1997
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1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1997th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 997th year of the 2nd millennium, the 97th year of the 20th century, and the 8th year of the 1990s decade.
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Art and culture
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Film
- Boogie Nights by Paul Thomas Anderson
- Funny Games by Michael Haneke
- The Postman by Kevin Costner
- Cube by Vincenzo Natali
- Winter Sleepers by Tom Tykwer
- Gattaca by Andrew Niccol
- Open Your Eyes by Alejandro Amenábar
- Office Killer by Cindy Sherman
- Preaching to the Perverted by Stuart Urban
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Shorts
- The Story of I by Jo Anne Kaplan
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Literature
- Anthology of Black Humor first translated into English
- Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
- Biomannerism by Stéphen Lévy-Kuentz and H. R. Giger
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Visual art
- The Bra Shop by John Currin
- The Return of the Return of the Durutti Column by Cerith Wyn Evans
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Music
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Singles
- Watch Them Come by Roy Davis Jr feat. Peven Everett
- Song 2 by Blur
- Priyè-A (The Prayer) by Jepthé Guillaume
- Space Invaders Are Smoking Grass by I-F
- Around the World by Daft Punk
- My Beat by Blaze
- Needin' U by David Morales & The Face
- Home by Mateo & Matos
- Ladbroke Grove by Kerri Chandler
- Underwater Love by Smoke City
- Bentleys Gonna Sort You Out! by Bentley Rhythm Ace
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Albums
- Dreams of Freedom by Bill Laswell
- Sax Pax for a Sax by Moondog
- Nuyorican Soul by Masters at Work
- Funcrusher Plus by Company Flow.
- Simple Headphone Mind by Stereolab and Nurse With Wound
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Compilations
- Super Rare Disco compilation series
- Arkology by Lee "Scratch" Perry
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Births
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Deaths
- February 19 – Deng Xiaoping, Chinese revolutionary and statesman (b. 1904)
- February 23 – Tony Williams, American musician (b. 1945)
- March 15 – Victor Vasarely, Hungarian-French artist (b. 1906)
- March 19 – Willem de Kooning, Dutch artist (b. 1904)
- April 5 - Allen Ginsberg, American poet (b. 1926)
- April 16 – Roland Topor, French illustrator (b. 1938)
- May 9 – Marco Ferreri, Italian film director (b. 1928)
- August 2 - William S. Burroughs, American author (b. 1914)
- August 2 - Fela Kuti, Nigerian musician and political activist (b. 1938)
- September 23 – Shirley Clarke, American filmmaker (b. 1919)
- September 29 – Roy Lichtenstein, American artist (b. 1923)
- October 23 – Bert Haanstra, Dutch filmmaker (b. 1916)
- October 27 - Reuben Sturman, American pornographer (b. 1924)
- October 29 – Anton LaVey, American author, musician, and occultist (b. 1930)<
- October 30 - Samuel Fuller, American film director (b. 1912)
- November 5 – Isaiah Berlin, Russian-British social and political theorist (b. 1909)
- November 24 – Barbara, French singer (b. 1930)
- November 30 – Kathy Acker, American author (b. 1947)
- December 20 - Juzo Itami, Japanese film director (b. 1933)
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