Lista de Personas Famosas que murieron a los 17 años

Trayvon Benjamin Martin fue un joven afroestadounidense de 17 años de Miami Gardens, Florida, asesinado de un disparo en Sanford, Florida, por George Zimmerman. Martin se encontraba con su padre en una visita a la prometida de este en la comunidad The Retreat at Twin Lakes en Sanford. En la noche del 26 de febrero, Martin se encontraba regresando a la casa de la prometida de su padre desde una tienda de conveniencia. Zimmerman, un miembro de la vigilancia comunitaria, vio a Martin y lo reportó a la Policía de Sanford como sospechoso. Minutos más tarde, hubo un altercado en el que Martin agredió de gravedad al agente y Zimmerman disparó fatalmente a Martin en el pecho.

Juanita Suzanne Coco was an Australian child singer and variety performer who was a regular on the talent and variety television show, Young Talent Time. She appeared from 1987 to 1988, from the age of 11 to 13. Coco was often paired with Joey Dee for duets. She had replaced Vanessa Windsor on the show and was the 35th member to join. After the show's demise, Coco worked with a professional cover band on a regular basis until her final year of high school. She then formed a young band, Milk, who were working on original songs and about to start performing at the time of her death in 1993.

Rachel Joy Scott fue una estudiante estadounidense, y la primera víctima de la Masacre de la Escuela Secundaria de Columbine, la cual cobró la vida de 12 estudiantes y un profesor, junto con la de los dos perpetradores, convirtiéndolo en uno de los tiroteos escolares más mortales de la historia de Estados Unidos.

Junko Furuta was a Japanese high-school student who was abducted, severely tortured, repeatedly raped, and murdered in the late 1980s. Her murder case was named "Concrete-encased high school girl murder case" , due to her body being discovered in a concrete drum. The abuse was mainly perpetrated by four teenage boys, Hiroshi Miyano, Jō Ogura, Shinji Minato, and Yasushi Watanabe.

Mahalakshmi Menon, best known by her stagename Shobha, was an Indian actress best known for her work in Malayalam and Tamil films. At the age of 17, she won the National Film Award for Best Actress for her role in the 1979 Tamil film Pasi. She also received three Kerala State Film Awards: for Best Actress (1978), Best Supporting Actress (1977) and Best Child Artist (1971); and two Filmfare Awards South for Best Actress in Kannada (1978) and Tamil (1979) films. Considered one of the finest talents to have emerged in the Indian film world, her promising career was unexpectedly cut short as she committed suicide in 1980, due to unknown reasons. Her popularity resulted in considerable public scrutiny of the events that led to her death and also various conspiracy theories. The 1983 Malayalam film Lekhayude Maranam Oru Flashback is supposedly based on her life and death.

Abdul Nasser Qardash is an Iraqi-born militant who in 2019 was wrongly reported as the leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). He was also nicknamed "The Professor" and "Destroyer". Although his role within ISIL is unclear, he is reported as one of ISIL's top commanders and tipped as a potential candidate for ISIL leadership succession. However days after the death of Al-Baghdadi, ‘Abdul-Rahman Al-Mawlah known as Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi was ultimately chosen as the new declared leader of ISIS.

Benjamin Wilson Jr. was an American high school basketball player from Chicago, Illinois. Wilson, a Neal F. Simeon Vocational High School basketball player was regarded as the top high school player in the U.S. by scouts and coaches attending the 1984 Athletes For Better Education basketball camp. Wilson is noted as the first Chicago athlete to receive this honor. On November 21, 1984, Wilson died due to injuries he sustained in a shooting the day before.

Mona Mahmudnizhad fue una adolescente persa bahaí que, en 1983, junto con nueve mujeres bahaíes, fue condenada a morir y ejecutada en Shiraz, por no renegar de su fe, no reconocida en Irán, a la edad de 17 años.

Cassie René Bernall fue una estudiante asesinada en la masacre de la Escuela Secundaria de Columbine, a la edad de 17 años.

Gwen Amber Rose Araujo fue una adolescente transgénero estadounidense que murió a causa del ataque de varios individuos. Los motivos de la muerte de Araujo fueron investigados en los juicios penales en los que se alegó que los atacantes se enfadaron al descubrir que Araujo se le asignó el género masculino al nacer. En el juicio más reciente, dos de los acusados fueron declarados culpables de asesinato en segundo grado, pero el jurado concluyó que no se había cometido un delito de odio. Las circunstancias del caso hicieron que se convirtiera en un punto de reunión de la comunidad LGBT, y varios aspectos, polémicos y poco comentados en la prensa sobre el caso siguen siendo puntos de controversia.