page_title: 2017
section_title: March
hierarchical_section_title: 2017 / Deaths / March
caption_attribution_description: English: Derek Walcott, Nobel Prize in Literature 1992; picture taken at his honorary dinner, Amsterdam, May 20th 2008
context_page_description: 2017 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2017th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 17th year of the 3rd millennium, the 17th year of the 21st century, and the 8th year of the 2010s decade.
  2017 was designated as International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development by the United Nations General Assembly.
context_section_description: March 1 – Paula Fox, American writer (b. 1923)
  March 3
  Míriam Colón, Puerto Rican actress (b. 1936)
  Raymond Kopa, French footballer (b. 1931)
  René Préval, 2nd Prime Minister and 38th and 40th President of Haiti (b. 1943)
  March 5 – Kurt Moll, German operatic bass (b. 1938)
  March 6 – Robert Osborne, film historian and television host (b. 1932)
  March 7 – Hans Georg Dehmelt, German-American Nobel Prize-winning physicist (b. 1922)
  March 8
  Li Yuan-tsu, Taiwanese politician (b. 1923)
  Joseph Nicolosi, American clinical psychologist (b. 1947)
  George Andrew Olah, Hungarian-American Nobel chemist (b. 1927)
  March 9 – Howard Hodgkin, British painter and printmaker (b. 1932)
  March 10
  Aníbal Ruiz, Uruguayan football coach (b. 1942)
  John Surtees, British motorcycle racer and driver (b. 1934)
  Robert James Waller, American author (b. 1939)
  March 12 – Patrick Nève, Belgian racing driver (b. 1949)
  March 13 – Richard, 6th Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg (b. 1934)
  March 16
  James Cotton, American musician (b. 1935)
  Torgny Lindgren, Swedish writer (b. 1938)
  March 17
  Laurynas Stankevičius, 7th Prime Minister of Lithuania (b. 1935)
  Derek Walcott, Saint Lucian Nobel poet and playwright (b. 1930)
  March 18
  Chuck Berry, American singer and musician (b. 1926)
  Miloslav Vlk, Czech cardinal (b. 1932)
  March 19 – Roger Pingeon, French road racing cyclist (b. 1940)
  March 20 – David Rockefeller, American banker and philanthropist (b. 1915)
  March 21
  Colin Dexter, English author (b. 1930)
  Henri Emmanuelli, French politician (b. 1945)
  Martin McGuinness, Irish republican paramilitary and politician (b. 1950)
  March 22 – Tomas Milian, Cuban-American-Italian actor (b. 1933)
  March 23
  Lola Albright, American-Australian actress (b. 1924)
  William H. Keeler, American cardinal (b. 1931)
  March 25 – Cuthbert Sebastian, 2nd Governor-General of Saint Kitts and Nevis (b. 1921)
  March 27 – David Storey, English writer (b. 1933)
  March 28 – Christine Kaufmann, Austrian-born German actress (b. 1945)
  March 29 – Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov, Russian-American Nobel theoretical physicist (b. 1928)
  March 31
  Gilbert Baker, American artist and LGTBI rights activist (b. 1951)
  James Rosenquist, American artist (b. 1933)
caption: Derek Walcott
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