List of Famous people who died in 2017

Charles Manson

Charles Milles Maddox
First Name Charles
Last Name Manson
Born on November 12, 1934
Died on November 19, 2017 (aged 83)
Height 157 cm | 5'2

Charles Milles Manson was an American criminal and cult leader. In mid-1967, he formed what became known as the "Manson Family", a quasi-commune based in California. His followers committed a series of nine murders at four locations in July and August 1969. Although the motive for the murders was disputed by Manson, the Los Angeles County district attorney believed that Manson intended to start a race war. In 1971, he was convicted of first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder for the deaths of seven people, including the film actress Sharon Tate. The prosecution contended that, while Manson never directly ordered the murders, his ideology constituted an overt act of conspiracy.

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Lotfi Aliasker Zadeh

First Name Lotfi
Last Name Zadeh
Born on February 4, 1921
Died on September 6, 2017 (aged 96)

Lotfi Aliasker Zadeh was a mathematician, computer scientist, electrical engineer, artificial intelligence researcher and professor emeritus of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Parvathamma Rajkumar

First Name Parvathamma
Born on December 6, 1939
Died on May 31, 2017 (aged 77)
Born in India

Parvathamma Rajkumar was an Indian film producer and distributor. She was the wife of veteran Kannada actor Rajkumar. She produced successful films featuring Rajkumar and their sons Shiv Rajkumar, Puneeth Rajkumar and Raghavendra Rajkumar under the production house named "Poornima Enterprises". Actresses who found fame in her productions include Malashri, Prema, Rakshita, Sudha Rani and Ramya. She was awarded a doctorate from Bangalore University.

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Roger Moore

Roger George Moore
First Name Roger
Last Name Moore
Born on October 14, 1927
Died on May 23, 2017 (aged 89)
Height 186 cm | 6'1

Sir Roger George Moore was an English actor. He is best known for portraying fictional secret agent James Bond in the Eon Productions film series, playing the character in seven feature films between 1973 and 1985. Moore was the third actor in the role, and his seven appearances as Bond, from Live and Let Die to A View to a Kill, are the most of any actor in the Eon-produced entries.

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Bill Paxton

First Name Bill
Last Name Paxton
Born on May 17, 1955
Died on February 25, 2017 (aged 61)
Height 182 cm | 6'0

William Paxton was an American actor, musician, director, producer and writer. He appeared in films such as Weird Science (1985), Near Dark (1987), True Lies (1994), Apollo 13 (1995), Twister (1996) and Titanic (1997). He also starred in the HBO drama series Big Love (2006–2011), earning three Golden Globe Award nominations during the show's run. He was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award for portraying Randall McCoy in the History channel miniseries Hatfields & McCoys (2012) and as Detective Frank Roarke in the CBS television series Training Day (2017). His final film appearance was in The Circle (2017), released two months after his death.

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Chester Bennington

Chester Charles Bennington
First Name Chester
Last Name Bennington
Born on March 20, 1976
Died on July 20, 2017 (aged 41)
Height 177 cm | 5'10

Chester Charles Bennington was an American singer, songwriter, and occasional actor. He was best known as the lead vocalist for Linkin Park and was also lead vocalist for the bands Grey Daze, Dead by Sunrise and, between 2013 and 2015, Stone Temple Pilots. Bennington has been credited by several publications as one of the greatest rock vocalists of his generation.

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Aaron Hernandez

Aaron Josef Hernandez
First Name Aaron
Last Name Hernandez
Born on November 6, 1989
Died on April 19, 2017 (aged 27)
Height 188 cm | 6'2

Aaron Josef Hernandez was an American football tight end and convicted murderer. He played in the National Football League (NFL) for three seasons with the New England Patriots until his career came to an abrupt end after his arrest and conviction for the murder of Odin Lloyd.

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Hugh Hefner

Hugh Marston Hefner
First Name Hugh
Born on April 9, 1926
Died on September 27, 2017 (aged 91)

Hugh Marston Hefner was an American magazine publisher. He was the founder and editor-in-chief of Playboy magazine, a publication with revealing photographs and articles which provoked charges of obscenity. The first issue of Playboy was published in 1953 featuring Marilyn Monroe in a nude calendar shoot; it sold over 50,000 copies.

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Chris Cornell

Christopher John Boyle
First Name Chris
Last Name Cornell
Born on July 20, 1964
Died on May 18, 2017 (aged 52)
Height 189 cm | 6'2

Christopher John Cornell was an American singer, songwriter, and musician best known as the lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist for the rock bands Soundgarden and Audioslave. He also had a solo career and contributed to soundtracks. Cornell was also the founder and frontman of Temple of the Dog, a one-off tribute band dedicated to his late friend Andrew Wood.

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Lil Peep

Gustav Elijah Ahr
First Name Lil
Born on November 1, 1996
Died on November 15, 2017 (aged 21)
Height 185 cm | 6'1

Gustav Elijah Åhr, known professionally as Lil Peep, was an American rapper, singer, songwriter and model. He was a member of the emo rap collective GothBoiClique. Helping pioneer an emo revival style of rap and rock music, Lil Peep has been credited as the leading figure of the mid–late 2010s emo rap scene and came to be an inspiration to outcasts and youth subcultures.

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Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon

Antony Charles Robert Armstrong-Jones
First Name Antony
Last Name Snowdon
Born on March 7, 1930
Died on January 13, 2017 (aged 86)

Antony Charles Robert Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon was a British photographer and filmmaker who married Princess Margaret, the sister of Queen Elizabeth II.

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Tom Petty

Thomas Earl Petty
First Name Tom
Last Name Petty
Born on October 20, 1950
Died on October 2, 2017 (aged 66)
Height 174 cm | 5'9

Thomas Earl Petty was an American singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, and actor. He was the lead vocalist and guitarist of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, formed in 1976. He previously led the band Mudcrutch, and was also a member of the late 1980s supergroup the Traveling Wilburys.

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Johnny Hallyday

Jean-Philippe Léo Smet
First Name Johnny
Born on June 15, 1943
Died on December 6, 2017 (aged 74)

Jean-Philippe Léo Smet, better known by his stage name Johnny Hallyday, was a French rock and roll and pop singer and actor, credited for having brought rock and roll to France.

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Roger Ailes

First Name Roger
Last Name Ailes
Born on May 15, 1940
Died on May 18, 2017 (aged 77)

Roger Eugene Ailes was an American television executive and media consultant. He was the chairman and CEO of Fox News, Fox Television Stations and 20th Television, from which he resigned in July 2016 after allegations of sexual harassment were made by 23 women. Ailes was a media consultant for Republican presidents Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and George H. W. Bush, and for Rudy Giuliani's first mayoral campaign. In 2016, he became an adviser to the Donald Trump campaign, where he assisted with debate preparation.

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Helmut Kohl

Helmut Josef Michael Kohl
First Name Helmut
Born on April 3, 1930
Died on June 16, 2017 (aged 87)

Helmut Josef Michael Kohl was a German statesman and politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who served as Chancellor of Germany from 1982 to 1998 and as chairman of the CDU from 1973 to 1998. Kohl's 16-year tenure is the longest of any German Chancellor since Otto von Bismarck, and oversaw the end of the Cold War, the German reunification and the creation of the European Union.

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Simone Veil

Simone Annie Liline Jacob
First Name Simone
Last Name Veil
Born on July 13, 1927
Died on June 30, 2017 (aged 89)

Simone Veil was a French magistrate and stateswoman who served as Health Minister in several governments and was President of the European Parliament from 1979 to 1982, the first woman to hold that office. As health minister, she is best remembered for advancing women’s legal rights in France, in particular for the 1975 law that legalized abortion, today known as Loi Veil. From 1998 to 2007 she was a member of the Constitutional Council, France’s highest legal authority.

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John Heard

John Matthew Heard, Jr.
First Name John
Last Name Heard
Died on July 21, 2017 (aged 47)

John Heard Jr. was an American actor. He appeared in a number of successful films, including Heart Beat (1980), Cutter's Way (1981), Cat People (1982), C.H.U.D. (1984), After Hours (1985), Beaches (1988), The Package (1989), and Deceived (1991). Other films include The Trip to Bountiful (1985), Big (1988), Awakenings (1990), Rambling Rose (1991), The Pelican Brief (1993), My Fellow Americans (1996), Animal Factory (2000), White Chicks (2004), Would You Rather (2012), and Assault on Wall Street (2013). Heard also played the role of Peter McCallister, the father of protagonist Kevin McCallister, in Home Alone (1990) and its sequel Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992).

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Jerry Lewis

Joseph Levitch
First Name Jerry
Born on March 16, 1926
Died on August 20, 2017 (aged 91)
Height 179 cm | 5'10

Jerry Lewis, nicknamed "The King of Comedy", was an American comedian, actor, singer, filmmaker and humanitarian, who appeared in over sixty films and other media, from the Martin & Lewis partnership with singer Dean Martin to on his own as a soloist.

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Otto Warmbier

First Name Otto
Last Name Warmbier
Born on December 12, 1994
Died on June 19, 2017 (aged 22)

Otto Frederick Warmbier was an American college student who was imprisoned in North Korea in 2016 on a charge of subversion. In June 2017, he was released by North Korea in a vegetative state and died soon afterward.

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David Cassidy

David Bruce Cassidy
First Name David
Last Name Cassidy
Born on April 12, 1950
Died on November 21, 2017 (aged 67)
Height 169 cm | 5'7

David Bruce Cassidy was an American actor, singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He was best known for his role as Keith Partridge, the son of Shirley Partridge, in the 1970s musical-sitcom The Partridge Family. This role catapulted Cassidy to teen idol status as a superstar pop singer of the 1970s.

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