Wilbur Wood
American baseball player (Boston Red Sox · 17 January 2026 · January 2026 · January 17
Deaths Tag: January 17
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
Nancy Leftenant-Colon
American nurse · 17 January 2025 · January 2025 · January 17 · Other
André Soltner
French-American chef and author · 17 January 2025 · January 2025 · January 17 · French
Nicolae Oaidă
Romanian football player (Progresul București · 17 January 2025 · January 2025 · January 17
Pat Goggin
Irish footballer (Tramore Athletic · 17 January 2025 · January 2025 · January 17
Ze’ev Revach
Israeli actor (Charlie Ve'hetzi · 17 January 2025 · January 2025 · January 17 · Ze'ev
Claire van Kampen
English composer and theatre director · 17 January 2025 · January 2025 · January 17 · Kampen
Farhan Bulbul
Syrian theater director and writer · 17 January 2025 · January 2025 · January 17
Jan Otčenášek Jr.
Czech screenwriter (Zločiny Velké Prahy) · 17 January 2025 · January 2025 · January 17 · Czech
Thomas Timusk
Estonian-born Canadian physicist and academic · 17 January 2025 · January 2025 · January 17
Garry Brooke
English footballer (Tottenham Hotspur · 17 January 2025 · January 2025 · January 17
Margarete Tröstl
Austrian supercentenarian · 17 January 2025 · January 2025 · January 17 · Other
Bruce Kannemeyer
South African politician and convicted embezzler · 17 January 2025 · January 2025 · January 17
Punsalmaagiin Ochirbat
Mongolian politician · 17 January 2025 · January 2025 · January 17
Carol Downer
American feminist lawyer and author · 17 January 2025 · January 2025 · January 17
David William Rhind
British geographer · 17 January 2025 · January 2025 · January 17 · Other · Rhind
Creeohdee
American TikTok influencer · 17 January 2025 · January 2025 · January 17 · Other
John Wijngaards
Dutch Catholic scholar and priest · 17 January 2025 · January 2025 · January 17 · Dutch
Wolfgang Wickler
German zoologist and author · 17 January 2024 · January 2024 · January 17
Mo Henry
American film negative cutter (The Matrix · 17 January 2024 · January 2024 · January 17 · Other
Shawnacy Barber
Canadian-American pole valuter · 17 January 2024 · January 2024 · January 17 · Other
Norbert Lichý
Czech actor (Lidice · 17 January 2024 · January 2024 · January 17 · Czech
John Hurst
English footballer (Everton · 17 January 2024 · January 2024 · January 17
Nancy Deloye Fitzroy
American engineer · 17 January 2024 · January 2024 · January 17 · Fitzroy · Other
Romy Vitug
Filipino cinematographer (Harvest Home · 17 January 2024 · January 2024 · January 17 · Filipino · Other
Trini Tinturé
Spanish Catalan cartoonist and illustrator · 17 January 2024 · January 2024 · January 17
Serge Laprade
Canadian singer and radio broadcaster · 17 January 2024 · January 2024 · January 17
Roger T. Forster
British Christian theologian · 17 January 2024 · January 2024 · January 17 · Forster
Giovanni Giudici (vescovo)
Italian Roman Catholic prelate · 17 January 2024 · January 2024 · January 17 · Other
Giovanni Giudici
Italian Roman Catholic prelate · 17 January 2024 · January 2024 · January 17 · Other
Milan Nenadić
Serbian middleweight Greco-Roman wrestler · 17 January 2024 · January 2024 · January 17
Paulo Roberto
Brazilian footballer (Fluminense de Feira · 17 January 2024 · January 2024 · January 17
Denis Walker
British-Zimbabwean politician · 17 January 2024 · January 2024 · January 17
Cecilia Ogwal
Ugandan politician · 17 January 2024 · January 2024 · January 17
Charles Robins
English cricket player and administrator (Middlesex) · 17 January 2024 · January 2024 · January 17
Joseph Zadroga
American 9/11 survivor advocate · 17 January 2024 · January 2024 · January 17 · Other
Zevulun Charlop
American rabbi · 17 January 2024 · January 2024 · January 17 · Other
Jurij Souček
Slovenian actor (Don't Whisper) · 17 January 2024 · January 2024 · January 17
Robert Gaylor
American Chief Master Sergeant of the United States Air Force · 17 January 2024 · January 2024 · January 17 · Other
Leo Carlin
American businessman · 17 January 2024 · January 2024 · January 17 · Other
Gavin Woods
75–76 · 17 January 2024 · January 2024 · January 17 · Other
Jean-Claude Marty
French rugby league player (FC Lézignan XIII · 17 January 2023 · January 2023 · January 17 · French
Daniel Richard
French entrepreneur · 17 January 2023 · January 2023 · January 17 · French · Other
Noël Coulet
French academic and historian · 17 January 2023 · January 2023 · January 17 · French · Noel