List of Famous people who died in 2017

Fiona Catherine Alison Richardson was an Australian politician. She was a Labor Party member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly from 2006 until her death in 2017, representing the electorate of Northcote. She was Minister for Women and Minister for Prevention of Family Violence in the Andrews Ministry.

Egon Günther was a German film director and writer.

Robert Achille Schiller was an American screenwriter. He worked extensively with fellow producer/screenwriter Bob Weiskopf on numerous television shows in the United States, including I Love Lucy (1955–1957) and All in the Family (1977–1979) on the CBS network. For the latter series, he received an Emmy Award in 1978 as one of the writers of the episode "Cousin Liz."

Wolfgang Michels was a German singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer.

Jacques "Jacky" Simon was a French footballer who played as a midfielder. He was part of France national football team at the FIFA World Cup 1966.

Pushpa Mittra Bhargava was an Indian scientist, writer, and administrator. He founded the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, a federally funded research institute, in Hyderabad. He was outspoken and highly influential in the development of scientific temper in India, and argued that scientific rationalism needed to be cultivated as a civic duty.

Simon Peter Nelson was an American criminal who was convicted of murdering his six children, aged 13, 11, 8, 7, 5, and 3. He used a knife and rubber mallet to kill the children as they slept on January 7, 1978, in Rockford, Illinois. He then drove to Milwaukee to beat his wife, who was seeking a divorce at the time.

Florence Isabel Bjelke-Petersen was an Australian politician and writer. She was a member of the Australian Senate from 1981 to 1993, and was the wife of the longest-serving Premier of Queensland, Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen. She was styled as Lady Bjelke-Petersen upon her husband's knighthood, and was also known informally as Lady Flo.

Guillermo Enrique Morales Portillo was a Venezuelan singer. Better known as Memo Morales, he was also dubbed as El Gitano Maracucho.

Vladimir Semyonovich Makanin was a Russian writer of novels and short stories