page_title: 2017
section_title: January
hierarchical_section_title: 2017 / Deaths / January
caption_attribution_description: English: Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani chairs Expediency Discernment Council
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: January 1
  Sir Tony Atkinson, British economist (b. 1944)
  Hilarion Capucci, Syrian bishop (b. 1922)
  Derek Parfit, British philosopher (b. 1942)
  January 2
  John Berger, British art critic, novelist and painter (b. 1926)
  Viktor Tsaryov, Russian footballer (b. 1931)
  January 3 – Igor Volk, Ukrainian-born Russian cosmonaut (b. 1937)
  January 4
  Ezio Pascutti, Italian footballer (b. 1937)
  Georges Prêtre, French conductor (b. 1924)
  Milt Schmidt, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1918)
  January 6
  Octavio Lepage, Venezuelan politician, former Acting President of Venezuela (b. 1923)
  Om Puri, Indian actor (b. 1950)
  January 7
  Nat Hentoff, American music critic and political commentator (b. 1925)
  Mário Soares, 17th President and 105th Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1924)
  January 8
  Nicolai Gedda, Swedish operatic tenor (b. 1925)
  James Mancham, 1st President of Seychelles (b. 1939)
  Ruth Perry, Liberian politician, former Chairwoman of the Council of State (b. 1939)
  Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, 4th President of Iran (b. 1934)
  Peter Sarstedt, British singer, instrumentalist, and songwriter (b. 1941)
  January 9
  Zygmunt Bauman, Polish-British sociologist (b. 1925)
  Roberto Cabañas, Paraguayan footballer (b. 1961)
  January 10
  Roman Herzog, President of Germany (b. 1934)
  Clare Hollingworth, English journalist and author (b. 1911)
  Oliver Smithies, British-American Nobel geneticist (b. 1925)
  January 11 – François Van der Elst, Belgian footballer (b. 1954)
  January 12
  Giulio Angioni, Italian writer and anthropologist (b. 1939)
  William Peter Blatty, American writer and film director (b. 1928)
  Graham Taylor, English footballer and manager (b. 1944)
  January 13
  Gilberto Agustoni, Swiss cardinal (b. 1922)
  Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon, British photographer (b. 1930)
  January 14 – Zhou Youguang, Chinese linguist (b. 1906)
  January 15 – Jimmy Snuka, Fijian-born American professional wrestler (b. 1943)
  January 16 – Gene Cernan, American astronaut (b. 1934)
  January 18
  Peter Abrahams, South African-born Jamaican writer (b. 1919)
  Obed Dlamini, 6th Prime Minister of Swaziland (b. 1937)
  January 19 – Miguel Ferrer, American actor (b. 1955)
  January 20 – Carlos Alberto Silva, Brazilian football manager (b. 1939)
  January 21 – Veljo Tormis, Estonian composer (b. 1930)
  January 22 – Jaki Liebezeit, German drummer (b. 1938)
  January 23
  Bimba Bosé, Spanish model, actress, and singer (b. 1975)
  Dmytro Grabovskyy, Ukrainian cyclist (b. 1985)
  Gorden Kaye, English comic actor (b. 1941)
  January 24 – Butch Trucks, American musician (b. 1947)
  January 25
  Sir John Hurt, British actor (b. 1940)
  Mary Tyler Moore, American actress, dancer, and television producer (b. 1936)
  January 26
  Mike Connors, American actor (b. 1925)
  Barbara Hale, American actress (b. 1922)
  January 27 – Emmanuelle Riva, French actress (b. 1927)
  January 28 – Geoff Nicholls, British keyboardist (b. 1948)
  January 31 – John Wetton, British musician (b. 1949)
caption: Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
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