List of Famous people who died in 2017

Don Gordon was an American film and television actor. His most notable film roles were those in which he appeared alongside his friend Steve McQueen: Bullitt (1968), Papillon (1973) and The Towering Inferno (1974). Between the first and the last of those films he appeared in The Gamblers (1970), WUSA (1970), Cannon for Cordoba (1970), The Last Movie (1971), Z.P.G. (1972), Fuzz (1972), Slaughter (1972), The Mack (1973), The Education of Sonny Carson (1974) and Omen III: The Final Conflict (1981) as the ill-fated assistant to protagonist Damien Thorn.

Jean Bernabé was a writer and linguist.

Rolf Sagen was a Norwegian author. He was curator and daily leader of the Bergen Academy of Writing.

André Bach was a French general and historian.

Savino Bernardo Maria Cazzaro Bertollo O.S.M. was an Italian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He was archbishop of Puerto Montt in Chile from 1988 to 2001.

Derek Antony Parfit was a British philosopher who specialised in personal identity, rationality, and ethics. He is widely considered one of the most important and influential moral philosophers of the late 20th and early 21st centuries.

Sotsha Ernest Dlamini was Prime Minister of Swaziland from 6 October 1986 to 12 July 1989. He was born in Mankayane.

Salvador Minuchin was a family therapist born and raised in San Salvador, Entre Ríos, Argentina. He developed structural family therapy, which addresses problems within a family by charting the relationships between family members, or between subsets of family. These charts represent power dynamics as well as the boundaries between different subsystems. The therapist tries to disrupt dysfunctional relationships within the family, and cause them to settle back into a healthier pattern.

Guy Ébrard was a French politician. He served as a member of the National Assembly from 1958 to 1968, representing Basses-Pyrénées. He also served as the mayor of Oloron-Sainte-Marie from 1965 to 1976.

Vernon James Ehlers was an American physicist and politician who represented Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1993 until his retirement in 2011. A Republican, he also served eight years in the Michigan Senate and two in the Michigan House of Representatives.