List of Famous people who died in 2017

Samuel Julian Ard was an American professional stock car racing driver. He won two NASCAR Budweiser Late Model Sportsman Series championships, in 1983 and 1984. Ard also made one NASCAR Winston Cup start. He retired from driving after being injured in late 1984 and became a car owner. He battled Parkinson's in the later stages of his life and died in April 2017 at age 78.

Robert William Taylor, known as Bob Taylor, was an American Internet pioneer, who led teams that made major contributions to the personal computer, and other related technologies. He was director of ARPA's Information Processing Techniques Office from 1965 through 1969, founder and later manager of Xerox PARC's Computer Science Laboratory from 1970 through 1983, and founder and manager of Digital Equipment Corporation's Systems Research Center until 1996.

Andrei Aleksandrovich Chernov, also known as Andrew Chernov and Ache, was a Soviet and Russian programmer who was one of the founders of the Russian Internet and the creator of the character encoding KOI8-R.

Valeri Nikolayevich Glushakov was a Russian professional football player and coach. He made his professional debut in the Soviet First League in 1977 for FC Spartak Moscow.

Agnes Giebel was a German classical soprano. She was born in Heerlen, in the Netherlands, where she lived the first years of her life. She studied at the Folkwangschule in Essen and made her first public appearance as a singer in 1947. Her career lasted until the 1990s during which she established a wide-ranging discography.

Mervyn Gordon Rose AM was an Australian male tennis player who won 7 Grand Slam titles.

Mikhail Naoumovitch Kalik was a Soviet and Israeli film director and screenwriter.

Martin Gotthard Schneider was a German theologian, church musician, Landeskantor, songwriter, and academic teacher. He is known for prize-winning songs of the genre Neues Geistliches Lied, such as "Danke" and "Ein Schiff, das sich Gemeinde nennt".

András Kovács may refer to:

• András Kovács (1925–2017), Hungarian film director and screenwriter
• András Kovács (1947), Hungarian sociologist

Lennart Nilsson was a Swedish photographer and scientist. He was noted for his photographs of human embryos and other medical subjects once considered unphotographable, and more generally for his extreme macro photography. He was also considered to be among Sweden’s first modern photojournalists.