List of Famous people who died in 2017

David Bobin was an English sports journalist mainly known for his work on television.

Shigeru Kōyama was a Japanese actor.

Vasily Kudinov was a Russian handball player, born in Ilyinka, Astrakhan Oblast, Russian SFSR.

Gholam Reza Pahlavi was an Iranian prince and a member of the Pahlavi dynasty, as the son of Reza Shah and half-brother of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last Shah of Iran.

Colonel Ely Ould Mohamed Vall was a Mauritanian political and military figure. Following a coup d'état in August 2005, he served as the transitional military leader of Mauritania until 19 April 2007, when he relinquished power to an elected government.

Alessandro Kokocinski was an Italian-Argentine painter, sculptor and set designer, of Polish-Russian origin.

Leonard Bernard Myers, Jr. was a professional American football cornerback drafted in the sixth round of the 2001 NFL Draft by the New England Patriots of the National Football League.

Raudha Athif was a Vogue model and medical student who was killed in Rajshahi, Bangladesh.

Dorothy P. Rice was an American health statistician whose work contributed to the creation of Medicare in the United States. Rice graduated from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and began working with the US government soon after, but left the workforce to begin raising a child. Just over a decade later, she returned to government work with a position at the Social Security Administration, where she was one of the first scientists to study the economic cost of illness and exposed a lack of health insurance among the elderly.

Saby Kamalich, born Sabina Fantoni Kamalich, was a Peruvian-Mexican actress, known for her work in television and film. Her father Antonio Fantoni was from Italy, and her mother was from Croatia. She became famous for playing the title character in the Peruvian telenovela Simplemente María in 1969. Aside from her telenovela roles, Kamalich starred in several Mexican film productions, including Valente Quintero (1973), with Antonio Aguilar, Narciso Busquets, and Sara García.