List of Famous people who died in 2017

Luigi Ferdinando Tagliavini, was an Italian organist, harpsichordist, musicologist and composer.

Pierre Seron was a Belgian comic book artist.

Piotr Stefan Wandycz was a Polish-American historian. He was also the President of the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America, and professor emeritus at Yale University, specializing in Eastern and Central European history.

Colin Peter Groves was a British-Australian biologist and anthropologist. Groves was Professor of Biological Anthropology at the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia.

Otto Ludwig Lange was a German botanist and lichenologist. The focus of his scientific work was on the ecophysiology of wild and cultivated plants as well as lichens. He investigated heat, frost and drought resistance of lichens, bryophytes and vascular plants growing under extreme environmental conditions.

Mohamed Akkari was a Tunisian actor and Radio personality. Mohamed Akkari died of a heart attack following surgery.He is buried in the Mahdia Marine Cemetery in the presence of a good number of actors and fans. Rabaa Essefi said that the last sequence of the Dawama soap opera filmed with Mohamed was carried out in Sfax a week before his death.

Hubert Lucot was a French poet and metafiction writer. The son of director René Lucot, he was the author of over 60 books.

Danilo Mainardi was an Italian ethologist, scholar, and writer.

Juan Carlos Colombres was an Argentine caricaturist and humorist whose work has illustrated articles and editorials in a number of the nation's leading periodicals. His contributions appear under the byline of Landrú.

Ada Pellegrini Grinover was a Brazilian lawyer. She was a full professor at the University of Sao Paulo and attorney for the State of Sao Paulo.