List of Famous people who died in 2017

Firuz Kanatlı was a Turkish businessman and founder and honorary president of the well known company Eti.

Mohammed Hassan El Joundi was a Moroccan dramatic artist and one of the most iconic Moroccan artists of the 20th century. He is a pioneer of Arab theater and an award-winning author, film director and actor.

Mustafa Abdul Qadir Tlass was a Syrian senior military officer and politician who was Syria's minister of defense from 1972 to 2004. He was part of the four-member Regional Command during the Hafez Assad era.

Cécile Andrée Paule DeWitt-Morette was a French mathematician and physicist. She founded a summer school at Les Houches in the French Alps. For this and her publications, she was awarded the American Society of the French Legion of Honour 2007 Medal for Distinguished Achievement. Attendees at the summer school included over twenty students who would go on to be Nobel Prize winners, including Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, Georges Charpak, and Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, who identify the school for assisting in their success.

Shunichiro Okano was a Japanese football player and manager. He played for Japan national team. He also managed Japan national team.

Marjorie Boulton was a British author and poet writing in both English and Esperanto.

Alain Jessua was a French film director and screenwriter. He directed ten films between 1956 and 1997. He worked as assistant director for Jacques Becker on the set of Casque d'or, with Max Ophüls for Madame de... and Lola Montès and with Marcel Carné on Wasteland. Léon la lune his first short film won the influential Prix Jean Vigo in 1957. He directed first feature film in 1963 La vie à l'envers that won Best First Film at Venice Film Festival, in 1964.

Ezio Pascutti was an Italian football manager and player, who played as a forward, either as a striker or as a winger. He spent his entire club career with Bologna, and represented Italy at two FIFA World Cups.

Abdullah al-Muhaysini is a Saudi Arabian Salafi thinker who is known for having served as a religious judge in the Army of Conquest in the Syrian Civil War.

Jean-Claude Étienne was a French politician, and a member of the Senate of France. He represented the Marne department and is a member of the Union for a Popular Movement Party.