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Calendar overview 2017
Map with all linked pages: | 2017 | |
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 Donald Trump is sworn in as the 45th President of the United States of America . |
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.jpg) Frank-Walter Steinmeier becomes the 12th President of the Federal Republic of Germany, succeeding Joachim Gauck . |
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 Helmut Kohl dies at the age of 87 and is the first European to be honored with a European state ceremony. |
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 An attack on a concert in Manchester kills 22 and injures 116. |
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.jpg) Top candidates of the national elections in Austria at the elephant round in the ORF . |
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 The G20 summit takes place in Hamburg . |
| 2017 in other calendars | |
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| Ab urbe condita | 2770 |
| Armenian calendar | 1465-1466 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 2009-2010 |
| Badi calendar | 173-174 |
| Bengali calendar | 1423-1424 |
| Berber calendar | 2967 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2561 |
| Burmese calendar | 1379 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7525-7526 |
| Chinese calendar | |
| - era | 4713-4714 or 4653-4654 |
| – 60-year cycle |
Fire Monkey (丙申, 33) - |
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French Revolutionary Calendar |
CCXXV - CCXXVI 225-226 |
| Hindu calendar | |
| – Vikram Sambat | 2073-2074 |
| – Shaka Samvat | 1939-1940 |
| Iranian calendar | 1395-1396 |
| Islamic calendar | 1438-1439 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| – Nengō (era): | Heisei 29 |
| - Koki | 2677 |
| Jewish calendar | 5777-5778 |
| Coptic calendar | 1733-1734 |
| Korean calendar | |
| – Dangun era | 4350 |
| – Juche era | 106 |
| Minguo calendar | 106 |
| Modern Olympics | XXXI |
| Seleucid calendar | 2328-2329 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2560 |
Internationally, the year was marked by the inauguration of Donald Trump as the 45th President of the United States of America and by several terrorist attacks in various cities and countries around the world. At the European level, the exit process that was under way for the United Kingdom to leave the EU led to tough negotiations. For Germany, 2017 was marked by Frank-Walter Steinmeier taking office as the new Federal President , the decision to introduce “ marriage for all ” in the German Bundestag, the G20 summit that took place in Hamburg and the initially unsuccessful attempt to form a government after the Bundestag elections in September embossed. In Austria, 2017 was marked first by the swearing-in of Alexander Van der Bellen as Federal President , followed by the early National Council elections and the swearing-in of the new Federal Government Kurz I .
events
politics and world affairs
- January 1: António Guterres becomes Secretary-General of the United Nations .
- 1 January: Malta takes over the EU Council Presidency .
- 1 January: Austria assumes the presidency of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE).
- 1 January: Doris Leuthard takes up the office of President of the Swiss Confederation as scheduled .
- January 17: The Federal Constitutional Court again rejects a ban on the NPD .
- 17 January: Antonio Tajani is elected President of the European Parliament , succeeding Martin Schulz .
- January 20: Donald Trump is inaugurated as the 45th President of the United States
- January 21: Women's March on Washington
- January 21: We're fed up! – Demonstration on the occasion of the International Green Week in Berlin
- January 26: Alexander Van der Bellen is sworn in as Austrian President .
- since January 31: protests in Romania 2017
- February 5: State elections in Liechtenstein
- February 12: Frank-Walter Steinmeier is elected President of Germany
- February 17-19: Munich Security Conference
- 21./22. February: 20th European Police Congress in Berlin
- 2 March: Early general elections in Northern Ireland
- March 9 Donald Tusk is re -elected President of the European Council against opposition from Poland .
- March 10 South Korean President Park Geun-hye is impeached by the Constitutional Court over a corruption scandal. The decision followed weeks of popular demonstrations and Park's suspension.
- March 15: Parliamentary elections in the Netherlands
- March 19: At an SPD party conference, Martin Schulz is unanimously elected federal chairman and candidate for chancellor of the SPD for the 2017 federal election.
- March 25: Celebration of 60 years of the Treaties of Rome in Rome
- March 26: State elections in Saarland
- March 29: Declaration of the United Kingdom 's withdrawal from the European Union under Article 50
- April 2: Presidential elections in Serbia
- April 7: During the civil war in Syria , the United States carries out an air raid on the military airfield at al-Schaʿirat , in violation of international law .
- April 16: The future powers of the president in Turkey are significantly expanded by the controversial result of a constitutional referendum .
- April 22: March for Science in Washington, DC
- April 23 and May 7: Presidential election in France . Emmanuel Macron defeated Marine Le Pen in the runoff .
- 26-29 April: 30th ASEAN Summit in Metro Manila , Philippines
- May 7: State elections in Schleswig-Holstein
- May 9: Presidential election in South Korea
- May 14: State elections in North Rhine-Westphalia
- May 19: Presidential election in Iran
- 24th/25th May: NATO summit in Brussels
- 26./27. May: G7 summit in Taormina , Italy
- June 1: US President Donald Trump announces the withdrawal of the United States from the Paris climate protection agreement .
- June 5: Montenegro becomes the 29th member of NATO .
- 7th/8th June: Shanghai Cooperation Organization Summit in Astana , Kazakhstan
- 8 June: United Kingdom early general election
- June 11 and 18: General elections in France
- June 22: The men convicted under the former criminal law paragraph 175 in the Federal Republic of Germany are rehabilitated by the Bundestag overturning the verdicts.
- June 30: The German Bundestag decides to introduce “ marriage for all ”.
- 1 July: Estonia takes over the EU Council Presidency .
- 7th/8th July: G20 summit in Hamburg
- July 9: Final rally of the Justice March in Turkey
- July 17: Presidential election in India
- August 12: Hanfparade in Berlin
- September 3: nuclear weapons test in North Korea ; the following month, the Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons .
- 11 September: Parliamentary elections in Norway
- September 24: Federal elections in Germany
- September 25: Independence referendum in Iraqi Kurdistan
- October 1: independence referendum in Catalonia ; around 900 people are injured, mostly by police violence.
- 15 October: Early parliamentary elections in Austria ; in the run-up to the election, the so -called “Silberstein Affair ” occurs.
- October 15: Early state elections in Lower Saxony ; After the election, the SPD and CDU agree to form a grand coalition .
- 18-24 October: 19th Chinese Communist Party Congress in Beijing
- 20./21. October: Parliamentary elections in the Czech Republic . The ANO party of entrepreneur Andrej Babiš received the most votes.
- October: Opening of more than 2800 (but not all) of the previously classified files on the assassination of US President John F. Kennedy ( assassination attempt on John F. Kennedy )
- 27./28. October: In the context of the Catalonia crisis , the Catalan regional government is declared deposed by the Spanish central government and new elections to the Catalan regional parliament are announced by the central government for December 21, 2017.
- November 6-17: UN Climate Change Conference in Bonn
- 10th/11th November: 29th Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit in Đà Nẵng , Vietnam
- 13./14. November: 31st ASEAN Summit in Pampanga , Philippines
- November 19: In Germany, exploratory talks lasting several weeks to form a “ Jamaica coalition ” fail.
- November 21: In Zimbabwe , long-serving President Robert Mugabe resigns from office after a military coup against him a few days earlier .
- November 22: Ratko Mladić is sentenced to life imprisonment by the UN War Crimes Tribunal for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity during the Bosnian War .
- 6 December: Alain Berset is elected President of Switzerland for the 2018 calendar year
- December 11-14: 11th Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Buenos Aires , Argentina
- December 12: One Planet Summit near Paris
- December 12: The loss of a seat in an Alabama by -election reduces the Republican majority in the US Senate to one vote.
- 15./16. December: CSU party conference in Nuremberg with new elections for the party executive.
- December 18: The new Austrian Federal Government Kurz I is sworn in by Federal President Alexander Van der Bellen .
- December 20th: The European Commission applies for criminal proceedings against Poland to be instituted under Article 7 of the EU Treaty .
- 21 December: General elections scheduled by the Spanish central government in Catalonia
- December 21: After US President Trump declared Jerusalem the capital of Israel on December 6, the United Nations General Assembly rejected any unilateral declaration of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel by a large majority .
- December 28: Economic and political protests begin in Iran , spreading over the following days and claiming several lives.
Terrorist attacks (selection)
- January 1: An attack in a nightclub in Istanbul kills 39 people and injures around 70.
- January 29: An attack on an Islamic cultural center in Quebec , Canada, kills six and injures seventeen.
- March 22: A lone gunman kills five and injures 40 to 50 people in an attack in London .
- April 3: A suicide bomber killed 14 people and injured about 50 in an attack on the Saint Petersburg Metro .
- April 7: A rejected asylum seeker kills four and injures 15 in an attack in Stockholm .
- April 9: Attacks on two Coptic churches in Egypt kill more than 40 and injure more than 120.
- April 15: An attack on a convoy of refugees in Syria near Aleppo kills more than 120 people and injures more than 50.
- May 22: An attack kills 22 and injures 116 in Manchester , UK .
- May 31: At least 150 people are killed and more than 400 injured in an attack in Kabul .
- June 3: Eight people are killed and around 50 injured in an attack in London .
- June 7: At least 17 people are killed and more than 40 injured in two attacks in Tehran .
- August 17: An attack kills 14 and injures more than 130 in Barcelona .
- August 18: Two people are killed and ten injured in a knife attack in Turku , Finland.
- September 15: An attack on a London underground train injures 30 people.
- October 14: At least 358 people are killed and more than 200 injured in an attack in the Somali capital Mogadishu .
- November 24: At least 305 people are killed and around 130 injured in an attack in northern Egypt 's Sinai Peninsula during Friday prayers .
Other attacks (selection)
- October 1: A single gunman kills 58 people and injures more than 520 in a massacre in Las Vegas , USA.
- November 5: 26 people are killed and 20 injured in a shooting spree in Sutherland Springs , Texas .
Sports
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- January 2nd: Michael van Gerwen wins the PDC World Darts Championship .
- January 6: Kamil Stoch wins the 65th Four Hills Tournament .
- 11 – 29 January: 25th Men's Handball World Championship in France ; France becomes world champion .
- January 16-29: 105th Australian Open ; The winners in the individual are Serena Williams (women) and Roger Federer (men).
- January 21: At the Race of Champions in Marlins Park in Miami , Pascal Wehrlein has a serious accident in which he rolled over. As a result, he missed the first two races of the 2017 Formula 1 season.
- February 5: Super Bowl LI in Houston , Texas ; The New England Patriots won .
- 5 February: Africa Cup of Nations 2017 final ; Cameroon becomes African champion .
- February 6-19: 44th Alpine World Ski Championships
- February 8-19: 49th Biathlon World Championships
- March 26 – November 12: Host of the 69th FIM Motorcycle Road World Championship
- March 26 to November 26: Host of the 68th Formula 1 World Championship
- May 5-21: 81st Men's Ice Hockey World Championship (top division) in Paris and Cologne ; World champion is Sweden .
- 20 May: Last match day of the 2016/17 Bundesliga ; FC Bayern Munich became German champions for the fifth time in a row .
- 24 May: Manchester United beat Ajax Amsterdam in the final of the 46th UEFA Europa League in Solna , Sweden .
- 27 May: The 74th men's DFB-Pokal final at Berlin's Olympiastadion is won by Borussia Dortmund ; VfL Wolfsburg is successful for women in Cologne .
- May 28th to June 11th: 116th French Open in Paris
- 3 June: Real Madrid beat Juventus in the 2016/17 UEFA Champions League final in Cardiff , Wales . Real Madrid are the first team to repeat last year's title win.
- 16-30 June: European Under-21 Football Championship in Poland ; Germany becomes European champion .
- 17 June–2 July: 10th FIFA Confederations Cup in Russia ; Winner is Germany for the first time .
- 22 June: Afghanistan and Ireland become full members of the International Cricket Council (ICC).
- July 1-23: 104th Tour de France with Grand Départ in Düsseldorf
- July 3-16: 131st Wimbledon Championships in London
- July 14-30: 17th World Swimming Championships in Budapest
- 16 July – 6 August: 12th European Women's Football Championship in the Netherlands ; it wins the team of the Netherlands .
- July 18-30: XXIII Summer Deaflympics in Samsun , Turkey
- July 28 – August 6: 11th Beach Volleyball World Championships in Vienna
- August 4-13: 16th World Athletics Championships in London
- August 31 – September 17: 40th European Basketball Championship in four countries; Slovenia wins .
- September 13: The IOC designates Paris to host the 2024 Summer Olympics and Los Angeles to host the 2028 Summer Olympics .
- October 23: Cristiano Ronaldo is named FIFA World Player of the Year 2017 , tying the record for most awards by Lionel Messi with five awards.
- October 29: Lewis Hamilton wins the Formula 1 World Championship for the fourth time .
- November 12: Marc Márquez wins the MotoGP World Championship for the fourth time .
- 1st – 17th December: Women's Handball World Championship in Germany
culture and society
- January 11: Opening of the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg
- January 28: Chinese New Year Year of the Fire Rooster (34th year in the 78th cycle)
- February 9th – 19th: Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale)
- February 26: 89th Academy Awards in Los Angeles, United States
- March 17th – September 15th: Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern at various venues in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
- April 8 – July 16: Documenta 14 in Athens and June 10 – September 17 in Kassel
- April 13th – October 15th: International garden exhibition in the recreation park Marzahn in Berlin
- May 6-7: Baden-Württemberg Day in Karlsruhe
- May 9-13: 62nd Eurovision Song Contest in Kiev , Ukraine; it wins Salvador Sobral from Portugal .
- June 9th – 18th: 57th Hessentag in Rüsselsheim am Main
- June 9th – 11th: 16th Thuringia Day in Apolda
- June 10 – October 1: Sculpture.Projects in Münster
- 16 - 18 June: 21st Saxony-Anhalt Day in Lutherstadt Eisleben
- June 21: Fête de la Musique in at least 500 cities worldwide
- June 22 to July 1: WorldPride in Madrid
- 1st – 3rd September: 35th Lower Saxony Day in Wolfsburg
- September 1st – 3rd: 26th Day of the Saxons in Löbau
- 1 October: Same-sex marriage is legally established in Germany.
- 3 October: " Germany Festival " on the day of German unity in Mainz
- October 10: The Federal Constitutional Court declares the regulation in the German Personal Status Act , according to which only a female or male gender entry was previously possible, to be incompatible with the Basic Law and obliges the legislature "to bring about a constitutional regulation by December 31, 2018".
religion
- January 7: Orthodox Christmas
- January 23: Fernando Ocáriz Braña becomes the new Prelate of Opus Dei .
- April 16: Easter , coinciding with the Orthodox Churches
- May 10: Vesakh
- May 24-28: 36th German Evangelical Church Congress in Berlin and in Lutherstadt Wittenberg
- May 25: Ascension Day
- May 27 to June 24: Ramadan
- June 4: Pentecost
- June 15: Corpus Christi
- September 1: Islamic Festival of Sacrifice
- September 30: Yom Kippur 5778
- 3 October: Open Mosque Day
- October 19: Diwali
- 31 October: Reformation Jubilee (500 years of ecclesiastical Reformation ); this time the commemoration day of the Reformation is considered a non-working holiday in all German states .
- December 13-20: Hanukkah
- December 25: Christmas
Economy and Infrastructure
Rüdiger Grube (2010)
- January 17-20: World Economic Forum in Davos , Switzerland
- January 20-29: International Green Week Berlin
- January 30: Rüdiger Grube announces his resignation as CEO of Deutsche Bahn AG with immediate effect .
- March 6: French Groupe PSA will acquire Opel and Vauxhall Motors .
- March 8th – 12th: International Tourism Exchange Berlin
- March 20-24: CeBIT in Hanover
- March 23-26: Leipzig Book Fair
- April 14-29: Hanover Fair
- June 10: Opening of Expo 2017 in Astana , Kazakhstan
- 15 June: In the EU, roaming charges for mobile phone use abroad will no longer apply.
- August: A Europe-wide food scandal involving chicken eggs contaminated with fipronil becomes known.
- September 1-6: International Consumer Electronics Fair in Berlin
- September 14-24: 67th International Motor Show for Passenger Cars in Frankfurt am Main
- October 11-15: Frankfurt Book Fair
- October 27: The insolvent airline Air Berlin ceases operations; many of the approximately 8,000 employees will probably be unemployed.
- 10 December: The commissioning of the new Ebensfeld-Erfurt railway line should lead to considerable travel time reductions in north-south long-distance traffic in Germany.
science and technology
- May 5 Maiden flight of the Comac C919 , the first fully Chinese-designed twin-engine passenger airliner
- First hydrogen - powered train in regular service ( Alstom Coradia iLint , December)
astronomy and astrophysics
- Penumbral eclipse ( lunar eclipse ) on February 11
- Annular Solar Eclipse on February 26 ; visible in southern Pacific and Atlantic, Patagonia and Angola
- Partial lunar eclipse on August 7th
- Total Solar Eclipse on August 21 ; visible in the Atlantic, North Pacific, and in Oregon, Idaho, Wyoming, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, Georgia, and South Carolina
- October 19: The Pan-STARRS telescope in Hawaii discovers 1I/ʻOumuamua , having already flew past the Sun and on its way back into interstellar space.
disasters
natural disasters
- January 18: An avalanche after an earthquake killed 29 people in the Italian province of Pescara .
- March 31: A mudslide in the Colombian city of Mocoa kills more than 300 people and injures several hundred; numerous people are still missing.
- May 29: A severe storm kills at least 13 people in and around Moscow . Over 1000 trees are uprooted.
- from June 17: Large-scale forest fires kill more than 60 people and injure more than 200, especially in the central Portuguese region of Pedrógão Grande and in several neighboring districts.
- August 14: More than 300 people are killed in severe weather events in Sierra Leone , with a large number of people still missing.
- End of August: In the US metropolis of Houston , as well as in other parts of Texas and Louisiana , the floods caused by Hurricane Harvey claim 82 lives and, according to initial information, are likely to cause damage of more than 150 billion US dollars.
- September 5-11: Hurricane Irma wreaks havoc among other things. on the Caribbean islands of Barbuda and Cuba as well as in parts of the USA, causing at least 60 lives.
- September 8: A powerful earthquake hits southern Mexico , killing 98 people.
- since September 18: Hurricane Maria has caused e.g. heavy damage in Dominica and Puerto Rico . According to a study by George Washington University published in August 2018, 2,975 people died in Puerto Rico as a result of the hurricane, while official government figures initially only spoke of 64 deaths.
- September 19: Mexico is hit again by an earthquake , killing 369 and injuring more than 8,000.
- 5th/6th October: Storm Xavier claims nine lives and causes severe damage in northern and eastern central Europe.
- October 8-31: Widespread wildfires kill 43 people and destroy at least 8,900 homes in Northern California .
- November 12: An earthquake near Halabja on the border of Iran and Iraq kills more than 620 people and injures more than 12,000 in Iran 's Kermanshah province and Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region .
Serious Accidents
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Disaster .
- June 3: More than 1,500 people are injured in a stampede during the public viewing of the Champions League final in Turin , northern Italy.
- June 14: A major fire in a high-rise apartment building in London kills 72 and injures more than 70.
- 3 July: 18 people die and 30 are injured in a bus accident on the A 9 near Münchberg (Upper Franconia).
- August 11: A train crash near Alexandria , Egypt , kills 41 and injures 179.
natural events
meteorology
Nobel prizes
The announcement of the 2017 Nobel Prize winners took place from October 2nd to 9th. The awards ceremony took place on December 10, the anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death , in Stockholm and Oslo ( Nobel Peace Prize only ).
- Physiology or Medicine : Jeffrey C. Hall , Michael Rosbash , and Michael W. Young
- Physics : Barry Barish , Kip Thorne and Rainer Weiss
- Chemistry : Jacques Dubochet , Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson
- Literature : Kazuo Ishiguro
- Peace : International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons
- Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics : Richard Thaler
commemorations
- January 1: 200th anniversary of the death of German chemist Martin Heinrich Klaproth
- January 5: 100th birthday of German opera director Wieland Wagner
- January 13th: 300th anniversary of the death of the natural scientist Maria Sibylla Merian
- January 21: 150th birthday of the German writer Ludwig Thoma
- February 6: 100th birthday of American-Hungarian actress Zsa Zsa Gabor
- 19 February: 200th birthday of King Wilhelm III of the Netherlands.
- March 8: 100th anniversary of the death of German airship designer Ferdinand von Zeppelin
- 15 March: 100th anniversary of Tsar Nicholas II 's abdication – end of the Romanov dynasty ( February 1917 revolution )
- March 26: 500th anniversary of the death of Franco-Flemish composer Heinrich Isaac
- March 31: 100th anniversary of the death of German physician and Nobel Prize winner Emil von Behring
- April 15: 100th anniversary of the Sample Fair in Basel
- April 19: 50th anniversary of the death of Konrad Adenauer , first Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany
- April 25: American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald celebrates her 100th birthday
- 13 May: 300th birthday of Maria Theresa , Archduchess of Austria, Queen of Hungary and Bohemia, Holy Roman Emperor
- May 29: 100th birthday of US politician John F. Kennedy , 35th President of the US
- June 2: 50th anniversary of the death of West Berlin student Benno Ohnesorg
- June 7: American entertainer Dean Martin 's 100th birthday
- July 6th: 200th birthday of the Swiss Albert von Kölliker
- July 12: American writer and philosopher Henry David Thoreau celebrates his 200th birthday
- August 13: 100th anniversary of the death of German chemist and Nobel Prize winner Eduard Buchner
- August 20: 100th anniversary of the death of German chemist Adolf von Baeyer
- August 25: 100th birthday of Dutch-German show host and entertainer Lou van Burg
- September 14: 200th birthday of German writer Theodor Storm
- September 20th: 400th anniversary of the founding of the Akademisches Gymnasium Salzburg
- 15 October: 200th anniversary of the death of Jean Louis Burckhardt (1784–1817), Swiss traveler to the Orient, who discovered the Nabatean city of Petra and the Temple of Abu Simbel
- October 31: 500th anniversary of Martin Luther's posting of his 95 theses
- November 2: 300th anniversary of the death of the German violinist and composer Johann Jakob Walther
- 2 November: 100th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration
- 7 November: 100th Anniversary of the October Revolution . In Russia, the Bolsheviks overthrow the provisional government and seize power.
- November 17: 100th anniversary of the death of French painter and sculptor Auguste Rodin
- 19 November: 100th birthday of Indian politician and Prime Minister Indira Gandhi
- November 22: 50th anniversary of UN Security Council Resolution 242 on the withdrawal of Israeli troops from territories occupied by the Six -Day War
- November 30: 200th birthday of German historian Theodor Mommsen
- 6 December: 100th anniversary of Finland's independence from Russia
- December 9: 300th birthday of the German archaeologist and art writer Johann Joachim Winckelmann
- December 16: British science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke celebrates his 100th birthday
- December 21st: 100th birthday of the German writer and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature Heinrich Böll
annual dedications
protection of species
- The tawny owl ( Strix aluco ) is Bird of the Year .
- The flounder ( Platichthys flesus ) is Fish of the Year ( Deutscher Angelfischerverband DAFV).
- The Slow Worm ( Anguis fragilis ) is Reptile of the Year .
- The Golden Eight ( Colias hyale ) is Butterfly of the Year ( German Federation for the Environment and Nature Conservation ).
- Norway spruce ( Picea abies ) is Tree of the Year (Tree of the Year Board of Trustees).
- The corn poppy ( Papaver rhoeas ) is Flower of the Year ( Foundation for Nature and Plants ).
- The Judas Ear ( Auricularia auricula-judae ) is Mushroom of the Year ( German Society for Mycology ).
Tawny owl
( Strix aluco )
Flounder
( Platichthys flesus )
Slow worm
( Anguis fragilis )
Golden eight
( Colias hyale )
Norway spruce
( Picea abies )
Corn poppy
( Papaver rhoeas )
Judas ear
( Auricularia auricula-judae )
Cultural References
- The 1987 film Running Man is set in 2017.
Born
- August 31: Gabriel of Sweden , Swedish prince
Died
For the extensive list of those who died, see 2017 obituary .
January
- January 1: Hilarion Capucci , Syrian theologian and political activist (b. 1922)
- January 1: Derek Parfit , British philosopher (born 1942)
- January 2: John Berger , British novelist and art critic (b. 1926)
- January 4: Heinz Billing , German physicist and computer pioneer (born 1914)
- January 4: Klaus Wildbolz , Swiss actor (born 1937)
- January 6: Om Puri , Indian actor (b. 1950)
- January 6: Francine York , American actress (b. 1936)
- January 7: Mário Soares , Portuguese politician and President of the Republic (b. 1924)
- January 8: Nicolai Gedda , Swedish opera singer (born 1925)
- January 8: James Mancham , Seychelles politician (b. 1939)
- January 8 Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani , Iranian cleric and President (born 1934)
- January 8: Peter Sarstedt , British singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1941)
- January 9: Zygmunt Bauman , Polish-British sociologist and philosopher (born 1925)
- January 10: Roman Herzog , German lawyer, politician and Federal President (b. 1934)
- January 10: Oliver Smithies , British-American biochemist and Nobel laureate (b. 1925)
- January 11: François Van der Elst , Belgian footballer (born 1954)
- January 12: Giulio Angioni , Italian writer and anthropologist (b. 1939)
- January 13: Lord Snowdon , British photographer and designer (born 1930)
- January 13: Udo Ulfkotte , German journalist and publicist (born 1960)
- January 14: Herbert Mies , German politician (born 1929)
- January 14: Zhou Youguang , Chinese economist and linguist (b. 1906)
- January 16: Eugene Cernan , American astronaut (b. 1934)
- January 16: Franz Jarnach , German musician and actor (born 1943)
- January 18: Peter Abrahams , South African writer (b. 1919)
- January 18: Wilhelm Noll , German motorcycle racer (b. 1926)
- January 19: Miguel Ferrer , American actor (b. 1955)
- January 20: Klaus Huhn , German sports journalist (b. 1928)
- January 22: Jaki Liebezeit , German drummer (born 1938)
- January 23: Gert Pinkernell , German Romanist and literary scholar (b. 1937)
- January 25: John Hurt , British actor (b. 1940)
- January 25: Mary Tyler Moore , American actress (b. 1936)
- January 26: Mike Connors , American actor (b. 1925)
- January 26: Michael Tönnies , German footballer (b. 1959)
- January 27: Emmanuelle Riva , French actress (born 1927)
- January 30: Anne-Marie Vurpas , French dialectologist (born 1923)
- January 31: John Wetton , British rock musician (b. 1949)
February
- February 1: Kerstin Gähte , German actress (born 1958)
- February 1: Étienne Tshisekedi , Congolese politician (b. 1932)
- February 3: Dritëro Agolli , Albanian writer (born 1931)
- February 3 Lawrence Zoernig , American cellist and composer (b. 1960)
- February 6: Inge Keller , German actress (born 1923)
- February 6: Alec McCowen , British actor (b. 1925)
- February 6: Raymond Smullyan , American mathematician and author (b. 1919)
- February 7: Klaus Peter Schreiner , German cabaret artist and author (born 1930)
- February 7: Tzvetan Todorov , Bulgarian-French philosopher and essayist (born 1939)
- February 8: Peter Mansfield , British physicist and Nobel laureate (b. 1933)
- February 9: Piet Keizer , Dutch footballer (b. 1943)
- February 9: Kurt Radeke , German actor (born 1924)
- February 11: Kurt Marti , Swiss poet and writer (born 1921)
- February 11: Jirō Taniguchi , Japanese mangaka (born 1947)
- February 12: Al Jarreau , American jazz singer and songwriter (b. 1940)
- February 14: Al Imfeld , Swiss publicist and writer (b. 1935)
- February 15: Manfred Kaiser , German footballer (b. 1929)
- February 16: Dick Bruna , Dutch author and illustrator (b. 1927)
- February 16: Jannis Kounellis , Greek visual artist (b. 1936)
- February 17: Tom Regan , American philosopher and animal rights activist (b. 1938)
- February 18: Umar Abd ar-Rahman , Egyptian convicted Islamist (b. 1938)
- February 19: Larry Coryell , American jazz guitarist (b. 1943)
- February 20: Vitaly Churkin , Russian diplomat (b. 1952)
- February 21: Kenneth Arrow , American economist and Nobel laureate (b. 1921)
- February 22: Fritz Koenig , German sculptor (born 1924)
- February 22: Martin Lüttge , German actor (b. 1943)
- February 23: Sabine Oberhauser , Austrian politician and minister (born 1963)
- February 25: Bill Paxton , American actor (b. 1955)
- February 26: Ludwig Faddejew , Soviet and Russian physicist and mathematician respectively (b. 1934)
- February 27: Carlos Humberto Romero , Salvadoran politician and President of the Republic (b. 1924)
- February 27: Eva María Zuk , Mexican pianist of Polish origin (b. 1945)
March
- March 1: Irmela Brender , German writer and translator (born 1935)
- March 1: Paula Fox , American writer (b. 1923)
- March 1 David Rubinger , Israeli photographer (born 1924)
- March 3: Raymond Kopa , French footballer (b. 1931)
- March 3: Misha Mengelberg , Dutch jazz pianist (born 1935)
- March 3: René Préval , Haitian politician and President (b. 1943)
- March 5: Kurt Moll , German opera singer (born 1938)
- March 7: Hans Georg Dehmelt , German-American physicist and Nobel laureate (b. 1922)
- March 8: George A. Olah , American chemist and Nobel laureate (b. 1927)
- March 9: Howard Hodgkin , British painter (b. 1932)
- March 9 Karl Korinek , Austrian constitutional jurist (b. 1940)
- March 10: John Surtees , British motorcycle and automobile racer (b. 1934)
- March 12: Horst Ehmke , German politician and federal minister (b. 1927)
- March 13: Ramesh Mishra , Indian sarangi player (b. 1948)
- March 13: Richard zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg , German entrepreneur (b. 1934)
- March 16: Johannes Vogel , German diplomat (b. 1928)
- March 17: Ingeborg Krabbe , German actress and cabaret artist (born 1931)
- March 17: Derek Walcott , Lucian-British poet and Nobel laureate (b. 1930)
- March 18: Chuck Berry , American rock 'n' roll musician (b. 1926)
- March 18: Miloslav Vlk , Czech cardinal (b. 1932)
- March 19: Roger Pingeon , French cyclist (b. 1940)
- March 20: David Rockefeller , American banker and philanthropist (b. 1915)
- March 21: Colin Dexter , British novelist (b. 1930)
- March 21: Martin McGuinness , Northern Ireland politician (b. 1950)
- March 22: Tomás Milián , Cuban actor (b. 1933)
- March 23: Lola Albright , American actress (b. 1924)
- March 23: Ekkehard Jost , German musicologist and saxophonist (born 1938)
- March 23 William Henry Keeler , American cardinal (b. 1931)
- March 23: Ingeborg Rapoport , German physician (b. 1912)
- March 27: Rainer Kussmaul , German violinist and concertmaster (born 1946)
- March 27: David Storey , British novelist and playwright (b. 1933)
- March 28: Christine Kaufmann , German actress and author (born 1945)
- March 29: Alexei Abrikosov , Soviet and US physicist and Nobel laureate (b. 1928)
- March 31: James Rosenquist , American pop art painter (b. 1933)
April
- April 1: Yevgeny Yevtushenko , Soviet and Russian poet and writer (b. 1932)
- April 1: Giovanni Sartori , Italian political scientist (b. 1924)
- April 4: Karl Stotz , Austrian football player and coach (b. 1927)
- April 5: Waldemar Kumming , editor of the science fiction fanzine "Munich Round Up" (b. 1924)
- April 6: Armand Gatti , French writer and director (b. 1924)
- April 6: Don Rickles , American comedian and actor (b. 1926)
- April 8: Georgy Grechko , Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1931)
- April 10: Jack Ahearn , Australian motorcycle racer (b. 1924)
- April 11 Michael Ballhaus , German cinematographer (b. 1935)
- April 11: Jerzy Gajek , Polish pianist and music teacher (b. 1936)
- April 12: Charlie Murphy , American actor and comedian (born 1959)
- April 15: Allan Holdsworth , British-American jazz guitarist (b. 1946)
- April 15: Clifton James , American actor (b. 1920)
- April 15 Emma Morano , Italian supercentenarian (b. 1899)
- April 18: Alexandre de Carvalho Kaneko , Brazilian soccer player and entrepreneur (b. 1946)
- April 20: Magdalena Abakanowicz , Polish visual artist (b. 1930)
- April 23: František Rajtoral , Czech footballer (born 1986)
- April 24: Robert M. Pirsig , American author (b. 1928)
- April 26: Jonathan Demme , American film director (b. 1944)
- April 26: Christine Oesterlein , German actress (born 1924)
- April 27: Vito Acconci , American artist (born 1940)
- April 27: Eduard Brunner , Swiss clarinetist and university teacher (b. 1939)
- April 28: Johann Christoph Allmayer-Beck , Austrian military historian (b. 1918)
- April 28: Manfred Seitz , German Protestant pastor and professor of practical theology (b. 1928)
- April: Alexander Kobylinski , East German civil rights activist and journalist (born 1964)
May
- May 2: Heinz Kessler , German military and politician (b. 1920)
- May 2: AR Penck , German visual artist (b. 1939)
- May 3: Lukas Ammann , Swiss actor (b. 1912)
- May 3: Daliah Lavi , Israeli singer and actress (born 1942)
- May 4: William J. Baumol , American economist (b. 1922)
- May 6: Steven Holcomb , American bobsleigh pilot (b. 1980)
- May 8: Curt Lowens , German actor (b. 1925)
- May 9: Robert Miles , Italian musician (born 1969)
- May 9: Michael Parks , American actor (b. 1940)
- May 11 Roland Gräf , German film director and cinematographer (b. 1934)
- May 11: Joachim Kaiser , German journalist and critic (born 1928)
- May 12 Mauno Koivisto , Finnish politician and President of the Republic (b. 1923)
- May 14: Powers Boothe , American actor (b. 1948)
- May 15 Karl-Otto Apel , German philosopher (born 1922)
- May 16: Gunnar Möller , German actor (born 1928)
- May 17: Johannes Grützke , German painter (born 1937)
- May 18: Chris Cornell , American singer and songwriter (b. 1964)
- May 18: Jacque Fresco , American social reformer (b. 1916)
- May 19: Stanislav Petrov , Soviet lieutenant colonel (b. 1939)
- May 20: Paul Falk , German figure skater (b. 1921)
- May 20: Waldtraut Lewin , German writer (born 1937)
- May 22: Nicky Hayden , American motorcycle racer (b. 1981)
- May 23: Roger Moore , British actor (b. 1927)
- May 24: Denis Johnson , American writer (b. 1949)
- May 24: Fritz Lichtenhahn , Swiss actor (born 1932)
- May 24: Sonny West , American rockabilly singer (b. 1937)
- May 25: Willi Fährmann , German writer (b. 1929)
- May 26: Zbigniew Brzeziński , Polish-American political scientist (b. 1928)
- May 27: Gregg Allman , American singer and musician (b. 1947)
- May 29: Konstantinos Mitsotakis , Greek politician (born 1918)
- May 29: Manuel Noriega , Panamanian politician (b. 1938?)
- May 31: Jiří Bělohlávek , Czech conductor (born 1946)
- May 31: Hilde Sochor , Austrian actress (born 1924)
June
- June 1: Tankred Dorst , German novelist and playwright (b. 1925)
- June 1: Alois Mock , Austrian politician (b. 1934)
- June 2: Peter Sallis , British actor and speaker (b. 1921)
- June 2: Jeffrey Tate , British conductor (b. 1943)
- June 2: Syed Sharifuddin Pirzada , Pakistani jurist and politician (b. 1923)
- June 4: Juan Goytisolo , Spanish writer (b. 1931)
- June 5: Cheik Tioté , Ivorian footballer (born 1986)
- June 8: Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann , Nicaraguan priest and politician (b. 1933)
- June 9: Adam West , American actor (b. 1928)
- June 9 Andimba Toivo ya Toivo , Namibian human and civil rights activist (b. 1924)
- June 11: Alexandra Kluge , German actress and doctor (b. 1937)
- June 12: Rosalie , German stage designer and painter (born 1953)
- June 12: Charles P. Thacker , American computer scientist (b. 1943)
- June 13: Anita Pallenberg , German actress and groupie (b. 1942)
- June 14: Renate Holland-Moritz , German writer and film critic (b. 1935)
- June 14 Hans-Peter Schwarz , German political scientist and historian (b. 1934)
- June 15: Alexei Batalov , Soviet actor and director (born 1928)
- June 16: John G. Avildsen , American film director (b. 1935)
- June 16: Helmut Kohl , German politician and Chancellor (b. 1930)
- June 18 Tony Liscio , American football player (b. 1940)
- 19 June: Ivan Dias , Indian Curia Cardinal (b. 1936)
- June 19: Ilse Pagé , German actress (born 1939)
- June 20: Prodigy , American rapper (b. 1974)
- June 22: Gunter Gabriel , German singer (born 1942)
- June 22: Hartmut Neugebauer , German actor and voice actor (b. 1942)
- June 22: Ketumile Masire , President of Botswana (b. 1925)
- June 27: Peter L. Berger , American sociologist (b. 1929)
- June 27: Michael Bond , British writer (b. 1926)
- June 27: Mikael Nyqvist , Swedish actor (born 1960)
- June 30: Simone Veil , French politician (b. 1927)
July
- July 2: Chris Roberts , German crooner (b. 1944)
- July 3: Cholo Brenes , Dominican music promoter, lawyer, political scientist, sociologist and columnist (b. 1942)
- July 3 Zdeněk Juračka , Czech rock guitarist (b. 1947)
- July 3: Paolo Villaggio , Italian actor and writer (b. 1932)
- July 4: Daniil Granin , Soviet resp. Russian writer (b. 1919)
- July 4: Heinz Schneiter , Swiss footballer (b. 1935)
- July 5: Pierre Henry , French composer (born 1927)
- July 5: Joachim Cardinal Meisner , German Archbishop (b. 1933)
- July 5: Joaquín Navarro-Valls , Spanish director of the Vatican Press Office (b. 1936)
- July 8: Nelsan Ellis , American actor (b. 1977)
- July 8: Elsa Martinelli , Italian actress (b. 1935)
- July 10: Dhruba Ghosh , Indian sarangi player (b. 1957)
- July 10: Peter Härtling , German writer (b. 1933)
- July 12: Armando Almánzar Rodríguez , Dominican writer and film critic (b. 1935)
- July 13: Charles Bachman , American computer scientist (b. 1924)
- July 13: Ina-Maria Federowski , German schlager singer (b. 1949)
- July 13: Liu Xiaobo , Chinese writer and Nobel Peace Prize laureate (b. 1955)
- July 14: Anne Golon , French writer (b. 1921)
- July 14: Maryam Mirzakhani , Iranian mathematician (born 1977)
- July 15: Josef Hamerl , Austrian footballer (b. 1931)
- July 15: Martin Landau , American actor (b. 1928)
- July 16: George A. Romero , American film director (b. 1940)
- July 18: Max Gallo , French writer and politician (b. 1932)
- July 20: Chester Bennington , American singer (b. 1976)
- July 20: Andrea Jürgens , German schlager singer (b. 1967)
- July 20: Bernhard Kempa , German handball player and coach (b. 1920)
- July 20: Claude Rich , French actor (born 1929)
- July 21: John Heard , American actor (b. 1946)
- July 22: Fritz Hellwig , German politician (b. 1912)
- July 22: Polo Hofer , Swiss dialect rock singer (born 1945)
- July 25: Gretel Bergmann , German-American track and field athlete (b. 1914)
- July 26: Constantin Freiherr von Heereman , German agricultural politician (born 1931)
- July 26: Leo Kinnunen , Finnish automobile racer (b. 1943)
- July 27: Sam Shepard , American playwright and actor (b. 1943)
- July 30: Thomas Fredrickson , American double bass player and composer (b. 1928)
- July 31: Jeanne Moreau , French actress and singer (b. 1928)
August
- August 3: Robert Hardy , British actor (b. 1925)
- August 3: Ángel Nieto , Spanish motorcycle racer (b. 1947)
- August 5: Dionigi Tettamanzi , Italian cardinal (b. 1934)
- August 5: Ernst Zündel , German Holocaust denier (b. 1939)
- August 6: David Maslanka , American composer (b. 1943)
- August 6: Martin Roth , German cultural scientist (b. 1955)
- August 8: Glen Campbell , American country music singer and musician (b. 1936)
- August 10: Karin Hertz , German sculptor (b. 1921)
- August 10: Ruth Pfau , German nun and leper doctor (b. 1929)
- August 11: Israel Kristal , Polish-Israeli Holocaust survivor and age record holder (b. 1903)
- August 15: Gunnar Birkerts , Latvian-American architect (b. 1925)
- August 15: Eberhard Jäckel , German contemporary historian (b. 1929)
- August 18: Joachim Nocke , German legal scholar (b. 1942)
- August 19: Brian Aldiss , British science fiction writer (b. 1925)
- August 19: KO Götz , German painter and poet (b. 1914)
- August 20: Margot Hielscher , German singer and actress (born 1919)
- August 20: Jerry Lewis , American comedian and actor (b. 1926)
- August 22: John Abercrombie , American guitarist (b. 1944)
- August 26: Tobe Hooper , American film director (b. 1943)
- August 26: Josef Musil , Czechoslovak volleyball player (b. 1932)
- August 28: Mireille Darc , French actress (born 1938)
- August 28: Tsutomu Hata , Japanese politician (born 1935)
- August 29: Kurt Dahlmann , German journalist (b. 1918)
- August 30: Louise Hay , American author (b. 1926)
- August 30: Károly Makk , Hungarian film director (b. 1925)
- August 31: Richard Anderson , American actor (born 1926)
- August 31: Egon Günther , German film director and writer (born 1927)
September
- 1 September Cormac Murphy-O'Connor , British cardinal (b. 1932)
- September 3: John Ashbery , American poet (b. 1927)
- September 3: Walter Becker , American musician and songwriter (b. 1950)
- September 5: Nicolaas Bloembergen , American physicist and Nobel laureate (b. 1920)
- September 5: Holger Czukay , German musician (born 1938)
- September 5: Arno Rink , German painter (born 1940)
- 6 September Carlo Caffarra , Italian cardinal (b. 1938)
- September 6: Kate Millett , American writer and feminist (b. 1934)
- September 6 Lotfi Zadeh , American computer scientist (b. 1921)
- September 8: Pierre Bergé , French entrepreneur and patron (b. 1930)
- September 8: Jerry Pournelle , American journalist and writer (b. 1933)
- September 8: Karl Ravens , German politician and federal minister (b. 1927)
- September 8: Don Williams , American country music singer (b. 1939)
- September 10 Nancy Dupree , American historian and archaeologist (b. 1927)
- September 10: Len Wein , American comics writer (b. 1948)
- September 11: JP Donleavy , US-Irish writer (b. 1926)
- September 11: Abdul Halim Mu'adzam Shah , Malaysian Electoral King (b. 1927)
- September 11: Peter Hall , British director (b. 1930)
- September 12: Heiner Geißler , German politician and federal minister (b. 1930)
- September 13: Frank Vincent , American actor (b. 1939)
- September 14: Wolfgang Michels , German musician and singer-songwriter (born 1951)
- September 14 Otto Wanz , Austrian strength athlete (b. 1943)
- September 15: Violet Brown , Jamaican age record holder (b. 1900)
- September 15: Albert Speer junior , German architect and urban planner (b. 1934)
- September 15: Harry Dean Stanton , American actor (born 1926)
- September 19: Horst Herrmann , German church critic and writer (b. 1940)
- September 19 Jake LaMotta , American boxer (b. 1921)
- September 21: Liliane Bettencourt , French entrepreneur (b. 1922)
- September 23: Charles Bradley , American musician (b. 1948)
- September 24: Gisèle Casadesus , French actress (b. 1914)
- September 24: Kito Lorenc , Sorbian lyric poet and playwright (b. 1938)
- September 24: Ulrike von Möllendorff , German journalist and TV presenter (b. 1939)
- September 27: Joy Fleming , German singer (b. 1944)
- September 27: Hugh Hefner , American publisher (b. 1926)
- September 28: Željko Perušić , Yugoslav footballer (b. 1936)
- September 28: Jürgen Roth , German publicist (b. 1945)
- September 28: Andreas Schmidt , German actor and director (born 1963)
- September 28: Erich Schneider-Wessling , German architect (b. 1931)
- September 28: Benjamin Whitrow , British actor (b. 1937)
- September 29: Lorenz Funk senior , German ice hockey player (b. 1947)
- September 30: Vladimir Voyevodsky , Russian mathematician (b. 1966)
- September: Victor Martin , Spanish violinist and music teacher (b. 1940)
October
- October 1: Arthur Janov , American psychologist and author (b. 1924)
- October 1 Herbert Tröndle , German legal scholar (b. 1919)
- October 2: Klaus Huber , Swiss composer (b. 1924)
- October 2: Tom Petty , American musician (b. 1950)
- October 3 - Jalal Talabani , Iraqi politician and President (b. 1933)
- October 4: Liam Cosgrave , Irish politician and Prime Minister (b. 1920)
- October 5 – Sylke Tempel , German journalist and book author (b. 1963)
- October 5: Anne Wiazemsky , French actress and writer (born 1947)
- October 9: Jean Rochefort , French actor (b. 1930)
- October 10: Lissy Tempelhof , German actress (born 1929)
- October 13: Albert Zafy , President of Madagascar (b. 1927)
- October 14: Wolfgang Bötsch , German politician and federal minister (b. 1938)
- October 14: Richard Wilbur , American poet and translator (b. 1921)
- October 16: Roy Dotrice , British actor (b. 1923)
- October 17: Danielle Darrieux , French actress (born 1917)
- October 19: Umberto Lenzi , Italian film director and author (b. 1931)
- October 22: George Nicholas Georgano , British author and automobile historian (b. 1932)
- October 22: Paul J. Weitz , American astronaut (b. 1932)
- October 23: Walter Lassally , British cinematographer (b. 1926)
- October 24: Girija Devi , Indian singer, music teacher and composer (b. 1929)
- October 24: Fats Domino , American musician (b. 1928)
- October 24: Robert Guillaume , American actor (born 1927)
- October 25 – Silvia Bovenschen , German literary scholar and author (b. 1946)
- October 29: Linda Nochlin , American art historian and essayist (b. 1931)
November
- November 1: Vladimir Makanin , Russian writer (b. 1937)
- 3 November: Odilo Lechner , German Benedictine abbot (b. 1931)
- November 5: Nancy Friday , American writer (b. 1933)
- November 5: Lothar Thoms , German cyclist (b. 1956)
- November 6: Karin Dor , German actress (born 1938)
- November 6: Richard Gordon , American astronaut (b. 1929)
- November 6: Feliciano Rivilla , Spanish footballer (b. 1936)
- November 7: Hans-Michael Rehberg , German actor and director (born 1938)
- November 7: Hans Schäfer , German footballer (b. 1927)
- November 9: John Hillerman , American actor (b. 1932)
- November 10: Bernhard Eckstein , German cyclist (b. 1935)
- November 14: Wolfgang Schreyer , German writer (born 1927)
- November 15: Frans Krajcberg , Polish-Brazilian artist (b. 1921)
- November 15: Lil Peep , American rapper (b. 1996)
- November 17: Salvatore Riina , Italian mafioso (b. 1930)
- November 17: Naim Süleymanoğlu , Bulgarian-Turkish weightlifter (b. 1967)
- November 18: Azzedine Alaïa , Tunisian fashion designer (b. 1940)
- November 18: Friedel Rausch , German football player and coach (b. 1940)
- November 18: Malcolm Young , British-Australian rock musician (born 1953)
- November 19 Andrea Cordero Lanza di Montezemolo , Italian cardinal and Vatican diplomat (b. 1925)
- November 19: Charles Manson , American criminal (b. 1934)
- November 19: Jana Novotná , Czech tennis player (born 1968)
- November 19: Della Reese , American jazz singer and actress (born 1931)
- November 20: Dieter Bellmann , German actor and director (born 1940)
- November 21: Peter Berling , German actor and writer (b. 1934)
- November 21: David Cassidy , American singer and actor (b. 1950)
- November 21: Otto Luttrop , German football player and coach (b. 1939)
- November 22: George Mesrop Avakian , American record producer (b. 1919)
- November 22: Dmitri Hvorostovsky , Russian opera singer (born 1962)
- November 24: Hermann Schwörer , German politician (b. 1922)
- November 25: Rance Howard , American actor (b. 1928)
- November 26: Georg Iggers , American historian (b. 1926)
- November 28: Shadia , Egyptian film actress and singer (b. 1931)
- November 29: Jerry Fodor , American philosopher and cognitive scientist (b. 1935)
- November 29: Slobodan Praljak , Croatian general and war criminal (b. 1945)
- November 29: Verena Stefan , Swiss writer (born 1947)
- November 30: Colin Groves , British-Australian anthropologist and primatologist (b. 1942)
December
- December 1: Fredy Schmidtke , German track cyclist and Olympic champion (b. 1961)
- December 1: Horst Weinheimer , German actor (b. 1930)
- December 2: Ulli Lommel , German actor and film director (born 1944)
- December 4: Shashi Kapoor , Indian actor (b. 1938)
- December 4: Christine Keeler , British model (b. 1942)
- December 4: Manuel Marín , Spanish politician (born 1949)
- 4 December: Ali Abdullah Salih , Yemeni politician and President (b. 1942)
- December 5: Johnny Hallyday , French singer and actor (b. 1943)
- 5 December: Michael I , King of Romania (b. 1921)
- December 5: Jean d'Ormesson , French writer (b. 1925)
- December 10: María Judith Franco , Puerto Rican actress and voice actress (b. 1925)
- 11 December: Christos M. Joachimides , Greek art historian and curator of exhibitions (b. 1932)
- December 18: Kim Jong Hyun , South Korean singer-songwriter, radio host and author (b. 1990)
- December 20: Bernard Francis Law , American cardinal (b. 1931)
- December 21: Bruce McCandless , American astronaut (b. 1937)
- December 26: Gerd Cintl , German rower and Olympic champion (b. 1938)
- December 26: Hans Saner , Swiss philosopher (b. 1934)
- December 28: Sue Grafton , American writer (b. 1940)
- December 28: Ulrich Wegener , German brigadier general (b. 1929)
- December 30: Bernd Spier , German crooner (b. 1944)
date unknown
- Ilse Harms-Lipski , German painter and illustrator (born 1927)
Gallery of the deceased
January 6: Om Puri (2010)
January 7: Mario Soares (2008)
January 8: Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani (2016)
January 9: Zygmunt Bauman (2013)
January 10: Roman Herzog (2006)
January 13: Udo Ulfkotte (2015)
January 20: Klaus Huhn (2011)
January 27: John Hurt (2015)
January 27: Emmanuelle Riva (2013)
February 6: Inge Keller (1950)
February 12: Al Jarreau (1981)
February 25: Bill Paxton (2016)
March 1: David Rubinger (2014)
March 3: Raymond Kopa (1963)
March 3: Misha Mengelberg (1968)
March 10: John Surtees (1964)
March 12: Horst Ehmke (2003)
March 17: Ingeborg Krabbe (2012)
March 18: Chuck Berry (2007)
March 20: David Rockefeller (1953)
March 28: Christine Kaufmann (2014)
April 1: Yevgeny Alexandrovich (2009)
April 12: Michael Ballhaus (2007)
April 20: Magdalena Abakanowicz (2010)
April 26: Jonathan Demme (2015)
May 3: Daliah Lavi (1966)
May 6: Steven Holcomb (2017)
May 9: Robert Miles (2014)
May 23: Roger Moore (1973)
June 9: Adam West (2014)
June 16: Helmut Kohl (1987)
June 20: Prodigy (2014)
June 22: Gunter Gabriel (2008)
June 27: Mikael Nyqvist (2013)
June 30: Simone Veil (2008)
July 3: Paolo Villaggio (2008)
July 4: Daniil Granin (2012)
July 5: Joachim Cardinal Meisner (2014)
July 10: Peter Hardling (2013)
July 15: Martin Landau (2010)
July 16: George A Romero (2009)
July 20: Chester Bennington (2014)
July 27: Sam Shepard (2004)
July 31: Jeanne Moreau (2009)
August 8: Glenn Campbell (2004)
August 20: Jerry Lewis (2013)
August 28: Mireille Darc (1989)
September 12: Heiner Geissler (2016)
September 15: Harry Dean Stanton (2006)
September 27: Joy Fleming (2012)
September 27: Hugh Hefner (2010)
September 28: Andreas Schmidt (2016)
October 2: Tom Petty (2010)
October 9: Jean Rochefort (2013)
October 17: Danielle Darrieux (2008)
October 24: Fat's Dominoes (1977)
November 6: Karin Dor (2015)
November 7: Hans-Michael Rehberg (2011)
November 21: David Cassidy (1974)
December 2nd: Ulli Lommel (2007)
December 4: Shashi Kapoor (2012)
December 4: Manuel Marín (2009)
December 6: Johnny Hallyday (1965)
December 28: Sue Grafton (2009)
December 18: Kim Jong Hyun (2017)
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itemizations
- ↑ Number of dead rises to 300 after mudslide , zeit.de, April 6, 2017, retrieved on April 20, 2017
- ↑ Several people killed by trees in storm. Stuttgarter Zeitung, May 30, 2017, retrieved on the same day.
- ↑ Champions League final: panic at public viewing in Turin - 1500 injured , Spiegel Online , June 3, 2017, retrieved on June 4, 2017
- ↑ All 18 dead recovered on deutschlandfunk.de, retrieved on July 3, 2017