| Audrey Gweneth Marendaz | 1920-03-26 | 1997-04-30 | 77 | female | | | |
| Benjamin Farah | 1911-03-31 | 1997-04-30 | 86 | male | | Brazil | Brazil |
| Clement Woodward Meighan | 1925-01-21 | 1997-04-30 | 72 | male | | | United States of America |
| D. Elwyn Davies | 1926-08-20 | 1997-04-30 | 70 | | | | |
| Diana Ramírez de Arellano | 1919-06-03 | 1997-04-30 | 77 | female | | | Puerto Rico |
| Esterel Alice Muriel Pelly | 1906-01-12 | 1997-04-30 | 91 | female | | | |
| Georgios Plytas | 1911-01-01 | 1997-04-30 | 86 | male | | | Greece |
| Georgiy Fjodorovitsj Timoesjev | 1922-09-10 | 1997-04-30 | 74 | male | | Russia | Soviet Union |
| Goldia O'Haver | 1902-12-03 | 1997-04-30 | 94 | female | | | |
| Gregorio Peces-Barba del Brío | 1912-01-01 | 1997-04-30 | 85 | male | | Spain | Spain |
| Günther Johannes Paetsch | 1929-09-24 | 1997-04-30 | 67 | male | | | Germany |
| Hans-Hubert Schönzeler | 1925-06-22 | 1997-04-30 | 71 | male | | | Australia |
| Heinz Bergmann | 1914-06-19 | 1997-04-30 | 82 | male | | Germany | Germany |
| Heinz Janetschek | 1913-08-03 | 1997-04-30 | 83 | male | | | |
| Henry Gilford Picard | 1906-11-28 | 1997-04-30 | 90 | male | | United States of America | United States of America |
| Johanna Wolf | 1905-03-26 | 1997-04-30 | 92 | female | | | Hungary |
| Jonkheer Gerard Beelaerts van Blokland | | 1997-04-30 | | male | | | |
| Jorge Mondragón | 1903-07-30 | 1997-04-30 | 93 | male | | Mexico | Mexico |
| Josef Gruden | 1914-12-10 | 1997-04-30 | 82 | male | | | |
| Josef Mikeš | 1907-06-07 | 1997-04-30 | 89 | male | | Czech Republic | |
| Josef Šobra | 1930-06-16 | 1997-04-30 | 66 | male | | | Czechoslovakia |
| Josiah Lincoln Lowe | 1905-01-01 | 1997-04-30 | 92 | male | | | United States of America |
| Juan Peñafiel Illanes | 1915-09-28 | 1997-04-30 | 81 | male | | Chile | Chile |
| Lev Ovalov | 1905-08-29 | 1997-04-30 | 91 | male | | Russia | Soviet Union |
| Michael Harbottle | 1917-02-07 | 1997-04-30 | 80 | male | | United Kingdom | United Kingdom |
| Miklós Fodor | 1908-09-03 | 1997-04-30 | 88 | male | | | Hungary |
| Niels A. Lassen | 1926-12-07 | 1997-04-30 | 70 | male | | | Denmark |
| Oscar Van Rompay | 1899-08-25 | 1997-04-30 | 97 | male | | | Belgium |
| Paolo Rosi | 1924-04-20 | 1997-04-30 | 73 | male | | Italy | Kingdom of Italy |
| Roger Prat | 1909-06-13 | 1997-04-30 | 87 | male | | France | France |
| Roohangiz Saminejad | 1916-06-24 | 1997-04-30 | 80 | female | | Iran | Iran |
| Vladimir Sukharev | 1924-07-10 | 1997-04-30 | 72 | male | | Russia | Soviet Union |
| Wanderbilt Duarte de Barros | 1916-02-25 | 1997-04-30 | 81 | male | | | Brazil |
| Werner Kock | 1921-10-13 | 1997-04-30 | 75 | male | | Germany | Germany |
| Wolfgang Späte | 1911-09-08 | 1997-04-30 | 85 | male | | Germany | Germany |
| Χρήστος Αποστολάκος | 1913-01-01 | 1997-04-30 | 84 | male | | | Greece |
| Когут Зоя | 1925-05-21 | 1997-04-30 | 71 | female | | Australia | |
| Anatoliy Hnatyshyn | 1917-02-20 | 1997-04-29 | 80 | male | | Ukraine | Second Polish Republic |
| Ann-Kathrine Littke | 1923-11-04 | 1997-04-29 | 73 | female | | | Sweden |
| A.S. van Straten | 1937-10-30 | 1997-04-29 | 59 | male | natural causes | | South Africa |
| Claes Knutson | 1917-08-24 | 1997-04-29 | 79 | male | | | |
| Csillag Vera | 1909-12-05 | 1997-04-29 | 87 | female | | Australia | |
| Dorris Shelton Still | 1904-08-25 | 1997-04-29 | 92 | female | | | |
| Eduardo Mascarenhas | 1942-07-06 | 1997-04-29 | 54 | male | natural causes | Brazil | Brazil |
| Ernst Weiss | 1912-03-05 | 1997-04-29 | 85 | male | | Austria | Austria |
| Esther-Maria von Coelln | 1911-06-24 | 1997-04-29 | 85 | female | | | |
| Frances Alison Pollock | | 1997-04-29 | | female | | | |
| Georgy Klimov | 1928-09-23 | 1997-04-29 | 68 | male | | Russia | Soviet Union |
| Gudvin Låder Ve | 1926-06-29 | 1997-04-29 | 70 | male | | | Norway |
| Günther Laukien | 1924-05-23 | 1997-04-29 | 72 | male | | Germany | Germany |
| Harrison Eiteljorg | 1903-01-01 | 1997-04-29 | 94 | male | | | |
| Holger Iacobæus | 1914-09-21 | 1997-04-29 | 82 | male | | | Sweden |
| Hosannah de Oliveira | 1902-09-22 | 1997-04-29 | 94 | | | | Brazil |
| Juan Jiménez Vargas | 1913-04-24 | 1997-04-29 | 84 | male | | Spain | Spain |
| Jules Faure | 1915-06-12 | 1997-04-29 | 81 | male | | Belgium | Kingdom of the Netherlands |
| Julio Oyhanarte | 1920-07-03 | 1997-04-29 | 76 | male | | Argentina | Argentina |
| Keith Ferguson | 1946-07-23 | 1997-04-29 | 50 | male | | | United States of America |
| Konstantin Iosifovitsj Staroverov | 1924-05-28 | 1997-04-29 | 72 | male | | Russia | Soviet Union |
| Mae Rudolph | 1920-01-01 | 1997-04-29 | 77 | female | | | |
| Marie-Céline de Dorlodot | 1907-07-01 | 1997-04-29 | 89 | female | | Belgium | |
| Michael O'Neil | 1948-01-01 | 1997-04-29 | 49 | male | | | New Zealand |
| Mike Royko | 1932-09-19 | 1997-04-29 | 64 | male | natural causes | United States of America | United States of America |
| Nesta Donne Philipps | 1903-11-20 | 1997-04-29 | 93 | female | | | |
| Otto Ramsbacher | 1926-06-19 | 1997-04-29 | 70 | male | | | Norway |
| Paul Mullins Gervais | 1925-12-08 | 1997-04-29 | 71 | male | | | Canada |
| Q30610322 | 1917-06-23 | 1997-04-29 | 79 | | | | |
| R. N. Malhotra | 1926-01-01 | 1997-04-29 | 71 | male | | | Dominion of India |
| Tibor Mestyán | 1927-03-07 | 1997-04-29 | 70 | male | | Hungary | Hungary |
| Wiktor Steffen | 1903-09-27 | 1997-04-29 | 93 | male | | | Poland |
| Willem Hendrik Zwart | 1925-05-26 | 1997-04-29 | 71 | male | | Netherlands | Kingdom of the Netherlands |
| Will Reuland | 1920-10-03 | 1997-04-29 | 76 | male | | Luxembourg | Luxembourg |
| Бурак, Александр Филиппович | 1921-07-10 | 1997-04-29 | 75 | male | | Russia | |
| דוד צמח (פרופסור) | 1932-09-04 | 1997-04-29 | 64 | male | | Israel | |
| 王运丰 | 1914-01-01 | 1997-04-29 | 83 | | | | People's Republic of China |
| Ain Särg | 1932-02-23 | 1997-04-28 | 65 | male | | | Estonia |
| Aleksandr Nikolaevitsj Koedasjev | 1962-03-10 | 1997-04-28 | 35 | male | unnatural death | Russia | Soviet Union |
| Andrew Sarlos | 1931-11-24 | 1997-04-28 | 65 | male | | Canada | Canada |
| Ann Petry | 1908-10-12 | 1997-04-28 | 88 | female | | United States of America | United States of America |
| Ashley Harvey-Walker | 1944-07-21 | 1997-04-28 | 52 | male | | South Africa | United Kingdom |
| Bob de Wilde | 1913-12-27 | 1997-04-28 | 83 | male | | | Kingdom of the Netherlands |
| Ćamil Silajdžić | 1916-01-01 | 1997-04-28 | 81 | male | | | |
| Doc Urich | 1928-09-20 | 1997-04-28 | 68 | male | | United States of America | United States of America |
| Dorin Speranția | 1920-02-28 | 1997-04-28 | 77 | male | | Romania | Romania |
| Earl Klapstein | 1922-03-08 | 1997-04-28 | 75 | male | | | United States of America |
| Esmé Dodderidge | 1916-01-03 | 1997-04-28 | 81 | female | | | United Kingdom |
| Francisco Zúñiga Díaz | 1931-07-12 | 1997-04-28 | 65 | male | | Costa Rica | Costa Rica |
| Gerhard Tannert | 1914-04-19 | 1997-04-28 | 83 | male | | | |
| Giovanni Astarita | 1933-01-01 | 1997-04-28 | 64 | male | | Italy | Kingdom of Italy |
| Günter Grell | 1926-01-11 | 1997-04-28 | 71 | male | | Germany | German Democratic Republic |
| Ḥayim Orlan | 1911-01-21 | 1997-04-28 | 86 | male | | | Israel |
| Henri Ravisse | 1929-08-01 | 1997-04-28 | 67 | male | | France | France |
| John P. Snyder | 1926-04-12 | 1997-04-28 | 71 | male | | | United States of America |
| Justo Alonso Leguísamo | 1912-01-01 | 1997-04-28 | 85 | male | | | Uruguay |
| Karl-Åke Hultberg | 1915-09-17 | 1997-04-28 | 81 | male | | | |
| Martin Weikert | 1914-07-29 | 1997-04-28 | 82 | male | | Germany | Germany |
| Nikos Pappas | 1906-01-01 | 1997-04-28 | 91 | male | | Greece | Greece |
| Norbert Brinkmann | 1912-04-06 | 1997-04-28 | 85 | male | | Germany | German Empire |
| Peter Rowe | 1922-07-02 | 1997-04-28 | 74 | male | | United Kingdom | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland |
| Peter Tali Coleman | 1919-12-08 | 1997-04-28 | 77 | male | natural causes | United States of America | United States of America |
| Peter Taylor, Baron Taylor of Gosforth | 1930-05-01 | 1997-04-28 | 66 | male | | United Kingdom | United Kingdom |
| Piet Bongaarts | 1916-09-13 | 1997-04-28 | 80 | male | | Netherlands | Kingdom of the Netherlands |
| Roger Jean Gautheret | 1910-03-29 | 1997-04-28 | 87 | male | | France | France |
| Rostislav Holthoer | 1937-07-29 | 1997-04-28 | 59 | male | | | Finland |
| Sheila Garthroyd Drake | 1912-01-15 | 1997-04-28 | 85 | female | | | |
| Simsay Ildikó | 1942-10-19 | 1997-04-28 | 54 | female | | Hungary | |
| Steve Conte | 1920-01-16 | 1997-04-28 | 77 | male | | United States of America | United States of America |
| Susan Seddon Boulet | 1941-06-10 | 1997-04-28 | 55 | female | | | |
| Sveinn Björnsson | 1925-02-19 | 1997-04-28 | 72 | male | | | Iceland |
| Una Johnson | 1905-01-01 | 1997-04-28 | 92 | female | | | United States of America |
| William Percy Rogers | 1914-11-23 | 1997-04-28 | 82 | male | | Australia | Australia |
| Іванченко Петро Михайлович | 1908-10-06 | 1997-04-28 | 88 | male | | Ukraine | |
| 藤井貞夫 | 1920-07-16 | 1997-04-28 | 76 | male | | | |
| A. P. Merenkov | 1936-08-30 | 1997-04-27 | 60 | male | | Russia | |
| Arif Sami Toker | 1926-01-01 | 1997-04-27 | 71 | male | | Turkey | |
| Bunny Roger | 1911-06-09 | 1997-04-27 | 85 | male | | United Kingdom | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland |
| Carl-Axel Trolle | 1934-03-18 | 1997-04-27 | 63 | male | | | |
| Dênio Chagas Nogueira | 1920-11-12 | 1997-04-27 | 76 | male | | Brazil | Brazil |
| Dominick Cataldo | 1923-03-19 | 1997-04-27 | 74 | male | | | |
| Dulce María Loynaz | 1902-12-10 | 1997-04-27 | 94 | female | natural causes | Cuba | Cuba |
| Gabriel Figueroa | 1907-04-24 | 1997-04-27 | 90 | male | | Mexico | Mexico |
| Galina Antonovna Poveda | 1934-06-02 | 1997-04-27 | 62 | female | | | Soviet Union |
| Henryka Cichocka | 1910-10-14 | 1997-04-27 | 86 | female | | | |
| Jarosław Kalinowski | 1969-10-01 | 1997-04-27 | 27 | male | suicide | | Poland |
| Joachim Hahn | 1942-08-12 | 1997-04-27 | 54 | male | | Germany | Germany |
| Lew Dietz | 1907-05-22 | 1997-04-27 | 89 | male | | | United States of America |
| Mascha Oettli | 1908-06-11 | 1997-04-27 | 88 | female | | Switzerland | Switzerland |
| Paul Lambert | 1922-08-01 | 1997-04-27 | 74 | male | | United States of America | United States of America |
| Peter Winch | 1926-01-14 | 1997-04-27 | 71 | male | | United States of America | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland |
| Pier Paolo D'Attorre | 1951-11-28 | 1997-04-27 | 45 | male | | Italy | Italy |
| Piotr Skrzynecki | 1930-09-12 | 1997-04-27 | 66 | male | | Poland | Poland |
| Serge Brindeau | 1925-04-30 | 1997-04-27 | 71 | male | | France | France |
| Stanisław Jędras | 1909-04-23 | 1997-04-27 | 88 | male | | Poland | Poland |
| Víctor Arriazu y Calleja | 1935-01-01 | 1997-04-27 | 62 | male | natural causes | Spain | Spain |
| Viktor Andreevich Golikov | 1914-02-12 | 1997-04-27 | 83 | male | | Russia | |
| Vladimír Procházka | 1919-12-02 | 1997-04-27 | 77 | male | | Czech Republic | |
| Курников, Лев Андреевич | 1907-02-06 | 1997-04-27 | 90 | male | | Russia | |
| Петър Бобев | 1914-08-09 | 1997-04-27 | 82 | male | | Bulgaria | Bulgaria |
| 劉錫五 | | 1997-04-27 | | male | | | |
| Alec Julian Tyndale-Biscoe | 1906-08-10 | 1997-04-26 | 90 | male | | | |
| Buddy Hayes | 1916-08-01 | 1997-04-26 | 80 | male | | | United States of America |
| Carl Forcht | 1907-06-30 | 1997-04-26 | 89 | male | | United States of America | Germany |
| Eigil Helland-Hansen | 1910-11-05 | 1997-04-26 | 86 | male | | | |
| Gabe Meinte Bleeker | 1915-04-14 | 1997-04-26 | 82 | male | | | Kingdom of the Netherlands |
| Gerhard Praschak | 1951-01-01 | 1997-04-26 | 46 | male | | | Austria |
| Hans Sundberg | 1925-01-10 | 1997-04-26 | 72 | male | | | Sweden |
| Hideo Fujimoto | 1918-05-10 | 1997-04-26 | 78 | male | natural causes | Japan | Japan |
| Howard Ensign Simmons, Jr. | 1929-06-17 | 1997-04-26 | 67 | male | | United States of America | United States of America |
| Jakub Bauer | 1894-07-17 | 1997-04-26 | 102 | male | | | |
| James Alexander MacDonald | 1908-06-17 | 1997-04-26 | 88 | male | | | |
| Jarl Gripenberg | 1914-01-01 | 1997-04-26 | 83 | male | | | |
| Jirō Kinbara | 1932-02-02 | 1997-04-26 | 65 | male | | | Japan |
| J. J. Colledge | 1908-01-01 | 1997-04-26 | 89 | male | | | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland |
| Joey Faye | 1909-07-12 | 1997-04-26 | 87 | male | | United States of America | United States of America |
| John Beal | 1909-08-13 | 1997-04-26 | 87 | male | natural causes | United States of America | United States of America |
| Johnny DiCarsano | 1981-05-02 | 1997-04-26 | 15 | male | | | United States of America |
| Maks Baturin | 1965-01-09 | 1997-04-26 | 32 | male | suicide | Russia | Russia |
| Nils Oelrich | 1908-06-30 | 1997-04-26 | 88 | male | | Sweden | Sweden |
| Peng Zhen | 1902-10-12 | 1997-04-26 | 94 | male | | People's Republic of China | Qing dynasty |
| Philip Harkins | 1912-09-29 | 1997-04-26 | 84 | male | | United States of America | United States of America |
| Sergeï Fédorivitch Shishko | 1911-06-25 | 1997-04-26 | 85 | male | | Ukraine | Soviet Union |
| Tom Wright | 1904-10-16 | 1997-04-26 | 92 | male | | | |
| Valery Obodzinsky | 1942-01-24 | 1997-04-26 | 55 | male | natural causes | Russia | Soviet Union |
| Walter Hesse | 1921-01-07 | 1997-04-26 | 76 | male | | Switzerland | |
| Wilhelm Crinius | 1920-12-02 | 1997-04-26 | 76 | male | | Germany | Germany |
| Дудаков, Василий Михайлович | 1937-03-13 | 1997-04-26 | 60 | male | | Russia | |
| Лубоцкий, Лев Давидович | 1926-05-09 | 1997-04-26 | 70 | male | | | |
| Югай Володимир Миколайович | 1922-12-29 | 1997-04-26 | 74 | male | | | |
| Aleksejs Auziņš | 1910-08-07 | 1997-04-25 | 86 | male | | Latvia | Latvia |
| Andreas Rett | 1924-01-02 | 1997-04-25 | 73 | male | | Austria | Austria |
| Arseni Palu | 1912-01-14 | 1997-04-25 | 85 | male | | | |
| Bernard Vonnegut | 1914-08-29 | 1997-04-25 | 82 | male | natural causes | United States of America | United States of America |
| Brian May | 1934-07-28 | 1997-04-25 | 62 | male | natural causes | Australia | Australia |
| Chia-Shun Yih | 1918-07-25 | 1997-04-25 | 78 | male | | Japan | Republic of China (1912–1949) |
| Dennis Preece | 1940-03-04 | 1997-04-25 | 57 | male | | | |
| Dudley Pope | 1925-12-29 | 1997-04-25 | 71 | male | | France | United Kingdom |
| Elmar Edel | 1914-03-12 | 1997-04-25 | 83 | male | | | Germany |
| Frank Joyner | 1918-08-20 | 1997-04-25 | 78 | male | | | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland |
| Galang Rambu Anarki | 1982-01-01 | 1997-04-25 | 15 | | | | Indonesia |
| Gerhard Wiedemann | 1909-01-04 | 1997-04-25 | 88 | male | | Germany | Germany |
| Gino Pernice | 1927-05-06 | 1997-04-25 | 69 | male | | Italy | Kingdom of Italy |
| Giorgio Prosperi | 1911-01-01 | 1997-04-25 | 86 | male | | Italy | Kingdom of Italy |
| Goldy Parin-Matthèy | 1911-05-30 | 1997-04-25 | 85 | female | | Switzerland | Switzerland |
| Grete Krøncke | 1909-12-16 | 1997-04-25 | 87 | female | | Denmark | Denmark |
| Joan Yarde-Buller | 1908-04-22 | 1997-04-25 | 89 | female | | | |
| John Stuart | 1912-01-01 | 1997-04-25 | 85 | male | | | United States of America |
| Kay Blumetta | 1923-05-01 | 1997-04-25 | 73 | female | | United States of America | United States of America |
| Kazuo Aoyama | 1907-12-28 | 1997-04-25 | 89 | male | | | |
| Khaled Abdul-Wahab | 1911-04-11 | 1997-04-25 | 86 | male | | | Tunisia |
| Lidia Istrati | 1941-06-22 | 1997-04-25 | 55 | female | | | Moldova |
| Lothar Diversy | 1932-04-19 | 1997-04-25 | 65 | male | | | Germany |
| Ludvik Strobl | 1916-03-22 | 1997-04-25 | 81 | male | | Slovenia | Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes |
| Nicholas Baker | 1938-11-23 | 1997-04-25 | 58 | male | | | United Kingdom |
| Nikolai Yegorov | 1951-05-03 | 1997-04-25 | 45 | male | | Russia | Soviet Union |
| Ottoni Minghelli | 1907-01-21 | 1997-04-25 | 90 | male | | | Brazil |
| Peter Stöger | 1939-10-24 | 1997-04-25 | 57 | male | | | Austria |
| Q12535462 | 1949-09-18 | 1997-04-25 | 47 | | | | |
| Seijirō Usami | 1915-01-21 | 1997-04-25 | 82 | male | | | Japan |
| Sir Nicholas Brian Baker | | 1997-04-25 | | female | | | |
| Verena Nusz | 1949-05-02 | 1997-04-25 | 47 | female | | Germany | Austria |
| V. Sambasivan | 1929-07-04 | 1997-04-25 | 67 | male | | India | Dominion of India |
