2017 deaths

Chancellor of West Germany and reunified Germany (1982–1998)

Chinese literary critic, writer, professor, and human rights activist (1955–2017)

American singer, songwriter and musician (1976–2017)

Iranian mathematician (1977–2017)

Saint Lucian–Trinidadian poet and playwright (1930–2017)

English actor (1927–2017)

Charles Milles Manson was an American criminal, cult leader, and musician who was the founder of the Manson Family. He gained notoriety for ordering the Tate–LaBianca murders, where his followers murdered nine people around Los Angeles in 1969.

American musician (1926–2017)

American actor (1928–2017)

American comedian, actor and film director (1926–2017)

President of North Yemen (1978–1990) and Yemen (1990–2012)

Iranian politician (1934–2017)

Soviet, Russian and American theoretical physicist

American businessman and magazine publisher (1926–2017)

French actress, singer, screenwriter and director (1928-2017)

Dutch-born American physicist

French musician, singer and actor (1943–2017)

Polish-American diplomat and political scientist (1928–2017)

former President of the Federal Republic of Germany (1934-2017)

American stand-up comedian (1926–2017)

Soviet and Russian poet (1933–2017)

American economist (1921–2017)

Iraqi politician (1933-2017)

Polish philosopher and sociologist (1925-2017)

French politician (1927–2017)

American actor and filmmaker (1955–2017)

Manuel Antonio Noriega Moreno was a Panamanian military officer and politician who was the de facto ruler of Panama from 1983 to 1989. He never officially served as president of Panama, instead ruling as an unelected military dictator through puppet presidents. Amassing a personal fortune through drug trafficking operations by the Panamanian military, Noriega had longstanding ties with American intelligence agencies before the United States invasion of Panama removed him from power.

last king of Romania (r. 1927–1930, 1940–1947)

American filmmaker (1944–2017)

President of Finland (1923–2017)

American actress and television producer (1936-2017)

German physicist (1922-2017)

British actor (1940–2017)

Hungarian chemist (1927-2017)

President of Portugal (1924–2017)

Christopher John Cornell was an American musician, best known as the lead vocalist, rhythm guitarist, and the primary lyricist for the rock bands Soundgarden and Audioslave. He also had a solo career and contributed to numerous movie soundtracks. Cornell was the founder and frontman of Temple of the Dog, a one-off tribute band dedicated to his late friend, musician Andrew Wood. Several music journalists, fan polls, and fellow musicians have regarded Cornell as one of the greatest rock singers of all time.

American banker and philanthropist (1915–2017)

NASA astronaut, Naval aviator, aeronautical engineer, electrical engineer, fighter pilot, eleventh human to walk on the Moon (Apollo 10 and Apollo 17)

American pianist and singer (1928–2017)

French footballer (1931–2017)

American playwright and actor (1943–2017)

English physicist known for magnetic resonance imaging

Canadian-American filmmaker (1940–2017)

Oldest son of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il (1971-2017)

Biochemistry, genetics, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2007

Japanese association football player (1942–2017)

American musician

Czech tennis player (1968–2017)

80th Prime Minister of Japan (1935-2017)

Ex-President of Haiti (1943-2017)

British science fiction writer (1925–2017)

British motorcycle and automobile racer (1934–2017)

American actor (1926–2017)

Bosnian Croat general and war criminal (1945–2017)

Bulgarian historian, philosopher, structuralist literary critic, sociologist and essayist (1939-2017)

Indian film actor and producer (1938–2017)

American actor (1928–2017)

American writer, educator, artist, and activist (1934–2017)

American actor (1955–2017)

Japanese association football player (1931–2017)