Editing 1997 (section)

==Deaths==
===Villain deaths===
*January 31 - [[Alexander Solonik]]
*February 19 - [[Deng Xiaoping]]
*February 23 - [[Ali Hassan Abu Kamal]]
*March 26 - [[Marshall Applewhite]]
*April 4 - [[Alparslan Türkeş]]
*April 5 - [[Mohammad al-Nazari]]
*April 13 - [[Bryant Bowles]]
*May 4 - [[Varnado Simpson]]
*May 22 - [[Genildo Ferreira de França]]
*June 6 - [[Henry Francis Hayes]]
*June 15 - [[Son Sen]]
*July 4 - [[Amado Carrillo Fuentes]]
*July 24 - [[Andrew Cunanan]]
*July 30 - [[Bảo Đại]]
*August 22 - [[Brendan Smyth]]
*September 7 - [[Mobutu Sese Seko]]
*September 17 - [[Benjamin Atkins]]
*October 4 - [[Otto Ernst Remer]]
*November 25 - [[Hastings Banda]]

===Victim deaths===
*March 9 - The Notorious B.I.G.
*March 27 - [[Shinichiro Azuma|Ayaka Yamashita]]
*April 6 - Vidar, Delfina, and Tabitha Lillelid
*May 4 - Lee Miglin
*May 14 - [[Murder_of_Luk_Chi-wai|Luk Chi-wai]]
*May 25 - Sherrice Iverson 
*March 27 - [[Shinichiro Azuma|Jun Hase]]
*July 10 - Miguel Ángel Blanco
*July 15 - Gianni Versace
*July 16 - Marijoy & Jacqueline Chiong
*July 17 - Eliza Ward
*October 1 - Mary Ann Woodham
*October 26 - Brandon Armstrong, Austin, Brigham, & Matthew Eubanks
*November 5 - Justin Dalton & Shelby Alexis Riggs