In the year 2017
1,267 Notable deaths
Armando Calderón Sol
President of el salvador (1948-2017).
Born June 24th, 1948 in San Salvador. [ref]
Died October 9th, 2017 at 69 years old in Houston (lung cancer). [ref]
Vladimir Levenshtein
Russian mathematician.
Born May 20th, 1935 in Moscow.
Died September 6th, 2017 at 82 years old in Moscow. [ref]
Anne Golon
French writer.
Born December 17th, 1921 in Toulon. [ref]
Died July 14th, 2017 at 95 years old in Le Chesnay (peritonitis). [ref]
Eni Faleomavaega
American samoan politician (1943-2017).
Born August 15th, 1943 in American Samoa.
Died February 22nd, 2017 at 73 years old in Provo.
Robert Elsie
Canadian/german linguist and albanologist (1950–2017).
Born June 29th, 1950 in Vancouver.
Died October 2nd, 2017 at 67 years old in Bonn (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis). [ref]
Javier Valdez Cárdenas
Mexican crime journalist and murder victim.
Born April 14th, 1967 in Culiacán.
Died May 15th, 2017 at 50 years old in Culiacán (ballistic trauma). [ref]
Mohammed Mahdi Akef
The 7th general guide of the egyptian muslim brotherhood.
Born July 28th, 1928 in Dakahlia Governorate.
Died September 22nd, 2017 at 89 years old in Cairo (sepsis). [ref]
Linda Hopkins
African american actress and blues and gospel singer (1924-2017).
Born December 14th, 1924 in New Orleans.
Died April 10th, 2017 at 92 years old in Milwaukee. [ref]
Burton Watson
American sinologist, translator, and writer (1925–2017).
Born June 13th, 1925 in New York City.
Died April 1st, 2017 at 91 years old in Kamagaya.
Gilbert Stork
Belgian american chemist (1921-2017).
Born December 31st, 1921 in Ixelles.
Died October 23rd, 2017 at 95 years old in Manhattan. [ref]
Deaths 601 to 610 of 1267
I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity. Gilda Radner