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In the year 2017
1,204 Notable deaths
Cathleen Synge Morawetz
Canadian mathematician (1923-2017).
Born May 5th, 1923 in Toronto. [ref]
Died August 8th, 2017 at 94 years old in Greenwich Village. [ref]
Jean Rouverol
American actress and screenwriter.
Born July 8th, 1916 in St. Louis.
Died March 24th, 2017 at 100 years old in Dover (disease).
Svend Asmussen
Danish jazz violinist (1916-2017).
Born February 28th, 1916 in Copenhagen.
Died February 7th, 2017 at 100 years old in Dronningmølle.
Nadiya Olizarenko
Soviet-ukrainian middle-distance runner.
Born November 28th, 1953 in Bryansk.
Died February 18th, 2017 at 63 years old in Odesa (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis). [ref]
Kurt Moll
German opera singer (1938-2017).
Born April 11th, 1938 in Buir.
Died March 5th, 2017 at 78 years old in Cologne. [ref]
Marilyn McCord Adams
American philosopher (1943–2017).
Born October 12th, 1943 in Oak Park.
Died March 22nd, 2017 at 73 years old in Princeton (pancreatic cancer). [ref]
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]
Marina Popovich
Soviet pilot, writer and ufologist (1931-2017).
Born July 20th, 1931 in Velizhsky District.
Died November 30th, 2017 at 86 years old in Krasnodar.
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]
Deaths 601 to 610 of 1204
Losing your life is not the worst thing that can happen. The worst thing is to lose your reason for living. Jo Nesbø