page_title: 2017
section_title: December
hierarchical_section_title: 2017 / Deaths / December
caption_attribution_description: THE KREMLIN, MOSCOW. With the President of the Republic of Yemen, Ali Abdullah Saleh.
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: December 1 – Fredy Schmidtke, German cyclist (b. 1961)
  December 2 – Nava Semel, Israeli author and playwright (b. 1954)
  December 3 – John B. Anderson, American politician (b. 1922)
  December 4
  Shashi Kapoor, Indian film actor and producer (b. 1938)
  Ali Abdullah Saleh, 1st President of Yemen (b. 1947)
  Manuel Marín, Spanish politician (b. 1949)
  Christine Keeler, English model and showgirl (b. 1942)
  December 5
  August Ames, Canadian pornographic actress (b. 1994)
  Johnny Hallyday, French singer (b. 1943)
  Henning Jensen, Danish footballer (b. 1949)
  Michael I, King of Romania (b. 1921)
  Jean d'Ormesson, French novelist (b. 1925)
  December 6 – William H. Gass, American novelist (b. 1924)
  December 7 – Steve Reevis, Native American actor (b. 1962)
  December 8 – Magda Fedor, Hungarian sports shooter (b. 1914)
  December 9 – Leonid Bronevoy, Soviet and Russian actor (b. 1928)
  December 10 – Charles Green, American Internet personality (b. 1950)
  December 12 – Ed Lee, American politician (b. 1952)
  December 13 – Warrel Dane, American singer (b. 1961)
  December 14 – Neeraj Vora, Indian actor, director, and producer (b. 1963)
  December 16 – Keely Smith, American singer (b. 1928)
  December 18 – Kim Jong-hyun, South Korean singer (b. 1990)
  December 20 – Bernard Francis Law, American cardinal (b. 1931)
  December 21 – Bruce McCandless II, American astronaut (b. 1937)
  December 24 – Heather Menzies, Canadian-American actress (b. 1949)
  December 25 – Vladimir Shainsky, Soviet and Russian composer (b. 1925)
  December 26 – Johnny Bower, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1924)
  December 27 – Osvaldo Fattori, Italian footballer (b. 1922)
  December 28
  Fernando Birri, Argentine filmmaker (b. 1925)
  Sue Grafton, American author (b. 1940)
  Rose Marie, American actress (b. 1923)
  December 29 – Carmen Franco, 1st Duchess of Franco, Spanish noble (b. 1926)
caption: Ali Abdullah Saleh
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