List of Famous people who died in 2017

José Carlos Dívar Blanco was a Spanish magistrate. He served as the 46th President of the Supreme Court and 6th President of the General Council of the Judiciary from September 2008 to June 2012.

Josef Musil was a Czech volleyball player. He won two Olympic medals, in 1964 and 1968, as well as five world and three European championships medals in 1952–1967.

Annie Saumont was a French short story writer and English to French translator.

Roland Glavany was a French army general.

Suzanna Leigh was a British actress, known for her film and television roles in the 1960s and 1970s.

Slavko Goldstein was a Croatian historian, politician, and writer.

Toshio Nakanishi , also known by the pseudonyms Tycoon To$h or Typhoom Tosh, was a Japanese musician and graphic designer who was best known as the founding member of new wave band Plastics in 1976. He was initially a part of the technopop fever in Japan and later acted as a pioneer of the Japanese hip hop scene with his band Major Force.

Alexander Mikhailovich Kadakin was a Russian diplomat and the Russian Ambassador to India from 2009 until his death in 2017. He had earlier served as the ambassador to India between 1999 and 2004.He is noted Indophile. He died from heart failure while in service in New Delhi in 2017.He was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 2018.

Valeri Pavlovich Maslov was a Soviet football and bandy player.

Douglas Edward Reeman, who also used the pseudonym Alexander Kent, was a British author who wrote many historical novels about the Royal Navy, mainly set during either World War II or the Napoleonic Wars. He wrote a total of 68 novels, selling 34 million copies in twenty languages.