List of Famous people who died in 2017

Regina Yaou was a writer from Ivory Coast.

Dušan T. Bataković was a Serbian historian and diplomat. His specialty was modern and contemporary Serbian and Balkan history as well as French-Serbian relations. The last post he held was that of Director of the Institute for Balkan Studies at the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts.

Stanislaw Pilecki was an Australian rugby union player with Polish roots. He was born in a refugee camp in Augustdorf, Germany, with his family emigrating to Australia in 1950. He was also an Old Boy of Marist College Rosalie in Brisbane.

Yves Trudeau was a Canadian sculptor and a prominent figure in 20th-century art in Quebec, especially public art.

Rabbi Binyamin "Benny" Elon was an Israeli Orthodox rabbi and politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Moledet and the National Union between 1996 and 2009. A ninth-generation Jerusalemite, Elon lived in Beit El, an Israeli settlement in the West Bank, for over twenty years, and was married to author and journalist Emuna Elon. They had six children. His father, Menachem Elon, was the former Deputy Chief Justice of Israel. His brother, disgraced Rabbi Mordechai Elon, has been a prominent controversial figure in the Religious Zionist Movement.

Enrico Castellani was an Italian painter associated with the ZERO movement and Azimuth. Castellani contributed the development of avant-garde art in Europe in the 1950s and 1960s, and was described as one of Italy's most influential artists of the 20th century,

Pēteris Plakidis was a Latvian composer and pianist.

Tsui Hsiao-ping was a Taiwanese radio personality and director.

Giandomenico Boncompagni, best known as Gianni Boncompagni, was a television and radio presenter, director, writer and a lyricist.

Yvonne Jeanne de Vibraye Baseden MBE, later known as Yvonne Burney, was one of approximately fifty female Special Operations Executive (SOE) agents.