List of Famous people who died in 2017

Jean-Marie Benoît Balla was a Roman Catholic bishop.

Veljo Tormis was an Estonian composer, regarded as one of the great contemporary choral composers and one of the most important composers of the 20th century in Estonia. Internationally, his fame arises chiefly from his extensive body of choral music, which exceeds 500 individual choral songs, most of it a cappella. The great majority of these pieces are based on traditional ancient Estonian folksongs (regilaulud), either textually, melodically, or merely stylistically.

Noel Kinsey was a Welsh international footballer who played as an inside right. He won seven international caps and scored 111 goals in 444 league games in a 14-year career in the Football League.

Janusz Marek Wójcik was a Polish politician, football player and coach.

Dan Spiegle was an American comics artist and cartoonist best known for comics based on movie and television characters across a variety of companies, including Dell Comics, DC Comics, and Marvel Comics.

Andrew Peter Telegdi, PC was a Canadian politician. He was a Liberal Member of Parliament in the House of Commons of Canada from 1993 to 2008, representing Waterloo and the successor riding of Kitchener—Waterloo.

André Lévy was a French sinologist.

Imran Hermanovich Usmanov was a music producer, song writer and a Chechen folk singer whose deep baritone voice and songs about life are regarded as classics in Chechen music.

Albert Austin "Sonny" Burgess was an American rockabilly guitarist and singer.