List of Famous people who died in 2017
María Julia Alsogaray
María Julia Alsogaray was an Argentine politician and engineer convicted in 2004 for financial crimes against the state.
Shane Sieg
Rodney Shane Sieg was an American professional stock car racing driver. He last drove the No. 93 S&W Services Chevrolet for RSS Racing. He was the older brother of Xfinity Series driver Ryan Sieg.
José Utrera Molina
José Utrera Molina (1926-2017) was a Spanish politician who served as assistant Secretary of Labor, Minister of Housing and Minister Secretary General of the Movement.
Pyotr Deynekin
Pyotr Stepanovich Deynekin was a Russian military general. He was born in Morozovsk, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union. In 1997, he was awarded the Hero of the Russian Federation. Deynekin's rank was General of the army.
Lubomyr Husar
Lubomyr Husar MSU was the major archbishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Church, a minority church in Ukraine but the largest sui juris Eastern church in full communion with the Holy See. He was also a Cardinal of the Catholic Church. After the transfer of the see of Lviv to Kyiv in 2005, he was the Ukrainian Catholic Major Archbishop of Kyiv-Galicia. In February 2011 he became Major Archeparch Emeritus after he resigned due to ill health.
Marc Baecke
Marc Baecke was a Belgian footballer who played as a left back.
Ruth Bondy
Ruth Bondy was a Czech-Israeli journalist and translator. Bondy was a Holocaust survivor who wrote for the Israeli newspaper Davar and translated books written in Czech to Hebrew. She was awarded the Sokolov Award in 1987 and the Tchernichovsky Prize in 2014.
Bayezid Osman
Bayezid Osman, also known as Osman Bayezid Osmanoğlu with a surname as required by the Republic of Turkey, or known by the Ottoman imperial name as Şehzade (Prince) Bayezid Osman Efendi, was the 44th Head of the Imperial House of Osman, which ruled the Ottoman Empire from 1299 to 1922. The monarchy was abolished in 1922, with the modern Republic of Turkey replacing it.
Sofía Ímber
Sofía Ímber was a Romanian-born Venezuelan journalist and supporter of the arts. She was the founder of the Contemporary Art Museum of Caracas.
Arno Rink
Arno Rink was a German painter. He was accepted to the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig (HGB) in 1962 and studied under Werner Tübke, Hans Mayer-Foreyt and Harry Blume. He is associated with the second generation of the Leipzig School, which paints in a German figurative tradition.