List of Famous people who died at 17

The assassination of Rajiv Gandhi, former Prime Minister of India, occurred as a result of a suicide bombing in Sriperumbudur, Chennai, in Tamil Nadu, India on 21 May 1991. At least 14 others, in addition to Rajiv Gandhi, were killed. It was carried out by Thenmozhi Rajaratnam, a member of the Sri Lankan independentist organization Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). At the time, India had just ended its involvement, through the Indian Peace Keeping Force, in the Sri Lankan Civil War. Subsequent accusations of conspiracy have been addressed by two commissions of inquiry and have brought down at least one national government.

Ismail Jamil Nanoua, , is a Lebanese actor and voice actor.

Neomar Alejandro Lander Armas was a young Venezuelan protester killed during the 2017 Venezuelan protests.

Neil Stonechild was a Saulteaux First Nations teenager who died of hypothermia. Members of the Saskatoon Police Service took him to the northwest section of the city and abandoned him in a field on a night when temperatures were below −28 °C (−18 °F). The practice is known as a starlight tour, and a number of such cases in the Saskatoon area have been referred to collectively as the Saskatoon freezing deaths.