Lista de Personas Famosas que murieron en 2017

Georges Prêtre fue un director de orquesta francés. Dirigió en el Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, en la Ópera del Metropolitan, Nueva York, y el Teatro de La Scala, Milán. Trabajó con Maria Callas en varias ocasiones, y realizó grabaciones de Carmen y Tosca con ella, siendo su director musical favorito. Por un tiempo fue director musical de la Ópera de París.

Aníbal Ruiz Leites fue un futbolista y entrenador de fútbol uruguayo.

Kamran Aziz was a Cypriot musician and pharmacist. She was the first female composer and the first female pharmacist in Turkish Cypriot society. She made significant contributions to Turkish Cypriot folk music to the extent that she started the genre in its modern sense. She was also one of the first female musicians to play in public and pioneered the playing and teaching of western music, along with her colleague, Jale Derviş.

Michael Cockerill was an investigative Australian football (soccer) journalist who wrote for Fairfax newspapers, Fox Sports and formerly C7 Sport. He was also a football pundit and match commentator and appeared regularly on the football show Fox Sports FC.

Osman Bülent Kayabaş was a Turkish actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films from 1963 to 2017.

Héctor Lechuga fue un actor cómico, comentarista político en tono humorístico y colaborador de distintas estaciones de radio, así como en múltiples programas de televisión y actor en varias películas.

Thomas Earl Starzl was an American physician, researcher, and expert on organ transplants. He performed the first human liver transplants, and has often been referred to as "the father of modern transplantation." A documentary, entitled "Burden of Genius," covering the medical and scientific advances spearheaded by Starzl himself, was released to the public in 2017 in a series of screenings.

Véronique Nordey was a French actress. Her son, Stanislas Nordey, is the director of the Théâtre national de Strasbourg.

Chen Uen was a Taiwanese manhua artist. Some of his works include Magical Super Asia, Banzai and The First King. He also worked as an illustrator for Koei's Romance of the Three Kingdoms PS2 game series.

John Aldridge "Jack" Collom was an American poet, essayist, and creative writing pedagogue. Included among the twenty-five books he published during his lifetime were Red Car Goes By: Selected Poems 1955–2000; Poetry Everywhere: Teaching Poetry Writing in School and in the Community; and Second Nature, which won the 2013 Colorado Book Award for Poetry. In the fields of education and creative writing, he was involved in eco-literature, ecopoetics, and writing instruction for children.