Richard "Rich" Buckler (February 6, 1949 – May 19, 2017) was an American comic book artist and penciller. He was best known for his work on Marvel Comics' "Fantastic Four" in the mid-1970s and for creating the character Deathlok in "Astonishing Tales" #25. Buckler drew virtually every major character at Marvel and DC, often as a cover artist. He was born in Detroit, Michigan.
Buckler died on May 20, 2017 of cancer at the age of 68.
Albert Bouvet
Albert Bouvet (28 February 1930 – 20 May 2017) was a French professional cyclist. He won Paris–Tours in 1956 and remained the last Frenchman to win until Jacky Durand won in 1998. His name is also associated with Paris–Roubaix, as an organiser and discoverer of new sections of pavé. He was born in Mellé, Ille-et-Vilaine.
Bouvet died on 20 May 2017 in Paris at the age of 87.
Syed Abdullah Khalid
Syed Abdullah Khalid (1942 – 20 May 2017) was a Bangladeshi sculptor. He was born in Sylhet, Bangladesh.
Khalid has also worked on paintings.He was awarded Ekushey Padak by the Government of Bangladesh in 2017.
Khalid has exhibited solo three times since and he was awarded first prize in the Second National Sculpture Exhibition organized by the Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy in 1983. At various times he was nominated Judge by Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy for national level exhibitions. He was a Professor at the Sculpture Department, Institute of Fine Arts, University of Dhaka until his death.
Khalid died on 20 May 2017 at a hospital in Dhaka from complications of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease at the age of 75.
Wayne Walker
Wayne Harrison Walker (September 30, 1936 – May 19, 2017) was an American professional football player and sports broadcaster. He was born in Boise, Idaho.
Walker played fifteen seasons with the Detroit Lions of the National Football League, as a linebacker and placekicker from 1958 through 1972. Walker played in 200 regular season games, the second most for a defensive player at the time. He played in three Pro Bowls and was thrice selected as a first-team All-NFL player.
After the 1972 season, he retired as a player and was a sports broadcaster for CBS and the sports director for KPIX-TV in San Francisco from 1974 to 1994. Walker was a weekend sportscaster during the off-season during his later years as a Detroit Lion.
In December 1999, Walker was ninth on the "Sports Illustrated" list of greatest sports figures from Idaho.
Walker was diagnosed with throat cancer in June 2007 and lost after chemotherapy and radiation treatment. In 2015, he was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. He died on May 19, 2017, from complications from the disease in Boise at the age of 80.
Tommy Lasorda
Thomas Charles Lasorda (September 22, 1927 – January 7, 2021) was a Major League Baseball player. He had a long career in sports management.
In 2009, he marked his sixth decade in one capacity or another with the Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers organization, the longest discontinuous (he played one season with the Kansas City Athletics) tenure anyone has had with the team, edging Dodger broadcaster Vin Scully by two seasons. He was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame as a manager in 1997.
Lasorda came out of retirement to manage the United States team at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. He led the Americans to the gold medal, beating heavily favored Cuba, which had won the gold medals at the two previous Olympics.
With the death of Red Schoendienst on June 6, 2018, Lasorda was the oldest living Hall-of-Famer.
In November 2020, Lasorda was hospitalized and was discharged the next month. On January 7, 2021, Lasorda went to cardiac arrest at his home in Fullerton, California and died a few hours later, aged 93.
Kid Vinil
Kid Vinil, stage name of Antônio Carlos Senefonte (10 March 1955 – 19 May 2017), was a Brazilian singer, radio broadcaster, composer and journalist. He became famous in the Brazilian rock of the 1980s. He was born in Cedral, Brazil.
Vinil was the vocalist of the Brazilian band "Magazine", that used to execute the songs "Tic Tic Nervoso" (composed by Marcos Serra and Antonio Luiz), "A Gata Comeu", "Sou Boy" and "Glub Glub No Clube", all three composed by Vinil himself. In the beginning of the 1980s, he had been member of "Verminose", a band of the genres punk rock and rockabilly.
Vinil died on 19 May 2017 from cardiac arrest in São Paulo, Brazil at the age of 62.
Bob Kuzava
Robert Leroy "Bob" Kuzava (May 28, 1923 – May 15, 2017), also known as Sarge Kuzava, was an American professional baseball player, a left-handed pitcher for the Cleveland Indians (1946–1947), Chicago White Sox (1949–1950), Washington Senators (1950–1951), New York Yankees (1951–1954), Baltimore Orioles (1954–1955), Philadelphia Phillies (1955), Pittsburgh Pirates (1957) and St. Louis Cardinals (1957). He was born in Wyandotte, Michigan.
In 2003, Kuzava was inducted into the National Polish-American Sports Hall of Fame.
Kuzava died on May 15, 2017 at his Wyandotte, Michigan home from natural causes at the age of 93.
Gunnar Möller
Gunnar Möller (1 July 1928 – 16 May 2017) was a German television and movie actor. He was known for his role as Andreas in "I Often Think of Piroschka" (1955). His career began in the 1940 movie "Our Miss Doctor". He retired in 2005 with the movie "Oktoberfest".
Möller was born in Berlin. He was married to the actress Brigitte Rau until her death in 1979. Möller died on 16 May 2017 at his Frankfurt, Germany home from dementia-related complications at the age of 88.
Emile Degelin
Emile Degelin (16 July 1926 – 20 May 2017) was a Belgian movie director and novelist. He was known for being the director of "If the Wind Frightens You". His 1963 movie "Life and Death in Flanders" was entered into the 13th Berlin International Film Festival. His 1969 movie "Palaver" was entered into the 6th Moscow International Film Festival. His last movie, "De ooggetuige", won the audience prize at the Ghent Film Festival in 1995.
Degelin was born in Diest, Belgium. He died on 20 May 2017 at his home in Kessel-Lo, a borough of Leuven, Belgium from pneumonia at the age of 90.
Victor Găureanu
Victor Dan Găureanu, better known as Dan Găureanu (15 November 1967 – 20 May 2017) was a Romanian fencer. He was born in Nicolae Bălcescu, Coțușca Romania.
He competed in the sabre events at the 1992 and 2000 Summer Olympics. He won the bronze medal at the 1999 World Fencing Championships after he was defeated by Wiradech Kothny, who eventually won the gold medal.
As part of the Romanian team he earned two bronze medals at the World Championships.
Găureanu died on 20 May 2017 in Bucharest from a suspected case of cardiac arrest at the age of 49.
Alexander Alexandrovich Volkov
Alexander Alexandrovich Volkov (Udmurt and ; 25 December 1951 – 20 May 2017) was the President of the Udmurt Republic. As President, Volkov was the highest official in the Udmurt Republic, the head of the republic's highest executive body, and leader of its two million citizens.
Volkov took office November 3, 2000, for a five-year term after the first presidential elections in the Udmurt Republic took place on October 15, 2000. Befor the elections, Volkov was the speaker of the Udmurtia Republican Legislature.
Volkov died on 20 May 2017 in Berlin, Germany, where he was being treated at a clinic for cancer at the age of 65.
Tom Wright (baseball)
Thomas Everette "Tom" Wright (September 22, 1923 – September 5, 2017) was an American professional baseball player. He played as an outfielder. He was born in Shelby, North Carolina. Wright played all or part of nine seasons in Major League Baseball (1948–56) for four American League teams. He threw right-handed, batted left-handed, stood tall and weighed as an active player.
Wright played for the Boston Red Sox (1948–1951), the St. Louis Browns (1952), the Chicago White Sox (1952–1953) and for the Washington Senators (1954–1956). Wright retired after the 1957 minor league season.