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In the year 2017
1,383 Notable deaths
Andrzej Blumenfeld
Polish actor.
Born August 12th, 1951 in Zabrze.
Died August 14th, 2017 at 66 years old in Warsaw (cancer). [ref]
Adam Wójcik
Polish basketball player (1970–2017).
Born April 20th, 1970 in Oława. [ref]
Died August 26th, 2017 at 47 years old in Wrocław (leukemia). [ref]
Abdoulaye Soulama
Footballer (1979-2017).
Born November 29th, 1979 in Ouagadougou.
Died October 27th, 2017 at 37 years old in Burkina Faso. [ref]
Stéphane Paille
French footballer (1965–2017).
Born June 27th, 1965 in Scionzier.
Died June 27th, 2017 at 52 years old in 4th arrondissement of Lyon (cancer). [ref]
Baard Owe
Norwegian actor (1936-2017).
Born July 3rd, 1936 in Mosjøen.
Died November 11th, 2017 at 81 years old in Copenhagen (lung cancer).
Alan Walker
British anthropologist (1938-2017).
Born August 23rd, 1938 in Leicester. [ref]
Died November 20th, 2017 at 79 years old [ref]
Mircea Ionescu-Quintus
Romanian politician (1917-2017).
Born March 18th, 1917 in Kherson. [ref]
Died September 15th, 2017 at 100 years old in Ploiești. [ref]
Hrvoje Šarinić
Croatian politician (1935–2017).
Born February 17th, 1935 in Sušak.
Died July 21st, 2017 at 82 years old in Zagreb. [ref]
Henri Emmanuelli
French politician (1945–2017).
Born May 31st, 1945 in Eaux-Bonnes.
Died March 21st, 2017 at 71 years old in Bayonne (infectious disease). [ref]
Fotis Kafatos
Greek biologist (1940-2017).
Born April 16th, 1940 in Heraklion.
Died November 18th, 2017 at 77 years old in Heraklion.
Otto Kandler
German botanist (1920-2017).
Born October 23rd, 1920 in Deggendorf.
Died August 29th, 2017 at 96 years old in Munich.
Oscar Fulloné
Argentine association football player and manager (1939-2017).
Born April 4th, 1939 in La Plata.
Died May 22nd, 2017 at 78 years old in Casablanca (respiratory arrest). [ref]
Commins Menapi
Solomon island footballer (1977–2017).
Born September 18th, 1977 in Lata. [ref]
Died November 18th, 2017 at 40 years old in Honiara (myocardial infarction).
George Mostow
American mathematician (1923–2017).
Born July 4th, 1923 in Boston.
Died April 4th, 2017 at 93 years old in Hamden. [ref]
Predrag Matvejević
Croatian writer (1932-2017).
Born October 7th, 1932 in Mostar.
Died February 2nd, 2017 at 84 years old in Zagreb. [ref]
Tullio De Mauro
Italian linguist (1932-2017).
Born March 31st, 1932 in Torre Annunziata. [ref]
Died January 5th, 2017 at 84 years old in Rome. [ref]
Anna Marguerite McCann
American art historian and archaeologist (1933–2017).
Born May 11th, 1933 in Mamaroneck.
Died February 12th, 2017 at 83 years old in Sleepy Hollow.
Fritz Hellwig
German politician (1912-2017).
Born August 3rd, 1912 in Saarbrücken.
Died July 22nd, 2017 at 104 years old in Bonn.
Lyudmila Chernykh
Soviet astronomer.
Born June 13th, 1935 in Shuya.
Died July 28th, 2017 at 82 years old [ref]
Blaoui Houari
Algerian singer (1926–2017).
Born January 23rd, 1926 in Oran.
Died July 19th, 2017 at 91 years old in Oran (myocardial infarction). [ref]
Philip Gossett
American musicologist (1941–2017).
Born September 27th, 1941 in New York City.
Died June 13th, 2017 at 75 years old in Chicago. [ref]
Lones Wigger
Sport shooter and soldier (1937–2017).
Born August 25th, 1937 in Great Falls. [ref]
Died December 14th, 2017 at 80 years old in Colorado Springs (pancreatic cancer). [ref]
Ingvar Lidholm
Swedish composer (1921-2017).
Born February 24th, 1921 in Jönköping.
Died October 17th, 2017 at 96 years old in Salem. [ref]
Anatoly Chernyaev
Soviet historian and politician (1921–2017).
Born May 26th, 1921 in Moscow.
Died March 12th, 2017 at 95 years old in Moscow. [ref]
Rosa Taikon
Swedish-romani silversmith and actor (1926–2017).
Born July 30th, 1926 in Tibro. [ref]
Died June 1st, 2017 at 90 years old in Ytterhogdal. [ref]
Deaths 851 to 875 of 1383
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