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.
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## 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&ndash;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 Luhansk 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&ndash;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
* *The Telegraph* obituaries