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In the year 2017
1,204 Notable deaths
Cristina Adela Foișor
Romanian chess player.
Born June 7th, 1967 in Petroșani.
Died January 21st, 2017 at 49 years old in Timișoara (pneumonia). [ref]
Horacio Guarany
Argentine singer (1925-2017).
Died January 13th, 2017 at 91 years old in Luján (cardiac arrest).
Niels Helveg Petersen
Danish politician (1939-2017).
Born January 17th, 1939 in Odense.
Died June 3rd, 2017 at 78 years old in Tullebølle Parish (esophageal cancer). [ref]
Vladimir Malaniuk
Ukrainian chess player.
Born July 21st, 1957 in Arkhangelsk.
Died July 2nd, 2017 at 59 years old in Kyiv (kidney cancer).
Ayan Sadakov
Bulgarian footballer (1961–2017).
Born September 28th, 1961 in Plovdiv.
Died July 1st, 2017 at 55 years old in Plovdiv (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis). [ref]
Nicole Bricq
French politician (1947-2017).
Born June 10th, 1947 in La Rochefoucauld. [ref]
Died August 6th, 2017 at 70 years old in Poitiers (fall). [ref]
Hans Gerschwiler
Swiss figure skater (1921–2017).
Born June 20th, 1921 in Winterthur.
Died September 27th, 2017 at 96 years old in Pinehurst. [ref]
Nava Semel
Israeli writer (1954-2017).
Born September 15th, 1954 in Jaffa.
Died December 2nd, 2017 at 63 years old in Tel Aviv (cancer).
Anatoly Gromyko
Soviet and russian scientist and diplomat (1932-2017).
Born April 15th, 1932 in Barysaw.
Died September 25th, 2017 at 85 years old in Moscow.
Habib Thiam
Senegalese politician (1933-2017).
Born January 21st, 1933.
Died June 26th, 2017 at 84 years old in Dakar. [ref]
Deaths 861 to 870 of 1204
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride! Hunter S. Thompson