Deaths Died in December 2017
Bruce McCandless II
American astronaut · 22 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 22 · Other
Roswell Rudd
American jazz trombonist. · 22 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 22 · Other
Charles Zentai
Hungarian-born Australian alleged Holocaust perpetrator · 22 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 22 · Other
Nathan Strayer
American guitarist (Anberlin) · 22 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 22
Jason Lowndes
Australian racing cyclist · 22 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 22
Dick Enberg
American sportscaster · 22 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 22 · Other
Jerry Yellin
American fighter pilot · 22 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 22 · Other
Otto Kaiser
German biblical scholar · 22 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 22
Yicheng
Chinese monk · 21 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 21 · Other
Larry Harris
American record label executive (Casablanca Records) · 21 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 21 · Other
Sir Hereward Wake, 14th Baronet
British army officer and landowner · 21 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 21 · Baronet · Other
Liu Lunxian
Chinese politician and military officer · 21 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 21
Charlie Hennigan
American football player (Houston Oilers) · 21 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 21
Janet Elder
American journalist and editor (The New York Times) · 21 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 21
George Mans
American football coach and politician · 21 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 21
Randolph Quirk, Baron Quirk
British linguist and life peer · 21 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 21 · Randolph, · Quirk
Manu Ruys
Belgian journalist and publicist · 21 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 21
Jon Oberlander
British cognitive scientist · 21 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 21
Manouchehr Boroumand
Iranian heavyweight weightlifter · 21 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 21
Lawrence J. Cohen
American film and TV writer and producer (Start The Revolution Without Me · 21 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 21 · Cohen
Wolfgang Lauinger
German LGBT activist · 21 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 21 · Other
Svein Scharffenberg
Norwegian actor (Cabin Fever) · 21 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 21
Alexander Taransky
Australian sports shooter · 21 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 21 · Other
Ray Kassar
American executive (Burlington · 21 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 21 · Other
Paul Yesawich
American basketball player (Syracuse Nationals) and judge · 21 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 21
Frank Hodgkin
Australian footballer (St Kilda) · 21 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 21
Muhammad Mustafa Al-A’zami
84-85 · 21 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 21 · Al-A'zami · Other
Jiří Sloup
Czech footballer (Viktoria Plzeň · 21 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 21
Vanessa Greene
British-American television producer (Deadly Desire · 21 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 21
Roland Peterson
Aruban police officer · 21 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 21 · Other
Jean-Jacques Guyon
French equestrian · 21 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 21 · Other
Red Murrell
American basketball player (Drake) · 21 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 21
Rajko Doleček
Czech endocrinologist · 20 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 20 · Other
Therese DePrez
American production designer (Black Swan · 20 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 20 · Thérèse · Déprez · Other
Arthur S. Abramson
89-90 · 20 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 20 · Abramson · Other
Paul Genève
French long-distance runner · 20 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 20
Frank North
American football coach · 20 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 20
Peter Duffell
British film and TV director (The House That Dripped Blood · 20 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 20 · Other
Albert Abelló
Spanish businessman and politician · 20 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 20
Combat Jack
American hip hop attorney and historian · 20 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 20
LeRoy Jolley
American racehorse trainer · 20 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 20 · Other
Yevhen Kotelnykov
Soviet footballer and coach · 20 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 20
Jane Galletly
British and New Zealand TV scriptwriter and editor · 20 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 20
Leo Welch
American blues musician · 20 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 20
Jim Forrester
American bass guitarist (Sixty Watt Shaman) and body modification artist · 20 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 20
Rev. Jim Forrester
American bass guitarist (Sixty Watt Shaman · 20 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 20 · Forrester · Rév
Song Sin-do
Korean former comfort woman · 20 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 20 · Other
Janet Benshoof
American human rights activist · 20 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 20 · Other
Stan Pilecki
Polish-born Australian rugby union player (Queensland Reds) · 20 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 20
Heather North
American actress (Scooby-Doo) · 20 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 20
Tamio Ōki
Japanese voice actor and narrator · 20 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 20 · Oki
Bernard Francis Law
American cardinal · 20 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 20 · Other · Law
Lito Cruz
Argentine director and actor · 20 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 20
Mamie Johnson
American baseballer · 20 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 20 · Other
Hiep Thi Le
Vietnamese actress (Heaven And Earth) · 20 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 20
Antanas Vaupšas
Lithuanian Soviet Olympic athlete (1964) · 20 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 20
Laurie Rymer
Australian footballer (Collingwood) · 20 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 20
Wyatt ‘Bunty’ Thompson
Australian equestrian rider at the 1956 Olympics. · 20 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 20 · Thompson · Other
Vinalto Graf
Brazilian Zoologist · 19 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 19 · Other
Henrik Svenungsson
bishop of the Diocese of Stockholm (1988–1998) · 19 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 19 · Other
Doug Gallagher
American baseball player (Detroit Tigers) · 19 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 19
Hugh Davies
Welsh cricketer (Glamorgan) · 19 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 19
Bob Dawson
Canadian football player (Hamilton Tiger-Cats) · 19 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 19
George Yod Phimphisan
Thai Roman Catholic prelate · 19 December 2017 · December 2017 · December 19 · Phimphisan · Other