List of Famous people who died in 2017

Diane Marian Torr was an artist, writer and educator, particularly known as a male impersonator and for her drag king, "Man for a Day" and gender-as-performance workshops. For the last years of her life, Torr lived and worked in Glasgow, where she was Visiting Lecturer at Glasgow School of Art.

Ian James Alastair Graham OBE was a British Mayanist whose explorations of Maya ruins in the jungles of Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize helped establish the Corpus of Maya Hieroglyphic Inscriptions published by the Peabody Museum of Harvard University. Among his related works is a biography of an early predecessor, the 19th-century British Maya explorer Alfred Maudslay.

Christopher Thomas Morahan CBE was an English stage and television director and production executive.

Nan Rendong was a Chinese astronomer of Manchu descent.

David Roberto Bárcena Ríos was a Mexican equestrian who competed at five Olympic Games. He competed in the Modern Pentathlon at the 1964 and 1968 Olympics and in Eventing at the 1972, 1976 and 1980 Olympics. At his fifth Olympics, he won bronze in the Team Event.