List of Famous people who died in 2017

Petr Šabach was a Czech writer.

Cecil Dale Andrus was an American politician who served fourteen years as the Governor of Idaho. A Democrat, he also served as U.S. Secretary of the Interior from 1977 to 1981 during the Carter Administration. Andrus lost his first gubernatorial election in 1966, but won four and his 14 years as governor is the most in state history. He is the most recent Democrat to have held the office.

Jean Plaskie was a Belgian football player.

Harold Bedoya Pizarro was a general and commander of the Colombian National Army. Bedoya also ran for President of Colombia in the 1998 and 2002 elections.

Mordechai Tzipori was an Israeli politician who served as Minister of Communications from 1981 until 1984.

Jean Miot was a French journalist and media executive. He was the associate director of Le Figaro, France's conservative newspaper of record, from 1980 to 1993, and the chairman of its advisory committee from 1993 to 1996. He was the CEO of Agence France-Presse from 1996 to 1999.

Georg Gerson Iggers was an American historian of modern Europe, historiography, and European intellectual history.

Jean-Pierre Kahane was a French mathematician with contributions to harmonic analysis.

Osvaldo Fattori was an Italian association footballer who played as a defender or midfielder.

Pompeyo Ezequiel Márquez Millán was a Venezuelan politician and former marxist guerrilla member in the 1960s. He was one of the founders of Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS), and part of the opposition to the late Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez. In the 1980s he was a member of the Comisión para la Reforma del Estado (COPRE). In 1989, he was appointed by Carlos Andrés Pérez as a member of the Presidential Committee for Colombian-Venezuelan Border Issues (COPAF) chaired by Ramón J. Velásquez. He was Minister of Borders of the Government of Rafael Caldera from 1994 through 1999.