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See also: 2010s political history
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| Gregorian calendar | 2017 MMXVII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2770 |
| Armenian calendar | 1466 ԹՎ ՌՆԿԶ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6767 |
| Bahá'í calendar | 173–174 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1938–1939 |
| Bengali calendar | 1424 |
| Berber calendar | 2967 |
| British Regnal year | 65 Eliz. 2 – 66 Eliz. 2 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2561 |
| Burmese calendar | 1379 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7525–7526 |
| Chinese calendar | 丙申年 (Fire Monkey) 4713 or 4653 — to — 丁酉年 (Fire Rooster) 4714 or 4654 |
| Coptic calendar | 1733–1734 |
| Discordian calendar | 3183 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 2009–2010 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5777–5778 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 2073–2074 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1938–1939 |
| - Kali Yuga | 5117–5118 |
| Holocene calendar | 12017 |
| Igbo calendar | 1017–1018 |
| Iranian calendar | 1395–1396 |
| Islamic calendar | 1438–1439 |
| Japanese calendar | Heisei 29 (平成２９年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1950–1951 |
| Juche calendar | 106 |
| Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 13 days |
| Korean calendar | 4350 |
| Minguo calendar | ROC 106 民國106年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | 549 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2560 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阳火猴年 (male Fire-Monkey) 2143 or 1762 or 990 — to — 阴火鸡年 (female Fire-Rooster) 2144 or 1763 or 991 |
| Unix time | 1483228800 – 1514764799 |
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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 , the 17th year of the , and the 8th year of the decade.
2017 was designated as International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development by the United Nations General Assembly.[1]
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Events[]
January[]
- January 1 – Istanbul nightclub shooting: A gunman dressed as Santa Claus opens fire at the Reina nightclub in Istanbul, Turkey, killing 39 people and injuring 79 others.[2]
- January 16 – Turkish Airlines Flight 6491, a cargo flight en route from Hong Kong to Istanbul via Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, crashes in a residential area while attempting to land at Manas International Airport, Bishkek, killing all four crew members on board and 35 people on the ground.[3]
- January 20 – Donald Trump, a Republican New York City businessman, is sworn in as the 45th President of the United States. Trump is the first person to be elected President of the United States who was neither a political office holder nor a military general.[4]
- January 21 – Millions of people worldwide join the Women's March in response to the inauguration of Donald Trump as President of the United States. 420 marches were reported in the U.S. and 168 in other countries, becoming the largest single-day protest in American history and the largest worldwide protest in recent history.[5]
- January 30 – Morocco rejoins the African Union.
February[]
- February 11 – North Korea prompts international condemnation by test firing a ballistic missile across the Sea of Japan.[6]
- February 13 – Assassination of Kim Jong-nam: Kim Jong-nam, the eldest son of deceased North Korean leader Kim Jong-il and the half-brother of current North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, is killed after being attacked by two women with VX nerve agent at Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Malaysia.[7]
- February 26 – An annular solar eclipse was visible from Pacific, Chile, Argentina, Atlantic, Africa. It was the 29th eclipse of the 140th saros cycle (descending node), which started with a partial solar eclipse visible in the Southern Hemisphere on April 16, 1512 and will conclude with another partial solar eclipse visible in the Northern Hemisphere on June 1, 2774.
March[]
- March 3 – The Nintendo Switch is released.
- March 10 – The UN warns that the world is facing the largest 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.[8]
- March 14 – March 2017 North American blizzard, a major late-season blizzard, affects the Northeastern United States, New England and Canada, dumping up to three feet of snow in the hardest hit areas.
- March 22 – A terrorist attack outside the Palace of Westminster in London, England, kills five people and injures more than fifty others.[9][10]
- 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.[11]
- March 30 – SpaceX conducts the world's first reflight of an orbital class rocket.[12][13]
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.[14]
- 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 the Nangarhar Province of eastern Afghanistan.
May[]
- May 9 – U.S. President Donald Trump fires FBI Director James Comey, leading to increased calls for the appointment of a special counsel.[15]
- May 9–13 – The Eurovision Song Contest 2017 takes place in Kiev, Ukraine, and is won by Portuguese entrant Salvador Sobral with the song "Amar Pelos Dois".
- May 12 – WannaCry ransomware attack: Computers around the world are hit by a large-scale ransomware cyberattack,[16] which goes on to affect at least 150 countries.[17]
- May 17 – Former FBI Director Robert Mueller is appointed Special Counsel for the United States Department of Justice, taking over the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 United States Presidential Election[18]
- May 22 – An Islamic terrorist bombing attack at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, England, kills 22 people and injures more than 500 others.[19]
June[]
- June 1 – Amidst widespread criticism, the U.S. government announces its decision to withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement in due time.[20]
- June 3 - London Bridge attack: Eight people are murdered and dozens of civilians are wounded by Islamist terrorists. Three of the attackers are shot dead by the police.
- June 5
- Montenegro joins NATO as the 29th member.
- The 2017–18 Qatar diplomatic crisis starts, as Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates and other Arab countries block Qatari access to their seas and air.
- June 7 – Two terrorist attacks are simultaneously carried out by five Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) terrorists against the Iranian Parliament building and the Mausoleum of Ruhollah Khomeini, both in Tehran, leaving 17 civilians dead and 43 more wounded. It is 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.[21]
- June 10
- June 12 – American student Otto Warmbier returns home in a coma after spending 17 months in a North Korean prison. He dies on June 19.[23][24]
- June 14 – A fire at Grenfell Tower in London, England, kills 72 people and injures more than 70 others.[25]
- 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.[26]
- June 25 – The World Health Organization estimates that Yemen has over 200,000 cases of cholera.
- June 27 – 2017 cyberattacks on Ukraine: A series of cyberattacks using the Petya malware begins, affecting organizations in Ukraine.[27]
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.[28][29]
- July 7 – The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons is voted for by 122 states.[30]
- July 10 – Iraqi Civil War: Mosul is declared fully liberated from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.[31]
August[]
- August 5
- The UN Security Council unanimously approves fresh sanctions on North Korean trade and investment.[32]
- Mauritania holds a constitutional referendum for approval of proposed amendments to the constitution.
- August 12 – The Unite the Right rally is held in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States, by a variety of white nationalist and other far-right 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)[33] is hailed as a breakthrough in multi-messenger astronomy[34] when both gravitational and electromagnetic waves from the event are detected.[35][36] Data from the event provided confirmatory evidence for the r-process theory of the origin of heavy elements like gold.[37][38]
- August 18 – The first terrorist attack ever sentenced as a crime in Finland kills two people and injures eight others. Islamic terrorist Abderrahman Bouanane, a Moroccan man carried out the ISIS-inspired attack in southwest Finland.[39][40]
- August 21 – A total solar eclipse (nicknamed "The Great American Eclipse")[41] is visible within a band across the entire contiguous United States of America, passing from the Pacific to the Atlantic coasts. The moon was just 3 days past perigee, making it a relatively large.[42][43][44]
- 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.[45]
- 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.[46][47]
September[]
- September 1 – Russian President Vladimir Putin expels 755 diplomats in response to United States sanctions.[48]
- September 3 – North Korea conducts its sixth and most powerful nuclear test.[49]
- September 13 – The International Olympic Committee awards Paris and Los Angeles the right to host the 2024 and 2028 Summer Olympics, respectively.[50]
- September 15 – Cassini–Huygens ends its 13-year mission by plunging into Saturn, becoming the first spacecraft to enter the planet's atmosphere.[51]
- September 19 – Eleven days after another powerful earthquake, and on the 32nd anniversary of the deadly 1985 Mexico City earthquake, a 7.1 Template:M earthquake strikes central Mexico, killing more than 350, leaving up to 6,000 injured[52] and thousands more homeless.[53]
- 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 3,000 deaths and damages estimated in excess of $91.6 billion (2017 USD).[47][54]
- September 25 – Kurdistan Region votes in a referendum to become an independent state, in defiance of Iraq;[55] by October 15, the crisis escalates into a short-lived armed conflict over disputed territories.
October[]
- October 1 – Fifty-nine people are killed and 868 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.[56][57]
- October 12 – The United States announces its decision to withdraw from UNESCO,[58] and is immediately followed by Israel.[59]
- October 14 – A massive blast caused by a truck bombing in Mogadishu, Somalia kills at least 587 people and injures 316 others.[60]
- 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.[61]
- October 27 – Based on the results of a previously held referendum, Catalonia declares independence from Spain,[62] but the Catalan Republic is not recognised by the Spanish government or any other sovereign nation.[63]
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.[64]
- 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.[65]
- 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.[66]
- Sutherland Springs church shooting: A gunman opens fire in a Baptist church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, United States, killing 26 people and injures 20 more. It was the deadliest shooting in an American place of worship in modern history, surpassing the Charleston church shooting of 2015[67] and the Waddell Buddhist temple shooting of 1991.[68]
- 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.[69]
- November 15
- Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe is placed under house arrest, as the military take control of the country.[70] He resigns six days later, after 37 years of rule.[71]
- 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.[72]
- The Argentinian submarine ARA San Juan suddenly vanished with 44 crew members on board whilst on a routine patrol in the South Atlantic. It would be found one year later wrecked 907 metres (2,976 ft) below the Atlantic Ocean.[73]
- 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.[74]
- November 24 – A mosque attack in Sinai, Egypt kills 305 worshippers and leaves hundreds more wounded.[75]
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.[76]
- December 6 – The United States officially recognizes Jerusalem as Israel's capital.[77]
- 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.[78]
- 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.[79]
- 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%.[80][81]
- 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.[82]
Deaths[]
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January[]
Main article: Deaths in January 2017
Om Puri
Mário Soares
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
Roman Herzog
John Hurt
Mary Tyler Moore
- January 1
- January 2
- January 3 – Igor Volk, Ukrainian-born Russian cosmonaut (b. 1937)
- January 4
- January 6
- January 7
- January 8
- Nicolai Gedda, Swedish operatic tenor (b. 1925)
- James Mancham, 1st President of Seychelles (b. 1939)
- Ruth Perry, Liberian politician, former Chairwoman of the Council of State (b. 1939)
- Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, 4th President of Iran (b. 1934)
- Peter Sarstedt, British singer, instrumentalist, and songwriter (b. 1941)
- January 9
- January 10
- January 11 – François Van der Elst, Belgian footballer (b. 1954)
- January 12
- January 13
- January 14 – Zhou Youguang, Chinese linguist (b. 1906)
- January 15 – Jimmy Snuka, Fijian-born American professional wrestler (b. 1943)
- January 16 – Gene Cernan, American astronaut (b. 1934)
- January 18
- January 19 – Miguel Ferrer, American actor (b. 1955)
- January 20 – Carlos Alberto Silva, Brazilian football manager (b. 1939)
- January 21 – Veljo Tormis, Estonian composer (b. 1930)
- January 22 – Jaki Liebezeit, German drummer (b. 1938)
- January 23
- January 24 – Butch Trucks, American musician (b. 1947)
- January 25
- January 26
- January 27 – Emmanuelle Riva, French actress (b. 1927)
- January 28 – Geoff Nicholls, British keyboardist (b. 1948)
- January 31 – John Wetton, British musician (b. 1949)
February[]
Main article: Deaths in February 2017
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Étienne Tshisekedi
Hans Rosling
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Jiro Taniguchi
Al Jarreau
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Mildred Dresselhaus
Kenneth Arrow
Bill Paxton
- February 1 – Étienne Tshisekedi, 18th Prime Minister of Zaire (b. 1932)
- February 2
- February 3
- February 4 – Georges Prêtre, French conductor (b. 1924)
- February 5 – David Axelrod, American musician (b. 1931)
- February 6
- 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)
- Richard Hatch, American actor, writer, and producer (b. 1945)
- Hans Rosling, Swedish medical doctor, academic, statistician, and public speaker (b. 1948)
- Tzvetan Todorov, Bulgarian-French philosopher and literary critic (b. 1939)
- February 8
- February 9 – Piet Keizer, Dutch footballer (b. 1943)
- February 10
- February 11
- February 12 – Al Jarreau, American singer (b. 1940)
- February 13
- February 16
- February 17
- February 18
- February 19
- February 20
- February 21
- February 25 – Bill Paxton, American actor and director (b. 1955)
- February 26
- 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
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David Rockefeller
- March 1 – Paula Fox, American writer (b. 1923)
- March 3
- March 5 – Kurt Moll, German operatic bass (b. 1938)
- March 6 – Robert Osborne, film historian and television host (b. 1932)
- March 7 – Hans Georg Dehmelt, German-American Nobel Prize-winning physicist (b. 1922)
- March 8
- March 9 – Howard Hodgkin, British painter and printmaker (b. 1932)
- March 10
- March 12 – Patrick Nève, Belgian racing driver (b. 1949)
- March 13 – Richard, 6th Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg (b. 1934)
- March 16
- March 17
- 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
- Colin Dexter, English author (b. 1930)
- Henri Emmanuelli, French politician (b. 1945)
- Martin McGuinness, Irish republican paramilitary and politician (b. 1950)
- March 22 – Tomas Milian, Cuban-American-Italian actor (b. 1933)
- March 23
- 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
April[]
Main article: Deaths in April 2017
Don Rickles
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Carme Chacón
Charlie Murphy
Jonathan Demme
- April 1
- April 4
- April 5 – Arthur Bisguier, American chess Grandmaster (b. 1929)
- 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 10 – Linda Hopkins, American actress and singer (b. 1924)
- April 11
- April 12 – Charlie Murphy, American actor and comedian (b. 1959)
- April 15
- April 19 – Aaron Hernandez, American football player, and convicted murderer (b. 1989)
- April 20
- April 21 – Ugo Ehiogu, English footballer and coach (b. 1972)
- April 22
- April 23
- 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
Roger Moore
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Zbigniew Brzezinski
Konstantinos Mitsotakis
Manuel Noriega
- May 1 – Karel Schoeman, South African novelist (b. 1939)
- May 2 – Heinz Kessler, German politician and military officer (b. 1920)
- May 3 – Daliah Lavi, Israeli actress, singer, and model (b. 1942)
- May 4
- May 5
- May 6 – Steven Holcomb, American Olympic bobsledder (b. 1980)
- May 9
- May 10 – Geoffrey Bayldon, English actor (b. 1924)
- May 12
- May 14 – Powers Boothe, American actor (b. 1948)
- May 15 – Karl-Otto Apel, German philosopher (b. 1922)
- May 17
- May 18 – Chris Cornell, American musician (b. 1964)
- May 19 – Stanislav Petrov, Soviet Air Force officer (b. 1939)
- May 22
- May 23 – Roger Moore, English actor (b. 1927)
- May 24
- May 26
- May 27 – Gregg Allman, American musician (b. 1947)
- May 29
- May 30 – Elena Verdugo, American actress (b. 1925)
- May 31
June[]
Main article: Deaths in June 2017
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Sandra Reemer
Adam West
Helmut Kohl
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Quett Masire
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Simone Veil
- June 1
- June 2
- June 4
- June 5
- June 6
- June 8
- 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
- June 15 – Aleksey Batalov, Russian actor (b. 1928)
- June 16
- June 17 – Baldwin Lonsdale, President of Vanuatu (b. 1948)
- June 19
- June 20 – Prodigy, American rapper (b. 1974)
- June 22 – Quett Masire, 2nd President of Botswana (b. 1925)
- June 23 – Stefano Rodotà, Italian jurist and politician (b. 1933)
- June 25 – José Manuel Mourinho Félix, Portuguese footballer and manager (b. 1938)
- June 26 – Habib Thiam, Prime Minister of Senegal (b. 1933)
- June 27
- June 30
July[]
Main article: Deaths in July 2017
Elsa Martinelli
Martin Landau
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George A. Romero
- July 1
- 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
- July 7 – Marina Ratner, Russian-American mathematician (b. 1938)
- July 8
- July 9 – Ilya Glazunov, Russian painter (b. 1930)
- July 10 – Peter Härtling, German writer and poet (b. 1933)
- July 13
- July 14
- July 15 – Martin Landau, American actor (b. 1928)
- July 16 – George A. Romero, American-Canadian film director (b. 1940)
- July 18
- July 20
- Chester Bennington, American musician (b. 1976)
- Claude Rich, French stage and screen actor (b. 1929)
- July 21
- July 23
- July 25
- July 26
- 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
- Jérôme Golmard, French tennis player (b. 1973)
- Jeanne Moreau, French actress (b. 1928)
August[]
Main article: Deaths in August 2017
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Nicole Bricq
Dick Gregory
Jerry Lewis
Tsutomu Hata
- August 2
- August 3
- August 5
- August 6
- August 7 – Haruo Nakajima, Japanese actor (b. 1929)
- August 8
- Glen Campbell, American singer and actor (b. 1936)
- Barbara Cook, American actress and singer (b. 1927)
- August 10 – Ruth Pfau, German-Pakistani nun and physician (b. 1929)
- 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 17 – Sonny Landham, American actor (b. 1941)
- August 18 – Bruce Forsyth, British actor and game show host (b. 1928)
- August 19
- August 20
- August 21
- August 22 – John Abercrombie, American jazz guitarist (b. 1944)
- August 24 – Jay Thomas, American actor (b. 1948)
- August 26
- August 28
- August 30
- August 31 – Richard Anderson, American actor (b. 1926)
September[]
Main article: Deaths in September 2017
Nicolaas Bloembergen
Abdul Halim
María Cristina Arango Vega
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Jake LaMotta
Hugh Hefner
- September 1
- Shelley Berman, American actor, comedian, writer, teacher, and poet (b. 1925)
- Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, British cardinal (b. 1932)
- September 3
- September 5
- September 6
- September 7 – Türkân Akyol, Turkish politician (b. 1928)
- September 8
- September 9 – Velasio de Paolis, Italian cardinal (b. 1935)
- September 10
- September 11
- Tuanku Abdul Halim, Malaysian sultan, 5th & 14th Yang di-Pertuan Agong (b. 1927)
- J. P. Donleavy, Irish-American author (b. 1926)
- Peter Hall, British film director (b. 1930)
- September 13 – Frank Vincent, American actor (b. 1937)
- September 15
- September 16 – Arjan Singh, Indian diplomat (b. 1919)
- September 17 – Bobby Heenan, American professional wrestling manager (b. 1944)
- September 19
- September 21 – Liliane Bettencourt, French businesswoman (b. 1922)
- September 22 – Paavo Lonkila, Finnish cross-country skier (b. 1923)
- September 23 – Charles Bradley, American singer (b. 1948)
- September 24 – Gisèle Casadesus, French actress (b. 1914)
- September 25 – Liz Dawn, English actress (b. 1939)
- September 26 – Barry Dennen, American actor (b. 1938)
- September 27
- September 28 – Benjamin Whitrow, English actor (b. 1937)
- September 29
- September 30
October[]
Main article: Deaths in October 2017
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Jalal Talabani
Albert Zafy
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Roy Dotrice
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Fats Domino
Ninian Stephen
- October 1
- October 2
- October 3
- October 4 – Liam Cosgrave, 6th Taoiseach of Ireland (b. 1920)
- October 5
- October 6
- October 7 – Vyacheslav Ivanov, Russian philologist and semiotician (b. 1929)
- October 9
- October 11 – Clifford Husbands, 6th Governor-General of Barbados (b. 1926)
- October 12 – Margarita D'Amico, Venezuelan journalist, researcher, and professor (b. 1938)
- October 13
- October 14 – Richard Wilbur, American poet (b. 1921)
- October 15 – Choirul Huda, Indonesian footballer and civil servant (b. 1979)
- October 16
- October 17
- October 18
- 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
- October 23
- October 24
- October 25
- October 27 – Katalin Szőke, Hungarian Olympic swimmer (b. 1935)
- October 28 – Manuel Sanchís Martínez, Spanish footballer (b. 1938)
- October 29
- October 30 – Kim Joo-hyuk, South Korean actor (b. 1972)
November[]
Main article: Deaths in November 2017
Alina Janowska
Lil Peep
Malcolm Young
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Charles Manson
David Cassidy
Jim Nabors
- November 1
- November 2 – Aboubacar Somparé, Guinean politician (b. 1944)
- November 3 – Abdur Rahman Biswas, 11th President of Bangladesh (b. 1926)
- November 5
- November 6
- November 7
- November 8
- November 9
- November 10 – Mikhail Nikolayevich Zadornov, Russian comedian and writer (b. 1948)
- November 11
- November 12 – Bernard Panafieu, French cardinal (b. 1931)
- November 13
- November 15
- November 16
- November 17 – Salvatore Riina, Italian mobster (b. 1930)
- November 18
- 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)
- November 25 – Rance Howard, American actor (b. 1928)
- November 29
- November 30 – Jim Nabors, American actor (b. 1930)
December[]
Main article: Deaths in December 2017
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Johnny Hallyday
Michael I
Kim Jong-hyun
- December 1 – Fredy Schmidtke, German cyclist (b. 1961)
- December 2 – Nava Semel, Israeli author and playwright (b. 1954)Template:Importance inline
- December 3 – John B. Anderson, American politician (b. 1922)
- December 4
- December 5
- December 6 – William H. Gass, American novelist (b. 1924)
- December 7 – Steve Reevis, Native American actor (b. 1962)
- December 8 – Magda Fedor, Hungarian sports shooter (b. 1914)Template:Importance inline
- December 9 – Leonid Bronevoy, Soviet and Russian actor (b. 1928)
- December 10 – Charles Green, American Internet personality (b. 1950)
- December 12 – Ed Lee, American politician (b. 1952)
- December 13 – Warrel Dane, American singer (b. 1961)
- December 14 – Neeraj Vora, Indian actor, director, and producer (b. 1963)
- December 16 – Keely Smith, American singer (b. 1928)
- December 18 – Kim Jong-hyun, South Korean singer (b. 1990)
- December 20 – Bernard Francis Law, American cardinal (b. 1931)
- December 21 – Bruce McCandless II, American astronaut (b. 1937)
- December 24 – Heather Menzies, Canadian-American actress (b. 1949)
- December 25 – Vladimir Shainsky, Soviet and Russian composer (b. 1925)
- December 26 – Johnny Bower, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1924)
- December 27 – Osvaldo Fattori, Italian footballer (b. 1922)
- December 28
- December 29 – Carmen Franco, 1st Duchess of Franco, Spanish noble (b. 1926)
Nobel Prizes[]
- 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[]
- List of international years
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