2017 deaths

American bobsledder (1980–2017)

American actress and singer (1931-2017)

Indian-American writer (1940-2017)

German military officer, Armeegeneral in the former National People's Army of East Germany (1920-2017)

Russian ice hockey player (1947-2017)

Brazilian pop singer (1953-2017)

Russian linguist (1935-2017)

Argentine writer (1941–2017)

Australian tennis player (1930–2017)

American psychologist (1924–2017)

American musician, songwriter, and record producer (1950–2017)

Italian film director (1931–2017)

American comedian, social activist, social critic, writer, and entrepreneur (1932–2017)

American actor (1934–2017)

Pakistani writer

Canadian actress (1949-2017)

British economist (1944–2017)

American actress (1923–2017)

Estonian composer (1930–2017)

Italian footballer (1937-2017)

British Colonial governor (1921-2017)

British novelist (1952–2017)

Australian anthropologist (1942-2017)

Barbadian judge (1926-2017)

Brazilian footballer and manager (1951-2017)

Jamaican-born Olympic high jumper

American comic book writer and editor (1948–2017)

Swedish actor (1939–2017)

American basketball player (1938-2017)

Spanish footballer (1938–2017)

American javelin thrower (1928–2017)

Mauritanian President (1953-2017)

United States Army lieutenant general (1922–2017)

American actress and singer (1923-2017)

American information and library scientist (1925–2017)

Swedish writer (1944–2017)

Argentine actor (1936–2017)

Russian mathematician and physicist (1934–2017)

Swedish photographer (1922–2017)

New Zealand footballer (1955–2017)

disbarred German physician (1935-2017)

United States Army soldier (1940–2017)

Soviet and Russian actress, film director, screenwriter and producer (1956–2017)

American baseball player and politician (1931–2017)

Dutch singer and presenter (1950–2017)

eastern Ukrainian political figure (1970—2017)

leader of Al-Jama'a al-Islamiyya

Catholic cardinal (1926-2017)

American swimmer, Olympic gold medalist, businessman, chief executive officer (1918–2017)

Japanese manga artist (1947-2017)

Ecuadorian tennis player (1921-2017)

Finnish racing driver

American Hall of Fame baseball player (1977-2017)

American writer

Russian mathematician (1938–2017)

plaintiff in Roe v. Wade (1947–2017)

Spanish journalist (1936–2017)

Hungarian athletics competitor (1937-2017)

United States Navy Medal of Honor recipient (1924–2017)

English theatre, opera and film director (1930–2017)