Wilbur Wood
American baseball player (Boston Red Sox · 17 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 17
Deaths Died in 17 January 2026
John ‘Oke Afareha
Nigerian Catholic prelate · 17 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 17 · Afareha · Other
Phil Goyette
Canadian ice hockey player (Montreal Canadiens) · 17 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 17
Roger Allers
American animator and filmmaker (The Lion King · 17 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 17 · Other
Ralph Towner
American jazz multi-instrumentalist · 17 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 17 · Musicians
Alan Black
Scottish footballer (Norwich City · 17 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 17
Oskár Elschek
Slovak ethnomusicologist · 17 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 17 · Oskar · Other
Francesco Gurrieri
Italian architect · 17 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 17 · Other
Stella Isodo Apolot
Ugandan politician · 17 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 17 · Apolot
Bruce Leung
Hong Kong martial artist and actor · 17 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 17 · Artists
Liu Thai Ker
Singaporean architect and urban planner · 17 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 17 · Other · Ker
Lazar Shvets
Russian priest · 17 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 17 · Lazăr · Other
Guillermo Salatino
Argentine sports journalist · 17 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 17 · Argentine
Craig Anderson (bishop) American bishop dead at age 83
Craig Anderson, an American bishop, died on January 17, 2026, at age 83. Craig Barry Anderson was an Episcopal Church bishop who served as Bishop of South Dakota from 1984 to 1992. He was born in Glendale, California, on February… · 17 January 2026 · January 2026 · Other
Hoot Gibson (American football) American football player (San Diego Chargers dead at age 86
Claude "Hoot" Andrew Gibson, an American football player and coach, died on January 17, 2026. He was 87. Gibson was a defensive back and kick returner who played college football for the NC State Wolfpack before competing professionally in the… · 17 January 2026 · January 2026
James Petras Professor of sociology dead at age 89
James Petras, an American sociologist and academic, died on January 17, 2026. He was the Bartle Professor emeritus of sociology at Binghamton University in Binghamton, New York, and an adjunct professor at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Petras… · 17 January 2026 · January 2026
W. John McDonald Canadian physicist and academic administrator dead at age 89
W. John McDonald, a Canadian physicist and academic administrator, died on January 17, 2026, at the age of 89. Born in Lethbridge, Alberta, in 1936, he earned degrees from the University of Saskatchewan and a PhD from the University of… · 17 January 2026 · January 2026
Fabian Malbon British Royal Navy officer, lieutenant governor of Guernsey dead at age 79
Vice Admiral Sir Fabian Malbon, a British Royal Navy officer and former Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey, died on January 17, 2026, aged 79. Born on October 1, 1946, he joined the Royal Navy in 1965 after attending Brighton Hove and… · 17 January 2026 · January 2026