List of Famous people who died in 2017

Anne-Marie Colchen-Maillet was a French track and field athlete and women's basketball player. She became France's first high jump champion at the 1946 European Athletics Championships and held the French record for the event for ten years. She represented France in high jump at the 1948 Summer Olympics. In basketball she was the highest scorer at the 1953 FIBA World Championship for Women, helping France to third place. She was a member of the French national team for the European Women's Basketball Championship in 1950, 1952, 1954 and 1956.

Marie-Josèphe Yoyotte was a French film and television editor and actress. Her extensive editing credits include The 400 Blows, Winged Migration and Microcosmos, the latter of which garnered Yoyotte a César Award for Best Editing.

Eigil Nansen was the son of architect and humanist Odd Nansen and the grandson of explorer and humanist Fridtjof Nansen.

Allan Joseph MacEachen, was a Canadian politician who was a frequent Cabinet minister, a senator, and an elder statesman. He was the first deputy prime minister of Canada and served from 1977 to 1979 and 1980 to 1984.