List of Famous people who died in 2017

Stanislaw Pawel Stefan Jan Sebastian Skrowaczewski was a Polish-American classical conductor and composer.

Konrad Repgen was a German historian and a professor emeritus (retired) at the University of Bonn. He was revered for his work on contemporary church history.

Timo Mäkinen was one of the original "Flying Finns" of motor rallying. He is most famous for his hat-tricks of wins in the RAC Rally and the 1000 Lakes Rally.

Hanns Kreisel was a German mycologist and professor emeritus.

Fernando Birri was an Argentine film maker and theorist. He was considered by many to be the father of the new Latin American cinema.

Régis Gizavo was a Malagasy accordionist. He was born in Tulear, Madagascar and began playing the accordion at a young age. In 1990 he won the Radio France Internationale "Prix découvertes".

Pierrette Bloch was a Paris-born Swiss painter and textile artist.

Yu So-chow is a former Chinese actress from Hong Kong. Yu has a star at Avenue of Stars in Hong Kong.

Avzalova Alfiya Avzalovna (Tatar: Әлфия Афзал кызы Авзалова; 15 January 1933 — 15 June 2017) was a Soviet and Russian Tatar singer. She was an Honored Artist of the Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, People's Artist of the Tatar ASSR, Honored Artist of the RSFSR, soloist of the Tatar Philharmonic Society, and laureate of the State Prize of the Republic of Tatarstan.

Angela Hartley Brodie was a British biochemist who pioneered development of steroidal aromatase inhibitors in cancer research. Born in Lancashire, Brodie studied chemical pathology to a doctoral level in Sheffield and was awarded a fellowship sponsored by National Institutes of Health. After 17 years of working in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts on oral contraceptives with Harry Brodie, whom she married, she switched focus to the effects of the oestrogen-producing enzyme, aromatase, on breast cancer.