Deaths Tag: December 17
Christian de Chalonge
French film director and screenwriter (The Wedding Ring · 17 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 17 · Chalonge · French
Ahmed Abodehman
Saudi writer and journalist (Al Riyadh) · 17 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 17
Eddie Sotto
66–67 · 17 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 17 · Other
Bob Burns III
American actor (The Ghost Busters · 17 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 17
Åge Hareide
Norwegian football coach · 17 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 17 · Other
Michele Dancelli
Italian road racing cyclist · 17 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 17
May Britt
Swedish actress (War and Peace · 17 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 17
Ruth Bourne
British codebreaker and World War II veteran · 17 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 17 · Other
Harouna Coulibaly
Nigerien writer and film director · 17 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 17
Slavko Aleksić
Bosnian Serb Chetnik commander · 17 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 17 · Other
Octave Houdégbé
Beninese politician · 17 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 17
Osman Hadi
Bangladeshi politician and activist · 17 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 17
Miroslav Vondřička
Czech basketball coach · 17 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 17 · Czech · Other
Ryan McDonough
cardiologist and member of the Alaska State Medical Board · 17 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 17 · Other
William Rush
British actor (Waterloo Road · 17 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 17
Lane Rogers
American pornographic actor · 17 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 17
Phil Vinall
English record producer and engineer (Black Sea · 17 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 17 · Other
Olga Cardoso
Portuguese radio announcer · 17 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 17 · Other
Constança Cunha e Sá
Portuguese journalist and a political commentator · 17 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 17
José Luis Cienfuegos
60/61 · 17 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 17 · Cienfuegos · Other
Ethan McLeod
English footballer (Wolverhampton Wanderers) · 17 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 17
Peter Arnett
American journalist (Associated Press) · 17 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 17
Jack Abendschan
American football player (Saskatchewan Roughriders) · 17 December 2025 · December 2025 · December 17
Verena Keller (singer) German operatic mezzosoprano dead at age 83
Verena Keller, the German operatic mezzosoprano, died on December 17, 2025. Born in Schwerin on September 8, 1942, she was the daughter of the Swiss opera singer Jakob Keller. She studied at the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien… · 17 December 2025 · December 2025 · Other
Robert Heide American playwright and author dead at age 91
Robert Heide, an American playwright and author, died on December 17, 2025. He was best known for his play "The Bed" and for working with artist Andy Warhol. His death was attributed to dementia-related complications, according to his surviving spouse,… · 17 December 2025 · December 2025
Elof Axel Carlson American geneticist dead at age 94
Elof Axel Carlson, an American geneticist and historian of science, died on December 17, 2025, at age 94. He was a distinguished teaching professor emeritus at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Born in New York City… · 17 December 2025 · December 2025
Richard Meier (poet) Poet dead at age 55
Richard Meier, an English poet, died on December 17, 2025, of lung cancer in East Finchley, London, at the age of 55. Born in Great Bookham, Surrey, in 1970, he won the 2010 Picador Poetry Prize. He authored two poetry… · 17 December 2025 · December 2025
Jon Camp
British bass guitarist and vocalist (Renaissance) · 17 December 2024 · December 2024 · December 17
Friedrich St. Florian
Austrian-American architect · 17 December 2024 · December 2024 · December 17 · Florian · Other
Alfa Anderson
American singer (Chic) · 17 December 2024 · December 2024 · December 17
Fred Lorenzen
American Hall of Fame racing driver · 17 December 2024 · December 2024 · December 17
Sigrid Kehl
German operatic soprano · 17 December 2024 · December 2024 · December 17
Willie Phua
Singaporean cameraman · 17 December 2024 · December 2024 · December 17 · Other
Klaus Wolfermann
German javelin thrower · 17 December 2024 · December 2024 · December 17 · Other
David Mallett
American singer and songwriter ("Garden Song") · 17 December 2024 · December 2024 · December 17
Gian Paolo Barbieri
Italian fashion photographer · 17 December 2024 · December 2024 · December 17 · Barbieri
Serhiy Olizarenko
Ukrainian steeplechase runner · 17 December 2024 · December 2024 · December 17
Cosmas Michael Angkur
Indonesian Roman Catholic prelate · 17 December 2024 · December 2024 · December 17 · Angkur · Other
Mike Brewer
American musician (Brewer & Shipley) · 17 December 2024 · December 2024 · December 17
Dietmar Constantini
Austrian football player (SWW Innsbruck) and manager (Mainz 05 · 17 December 2024 · December 2024 · December 17
John Marsden
Australian writer (Tomorrow · 17 December 2024 · December 2024 · December 17
Jean Adamson
British writer (Topsy and Tim) · 17 December 2024 · December 2024 · December 17
Rik Van Looy
Belgian racing cyclist · 17 December 2024 · December 2024 · December 17 · Looy
Wittekind Prinz zu Waldeck und Pyrmont
German member of former princely house · 17 December 2024 · December 2024 · December 17 · Pyrmont · Other
William Labov
97 · 17 December 2024 · December 2024 · December 17 · Other
Brian Price
Welsh rugby union player (national team) · 17 December 2023 · December 2023 · December 17 · Welsh
Jim Ladd
American disc jockey · 17 December 2023 · December 2023 · December 17
Larisa Gershtein
Soviet-born Israeli politician · 17 December 2023 · December 2023 · December 17
Oleg Ryakhovskiy
Russian triple jumper · 17 December 2023 · December 2023 · December 17 · Other
Jim Heighton
Canadian football player (Winnipeg Blue Bombers · 17 December 2023 · December 2023 · December 17
Mike Maxfield
British songwriter and guitarist (The Dakotas) · 17 December 2023 · December 2023 · December 17
Hermann Brede
German architect · 17 December 2023 · December 2023 · December 17 · Other
Speightstown
American Thoroughbred racehorse · 17 December 2023 · December 2023 · December 17 · Other
Bronislovas Genzelis
Lithuanian politician · 17 December 2023 · December 2023 · December 17
Eric Montross
American basketball player (Boston Celtics · 17 December 2023 · December 2023 · December 17 · Éric
Abderrahim Ouakili
Moroccan footballer · 17 December 2023 · December 2023 · December 17
Valery Lagunov
Russian choreographer · 17 December 2023 · December 2023 · December 17 · Other
Keisha Whitaker
American actress and producer · 17 December 2023 · December 2023 · December 17
Amp Fiddler
64-65 · 17 December 2023 · December 2023 · December 17 · Other
David Gell
Canadian Radio DJ and television presenter · 17 December 2023 · December 2023 · December 17 · Musicians
Brijesh Tripathi
Indian actor (Dulhan Ganga Paar Ke · 17 December 2023 · December 2023 · December 17
Michael L. Cowan
American navy admiral · 17 December 2023 · December 2023 · December 17 · Cowan · Other
Luca de Castro
Brazilian actor ( The Middle of the World · 17 December 2023 · December 2023 · December 17 · Castro