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2017 (MMXVII ) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2017th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 17th year of the 3rd millennium, the 17th year of the 21st century, and the 8th year of the 2010s decade.

2017 by topic:
News by month
Jan – Feb – Mar – Apr – May – Jun
Jul – Aug – Sep – Oct – Nov – Dec
Arts
Architecture – Art – Comics – Film – Home video – Literature (Poetry) – Music (Country, Metal, UK) – Radio – Television – Video gaming
Politics
Elections – Int'l leaders – Politics – State leaders – Sovereign states
Science and technology
Archaeology – Aviation – Birding/Ornithology – Meteorology – Palaeontology – Rail transport – Science – Spaceflight
Sports
Sport – Athletics (Track and Field) – Australian Football League – Baseball – Basketball – Football (soccer) – Cricket – Ice Hockey – Motorsport – Tennis – Rugby league
By place
Algeria – Argentina – Australia – Belgium - Brazil – Canada – People's Republic of China – Denmark – El Salvador – Egypt – European Union – France – Georgia – Germany – Ghana – Hungary – India – Iraq – Iran – Ireland – Israel – Italy – Japan – Kenya – Lithuania – Luxembourg – Malaysia – Mexico – New Zealand – Norway – Pakistan – Palestinian territories – Philippines – Poland – Romania – Russia – Singapore – South Africa – South Korea – Spain – Sri Lanka – United Arab Emirates – United Kingdom – United States
Other topics
Awards – Law – Religious leaders
Birth and death categories
Births – Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments – Disestablishments
Works and introductions categories
Works – Introductions
Works entering the public domain
v • d • e
2017 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar 2017
MMXVII

Ab urbe condita 2770
Armenian calendar 1466
ԹՎ ՌՆԿԶ
Bahá'í calendar 173 – 174
Buddhist calendar 2561
Coptic calendar 1733 – 1734
Ethiopian calendar 2009 – 2010
Hebrew calendar 5777 – 5778
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat 2072 – 2073
 - Shaka Samvat 1939 – 1940
 - Kali Yuga 5118 – 5119
Holocene calendar 12017
Iranian calendar 1395 – 1396
Islamic calendar 1438 – 1439
Japanese calendar Heisei

29


(平成 29年)

 - Imperial Year Kōki 2677
(皇紀2677年)
Julian calendar 2062
Korean calendar 4350
Thai solar calendar 2560
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Events[]

January[]

February[]

  • February 11 – North Korea prompts international condemnation by test firing a ballistic missile across the Sea of Japan.[4]

March[]

  • March 3 – The hybrid Nintendo Switch game console is released worldwide to critical acclaim, and later becomes the fastest-selling game console in the United States.
  • March 10 – The UN warns that the world is facing the biggest humanitarian crisis since World War II, with up to 20 million people at risk of starvation and famine in Yemen, Somalia, South Sudan and Nigeria.[5]
  • March 14 – March 2017 North American blizzard was a major late-season blizzard that affected the Northeastern United States, New England and Canada, dumping up to 3 feet of snow in the hardest hit areas.
  • March 29 – The United Kingdom triggers article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, starting the Brexit Negotiations, the talks for the United Kingdom to leave the European Union.[6]
  • March 30 – SpaceX conducts the world's first reflight of an orbital class rocket.[7][8]

April[]

  • April 6 – In response to a suspected chemical weapons attack on a rebel-held town, the U.S. military launches 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles at an air base in Syria. Russia describes the strikes as an "aggression", adding they significantly damage U.S.–Russia ties.[9]
  • April 13 – In the 2017 Nangarhar airstrike the U.S. drops the GBU-43/B MOAB, the world's largest non-nuclear weapon, at an ISIL base in Afghanistan.

May[]

  • May 12 – Computers around the world are hit by a large-scale ransomware cyberattack,[10] which goes on to affect at least 150 countries.[11]
  • May 22 – A terrorist bombing attack at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, England kills 22 people and injures over 500.[12]

June[]

  • June 1 – Amidst widespread criticism, the U.S. announces its decision to withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement in due time.[13]
  • June 3 – An Islamic terror attack on London Bridge, United Kingdom kills 8 and injures 48.
  • June 7 – Two terrorist attacks are simultaneously carried out by five terrorists belonging to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) against the Iranian Parliament building and the Mausoleum of Ruhollah Khomeini, both in Tehran, Iran, leaving 17 civilians dead and 43 wounded. It becomes the first ISIL attack in Iran.
  • June 8 – In the midst of Brexit, a snap general election is held in the UK, three years before the next one was due, resulting in a hung parliament, with the Conservative Party, led by Prime Minister Theresa May, losing their majority in Parliament. The Labour Party, led by Jeremy Corbyn, makes gains for the first time since 1997. Days later, the Conservative Party, now lacking a majority, enters a confidence-and-supply deal with the Northern Irish DUP.[14]
  • June 10 – The 2017 World Expo is opened in Astana, Kazakhstan.[15]
  • June 12 – American student Otto Warmbier returns home in a coma after spending 17 months in a North Korean prison and dies a week later.[16][17]
  • June 14 – A fire at Grenfell Tower in London kills 71 people.[18]
  • June 18 – Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) fire six surface-to-surface mid-range ballistic missiles from domestic bases targeting ISIL forces in the Syrian Deir ez-Zor Governorate in response to the terrorist attacks in Tehran earlier that month.
  • June 21 – The Great Mosque of al-Nuri in Mosul, Iraq, is destroyed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.[19]
  • June 25 – The World Health Organization estimates that Yemen has over 200,000 cases of cholera.
  • June 27 – A series of cyberattacks using the Petya malware begins, affecting organizations in Ukraine.[20]

July[]

  • July 4 – Russia and China urge North Korea to halt its missile and nuclear programs after it successfully tested its first intercontinental ballistic missile.[21][22]
  • July 7 – The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons is voted for by 122 states.[23]
  • July 10 – Iraqi Civil War: Mosul is declared fully liberated from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.[24]

August[]

  • August 5 – The UN Security Council unanimously approves fresh sanctions on North Korean trade and investment.[25]
  • August 12 – The Unite the right rally is held in Charlottesville, Virginia, by a variety of white nationalist and other far-right racist groups; Heather Heyer, a counter-protestor, is killed after being hit by a car.
  • August 17 – The first observation of a collision of two neutron stars (GW170817)[26] is hailed as a breakthrough in multi-messenger astronomy[27] when both gravitational and electromagnetic waves from the event are detected.[28][29] Data from the event provided confirmatory evidence for the r-process theory of the origin of heavy elements like gold.[30][31]
  • August 21 – A total solar eclipse (nicknamed "The Great American Eclipse")[32] is visible within a band across the entire contiguous United States of America, passing from the Pacific to the Atlantic coasts.[33][34][35]
  • August 25 – ongoing – A military operation targeting Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar "seems a textbook example of ethnic cleansing", according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.[36]
  • August 25–30 – Hurricane Harvey strikes the United States as a Category 4 hurricane, causing catastrophic damage to the Houston metropolitan area, mostly due to record-breaking floods. At least 108 deaths are recorded, and total damage reaches $125 billion (2017 USD), making Harvey the costliest natural disaster in United States history, tied with Hurricane Katrina in 2005.[37][38]

September[]

  • September 1 – Russian President Vladimir Putin expels 755 diplomats in response to United States sanctions.[39]
  • September 3 – North Korea conducts its sixth and most powerful nuclear test.[40]
  • September 6–10 – The Caribbean and United States are struck by Hurricane Irma, a Category 5 hurricane that is the strongest hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic basin outside the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico. The storm causes at least 146 deaths and $64.2 billion (2017 USD) in damage.[38][41]
  • September 13 – The International Olympic Committee awards Paris and Los Angeles the right to host the 2024 and 2028 Summer Olympics, respectively.[42]
  • September 15 – Cassini–Huygens ends its 13-year mission by plunging into Saturn, becoming the first spacecraft to enter the planet's atmosphere.[43]
  • September 19 – Eleven days after another powerful earthquake, and on the 32nd anniversary of the deadly 1985 Mexico City earthquake, a Mw 7.1 earthquake strikes central Mexico, killing more than 350, leaving up to 6,000 injured[44] and thousands more homeless.[45]
  • September 19–20 – Just two weeks after Hurricane Irma struck the Caribbean, Hurricane Maria strikes similar areas, making landfall on Dominica as a Category 5 hurricane, and Puerto Rico as a Category 4 hurricane. Maria caused at least 112 deaths and damages estimated in excess of $91.6 billion (2017 USD).[38][46]
  • September 25 – Iraqi Kurdistan votes in a referendum to become an independent state, in defiance of Iraq;[47] by October 15, the crisis escalates into a short-lived armed conflict over disputed territories.

October[]

  • October 1 – Fifty-eight people are killed and 851 injured when Stephen Paddock opens fire on a crowd in Las Vegas, surpassing the 2016 Orlando nightclub shooting as the deadliest mass shooting perpetrated by a lone gunman in U.S. history.[48]
  • October 12 – The United States announces its decision to withdraw from UNESCO,[49] and is immediately followed by Israel.[50]
  • October 14 – A massive blast caused by a truck bombing in Mogadishu, Somalia kills at least 512 people and injures 316 others.[51]
  • October 17 – Syrian Civil War: Raqqa is declared fully liberated from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
  • October 25 – At the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, Xi Jinping assumes his second term as General Secretary (China's paramount leader), and the political theory Xi Jinping Thought is written into the party's constitution.[52]
  • October 27 – Based on the results of a previously held referendum, Catalonia declares independence from Spain,[53] but the Catalan Republic is not recognised by the Spanish government or any other sovereign nation.[54]

November[]

  • November 2 – A new species of orangutan is identified in Indonesia, becoming the third known species of orangutan as well as the first great ape to be described for almost a century.[55]
  • November 3 – Syrian Civil War: both Deir ez-Zor in Syria and Al-Qa'im in Iraq are declared liberated from ISIL on the same day.[56]
  • November 5 – The German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung publishes 13.4 million documents leaked from the offshore law firm Appleby, along with business registries in 19 tax jurisdictions that reveal offshore financial activities on behalf of politicians, celebrities, corporate giants and business leaders. The newspaper shared the documents with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and asked it to lead the investigation.[57]
  • November 12 – A magnitude 7.3 earthquake strikes the border region between Iraq and Iran leaving at least 530 dead and over 70,000 homeless.[58]
  • November 15
    • Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe is placed under house arrest, as the military take control of the country.[59] He resigns six days later, after 37 years of rule.[60]
    • A Leonardo da Vinci painting, Salvator Mundi, sells for US$450 million at Christie's in New York, a new record price for any work of art.[61]
  • November 20 – Nature publishes an article recognising the high velocity asteroid ʻOumuamua as originating from outside the Solar System i.e. the first known interstellar object.
  • November 22 – The International Court of Justice finds Ratko Mladić guilty of genocide committed in Srebrenica during the 1990s Bosnian War, the worst massacre in Europe since World War II. He is sentenced to life in prison.[62]
  • November 24 – A mosque attack in Sinai, Egypt kills 305 worshippers and leaves hundreds more wounded.[63]

December[]

  • December 5 – Russia is banned from the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang by the International Olympic Committee, following an investigation into state-sponsored doping.[64]
  • December 6 – The United States officially recognises Jerusalem as Israel's capital.[65]
  • December 9 – The Iraqi military announces that it has "fully liberated" all of Iraq's territory from "ISIS terrorist gangs" and retaken full control of the Iraqi-Syrian border.[66]
  • December 14 – The Walt Disney Company announces that it will acquire most of 21st Century Fox, including the 20th Century Fox film studio, for $66 billion.[67]
  • December 22 – The UN Security Council votes 15–0 in favor of additional sanctions on North Korea, including measures to slash the country's petroleum imports by up to 90%.[68][69]
  • December 24 – Guatemala follows in the footsteps of the United States by announcing that they will also move their Israeli embassy to Jerusalem, followed by Honduras and Panama two days later.[70]

Births[]

  • August 31 – Prince Gabriel, Duke of Dalarna

Deaths[]

Main article: Deaths in 2017
Further information: Category:2017 deaths

January[]

Main article: Deaths in January 2017

Om Puri

Mário Soares

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

Zygmunt Bauman

Sir

Sir John Hurt

Mary Tyler Moore

February[]

Main article: Deaths in February 2017

Étienne Tshisekedi

Hans Rosling

Jiro Taniguchi

Al Jarreau

Mildred Dresselhaus

Bill Paxton

  • February 1 – Étienne Tshisekedi, 18th Prime Minister of Zaire (b. 1932)
  • February 2 – Predrag Matvejević, Bosnian Croat writer and scholar (b. 1932)
  • February 6
    • Irwin Corey, American actor and comedian (b. 1914)
    • Raymond Smullyan, American mathematician (b. 1919)
    • Roger Walkowiak, French road racing cyclist (b. 1927)
    • Joost van der Westhuizen, South African rugby union player (b. 1971)
  • February 7
    • Svend Asmussen, Danish jazz violinist (b. 1916)
    • Sotsha Dlamini, 5th Prime Minister of Swaziland (b. 1940)
    • Smail Hamdani, 11th Prime Minister of Algeria (b. 1930)
    • Hans Rosling, Swedish medical doctor, academic, statistician, and public speaker (b. 1948)
    • Tzvetan Todorov, Bulgarian-French philosopher and literary critic (b. 1939)
  • February 8
    • Peter Mansfield, British Nobel physicist (b. 1933)
    • Steve Sumner, English-born New Zealand footballer (b. 1955)
  • February 9 – Piet Keizer, Dutch footballer (b. 1943)
  • February 10
    • Mike Ilitch, American businessman (b. 1929)
    • Hal Moore, American lieutenant general and author (b. 1922)
  • February 11
    • Fab Melo, Brazilian basketball player (b. 1990)
    • Jiro Taniguchi, Japanese manga artist (b. 1947)
  • February 12 – Al Jarreau, American singer (b. 1940)
  • February 13
    • Kim Jong-nam, half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un (b. 1971)
    • Seijun Suzuki, Japanese film director and screenwriter (b. 1923)
  • February 16
    • Bengt Gustavsson, Swedish footballer and manager (b. 1928)
    • George Steele, American professional wrestler and actor (b. 1937)
  • February 17 – Tom Regan, American philosopher (b. 1938)
  • February 18
    • Omar Abdel-Rahman, Egyptian convicted terrorist (b. 1938)
    • Ivan Koloff, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1942)
    • Michael Ogio, Papua New Guinean politician (b. 1942)
    • Nadiya Olizarenko, Russian-born Ukrainian Olympic track athlete (b. 1953)
  • February 19
    • Halaevalu Mataʻaho ʻAhomeʻe, Queen Consort of Tonga (b. 1926)
    • Larry Coryell, American jazz guitarist (b. 1943)
    • Igor Shafarevich, Ukrainian-born Russian mathematician (b. 1923)
    • Danuta Szaflarska, Polish actress (b. 1915)
  • February 20
    • Vitaly Churkin, Russian diplomat (b. 1952)
    • Mildred Dresselhaus, American physicist and educator (b. 1930)
  • February 21
    • Kenneth Arrow, American Nobel Prize-winning economist (b. 1921)
    • Desmond Connell, Irish cardinal (b. 1926)
  • February 25 – Bill Paxton, American actor and director (b. 1955)
  • February 26
    • Ludvig Faddeev, Russian theoretical physicist and mathematician (b. 1934)
    • Eugene Garfield, American linguist (b. 1925)
    • Joseph Wapner, American lieutenant and judge (b. 1919)[91][92]
  • February 27 – Carlos Humberto Romero, 37th President of El Salvador (b. 1924)
  • February 28 – Vladimir Petrov, Russian ice hockey player (b. 1947)

March[]

Main article: Deaths in March 2017

René Préval

Derek Walcott

Chuck Berry

David Rockefeller

  • March 1 – Paula Fox, American writer (b. 1923)
  • March 3
    • Míriam Colón, Puerto Rican actress (b. 1936)
    • Raymond Kopa, French footballer (b. 1931)[93]
    • René Préval, 2nd Prime Minister and 38th and 40th President of Haiti (b. 1943)
  • March 5 – Kurt Moll, German operatic bass (b. 1938)
  • March 7 – Hans Georg Dehmelt, German-American Nobel Prize-winning physicist (b. 1922)
  • March 8 – George Andrew Olah, Hungarian-American Nobel chemist (b. 1927)
  • March 9 – Howard Hodgkin, British painter and printmaker (b. 1932)
  • March 10
    • Tony Haygarth, English actor (b. 1945)
    • John Surtees, British motorcycle racer and driver (b. 1934)
  • March 12 – Patrick Nève, Belgian racing driver (b. 1949)
  • March 13 – Richard, 6th Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg (b. 1934)
  • March 17
    • Laurynas Stankevičius, 7th Prime Minister of Lithuania (b. 1935)
    • Derek Walcott, Saint Lucian Nobel poet and playwright (b. 1930)
  • March 18
    • Chuck Berry, American singer and musician (b. 1926)
    • Miloslav Vlk, Czech cardinal (b. 1932)
  • March 19 – Roger Pingeon, French road racing cyclist (b. 1940)
  • March 20 – David Rockefeller, American banker and philanthropist (b. 1915)
  • March 21 – Martin McGuinness, Irish republican activist, Provisional IRA volunteer and Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland (b. 1950)
  • March 22 – Tomas Milian, Cuban-American-Italian actor (b. 1933)
  • March 23 – William H. Keeler, American cardinal (b. 1931)
  • March 25 – Cuthbert Sebastian, 2nd Governor-General of Saint Kitts and Nevis (b. 1921)
  • March 27 – David Storey, English writer (b. 1933)
  • March 28 – Christine Kaufmann, Austrian-born German actress (b. 1945)
  • March 29 – Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov, Russian-American Nobel theoretical physicist (b. 1928)
  • March 31 – Gilbert Baker, American artist and LGTBI rights activist (b. 1951)

April[]

Main article: Deaths in April 2017

Don Rickles

Magdalena Abakanowicz

Jonathan Demme

  • April 1 – Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Russian poet (b. 1933)
  • April 4 – Karl Stotz, Austrian footballer and manager (b. 1927)
  • April 6 – Don Rickles, American actor and comedian (b. 1926)
  • April 7 – Tim Pigott-Smith, English actor and author (b. 1946)
  • April 8 – Georgy Grechko, Russian cosmonaut (b. 1931)
  • April 9 – Carme Chacón, Spanish politician (b. 1971)
  • April 11 – Michael Ballhaus, German cinematographer (b. 1935)
  • April 12 – Charlie Murphy, American actor and comedian (b. 1959)
  • April 15
    • Emma Morano, Italian super-centenarian, last verified living human born in the 1800's (b. 1899)
    • Allan Holdsworth, British guitarist and composer (b. 1946)
    • Clifton James, American actor (b. 1920)[94]
  • April 20 – Magdalena Abakanowicz, Polish sculptor (b. 1930)
  • April 23
    • Imre Földi, Hungarian Olympic weightlifter (b. 1938)
    • Luis Pércovich Roca, 118th Prime Minister of Peru (b. 1931)
  • April 24 – Robert M. Pirsig, American writer and philosopher (b. 1928)
  • April 26 – Jonathan Demme, American film director (b. 1944)
  • April 28 – Vito Acconci, American artist and architectural designer (b. 1940)
  • April 30 – Ueli Steck, Swiss rock climber and mountaineer (b. 1976)

May[]

Main article: Deaths in May 2017

Chris Cornell

Sir

Sir Roger Moore

Zbigniew Brzezinski

Manuel Noriega

Konstantinos Mitsotakis

  • May 2 – Heinz Kessler, German politician and military officer (b. 1920)
  • May 4
    • William Baumol, American economist (b. 1922)
    • Timo Mäkinen, Finnish rally driver (b. 1938)[95]
  • May 5
    • Adolph Kiefer, American Olympic swimmer (b. 1918)
    • Ely Ould Mohamed Vall, 6th President of Mauritania (b. 1953)
  • May 6 – Steven Holcomb, American Olympic bobsledder (b. 1980)
  • May 9
    • Michael Parks, American actor (b. 1940)
    • Qian Qichen, Chinese diplomat and politician (b. 1928)
  • May 12
    • Mauno Koivisto, 32nd Prime Minister and 9th President of Finland (b. 1923)
    • Amotz Zahavi, Israeli evolutionary biologist (b. 1928)
  • May 14 – Powers Boothe, American actor (b. 1948)
  • May 15 – Karl-Otto Apel, German philosopher (b. 1922)
  • May 17
    • Viktor Gorbatko, Russian cosmonaut (b. 1934)
    • Rhodri Morgan, First minister of Wales (b. 1939)
    • Todor Veselinović, Serbian footballer and coach (b. 1930)
  • May 18 – Chris Cornell, American musician (b. 1964)
  • May 19 – Stanislav Petrov, Soviet Air Force officer (b. 1939)
  • May 22
    • Nicky Hayden, American motorcycle racer (b. 1981)
    • Dina Merrill, American actress, heiress, socialite, businesswoman, and philanthropist (b. 1923)
  • May 23 – Sir Roger Moore, English actor (b. 1927)
  • May 26
    • Zbigniew Brzezinski, Polish-American diplomat and political scientist (b. 1928)
    • Jim Bunning, American baseball player and politician (b. 1931)
  • May 27 – Gregg Allman, American musician (b. 1947)
  • May 29
    • Konstantinos Mitsotakis, 76th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1918)
    • Manuel Noriega, Panamanian dictator (b. 1934)
  • May 30 – Elena Verdugo, American actress (b. 1925)
  • May 31
    • Jiří Bělohlávek, Czech conductor (b. 1946)
    • Lubomyr Husar, Ukrainian archbishop and cardinal (b. 1933)

June[]

Main article: Deaths in June 2017

Adam West

Helmut Kohl

Quett Masire

Simone Veil

  • June 4 – Juan Goytisolo, Spanish writer (b. 1931)
  • June 5 – Cheick Tioté, Ivorian footballer (b. 1986)
  • June 6
    • Adnan Khashoggi, Saudi businessman and arms dealer (b. 1935)
    • Sandra Reemer, Dutch singer (b. 1950)
  • June 8
    • Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann, Nicaraguan diplomat, politician, and priest (b. 1933)
    • Glenne Headly, American actress (b. 1955)[96]
    • Sam Panopoulos, Canadian cook (b. 1934)
  • June 9 – Adam West, American actor (b. 1928)
  • June 10 – Julia Perez, Indonesian actress and singer (b. 1980)
  • June 12 – Charles P. Thacker, American computer designer (b. 1943)
  • June 13 – Patricia Knatchbull, 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma (b. 1924)
  • June 15 – Aleksey Batalov, Russian actor (b. 1928)
  • June 16
    • John G. Avildsen, American film director (b. 1935)
    • Stephen Furst, American actor (b. 1954)
    • Helmut Kohl, Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany (b. 1930)
  • June 17 – Baldwin Lonsdale, President of Vanuatu (b. 1948)
  • June 19
    • Ivan Dias, Indian cardinal (b. 1936)
    • Otto Warmbier, American citizen detained in North Korea (b. 1994)[16][17]
  • June 20 – Prodigy, American rapper (b. 1974)
  • June 22 – Quett Masire, 2nd President of Botswana (b. 1925)
  • June 26 – Habib Thiam, Prime Minister of Senegal (b. 1933)
  • June 27
    • Peter L. Berger, Austrian-born American sociologist (b. 1929)
    • Michael Bond, English author (b. 1926)
    • Michael Nyqvist, Swedish actor (b. 1960)[97]
  • June 30
    • Darrall Imhoff, American basketball player (b. 1938)[98]
    • Simone Veil, French lawyer and politician (b. 1927)[99]

July[]

Main article: Deaths in July 2017

Martin Landau

George A. Romero

Chester Bennington

  • July 2 – Tatiana Zatulovskaya, Soviet-born Israeli chess player (b. 1935)
  • July 3 – Paolo Villaggio, Italian writer and actor (b. 1932)
  • July 4 – Daniil Granin, Soviet and Russian author (b. 1919)
  • July 5 – Joachim Meisner, German cardinal (b. 1933)
  • July 7 – Marina Ratner, Russian-American mathematician (b. 1938)
  • July 8
    • Nelsan Ellis, American actor (b. 1977)[100]
    • Elsa Martinelli, Italian actress and fashion model (b. 1935)
  • July 9 – Ilya Glazunov, Russian painter (b. 1930)
  • July 13
    • Charles Bachman, American computer scientist (b. 1924)
    • Liu Xiaobo, Chinese human rights activist and Nobel laureate (b. 1955)
  • July 14
    • Anne Golon, French author (b. 1921)
    • Maryam Mirzakhani, Iranian mathematician (b. 1977)
    • Pedro Richter Prada, 115th Prime Minister of Peru (b. 1921)
  • July 15 – Martin Landau, American actor (b. 1928)
  • July 16 – George A. Romero, American-Canadian film director (b. 1940)
  • July 18
    • Harvey Atkin, Canadian actor (b. 1942)
    • Red West, American actor, film stuntman, and songwriter (b. 1936)
  • July 20 – Chester Bennington, American musician (b. 1976)
  • July 21 – John Heard, American actor (b. 1946)
  • July 23
    • John Kundla, American basketball coach (b. 1916)
    • Waldir Peres, Brazilian footballer (b. 1951)
    • Mervyn Rose, Australian tennis player (b. 1930)
  • July 25
    • Michael Johnson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1944)
    • Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu, Indigenous Australian musician (b. 1971)
  • July 26
    • June Foray, American voice actress (b. 1917)
    • Leo Kinnunen, Finnish racing driver (b. 1943)
  • July 27 – Sam Shepard, American playwright and actor (b. 1943)
  • July 29 – Redha Malek, 8th Prime Minister of Algeria (b. 1931)
  • July 30 – Anton Vratuša, 8th Prime Minister of Slovenia (b. 1915)
  • July 31 – Jeanne Moreau, French actress (b. 1928)

August[]

Main article: Deaths in August 2017

Glen Campbell

Dick Gregory

Jerry Lewis

Tsutomu Hata

  • August 2
    • Jim Marrs, American journalist (b. 1943)
    • Ara Parseghian, American football player and coach (b. 1923)
  • August 3
    • Robert Hardy, English actor (b. 1925)
    • Ángel Nieto, Spanish Grand Prix motorcycle racer (b. 1947)
  • August 5
    • Dionigi Tettamanzi, Italian cardinal (b. 1934)
    • Ernst Zündel, German Holocaust denial publisher and pamphleteer (b. 1939)
    • Mark White, American politician (b. 1940)
  • August 6 – Betty Cuthbert, Australian athlete (b. 1938)
  • August 7 – Haruo Nakajima, Japanese actor (b. 1929)
  • August 8 – Glen Campbell, American singer and actor (b. 1936)
  • August 11 – Abdulhussain Abdulredha, Kuwaiti actor and writer (b. 1939)
  • August 13 – Joseph Bologna, American actor (b. 1934)
  • August 15 – Gunnar Birkerts, Latvian-born American architect (b. 1925)
  • August 18 – Bruce Forsyth, English television presenter and entertainer (b. 1928)[101]
  • August 19
    • Brian Aldiss, British science fiction writer and editor (b. 1925)
    • Karl Otto Götz, German artist, filmmaker, and writer (b. 1914)
    • Dick Gregory, American comedian and activist (b. 1932)
  • August 20
    • Jerry Lewis, American actor, comedian, singer, filmmaker and humanitarian (b. 1926)
    • Colin Meads, New Zealand rugby player (b. 1936)
  • August 21 – Bajram Rexhepi, 1st Prime Minister of Kosovo (b. 1954)
  • August 22 – John Abercrombie, American jazz guitarist (b. 1944)
  • August 24 – Jay Thomas, American actor (b. 1948)
  • August 26
    • Tobe Hooper, American film director (b. 1943)
    • Josef Musil, Czech volleyball player (b. 1932)
  • August 28
    • Mireille Darc, French model and actress (b. 1938)
    • Tsutomu Hata, 51st Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1935)
  • August 30
    • Louise Hay, American author (b. 1926)
    • Károly Makk, Hungarian film director and screenwriter (b. 1925)
  • August 31 – Richard Anderson, American actor (b. 1926)

September[]

Main article: Deaths in September 2017

Nicolaas Bloembergen

Abdul Halim

Harry Dean Stanton

Jake LaMotta

Hugh Hefner

October[]

Main article: Deaths in October 2017

Tom Petty

Jalal Talabani

Albert Zafy

Roy Dotrice

Fats Domino

  • October 1 – Arthur Janov, American psychologist (b. 1924)
  • October 2
    • Klaus Huber, Swiss composer and academic (b. 1924)
    • Tom Petty, American musician (b. 1950)
  • October 3 – Jalal Talabani, Prime Minister and President of Iraq (b. 1933)
  • October 4 – Liam Cosgrave, 6th Taoiseach of Ireland (b. 1920)
  • October 5 – Anne Wiazemsky, French actress and writer (b. 1947)
  • October 6 – Roberto Anzolin, Italian footballer (b. 1938)
  • October 7 – Vyacheslav Ivanov, Russian philologist and semiotician (b. 1929)
  • October 9
    • Armando Calderón Sol, 41st President of El Salvador (b. 1948)
    • Jean Rochefort, French actor (b. 1930)
    • József Tóth, Hungarian footballer (b. 1929)
  • October 11 – Clifford Husbands, 6th Governor-General of Barbados (b. 1926)
  • October 13
    • William Lombardy, American chess grandmaster (b. 1937)
    • Albert Zafy, 3rd President of Madagascar (b. 1927)
  • October 14 – Richard Wilbur, American poet (b. 1921)
  • October 16
    • Roy Dotrice, British actor (b. 1923)
    • Daphne Caruana Galizia, Maltese journalist (b. 1964)
    • John Dunsworth, Canadian actor (b. 1946)
  • October 17 – Danielle Darrieux, French actress and singer (b. 1917)
  • October 18 – Marino Perani, Italian football manager and player (b. 1939)
  • October 19 – Umberto Lenzi, Italian film director (b. 1931)
  • October 20 – Federico Luppi, Argentine-Spanish actor (b. 1936)
  • October 21 – Rosemary Leach, British actress (b. 1935)
  • October 22 – George Young, Scottish-born Australian musician and songwriter (b. 1946)
  • October 23
    • Walter Lassally, German-born British-Greek cinematographer (b. 1926)
    • Paul J. Weitz, American astronaut (b. 1932)
  • October 24
    • Girija Devi, Indian singer (b. 1929)
    • Fats Domino, American singer (b. 1928)
    • Robert Guillaume, American actor and singer (b. 1927)
  • October 25 – John Mollo, British costume designer and book author (b. 1931)
  • October 27 – Katalin Szőke, Hungarian Olympic swimmer (b. 1935)
  • October 28 – Manuel Sanchís Martínez, Spanish footballer (b. 1938)
  • October 29
    • Muhal Richard Abrams, American musician (b. 1930)
    • Tony Madigan, Australian boxer and rugby union player (b. 1930)
    • Ninian Stephen, 20th Governor-General of Australia (b. 1923)
  • October 30 – Kim Joo-hyuk, South Korean actor (b. 1972)

November[]

Main article: Deaths in November 2017

Lil Peep

Malcolm Young

Charles Manson

David Cassidy

Jim Nabors

  • November 3 – Abdur Rahman Biswas, 11th President of Bangladesh (b. 1926)
  • November 5 – Lothar Thoms, German track cyclist (b. 1956)
  • November 6
    • Karin Dor, German actress (b. 1938)
    • Richard F. Gordon Jr., American astronaut (b. 1929)
    • Feliciano Rivilla, Spanish footballer (b. 1936)
  • November 7
    • Roy Halladay, American baseball player (b. 1977)
    • Brad Harris, American actor and stunt performer (b. 1933)
    • Hans Schäfer, German footballer (b. 1927)
  • November 8
    • Antonio Carluccio, Italian chef (b. 1937)
    • Josip Weber, Croatian-Belgian footballer (b. 1964)
  • November 9
    • John Hillerman, American actor (b. 1932)
    • Shyla Stylez, Canadian pornographic actress (b. 1982)
  • November 10 – Mikhail Nikolayevich Zadornov, Russian comedian and writer (b. 1948)
  • November 11
    • Kirti Nidhi Bista, 25th Prime Minister of Nepal (b. 1927)
    • Chiquito de la Calzada, Spanish humorist, singer, and actor (b. 1932)
  • November 12 – Bernard Panafieu, French cardinal (b. 1931)
  • November 13
    • Bobby Doerr, American baseball player and coach (b. 1918)
    • Alina Janowska, Polish actress (b. 1923)
    • David Poisson, French alpine skier (b. 1982)
  • November 15
    • Luis Bacalov, Argentine-born Italian composer (b. 1933)
    • Lil Peep, Swedish-American rapper, singer, and songwriter (b. 1996)
  • November 16 – Hiromi Tsuru, Japanese actress (b. 1960)
  • November 17 – Salvatore Riina, Italian mobster (b. 1930)
  • November 18
    • Azzedine Alaia, Tunisian-French fashion designer (b. 1940)
    • Youssouf Ouédraogo, 6th Prime Minister of Burkina Faso (b. 1952)
    • Naim Süleymanoğlu, Turkish Olympic weightlifter (b. 1967)
    • Malcolm Young, Australian guitarist (b. 1953)
  • November 19
    • Charles Manson, American criminal and cult leader (b. 1934)
    • Andrea Cordero Lanza di Montezemolo, Italian cardinal (b. 1925)
    • Jana Novotná, Czech tennis player (b. 1968)
    • Della Reese, American actress and singer (b. 1931)
    • Pancho Segura, Ecuadorian-American tennis player (b. 1921)
    • Mel Tillis, American country music singer (b. 1932)
  • November 21 – David Cassidy, American singer and actor (b. 1950)
  • November 22 – Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Russian baritone singer (b. 1962)[102]
  • November 25 – Rance Howard, American actor (b. 1928)
  • November 29
    • Jerry Fodor, American philosopher and cognitive scientist (b. 1935)
    • Slobodan Praljak, Croatian general (b. 1945)
  • November 30 – Jim Nabors, American actor (b. 1930)

December[]

Main article: Deaths in December 2017

Ali Abdullah Saleh

Johnny Hallyday

Michael I

Nobel Prizes[]

Nobel medal
Nobel medal
  • Chemistry – Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson
  • Economics – Richard Thaler
  • Literature – Kazuo Ishiguro
  • Peace – International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons
  • Physics – Barry Barish, Kip Thorne and Rainer Weiss
  • Physiology or Medicine – Jeffrey C. Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael W. Young

See also[]

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Genealogical events[]

People of the year 2017 at Familypedia

25 people were born in 2017

 FatherMotherAge mother at birth
Eissa Al Mana (2017)Wissam Saleh Al Mana (1975)Janet Damita Jo Jackson (1966)
Mark Miguel John Baar (2017)Daniel Joseph Baar (1960)Carmen Dominique Ramirez (1966)
Rumi Carter (2017)Shawn Corey Carter (1969)Beyoncé Giselle Knowles (1981)
Sir Carter (2017)Shawn Corey Carter (1969)Beyoncé Giselle Knowles (1981)
Alexander Chobrok of Kohary (2017-)Pawel Chrobok (1972-)Ariana Oliver Mas (c1975-)
Willow Amelia Chu (2017)Jonathan Murray Chu (1979)Kristin Kathleen Hodge (1988)
Alexander George Timothy Clooney (2017)George Timothy Clooney (1961)Amal Ramzi Alamuddin (1978)
Ella Clooney (2017)George Timothy Clooney (1961)Amal Ramzi Alamuddin (1978)
Charlie Ferraez (2017)Marcos Antonio Humberto Ferraez (1966)Alona Tal (1983)
Marie-Anastasie Fraye (2017-)Francois-Xavier Fraye (1979-)Alix de la Poëze (1981-)
Carlotta Goldschmidt (2017-)Roman Goldschmidt (1973-)Anna von Hohenzollern (1983-)
Adonis Mahbed Graham (2017)Aubrey Drake Graham (1986)Sophie Brussaux (1989)
Besso Harper (2017)Benjamin Chase Harper (1969)Jaclyn Matfus (1984)
Kenzo Kash Hart (2017)Kevin Darnell Hart (1979)Eniko Parrish (1984)
Ludwig Hoyos (2017-2017)Johannes Hoyos (1978-)Veronica Wundsam (1980-)
... further results

0 children were born to the 9 women born in 2017

89 people died in 2017

 FatherMotherAge at death
Helen Adamski (1948-2017)George Adamski (1925-1998)Sylvia Fazekas (1928-2000)
María Julia Alsogaray (1942-2017)Álvaro Carlos Alsogaray (1913-2005)Edith Lea Ana Gay (1919-2004)
Akihito Amachi (1940-2017)
Roland Neal Anderson (1929-2017)Elroy Sigmund (Roy) Anderson (1897-1986)Helen Alene Mudica (1904-1986)
William West Anderson (1928-2017)Otto West Anderson (1903-1984)Audrey Volenne Speer (1906-1969)
Martha Antonsson (1947-2017)Mark Anthonsson (1919-1996)Maria Harjo (1923-1997)
Antony Charles Robert Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon (1930-2017)Ronald Owen Lloyd Armstrong-Jones (1899-1966)Anne Messel (1902-1992)
Ina Ashworth (1921-2017)James Arnold Ashworth (1893-1980)Caddie Riding (1897-1989)
Kiyoko Atsumi (1949-2017)
Miguel Azucena (1960-2017)Oswaldo Azucena (1920-2000)Isabella Abadiano (1930-2003)
Colette Basilescu (1921-2017)Aristide Basilescu (1892-1969)Aglae Saint Georges de Posingen (c1895-1958)
Barbara Baumstark (1941-2017)Joachim Baumstark (1914-1979)Charlotte Ballantine (1916-1996)
Harold Rance Beckenholdt (1928-2017)Engle E. Beckenholdt (1896-1980)Ethel Cleo Tomlin (1904-1966)
Chester Charles Bennington (1976-2017)Lee Russel Bennington (1941-1999)Susan Elaine Johnson (1954)
Blossom Bernstein (1925-2017)Herman Bernstein (1900-1992)Lillian Blackman (1901-1957)
... further results

363 people lived in 2017

 FatherMother
Darrell Leslie Adair (1964-2022)Delbert William Adair (1934-1976)Janice Rae Holliday (1938-2018)
J Brent Adair (1935-2020)Gerald Wayne Adair (1908-1989)Ina Johnson (1912-1993)
Marvin Joseph Adamek (1933-2020)Joseph Adamek (1898-1985)Annie Karasek (1900-1985)
Helen Adamski (1948-2017)George Adamski (1925-1998)Sylvia Fazekas (1928-2000)
Pearl Agron (1965-2021)Andrew Agron (1942-2010)Shelley Fridman (1944-2012)
Stephen Ainslie (1964-2018)Michael Ainslie (1930-1999)Amanda Beckermann (1929-2004)
Fuyumi Akizuki (1952-2019)
Edward Alabaster (1947-2018)Albert Alabaster (1920-2000)Jennifer Beli (1924-1997)
John Malcolm Allerton (1938-2023)Jack Allerton (1904-1950)Minnie Young (1906-1995)
María Julia Alsogaray (1942-2017)Álvaro Carlos Alsogaray (1913-2005)Edith Lea Ana Gay (1919-2004)
Akihito Amachi (1940-2017)
Roland Neal Anderson (1929-2017)Elroy Sigmund (Roy) Anderson (1897-1986)Helen Alene Mudica (1904-1986)
Terry Roland Anderson (1950-2020)Roland Neal Anderson (1929-2017)LaVurne Marcella Grone (1930-2013)
William West Anderson (1928-2017)Otto West Anderson (1903-1984)Audrey Volenne Speer (1906-1969)
Martha Antonsson (1947-2017)Mark Anthonsson (1919-1996)Maria Harjo (1923-1997)
... further results

Events of the year 2017 at Familypedia

15 people were married in 2017.

 Joined with
Lisa Michelle Bonet (1967)Leonard Albert Kravitz (1964)+ Joseph Jason Namakaeha Momoa (1979)
Seth Robert Bradtl (1988)Emily Horner (1995)
Joseph Garret Duggar (1995)Kendra Renée Caldwell (1998)
Joy-Anna Duggar (1997)Austin Martyn Forsyth (1993)
Melanie Alissa Fisher (1984)Baldassare Rosario Pellegrino
Hugo GrantOlivia Douglass
Miranda May Kerr (1983)Christopher Middlebrook (1983-1998)+ Orlando Jonathan Blanchard Copeland Bloom (1977)+ Evan Thomas Spiegel (1990)
Ryota Kohama (1989)Michelle Lavigne (1991)
Philippa Charlotte Middleton (1983)James Spencer Matthews (1975)
Joseph Jason Namakaeha Momoa (1979)Lisa Michelle Bonet (1967)
Jeremy Steven Suarez (1990)Maria Vidal (1992)
Elizabeth Andrea 'Bitsie' Tulloch (1981-)David Giuntoli (1980-)
Maria Vidal (1992)Jeremy Steven Suarez (1990)
Serena Jameka Williams (1981)Alexis Kerry Ohanian (1983)
Tatiana zu Leiningen (1989-)Clayton Reynolds (c1987)

There were 0 military battles in 2017.


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