List of Famous people who died in 2017

Velichko Cholakov was an ethnically Bulgarian Azerbaijani weightlifter.

Leo Juhani "Leksa" Kinnunen was a Finnish racing driver, and the first Formula One driver from Finland.

Henry-Louis de La Grange was a French musicologist and biographer of Gustav Mahler.

Helga Grebing was a German historian and university professor. A focus of her work is on social history and, more specifically, on the history of the labour movement.

Benjamin Alexander Riley Jr. was an American jazz drummer known for his work with Thelonious Monk, as well as Alice Coltrane, Stan Getz, Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, Ahmad Jamal, and as a member of the group Sphere. During the 1970s and 1980s he was a member of the New York Jazz Quartet.

Ari Rath was an Austrian-Israeli journalist and writer.

Shōgorō Nishimura was a Japanese film director.

Jan Antoni Szczepański was a Polish boxer, who won the gold medal in the lightweight division at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany. In the final he defeated Hungary's László Orbán on points (5:0).

Imre Földi was a Hungarian weightlifter. Competing at a record of five Olympic Games, he won a gold medal in 1972 and silver medals in 1964 and 1968.

Richard Gordon, was an English ship's surgeon and anaesthetist. As Richard Gordon, Ostlere wrote numerous novels, screenplays for film and television and accounts of popular history, mostly dealing with the practice of medicine. He was best known for a long series of comic novels on a medical theme beginning with Doctor in the House, and the subsequent film, television, radio and stage adaptations. His The Alarming History of Medicine was published in 1993, and he followed this with The Alarming History of Sex.