: Australian newspapers publish stories that the government of
Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea (abbreviated PNG; , ; tpi, Papua Niugini; ho, Papua Niu Gini), officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea ( tpi, Independen Stet bilong Papua Niugini; ho, Independen Stet bilong Papua Niu Gini), is a country i ...
has brought mercenaries onto
Bougainville Island
Bougainville Island (Tok Pisin: ''Bogenvil'') is the main island of the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, which is part of Papua New Guinea. It was previously the main landmass in the German Empire-associated North Solomons. Its land area is ...
.
*
February 13
Events Pre-1600
* 962 – Emperor Otto I and Pope John XII co-sign the ''Diploma Ottonianum'', recognizing John as ruler of Rome.
*1322 – The central tower of Ely Cathedral falls on the night of 12th–13th.
*1462 – The ...
– ''
STS-82'': Tune-up and repair work on the
Hubble Space Telescope
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is started by
astronaut
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s from the
Space Shuttle ''Discovery''.
*
February 28
Events Pre-1600
*202 BC – Liu Bang is enthroned as the Emperor of China, beginning four centuries of rule by the Han dynasty.
* 870 – The Fourth Council of Constantinople closes.
*1525 – Aztec king Cuauhtémoc is executed on ...
–
North Hollywood shootout
The North Hollywood shootout was a confrontation between two heavily armed and armored bank robbers, Larry Phillips Jr. and Emil Mătăsăreanu, and members of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) in the North Hollywood district of Los Ang ...
: Two robbers, wearing
kevlar body armor, and armed with
AK-47s containing armor-piercing bullets, injure 17 police officers and civilians in a gun battle. The incident sparks debate on the appropriate firepower for United States patrol officers to have available in similar situations in the future.
March
*
March 4
Events Pre-1600
*AD 51 – Nero, later to become Roman emperor, is given the title '' princeps iuventutis'' (head of the youth).
* 306 – Martyrdom of Saint Adrian of Nicomedia.
* 852 – Croatian Knez Trpimir I issues a st ...
– U.S. President
Bill Clinton
William Jefferson Clinton ( né Blythe III; born August 19, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 42nd president of the United States from 1993 to 2001. He previously served as governor of Arkansas from 1979 to 1981 and agai ...
bans federal funding for any research on
human cloning
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.
*
March 7
Events Pre-1600
* 161 – Marcus Aurelius and L. Commodus (who changes his name to Lucius Verus) become joint emperors of Rome on the death of Antoninus Pius.
* 1138 – Konrad III von Hohenstaufen was elected king of Germany at Cob ...
– In
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...
, the
Tamil Tigers overrun a military base and kill over 100 Sri Lankan troops.
*
March 13
Events Pre-1600
*624 – The Battle of Badr, the first major battle between the Muslims and Quraysh.
*1567 – The Battle of Oosterweel, traditionally regarded as the start of the Eighty Years' War.
*1591 – At the Battle of Tond ...
** India's Missionaries of Charity chooses
Sister Nirmala
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, to succeed
Mother Teresa
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as its leader.
** The
National People's Congress
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With 2, ...
of the People's Republic of China creates a new
Chongqing
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Municipality, out of part of
Sichuan
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.
*
March 14
Events Pre-1600
* 1074 – Battle of Mogyoród: Dukes Géza and Ladislaus defeat their cousin Solomon, King of Hungary, forcing him to flee to Hungary's western borderland.
* 1590 – Battle of Ivry: Henry of Navarre and the Huguen ...
– A study of gender reassignment of a boy who lost his penis to a botched circumcision is refuted by a follow-up study. The supposedly successful outcome had been widely cited as proof that gender was determined by nurture, yet the patient,
David Reimer, was deeply unhappy and had returned to his original gender by the age of 15, thus indicating the opposite thesis.
*
March 16 –
Sandline affair
The Sandline affair was a political scandal that became one of the defining moments in the history of Papua New Guinea, and particularly the conflict in Bougainville. It brought down the government of Sir Julius Chan, and took Papua New Guinea to ...
: On Bougainville Island, soldiers of commander
Jerry Singirok
Jerry Singirok (born 5 May 1956) was the commander of the Papua New Guinea Defence Force throughout the Sandline affair of 1997.
Military career
Jerry Singirok was a career soldier who had risen through the ranks of the Papua New guinea Defense ...
arrest
Tim Spicer
Timothy Simon Spicer, (born 1952) is a former British Army officer, and former chief executive officer of the private security company Aegis Defence Services. He is a veteran of the Falklands War and also served with the British Army in Norther ...
and his
mercenaries
A mercenary, sometimes also known as a soldier of fortune or hired gun, is a private individual, particularly a soldier, that joins a military conflict for personal profit, is otherwise an outsider to the conflict, and is not a member of any o ...
of the
Sandline International.
*
March 18 – The tail of a Russian
An-24 charter plane
breaks off while en route to Turkey, causing the plane to crash, killing all 50 on board, and resulting in the grounding of all An-24s.
*
March 21
Events Pre-1600
* 537 – Siege of Rome: King Vitiges attempts to assault the northern and eastern city walls, but is repulsed at the Praenestine Gate, known as the ''Vivarium'', by the defenders under the Byzantine generals Bessas an ...
– In
Zaire
Zaire (, ), officially the Republic of Zaire (french: République du Zaïre, link=no, ), was a Congolese state from 1971 to 1997 in Central Africa that was previously and is now again known as the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Zaire was, ...
,
Étienne Tshisekedi is appointed prime minister; he ejects supporters of
Mobutu Sese Seko
Mobutu Sese Seko Kuku Ngbendu Wa Za Banga (; born Joseph-Désiré Mobutu; 14 October 1930 – 7 September 1997) was a Congolese politician and military officer who was the president of Zaire from 1965 to 1997 (known as the Democratic Republic o ...
from his cabinet.
*
March 22
Events Pre-1600
* 106 – Start of the Bostran era, the calendar of the province of Arabia Petraea.
* 235 – Roman emperor Severus Alexander is murdered, marking the start of the Crisis of the Third Century.
* 871 – Æthelr ...
– The
Comet Hale–Bopp
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Alan Hale and Thomas Bopp discovered Comet Hale–Bopp separately ...
makes its closest approach to Earth.
*
March 24 – The
69th Academy Awards, hosted by
Billy Crystal, are held at the
Shrine Auditorium in
Los Angeles
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, with ''
The English Patient'' winning
Best Picture. During the event, the
DVD
The DVD (common abbreviation for Digital Video Disc or Digital Versatile Disc) is a digital optical disc data storage format. It was invented and developed in 1995 and first released on November 1, 1996, in Japan. The medium can store any kin ...
format is launched in the United States.
*
March 24 –
26 – In
San Diego
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, 39
Heaven's Gate cultists commit
mass suicide at their compound.
*
March 26 –
Julius Chan
Sir Julius Chan (born 29 August 1939) served as Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea from 1980 to 1982 and from 1994 to 1997. He is Member of Parliament for New Ireland Province, having won the seat in the 2007 national election. He is also the c ...
resigns as prime minister of Papua New Guinea, effectively ending the
Sandline affair
The Sandline affair was a political scandal that became one of the defining moments in the history of Papua New Guinea, and particularly the conflict in Bougainville. It brought down the government of Sir Julius Chan, and took Papua New Guinea to ...
.
April
*
April 3 – The
Thalit massacre
The Thalit massacre took place in Thalit village (Médéa, near Ksar el Boukhari), some 70 km from Algiers, on April 3–4, 1997. Fifty-two out of the 53 inhabitants were killed by having their throats cut. The homes of the villagers were ...
in
Algeria
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: all but 1 of the 53 inhabitants of Thalit are killed by guerrillas.
*
April 14
Events Pre-1600
* 43 BC – Legions loyal to the Roman Senate, commanded by Gaius Pansa, defeat the forces of Mark Antony in the Battle of Forum Gallorum.
* 69 – Vitellius, commanding Rhine-based armies, defeats Roman emperor Otho ...
** Fire breaks out in a pilgrim camp on the Plain of Mena, from
Mecca
Mecca (; officially Makkah al-Mukarramah, commonly shortened to Makkah ()) is a city and administrative center of the Mecca Province of Saudi Arabia, and the Holiest sites in Islam, holiest city in Islam. It is inland from Jeddah on the Red ...
; 343 die.
** Former S.S. Captain
Erich Priebke is retried; on
July 22
Events Pre-1600
* 838 – Battle of Anzen: The Byzantine emperor Theophilos suffers a heavy defeat by the Abbasids.
*1099 – First Crusade: Godfrey of Bouillon is elected the first Defender of the Holy Sepulchre of The Kingdom of J ...
he is sentenced to fifteen years in prison.
*
April 18
Events Pre-1600
* 796 – King Æthelred I of Northumbria is murdered in Corbridge by a group led by his ealdormen, Ealdred and Wada. The ''patrician'' Osbald is crowned, but abdicates within 27 days.
* 1428 – Peace of Ferrara betw ...
– The
Red River of the North breaks through dikes and
floods
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Grand Forks, North Dakota
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, and
East Grand Forks, Minnesota, causing US$2 billion in damage.
*
April 21
Events Pre-1600
*753 BC – Romulus founds Rome ( traditional date).
* 43 BC – Battle of Mutina: Mark Antony is again defeated in battle by Aulus Hirtius, who is killed. Antony fails to capture Mutina and Decimus Brutus is murdered ...
– A Pegasus rocket carries the remains of 24 people into earth orbit, in the first
space burial.
*
April 22
Events Pre-1600
* 1500 – Portuguese navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral lands in Brazil.
* 1519 – Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés establishes a settlement at Veracruz, Mexico.
* 1529 – Treaty of Zaragoza divides the eastern ...
**
Haouch Khemisti massacre
The Haouch Khemisti massacre took place before dawn on April 22, 1997 in the Algerian village of Haouch Mokhfi Khemisti (also spelled Boughelef Khemisti, Haouch Boughlef-Khemisti, Haouch Boukhelef-Khemisti, Haouch Boughfi el-Khemisti, Haouch Bough ...
: 93 villagers are killed in
Algeria
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** A
126-day hostage crisis at the residence of the Japanese ambassador in
Lima
Lima ( ; ), originally founded as Ciudad de Los Reyes (City of The Kings) is the capital and the largest city of Peru. It is located in the valleys of the Chillón River, Chillón, Rímac River, Rímac and Lurín Rivers, in the desert zone of t ...
,
Peru
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, image_coat = Escudo nacional del Perú.svg
, other_symbol = Great Seal of the State
, other_symbol_type = Seal (emblem), National seal
, national_motto = "Fi ...
.
*
April 23
Events Pre-1600
* 215 BC – A temple is built on the Capitoline Hill dedicated to Venus Erycina to commemorate the Roman defeat at Lake Trasimene.
* 599 – Maya king Uneh Chan of Calakmul attacks rival city-state Palenque in southe ...
– 42 villagers are killed in the
Omaria massacre
The largest Omaria massacre took place on 23 April 1997 in the Algerian village of El Omaria near Médéa, south of Algiers. Attackers armed with knives, sabers, and guns killed 42 people - including 17 women and 3 babies - in 3 hours, mutilating ...
in Algeria.
*
April 29
** The
Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons
The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) is an intergovernmental organisation and the implementing body for the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), which entered into force on 29 April 1997. The OPCW, with its 193 member ...
(OPCW),
CWC treaty enters into force.
** Two trains crash at
Hunan
Hunan (, ; ) is a landlocked province of the People's Republic of China, part of the South Central China region. Located in the middle reaches of the Yangtze watershed, it borders the province-level divisions of Hubei to the north, Jiangxi to ...
, China; 126 are killed.
May
*
May 1 -
Tony Blair
Sir Anthony Charles Lynton Blair (born 6 May 1953) is a British former politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007. He previously served as Leader of th ...
becomes
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
The prime minister of the United Kingdom is the head of government of the United Kingdom. The prime minister advises the sovereign on the exercise of much of the royal prerogative, chairs the Cabinet and selects its ministers. As modern pr ...
, as the
Labour Party wins the
1997 United Kingdom general election
The 1997 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 1 May 1997. The governing Conservative Party led by Prime Minister John Major was defeated in a landslide by the Labour Party led by Tony Blair, achieving a 179 seat majority.
Th ...
and returns to government for the first time in 18 years.
*
May 3 –
Katrina and the Waves
Katrina and the Waves were a British rock band widely known for the 1985 hit " Walking on Sunshine". They also won the 1997 Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Love Shine a Light".
History Pre-history (1975–1980)
The band's earliest inc ...
win the
Eurovision Song Contest 1997
The Eurovision Song Contest 1997 was the 42nd edition of the annual Eurovision Song Contest, held on 3 May 1997 at the Point Theatre in Dublin, Ireland. Organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and host broadcaster (RTÉ) and prese ...
for the United Kingdom with "
Love Shine a Light".
*
May 9
Events Pre-1600
* 328 – Athanasius is elected Patriarch of Alexandria.
*1009 – Lombard Revolt: Lombard forces led by Melus revolt in Bari against the Byzantine Catepanate of Italy.
*1386 – England and Portugal formally rati ...
– The first genetically modified three-parent baby is born.
*
May 10
Events Pre-1600
* 28 BC – A sunspot is observed by Han dynasty astronomers during the reign of Emperor Cheng of Han, one of the earliest dated sunspot observations in China.
*1291 – Scottish nobles recognize the authority of Edw ...
– The 7.3
Qayen earthquake strikes eastern
Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...
with a maximum
Mercalli intensity of X (''Extreme''). At least 1,567 were killed and 2,300 were injured.
*
May 11
Events 1601–1900
*1812 – Prime Minister Spencer Perceval is Assassination of Spencer Perceval, assassinated by John Bellingham in the lobby of the British House of Commons.
*1813 – William Lawson (explorer), William Lawson, Grego ...
–
IBM's
Deep Blue
Deep Blue may refer to:
Film
* ''Deep Blues: A Musical Pilgrimage to the Crossroads'', a 1992 documentary film about Mississippi Delta blues music
* Deep Blue (2001 film), ''Deep Blue'' (2001 film), a film by Dwight H. Little
* Deep Blue (2003 ...
defeats
Garry Kasparov in the
last game
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by . It was serialized in Hakusensha's ''shōjo'' manga magazine ''LaLa'' from July 2011 to June 2016. The series follows Naoto Yanagi and Mikoto Kujō from the time they meet in elementary ...
of the rematch, the first time a computer beats a
chess
Chess is a board game for two players, called White and Black, each controlling an army of chess pieces in their color, with the objective to checkmate the opponent's king. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to disti ...
World champion in a match.
*
May 12
**The Russian–
Chechen Peace Treaty is signed.
**An
F1-rated tornado strikes downtown
Miami
Miami ( ), officially the City of Miami, known as "the 305", "The Magic City", and "Gateway to the Americas", is a East Coast of the United States, coastal metropolis and the County seat, county seat of Miami-Dade County, Florida, Miami-Dade C ...
, causing $525,000 in damages. Pictures and videos of this tornado made news headlines around the world.
*
May 15
Events Pre-1600
* 221 – Liu Bei, Chinese warlord, proclaims himself emperor of Shu Han, the successor of the Han dynasty.
* 392 – Emperor Valentinian II is assassinated while advancing into Gaul against the Frankish usurper Arbog ...
– The United States government acknowledges existence of the
"Secret War" in Laos (
1953
Events
January
* January 6 – The Asian Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma.
* January 12 – Estonian émigrés found a Estonian government-in-exile, government-in-exile in Oslo.
* January 14
** Marshal Josip Broz Tito i ...
–
1975
It was also declared the ''International Women's Year'' by the United Nations and the European Architectural Heritage Year by the Council of Europe.
Events
January
* January 1 - Watergate scandal (United States): John N. Mitchell, H. R. ...
) during the
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War (also known by #Names, other names) was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. It was the second of the Indochina Wars and was officially fought between North Vie ...
, and dedicates the
Laos Memorial
The Hmong and Lao Memorial, or Lao Veterans of America Monument, is a granite monument, bronze plaque and living memorial (that includes an Atlas Cedar tree) in Arlington National Cemetery in the US. Dedicated in May 1997, it is located in Sectio ...
in honor of
Hmong and other "Secret War" veterans.
*
May 16
Events Pre-1600
* 946 – Emperor Suzaku abdicates the throne in favor of his brother Murakami who becomes the 62nd emperor of Japan.
*1204 – Baldwin IX, Count of Flanders is crowned as the first Emperor of the Latin Empire.
* 1364 ...
** President
Mobutu Sese Seko
Mobutu Sese Seko Kuku Ngbendu Wa Za Banga (; born Joseph-Désiré Mobutu; 14 October 1930 – 7 September 1997) was a Congolese politician and military officer who was the president of Zaire from 1965 to 1997 (known as the Democratic Republic o ...
is exiled from
Zaire
Zaire (, ), officially the Republic of Zaire (french: République du Zaïre, link=no, ), was a Congolese state from 1971 to 1997 in Central Africa that was previously and is now again known as the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Zaire was, ...
.
** U.S. President
Bill Clinton
William Jefferson Clinton ( né Blythe III; born August 19, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 42nd president of the United States from 1993 to 2001. He previously served as governor of Arkansas from 1979 to 1981 and agai ...
issues a formal apology to the surviving victims of the
Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male
The Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male (informally referred to as the Tuskegee Experiment or Tuskegee Syphilis Study) was a study conducted between 1932 and 1972 by the United States Public Health Service (PHS) and the Cente ...
and their families.
*
May 17 – Troops of
Laurent Kabila march into
Kinshasa
Kinshasa (; ; ln, Kinsásá), formerly Léopoldville ( nl, Leopoldstad), is the capital and largest city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Once a site of fishing and trading villages situated along the Congo River, Kinshasa is now one o ...
.
*
May 23 –
Mohammad Khatami
Sayyid Mohammad Khatami ( fa, سید محمد خاتمی, ; born 14 October 1943) is an Iranian politician who served as the fifth president of Iran from 3 August 1997 to 3 August 2005. He also served as Iran's Minister of Culture from 1982 to ...
wins the
1997 Iranian presidential election
Presidential elections were held in Iran on 23 May 1997, which resulted in an unpredicted win for the reformist candidate Mohammad Khatami. The election was notable not only for the lopsided majority of the winner - 70% - but for the high turnou ...
and becomes the first
Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...
ian
Reformist president
President most commonly refers to:
*President (corporate title)
*President (education), a leader of a college or university
*President (government title)
President may also refer to:
Automobiles
* Nissan President, a 1966–2010 Japanese ful ...
.
*
May 25 – A
military coup in
Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone,)]. officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country on the southwest coast of West Africa. It is bordered by Liberia to the southeast and Guinea surrounds the northern half of the nation. Covering a total area of , Sierra ...
replaces President
Ahmad Tejan Kabbah with Major
Johnny Paul Koroma
Major Johnny Paul Koroma (born 9 May 1960; declared dead 1 June 2003) was the head of state of Sierra Leone from May 1997 to February 1998.
Youth and education
Koroma was born to Limba people (Sierra Leone), Limba parents in Tombodu, in the ...
.
*
May 27
Events Pre-1600
* 1096 – Count Emicho enters Mainz, where his followers massacre Jewish citizens. At least 600 Jews are killed.
* 1120 – Richard III of Capua is anointed as Prince two weeks before his untimely death.
* 1153 &ndash ...
– The
second-deadliest tornado of the 1990s hits in
Jarrell, Texas
Jarrell is a city in Williamson County, Texas, United States. It was incorporated as a city in 2001. The total population is 1,753 according to the 2020 census.
History
Founded in 1909 by real estate developer O.D. Jarrell, along with E. C. Ha ...
, killing 27 people.
*
May 31 – The 13-kilometer
Confederation Bridge
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, the world's longest bridge spanning ice-covered waters, opens between
Prince Edward Island
Prince Edward Island (PEI; ) is one of the thirteen Provinces and territories of Canada, provinces and territories of Canada. It is the smallest province in terms of land area and population, but the most densely populated. The island has seve ...
and
New Brunswick
New Brunswick (french: Nouveau-Brunswick, , locally ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is one of the three Maritime provinces and one of the four Atlantic provinces. It is the only province with both English and ...
, Canada.
June
*
June 1
Events Pre-1600
*1215 – Zhongdu (now Beijing), then under the control of the Jurchen people, Jurchen ruler Emperor Xuanzong of Jin, is captured by the Mongols under Genghis Khan, ending the Battle of Zhongdu.
*1252 – Alfonso X is pr ...
**
Socialist Party
Socialist Party is the name of many different political parties around the world. All of these parties claim to uphold some form of socialism, though they may have very different interpretations of what "socialism" means. Statistically, most of th ...
-led Centre-left coalition won the second-round in 1997 French legislative elections, began with the third
Cohabitation (1997–2002).
**
Hugo Banzer wins the
Presidential elections
A presidential election is the election of any head of state whose official title is President.
Elections by country
Albania
The president of Albania is elected by the Assembly of Albania who are elected by the Albanian public.
Chile
The pr ...
in
Bolivia
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, flag_alt = Horizontal tricolor (red, yellow, and green from top to bottom) with the coat of arms of Bolivia in the center
, flag_alt2 = 7 × 7 square p ...
.
*
June 2 – In
Denver
Denver () is a consolidated city and county, the capital, and most populous city of the U.S. state of Colorado. Its population was 715,522 at the 2020 census, a 19.22% increase since 2010. It is the 19th-most populous city in the Unit ...
,
Colorado
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,
Timothy McVeigh is convicted on 15 counts of murder and conspiracy for his role in the 1995
Oklahoma City bombing
The Oklahoma City bombing was a domestic terrorist truck bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States, on April 19, 1995. Perpetrated by two anti-government extremists, Timothy McVeigh and Terry N ...
.
*
June 10 –
Khmer Rouge
The Khmer Rouge (; ; km, ខ្មែរក្រហម, ; ) is the name that was popularly given to members of the Communist Party of Kampuchea (CPK) and by extension to the regime through which the CPK ruled Cambodia between 1975 and 1979. ...
leader
Pol Pot
Pol Pot; (born Saloth Sâr;; 19 May 1925 – 15 April 1998) was a Cambodian revolutionary, dictator, and politician who ruled Cambodia as Prime Minister of Democratic Kampuchea between 1976 and 1979. Ideologically a Marxist–Leninist a ...
orders the killing of his defense chief,
Son Sen, and 11 of Sen's family members, before Pol Pot flees his northern stronghold.
*
June 11 – In the United Kingdom, the
House of Commons votes for a total ban on
handgun
A handgun is a short- barrelled gun, typically a firearm, that is designed to be usable with only one hand. It is distinguished from a long gun (i.e. rifle, shotgun or machine gun, etc.), which needs to be held by both hands and also braced ...
s.
*
June 13 – A jury sentences
Timothy McVeigh to
death
Death is the irreversible cessation of all biological functions that sustain an organism. For organisms with a brain, death can also be defined as the irreversible cessation of functioning of the whole brain, including brainstem, and brain ...
for his part in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.
*
June 16 – About 50 people are killed in the
Daïat Labguer (M'sila) massacre
The Daïat Labguer (M'sila) massacre took place on June 16, 1997, less than two weeks after parliamentary elections, in the hamlet of Daïat Labguer (M'sila) (also spelled Dairat Labguar, Dairat Lebguar, Daïat Labguer, Daïret Lebguer, Dairet L ...
in Algeria.
*
June 21
Events Pre-1600
* 533 – A Byzantine expeditionary fleet under Belisarius sails from Constantinople to attack the Vandals in Africa, via Greece and Sicily (approximate date).
* 1307 – Külüg Khan is enthroned as Khagan of the Mo ...
– The Women's National Basketball Association (
WNBA) plays its first game at
The Great Western Forum in Los Angeles.
*
June 25
** A massive eruption of the
Soufrière Hills volcano on the island of
Montserrat
Montserrat ( ) is a British Overseas Territories, British Overseas Territory in the Caribbean. It is part of the Leeward Islands, the northern portion of the Lesser Antilles chain of the West Indies. Montserrat is about long and wide, with r ...
leads to evacuation and eventual abandonment of the capital,
Plymouth
Plymouth () is a port city and unitary authority in South West England. It is located on the south coast of Devon, approximately south-west of Exeter and south-west of London. It is bordered by Cornwall to the west and south-west.
Plymouth ...
.
** An unmanned
Progress spacecraft collides with the Russian space station Mir.
*
June 26 –
Bertie Ahern
Bartholomew Patrick "Bertie" Ahern (born 12 September 1951) is an Irish former Fianna Fáil politician who served as Taoiseach from 1997 to 2008, Leader of Fianna Fáil from 1994 to 2008, Leader of the Opposition from 1994 to 1997, Tánaiste a ...
is appointed as the 10th
Taoiseach
The Taoiseach is the head of government, or prime minister, of Republic of Ireland, Ireland. The office is appointed by the president of Ireland upon the nomination of Dáil Éireann (the lower house of the Oireachtas, Ireland's national legisl ...
of the
Republic of Ireland
Ireland ( ga, Éire ), also known as the Republic of Ireland (), is a country in north-western Europe consisting of 26 of the 32 counties of the island of Ireland. The capital and largest city is Dublin, on the eastern side of the island. A ...
and
Mary Harney
Mary Harney (born 11 March 1953) is an Irish former politician and the current Chancellor of the University of Limerick.
She was leader of the Progressive Democrats party between 1993 and 2006 and again from 2007 to 2008, resuming the role aft ...
is appointed as the 16th, and first female,
Tánaiste
The Tánaiste ( , ) is the deputy head of the government of Ireland and thus holder of its second-most senior office. The Tánaiste is appointed by the President of Ireland on the advice of the Taoiseach. The current office holder is former Taoi ...
, after their parties,
Fianna Fáil
Fianna Fáil (, ; meaning 'Soldiers of Destiny' or 'Warriors of Fál'), officially Fianna Fáil – The Republican Party ( ga, audio=ga-Fianna Fáil.ogg, Fianna Fáil – An Páirtí Poblachtánach), is a conservative and Christian- ...
and the
Progressive Democrats respectively, win the
1997 General Election.
*
June 26 –
Bloomsbury Publishing
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publishes
J. K. Rowling's ''
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'' in London.
July
*
July
July is the seventh month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars and is the fourth of seven months to have a length of 31 days. It was named by the Roman Senate in honour of Roman general Julius Caesar in 44 B.C., it being the mont ...
– The
1997 Central European flood
The 1997 Central European flood or the 1997 Oder Flood of the Oder and Morava (river), Morava river basins in July 1997 affected Poland, the Czech Republic and Germany, taking the lives of 114 people and causing material damages estimated at $4.5 ...
occurs across Poland, Germany, and the Czech Republic.
*
July 1
Events Pre-1600
* 69 – Tiberius Julius Alexander orders his Roman legions in Alexandria to swear allegiance to Vespasian as Emperor.
* 552 – Battle of Taginae: Byzantine forces under Narses defeat the Ostrogoths in Italy, and the ...
– The United Kingdom
hands sovereignty of Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China.
*
July 2 – The Bank of Thailand floats the
baht
The baht (; th, บาท, ; currency sign, sign: ฿; ISO 4217, code: THB) is the official currency of Thailand. It is divided into 100 ''satang'' (, ). The issuance of currency is the responsibility of the Bank of Thailand. Society for Worldw ...
, triggering the
Asian financial crisis.
*
July 4
Events Pre-1600
* 362 BC – Battle of Mantinea: The Thebans, led by Epaminondas, defeated the Spartans.
* 414 – Emperor Theodosius II, age 13, yields power to his older sister Aelia Pulcheria, who reigned as regent and proclaim ...
–
NASA
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA ) is an independent agency of the US federal government responsible for the civil space program, aeronautics research, and space research.
NASA was established in 1958, succeeding t ...
's
Pathfinder
Pathfinder may refer to:
Businesses
* Pathfinder Energy Services, a division of Smith International
* Pathfinder Press, a publisher of socialist literature
Computing and information science
* Path Finder, a Macintosh file browser
* Pathfinder (w ...
space probe lands on the surface of
Mars
Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun and the second-smallest planet in the Solar System, only being larger than Mercury (planet), Mercury. In the English language, Mars is named for the Mars (mythology), Roman god of war. Mars is a terr ...
.
*
July 5
** In Cambodia,
Hun Sen
Hun Sen (; km, ហ៊ុន សែន, ; born 5 August 1952) is a Cambodian politician and former military commander who has served as the prime minister of Cambodia since 1985. He is the longest-serving head of government of Cambodia, and o ...
of the
Cambodian People's Party overthrows
Norodom Ranariddh in a
coup.
** The Egyptian
Islamic Group announces a
cessation-of-violence initiative.
*
July 8
Events Pre-1600
* 1099 – Some 15,000 starving Christian soldiers begin the siege of Jerusalem by marching in a religious procession around the city as its Muslim defenders watch.
* 1283 – Roger of Lauria, commanding the Aragonese ...
–
NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO, ; french: Organisation du traité de l'Atlantique nord, ), also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance between 30 member states – 28 European and two No ...
invites the
Czech Republic
The Czech Republic, or simply Czechia, is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Historically known as Bohemia, it is bordered by Austria to the south, Germany to the west, Poland to the northeast, and Slovakia to the southeast. The ...
,
Hungary
Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia a ...
, and
Poland
Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populous ...
to join the alliance in
1999
File:1999 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The funeral procession of King Hussein of Jordan in Amman; the 1999 İzmit earthquake kills over 17,000 people in Turkey; the Columbine High School massacre, one of the first major school shootin ...
.
*
July 10
Events Pre-1600
* 138 – Emperor Hadrian of Rome dies of heart failure at his residence on the bay of Naples, Baiae; he is buried at Rome in the Tomb of Hadrian beside his late wife, Vibia Sabina.
* 645 – Isshi Incident: Prin ...
– In London, scientists report their
DNA analysis findings from a
Neanderthal
Neanderthals (, also ''Homo neanderthalensis'' and erroneously ''Homo sapiens neanderthalensis''), also written as Neandertals, are an extinct species or subspecies of archaic humans who lived in Eurasia until about 40,000 years ago. While th ...
skeleton, which support the
out of Africa theory
In paleoanthropology, the recent African origin of modern humans, also called the "Out of Africa" theory (OOA), recent single-origin hypothesis (RSOH), replacement hypothesis, or recent African origin model (RAO), is the dominant model of the ...
of
human evolution
Human evolution is the evolutionary process within the history of primates that led to the emergence of ''Homo sapiens'' as a distinct species of the hominid family, which includes the great apes. This process involved the gradual development of ...
, placing an "African Eve" at 100,000 to 200,000 years ago.
*
July 11
Events Pre-1600
* 472 – After being besieged in Rome by his own generals, Western Roman Emperor Anthemius is captured in St. Peter's Basilica and put to death.
* 813 – Byzantine emperor Michael I, under threat by conspiracies, abd ...
–
Thailand
Thailand ( ), historically known as Siam () and officially the Kingdom of Thailand, is a country in Southeast Asia, located at the centre of the Indochinese Peninsula, spanning , with a population of almost 70 million. The country is bo ...
's worst hotel fire at
Pattaya
Pattaya ( th, พัทยา, , ) is a city in Thailand. It is on the east coast of the Gulf of Thailand, about southeast of Bangkok, within, but not part of, Bang Lamung district in the province of Chonburi province, Chonburi. Pattaya City ( ...
kills 90.
*
July 13 – The remains of
Che Guevara
Ernesto Che Guevara (; 14 June 1928The date of birth recorded on /upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/78/Ernesto_Guevara_Acta_de_Nacimiento.jpg his birth certificatewas 14 June 1928, although one tertiary source, (Julia Constenla, quoted ...
are returned to
Cuba
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for burial, alongside some of his comrades. Guevara and his comrades were executed on October 9
1967
Events
January
* January 1 – Canada begins a year-long celebration of the 100th anniversary of Confederation, featuring the Expo 67 World's Fair.
* January 5
** Spain and Romania sign an agreement in Paris, establishing full consular and ...
in
Bolivia
, image_flag = Bandera de Bolivia (Estado).svg
, flag_alt = Horizontal tricolor (red, yellow, and green from top to bottom) with the coat of arms of Bolivia in the center
, flag_alt2 = 7 × 7 square p ...
.
*
July 15 –
Spree killer
A spree killer is someone who commits a criminal act that involves two or more murders or homicides in a short time, in multiple locations. The U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics defines a spree killing as "killings at two or more locations ...
Andrew Cunanan
Andrew Phillip Cunanan (August 31, 1969 – July 23, 1997) was an American spree killer who murdered five people over three months from April 27 to July 15, 1997. His victims include Italian fashion designer Gianni Versace and Chicago real esta ...
shoots fashion designer
Gianni Versace dead outside Versace's
Miami Beach
Miami Beach is a coastal resort city in Miami-Dade County, Florida. It was incorporated on March 26, 1915. The municipality is located on natural and man-made barrier islands between the Atlantic Ocean and Biscayne Bay, the latter of which sep ...
residence.
*
July 17 – The
F. W. Woolworth Company closes after 117 years in business.
*
July 25
Events Pre-1600
* 306 – Constantine I is proclaimed Roman emperor by his troops.
* 315 – The Arch of Constantine is completed near the Colosseum in Rome to commemorate Constantine I's victory over Maxentius at the Milvian Bridge. ...
–
K. R. Narayanan
Kocheril Raman Narayanan (27 October 1921 – 9 November 2005) was an Indian statesman, diplomat, academic, and politician who served as the 9th vice president of India, Vice President of India from 1992 to 1997 and 10th President of India fr ...
is sworn in as India's 10th president and the first member of the
Dalit
Dalit (from sa, दलित, dalita meaning "broken/scattered"), also previously known as untouchable, is the lowest stratum of the Caste system in India, castes in India. Dalits were excluded from the four-fold Varna (Hinduism), varna syste ...
caste to hold this office.
*
July 27 – About 50 are killed in the
Si Zerrouk massacre
The Si Zerrouk massacre took place in the Si Zerrouk neighborhood in the south of Larbaa, Blida, Larbaa in Algeria on 27 July 1997. About 50 people were killed.
Background
In 1997, Algeria was at the peak of a civil conflict that had begun aft ...
in Algeria.
*
July 30
Events Pre-1600
* 762 – Baghdad is founded.
*1419 – First Defenestration of Prague: A crowd of radical Hussites kill seven members of the Prague city council.
*1502 – Christopher Columbus lands at Guanaja in the Bay Islands ...
– 18 people are killed in the
Thredbo landslide
The Thredbo landslide was a catastrophic landslide that occurred at the village and ski resort of Thredbo, New South Wales, Thredbo, New South Wales, Australia, on 30 July 1997. Two ski lodges were destroyed and 18 people died. Stuart Diver was ...
in the Snowy Mountains resort in Australia.
August
* August 1 – Boeing and McDonnell Douglas complete a merger.
* August 3 – Between 40 and 76 villagers are killed in the Oued El-Had and Mezouara massacre in Algeria.
* August 3 – August 11, 11 – Two of the three islands of the Union of the Comoros – Anjouan and Mohéli – attempt to revert to colonial rule by France. The plan fails when the French government of President Jacques Chirac refuses to recolonize them, resulting in the two islands being reintegrated into the Comoros over the next two years.
* August 6 –
Korean Air Flight 801
Korean Air Flight 801 (KE801, KAL801) was a scheduled international passenger flight operated by Korean Air. The flight crashed on August 6, 1997, on approach to Antonio B. Won Pat International Airport, in the United States territory of Guam, k ...
crash lands west of Guam International Airport, resulting in the deaths of 228 people.
* August 20 – More than 60 are killed, 15 kidnapped in the Souhane massacre in Algeria.
* August 26
** 60–100 are killed in the Beni Ali massacre in Algeria.
** The Independent International Commission on Decommissioning is set up in Northern Ireland, as part of a peace process.
* August 29 – Over 98 (and possibly up to 400) are killed in the Rais massacre in Algeria.
* August 31 –
Death of Diana, Princess of Wales
In the early hours of 31 August 1997, Diana, Princess of Wales died from injuries sustained earlier that day in a car crash in the Pont de l'Alma tunnel in Paris, France. Dodi Fayed, Diana's partner, and Henri Paul, their chauffeur, were found d ...
: Diana, Princess of Wales is taken to a hospital after a car accident shortly after midnight, in the Pont de l'Alma road tunnel in Paris. She is pronounced dead at 4:00 am.
September
![Diana's funeral](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/46/Diana%27s_funeral.jpg)
* September 1
** Dublin Regulation on treatment of applications for right of asylum under European Union law first comes into force.
* September 5
** Over 87 are killed in the Beni Messous massacre in Algeria.
** The International Olympic Committee picks Athens, Greece, to be the host city for the 2004 Summer Olympics.
* September 6 – The funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales, takes place at Westminster Abbey, watched by over two billion people worldwide.
* September 11 – Scotland votes in favour of a devolved Parliament, forming the Scottish Parliament less than two years later
* September 15 – The 1997 Norwegian parliamentary election, Norwegian parliamentary election was held in Norway.
* September 17 – Iraq disarmament crisis: While waiting for access to a site, UNSCOM inspectors witness and videotape Iraqi guards moving files, burning documents, and dumping waste cans into a nearby river.
* September 18
** Wales votes in favour of devolution and the formation of a National Assembly for Wales.
** Al-Qaeda carries out a Mostar car bombing, terrorist attack in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
* September 19 – 53 are killed in the Guelb El-Kebir massacre in Algeria.
* September 21
** The Islamic Salvation Army, the Islamic Salvation Fronts' armed wing, declares a unilateral ceasefire in Algeria.
** St. Olaf's Church, Tyrvää, St. Olaf's Church, a stone church from the 16th century in Tyrvää, Finland, is burnt down.
* September 25 – Iraq disarmament crisis: UNSCOM inspector Dr. Diane Seaman catches several Iraqi men sneaking out the back door of an inspection site, with log books for the creation of prohibited bacteria and chemicals.
* September 26
** Garuda Indonesia Flight 152 crashes while on approach to Medan, North Sumatra, during the 1997 Southeast Asian haze, killing all 234 people on board. This becomes the deadliest aviation accident in Indonesian history.
** An 1997 Umbria and Marche earthquake, earthquake strikes the Italian regions of Umbria and Marche, causing part of the Basilica of San Francesco d'Assisi, Basilica of St. Francis at Assisi to collapse.
October
* October 2 – British scientists Moira Bruce and John Collinge, with their colleagues, independently show that the new variant form of the Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease is the same disease as Bovine spongiform encephalopathy.
* October 3 – The President of Paraguay, Juan Carlos Wasmosy, orders the arrest of political opponent Lino Oviedo.
* October 4 – October 1997 Loomis Fargo robbery, Loomis Fargo Bank Robbery: The second largest cash robbery in U.S. history ($17.3 million, mostly in small bills) occurs at the Charlotte, North Carolina office of Wells Fargo. An FBI investigation eventually results in 24 convictions and the recovery of approximately 95% of the stolen cash.
* October 10 – Uruguay's worst air disaster occurs when Austral Líneas Aéreas Flight 2553 crashes near Nuevo Berlín, killing all 74 on board.
* October 12 – Sidi Daoud massacre: 43 are killed at a false roadblock in Algeria.
* October 15
** Andy Green (RAF officer), Andy Green sets the first supersonic land speed record for the ThrustSSC team, led by Richard Noble of the UK. ThrustSSC goes through the flying mile course at Black Rock Desert, Nevada at an average speed of 1,227.985 km/h (763.035 mph).
**
NASA
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA ) is an independent agency of the US federal government responsible for the civil space program, aeronautics research, and space research.
NASA was established in 1958, succeeding t ...
launches the Cassini–Huygens probe to Saturn.
* October 16 – The first color photograph appears on the front page of ''The New York Times''.
* October 17 – The remains of
Che Guevara
Ernesto Che Guevara (; 14 June 1928The date of birth recorded on /upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/78/Ernesto_Guevara_Acta_de_Nacimiento.jpg his birth certificatewas 14 June 1928, although one tertiary source, (Julia Constenla, quoted ...
are laid to rest with full military honours in a specially built mausoleum in the city of Santa Clara,
Cuba
Cuba ( , ), officially the Republic of Cuba ( es, República de Cuba, links=no ), is an island country comprising the island of Cuba, as well as Isla de la Juventud and several minor archipelagos. Cuba is located where the northern Caribbea ...
, where he had won the Battle of Santa Clara, decisive battle of the Cuban Revolution 1959, 39 years before.
* October 22 – Danish escaped criminal Steen Christensen robs the Hotel Palace in Helsinki, Finland, killing two police officers while evading capture.
* October 29 – Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraq says it will begin shooting down Lockheed U-2 surveillance planes being used by UNSCOM inspectors.
November
![McAleese](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cd/McAleese.jpg)
* November 11 – Telecom companies WorldCom and MCI Communications announce a US$37 billion merger to form MCI WorldCom, the largest merger in U.S. history.
* November 12 – Mary McAleese is elected the eighth President of Ireland in succession to Mary Robinson, the first time in the world that one woman has succeeded another as elected head of state.
* November 13 – Ramzi Yousef is found guilty of masterminding the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
* November 17 – In Luxor, Egypt, 62 people are killed by 6 Islamic militants outside the Temple of Hatshepsut.
* November 19 – In Des Moines, Iowa, Bobbi McCaughey gives birth to McCaughey septuplets, septuplets in the second known case where all seven babies are born alive, and the first in which all survive infancy.
* November 27 –
NASA
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA ) is an independent agency of the US federal government responsible for the civil space program, aeronautics research, and space research.
NASA was established in 1958, succeeding t ...
's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission is launched, the start of the satellite component of the Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System.
December
* December 1 – In the Indian state of Bihar, Ranvir Sena attacks the Central Organising Committee, Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Party Unity, CPI(ML) Party Unity stronghold Lakshmanpur-Bathe, killing 63 lower caste people.
* December 3 – In Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, representatives from 121 countries sign a Ottawa Treaty, treaty prohibiting the manufacture and deployment of anti-personnel land mines. However, the United States, the People's Republic of China, Russia, South Korea and 32 other nations do not sign and/or ratify the treaty.
* December 10 – The capital of Kazakhstan is moved from Almaty to Astana.
* December 11 – The Kyoto Protocol is adopted by a United Nations United Nations Climate Change conference#1997: COP 3, The Kyoto Protocol on Climate Change, committee.
* December 16 – In Japan, over 700 children suffer Epilepsy, epileptic attacks due to Dennō Senshi Porygon, an episode of the anime Pokémon.
* December 18 – In Australia, 20th Century Fox releases a feature-length film about a children's group named The Wiggles called ''The Wiggles Movie''.
* December 19
** Janet Jagan (widow of Cheddi Jagan) takes office in Guyana.
** James Cameron's ''
Titanic
RMS ''Titanic'' was a British passenger liner, operated by the White Star Line, which sank in the North Atlantic Ocean on 15 April 1912 after striking an iceberg during her maiden voyage from Southampton, England, to New York City, United ...
'', the then highest-grossing film of all time, premieres in the U.S.
** SilkAir Flight 185 crashes into the Musi River, near Palembang in Indonesia, killing 104.
* December 21 – Brazil national football team, Brazil beats Australia national soccer team, Australia 6–0 in the 1997 FIFA Confederations Cup, Confederations Cup 1997 FIFA Confederations Cup Final, final.
* December 24 – 50–100 villagers are killed in the Sid El-Antri massacre in Algeria.
* December 27 – Ulster loyalism, Ulster loyalist paramilitary leader Billy Wright (loyalist), Billy Wright is assassinated in Northern Ireland, inside Long Kesh prison.
* December 29 – Hong Kong begins to kill all the chickens within its territory (1.25 million) to stop the spread of a potentially deadly influenza strain.
* December 30 – Wilaya of Relizane massacres of December 30, 1997: In the worst incident in Algeria's insurgency, 400 are killed from four villages in the ''wilaya'' of Relizane.
Births
January
![Jeremy Shada by Gage Skidmore](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fb/Jeremy_Shada_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg)
* January 1
** Chidozie Awaziem, Nigerian footballer
** Chloé Dygert, American professional cyclist
* January 2 – Gabriel Carlsson, Swedish ice hockey player
* January 4 – Pauline Schäfer, German gymnast
* January 5 – Mikhail Vorobyev (ice hockey), Mikhail Vorobyev, Russian ice hockey player
* January 7 – Lamar Jackson, American football player
* January 9 – Elvira Herman, Belarusian athlete
*
January 11
Events Pre-1600
* 532 – Nika riots in Constantinople: A quarrel between supporters of different chariot teams—the Blues and the Greens—in the Hippodrome escalates into violence.
* 630 – Conquest of Mecca: The prophet Muhamma ...
– Cody Simpson, Australian singer-songwriter
* January 12 – Felix Sandström, Swedish ice hockey player
* January 13
** Egan Bernal, Colombian road bicycle racer
** Connor McDavid, Canadian ice hockey player
* January 14 – Francesco Bagnaia, Italian motorcycle racer
* January 15 – Valentina Zenere, Argentine actress, model, and singer
*
January 17
Events Pre-1600
* 38 BC – Octavian divorces his wife Scribonia and marries Livia Drusilla, ending the fragile peace between the Second Triumvirate and Sextus Pompey.
* 1362 – Saint Marcellus' flood kills at least 25,000 people on ...
** Jake Paul, American boxer, actor and social media personality
** Maxwell Frost, American activist and politician
*
January 18
Events Pre-1600
* 474 – Seven-year-old Leo II succeeds his maternal grandfather Leo I as Byzantine emperor. He dies ten months later.
* 532 – Nika riots in Constantinople fail.
* 1126 – Emperor Huizong abdicates the Chi ...
– Denis Malgin, Swiss ice hockey player
*
January 20
Events Pre-1600
* 250 – Pope Fabian is martyred during the Decian persecution.
* 649 – King Chindasuinth, at the urging of bishop Braulio of Zaragoza, crowns his son Recceswinth as co-ruler of the Visigothic Kingdom.
* 1156 &ndas ...
– Blueface, American rapper
* January 21
** Jeremy Shada, American actor, voice actor, singer and musician
**Ilia Topuria, German-Georgian mixed martial artist
** Yang Yang (swimmer), Yang Yang, Chinese paralympic swimmer
* January 22 – Kole Sherwood, American ice hockey player
*
January 23
Events Pre-1600
* 393 – Roman emperor Theodosius I proclaims his eight-year-old son Honorius co-emperor.
* 971 – Using crossbows, Song dynasty troops soundly defeat a war elephant corps of the Southern Han at Shao.
*1264 & ...
** Sophie Hahn, English paralympic sprinter
** Lexie Priessman, American artistic gymnast
** Ramadan Sobhi, Egyptian footballer
** Gudaf Tsegay, Ethiopian middle-distance runner
* January 25 – Noah Hanifin, American ice hockey player
* January 26 – Gedion Zelalem, American soccer player
* January 28 – Jeffrey Viel, Canadian ice hockey player
* January 29
** Joel Eriksson Ek, Swedish ice hockey player
** Jack Roslovic, American ice hockey player
* January 30 – Shim Suk-hee, South Korean speed skater
February
![Isabelle Fuhrman (Headshot)](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bf/Isabelle_Fuhrman_%28Headshot%29.jpg)
* February 2 – Jaheel Hyde, Jamaican sprinter
* February 8 – Kathryn Newton, American actress
*
February 10
Events Pre-1600
* 1258 – Mongol invasions: Baghdad falls to the Mongols, bringing the Islamic Golden Age to an end.
* 1306 – In front of the high altar of Greyfriars Church in Dumfries, Robert the Bruce murders John Comyn, sparkin ...
** Josh Jackson (basketball), Josh Jackson, American basketball player
** Lilly King, American swimmer
** Chloë Grace Moretz, American actress
** Rozaliya Nasretdinova, Russian swimmer
* February 11 – Rosé (singer), Rosé, New Zealand singer
* February 14
** Jaehyun (singer), Jaehyun, South Korean singer and actor
** Breel Embolo, Swiss footballer
* February 22 – Anton Chupkov, Russian swimmer
* February 23
** Érick Aguirre, Mexican footballer
** Jamal Murray, Canadian basketball player
* February 24 – César Montes, Mexican footballer
* February 25
** Isabelle Fuhrman, American actress
** Santiago Ascacíbar, Argentinian footballer
** Katsiaryna Halkina, Belarusian rhythmic gymnast
* February 26 – Zheng Siwei, Chinese badminton player
March
![Camila Cabello Vogue 4](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ac/Camila_Cabello_Vogue_4.jpg)
* March 2 – Becky G, American singer
* March 3
** Camila Cabello, Cuban-American singer
** Jaime Carreño, Chilean footballer
** David Neres, Brazilian footballer
*
March 4
Events Pre-1600
*AD 51 – Nero, later to become Roman emperor, is given the title '' princeps iuventutis'' (head of the youth).
* 306 – Martyrdom of Saint Adrian of Nicomedia.
* 852 – Croatian Knez Trpimir I issues a st ...
– Matisse Thybulle, American basketball player
* March 6 – Alisha Boe, Norwegian actress
* March 8
** Irene Ekelund, Swedish sprinter
** Jurina Matsui, Japanese singer
* March 10 – Belinda Bencic, Swiss tennis player
*
March 13
Events Pre-1600
*624 – The Battle of Badr, the first major battle between the Muslims and Quraysh.
*1567 – The Battle of Oosterweel, traditionally regarded as the start of the Eighty Years' War.
*1591 – At the Battle of Tond ...
– Rúben Neves, Portuguese footballer
*
March 14
Events Pre-1600
* 1074 – Battle of Mogyoród: Dukes Géza and Ladislaus defeat their cousin Solomon, King of Hungary, forcing him to flee to Hungary's western borderland.
* 1590 – Battle of Ivry: Henry of Navarre and the Huguen ...
** Simone Biles, American gymnast
** Dawid Kownacki, Polish footballer
** Harrie Lavreysen, Dutch track cyclist
* March 17
** Konrad Bukowiecki, Polish athlete
** Katie Ledecky, American swimmer
*
March 18
** Ciara Bravo, American actress, voice artist, singer, and comedian
** Mario Burke, Barbadian sprinter
* March 19 – Rūta Meilutytė, Lithuanian swimmer
* March 20 – Bobby Cheng, Australian chess champion
*
March 21
Events Pre-1600
* 537 – Siege of Rome: King Vitiges attempts to assault the northern and eastern city walls, but is repulsed at the Praenestine Gate, known as the ''Vivarium'', by the defenders under the Byzantine generals Bessas an ...
– Martina Stoessel, Argentine actress, singer, dancer, and model
*
March 22
Events Pre-1600
* 106 – Start of the Bostran era, the calendar of the province of Arabia Petraea.
* 235 – Roman emperor Severus Alexander is murdered, marking the start of the Crisis of the Third Century.
* 871 – Æthelr ...
– Harry Wilson (footballer, born 1997), Harry Wilson, Welsh footballer
* March 23 – Thiago Maia, Brazilian footballer
* March 27
** A-Reece, South African hip hop artist
** Lisa (rapper), Lisa, Thai rapper, singer, dancer, and model
* March 30
** Gideon Adlon, American actress
** Cha Eun-woo, South Korean singer
**Shervin Hajipour, Iranian singer
April
![Alexander Zverev (42068440390)](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/38/Alexander_Zverev_%2842068440390%29.jpg)
* April 1 – Asa Butterfield, English actor
*
April 3 – Gabriel Jesus, Brazilian footballer
* April 6 – Pavel Zacha, Czech ice hockey player
* April 8 – Roquan Smith, American football player
* April 9 – Michael Špaček (ice hockey), Michael Špaček, Czech ice hockey player
* April 10 – Alla Sosnitskaya, Russian artistic gymnast
* April 11
** Max Clegg, English speedway racer
** Mélovin, Ukrainian singer-songwriter
* April 12 – Katelyn Ohashi, American artistic gymnast
*
April 14
Events Pre-1600
* 43 BC – Legions loyal to the Roman Senate, commanded by Gaius Pansa, defeat the forces of Mark Antony in the Battle of Forum Gallorum.
* 69 – Vitellius, commanding Rhine-based armies, defeats Roman emperor Otho ...
– D. J. Moore (wide receiver), D. J. Moore, American football player
* April 15
** Jesse Little, American stock car racing driver
** Maisie Williams, English actress
* April 16 – Daniel Rioli, Australian rules footballer
*
April 18
Events Pre-1600
* 796 – King Æthelred I of Northumbria is murdered in Corbridge by a group led by his ealdormen, Ealdred and Wada. The ''patrician'' Osbald is crowned, but abdicates within 27 days.
* 1428 – Peace of Ferrara betw ...
** Donny van de Beek, Dutch footballer
** Matthias Blübaum, German chess grandmaster
* April 19 – Malcolm Perry (American football), Malcolm Perry, American football player
* April 20 – Alexander Zverev, German tennis player
*
April 21
Events Pre-1600
*753 BC – Romulus founds Rome ( traditional date).
* 43 BC – Battle of Mutina: Mark Antony is again defeated in battle by Aulus Hirtius, who is killed. Antony fails to capture Mutina and Decimus Brutus is murdered ...
– Mikel Oyarzabal, Spanish footballer
*
April 23
Events Pre-1600
* 215 BC – A temple is built on the Capitoline Hill dedicated to Venus Erycina to commemorate the Roman defeat at Lake Trasimene.
* 599 – Maya king Uneh Chan of Calakmul attacks rival city-state Palenque in southe ...
** Zach Apple, American swimmer
** Kim Hae-jin, South Korean figure skater
** Peng Cheng, Chinese figure skater
* April 24
** Kirill Aleshin, Russian ice dancer
** Arturo Deliser, Panamanian sprinter
** Lydia Ko, South Korean-born New Zealand golfer
** Veronika Kudermetova, Russian tennis player
* April 26 – Moritz Wagner (basketball), Moritz Wagner, German basketball player
* April 27 – Livio Loi, Belgian motorcycle racer
* April 28 – Denzel Ward, American football player
*
April 29 – Ekaterina Baturina (gymnast), Ekaterina Baturina, Russian artistic gymnast
* April 30 – T. J. Leaf, American basketball player
May
![Jake Short (cropped)](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4d/Jake_Short_%28cropped%29.jpg)
* May 2
** BamBam (singer), BamBam, Thai singer
** Blake Rutherford, American baseball first baseman and outfielder
*
May 3
** Desiigner, American hip hop artist
** Ivana Jorović, Serbian tennis player
* May 4
** Nicolas Prattes, Brazilian actor
** Jon Teske, American basketball player
** Ben Dolic, Slovenian singer
* May 5 – Mitch Marner, Canadian ice hockey player
* May 6 – Duncan Scott (swimmer), Duncan Scott, Scottish swimmer
* May 7
** Daria Kasatkina, Russian tennis player
** Youri Tielemans, Belgian footballer
** Rico Nasty, American rapper and singer
*
May 10
Events Pre-1600
* 28 BC – A sunspot is observed by Han dynasty astronomers during the reign of Emperor Cheng of Han, one of the earliest dated sunspot observations in China.
*1291 – Scottish nobles recognize the authority of Edw ...
** Richarlison, Brazilian footballer
** Enes Ünal, Turkish footballer
*
May 11
Events 1601–1900
*1812 – Prime Minister Spencer Perceval is Assassination of Spencer Perceval, assassinated by John Bellingham in the lobby of the British House of Commons.
*1813 – William Lawson (explorer), William Lawson, Grego ...
– Lana Condor, American actress and dancer
*
May 12
** Frenkie de Jong, Dutch footballer
** Morgan Lake, English athlete
** Odeya Rush, Israeli-born American actress
* May 14 – Manushi Chhillar, Indian model, actress and Miss World 2017
*
May 15
Events Pre-1600
* 221 – Liu Bei, Chinese warlord, proclaims himself emperor of Shu Han, the successor of the Han dynasty.
* 392 – Emperor Valentinian II is assassinated while advancing into Gaul against the Frankish usurper Arbog ...
– Ousmane Dembélé, French footballer
* May 19
** Oliver Kylington, Swedish ice hockey player
** Víctor Robles, Dominican baseball outfielder
* May 21 – Kevin Quinn (actor), Kevin Quinn, American actor
* May 22 – Lauri Markkanen, Finnish basketball player
*
May 23 – Joe Gomez (footballer), Joe Gomez, English footballer
* May 26 – Julian Yee, Malaysian figure skater
*
May 27
Events Pre-1600
* 1096 – Count Emicho enters Mainz, where his followers massacre Jewish citizens. At least 600 Jews are killed.
* 1120 – Richard III of Capua is anointed as Prince two weeks before his untimely death.
* 1153 &ndash ...
– Daron Payne, American football player
* May 30 – Jake Short, American actor
*
May 31
** Cupcakke, American rapper
** Woo Jin-young, South Korean singer and rapper
June
![Shannon Purser by Gage Skidmore](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d2/Shannon_Purser_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg)
*
June 1
Events Pre-1600
*1215 – Zhongdu (now Beijing), then under the control of the Jurchen people, Jurchen ruler Emperor Xuanzong of Jin, is captured by the Mongols under Genghis Khan, ending the Battle of Zhongdu.
*1252 – Alfonso X is pr ...
– Youssef En-Nesyri, Moroccan footballer
* June 5
** Sam Darnold, American football quarterback
** Henry Onyekuru, Nigerian footballer
* June 7 – David Montgomery (American football), David Montgomery, American football player
* June 8 – Jeļena Ostapenko, Latvian tennis player
* June 9 – Shen Duo, Chinese swimmer
*
June 10 – Sviatoslav Mykhailiuk, Ukrainian basketball player
*
June 11
** Kodak Black, American hip-hop artist
** Julia Lavrentieva, Ukrainian pair skater
** John Hunter Nemechek, American stock car racing driver
** Jorja Smith, English singer
*
June 13
** Katie Lou Samuelson, American basketball player
** Yuta Watanabe (badminton), Yuta Watanabe, Japanese badminton player
* June 15 – Madison Kocian, American artistic gymnast
* June 17 – KJ Apa, New Zealand actor
*
June 21
Events Pre-1600
* 533 – A Byzantine expeditionary fleet under Belisarius sails from Constantinople to attack the Vandals in Africa, via Greece and Sicily (approximate date).
* 1307 – Külüg Khan is enthroned as Khagan of the Mo ...
** Rebecca Black, American singer
** Derrius Guice, American football player
* June 22
** Lorenzo Dalla Porta, Italian motorcycle racer
** Dinah Jane, American singer
* June 23
** Chen Qingchen, Chinese badminton player
** Antoine Olivier Pilon, French-Canadian actor
*
June 25
** Rodrigo Bentancur, Uruguayan footballer
** Bassem Srarfi, Tunisian footballer
* June 27
** H.E.R., American singer
** Shannon Purser, American actress
* June 28 – Shakur Stevenson, American boxer
* June 29 – Jia Yifan, Chinese badminton player
* June 30
** Avika Gor, Indian actress
** Iryna Shymanovich, Belarusian tennis player
July
![Finneas O'Connell 2019 by Glenn Francis](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8b/Finneas_O%27Connell_2019_by_Glenn_Francis.jpg)
*
July 1
Events Pre-1600
* 69 – Tiberius Julius Alexander orders his Roman legions in Alexandria to swear allegiance to Vespasian as Emperor.
* 552 – Battle of Taginae: Byzantine forces under Narses defeat the Ostrogoths in Italy, and the ...
– Grigoriy Oparin, Russian chess grandmaster
*
July 2 – Marquese Chriss, American basketball player
* July 3 – Georgios Papagiannis, Greek basketball player
*
July 4
Events Pre-1600
* 362 BC – Battle of Mantinea: The Thebans, led by Epaminondas, defeated the Spartans.
* 414 – Emperor Theodosius II, age 13, yields power to his older sister Aelia Pulcheria, who reigned as regent and proclaim ...
** Daniela Nieves, Venezuelan-American actress
** Jason Spevack, Canadian actor and filmmaker
*
July 8
Events Pre-1600
* 1099 – Some 15,000 starving Christian soldiers begin the siege of Jerusalem by marching in a religious procession around the city as its Muslim defenders watch.
* 1283 – Roger of Lauria, commanding the Aragonese ...
– Bryce Love, American football player and sprinter
*
July 10
Events Pre-1600
* 138 – Emperor Hadrian of Rome dies of heart failure at his residence on the bay of Naples, Baiae; he is buried at Rome in the Tomb of Hadrian beside his late wife, Vibia Sabina.
* 645 – Isshi Incident: Prin ...
** Ebba Andersson (cross-country skier), Ebba Andersson, Swedish cross-country skier
** Marilena Kirchner, German volksmusik and schlager singer
* July 12 – Malala Yousafzai, Pakistani activist and Nobel Prize laureate
*
July 13 – Leo Howard, American actor and martial artist
* July 14 – Cengiz Ünder, Turkish footballer
*
July 17 – Amadou Diawara, Guinese footballer
* July 18
** Bam Adebayo, American basketball player
** Chiara Kreuzer, Austrian ski jumper
** Kwon Jin-ah, South Korean singer
** Noah Lyles, American sprinter
** Fionn Whitehead, English actor
* July 19
** Kang Young-seo, South Korean alpine skier
** Zach Werenski, American ice hockey player
*
July 22
Events Pre-1600
* 838 – Battle of Anzen: The Byzantine emperor Theophilos suffers a heavy defeat by the Abbasids.
*1099 – First Crusade: Godfrey of Bouillon is elected the first Defender of the Holy Sepulchre of The Kingdom of J ...
– Field Cate, American actor
* July 24
** Emre Mor, Turkish footballer
** Andreas Varady, Slovak jazz guitarist
*
July 25
Events Pre-1600
* 306 – Constantine I is proclaimed Roman emperor by his troops.
* 315 – The Arch of Constantine is completed near the Colosseum in Rome to commemorate Constantine I's victory over Maxentius at the Milvian Bridge. ...
– Kayli Barker, American racing driver
* July 26 – Ewa Swoboda, Polish track and field sprinter
*
July 27 – Craig Wighton, Scottish footballer
* July 28 – Bilal Ould-Chikh, Dutch-Moroccan footballer
*
July 30
Events Pre-1600
* 762 – Baghdad is founded.
*1419 – First Defenestration of Prague: A crowd of radical Hussites kill seven members of the Prague city council.
*1502 – Christopher Columbus lands at Guanaja in the Bay Islands ...
** Teófimo López, American boxer
** Finneas O'Connell, American musician and actor
August
![Greyson Chance](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bf/Greyson_Chance.jpg)
* August 1
** Kévin Aymoz, French figure skater
** Yomif Kejelcha, Ethiopian long-distance runner
* August 2
** Ke Jie, Chinese professional go player
** Triston McKenzie, American baseball pitcher
** Christina Robinson (actress), Christina Robinson, American actress
* August 3
** Daniel Crowley (footballer), Daniel Crowley, English footballer
** Ronald Jones II, American football player
* August 4 – Cinzia Zehnder, Swiss footballer
* August 5
** Braxton Garrett, American baseball pitcher
** Olivia Holt, American actress and singer
** Adam Irigoyen, American actor
** Laura Waem, Belgian artistic gymnast
* August 6 – Sander Svendsen, Norwegian footballer
* August 7 – Kyler Murray, American football player
* August 9 – Leon Bailey, Jamaican footballer
* August 10 – Kylie Jenner, American reality television personality
* August 16
** Greyson Chance, American singer, songwriter and pianist
** Piper Curda, American actress
* August 18
** Josephine Langford, Australian actress
** Renato Sanches, Portuguese footballer
* August 19 – Maria Titova, Russian rhythmic gymnast
* August 22 – Lautaro Martínez, Argentine footballer
* August 23 – Lil Yachty, American rapper, singer and songwriter
* August 24 – Alan Walker (music producer), Alan Walker, British-Norwegian music producer
* August 25
** Bryana Salaz, American singer and actress
** Markus Thormeyer, Canadian swimmer
** Mike Weber (American football), Mike Weber, American football player
* August 28
** Bazzi (singer), Bazzi, American singer-songwriter
** Emilia McCarthy, Canadian actress
* August 29 – Ainsley Maitland-Niles, English footballer
* August 30 – Dana Gaier, American actress
September
![Max Verstappen 2017 Malaysia 3](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/75/Max_Verstappen_2017_Malaysia_3.jpg)
* September 1
** Jungkook, South Korean singer, member of BTS
** Maria Stavitskaia, Russian figure skater
* September 2 – Brandon Ingram, American basketball player
* September 3
** Hana Kimura, Japanese professional wrestler (d. 2020)
** Salome Pazhava, Georgian rhythmic gymnast
* September 6
** Mallory Comerford, American swimmer
** Tsukushi Haruka, Tsukushi, Japanese wrestler
* September 7 – Dean-Charles Chapman, English actor
* September 12
** Almida de Val, Swedish curler
** Sydney Sweeney, American actress
* September 13 – Leah Keiser, American figure skater
* September 14 – Benjamin Ingrosso, Swedish singer-songwriter
* September 15
** Jonatan Christie, Indonesian badminton player
** Forrest Whitley, American baseball pitcher
* September 16
** Zsanett Kaján, Hungarian footballer
** Elena Kampouris, American actress
** Jackie Young (basketball), Jackie Young, American basketball player
* September 17
** Luke Greenbank, British swimmer
** Guan Xiaotong, Chinese actress
** Auston Matthews, American ice hockey player
* September 18 – Alisson Perticheto, Filipina figure skater
* September 20 – Aurélie Fanchette, Seychellois swimmer
* September 23 – John Collins (basketball), John Collins, American basketball player
* September 24 – Malaya Watson, American singer and tuba player
* September 30
** Yana Kudryavtseva, Russian rhythmic gymnast
** Max Verstappen, Dutch racing driver
October
![Press Tren CSKA - MU (3)](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5e/Press_Tren_CSKA_-_MU_%283%29.jpg)
* October 1 – Jade Bird, English singer-songwriter
* October 2 – Tammy Abraham, English footballer
* October 3
** Jin Boyang, Chinese figure skater
** Jonathan Isaac, American professional basketball player
** Jo-Ane van Dyk, South African javelin thrower
* October 4 – Seamus O'Connor, Irish snowboarder
* October 6
** Kasper Dolberg, Danish footballer
** Tsao Chih-i, Taiwanese figure skater
* October 7 – Kira Kosarin, American actress and singer
* October 8
** Steven Bergwijn, Dutch footballer
** Bella Thorne, American actress and singer
* October 9 – Angelica Moser, Swiss athlete
* October 10 – Grace Rolek, American actress
* October 16
** Charles Leclerc, Monégasque racing driver
** Naomi Osaka, Japanese tennis player
* October 24
** Claudia Fragapane, British artistic gymnast
** Park So-youn (figure skater), Park So-youn, South Korean figure skater
* October 25 – Federico Chiesa, Italian footballer
* October 27
** Lonzo Ball, American basketball player
** Li Meiyi, Chinese pair skater
* October 28 – Sierra McCormick, American actress
* October 29 – Ale Müller, Mexican actress and singer
* October 31
** Sydney Park (actress), Sydney Park, American actress and comedian
** Marcus Rashford, English footballer
November
![Iordanoglou-2014-ft](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f3/Iordanoglou-2014-ft.jpg)
* November 1
** Max Burkholder, American actor
** Alex Wolff, American singer-songwriter, musician, and actor
* November 3 – Lázaro Martínez (triple jumper), Lázaro Martínez, Cuban triple jumper
* November 4
** Bea Binene, Filipino actress
** Stratos Iordanoglou, Greek basketball player
* November 6 – Hero Fiennes Tiffin, English actor and model
* November 10 – Daniel James (footballer), Daniel James, English-born Welsh footballer
* November 17 – Jacob Eason, American football player
* November 18 - Micheal Ward, Jamaican-born English actor and former model
* November 19 – Rachel Parsons (figure skater), Rachel Parsons, American ice dancer
* November 23 – Akari Takeuchi, Japanese singer
* November 26 – Aubrey Joseph, American actor and rapper
* November 29
** Agata Kryger, Polish figure skater
** Ye Qiuyu, Chinese tennis player
* November 30 – Liu Huixia, Chinese diver
December
![Vachirawit Chivaaree at GMMTV 2021 event](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b0/Vachirawit_Chivaaree_at_GMMTV_2021_event.jpeg)
* December 3 – Rashan Gary, American football linebacker
* December 5
** Khaleel Ahmed, Indian cricketer
** Clara Rugaard, Danish actress and singer
** Sophie Simnett, English actress
* December 8 – Ilaria Käslin, Swiss artistic gymnast
* December 11 – Taylor Hickson, Canadian actress and singer
* December 14 – DK Metcalf, American football wide receiver
* December 15 – Magdalena Fręch, Polish tennis player
* December 16
** Zara Larsson, Swedish singer and songwriter
** Bassam Al-Rawi, Iraqi-born Qatari footballer
* December 17
** Shoma Uno, Japanese figure skater
** Gabrielle Camille Basiano, Filipino model and beauty pageant titleholder
* December 18 – Ronald Acuña Jr., Venezuelan baseball outfielder
* December 20
** De'Aaron Fox, American basketball player
** Suzuka Nakamoto, Japanese singer
* December 21 – Charlie McAvoy, American ice hockey player
* December 22 – Taylor Rapp, American football player
* December 23
** Luka Jović, Serbian footballer
** Park Yoo-na, South Korean actress
* December 24 – Oreoluwa Cherebin, Grenadian swimmer
* December 27
** Ana Konjuh, Croatian tennis player
** Zhao Ziquan, Chinese figure skater
**Vachirawit Chivaaree, Thai actor and singer
* December 30 – Anastasiya Malyavina, Ukrainian swimmer
Deaths
January
![Alexander Todd Nobel](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/59/Alexander_Todd_Nobel.jpg)
* January 1 – Townes Van Zandt, American folk singer (b. 1944)
* January 5
** Prince Bertil, Duke of Halland, Bertil, Swedish prince, Duke of Halland (b. 1912)
** Burton Lane, American composer and lyricist (b. 1912)
* January 6
** Teiichi Matsumaru, Japanese footballer (b. 1909)
** Catherine Scorsese, Italian-American actress (b. 1912)
* January 8 – Melvin Calvin, American chemist (b. 1911)
* January 9
** Edward Osóbka-Morawski, Polish politician (b. 1909)
** Jesse White (actor), Jesse White, American actor (b. 1917)
* January 10
** Sheldon Leonard, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1907)
** Alexander R. Todd, Scottish chemist (b. 1907)
* January 12 – Charles Brenton Huggins, Canadian-born cancer researcher (b. 1901)
* January 14 – King Hu, Chinese film director and actor (b. 1932)
*
January 17
Events Pre-1600
* 38 BC – Octavian divorces his wife Scribonia and marries Livia Drusilla, ending the fragile peace between the Second Triumvirate and Sextus Pompey.
* 1362 – Saint Marcellus' flood kills at least 25,000 people on ...
** Amha Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1916)
** Clyde Tombaugh, American astronomer (b. 1906)
*
January 18
Events Pre-1600
* 474 – Seven-year-old Leo II succeeds his maternal grandfather Leo I as Byzantine emperor. He dies ten months later.
* 532 – Nika riots in Constantinople fail.
* 1126 – Emperor Huizong abdicates the Chi ...
** Adriana Caselotti, American actress, voice actress and singer (b. 1916)
** Paul Tsongas, American politician (b. 1941)
*
January 19
Events Pre-1600
* 379 – Emperor Gratian elevates Flavius Theodosius at Sirmium to ''Augustus'', and gives him authority over all the eastern provinces of the Roman Empire.
* 649 – Conquest of Kucha: The forces of Kucha surrender ...
– James Dickey, American poet and novelist (b. 1923)
* January 21
** Colonel Tom Parker, Dutch-born celebrity manager (b. 1909)
** Polly Ann Young, American actress (b. 1908)
* January 25 – Jeane Dixon, American astrologer (b. 1904)
* January 28 – Mikel Koliqi, Albanian cardinal (b. 1900)
February
![Deng Xiaoping and Jimmy Carter at the arrival ceremony for the Vice Premier of China](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/16/Deng_Xiaoping_and_Jimmy_Carter_at_the_arrival_ceremony_for_the_Vice_Premier_of_China._-_NARA_-_183157-restored%28cropped%29.jpg)
* February 1 – Marjorie Reynolds, American actress (b. 1917)
* February 5 – Pamela Harriman, American diplomat (b. 1920)
* February 9
** Brian Connolly, Scottish musician (b. 1945)
** Barry Evans (actor), Barry Evans, English actor (b. 1943)
*
February 10
Events Pre-1600
* 1258 – Mongol invasions: Baghdad falls to the Mongols, bringing the Islamic Golden Age to an end.
* 1306 – In front of the high altar of Greyfriars Church in Dumfries, Robert the Bruce murders John Comyn, sparkin ...
– Milton Cato, Prime Minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (b. 1915)
* February 19 – Deng Xiaoping, Chinese revolutionary, communist leader, and statesman (b. 1904)
* February 23 – Tony Williams (drummer), Tony Williams, American musician (b. 1945)
* February 26 – David Doyle (actor), David Doyle, American actor (b. 1929)
March
![Fred Zinnemann 1940s](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9f/Fred_Zinnemann_1940s.jpg)
*
March 4
Events Pre-1600
*AD 51 – Nero, later to become Roman emperor, is given the title '' princeps iuventutis'' (head of the youth).
* 306 – Martyrdom of Saint Adrian of Nicomedia.
* 852 – Croatian Knez Trpimir I issues a st ...
– Robert H. Dicke, American experimental physicist (b. 1916)
* March 6
** Cheddi Jagan, President of Guyana (b. 1918)
** Michael Manley, 2-Time Prime Minister of Jamaica (b. 1924)
*
March 7
Events Pre-1600
* 161 – Marcus Aurelius and L. Commodus (who changes his name to Lucius Verus) become joint emperors of Rome on the death of Antoninus Pius.
* 1138 – Konrad III von Hohenstaufen was elected king of Germany at Cob ...
** Edward Mills Purcell, American physicist (b. 1912)
** Martin Kippenberger, German artist (b.
1953
Events
January
* January 6 – The Asian Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma.
* January 12 – Estonian émigrés found a Estonian government-in-exile, government-in-exile in Oslo.
* January 14
** Marshal Josip Broz Tito i ...
)
* March 9
** The Notorious B.I.G., American rapper (b. 1972)
** Terry Nation, Welsh screenwriter (b. 1930)
** Jean-Dominique Bauby, French journalist and author (b. 1952)
* March 10 – LaVern Baker, American singer (b. 1929)
* March 11 – Lars Ahlin, Swedish author and aesthetician (b. 1915)
*
March 14
Events Pre-1600
* 1074 – Battle of Mogyoród: Dukes Géza and Ladislaus defeat their cousin Solomon, King of Hungary, forcing him to flee to Hungary's western borderland.
* 1590 – Battle of Ivry: Henry of Navarre and the Huguen ...
** Jurek Becker, Polish-born German writer (b. 1937)
** Fred Zinnemann, Austrian-born American film director (b. 1907)
* March 15 – Victor Vasarely, Hungarian-French artist (b. 1906)
* March 17 – Jermaine Stewart, American singer (b. 1957)
* March 19 – Willem de Kooning, Dutch artist (b. 1904)
* March 20 – Tony Zale, American boxer (b. 1913)
*
March 21
Events Pre-1600
* 537 – Siege of Rome: King Vitiges attempts to assault the northern and eastern city walls, but is repulsed at the Praenestine Gate, known as the ''Vivarium'', by the defenders under the Byzantine generals Bessas an ...
– Wilbert Awdry, British children's writer (b. 1911)
*
March 26 – Marshall Applewhite, American cult leader (b. 1931)
* March 31
** Friedrich Hund, German physicist (b. 1896)
** Lyman Spitzer, American theoretical physicist and astronomer (b. 1914)
April
![Laura Nyro 1966 (cropped)](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/02/Laura_Nyro_1966_%28cropped%29.jpg)
* April 4 – Alparslan Türkeş, Turkish politician (b. 1917)
* April 5
** Allen Ginsberg, American poet (b. 1926)
** Ignazio Buttitta, Sicilian dialectal poet (b. 1899)
* April 8 – Laura Nyro, American singer and composer (b. 1947)
* April 7 – Georgy Shonin, Russian cosmonaut (b. 1935)
* April 12 – George Wald, American scientist (b. 1906)
* April 13 – Shuhei Nishida, Japanese athlete (b. 1910)
* April 16 – Roland Topor, French illustrator (b. 1938)
* April 17 – Chaim Herzog, Israel politician, 6th President of Israel (b. 1918)
* April 20 – Jean Louis, American costume designer (b. 1907)
*
April 21
Events Pre-1600
*753 BC – Romulus founds Rome ( traditional date).
* 43 BC – Battle of Mutina: Mark Antony is again defeated in battle by Aulus Hirtius, who is killed. Antony fails to capture Mutina and Decimus Brutus is murdered ...
** Andrés Rodríguez (politician), Andrés Rodríguez, 47th President of Paraguay (b. 1923)
** Diosdado Macapagal, 9th President of the Philippines (b. 1910)
*
April 23
Events Pre-1600
* 215 BC – A temple is built on the Capitoline Hill dedicated to Venus Erycina to commemorate the Roman defeat at Lake Trasimene.
* 599 – Maya king Uneh Chan of Calakmul attacks rival city-state Palenque in southe ...
- Denis Compton, English cricketer (b. 1918)
* April 24 – Eugene Stoner, American firearms designer and engineer (b. 1922)
* April 26 – John Beal (actor), John Beal, American actor (b. 1909)
May
![President Virgilio Barco](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d5/President_Virgilio_Barco.png)
*
May 1 – Bo Widerberg, Swedish film director (b. 1930)
* May 2
** John Eccles (neurophysiologist), John Eccles, Australian neurophysiologist (b. 1903)
** Paulo Freire, Brazilian educator and philosopher (b. 1921)
*
May 3, Narciso Yepes, Spanish guitarist (b. 1927)
* May 4 – Wijeyananda Dahanayake, 5th Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (b. 1901)
* May 5 – Walter Gotell, German actor (b. 1924)
* May 13 – Laurie Lee, English author (b. 1914)
*
May 16
Events Pre-1600
* 946 – Emperor Suzaku abdicates the throne in favor of his brother Murakami who becomes the 62nd emperor of Japan.
*1204 – Baldwin IX, Count of Flanders is crowned as the first Emperor of the Latin Empire.
* 1364 ...
– Giuseppe De Santis, Italian film director (b. 1917)
* May 20 – Virgilio Barco Vargas, 27th President of Colombia (b. 1921)
* May 22 – Alfred Hershey, American biochemist (b. 1908)
* May 24 – Edward Mulhare, Irish actor (b. 1923)
* May 26 – Manfred von Ardenne, German physicist and inventor (b. 1907)
* May 29 – Jeff Buckley, American musician (b. 1966)
June
![Jacques-Yves Cousteau](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9e/Jacques-Yves_Cousteau.jpg)
*
June 1
Events Pre-1600
*1215 – Zhongdu (now Beijing), then under the control of the Jurchen people, Jurchen ruler Emperor Xuanzong of Jin, is captured by the Mongols under Genghis Khan, ending the Battle of Zhongdu.
*1252 – Alfonso X is pr ...
** Robert Serber, American physicist (b. 1909)
** Nikolai Tikhonov, Soviet-Russian statesman (b. 1905)
*
June 2 – Helen Jacobs, American tennis champion (b. 1908)
* June 4 – Ronnie Lane, English musician (b. 1946)
* June 6 – Magda Gabor, Hungarian-American actress (b. 1915)
* June 12 – Bulat Okudzhava, Soviet Union, Soviet singer (b. 1924)
* June 14 – Richard Jaeckel, American actor (b. 1926)
* June 15
** Edmond Leburton, 42nd Prime Minister of Belgium (b. 1915)
**
Son Sen, Cambodian politician and criminal (b. 1930)
* June 18
** Lev Kopelev, Soviet writer and dissident (b. 1912)
** Héctor Yazalde, Argentine footballer (b. 1946)
*
June 21
Events Pre-1600
* 533 – A Byzantine expeditionary fleet under Belisarius sails from Constantinople to attack the Vandals in Africa, via Greece and Sicily (approximate date).
* 1307 – Külüg Khan is enthroned as Khagan of the Mo ...
– Shintaro Katsu, Japanese actor, singer, producer, and director (b. 1931)
* June 22 – Ted Gärdestad, Swedish singer, songwriter, and musician (b. 1956)
* June 23 – Betty Shabazz, American educator and activist (b. 1934)
* June 24
** Don Hutson, American football player (b. 1913)
** Brian Keith, American actor (b. 1921)
*
June 25 – Jacques Cousteau, French explorer (b. 1910)
*
June 26 – Israel Kamakawiwoʻole, Hawaiian singer (b. 1959)
* June 29 – William Hickey (actor), William Hickey, American actor (b. 1927)
July
![Annex - Stewart, James (Call Northside 777) 01](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e8/Annex_-_Stewart%2C_James_%28Call_Northside_777%29_01.jpg)
*
July 1
Events Pre-1600
* 69 – Tiberius Julius Alexander orders his Roman legions in Alexandria to swear allegiance to Vespasian as Emperor.
* 552 – Battle of Taginae: Byzantine forces under Narses defeat the Ostrogoths in Italy, and the ...
– Robert Mitchum, American actor (b. 1917)
*
July 2 – James Stewart, American actor and soldier (b. 1908)
*
July 8
Events Pre-1600
* 1099 – Some 15,000 starving Christian soldiers begin the siege of Jerusalem by marching in a religious procession around the city as its Muslim defenders watch.
* 1283 – Roger of Lauria, commanding the Aragonese ...
– Abu Sadat Mohammad Sayem, 6th President of Bangladesh (b. 1916)
* July 9 – Aurelio González (footballer), Aurelio González, Paraguayan footballer (b. 1905)
*
July 13 – Alexandra Danilova, Russian-American ballerina and dance instructor (b. 1903)
*
July 15 –
Gianni Versace, Italian fashion designer (b. 1946)
*
July 17 – Robert C. Weaver, American economist and academic (b. 1907)
* July 18 – Eugene Merle Shoemaker, American astronomer (b. 1928)
* July 20 – John Akii-Bua, Ugandan hurdler (b. 1949)
* July 23
**
Andrew Cunanan
Andrew Phillip Cunanan (August 31, 1969 – July 23, 1997) was an American spree killer who murdered five people over three months from April 27 to July 15, 1997. His victims include Italian fashion designer Gianni Versace and Chicago real esta ...
, American serial killer (b. 1969)
** Chūhei Nambu, Japanese athlete (b. 1904)
* July 24
** William J. Brennan Jr., American Supreme Court Justice (b. 1906)
** Frank Parker (tennis), Frank Parker, American tennis champion (b. 1916)
*
July 25
Events Pre-1600
* 306 – Constantine I is proclaimed Roman emperor by his troops.
* 315 – The Arch of Constantine is completed near the Colosseum in Rome to commemorate Constantine I's victory over Maxentius at the Milvian Bridge. ...
– Ben Hogan, American golf champion (b. 1912)
* July 26 – Jaime Milans del Bosch, Spanish general and insurgent (b. 1915)
* July 28
** Rosalie Crutchley, English actress (b. 1920)
** Seni Pramoj, Thai politician, 6th Prime Minister of Thailand (b. 1905)
*
July 30
Events Pre-1600
* 762 – Baghdad is founded.
*1419 – First Defenestration of Prague: A crowd of radical Hussites kill seven members of the Prague city council.
*1502 – Christopher Columbus lands at Guanaja in the Bay Islands ...
– Bảo Đại, Emperor of Vietnam (b. 1913)
August
![Diana, Princess of Wales 1997 (2)](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5e/Diana%2C_Princess_of_Wales_1997_%282%29.jpg)
* August 1
** Ngiratkel Etpison, 5th President of Palau (b. 1925)
** Sviatoslav Richter, Ukrainian pianist (b. 1915)
* August 2
** William S. Burroughs, American author (b. 1914)
** Fela Kuti, Nigerian musician and political activist (b. 1938)
* August 4 – Jeanne Calment, French supercentenarian, oldest person ever lived (b. 1875)
* August 6 – Jürgen Kuczynski, German economist and communist (b. 1904)
* August 10 – Conlon Nancarrow, American-born composer (b. 1912)
* August 12 – Luther Allison, American musician (b. 1939)
* August 16 – Sultan Ahmad Nanupuri, Bangladeshi Islamic scholar and teacher (b. 1914)
* August 20 – Norris Bradbury, American physicist (b. 1909)
* August 21
** Misael Pastrana Borrero, 23rd President of Colombia (b. 1923)
** Yuri Nikulin, Soviet and Russian actor and clown (b. 1921)
* August 22 – Matti Sippala, Finnish athlete (b. 1908)
* August 23
** Eric Gairy, 1st Prime Minister of Grenada (b. 1922)
** John Kendrew, British molecular biologist (b. 1917)
* August 24 – Louis Essen, English physicist (b. 1908)
* August 27 – Sally Blane, American actress (b. 1910)
* August 30 – Ernst Wilimowski, German–Polish footballer (b. 1916)
* August 31
** Diana, Princess of Wales (b. 1961)
** Dodi Fayed, Egyptian film producer (b. 1955)
September
![Red Skelton 1960 rebalance](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7e/Red_Skelton_1960_rebalance.jpg)
* September 1 – Zoltán Czibor, Hungarian footballer (b. 1929)
* September 2 – Viktor Frankl, Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist (b. 1905)
* September 4
** Hans Eysenck, German-born British psychologist (b. 1916)
** Aldo Rossi, Italian architect and designer (b. 1931)
* September 5
** Sir Georg Solti, Hungarian-born British conductor (b. 1912)
**
Mother Teresa
Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu, MC (; 26 August 1910 – 5 September 1997), better known as Mother Teresa ( sq, Nënë Tereza), was an Indian-Albanian Catholic nun who, in 1950, founded the Missionaries of Charity. Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu () was bo ...
, Indian nun, missionary and saint (b. 1910)
* September 7 –
Mobutu Sese Seko
Mobutu Sese Seko Kuku Ngbendu Wa Za Banga (; born Joseph-Désiré Mobutu; 14 October 1930 – 7 September 1997) was a Congolese politician and military officer who was the president of Zaire from 1965 to 1997 (known as the Democratic Republic o ...
, 2nd President of the Democratic Republic of Congo, President of Zaire (b. 1930)
* September 9 – Burgess Meredith, American actor (b. 1907)
* September 10 – Fritz Von Erich, American professional wrestler (b. 1929)
* September 12 – Stig Anderson, Swedish talent manager (b. 1931)
* September 17
** Red Skelton, American actor and comedian (b. 1913)
** Jan P. Syse, Norwegian politician, Prime Minister of Norway (b. 1930)
* September 18 – Jimmy Witherspoon, American blues singer (b. 1920)
* September 19 – Rich Mullins, American Christian musician (b. 1955)
* September 23 – Shirley Clarke, American filmmaker (b. 1919)
* September 25 – Jean Françaix, French composer (b. 1912)
* September 28 – Ho Feng-Shan, Chinese diplomat (b. 1901)
* September 29 – Roy Lichtenstein, American artist (b. 1923)
October
![Audra Lindley 1975](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/17/Audra_Lindley_1975.JPG)
* October 1 – Francisco Aramburu, Brazilian footballer (b. 1922)
* October 4
** Otto Ernst Remer, German Wehrmacht officer (b. 1912)
** Gunpei Yokoi, Japanese video game franchise creator (b. 1941)
* October 5 – Brian Pillman, American professional wrestler (b. 1962)
* October 7 − Orlando Ramón Agosti, Argentine general (b. 1924)
* October 11 – Ivan Yarygin, Soviet and Russian heavyweight wrestler (b. 1948)
* October 12 – John Denver, American musician (b. 1943)
* October 13 – Adil Çarçani, Albanian politician (b. 1922)
* October 14 – Harold Robbins, American writer (b. 1916)
* October 16
** Princess Olga of Greece and Denmark (b. 1903)
** Audra Lindley, American actress (b. 1918)
** James A. Michener, American writer (b. 1907)
* October 19
** Glen Buxton, American guitarist (b. 1947)
** Pilar Miró, Spanish screenwriter and film director (b. 1940)
* October 23
**Bert Haanstra, Dutch filmmaker (b. 1916)
**Luther Simjian, Armenian-American inventor (b. 1905)
* October 29 – Anton LaVey, American author, musician, and occultist (b. 1930)
* October 30 – Samuel Fuller, American screenwriter and director (b. 1912)
November
![Dr HK Banda, first president of Malawi](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/66/Dr_HK_Banda%2C_first_president_of_Malawi.jpg)
* November 2 – Shōshin Nagamine, Japanese author and soldier, police officer, and karate master (b. 1907)
* November 5 – Isaiah Berlin, Russian-British social and political theorist (b. 1909)
* November 8 – Mohammad-Ali Jamalzadeh, Iranian author (b. 1892)
* November 9 - Carl Gustav Hempel, German philosopher from the Vienna and the Berlin Circle (b. 1905)
* November 11 – Rod Milburn, American athlete (b. 1950)
* November 16 - George O. Petrie, American actor and director (b. 1912)
* November 21 – Robert Simpson (composer), Robert Simpson, English composer (b. 1921)
* November 22
** Joanna Moore, American actress (b. 1934)
** Michael Hutchence, Australian singer-songwriter (b. 1960)
* November 24 – Barbara (singer), Barbara, French singer (b. 1930)
* November 25 – Hastings Banda, 1st President of Malawi (b. 1898)
* November 30 – Kathy Acker, American author (b. 1947)
December
![Toshiro Mifune in Seven Samurai (1954) (cropped)](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5e/Toshiro_Mifune_in_Seven_Samurai_%281954%29_%28cropped%29.jpg)
* December 1 – Stéphane Grappelli, French violinist (b. 1908)
* December 2 – Michael Hedges, American composer and guitarist (b.
1953
Events
January
* January 6 – The Asian Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma.
* January 12 – Estonian émigrés found a Estonian government-in-exile, government-in-exile in Oslo.
* January 14
** Marshal Josip Broz Tito i ...
)
* December 7 – Billy Bremner, British footballer (b. 1942)
* December 14
** Stubby Kaye, American actor (b. 1918)
** Owen Barfield, British philosopher, poet, and critic (b. 1898)
* December 16
** Lillian Disney, American artist (b. 1899)
** Nicolette Larson, American pop singer (b. 1952)
* December 18 – Chris Farley, American actor and comedian (b. 1964)
* December 19
** Masaru Ibuka, Japanese electronics industrialist (b. 1908)
** Jimmy Rogers, American musician (b. 1924)
* December 20
** Juzo Itami, Japanese film director (b. 1933)
** Denise Levertov, English-born American poet (b. 1923)
* December 23 – Stanley Cortez, American cinematographer (b. 1908)
* December 24 – Toshiro Mifune, Japanese actor (b. 1920)
* December 25
** Denver Pyle, American actor (b. 1920)
** Anita Conti, French explorer and photographer (b. 1899)
** Anatoli Boukreev, Russian mountain climber (b. 1958)
* December 31 – Billie Dove, American actress (b. 1903)
Nobel Prizes
* Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Chemistry – Paul D. Boyer, John E. Walker, Jens C. Skou
* Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, Economics – Bank of Sweden – Robert C. Merton, Myron Scholes
* Nobel Prize in Literature, Literature – Dario Fo
* Nobel Peace Prize, Peace – ICBL, International Campaign to Ban Landmines and Jody Williams
* Nobel Prize in Physics, Physics – Steven Chu, Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, William D. Phillips
* Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Medicine – Stanley B. Prusiner
References
External links
1997 Year in Review– CNN
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