List of Famous people who died in 2017

Paul Ebiye Hamilton was a Nigerian footballer and manager. He died at the Military Hospital in Lagos, Nigeria.

Pierluigi Chicca was an Italian fencer. He competed at the 1960, 1964 and 1968 Olympics in the individual and team sabre events and won a team bronze medal in 1960 and team silver medals in 1964 and 1968.

Olivier Strebelle was a Belgian sculptor.

Achmad Kurniawan was an Indonesian footballer, who played for Arema Cronus in the Indonesia Super League as a goal keeper. He is also the older brother of goal keeper Kurnia Meiga.

Leonard Mashako Mamba was a politician in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Anneliese Uhlig was a German-born film actress.

Yaakov Neeman was an Israeli lawyer who also served as Minister of Justice and Minister of Finance.

Maud-Lydié Marcelle Leuvielle, better known as Maud Linder, was a French journalist, film historian and documentary film director.

Pere Tàpias was a singer and a food writer in Catalonia, Spain. He resided in Vilanova i la Geltrú at the time of his death in April 2017. He was the host of the Catalunya Ràdio program, Tàpies Variades. He was the 2005–2006 Ambassor of Xató.

Enn Vetemaa was an Estonian writer sometimes referred to as a "forgotten classic", as well as "the unofficial master of the Estonian Modernist short novel".