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In the year 2017
1,386 Notable deaths
Vladimír Brabec
Czech actor and dubbing actor.
Born May 15th, 1934 in Prague. [ref]
Died September 1st, 2017 at 83 years old in Nová Ves pod Pleší. [ref]
Kosei Kamo
Japanese tennis player (1932–2017).
Born May 10th, 1932 in Tokyo. [ref]
Died January 6th, 2017 at 84 years old in Tokyo (myocardial infarction).
Hassan Bechara
Olympic wrestler (1945-2017).
Born March 17th, 1945 in Beirut.
Died July 24th, 2017 at 72 years old in Beirut.
Elmer Acevedo
Salvadoran footballer (1949-2017).
Born January 27th, 1949 in El Salvador.
Died August 30th, 2017 at 68 years old in Acajutla. [ref]
Robert Alt
Swiss bobsledder (1927-2017).
Born January 2nd, 1927 in Glion. [ref]
Died December 4th, 2017 at 90 years old [ref]
Atanase Sciotnic
Canoe racer (1942-2017).
Born March 1st, 1942 in Mila 23.
Died April 5th, 2017 at 75 years old [ref]
Boris Nikolov
Bulgarian boxer (1929–2017).
Born March 6th, 1929 in Dobrich. [ref]
Died January 29th, 2017 at 87 years old in Sofia. [ref]
Verena Stefan
German writer (1947-2017).
Born October 3rd, 1947 in Bern.
Died November 29th, 2017 at 70 years old in Montreal.
Yuriy Poyarkov
Ukrainian volleyball player (1937–2017).
Born February 10th, 1937 in Kharkiv. [ref]
Died February 10th, 2017 at 80 years old in Kharkiv. [ref]
Karl-Erik Nilsson
Swedish olympic wrestler (1922–2017).
Born January 4th, 1922 in Eslöv Municipality.
Died December 14th, 2017 at 95 years old in Malmö. [ref]
Frank Schepke
German rower (1935–2017).
Born April 5th, 1935 in Königsberg.
Died April 4th, 2017 at 81 years old in Kiel. [ref]
Humberto Rosa
Argentine footballer and manager (1932-2017).
Born April 8th, 1932 in Buenos Aires. [ref]
Died September 8th, 2017 at 85 years old in Padua. [ref]
Paavo Lonkila
Finnish cross-country skier (1923-2017).
Born January 11th, 1923 in Kiuruvesi.
Died September 22nd, 2017 at 94 years old in Kiuruvesi. [ref]
Lech Ordon
Polish actor (1928–2017).
Born November 24th, 1928 in Poznań.
Died October 21st, 2017 at 88 years old in Warsaw (pneumonia).
Nasser Givehchi
Olympic wrestler (1932–2017).
Born November 12th, 1932 in Tehran. [ref]
Died May 16th, 2017 at 84 years old in Tehran. [ref]
Joachim Kaiser
German music critic (1928–2017).
Born December 18th, 1928 in Miłki.
Died May 11th, 2017 at 88 years old in Munich. [ref]
Ana Enriqueta Teran
Venezuelan poet (1918–2017).
Died December 18th, 2017 at 99 years old in Valencia. [ref]
Pierre Hanon
Belgian footballer (1936–2017).
Born December 29th, 1936 in Brussels metropolitan area.
Died October 13th, 2017 at 80 years old [ref]
Tonny van der Linden
Dutch football player (1932-2017).
Born November 29th, 1932 in Zuilen.
Died June 23rd, 2017 at 84 years old in Vianen. [ref]
Yevdokiya Pasko
Soviet wwii aviator and heroine of the soviet union (1919–2017).
Born December 30th, 1919 in Lipenka.
Died January 27th, 2017 at 97 years old in Moscow.
Gyöngyi Szalay-Horváth
Hungarian fencer (1968–2017).
Born March 24th, 1968 in Tapolca.
Died December 30th, 2017 at 49 years old in Veszprém. [ref]
Yukinori Miyabe
Japanese speed skater (1968–2017).
Born July 18th, 1968 in Tokyo. [ref]
Died March 7th, 2017 at 48 years old in Tokyo (cancer). [ref]
Ryszard Parulski
Polish fencer (1938–2017).
Born March 9th, 1938 in Warsaw.
Died January 10th, 2017 at 78 years old in Warsaw.
Walter Kollmann
Austrian footballer (1932-2017).
Born June 17th, 1932 in Austria.
Died May 16th, 2017 at 84 years old [ref]
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Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there’s a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see. Helen Keller (Remember that Helen Keller was blind)