List of Famous people who died in 2017

Tomas Milian was an Italian-Cuban-American actor and singer, known for the emotional intensity and humour he brought to roles in European genre films.

Otto Luttrop was a German football player and coach. As a player, he spent three seasons in the Bundesliga with TSV 1860 München.

Mika Tapio Vainio was a Finnish electronic musician. He was best known as a member of Pan Sonic. In addition to his real name, he recorded under the aliases Ø, Kentolevi, Philus, and Tekonivel.

Shakila was Indian actress, best known for her roles in Guru Dutt's films: Aar Paar (1954) and C.I.D. (1956).

Bernard Daniel Katz, born Bernard Daniel Clifford, was the long-serving manager of the Groucho Club. Katz was the author of Soho Society in 2008. He was nicknamed "The Prince of Soho" by Stephen Fry. He was the son of the notorious south London gangster Brian "Little Legs" Clifford.

Richard Portman was an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and was nominated for ten more in the same category. He worked on more than 160 films between 1963 and 2004. Portman later taught at Florida State University; he died of complications after a fall.

Jacques Sauvageot was a French politician and art historian.

Yoshio Tsuchiya was a Japanese actor who appeared in such films as Toshio Matsumoto's surreal Bara No Soretsu and Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai and Red Beard, and Kihachi Okamoto's Kill!. He had a long-standing interest in UFOs and wrote several books on the subject. He preferred starring in science fiction films, usually as aliens, or people possessed by them, in such films as Battle in Outer Space, Monster Zero, and Destroy All Monsters.

John Herbert McCluskey, Baron McCluskey was a Scottish lawyer, judge and politician, who served as Solicitor General for Scotland, the country's junior Law Officer from 1974 to 1979, and as a Senator of the College of Justice, a judge of Scotland's Supreme Courts, from 1984 to 2004. He was also member of the House of Lords from 1976 until his retirement in 2017.

Irina Borisovna Ratushinskaya was a Russian Soviet dissident, poet and writer.