Deaths in December 2017
Gavin Stamp
British architectural historian · 31 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 31
Art Dorrington
Canadian ice hockey player (Johnstown Jets) · 31 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 31
Keturah Kamugasa
Ugandan fashion journalist and magazine executive · 31 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 31
Prince François, Count of Clermont
Dauphin of France · 31 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 31 · Clermont · Other
Clyde Cumberbatch
Trinidadian cricket umpire · 31 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 31 · Other
Mariam Nabieva
Tajik First Lady (1991–1992) · 31 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 31 · Other
Christine King Farris
American civil rights activist · 31 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 31 · Farris · Other
Philippe Rondot
French general · 31 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 31 · Other
Cheryll Sotheran
New Zealand museum executive · 31 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 31 · Other
Isaac Farris
American civil rights activist · 31 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 31 · Other
Chu Ishikawa
Japanese composer (Tetsuo: The Iron Man) · 31 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 31
Tom Morgan
American journalist (The Providence Journal) · 30 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 30
Bruce Rankin
British operatic tenor · 30 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 30
John C. Portman Jr.
American architect · 30 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 30 · Portman · Other
John Faulkner
English footballer (Luton Town · 30 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 30
Manolo Bolognini
Italian film producer (Django) · 30 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 30
Erica Garner
American activist. · 30 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 30 · Other
Fritz Lustig
German-born British army intelligence officer · 30 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 30 · Other
Nicholas Rayner
British army officer and auctioneer · 30 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 30 · Other
Khalid Shameem Wynne
Pakistani military officer · 30 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 30 · Other · Wynne
Sean McCaffrey
Irish football manager (national team U-17 and U-19) · 30 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 30 · Other
Giulio Einaudi
Italian Roman Catholic prelate and diplomat · 30 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 30
Lothar Schämer
German footballer (Eintracht Frankfurt) · 30 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 30
Danny Breen
American actor and comedian (The Second City) · 30 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 30
Jim Baikie
77 British comic book artist · 30 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 30
Wolf C. Hartwig
German film producer (Schulmädchen-Report · 30 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 30 · Hartwig
Eti Saaga
Samoan-born American Samoan poet and writer. (Death reported on this date) · 29 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 29
Thomas Hunter
American actor (The Hills Run Red · 29 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 29
Gabriela Morreale
Italian-born Spanish biochemist and medical researcher · 29 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 29 · Doctors
Jimmie C. Holland
American medical researcher · 29 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 29 · Doctors · Holland
Sue Grafton
American myster writer · 29 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 29
Thomas Stanford
American film editor (West Side Story · 29 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 29
Al Luplow
American baseball player (Cleveland Indians · 29 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 29
Jean-Luc Vez
Swiss civil servant (director of the Federal Office of Police · 29 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 29 · Other
Pat Devery
Australian rugby league footballer · 29 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 29
Rubens Augusto de Souza Espínola
Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate · 29 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 29 · Espínola · Other
Ronald W. Hodges
American entomologist and lepidopterist · 29 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 29 · Hodges · Other
Al Rittinger
Canadian ice hockey player (Boston Bruins) · 29 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 29
Recy Taylor
American kidnapping victim and activist · 29 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 29 · Other
Viola Davis Brown
American nurse · 29 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 29 · Brown · Other
Mamoudou Touré
Senegalese economist and politician · 29 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 29
Rose Marie
American actress (The Dick Van Dyke Show · 29 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 29
Nichols Canyon
Irish-trained racehorse · 28 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 28 · Other
Fernando Birri
Argentine filmmaker · 28 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 28 · Other
Curly Seckler
American bluegrass musician · 28 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 28
Steve Piper
English footballer (Brighton and Hove Albion · 28 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 28
Bouna Médoune Sèye
Senegalese film director and producer · 28 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 28 · Sèye
Ronit Matalon
Israeli fiction writer · 28 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 28
Erich Kellerhals
German entrepreneur (Media Markt) · 28 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 28 · Other
Maurice Borrmans
French Priest · 28 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 28 · Other
D. Bruce MacPherson
American Episcopal prelate · 28 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 28 · MacPherson · Other
Francis Walmsley
British prelate of the Roman Catholic Church · 28 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 28 · Other
Amanda Davis
American television journalist (WGCL-TV) · 28 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 28
Simonetta Puccini
Italian Puccini scholar · 28 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 28
Ben Barres
American neurobiologist · 27 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 27 · Other
Mark Whittow
Fellow in Byzantine Studies at Corpus Christi College · 27 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 27 · Other
André Di Cesare
Canadian Quebecois music producer · 27 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 27 · Cesare
Jack Van Berg
American horse trainer · 27 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 27 · Other · Berg
Osvaldo Fattori
Italian footballer (Inter Milan · 27 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 27