* 1920 – Louis Pauwels, French journalist and writer ( d. 1997 )

* 1936 – Marin Sorescu, Romanian writer and novelist ( d. 1997 )

* 1997 – Leo Rosten, American Yiddish writer and humorist ( b. 1908 )

* 1914 – Laurie Lee, English writer ( d. 1997 )

* 1997 – Elspeth Huxley, British journalist and writer ( b. 1907 )

Crime writer Emma Lathen's 1997 novel, " A Shark Out of Water ", revolves around the murder of a Polish official who was championing the improvement of the Kiel Canal.

In his 1997 novel Timequake, Kurt Vonnegut suggested that Andrewes was " the greatest writer in the English language ," citing as proof the first few verses of the 23rd Psalm.

* 1997 – Martin Caidin, American aviation writer ( b. 1927 )

Hip Hop label Big Dada was set up by journalist and writer Will Ashon in 1997.

* Out ( novel ), 1997 novel by Japanese writer Natsuo Kirino

* 1914 – Brendan Gill, American writer ( d. 1997 )

Awdry, English children's writer ( d. 1997 )

** Sheldon Leonard, American actor, writer, director, and producer ( d. 1997 )

** William Alland, American actor, producer, writer and director ( d. 1997 )

The film also features, as " witnesses ," interviews with the 98-year old radical educator and peace activist Scott Nearing ( 1883 – 1983 ), author Dorothy Frooks ( 1896 – 1997 ), reporter and author George Seldes ( 1890 – 1995 ), civil liberties advocate Roger Baldwin ( 1884 – 1981 ), and the American writer Henry Miller ( 1891 – 1980 ), among others.

Bohumil Hrabal () ( 28 March 1914, Brno – 3 February 1997, Prague ) was a Czech writer, regarded as one of the best writers of the 20th century.

* Fernand Dumont ( 1927 – 1997 ), sociologist, poet and writer from Québec, Canada

A more recent example of a spoof, which at the same time shows that the borderline between serious mystery and its parody is necessarily blurred, is U. S. mystery writer Lawrence Block's novel The Burglar in the Library ( 1997 ).

* Paul Smith ( Irish writer ) ( 1920 – 1997 ), writer and playwright

Dench's more recent film career has garnered six Academy Award nominations in nine years for Mrs. Brown in 1997 ; her Oscar-winning turn as Elizabeth I in Shakespeare in Love in 1998 ; for Chocolat in 2000 ; for the lead role of writer Iris Murdoch in Iris in 2001 ( with Kate Winslet playing her as a younger woman ); for Mrs Henderson Presents ( a romanticised history of the Windmill Theatre ) in 2005 ; and for 2006's Notes on a Scandal, a film for which she received critical acclaim, including Golden Globe, Academy Award, BAFTA and Screen Actors Guild nominations.

* Robbie Branscum ( 1937 — 1997 ), writer of children's books and young adult fiction

* Fritz Graßhoff ( 1913 – 1997 ), painter, poet and writer

* Fantomas was the inspiration for the character Mr. Ixnay, who appears in The Chuckling Whatsit, a 1997 graphic novel by writer / artist Richard Sala, creator of Invisible Hands, an animated homage to old-fashioned mystery thrillers which aired on MTV.

In 1991, Mercury died of bronchopneumonia, a complication of AIDS, and Deacon retired in 1997.

In 1996, 1997 and 1998 large and significant marches were organized and produced by Reachout AIDS Foundation, all of which were held in Malate, Manila, Philippines.

In 1997, at the 14th World Council of YMCAs, the World Council in Germany adopted " Challenge 21 ", giving even more focus to the global challenges, like gender equality, sustainable development, war and peace, fair distribution and the challenges of globalisation, racism, and HIV / AIDS:

Chart of AIDS deaths in the United States from 1987 to 1997.

Rather than focus on a single day, UNAIDS created the World AIDS Campaign in 1997 to focus on year-round communications, prevention and education.

He and six other reporters wrote about the new treatments, political and economic issues, and won the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting about AIDS.

His death from AIDS in 1997 sparked a period of national mourning that was unprecedented in documented Nigerian history.

* Bronwen Lichtenstein, Tradition and experiment in New Zealand AIDS policy, AIDS and Public Policy, 12 ( 3 ): 79-88, 1997

In 1997 a number of groups came together to hold a Women's Forum in Wellington, out of which a working group developed to draft a bill, including the NZPC, academics, women's groups ( New Zealand Federation of Business and Professional Women, National Council of Women, YWCA ), and the AIDS Foundation.

* Bronwen Lichtenstein, Tradition and experiment in New Zealand AIDS policy, AIDS and Public Policy, 12 ( 3 ): 79-88, 1997

Several people involved in the show from its beginnings died during this period: Jim Henson in 1990 at the age of 53 " from a runaway strep infection gone stubbornly, foolishly untreated "; songwriter Joe Raposo from non-Hodgkin's lymphoma fifteen months earlier ; long-time cast member Northern Calloway of cardiac arrest in January 1990 ; puppeteer Richard Hunt of AIDS in early 1992 ; CTW founder and producer David Connell of bladder cancer in 1995 ; director Jon Stone of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in 1997 ; and writer Jeff Moss of colon cancer in 1998.

It began as a small order with 13 members in Calcutta ; by 1997 it had grown to more than 4, 000 sisters running orphanages, AIDS hospices and charity centers worldwide, and caring for refugees, the blind, disabled, aged, alcoholics, the poor and homeless, and victims of floods, epidemics, and famine.

By reporting on social issues such as the proliferation of AIDS and SARS in China, the problem of Greenhouse effect, pollution in China and Germany ( which is an episode in 1997 ), via interviewing the people involved, and by questioning everything, the objectives of the program are thus reached.

Since 1989, she has been a member of the National Integration Council headed by the Prime Minister of India ; a member of National AIDS Commission ( of India ); and was nominated ( in 1997 ) as a member of the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian parliament.

David Matas, senior counsel to B ' nai B ' rith Canada, has written that the UN is a forum for anti-Semitism, citing the example of the Palestinian representative to the UN Human Rights Commission who claimed in 1997 that Israeli doctors had injected Palestinian children with the AIDS virus.

* 1997: Staff of The Wall Street Journal, " for its coverage of the struggle against AIDS in all of its aspects, the human, the scientific and the business, in light of promising treatments for the disease.

Cortada has worked with groups internationally to produce art projects and installations, such as environmental works in Holland ( 2009 ), Quebec ( 2009 ) and Latvia ( 2008 ), peace murals in Cyprus ( 2000 ) and Northern Ireland ( 2000 ), child-welfare murals in Bolivia ( 1997 ) and Panama ( 1999 ), and the official International AIDS Conference murals in Geneva ( 1998 ) and South Africa ( 2000 ).

In 1997 Cabrel continued his charity work, performing a tour with a host of French stars including Maurane, Michel Jonasz and Maxime Le Forestier, to raise money for the children's AIDS charity Sol en Si.

In 1997, Dr. Arash Alaei and his brother, Kamiar, were given permission to open up a small office for research on AIDS / HIV among prisoners and with a few years, despite public protests, they helped open the first general AIDS / HIV clinics.

* Based on the Bangui definition the WHO's cumulative number of reported AIDS cases from 1980 through 1997 for all of Africa is 620, 000.

For comparison, the cumulative total of AIDS cases in the USA through 1997 is 641, 087.