Deaths in January 2017

The following is a list of notable deaths in January 2017. For notable deaths of other months in 2017, please see "Months".

 Each listing of a death must have a source. If no reference is included, the death notice will be removed. The following are the requirements of adding a name to the list in its order: name, age, nationality, what the person is known for, cause of death (if known) and most importantly a source.


January

1
Sir Tony Atkinson, 72, British economist, multiple myeloma.
Hilarion Capucci, 94, Syrian Melkite Catholic hierarch, Patriarchal Vicar of Jerusalem (1965–1974).
Aleksander Jackowski, 96, Polish anthropologist and ethnographer.
Mel Lopez, 81, Filipino politician, Mayor of Manila (1986–1987, 1988–1992), heart attack.
Memo Morales, 79, Venezuelan singer, heart attack.
Yaakov Neeman, 77, Israeli lawyer and politician, Minister of Justice (1996, 2009–2013) and Finance (1997–1998).
Emmanuel Niyonkuru, 54, Burundian politician, Senator (since 2015) and Minister of Water and Environment (since 2015), shot.
Derek Parfit, 74, English philosopher (Reasons and Persons).
Jeremy Stone, 81, American scientist and arms control activist.
Bogdan Tuszyński, 84, Polish sports journalist and reporter (Polskie Radio).
Alfonso Wong, 93, Hong Kong cartoonist (Old Master Q), multiple organ failure.

2
René Ballet, 88, French journalist and author.
John Berger, 90, English art critic and painter.
Albert Brewer, 88, American politician, Governor of Alabama (1968–1971).
François Chérèque, 60, French labor unionist (CFDT), leukemia.
Tom Harpur, 87, Canadian classicist, theologian, priest, and journalist.
Richard Machowicz, 51, American Navy SEAL and television host (Future Weapons, Deadliest Warrior), brain cancer.
Viktor Tsaryov, 85, Russian football player and coach (Dynamo Moscow, Soviet Union national team).

3
Rodney Bennett, 81, British television director (Doctor Who).
Martin Brandtner, 78, American Marine Corps general.
Ivo Brešan, 80, Croatian writer.
Mike Buchanan, 84, Canadian ice hockey player (Chicago Blackhawks).
Charles J. Colgan, 90, American politician, member of the Virginia Senate (1976–2016), vascular ailment.
Shigeru Kōyama, 87, Japanese actor (Samurai Rebellion, Black Rain, Beyond Outrage), complications from pneumonia.
Rolf Noskwith, 97, German-born British businessman and codebreaker (World War II).
Igor Volk, 79, Ukrainian-born Russian cosmonaut and test pilot.

4
Hisham Al-Otaibi, 70, Kuwaiti politician, Minister of Finance (1998–1999).
Heinz Billing, 102, German physicist and computer scientist, created computer data storage.
Abdul Halim Jaffer Khan, 89, Indian sitar player and composer, cardiac arrest.
Jordi Pagans i Monsalvatje, 84, Spanish painter.
Ezio Pascutti, 79, Italian footballer (Bologna).
Georges Prêtre, 92, French orchestral and opera conductor.
Milt Schmidt, 98, Canadian Hall of Fame ice hockey player, coach and general manager (Boston Bruins, Washington Capitals), stroke.
Sir Douglas Wass, 93, British civil servant, Permanent Secretary to HM Treasury (1974–1983).
Wayne Westner, 55, South African golfer, suicide by gunshot.

5
Spartak Belyaev, 93, Russian theoretical physicist.
Géori Boué, 98, French operatic soprano.
Tullio De Mauro, 84, Italian linguist and politician, Minister of Education (2000–2001).
Paul Goble, 83, English-born American author and illustrator (Tipi: Home of the Nomadic Buffalo Hunters, The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses), Parkinson's disease.
Greg Jelks, 55, American-Australian baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies).
Stanley Russ, 86, American politician, member of the Arkansas Senate (1975–2001), acute myeloid leukemia.
Jill Saward, 51, British sexual assault awareness campaigner, cerebral haemorrhage.
Christopher Weeramantry, 90, Sri Lankan judge, Vice-President of the International Court of Justice (1997–2000).
John Wightman, 78, American politician, Mayor of Lexington, Nebraska (1992–1995), member of the Nebraska Legislature (2007–2015), respiratory failure.

6
Yaron Ben-Dov, 46, Israeli footballer (Ironi Rishon LeZion, Maccabi Netanya, Hapoel Tel Aviv).
Les Lazarowitz, 75, American sound mixer (Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Groundhog Day), cancer.
Octavio Lepage, 93, Venezuelan politician, Acting President (1993).
Ramón Martínez Pérez, 87, Spanish footballer (Sevilla, Granada, national team).
Bayezid Osman, 92, Turkish royalty, 44th Head of the Imperial House of Osman (since 2009).
Ricardo Piglia, 75, Argentine author, complications from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
Om Puri, 66, Indian actor (Ardh Satya, City of Joy, East Is East), heart attack.
Tilikum, 35, American-held orca, subject of Blackfish, bacterial infection.
Gavin Whittaker, 46, Australian rugby league footballer (Canterbury Bulldogs, Gold Coast Chargers), stomach cancer.
Francine York, 80, American actress (It's Only Money, Batman, The Family Man), cancer.
Eli Zelkha, 66, Iranian-born American entrepreneur, inventor of ambient intelligence.

7
Lucina da Costa Gomez-Matheeuws, 87, Dutch Antillean politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands Antilles (1977).
John Deely, 74, American philosopher, cancer.
Ramanuja Devnathan, 57, Indian Sanskrit scholar, heart attack.
Carlos Fernández Gondín, 78, Cuban politician, Minister of the Interior (since 2015), complications from a chronic condition.
Nat Hentoff, 91, American political philosopher, columnist and music critic (The Village Voice, Down Beat).
Jerzy Kossela, 74, Polish guitarist and vocalist (Niebiesko-Czarni, Czerwone Gitary).
Lelio Lagorio, 91, Italian politician, Minister of Defence (1980–1983) and Sport and Spectacles (1983–1986).
Mário Soares, 92, Portuguese politician, President (1986–1996) and Prime Minister (1976–1978, 1983–1985).
Lech Trzeciakowski, 85, Polish historian.

8
Buddy Bregman, 86, American arranger, producer and composer, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
Klaib Al-Fawwaz, 66, Jordanian diplomat and politician, Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs (2011–2012), Secretary General of the Eslah Political Party (since 2012), heart attack.
Nicolai Gedda, 91, Swedish operatic tenor.
Miriam Goldberg, 100, American newspaper publisher (Intermountain Jewish News).
Roy Innis, 82, American civil rights activist and politician, National Director of the Congress of Racial Equality (since 1968), complications from Parkinson's disease.
Abdulkadir Kure, 60, Nigerian politician, Governor of Niger State (1999–2007).
Sir James Mancham, 77, Seychellois politician, President (1976–1977), stroke.
Jovanka Nikolić, 64, Serbian writer.
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, 82, Iranian politician, President (1989–1997), heart attack.
Peter Sarstedt, 75, English singer-songwriter ("Where Do You Go To (My Lovely)?"), progressive supranuclear palsy.
Nigel Spearing, 86, British politician, MP for Acton (1970–1974) and Newham South (1974–1979), Alzheimer's disease.

9
Zygmunt Bauman, 91, Polish-British sociologist.
Michael Chamberlain, 72, New Zealand-born Australian pastor, exonerated in the death of Azaria Chamberlain, complications from acute myeloid leukaemia.
Ugo Crescenzi, 86, Italian politician, President of Abruzzo (1970–1972, 1973–1974), member of the Chamber of Deputies (1987–1992), kidney failure.
Ulf Dinkelspiel, 77, Swedish politician, Minister of European affairs and Foreign Trade (1991–1994), cancer.
Bob McCullough, Australian sports administrator.
Ali Shariatmadari, 93, Iranian politician and academic, Minister of Culture (1979).
Warren Allen Smith, 95, American atheist gay-rights activist and writer (Humanist Manifesto II).
Claude Steiner, 81, French-born American psychologist and writer (Warm Fuzzy Tale).
Russell Trood, 68, Australian politician and academic, Senator for Queensland (2005–2011), thyroid cancer.

10
Hiag Akmakjian, 91, American author, painter and photographer, lung cancer.
Ronald Buxton, 93, British politician, MP for Leyton (1965–1966).
Buddy Greco, 90, American jazz and pop singer, actor (The Girl Who Knew Too Much) and pianist.
Roman Herzog, 82, German politician, President (1994–1999), Judge of the Federal Constitutional Court (1983–1994).
Clare Hollingworth, 105, British journalist (The Daily Telegraph), broke news that World War II had started.
Ryszard Parulski, 78, Polish fencer, Olympic silver medalist (1964).
Manlio Rocchetti, 73, Italian make-up artist (Driving Miss Daisy, Lonesome Dove, Gangs of New York), Emmy winner (1989) and Academy Award winner (1990).
Tony Rosato, 62, Italian-born Canadian actor (Saturday Night Live, SCTV), heart attack.
Oliver Smithies, 91, British-American geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate (2007).
Kenny Wharram, 83, Canadian ice hockey player (Chicago Blackhawks), heart failure.

11
Tommy Allsup, 85, American rockabilly and country swing guitarist, complications from hernia surgery.
Tony Booth, 83, British poster artist, cancer.
James Fairfax, 83, Australian business executive and philanthropist.
James Ferguson-Lees, 88, British ornithologist (British Birds).
Brian Fletcher, 69, British jockey, winner of the Grand National (1968, 1973, 1974), cancer.
Claude Lebey, 93, French food critic.
Nikolay Neprimerov, 95, Russian physicist.
Adenan Satem, 72, Malaysian politician, Chief Minister of Sarawak (since 2014), heart attack.
Saeeduzzaman Siddiqui, 78, Pakistani jurist and politician, Governor of Sindh (since 2016).
François Van der Elst, 62, Belgian national team footballer (Anderlecht, New York Cosmos, West Ham United), complications from cardiac arrest.

12
Giulio Angioni, 77, Italian writer (Le fiamme di Toledo, Assandira) and anthropologist.
Meir Banai, 55, Israeli singer ("Shma Koli"), cancer.
William Peter Blatty, 89, American novelist (The Exorcist, Legion) and screenwriter (A Shot in the Dark), multiple myeloma.
Anthony King, 82, Canadian-born British political scientist. (death announced on this date)
Milton Metz, 95, American radio and television sports personality, complications from a fall.
Vsevolod Murakhovsky, 90, Ukrainian-Russian politician, First Deputy Premier of the Soviet Union (1985–1989).
Frank Spellman, 94, American weightlifter, Olympic champion (1948).
Graham Taylor, 72, English football player and manager (Watford, Aston Villa, England national team), heart attack.

13
Gilberto Agustoni, 94, Swiss Roman Catholic cardinal.
Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon, 86, English photographer, filmmaker and former husband of Princess Margaret.
Walter Benz, 85, German mathematician.
Hans Berliner, 87, German-born American computer scientist and chess player.
Mark Fisher, 48, British writer, cultural theorist and music journalist (The Wire, Fact), suicide.
Dick Gautier, 85, American actor (Get Smart, Transformers, Bye Bye Birdie).
Horacio Guarany, 91, Argentine folkloric singer and writer, cardiac arrest.
Sir John Hanson, 78, British diplomat and historian.
John Jacobs, 91, English golfer, founder of the PGA European Tour. (death announced on this date)
Magic Alex, 74, Greek electronics engineer (The Beatles, Apple Electronics, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi), complications from pneumonia.
David Modell, 56, American businessman (Baltimore Ravens), cancer.
Anton Nanut, 84, Slovenian conductor.
Ari Rath, 92, Austrian-born Israeli journalist (The Jerusalem Post).
Nicodemo Scarfo, 87, American mobster, boss of the Philadelphia crime family (1981–1991).
Udo Ulfkotte, 56, German political scientist and journalist (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung), heart attack.

14
Surjit Singh Barnala, 91, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Punjab (1985–1987), Governor of Uttarakhand (2000–2003) and Tamil Nadu (2004–2011).
Barry Cassin, 92, Irish actor (Mystic Knights of Tir Na Nog, The Count of Monte Cristo, Byzantium).
Mohammed bin Faisal Al Saud, 80, Saudi royal and businessman.
Eldar Kuliev, 65, Kyrgyz Soviet screenwriter and author.
Herbert Mies, 87, German politician (Communist Party), Chairman (1973–1989).
Kevin Starr, 76, American historian, heart attack.
Yama Buddha, 29, Nepalese rapper, suicide.
Zhou Youguang, 111, Chinese linguist and supercentenarian, creator of the romanization of Chinese system.

15
Ciel Bergman, 78, American painter.
Babette Cole, 66, English children's author (Drop Dead, Princess Smartypants, Prince Cinders).
Richard Divall, 71, Australian conductor and musicologist.
Aleksandr Ezhevsky, 101, Soviet engineer and statesman.
Dermot Gallagher, 72, Irish civil servant and diplomat, Secretary General of the Department of Foreign Affairs (until 2009) and Ambassador to the United States (1991–1997).
Han Peixin, 95, Chinese communist politician, Governor of Jiangsu (1982–1983) and Communist Party Secretary of Jiangsu (1983–1989), cardiac arrest.
Vicki Lansky, 75, American author and publisher, cirrhosis.
Eddie Long, 63, American pastor (New Birth Missionary Baptist Church), cancer.
David Poythress, 73, American military officer and politician, Secretary of State of Georgia (1979–1983).
Jimmy Snuka, 73, Fijian-born American professional wrestler (WWF, AWA, PNW), stomach cancer.
Jan Szczepański, 77, Polish boxer, Olympic champion (1972).
Greg Trooper, 61, American singer-songwriter, pancreatic cancer.

16
Amin Nasir, 48, Singaporean football player (Woodlands Wellington, national team) and manager (Hougang United), colon cancer.
Eugene Cernan, 82, American astronaut (Apollo 7, Apollo 14, Apollo 17), last person to walk on the Moon.
William A. Hilliard, 89, American journalist (The Oregonian).
Franz Jarnach, 73, German actor (Dittsche) and musician (The Rattles), heart attack.
Peter Jones, 83, Australian politician, MLA (1974–1986).
Jiří Navrátil, 93, Czech scout leader and anti-Communist activist, President of Junák (since 1970).
Charles "Bobo" Shaw, 69, American jazz drummer.
Steve Wright, American bass guitarist (The Greg Kihn Band), heart attack.

17
M. M. Ruhul Amin, 74, Bangladeshi judge, Chief Justice (2008–2009).
Brenda C. Barnes, 63, American businesswoman, CEO of Sara Lee (2005–2010), stroke.
Philip Bond, 82, British actor (Doctor Who, The Onedin Line).
Colo, 60, American Western gorilla, oldest living gorilla in captivity (since 2008) and first to be born in captivity.
Mario Fasino, 96, Italian politician, President of Sicily (1969–1972).
Heng Freylinger, 90, Luxembourgian Olympic wrestler (1952).
Steven Plaut, 65, American-born Israeli economist and academic, complications from kidney cancer.
Robert Timlin, 84, American judge, Judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of California (since 1994).
James S. Vlasto, 82, American public servant.
Daniel Vischer, 67, Swiss politician (National Council, Green Party of Switzerland), cancer.

18
Peter Abrahams, 97, South African-born Jamaican writer (Mine Boy).
Red Adams, 95, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs) and coach (Los Angeles Dodgers).
Yosl Bergner, 96, Austrian-born Israeli painter.
Ion Besoiu, 85, Romanian actor (Toate pînzele sus).
David P. Buckson, 96, American lawyer and politician, Governor of Delaware (1960–1961).
Obed Dlamini, 79, Swazi politician, Prime Minister (1989–1993).
Rachael Heyhoe Flint, Baroness Heyhoe Flint, 77, English cricketer (women's national team), businesswoman and philanthropist.
Johnny Little, 86, Canadian-born Scottish footballer (Rangers, Morton, Scotland national team).
William Margold, 73, American pornographic actor and director.
Roberta Peters, 86, American coloratura soprano, Parkinson's disease.

19
Jalal Allakhverdiyev, 87, Azerbaijani mathematician.
Wayne Barrett, 71, American journalist (The Village Voice), lung cancer.
Loalwa Braz, 63, Brazilian singer-songwriter ("Lambada"), burned.
Miguel Ferrer, 61, American actor (RoboCop, Mulan, Crossing Jordan), throat cancer.
Eddie Filgate, 101, Irish politician, TD (1977–1982).
Mike Kellie, 69, English multi-instrumentalist (Spooky Tooth, The V.I.P.'s, The Only Ones) and record producer.
Jan Kruis, 83, Dutch cartoonist (Jack, Jacky and the Juniors).
Ger van Mourik, 85, Dutch footballer (Ajax).
Edwin Pope, 88, American journalist (The Miami Herald, Athens Banner-Herald), cancer.
Walt Streuli, 81, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers).
H. Boyd Woodruff, 99, American microbiologist, discovered actinomycin.
Teori Zavascki, 68, Brazilian judge, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court (since 2012), and reporter (Operation Car Wash), plane crash.

20
Hans Breukhoven, 70, Dutch businessman (Free Record Shop), pancreatic cancer.
Bill Fischer, 89, American football player (Chicago Cardinals).
Ahmed Gailani, 84, Afghan Qadiriyya leader and politician, founded National Islamic Front of Afghanistan.
Klaus Huhn, 88, German sports journalist (Neues Deutschland) and writer.
Naděžda Kavalírová, 93, Czech political prisoner and activist, head of the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes (2007–2013).
Charles Liteky, 85, American military chaplain and peace activist.
Harry J. Middleton, 95, American speechwriter and library director (Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum).

21
Byron Dobell, 89, American editor and writer, complications from Parkinson's disease.
Jamshid Giunashvili, 86, Georgian linguist and Iranologist, Ambassador to Iran (1994–2004).
Vahit Melih Halefoğlu, 97, Turkish diplomat, Minister of Foreign Affairs (1983–1987).
Maggie Roche, 65, American singer-songwriter (The Roches), cancer.
Veljo Tormis, 86, Estonian composer.
John Watkiss, 55, British comic artist (Deadman) and concept artist (Tarzan, Atlantis: The Lost Empire), cancer.

22
Dan Caspi, 71, Romanian-born Israeli media theorist and academic.
İlhan Cavcav, 81, Turkish football executive, chairman of Gençlerbirliği S.K. (since 1978), brain hemorrhage.
Chen Yu-mei, 50, Taiwanese politician, Deputy Minister of the Overseas Community Affairs Council of the Executive Yuan (2013–2014).
Giovanni Corrieri, 96, Italian bicycle racer.
Søren Elung Jensen, 88, Danish actor (Det støver stadig, King Lear), lung cancer.
Cristina Adela Foișor, 49, Romanian Chess International Master, complications from pneumonia.
Moshe Gershuni, 80, Israeli painter and sculptor.
Jaki Liebezeit, 78, German drummer (Can), pneumonia.
Naqsh Lyallpuri, 88, Indian poet and songwriter, complications from a hip fracture.
Andy Marte, 33, Dominican baseball player (Atlanta Braves, Cleveland Indians, Arizona Diamondbacks), traffic collision.
Masaya Nakamura, 91, Japanese businessman, founder of Namco and Pac-Man.
Lev Navrozov, 88, Russian writer, historian and dissident, Parkinson's disease.
József Torgyán, 84, Hungarian politician, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development (1998–2001).
Yordano Ventura, 25, Dominican baseball player (Kansas City Royals), traffic collision.
Pete Overend Watts, 69, English bass guitarist (Mott the Hoople), throat cancer.
Rudolf Wille, 79, German mathematician.

23
Bimba Bosé, 41, Italian-born Spanish model, designer, singer and actress, breast cancer.
Dmytro Grabovskyy, 31, Ukrainian-born Israeli bicycle racer, heart attack.
Ralph Guglielmi, 83, American football player (Washington Redskins, New York Giants).
Gorden Kaye, 75, English actor ('Allo 'Allo!, Brazil, Coronation Street) and comedian.
Erland Kolding Nielsen, 70, Danish academic, Director General of the Royal Library.
Leslie Koo, 62, Taiwanese business executive (Taiwan Cement Corporation), cerebral hemorrhage.
Boško Krunić, 87, Yugoslav politician (League of Communists of Yugoslavia), Chairman of the Presidium (1987–1988), stroke. 
Ruth Samuelson, 56, American politician, member of the North Carolina General Assembly (2007–2015), ovarian cancer.
Andrew Telegdi, 70, Hungarian-born Canadian politician, MP for Waterloo (1993–2008).

24
Fred André, 75, Dutch football player and manager (Telstar).
Chuck Canfield, 84, American businessman and politician, Mayor of Rochester, Minnesota (1996–2003).
Robert Folsom, 89, American politician, Mayor of Dallas, Texas (1976–1981).
Gil Ray, 60, American drummer (Game Theory, The Loud Family), cancer.
Butch Trucks, 69, American drummer (The Allman Brothers Band), suicide by gunshot.
Carlos Verdejo, 82, Chilean footballer.
Chuck Weyant, 93, American racecar driver.

25
Đinh Xuân Lâm, 91, Vietnamese educator and historian.
Buchi Emecheta, 72, Nigerian novelist (The Bride Price, The Joys of Motherhood, Gwendolen), complications from a stroke.
Robert Garcia, 84, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1978–1990) and the New York State Legislature (1966–1978, 1983–1990), emphysema-induced infection.
Kevin Geer, 64, American actor (Twelve Angry Men, The Pelican Brief, The Contender), heart attack.
Sir John Hurt, 77, British actor (Midnight Express, Alien, The Elephant Man), pancreatic cancer.
Katja of Sweden, 97, Swedish fashion designer.
Harry Mathews, 86, American author (The Conversions, My Life in CIA), poet, translator (Ellis Island Revisited) and journalist (Locus Solus).
Jack Mendelsohn, 90, American cartoonist, screenwriter (Yellow Submarine) and television writer (The Carol Burnett Show, Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles), lung cancer.
Mary Tyler Moore, 80, American actress (The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Ordinary People) and philanthropist (JDRF), cardiopulmonary arrest complicated by diabetic-related pneumonia.
Siewert Öholm, 77, Swedish journalist and television presenter, liver cancer.
Marcel Prud'homme, 82, Canadian politician, MP (1964–1993) and Senator (1993–2009), heart attack.
Charles Reis Felix, 93, American writer.
Sir Nigel Rodley, 75, British human rights activist.

26
Anne-Marie Colchen, 91, French track and field athlete and basketball player, European high jump champion (1946) and basketball world championship bronze medalist (1953).
Mike Connors, 91, American actor (Mannix, The Ten Commandments, War and Remembrance), leukemia.
Tam Dalyell, 84, Scottish politician, MP for West Lothian (1962–1983) and Linlithgow (1983–2005) and writer.
Barbara Hale, 94, American actress (Perry Mason), complications from COPD. 
Alexander Kadakin, 67, Russian diplomat, Ambassador to India (1999–2004, since 2009), heart failure.
Luciano Ravaglia, 94, Italian engineer, member of the Rotary Club of Forlì.
Dame Laurie Salas, 94, New Zealand women's rights and peace activist.
Michael Tönnies, 57, German footballer (MSV Duisburg).

27
Wim Anderiesen Jr., 85, Dutch footballer (Ajax).
Valery Bolotov, 46, Ukrainian militant leader, Head of the Lugansk People's Republic (2014).
Henry-Louis de La Grange, 92, French musicologist and music critic (The New York Times), biographer of Gustav Mahler, complications from pneumonia.
Bob Holiday, 84, American actor (It's a Bird...It's a Plane...It's Superman).
Atanas Kirov, 70, Bulgarian weightlifter, world champion (1973, 1974, 1975), heart attack.
Brunhilde Pomsel, 106, German broadcaster and secretary to Joseph Goebbels.
Emmanuelle Riva, 89, French actress (Hiroshima mon amour, Amour), cancer.
Arthur H. Rosenfeld, 90, American physicist.
Billy Simpson, 87, Northern Irish footballer (Linfield, Rangers).
Gisella Sofio, 85, Italian actress (Accidents to the Taxes!!, La liceale, The Big Heart of Girls).

28
Sir Christopher Bland, 78, British businessman, Chairman of the BBC (1996–2001), complications from prostate cancer.
Bobby Freeman, 76, American singer-songwriter ("Do You Want to Dance") and record producer.
Guitar Gable, 79, American singer-songwriter ("This Should Go On Forever") and guitarist.
Sang Chul Lee, 92, Canadian Christian minister, Moderator of the United Church of Canada (1988–1990).
Many Clouds, 9, British racehorse, Grand National winner (2015), pulmonary haemorrhage.
John N. Mather, 74, American mathematician.
Bharati Mukherjee, 76, Indian-born American writer (Jasmine) and academic, complications from rheumatoid arthritis and takotsubo cardiomyopathy.
Geoff Nicholls, 68, English keyboardist (Black Sabbath), lung cancer.
Lennart Nilsson, 94, Swedish photographer.
Richard Portman, 82, American sound engineer (The Godfather, Star Wars, The Deer Hunter), Oscar winner (1979), complications from a fall.
Thomas Joseph Simpson, 95, Canadian World War II veteran.
Dan Spiegle, 96, American comic book artist (Hopalong Cassidy, Scooby-Doo, Jonah Hex).
Darryl Sutton, 64, Australian rules footballer, pneumonia.
Alexander Tikhanovich, 64, Belarusian pop singer (Verasy).
Stuart Timmons, 60, American historian (The Trouble With Harry Hay: Founder of the Modern Gay Movement) and gay rights activist, cardiac arrest.
Ion Ungureanu, 81, Moldovan actor (That Sweet Word: Liberty!) and politician, MP (1990–1994).

29
Joop Gouweleeuw, 76, Dutch Olympian judoka (1964).
Howard Frank Mosher, 74, American author (Where the Rivers Flow North, A Stranger In the Kingdom), prostate cancer.
Leonard H. Perroots, 83, American military officer, Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency (1985–1988).
Elkin Ramírez, 54, Colombian singer-songwriter (Kraken), brain cancer.

30
Marta Becket, 92, American dancer (Amargosa Opera House), painter and choreographer, subject of Amargosa, congestive heart failure.
David Burhani, 26, Tanzanian footballer (Maji Maji, Kagera Sugar).
Carmen Contreras-Bozak, 97, American World War II veteran, first Hispanic to serve in the Women's Army Corps.
Eiður Svanberg Guðnason, 77, Icelandic politician and diplomat, Ambassador to Australia (2003–2007).
Aito Mäkinen, 90, Finnish movie director (Onnelliset leikit).
Mario R. Ramil, 70, Filipino-born American justice, Associate Justice of the Hawaii State Supreme Court (1993–2002), cancer.

31
Thomas Barlow, 76, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Kentucky's 1st congressional district (1993–1995)
Grethe Bartram, 92, Danish war criminal. (death announced on this date)
Deke Leonard, 72, Welsh rock guitarist (Man). 
Frank Pellegrino, 72, American actor (Goodfellas, The Sopranos) and restaurateur (Rao's), lung cancer.
Rob Stewart, 37, Canadian filmmaker (Sharkwater), drowned.
John Wetton, 67, British singer-songwriter ("Only Time Will Tell", "Heat of the Moment") and bass guitarist (Asia, King Crimson), colorectal cancer.
Tokitenkū Yoshiaki, 37, Mongolian sumo wrestler, lymphoma.

Months
 January 2017
 February 2017
 March 2017
 April 2017

Related pages
 Deaths in 2014
 Deaths in 2015
 Deaths in 2016

References

Other websites
 The Guardian, UK obituaries
 Obituaries, Los Angeles Times
 Obituaries, Chicago Tribune
 The New York Times, US obituaries
 The Sydney Morning Herald, Australian obituaries
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