Dead at age 97

393 Notable deaths

Gustav Lombard

German general.

Born April 10th, 1895 in Neustadt (Dosse).

Died September 18th, 1992 at 97 years old in Mühldorf am Inn.

Harold Jeffreys

Geophysicist and statistician.

Born April 22nd, 1891 in Fatfield. [ref]

Died March 18th, 1989 at 97 years old in Cambridge. [ref]

George Whipple

American physician and biomedical researcher.

Born August 28th, 1878 in Ashland.

Died February 1st, 1976 at 97 years old in Rochester.

Elizabeth Gray Vining

American writer.

Born October 6th, 1902 in Philadelphia.

Died November 27th, 1999 at 97 years old in Kennett Square.

Winfield Dunn

American politician (1927–2024).

Born July 1st, 1927 in Meridian.

Died September 28th, 2024 at 97 years old [ref]

Anna Mae Hays

United states army general (1920–2018).

Born February 16th, 1920 in Buffalo.

Died January 8th, 2018 at 97 years old in Washington, D.C. (myocardial infarction).

Arno J. Mayer

American marxist, historian, academic and intellectual.

Born June 19th, 1926 in Luxembourg.

Died December 17th, 2023 at 97 years old in Princeton. [ref]

Daphne Odjig

Canadian artist (1919-2016).

Born September 11th, 1919 in Wikwemikong Unceded Indian Reserve 26.

Died October 1st, 2016 at 97 years old in Kelowna.

Abdelmalek Benhabyles

Algerian politician and chairman of the constitutional council.

Born April 27th, 1921 in Beni Aziz.

Died December 28th, 2018 at 97 years old in Algiers. [ref]

Faye Glenn Abdellah

American nurse (1919-2017).

Born March 13th, 1919 in New York City.

Died February 24th, 2017 at 97 years old

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A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day. Emily Dickinson