Celebrities who died in 2017
We remember the famous faces who died this year.
Mário Soares
7 January 2017
17th President of Portugal (1986-96) and Prime Minister (1976-78 and 1983-85), dies at 92.
Mary Tyler Moore
25 January 2017
American actress (The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Ordinary People), dies at 80.
Mike Ilitch
10 February 2017
American businessman (founded Little Caesars Pizza, owner Detroit Red Wings, Tigers), dies at 87.
American businessman (founded Little Caesars Pizza, owner Detroit Red Wings, Tigers), dies at 87.
Nicholas Mosley
28 February 2017
British novelist, biographer and son of Oswald Mosley, dies at 93.
28 February 2017
British novelist, biographer and son of Oswald Mosley, dies at 93.
Derek Walcott
17 March 2017
Caribbean poet (Omeros), Nobel Prize for Literature 1992, dies at 87.
Ueli Steck
30 April 2017
Swiss mountain climber, dies in a climbing accident in Nepal at 40.
Roger Moore
23 May 2017
British actor (The Saint, James Bond), dies at 89.
Manuel Noriega
29 May 2017
Panamanian general and dictator (1983-89), dies at 83.
Helmut Kohl
16 June 2017
German chancellor (West Germany, 1982-90, unified Germany, 1990-98), dies at 87.
Liu Xiaobo
13 July 2017
Chinese writer and human rights activist, dies from liver cancer at 61.
Robert Hardy
3 August 2017
British actor (Harry Potter, All Creatures Great and Small), dies at 91.
Hugh Hefner
28 September 2017
American magazine publisher and businessman (Playboy), dies of natural causes at 91.
Jalal Talabani
3 October 2017
Iraqi-Kurdish politician and President of Iraq (2005-2014), dies at 83.
Antione “Fats” Domino
24 October 2017
American rhythm & blues star of the early rock ’n’ roll era (Blueberry Hill, Blue Monday), dies from natural causes at 89.
Charles Manson
19 November 2017
American criminal, murderer and cult leader (Manson Family), dies of natural causes at 83.
Johnny Hallyday
5 December 2017
[Jean-Philippe Smet], French singer and actor known as the “Elvis Presley of France,” dies from lung cancer at 74
