Deaths in February 2017

The following is a list of **notable deaths in February 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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## February
### 1
*E. Ahamed, 78, Indian politician, Minister of External Affairs (2004–2014) and MP for Malappuram (since 2009), cardiac arrest.
*Asim Basu, 81, Indian theatre director, lung infection.
*Lars-Erik Berenett, 74, Swedish actor (*Jordskott*, *Skilda världar*), spinal cancer.
*Albano Bortoletto Cavallin, 86, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Guarapuava (1986–1992) and Archbishop of Londrina (1992–2006), surgical complications.
*Desmond Carrington, 90, British actor (*Emergency – Ward 10*) and broadcaster (*The Music Goes Round*), complications from Alzheimer's disease.
*Sandy Gandhi, 59, Indian-born Australian comedian and journalist.
*Stig Grybe, 88, Swedish actor (*Charlie Strapp and Froggy Ball Flying High*).
*Cor van der Hoeven, 95, Dutch footballer (Ajax).
*Sir Ken Morrison, 85, British businessman, President of Morrisons (since 1956).
*Edward Tipper, 95, American World War II veteran (Easy Company), subject of *Band of Brothers*.
*Étienne Tshisekedi, 84, Congolese politician, Prime Minister (1991, 1992–1993, 1997), pulmonary embolism.

### 2
*José Antonio Alonso, 56, Spanish politician, Minister of the Interior (2004&ndash;2006) and Defence (2006&ndash;2008), lung cancer.
*Alvin Baldus, 90, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1975–1981) and the Wisconsin State Assembly (1966–1975, 1989–1997).
*Bertram Kostant, 88, American mathematician, complications from a stroke.
*Max Lüscher, 93, Swiss psychotherapist and writer, inventor of the Lüscher color test.
*Predrag Matvejević, 84, Bosnian-Croatian writer and political activist.
*Shunichiro Okano, 85, Japanese football player, manager (national team) and sports executive, lung cancer.
*Miltos Papapostolou, 81, Greek football player and manager (AEK Athens, national team).
*Jeff Sauer, 73, American ice hockey coach (Wisconsin Badgers), pancreatic cancer.
*Elliot Sperling, 66, American historian. (death announced on this date)

### 3
*Dritëro Agolli, 85, Albanian writer and politician, lung disease.
*Gordon Aikman, 31, British ALS campaigner, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
*Robert Dahlqvist, 40, Swedish rock musician (The Hellacopters, Dundertåget). (death announced on this date)
*Yoshiro Hayashi, 89, Japanese politician, Minister of Finance (1992–1993), multiple organ failure.
*John M. Hayes, 76, American geochemist, pulmonary fibrosis.
*Hassan Joharchi, 48, Iranian actor, cardiac arrest.
*Marisa Letícia Lula da Silva, 66, Brazilian trade unionist, First Lady (2003&ndash;2010), stroke.
*Richard Lyon, 93, American admiral and politician, Mayor of Oceanside, California (1992&ndash;2000).
*Shumon Miura, 91, Japanese Third Generation author, pneumonia.
*Benny Perrin, 57, American football player (St. Louis Cardinals), suicide.
*Lou Rowan, 91, Australian Test cricket umpire.

### 4
*Basil Hetzel, 94, Australian medical researcher.
*Hans van der Hoek, 83, Dutch footballer (Feyenoord, SC Enschede, ADO).
*John Howes, 92, American professor of Asian studies.
*Steve Lang, 67, Canadian rock guitarist (April Wine).
*Bano Qudsia, 88, Pakistani writer (*Raja Gidh*).
*Marc Spitz, 47, American writer (*We Got the Neutron Bomb*, *Bowie: A Biography*) and music journalist (*Spin*).
*Georgi Taratorkin, 72, Russian actor (*Sofiya Perovskaya*, *A Very English Murder*, *Dyuba-Dyuba*).

### 5
*Sonny Geraci, 69, American musician (The Outsiders, Climax).
*Luis Gómez-Montejano, 94, Spanish football executive, President of Real Madrid (2006).
*Björn Granath, 70, Swedish actor (*Madicken*, *Pelle the Conqueror*, *The American*).

### 6
*Ivar Aronsson, 88, Swedish rower, Olympic silver medalist (1956).
*Boy Asistio, 80, Filipino politician, Mayor of Caloocan (1980–1986, 1988–1995).
*Irwin Corey, 102, American comedian (*The Steve Allen Show*) and actor (*Car Wash*, *Doc*, *Thieves*).
*José Gea Escolano, 87, Spanish Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Ibiza (1976–1987) and Mondoñedo-Ferrol (1987–2005).
*Neil Gehrels, 64, American astronomer.
*Inge Keller, 93, German actress (*The Last Year*, *Aimée & Jaguar*, *Lola and Billy the Kid*).
*Djelloul Khatib, 80, Algerian independence activist and politician.
*Alec McCowen, 91, English actor (*A Night to Remember*, *Frenzy*, *Gangs of New York*).
*Raymond Smullyan, 97, American mathematician and philosopher.
*Roger Walkowiak, 89, French road bicycle racer, Tour de France winner (1956).
*Joost van der Westhuizen, 45, South African rugby union player (Bulls, Blue Bulls, national team), complications from motor neuron disease.
*Ritchie Yorke, 73, Australian music journalist, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

### 7
*Svend Asmussen, 100, Danish jazz violinist.
*Valeriu Bularca, 85, Romania wrestler, Olympic silver medalist (1964). 
*Sotsha Dlamini, 76, Swazi politician, Prime Minister (1986–1989), complications from a fall.
*Smail Hamdani, 86, Algerian politician, Prime Minister (1998–1999), heart attack. (body discovered on this date)
*Richard Hatch, 71, American actor (*All My Children*, *Battlestar Galactica*, *The Streets of San Francisco*), pancreatic cancer.
*Loukianos Kilaidonis, 73, Greek singer-songwriter, respiratory infection.
*Antonín Přidal, 81, Czech writer (*Všechny moje hlasy*, *Sudičky*) and translator, stroke.
*Hans Rosling, 68, Swedish academic, professor of International Health and co-founder of the Gapminder Foundation, pancreatic cancer.
*John Salt, 75, British Anglican bishop, Diocese of St Helena (1999&ndash;2011).
*Tzvetan Todorov, 77, Bulgarian-French historian, philosopher and essayist.
*Richard B. Wright, 79, Canadian novelist (*Clara Callan*), complications from a fall.

### 8
*Sir Peter Mansfield, 83, English physicist, laureate of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2003).
*Brendan McGahon, 80, Irish politician, TD (1982–2002).
*Mohamud Muse Hersi, 79, Somali politician, President of Puntland (2005–2009).
*Ólöf Nordal, 50, Icelandic politician, Minister of the Interior (2014–2017), pancreatic cancer.
*Tara Palmer-Tomkinson, 45, British socialite and television presenter, perforated ulcer.
*Tom Raworth, 78, British poet and visual artist, complications from prostate cancer.
*Alan Simpson, 87, British comedy scriptwriter (''Hancock's Half Hour*, *Comedy Playhouse*, *Steptoe and Son*), lung disease.
*Steve Sumner, 61, English-born New Zealand footballer (Christchurch United, Manurewa, national team), prostate cancer.
*Mikhail Tolstykh, 36, Ukrainian DPR separatist commander in the war in Donbas, rocket launcher explosion.

### 9
*Serge Baguet, 47, Belgian racing cyclist (Lotto), colon cancer.
*Radu Gabrea, 79, Romanian movie director (*Călătoria lui Gruber*) and screenwriter.
*Packy, 54, American-held Asian elephant, euthanized.
*André Salvat, 96, French Army World War II-colonel, recipient of the Legion of Honour and Order of Liberation.

### 10
*Wiesław Adamski, 69, Polish sculptor.
*Bradley Ayers, 81, American soldier and CIA operative.
*Edward Bryant, 71, American science fiction and horror writer.
*Mike Ilitch, 87, American businessman and sports owner (Detroit Red Wings, Detroit Tigers), founder of Little Caesars.
*Piet Keizer, 73, Dutch footballer (Ajax, national team), lung cancer.
*Hal Moore, 94, American lieutenant general and author (*We Were Soldiers Once… And Young*), complications from a stroke.
*Yuriy Poyarkov, 80, Ukrainian volleyball player, Olympic champion (1964, 1968).
*Tsuyoshi Yamanaka, 78, Japanese swimmer, Olympic silver medalist (1956, 1960), pneumonia.

### 11
*Barbara Carroll, 92, American jazz pianist.
*Chavo Guerrero Sr., 68, American professional wrestler (NWA, AWA, WWE), liver cancer.
*Harvey Lichtenstein, 87, American arts administrator (Brooklyn Academy of Music), complications from a stroke.
*Fab Melo, 26, Brazilian professional basketball player (Boston Celtics), suspected heart attack.
*Jarmila Šuláková, 87, Czech folk singer.
*Jiro Taniguchi, 69, Japanese manga artist (*A Distant Neighborhood*).

### 12
*Dave Adolph, 79, American football coach (Cleveland Browns, San Diego Chargers, Los Angeles Raiders).
*Sara Coward, 69, British actress (*The Archers''), breast cancer.
*Damian, 52, British pop singer, cancer.
*Åsleik Engmark, 51, Norwegian comedian, actor, singer, director and stage writer.
*Al Jarreau, 76, American jazz and R&B singer ("Moonlighting", "Since I Fell for You", "We Are the World"), seven-time Grammy winner, respiratory failure.
*Sione Lauaki, 35, Tongan-born New Zealand rugby union player (Chiefs, New Zealand national team).
*Yitzhak Livni, 82, Polish-born Israeli media executive and writer.
*Quentin Moses, 33, American football player (Miami Dolphins), house fire.
*Bobby Murdoch, 81, English footballer (Liverpool).
*Ren Xinmin, 101, Chinese rocket scientist and educator (University at Buffalo), designer of the Long March 3.
*Clint Roberts, 82, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from South Dakota's 2nd congressional district (1981–1983), COPD.
*Krystyna Sienkiewicz, 81, Polish actress and singer.

### 13
*e-dubble, 34, American rap artist (*Freestyle Friday*), blood infection.
*Ricardo Arias Calderón, 83, Panamanian politician, Vice President (1990–1992).
*Harold Denton, 80, American public servant, Director of the Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation (1988–1998), complications from Alzheimer's disease and COPD.
*Jan Grabowski, 66, Polish speedway rider.
*Aileen Hernandez, 90, American union organizer and women's rights activist, President of the National Organization for Women (1970–1971).
*Kim Jong-nam, 45, North Korean politician, poisoned.
*Bruce Lansbury, 87, English-American television producer (*Murder, She Wrote*, *The Wild Wild West*, *Knight Rider*) and screenwriter, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
*Lucky Pulpit, 16, American-trained racehorse, heart attack.
*Seijun Suzuki, 93, Japanese director (*Tokyo Drifter*, *Zigeunerweisen*, *Yumeji*), screenwriter and actor (*Cold Fever*, *EM Embalming*, *Matouqin Nocturne*), COPD.

### 14
*Cipriano Chemello, 71, Italian cyclist, Olympic bronze medalist (1968).
*Siegfried Herrmann, 84, German Olympic long-distance runner (1956, 1964).
*Jiří Lanský, 83, Czech high jumper, European championship silver medalist (1954, 1958).
*Elisabeth Lichtenberger, 91, Austrian geographer.
*Paul Nguyên Van Hòa, 85, Vietnamese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Phan Thiết (1975) and Nha Trang (1975–2009).
*Gelek Rimpoche, 77, Tibetan-American Buddhist teacher, heart failure.
*Hans Trass, 88, Estonian botanist.

### 15
*Bengt Gustavsson, 89, Swedish footballer (IFK Norrköping, Atalanta, national team) and manager (Åtvidabergs FF).
*Infante Henrique, Duke of Coimbra, 67, Portuguese royal.
*Manfred Kaiser, 88, German football player and manager (Wismut Gera).
*Stuart McLean, 68, Canadian radio broadcaster (*The Vinyl Cafe*), melanoma.
*José Solé, 87, Mexican actor and director, cardiac arrest.
*Loren Wiseman, 65, American game designer (Game Designers' Workshop), heart failure.

### 16
*Josef Augusta, 70, Czech ice hockey player and coach, Olympic silver medalist (1976), pancreatic cancer.
*Dick Bruna, 89, Dutch author and illustrator (*Miffy*).
*Jannis Kounellis, 80, Greek-Italian artist.
*George Steele, 79, American professional wrestler (WWF) and actor (*Ed Wood*), renal failure.
*Ep Wieldraaijer, 89, Dutch politician, member of House of Representatives (1963–1974).

### 17
*Alan Aldridge, 73, British graphic designer (The Who, Elton John).
*Nicole Bass, 52, American bodybuilder and professional wrestler (WWF, ECW, NWA), heart attack complicated by a stroke. (life-support removed on this date)
*Warren Frost, 91, American actor (*Twin Peaks*, *Matlock*, *Seinfeld*).
*Börge Hellström, 59, Swedish writer (Roslund/Hellström), cancer.
*Erland Kops, 80, Danish badminton player, European championship silver medalist (1970).
*Theodore J. Lowi, 85, American political scientist.
*Robert H. Michel, 93, American politician, U.S Representative from Illinois's 18th district (1957–1995) and House Minority Leader (1981–1995), pneumonia.
*Michael Novak, 83, American Catholic theologian and political writer (*The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism*), complications from colon cancer.
*Tom Regan, 78, American philosopher and animal rights advocate, pneumonia.
*Andrew Schneider, 74, American journalist (*Pittsburgh Press*, *Seattle Post-Intelligencer*), Pulitzer Prize winner (1986, 1987), heart failure.
*Peter Skellern, 69, English singer-songwriter ("You're a Lady", "Hard Times", "Hold on to Love") and priest, brain cancer.
*James Stevenson, 87, American cartoonist (*The New Yorker*) and author (''What's Under My Bed*), complications from pneumonia.
*Magnus Wenninger, 97, American mathematician (Polyhedron model).

### 18
*Omar Abdel-Rahman, 78, Egyptian Muslim leader and convicted terrorist, diabetes and coronary artery disease.
*Ivan Koloff, 74, Canadian professional wrestler (WWWF, NWA), liver cancer.
*Norma McCorvey, 69, American political activist, plaintiff in U.S. Supreme Court case *Roe v. Wade*, heart failure.
*Sir Michael Ogio, 74, Papua New Guinean politician, Governor-General (since 2010).
*Richard Schickel, 84, American movie critic (*Time*), complications from a stroke.
*Lawrence F. Snowden, 95, American military officer.
*Pasquale Squitieri, 78, Italian movie director and screenwriter.
*Clyde Stubblefield, 73, American drummer (James Brown), kidney failure.
*Dan Vickerman, 37, South African-born Australian rugby union footballer (Brumbies, Waratahs, national team).

### 19
*Alejandro Atchugarry, 64, Uruguayan lawyer and politician, Minister of Economy and Finance (2002–2003), aneurysm.
*Kaci Kullmann Five, 65, Norwegian politician, Storting (1981–1997) and Chairwoman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee (since 2015), breast cancer.
*Larry Coryell, 73, American jazz guitarist, cardiac arrest.
*Roger Hynd, 75, Scottish football player (Rangers, Birmingham City) and manager (Motherwell).
*Altamas Kabir, 68, Indian judge, Chief Justice (2012–2013), kidney disease.
*Jørgen Kieler, 97, Danish Resistance member during World War II.
*Igor Shafarevich, 93, Ukrainian-born Russian mathematician.
*Danuta Szaflarska, 102, Polish actress (*Zakazane piosenki*, *The Impossible Goodbye*, *Aftermath'').
*John S. Wold, 100, American politician, U.S. House of Representatives from Wyoming's at-large congressional district (1969–1971).
*Marilyn B. Young, 79, American historian.
*Roman Zhuravskyi, 68, Ukrainian football player (Dynamo Kyiv, Karpaty Lviv), pancreatic cancer.

### 20
*Vitaly Churkin, 64, Russian diplomat, Permanent Representative of Russia to the United Nations (since 2006), Ambassador to Belgium (19941998) and child actor (''A Mother's Heart*), heart failure.
*Mildred Dresselhaus, 86, American nanotechnologist (Carbon nanotubes) and first female professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, respiratory failure.
*Steve Hewlett, 58, British journalist (*The Guardian*) and radio presenter (*The Media Show*), oesophageal cancer.
*Sofía Ímber, 92, Romanian-born Venezuelan journalist and philanthropist, founder of the Contemporary Art Museum of Caracas, congestive heart failure.
*Suthan Suthersan, 60, Sri Lankan-born American environmental engineer.

### 21
*Leah Adler, 97, American pianist.
*Kenneth Arrow, 95, American economist, laureate of the Nobel Prize in Economics (1972).
*Brunella Bovo, 84, Italian actress (*Miracle in Milan*, *The White Sheik*, *Revenge of a Crazy Girl*), pneumonia.
*Jeanne Martin Cissé, 91, Guinean teacher and politician, President of the United Nations Security Council (1972–1976) and Minister of Social Affairs (1976–1984).
*Douglas Coe, 88, American evangelical leader, complications from a heart attack.
*Desmond Connell, 90, Irish Roman Catholic cardinal, Archbishop of Dublin (1988–2004).
*Ion Croitoru, 53, Canadian professional wrestler (SMW, AWA, WWF) and convicted criminal, suspected heart attack.
*Sir Cosmo Haskard, 100, Irish-born British colonial administrator, Governor of the Falkland Islands (1964–1970).
*Edwin Kessler, 88, American atmospheric scientist, helped develop Doppler weather radar.
*Stanisław Skrowaczewski, 93, Polish-American conductor and composer.

### 22
*Frank Delaney, 74, Irish author (*Ireland*, *Simple Courage: A True Story of Peril on the Sea*) and journalist.
*Ricardo Dominguez, 31, Mexican welterweight boxer, colon cancer.
*Eni Faleomavaega, 75, American Samoan politician and attorney, Delegate of American Samoa to the U.S. House of Representatives  (19892015), Lieutenant Governor of American Samoa (1985–1989).
*Ed Garvey, 76, American labor attorney, NFLPA executive director and counsel (19701983).
*John McCormack, 91, Canadian ice hockey player (Toronto Maple Leafs, Montreal Canadiens, Chicago Blackhawks).
*Aleksei Petrenko, 78, Russian actor (*Agony*, *World War II: Behind Closed Doors*, *The Barber of Siberia*).

### 23
*Alan Colmes, 66, American political commentator  (Fox News) and television presenter (*Hannity & Colmes*), lymphoma.
*Sabine Oberhauser, 53, Austrian physician and politician, Austrian Minister for Health and Women (since 2014), member of the Austrian National Council (since 2006), abdominal cancer.
*David Waddington, Baron Waddington, 87, British politician, MP (1968–1974, 1979–1990), Home Secretary (1989–1990), Leader of the House of Lords (1990–1992), Governor of Bermuda (1992–1997).
*Leon Ware, 77, American musician, record producer, and songwriter ("I Want You", "I Wanna Be Where You Are"), complications from prostate cancer.

### 24
*Daryl, 61, American magician, hanging.
*Gustaw Lutkiewicz, 92, Polish actor (*Nikodem Dyzma*, *A Year of the Quiet Sun*, *Syzyfowe prace*).

### 25
*Hassan Al-Jundi, 78, Moroccan actor (*The Message*, *Al Qadisiyya*, *Omar*) and author.
*Neil Fingleton, 36, English basketball player, actor and stuntman (*Game of Thrones*, *47 Ronin*, *Avengers: Age of Ultron*), heart attack.
*Toshio Nakanishi, 61, Japanese musician (Plastics), esophageal cancer.
*Bill Paxton, 61, American actor (*Apollo 13*, *Aliens*, *Big Love*), stroke complicated by heart surgery.
*Jack Pope, 103, American judge, attorney and author, Chief Justice of the Texas Supreme Court (1982–1985).
*Boaz Vaadia, 65, Israeli-born American sculptor, pancreatic cancer.

### 26
*Ludvig Faddeev, 82, Russian theoretical physicist and mathematician.
*Eugene Garfield, 91, American linguist and businessman, founder of Histcite, heart attack.
*Ned Garver, 91, American baseball pitcher (St. Louis Browns, Detroit Tigers, Kansas City Athletics).
*Preben Hertoft, 89, Danish sexologist. (death announced on this date)
*Sir Gerald Kaufman, 86, British politician, MP for Manchester Ardwick (1970–1983) and Manchester Gorton (since 1983), Father of the House (since 2015).
*Joseph Wapner, 97, American judge and television personality (*The People's Court*, *Judge Wapner's Animal Court*), respiratory failure.

### 27
*John Harlan, 91, American radio and television personality (*Name That Tune*).
*Carlos Humberto Romero, 92, Salvadoran politician, President (1977–1979).

### 28
*Leone di Lernia, 78, Italian radio host (*Lo Zoo di 105*), singer (*Leone di Lernia contro tutti*), actor (*Mario*) and composer, liver cancer.
*Paul Kangas, 79, American broadcaster (*Nightly Business Report''), complications from Parkinson's disease and prostate cancer.
*Peter Mathews, 65, Irish politician, TD (2011–2016), oesophageal cancer.
*Vladimir Petrov, 69, Russian ice hockey player, Olympic champion (1972, 1976) and silver medalist (1980).
*Elisabeth Waldheim, 94, Austrian political figure, First Lady (1986–1992).

## 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