List of Famous people who died in 2017

Paul Stevens Otellini was an American businessman and one-time president and CEO of Intel. He was also on the board of directors of Google.

Dean Paul Mercer was an Australian sportsman who competed in ironman events.

Sir Kenneth Duncan Morrison CBE was an English businessman, who was the Life President and former chairman of Morrisons, the fourth largest supermarket group in the United Kingdom. He was the son of William Morrison, who founded the company.

Fitzroy Edwards, better known by his stage name Edi Fitzroy, was a Jamaican reggae singer, active from 1975 but best known for his work during the dancehall era.

Lembit Ulfsak was a prominent Estonian stage and film actor. Ulfsak starred in the 2014 film Tangerines which was nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 87th Academy Awards. It was also among the five nominated films at the 72nd Golden Globe Awards for Best Foreign Language Film. Ulfsak died on 22 March 2017, at the age of 69.

Stela Popescu was a Romanian actress and TV personality considered the greatest comedy actress and one of best female actress of all time in Romania. With Ștefan Bănică and Alexandru Arșinel she was successively half of two famous romantic partnerships.

Arseny Borisovich Roginsky was a Soviet dissident and Russian historian. He was one of the founders of the International Historical and Civil Rights Society Memorial, its head since 1998.

Cho Jin-ho was a South Korean football player who played as a midfielder or striker for the South Korea national team.

Nelson Agostini Xavier was a Brazilian actor. He appeared in more than 95 films and television shows between 1959 and 2017. He starred in the 1964 film Os Fuzis, which won the Silver Bear Extraordinary Jury Prize at the 14th Berlin International Film Festival.

Eren Bülbül was a Turkish 15-year-old boy from Maçka, Trabzon who was killed by the PKK in part of a Turkish military patrol during the Kurdish-Turkish conflict.