List of Famous people who died in 2017

Estela Molly was an Argentine actress.

Sergei Aleksandrovich Mylnikov was an ice hockey goaltender and coach who competed in the Soviet Hockey League, National Hockey League, and the Swedish Division 2. He was the first Soviet goaltender to play in the National Hockey League. He mostly played for Traktor Chelyabinsk, and also briefly for SKA Leningrad (1980–82), the Quebec Nordiques (1989–90), Torpedo Yaroslavl (1991–93) and Skedvi/Säter IF (1993–95). He was a member of the Soviet national team, winning a gold medal at the 1988 Winter Olympics and at the 1989 and 1990 IIHF World Championships. He was named to the Soviet All-Star team in 1988 and inducted into the Russian and Soviet Hockey Hall of Fame in 1985. Mylnikov helped the Soviet junior team to back-to-back junior world championships in 1977 and 1978. He was also the starting Soviet goaltender at the Canada Cup in 1987.

Türkân Akyol was a Turkish politician, physician and academic. She was the first Turkish female government minister, and the first female university rector in Turkey.

Galina Mikhailovna Shergova was a Soviet and Russian writer and 1978 winner of the USSR State Prize.

Tom Tjaarda was an American automobile designer noted for his work on a broad range of automobiles — estimated at over eighty — from exotic sports cars including the Ferrari 365 California, De Tomaso Pantera and Aston Martin Lagonda Coupé to high-volume popular cars including the first generation Ford Fiesta (1972) and the Fiat 124 Spider (1966).

Feliciano Muñoz Rivilla was a Spanish footballer who played as a right back.

Philippe Médard was a French handball player who competed in the 1992 Summer Olympics.

Abelardo Castillo was an Argentine writer, novelist, essayist, diarist, born in the city of San Pedro, Buenos Aires. He practised amateur boxing in his youth. He also directed the literary magazines El Escarabajo de Oro and El Ornitorrinco. He is well regarded in the field of Latin American literature. In 2014 he won the Diamond Konex Award as the best writer in the last decade in Argentina.

Louis Viannet was a French trade union leader.

The Tour of the Gila is a cycling stage race for both men and women located in New Mexico, United States. It is sponsored by the component maker SRAM. The "Gila" began in 1987. Beginning in 2012, the men's Gila has been added to the UCI America Tour as a UCI classification 2.2 stage race, which permits UCI ProTeams to enter if they so choose; beginning in 2015, the women's Gila has also been added to the women's UCI international tour as a UCI classification 2.2 stage race.