Deaths in July 2017

The following is a list of notable deaths in July 2017. For notable deaths before the current month, please see "Previous months". Names under each date are reported in alphabetical order by last name or pseudonym. Deaths of non-humans are reported here also if notable.
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.
July
1
Norman Dorsen, 86, American civil rights activist, President of the American Civil Liberties Union (1977-1991), complications from a stroke.
Paul Hardin III, 86, American academic administrator (Wofford College, Drew University, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), complications from ALS.
Ayan Sadakov, 55, Bulgarian football player (National team, Lokomotiv Plovdiv), complications from ALS.
Richard Gilbert Scott, 93, British architect (Whitelands College, Forth Road Bridge, Our Lady Help of Christians Church, Tile Cross).
Orri Vigfusson, 74, Icelandic environmentalist (North Atlantic Salmon Fund) and businessman, lung cancer.
2
Ataullah Behmanesh, 94, Iranian wrestler and sports journalist, stroke.
Jack Collom, 85, American poet (Red Car Goes By: Selected Poems 1955-2000, Situation Sings, Second Nature) and essayist, respiratory failure complicated by lung cancer.
Smith Hart, 68, American-Canadian professional wrestler (Stampede, WWC, IWE), prostate and bone cancer.
Minos Kyriakou, 75, Greek media and shipping magnate and businessman, heart attack.
Vladimir Malaniuk, 60, Ukrainian chess grandmaster, kidney cancer.
Chris Roberts, 73, German singer ("Children, Kinder, Enfants", "Baby's gone", "One more mountain to climb") and actor (Tante Trude aus Buxtehude, Meine Tochter - Deine Tochter, Sunshine Reggae in Ibiza), pancreatic cancer.
Bert Rossi, 94, English gangster.
Tatiana Zatulovskaya, 81, Soviet-born Israeli chess player, Woman Grandmaster (1976), liver failure.
3
Tom Blom, 70, Dutch radio and television presenter (Te land, ter zee en in de lucht), brain cancer.
Jose Luis Cuevas, 83, Mexican painter (Jose Luis Cuevas Museum) and photographer.
Spencer Johnson, 78, American author (Who Moved My Cheese?), complications from pancreatic cancer.
Joe Robinson, 90, British actor (A Kid for Two Farthings, The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, Thor and the Amazon Women), complications from dementia.
Rudy Rotta, 66, Italian blues guitarist and singer, pancreatic cancer.
Solvi Stubing, 76, German-Italian actress (Heintje: A Heart Goes on a Journey, Garringo, Strip Nude for Your Killer) and model, multiple myeloma.
Paolo Villaggio, 84, Italian writer (Fantozzi) and actor (Fantozzi, The Voice of the Moon, Dear Goddamned Friends), complications from diabetes.
4
Bryan Avery, 73, English architect (BFI IMAX, Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Museum of the Moving Image).
Gene Conley, 86, American baseball (Milwaukee Braves, Philadelphia Phillies, Boston Red Sox) and basketball player (Boston Celtics, New York Knicks).
Daniil Granin, 98, Soviet-Russian author (Iskateli), pneumonia.
Carol Lee Scott, 74, English actress (Emu's World, Grotbags) and singer ("Little Bit of Love", "You Gotta Believe"), cancer.
David Yewdall, 66, American sound editor (The Thing, The Fifth Element, Escape from New York), pancreatic cancer.
5
Pierre Henry, 89, French composer.
Joachim Meisner, 83, German Roman Catholic cardinal, Bishop of Berlin (1980-1988) and Archbishop of Cologne (1988-2014), cardiac arrest.
Joaquin Navarro-Valls, 80, Spanish journalist, Director of the Holy See Press Office (1984-2006), pancreatic cancer.
Irina Ratushinskaya, 63, Russian poet, kidney cancer.
Willi Reschke, 95, German military personnel, (Luftwaffe ace).
John Rodriguez, 80, Guyanese-born Canadian politician, Mayor of Greater Sudbury (2006-2010) and member of the House of Commons (1972-1980, 1984-1993), heart failure.
Roger Wootton, 73, English aeronautical engineer and balloonist.
6
Michel Aurillac, 88, French lawyer, politician and author, member of the National Assembly (1978-1981, 1986).
Joan B. Lee, 95, English-born American actress (Spider-Man, Fantastic Four, X-Men: Apocalypse) and model, complications from a stroke.
Diego E. Hernandez, 83, American military officer, Parkinson's disease.
Heinz Schneiter, 82, Swiss footballer (national team) and manager (Thun, Young Boys), coronary artery disease.
Diane Von Hoffman, 55, American professional wrestler (USWA), complications from knee surgery.
7
Jean-Pierre Bernard, 84, French actor (The Eiger Sanction), stomach cancer.
Pierrette Bloch, 89, French-born Swiss artist.
Hakan Carlqvist, 63, Swedish motocross racer, world champion (1979, 1983).
Pam McConnell, 71, Canadian politician, member of the Toronto City Council (since 1998), respiratory failure.
Egil Monn-Iversen, 89, Norwegian composer, pianist and businessman (Chat Noir).
James B. Nutter Sr., 89, American mortgage lender (James B. Nutter & Company), philanthropist (Children's Mercy Hospital) and power broker (Missouri), complications from a stroke.
Marina Ratner, 78, Russian-American mathematician, member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (since 1992), stroke.
Kenneth Silverman, 81, American biographer, Pulitzer Prize winner (1985), complications from respiratory failure.
8
Nelsan Ellis, 39, American actor (True Blood, Get on Up, Elementary), complications from heart failure.
Don Johns, 79, Canadian ice hockey player (Montreal Canadiens, New York Rangers, Minnesota North Stars), heart attack.
Elsa Martinelli, 82, Italian actress (The Indian Fighter, Donatella, Four Girls in Town) and fashion model, lung cancer.
9
Naresh Chandra, 82, Indian politician, Cabinet Secretary of India (1990-1992), Governor of Gujarat (1995-1996), and Ambassador to the United States (1996-2001), multiple organ failure.
Ilya Glazunov, 87, Russian painter.
Anton Nossik, 51, Israeli-Russian journalist and social media activist, heart attack.
Paquita Rico, 87, Spanish singer and actress (!Viva lo imposible!, El balcon de la luna, ?Donde vas, Alfonso XII?), pneumonia.
10
Jim Bush, 90, American track and field coach (University of California, Los Angeles), skin cancer.
Augustin Buzura, 79, Romanian writer (Capul Bunei Sperante, Absentii, Raport asupra singuratati) and journalist (Tribuna), heart attack.
Peter Hartling, 83, German writer (Zwettl, Oma, Theo haut ab) and poet, heart failure.
Isabelle Sadoyan, 89, French actress (L'Alliance, Les fantomes du chapelier, Medecin de campagne), heart failure.
Mangesh Tendulkar, 82, Indian cartoonist, pulmonary embolism complicated by bladder cancer.
11
Fikret Hakan, 83, Turkish actor (Revenge of the Snakes, Borrowed Bride, Battal Gazi Destani), lung cancer.
Denis Mack Smith, 97, British historian (Modern Italy: A Political History).
Eva Schubert, 86, Hungarian actress (Egy pikolo vilagos, Felmegyek a miniszterhez, Frakk, a macskak reme).
Luigi Ferdinando Tagliavini, 87, Italian musicologist and composer, respiratory arrest.
Buddy Wolfe, 76, American professional wrestler (AWA, NWA, WWWF), complications from dementia.
12
Chuck Blazer, 72, American soccer administrator, member of the FIFA Council (1996-2013) and General Secretary of CONCACAF (1990-2011), informant for the 2015 FIFA corruption case, colorectal cancer.
Gerrit Braks, 84, Dutch politician, Minister of Agriculture, Nature and Fisheries (1980-1981, 1982-1990) and Education and Science (1989), President of the Senate (2001-2003), cerebral hemorrhage.
Sam Glanzman, 92, American comics artist (Hercules, The Lonely War of Willy Schultz, U.S.S. Stevens), complications from a fall and surgery.
Tamara Miansarova, 86, Soviet and Russian pop singer ("May There Always Be Sunshine"), pulmonary embolism.
Ray Phiri, 70, South African jazz guitarist and singer ("Fire, Passion and Ecstacy", "Look, Listen and Decide", "People Don't Talk So Let's Talk"), lung cancer.
Tod Sloan, 89, Canadian ice hockey player (Toronto Maple Leafs, Chicago Blackhawks), complications from Alzheimer's disease.
13
Abdul-Rahman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, 86, Saudi prince, Deputy Minister of Defense and Aviation (1978-2011), kidney failure.
Americo Amorim, 82, Portuguese businessman (Corticeira Amorim).
Charles Bachman, 92, American computer scientist (Integrated Data Store), Parkinson's disease.
Vince Farrar, 70, English rugby league player (Featherstone Rovers, Hull), oropharyngeal cancer.
Fresh Kid Ice, 53, American rapper (2 Live Crew).
Marie-Josephine Gaudette, 115, American-born Italian nun and supercentenarian, oldest living person in Italy (since 2017).
Hector Lechuga, 88, Mexican comedian, actor (Peluquero de senoras, Mexico 2000, Masajista de senoras) and radio personality, heart attack complicated by Alzheimer's disease.
Liu Xiaobo, 61, Chinese writer and human rights activist, Nobel Peace Prize winner (2010), multiple organ failure complicated by liver cancer.
Joaquim Molins i Amat, 72, Spanish Catalan politician, member of the Congress of Deputies (1979-1986, 1993-2000), Parliament (1988-1993), and Generalitat (1988-1992), pancreatic cancer.
Gertrude Poe, 101, American journalist (Laurel Leader), respiratory arrest.
Carl E. Reichardt, 86, American banking executive (Wells Fargo), cardiopulmonary arrest.
14
Mahi Beamer, 88, American singer and dancer, complications from COPD.
Anne Golon, 95, French novelist (Angelique) and journalist, colorectal cancer.
Julia Hartwig, 95, Polish poet (Pozegnania) and translator, congestive heart failure.
William "Hootie" Johnson, 86, American banker (Bank of America) and sports administrator (Augusta National Golf Club), member of the South Carolina House of Representatives (1957-1958), mesothelioma.
Pedro Richter Prada, 96, Peruvian politician, Prime Minister (1979-1980).
15
Anne Buttimer, 78, Irish geographer, President of the International Geographical Union (2000-2004) and Vice-President of the Academia Europaea (2012), endometrial cancer.
Martin Landau, 89, American actor (Ed Wood, Mission: Impossible, North by Northwest), Oscar winner (1995), septic shock complicated by abdominal bleeding and arteriosclerosis.
Maryam Mirzakhani, 40, Iranian mathematician and academic, Fields Medalist (2014), breast cancer.
Louise Merzeau, 53, French academic, trustee of Wikimedia France, pancreatic cancer.
Babe Parilli, 87, American football player (Green Bay Packers, Cleveland Browns, Oakland Raiders) and coach (Boston Patriots, New York Jets, Denver Dynamite), complications from multiple myeloma.
Vjekoslav Vojo Radoicic, 86, Croatian painter, sculptor, and stage designer, pneumonia complicated by lung cancer.
Bob Wolff, 96, American sportscaster (NBC, Washington Senators, MSG).
16
Trevor Baxter, 84, British actor (Doctor Who, Maelstrom, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow) and playwright (The Picture of Dorian Gray).
George A. Romero, 77, American-Canadian movie director (Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, Creepshow), screenwriter (The Crazies, Two Evil Eyes, Tales from the Darkside: The Movie) and actor (The Silence of the Lambs), lung cancer.
Wilfried, 67, Austrian singer-songwriter ("Lisa Mona Lisa") and actor (Hilde, das Dienstmadchen), complications from esophageal cancer.
17
Harvey Atkin, 74, Canadian actor (Cagney & Lacey, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Meatballs), lung cancer.
Raymond Sackler, 97, American physician (Perdue Pharma) and philanthropist, pneumonia.
18
Gustavo Alessandri Valdes, 88, Chilean lawyer and politician, Mayor of Central Commune of Santiago de Chile (1987-1989) and MP (1961-1965, 1969-1971, 1998-2002), complications from Alzheimer's disease.
Jose Bragato, 101, Italian-born Argentine cellist, composer, conductor and arranger (Teatro Colon).
Ben's Cat, 11, American racehorse, euthanized following colic surgical complications.
Max Gallo, 85, French writer, historian and politician, member of the Academie francaise (since 2007), laryngeal cancer.
Shigeaki Hinohara, 105, Japanese physician, congestive heart failure.
Andre Lafargue, 100, French journalist (Le Parisien), complications from Parkinson's disease.
Andrew Paulson, 59, American businessman (Afisha, SUP Media), lung cancer.
Red West, 81, American actor and stuntman (Walking Tall, Road House, The Wild Wild West), aortic aneurysm.
19
Maria Amuchastegui, 64, Argentine television fitness presenter (Buen dia Salud, Buen Dia, Maria), singer ("Camino de espejos") and ballerina, stroke and lung cancer.
Miguel Blesa, 69, Spanish banker, Chairman of Caja Madrid (1996-2009), gunshot.
Jake Butcher, 81, American banker and politician, financier of the 1982 World's Fair.
Blaoui Houari, 91, Algerian singer-songwriter ("Dikrayat Wahran", "Rani M'hayer") and composer.
Ralph Regula, 92, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio's 16th congressional district (1973-2009).
20
Marco Aurelio Garcia, 76, Brazilian politician, Foreign Policy Advisor (2003-2016), heart attack.
Chester Bennington, 41, American singer (Linkin Park, Dead By Sunrise, Stone Temple Pilots) and actor (Crank, Saw 3D, Artifact), suicide by hanging.
Kenneth Jay Lane, 85, American costume jewelry designer.
Bernhard Kempa, 96, German handball player (Goppingen), complications from Parkinson's disease.
John McCluskey, Baron McCluskey, 88, Scottish lawyer, judge and life peer, Solicitor General for Scotland (1974-1979).
Claude Rich, 88, French actor (Season's Beatings, With a Little Help from Myself, Looking for Hortense), prostate cancer.
Jonathan Shurberg, 54, American attorney and politician.
Jadwiga Szubartowicz, 111, Polish supercentenarian, nation's oldest person (since 2015), complications from pneumonia.
21
Howard Eichenbaum, 69, American psychologist and neuroscientist, complications of back surgery.
John Heard, 71, American actor (Home Alone, Big, Prison Break), heart attack complicated from back surgery.
Yami Lester, 75, Australian Aboriginal and anti-nuclear activist, complications from a stroke.
Geoff Mack, 94, Australian country singer-songwriter ("I've Been Everywhere"), complications from dementia.
Pudsey, 11, Border Collie performing dog (Britain's Got Talent, Pudsey: The Movie, Mr Stink), blood cancer.
Jon van Rood, 91, Dutch immunologist, member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (since 1978).
Hrvoje Sarinic, 82, Croatian politician, Prime Minister (1992-1993), cardiopulmonary arrest.
Stubbs, 20, American cat, Honorary Mayor of Talkeetna, Alaska (since 1997).
Deborah Watling, 69, English actress (Doctor Who, Take Me High, The Invisible Man), lung cancer.
Stubbs (cat) Mayor of Talkeetna, Alaska
22
Fritz Hellwig, 104, German politician and bureaucrat, European Commissioner for Research, Technology and Information Distribution (1967-1970), cardiopulmonary arrest.
Frantisek Sevcik, 75, Czech ice hockey player (national team), Olympic silver medalist (1968), complications from spinal cancer.
Kostiantyn Sytnyk, 91, Ukrainian botanist and politician, Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada (1980-1985).
Artyom Tarasov, 67, Russian businessman (Kommersant) and political activist, member of the State Durma (1993-1996), pneumonia.
Jim Vance, 75, American news anchor (WRC-TV), non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
23
Bob DeMoss, 90, American football player (New York Bulldogs) and coach (Purdue Boilermakers).
Thomas Fleming, 90, American novelist (Liberty Tavern, The Spoils of War, When This Cruel War Is Over) and historian (Liberty! The American Revolution And The Future Of America).
John Kundla, 101, American basketball coach (Minneapolis Lakers, University of Minnesota).
Lau Wong-fat, 80, Hong Kong businessman and politician, member of the Legislative Council (1986-2016) and Executive Council (2009-2012), Parkinson's disease.
Waldir Peres, 66, Brazilian footballer (Sao Paulo, national team), world championship bronze medalist (1978), heart attack.
Mervyn Rose, 87, Australian tennis player.
Snooty, 69, American manatee.
Flo Steinberg, 78, American comic book publisher (Big Apple Comix) and secretary (Marvel Comics), complications from a cerebral aneurysm and lung cancer.
Jozsef Szendi, 95, Hungarian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Veszprem (1983-1997).
24
Michiko Inukai, 96, Japanese writer (Ojosan Horoki, Hanabana to Hoshiboshi) and philanthropist.
Jorgen Kosmo, 69, Norwegian politician, member (1985-2005) and President of Parliament (2001-2005), Minister of Defence (1993-1997), pancreatic cancer.
Niculae Nedeff, 88, Romanian handball player and coach (women's national team, national team).
Yash Pal, 90, Indian scientist and educationist, lung cancer.
Udupi Ramachandra Rao, 85, Indian space scientist, Chair of the Indian Space Research Organisation (1984-1994), heart failure.
25
Hywel Bennett, 73, Welsh actor (The Virgin Soldiers, Shelley, Loot).
Gretel Bergmann, 103, German-born American high jumper.
Michael Johnson, 72, American singer-songwriter ("Bluer Than Blue", "Give Me Wings") and guitarist.
Barbara Sinatra, 90, American fashion model (Richard Blackwell) and showgirl.
Billy Joe Walker Jr., 65, American musician, record producer, and songwriter ("I Wanna Dance with You", "B-B-B-Burnin' Up with Love"), kidney failure.
Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu, 46, Australian Indigenous musician (Gurrumul, Rrakala, The Gospel Album), kidney and liver failure.
26
Patti Deutsch, 73, American actress (Match Game, Tattletales, Monsters, Inc.) and comedian, cancer.
June Foray, 99, American voice actress (The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show, Cinderella, Looney Tunes), cardiac arrest.
Leo Kinnunen, 73, Finnish racing driver (Interserie, Formula One), Nordic Challenge Cup winner (1969), pneumonia.
Giovanni Battista Pichierri, 74, Italian Roman Catholic Prelate, Archbishop of Trani-Barletta-Bisceglie (since 1999), aortic aneurysm.
Lawrence Pezzulo, 91, American diplomat, Ambassador to Uruguay (1977-1979) and Ambassador to Nicaragua (1979-1981), complications from Alzheimer's disease.
Maxlei dos Santos Luzia, 42, Brazilian footballer (Portuguesa-RJ, Vila Nova, Botafogo), cerebral edema.
Joachim Vobbe, 70, German Old Catholic prelate, Bishop of the Old Catholics in Germany (1995-2009), prostate cancer.
27
Magnus Bocker, 55, Swedish businessman (Singapore Exchange, Dustin AB, NASDAQ), cancer.
D. L. Menard, 85, American singer-songwriter (Happy Go Lucky, Cajun Memories, Le Trio Cadien) and guitarist, heart attack.
Ovidio Messa, 64, Bolivian footballer (national team), pancreatic cancer.
Sam Shepard, 73, American playwright (Buried Child) and actor (The Right Stuff, Black Hawk Down, Mud), complications from ALS.
Marty Sklar, 83, American businessman (Walt Disney Imagineering).
Ramon Xirau, 93, Spanish-born Mexican poet, philosopher and literary critic, member of the Colegio Nacional (since 1973), congestive heart failure.
28
Enzo Bettiza, 90, Croatian-born Italian novelist, journalist (Il Giornale) and politician, Senator (1976-1979) and MEP (1979-1994).
Charlie Gard, 11 months, British infant, focus of life support and parental rights case, MDDS.
Inder Kumar, 43, Indian actor (Wanted, Tumko Na Bhool Paayenge, Kahin Pyaar Na Ho Jaaye), heart attack.
John G. Morris, 100, American photo editor (Life, The New York Times, Ladies' Home Journal), heart failure.
Warren Keith Urbom, 91, American judge, Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Nebraska (1970-2014).
29
Redha Malek, 85, Algerian politician, Prime Minister (1993-1994).
Charley Marouani, 90, Tunisian-French impresario, photographer and celebrity agent.
Yuri Alekseevich Ryzhov, 86, Soviet-born Russian scientist and politician, Russian Ambassador to France (1992-1998) and member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (since 1987).
Olivier Strebelle, 90, Belgian sculptor.
Stephen T. Worland, 94, American economist.
30
Tato Cifuentes, 91, Chilean-born Argentine actor (Cuidado con las imitaciones, Imitaciones peligrosas, Tiempo de crear), singer ("El mambo de la chocolata", "Los Tatines", "El relojito") and ventriloquist, cardiopulmonary arrest complicated by pneumonia.
Ciro Cirillo, 96, Italian politician, President of Province of Naples (1969-1975) and President of Campania (1979-1980), kidnapped by camorra in 1981.
H. Sayeeduddin Dagar, 78, Indian Dhrupad singer, heart attack.
Paulo Garcia, 58, Brazilian neurosurgeon and politician, Mayor of Goiania (2010-2016), heart attack.
Slim Mahfoudh, 75, Tunisian actor (Al Khottab Al Bab, Choufli Ha), lung cancer.
Anton Vratusa, 102, Slovenian politician and diplomat, Prime Minister (1978-1980) and Yugoslavian Ambassador to the United Nations (1967-1969).
31
Jerome Golmard, 43, French tennis player, ALS.
Francesco La Macchia, 78, Italian sprint canoeist, Olympic silver medalist (1960).
Liu Wen-hsiung, 62, Taiwanese politician, member of the Legislative Yuan (1999-2008), complications from a heart attack.
Jeanne Moreau, 89, French actress, (Elevator to the Gallows, The Lovers, Jules and Jim).
Les Murray, 71, Hungarian-Australian broadcaster (The World Game).
Months
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February 2017
March 2017
April 2017
May 2017
June 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
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