List of Famous people who died in 2017

William Howard Gass was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, critic, and philosophy professor. He wrote three novels, three collections of short stories, a collection of novellas, and seven volumes of essays, three of which have won National Book Critics Circle Award prizes and one of which, A Temple of Texts (2006), won the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism. His 1995 novel The Tunnel received the American Book Award. His 2013 novel Middle C won the 2015 William Dean Howells Medal.

Eugenio Polgovsky was a Mexican filmmaker and visual artist. He worked as director, cinematographer, editor, sound designer and producer of his films. Polgovsky was known for the Mexican documentaries "Tropic of Cancer" and Los Herederos "The Inheritors".

Ludwig Preis was a German football coach who once managed SpVgg Greuther Fürth on an interim basis after Mike Büskens was sacked. From 11 March 2013 till end of season he was assistant of manager Frank Kramer. 2013/14 he managed SpVgg U23 team but left after the end of season.

Chuck Weyant was an American racecar driver. He was born in St. Mary's, Ohio.

Heinz Schneiter was a Swiss football player and manager.

Paul Hébert, OC, CQ was a French Canadian television and stage actor and director, and the founder of six theatres in Quebec. He is best known for his role as Siméon Desrosiers in Le Temps d’une paix, a Canadian soap opera.

Wolfgang Fürniß, also spelt Fuerniss, was a politician from the Christian Democratic Union (CDU).

Alfonso Azpiri Mejía was a Spanish comic book artist, whose work was mainly of the adult variety.

Karl Ravens was a German politician and member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). He served as the Federal Minister of Regional Planning, Construction and Urban Development for West Germany from 1974 to 1978.

Antonio Candido de Mello e Souza was a Brazilian writer, professor, sociologist and literary critic. As a critic of Brazilian literature, he is regarded as having been one of the foremost scholars on the subject by Brazilian universities. He was the co-winner of the Prêmio Jabuti for essays in 1965 and was awarded the Prêmio Machado de Assis in 1993, the Camões Prize in 1998 and the Alfonso Reyes International Prize in 2005.