Deaths in January 2017

The following is a list of notable deaths in January 2017. For notable deaths of other months in 2017, please see "Months".

• Each listing of a death must have a source. If no reference is included, the death notice will be removed. The following are the requirements of adding a name to the list in its order: name, age, nationality, what the person is known for, cause of death (if known) and most importantly a source.

January

Tony Atkinson
1944 – 2017

Hilarion Capucci
1922 – 2017

John Berger
1926 – 2017

Albert Brewer
1928 – 2017

Igor Volk
1937 – 2017

Heinz Billing
1914 – 2017

Milt Schmidt
1918 – 2017

Tullio De Mauro
1932 – 2017

Christopher Weeramantry
1926 – 2017

Francine York
1936 – 2017

Mário Soares
1924 – 2017

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
1934 – 2017

James Mancham
1939 – 2017

Roman Herzog
1934 – 2017

Oliver Smithies
1925 – 2017

Tommy Allsup
1931 – 2017

Graham Taylor
1944 – 2017

Lord Snowdon
1930 – 2017

Udo Ulfkotte
1960 – 2017

Zhou Youguang
1906 – 2017

Aleksandr Ezhevsky
1915 – 2017

Jimmy Snuka
1943 – 2017

Eugene Cernan
1934 – 2017

Peter Abrahams
1919 – 2017

Roberta Peters
1930 – 2017

Harry J. Middleton
1921 – 2017

Veljo Tormis
1930 – 2017

József Torgyán
1932 – 2017

Yordano Ventura
1991 – 2017

Gorden Kaye
1941 – 2017

Butch Trucks
1947 – 2017

John Hurt
1940 – 2017

Mary Tyler Moore
1936 – 2017

Mike Connors
1925 – 2017

Emmanuelle Riva
1927 – 2017

Lennart Nilsson
1922 – 2017

Ion Ungureanu
1935 – 2017

Aito Mäkinen
1927 – 2017

John Wetton
1949 – 2017

1

• Sir Tony Atkinson, 72, British economist, multiple myeloma.
• Hilarion Capucci, 94, Syrian Melkite Catholic hierarch, Patriarchal Vicar of Jerusalem (1965–1974).
• Aleksander Jackowski, 96, Polish anthropologist and ethnographer.
• Mel Lopez, 81, Filipino politician, Mayor of Manila (1986–1987, 1988–1992), heart attack.
• Memo Morales, 79, Venezuelan singer, heart attack.
• Yaakov Neeman, 77, Israeli lawyer and politician, Minister of Justice (1996, 2009–2013) and Finance (1997–1998).
• Emmanuel Niyonkuru, 54, Burundian politician, Senator (since 2015) and Minister of Water and Environment (since 2015), shot.
• Derek Parfit, 74, English philosopher (Reasons and Persons).
• Jeremy Stone, 81, American scientist and arms control activist.
• Bogdan Tuszyński, 84, Polish sports journalist and reporter (Polskie Radio).
• Alfonso Wong, 93, Hong Kong cartoonist (Old Master Q), multiple organ failure.

2

• René Ballet, 88, French journalist and author.
• John Berger, 90, English art critic and painter.
• Albert Brewer, 88, American politician, Governor of Alabama (1968–1971).
• François Chérèque, 60, French labor unionist (CFDT), leukemia.
• Tom Harpur, 87, Canadian classicist, theologian, priest, and journalist.
• Richard Machowicz, 51, American Navy SEAL and television host (Future Weapons, Deadliest Warrior), brain cancer.
• Viktor Tsaryov, 85, Russian football player and coach (Dynamo Moscow, Soviet Union national team).

3

• Rodney Bennett, 81, British television director (Doctor Who).
• Martin Brandtner, 78, American Marine Corps general.
• Ivo Brešan, 80, Croatian writer.
• Mike Buchanan, 84, Canadian ice hockey player (Chicago Blackhawks).
• Charles J. Colgan, 90, American politician, member of the Virginia Senate (1976–2016), vascular ailment.
• Shigeru Kōyama, 87, Japanese actor (Samurai Rebellion, Black Rain, Beyond Outrage), complications from pneumonia.
• Rolf Noskwith, 97, German-born British businessman and codebreaker (World War II).
• Igor Volk, 79, Ukrainian-born Russian cosmonaut and test pilot.

4

• Hisham Al-Otaibi, 70, Kuwaiti politician, Minister of Finance (1998–1999).
• Heinz Billing, 102, German physicist and computer scientist, created computer data storage.
• Abdul Halim Jaffer Khan, 89, Indian sitar player and composer, cardiac arrest.
• Jordi Pagans i Monsalvatje, 84, Spanish painter.
• Ezio Pascutti, 79, Italian footballer (Bologna).
• Georges Prêtre, 92, French orchestral and opera conductor.
• Milt Schmidt, 98, Canadian Hall of Fame ice hockey player, coach and general manager (Boston Bruins, Washington Capitals), stroke.
• Sir Douglas Wass, 93, British civil servant, Permanent Secretary to HM Treasury (1974–1983).
• Wayne Westner, 55, South African golfer, suicide by gunshot.

5

• Spartak Belyaev, 93, Russian theoretical physicist.
• Géori Boué, 98, French operatic soprano.
• Tullio De Mauro, 84, Italian linguist and politician, Minister of Education (2000–2001).
• Paul Goble, 83, English-born American author and illustrator (Tipi: Home of the Nomadic Buffalo Hunters, The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses), Parkinson's disease.
• Greg Jelks, 55, American-Australian baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies).
• Stanley Russ, 86, American politician, member of the Arkansas Senate (1975–2001), acute myeloid leukemia.
• Jill Saward, 51, British sexual assault awareness campaigner, cerebral haemorrhage.
• Christopher Weeramantry, 90, Sri Lankan judge, Vice-President of the International Court of Justice (1997–2000).
• John Wightman, 78, American politician, Mayor of Lexington, Nebraska (1992–1995), member of the Nebraska Legislature (2007–2015), respiratory failure.

6

• Yaron Ben-Dov, 46, Israeli footballer (Ironi Rishon LeZion, Maccabi Netanya, Hapoel Tel Aviv).
• Les Lazarowitz, 75, American sound mixer (Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Groundhog Day), cancer.
• Octavio Lepage, 93, Venezuelan politician, Acting President (1993).
• Ramón Martínez Pérez, 87, Spanish footballer (Sevilla, Granada, national team).
• Bayezid Osman, 92, Turkish royalty, 44th Head of the Imperial House of Osman (since 2009).
• Ricardo Piglia, 75, Argentine author, complications from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
• Om Puri, 66, Indian actor (Ardh Satya, City of Joy, East Is East), heart attack.
• Tilikum, 35, American-held orca, subject of Blackfish, bacterial infection.
• Gavin Whittaker, 46, Australian rugby league footballer (Canterbury Bulldogs, Gold Coast Chargers), stomach cancer.
• Francine York, 80, American actress (It's Only Money, Batman, The Family Man), cancer.
• Eli Zelkha, 66, Iranian-born American entrepreneur, inventor of ambient intelligence.

7

• Lucina da Costa Gomez-Matheeuws, 87, Dutch Antillean politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands Antilles (1977).
• John Deely, 74, American philosopher, cancer.
• Ramanuja Devnathan, 57, Indian Sanskrit scholar, heart attack.
• Carlos Fernández Gondín, 78, Cuban politician, Minister of the Interior (since 2015), complications from a chronic condition.
• Nat Hentoff, 91, American political philosopher, columnist and music critic (The Village Voice, Down Beat).
• Jerzy Kossela, 74, Polish guitarist and vocalist (Niebiesko-Czarni, Czerwone Gitary).
• Lelio Lagorio, 91, Italian politician, Minister of Defence (1980–1983) and Sport and Spectacles (1983–1986).
• Mário Soares, 92, Portuguese politician, President (1986–1996) and Prime Minister (1976–1978, 1983–1985).
• Lech Trzeciakowski, 85, Polish historian.

8

• Buddy Bregman, 86, American arranger, producer and composer, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
• Klaib Al-Fawwaz, 66, Jordanian diplomat and politician, Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs (2011–2012), Secretary General of the Eslah Political Party (since 2012), heart attack.
• Nicolai Gedda, 91, Swedish operatic tenor.
• Miriam Goldberg, 100, American newspaper publisher (Intermountain Jewish News).
• Roy Innis, 82, American civil rights activist and politician, National Director of the Congress of Racial Equality (since 1968), complications from Parkinson's disease.
• Abdulkadir Kure, 60, Nigerian politician, Governor of Niger State (1999–2007).
• Sir James Mancham, 77, Seychellois politician, President (1976–1977), stroke.
• Jovanka Nikolić, 64, Serbian writer.
• Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, 82, Iranian politician, President (1989–1997), heart attack.
• Peter Sarstedt, 75, English singer-songwriter ("Where Do You Go To (My Lovely)?"), progressive supranuclear palsy.
• Nigel Spearing, 86, British politician, MP for Acton (1970–1974) and Newham South (1974–1979), Alzheimer's disease.

9

• Zygmunt Bauman, 91, Polish-British sociologist.
• Michael Chamberlain, 72, New Zealand-born Australian pastor, exonerated in the death of Azaria Chamberlain, complications from acute myeloid leukaemia.
• Ugo Crescenzi, 86, Italian politician, President of Abruzzo (1970–1972, 1973–1974), member of the Chamber of Deputies (1987–1992), kidney failure.
• Ulf Dinkelspiel, 77, Swedish politician, Minister of European affairs and Foreign Trade (1991–1994), cancer.
• Bob McCullough, Australian sports administrator.
• Ali Shariatmadari, 93, Iranian politician and academic, Minister of Culture (1979).
• Warren Allen Smith, 95, American atheist gay-rights activist and writer (Humanist Manifesto II).
• Claude Steiner, 81, French-born American psychologist and writer (Warm Fuzzy Tale).
• Russell Trood, 68, Australian politician and academic, Senator for Queensland (2005–2011), thyroid cancer.

10

• Hiag Akmakjian, 91, American author, painter and photographer, lung cancer.
• Ronald Buxton, 93, British politician, MP for Leyton (1965–1966).
• Buddy Greco, 90, American jazz and pop singer, actor (The Girl Who Knew Too Much) and pianist.
• Roman Herzog, 82, German politician, President (1994–1999), Judge of the Federal Constitutional Court (1983–1994).
• Clare Hollingworth, 105, British journalist (The Daily Telegraph), broke news that World War II had started.
• Ryszard Parulski, 78, Polish fencer, Olympic silver medalist (1964).
• Manlio Rocchetti, 73, Italian make-up artist (Driving Miss Daisy, Lonesome Dove, Gangs of New York), Emmy winner (1989) and Academy Award winner (1990).
• Tony Rosato, 62, Italian-born Canadian actor (Saturday Night Live, SCTV), heart attack.
• Oliver Smithies, 91, British-American geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate (2007).
• Kenny Wharram, 83, Canadian ice hockey player (Chicago Blackhawks), heart failure.

11

• Tommy Allsup, 85, American rockabilly and country swing guitarist, complications from hernia surgery.
• Tony Booth, 83, British poster artist, cancer.
• James Fairfax, 83, Australian business executive and philanthropist.
• James Ferguson-Lees, 88, British ornithologist (British Birds).
• Brian Fletcher, 69, British jockey, winner of the Grand National (1968, 1973, 1974), cancer.
• Claude Lebey, 93, French food critic.
• Nikolay Neprimerov, 95, Russian physicist.
• Adenan Satem, 72, Malaysian politician, Chief Minister of Sarawak (since 2014), heart attack.
• Saeeduzzaman Siddiqui, 78, Pakistani jurist and politician, Governor of Sindh (since 2016).
• François Van der Elst, 62, Belgian national team footballer (Anderlecht, New York Cosmos, West Ham United), complications from cardiac arrest.

12

• Giulio Angioni, 77, Italian writer (Le fiamme di Toledo, Assandira) and anthropologist.
• Meir Banai, 55, Israeli singer ("Shma Koli"), cancer.
• William Peter Blatty, 89, American novelist (The Exorcist, Legion) and screenwriter (A Shot in the Dark), multiple myeloma.
• Anthony King, 82, Canadian-born British political scientist. (death announced on this date)
• Milton Metz, 95, American radio and television sports personality, complications from a fall.
• Vsevolod Murakhovsky, 90, Ukrainian-Russian politician, First Deputy Premier of the Soviet Union (1985–1989).
• Frank Spellman, 94, American weightlifter, Olympic champion (1948).
• Graham Taylor, 72, English football player and manager (Watford, Aston Villa, England national team), heart attack.

13

• Gilberto Agustoni, 94, Swiss Roman Catholic cardinal.
• Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon, 86, English photographer, filmmaker and former husband of Princess Margaret.
• Walter Benz, 85, German mathematician.
• Hans Berliner, 87, German-born American computer scientist and chess player.
• Mark Fisher, 48, British writer, cultural theorist and music journalist (The Wire, Fact), suicide.
• Dick Gautier, 85, American actor (Get Smart, Transformers, Bye Bye Birdie).
• Horacio Guarany, 91, Argentine folkloric singer and writer, cardiac arrest.
• Sir John Hanson, 78, British diplomat and historian.
• John Jacobs, 91, English golfer, founder of the PGA European Tour. (death announced on this date)
• Magic Alex, 74, Greek electronics engineer (The Beatles, Apple Electronics, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi), complications from pneumonia.
• David Modell, 56, American businessman (Baltimore Ravens), cancer.
• Anton Nanut, 84, Slovenian conductor.
• Ari Rath, 92, Austrian-born Israeli journalist (The Jerusalem Post).
• Nicodemo Scarfo, 87, American mobster, boss of the Philadelphia crime family (1981–1991).
• Udo Ulfkotte, 56, German political scientist and journalist (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung), heart attack.

14

• Surjit Singh Barnala, 91, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Punjab (1985–1987), Governor of Uttarakhand (2000–2003) and Tamil Nadu (2004–2011).
• Barry Cassin, 92, Irish actor (Mystic Knights of Tir Na Nog, The Count of Monte Cristo, Byzantium).
• Mohammed bin Faisal Al Saud, 80, Saudi royal and businessman.
• Eldar Kuliev, 65, Kyrgyz Soviet screenwriter and author.
• Herbert Mies, 87, German politician (Communist Party), Chairman (1973–1989).
• Kevin Starr, 76, American historian, heart attack.
• Yama Buddha, 29, Nepalese rapper, suicide.
• Zhou Youguang, 111, Chinese linguist and supercentenarian, creator of the romanization of Chinese system.

15

• Ciel Bergman, 78, American painter.
• Babette Cole, 66, English children's author (Drop Dead, Princess Smartypants, Prince Cinders).
• Richard Divall, 71, Australian conductor and musicologist.
• Aleksandr Ezhevsky, 101, Soviet engineer and statesman.
• Dermot Gallagher, 72, Irish civil servant and diplomat, Secretary General of the Department of Foreign Affairs (until 2009) and Ambassador to the United States (1991–1997).
• Han Peixin, 95, Chinese communist politician, Governor of Jiangsu (1982–1983) and Communist Party Secretary of Jiangsu (1983–1989), cardiac arrest.
• Vicki Lansky, 75, American author and publisher, cirrhosis.
• Eddie Long, 63, American pastor (New Birth Missionary Baptist Church), cancer.
• David Poythress, 73, American military officer and politician, Secretary of State of Georgia (1979–1983).
• Jimmy Snuka, 73, Fijian-born American professional wrestler (WWF, AWA, PNW), stomach cancer.
• Jan Szczepański, 77, Polish boxer, Olympic champion (1972).
• Greg Trooper, 61, American singer-songwriter, pancreatic cancer.

16

• Amin Nasir, 48, Singaporean football player (Woodlands Wellington, national team) and manager (Hougang United), colon cancer.
• Eugene Cernan, 82, American astronaut (Apollo 7, Apollo 14, Apollo 17), last person to walk on the Moon.
• William A. Hilliard, 89, American journalist (The Oregonian).
• Franz Jarnach, 72, German actor (Dittsche) and musician (The Rattles), heart attack.
• Peter Jones, 83, Australian politician, MLA (1974–1986).
• Jiří Navrátil, 93, Czech scout leader and anti-Communist activist, President of Junák (since 1970).
• Charles "Bobo" Shaw, 69, American jazz drummer.
• Steve Wright, American bass guitarist (The Greg Kihn Band), heart attack.

17

• M. M. Ruhul Amin, 74, Bangladeshi judge, Chief Justice (2008–2009).
• Brenda C. Barnes, 63, American businesswoman, CEO of Sara Lee (2005–2010), stroke.
• Philip Bond, 82, British actor (Doctor Who, The Onedin Line).
• Colo, 60, American western gorilla, oldest living gorilla in captivity (since 2008) and first to be born in captivity.
• Mario Fasino, 96, Italian politician, President of Sicily (1969–1972).
• Heng Freylinger, 90, Luxembourgian Olympic wrestler (1952).
• Steven Plaut, 65, American-born Israeli economist and academic, complications from kidney cancer.
• Robert Timlin, 84, American judge, Judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of California (since 1994).
• James S. Vlasto, 82, American public servant.
• Daniel Vischer, 67, Swiss politician (National Council, Green Party of Switzerland), cancer.

18

• Peter Abrahams, 97, South African-born Jamaican writer (Mine Boy).
• Red Adams, 95, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs) and coach (Los Angeles Dodgers).
• Yosl Bergner, 96, Austrian-born Israeli painter.
• Ion Besoiu, 85, Romanian actor (Toate pînzele sus).
• David P. Buckson, 96, American lawyer and politician, Governor of Delaware (1960–1961).
• Obed Dlamini, 79, Swazi politician, Prime Minister (1989–1993).
• Rachael Heyhoe Flint, Baroness Heyhoe Flint, 77, English cricketer (women's national team), businesswoman and philanthropist.
• Johnny Little, 86, Canadian-born Scottish footballer (Rangers, Morton, Scotland national team).
• William Margold, 73, American pornographic actor and director.
• Roberta Peters, 86, American coloratura soprano, Parkinson's disease.

19

• Jalal Allakhverdiyev, 87, Azerbaijani mathematician.
• Wayne Barrett, 71, American journalist (The Village Voice), lung cancer.
• Loalwa Braz, 63, Brazilian singer-songwriter ("Lambada"), burned.
• Miguel Ferrer, 61, American actor (RoboCop, Mulan, Crossing Jordan), throat cancer.
• Eddie Filgate, 101, Irish politician, TD (1977–1982).
• Mike Kellie, 69, English multi-instrumentalist (Spooky Tooth, The V.I.P.'s, The Only Ones) and record producer.
• Jan Kruis, 83, Dutch cartoonist (Jack, Jacky and the Juniors).
• Ger van Mourik, 85, Dutch footballer (Ajax).
• Edwin Pope, 88, American journalist (The Miami Herald, Athens Banner-Herald), cancer.
• Walt Streuli, 81, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers).
• H. Boyd Woodruff, 99, American microbiologist, discovered actinomycin.
• Teori Zavascki, 68, Brazilian judge, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court (since 2012), and reporter (Operation Car Wash), plane crash.

20

• Hans Breukhoven, 70, Dutch businessman (Free Record Shop), pancreatic cancer.
• Bill Fischer, 89, American football player (Chicago Cardinals).
• Ahmed Gailani, 84, Afghan Qadiriyya leader and politician, founded National Islamic Front of Afghanistan.
• Klaus Huhn, 88, German sports journalist (Neues Deutschland) and writer.
• Naděžda Kavalírová, 93, Czech political prisoner and activist, head of the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes (2007–2013).
• Charles Liteky, 85, American military chaplain and peace activist.
• Harry J. Middleton, 95, American speechwriter and library director (Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum).

21

• Byron Dobell, 89, American editor and writer, complications from Parkinson's disease.
• Jamshid Giunashvili, 86, Georgian linguist and Iranologist, Ambassador to Iran (1994–2004).
• Vahit Melih Halefoğlu, 97, Turkish diplomat, Minister of Foreign Affairs (1983–1987).
• Maggie Roche, 65, American singer-songwriter (The Roches), cancer.
• Veljo Tormis, 86, Estonian composer.
• John Watkiss, 55, British comic artist (Deadman) and concept artist (Tarzan, Atlantis: The Lost Empire), cancer.

22

• Dan Caspi, 71, Romanian-born Israeli media theorist and academic.
• İlhan Cavcav, 81, Turkish football executive, chairman of Gençlerbirliği S.K. (since 1978), brain hemorrhage.
• Chen Yu-mei, 50, Taiwanese politician, Deputy Minister of the Overseas Community Affairs Council of the Executive Yuan (2013–2014).
• Giovanni Corrieri, 96, Italian bicycle racer.
• Søren Elung Jensen, 88, Danish actor (Det støver stadig, King Lear), lung cancer.
• Cristina Adela Foișor, 49, Romanian Chess International Master, complications from pneumonia.
• Moshe Gershuni, 80, Israeli painter and sculptor.
• Jaki Liebezeit, 78, German drummer (Can), pneumonia.
• Naqsh Lyallpuri, 88, Indian poet and songwriter, complications from a hip fracture.
• Andy Marte, 33, Dominican baseball player (Atlanta Braves, Cleveland Indians, Arizona Diamondbacks), traffic collision.
• Masaya Nakamura, 91, Japanese businessman, founder of Namco and Pac-Man.
• Lev Navrozov, 88, Russian writer, historian and dissident, Parkinson's disease.
• József Torgyán, 84, Hungarian politican, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development (1998–2001).
• Yordano Ventura, 25, Dominican baseball player (Kansas City Royals), traffic collision.
• Pete Overend Watts, 69, English bass guitarist (Mott the Hoople), throat cancer.
• Rudolf Wille, 79, German mathematician.

23

• Bimba Bosé, 41, Italian-born Spanish model, designer, singer and actress, breast cancer.
• Dmytro Grabovskyy, 31, Ukrainian-born Israeli bicycle racer, heart attack.
• Ralph Guglielmi, 83, American football player (Washington Redskins, New York Giants).
• Gorden Kaye, 75, English actor ('Allo 'Allo!, Brazil, Coronation Street) and comedian.
• Erland Kolding Nielsen, 70, Danish academic, Director General of the Royal Library.
• Leslie Koo, 62, Taiwanese business executive (Taiwan Cement Corporation), cerebral hemorrhage.
• Boško Krunić, 87, Yugoslav politician (League of Communists of Yugoslavia), Chairman of the Presidium (1987–1988), stroke.
• Ruth Samuelson, 56, American politician, member of the North Carolina General Assembly (2007–2015), ovarian cancer.
• Andrew Telegdi, 70, Hungarian-born Canadian politician, MP for Waterloo (1993–2008).

24

• Fred André, 75, Dutch football player and manager (Telstar).
• Chuck Canfield, 84, American businessman and politician, Mayor of Rochester, Minnesota (1996–2003).
• Robert Folsom, 89, American politician, Mayor of Dallas, Texas (1976–1981).
• Gil Ray, 60, American drummer (Game Theory, The Loud Family), cancer.
• Butch Trucks, 69, American drummer (The Allman Brothers Band), suicide by gunshot.
• Carlos Verdejo, 82, Chilean footballer.
• Chuck Weyant, 93, American racecar driver.

25

• Đinh Xuân Lâm, 91, Vietnamese educator and historian.
• Buchi Emecheta, 72, Nigerian novelist (The Bride Price, The Joys of Motherhood, Gwendolen), complications from a stroke.
• Robert Garcia, 84, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1978–1990) and the New York State Legislature (1966–1978, 1983–1990), emphysema-induced infection.
• Kevin Geer, 64, American actor (Twelve Angry Men, The Pelican Brief, The Contender), heart attack.
• Sir John Hurt, 77, British actor (Midnight Express, Alien, The Elephant Man), pancreatic cancer.
• Katja of Sweden, 97, Swedish fashion designer.
• Harry Mathews, 86, American author (The Conversions, My Life in CIA), poet, translator (Ellis Island Revisited) and journalist (Locus Solus).
• Jack Mendelsohn, 90, American cartoonist, screenwriter (Yellow Submarine) and television writer (The Carol Burnett Show, Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles), lung cancer.
• Mary Tyler Moore, 80, American actress (The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Ordinary People) and philanthropist (JDRF), cardiopulmonary arrest complicated by diabetic-related pneumonia.
• Siewert Öholm, 77, Swedish journalist and television presenter, liver cancer.
• Marcel Prud'homme, 82, Canadian politician, MP (1964–1993) and Senator (1993–2009), heart attack.
• Charles Reis Felix, 93, American writer.
• Sir Nigel Rodley, 75, British human rights activist.

26

• Anne-Marie Colchen, 91, French track and field athlete and basketball player, European high jump champion (1946) and basketball world championship bronze medalist (1953).
• Mike Connors, 91, American actor (Mannix, The Ten Commandments, War and Remembrance), leukemia.
• Tam Dalyell, 84, Scottish politician, MP for West Lothian (1962–1983) and Linlithgow (1983–2005) and writer.
• Barbara Hale, 94, American actress (Perry Mason), complications from COPD.
• Alexander Kadakin, 67, Russian diplomat, Ambassador to India (1999–2004, since 2009), heart failure.
• Luciano Ravaglia, 94, Italian engineer, member of the Rotary Club of Forlì.
• Dame Laurie Salas, 94, New Zealand women's rights and peace activist.
• Michael Tönnies, 57, German footballer (MSV Duisburg).

27

• Wim Anderiesen Jr., 85, Dutch footballer (Ajax).
• Valery Bolotov, 46, Ukrainian militant leader, Head of the Lugansk People's Republic (2014).
• Henry-Louis de La Grange, 92, French musicologist and music critic (The New York Times), biographer of Gustav Mahler, complications from pneumonia.
• Bob Holiday, 84, American actor (It's a Bird...It's a Plane...It's Superman).
• Atanas Kirov, 70, Bulgarian weightlifter, world champion (1973, 1974, 1975), heart attack.
• Brunhilde Pomsel, 106, German broadcaster and secretary to Joseph Goebbels.
• Emmanuelle Riva, 89, French actress (Hiroshima mon amour, Amour), cancer.
• Arthur H. Rosenfeld, 90, American physicist.
• Billy Simpson, 87, Northern Irish footballer (Linfield, Rangers).
• Gisella Sofio, 85, Italian actress (Accidents to the Taxes!!, La liceale, The Big Heart of Girls).

28

• Sir Christopher Bland, 78, British businessman, Chairman of the BBC (1996–2001), complications from prostate cancer.
• Bobby Freeman, 76, American singer-songwriter ("Do You Want to Dance") and record producer.
• Guitar Gable, 79, American singer-songwriter ("This Should Go On Forever") and guitarist.
• Sang Chul Lee, 92, Canadian Christian minister, Moderator of the United Church of Canada (1988–1990).
• Many Clouds, 9, British racehorse, Grand National winner (2015), pulmonary haemorrhage.
• John N. Mather, 74, American mathematician.
• Bharati Mukherjee, 76, Indian-born American writer (Jasmine) and academic, complications from rheumatoid arthritis and takotsubo cardiomyopathy.
• Geoff Nicholls, 68, English keyboardist (Black Sabbath), lung cancer.
• Lennart Nilsson, 94, Swedish photographer.
• Richard Portman, 82, American sound engineer (The Godfather, Star Wars, The Deer Hunter), Oscar winner (1979), complications from a fall.
• Thomas Joseph Simpson, 95, Canadian World War II veteran.
• Dan Spiegle, 96, American comic book artist (Hopalong Cassidy, Scooby-Doo, Jonah Hex).
• Darryl Sutton, 64, Australian rules footballer, pneumonia.
• Alexander Tikhanovich, 64, Belarusian pop singer (Verasy).
• Stuart Timmons, 60, American historian (The Trouble With Harry Hay: Founder of the Modern Gay Movement) and gay rights activist, cardiac arrest.
• Ion Ungureanu, 81, Moldovan actor (That Sweet Word: Liberty!) and politician, MP (1990–1994).

29

• Joop Gouweleeuw, 76, Dutch Olympian judoka (1964).
• Howard Frank Mosher, 74, American author (Where the Rivers Flow North, A Stranger In the Kingdom), prostate cancer.
• Leonard H. Perroots, 83, American military officer, Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency (1985–1988).
• Elkin Ramírez, 54, Colombian singer-songwriter (Kraken), brain cancer.

30

• Marta Becket, 92, American dancer (Amargosa Opera House), painter and choreographer, subject of Amargosa, congestive heart failure.
• David Burhani, 26, Tanzanian footballer (Maji Maji, Kagera Sugar).
• Carmen Contreras-Bozak, 97, American World War II veteran, first Hispanic to serve in the Women's Army Corps.
• Eiður Svanberg Guðnason, 77, Icelandic politician and diplomat, Ambassador to Australia (2003–2007).
• Aito Mäkinen, 90, Finnish movie director (Onnelliset leikit).
• Mario R. Ramil, 70, Filipino-born American justice, Associate Justice of the Hawaii State Supreme Court (1993–2002), cancer.

31

• Thomas Barlow, 76, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Kentucky's 1st congressional district (1993–1995)
• Grethe Bartram, 92, Danish war criminal. (death announced on this date)
• Deke Leonard, 72, Welsh rock guitarist (Man).
• Frank Pellegrino, 72, American actor (Goodfellas, The Sopranos) and restaurateur (Rao's), lung cancer.
• Rob Stewart, 37, Canadian filmmaker (Sharkwater), drowned.
• John Wetton, 67, British singer-songwriter ("Only Time Will Tell", "Heat of the Moment") and bass guitarist (Asia, King Crimson), colorectal cancer.
• Tokitenkū Yoshiaki, 37, Mongolian sumo wrestler, lymphoma.

Months

• January 2017
• February 2017
• March 2017
• April 2017

Related pages

• Deaths in 2014
• Deaths in 2015
• Deaths in 2016

Other websites

• The Guardian, UK obituaries
• Obituaries, Los Angeles Times
• Obituaries, Chicago Tribune
• The New York Times, US obituaries
• The Sydney Morning Herald, Australian obituaries
• The Telegraph obituaries