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Other notable deaths in 2017

National affairs

Pete Domenici, US senator

Eugene Cernan, astronaut

Bruce McCandless, astronaut

Paul Weitz, astronaut

Richard Gordon, astronaut

Edith Windsor, gay rights activist

Richard Haynes, defense lawyer

Norman Dorsen, civil rights lawyer

Barbara Blaine, victims’ rights advocate

Janet Benshoof, women’s rights lawyer

World affairs

Mario Soares, Portuguese president

Adnan Khashoggi, Saudi arms dealer

Ali Akbar Rafsanjani, Iranian president

Manuel Noriega, Panamanian dictator

Vitaly Churkin, Russian diplomat

Ahmed Kathrada, South African rights activist

Rene Preval, Haitian president

Omar Abdel Rahman, Egyptian cleric

Antony Armstrong-Jones, British royal

Liam Cosgrave, Irish leader

King Michael of Romania

Film

Harry Dean Stanton, actor

Roger Moore, actor

Bill Paxton, actor

Dina Merrill, actress, philanthropist

Miriam Colon, actress

Michael Parks, actor

George Romero, director

Tobe Hooper, director

Bruce Brown, filmmaker

Literary

William Peter Blatty, author

William H. Gass, author

Nancy Friday, author

Jean Stein, author

Howard Frank Mosher, author

Robert James Waller, author

Robert Pirsig, author

Colin Dexter, mystery writer

Patricia McKissack, children’s author

Michael Bond, children’s author

Judith Jones, editor

Sue Grafton, writer

Television and radio

Robert Guillaume, actor

Miguel Ferrer, actor

Jay Thomas, actor

Erin Moran, actress

Tim Pigott-Smith, actor

Robert Osborne, film historian/host

Bob Schiller, writer

The arts

Howard Hodgkin, painter

Chuck Stewart, photographer

Marie Cosindas, photographer

Gosta Peterson, photographer

Jay Lynch, cartoonist

Skip Williamson, cartoonist

Ivan Chermayeff, graphic designer

Media

Richard Schickel, critic, author

Lillian Ross, journalist

Clare Hollingworth, journalist

Simeon Booker, journalist

Bernard Redmont, journalist

Jack Rosenthal, journalist

Marshall Loeb, business journalist

Byron Dobell, editor

Robert Silvers, editor

Stanley Greene, photojournalist

Don Hogan Charles, photojournalist

Ward Chamberlin, broadcasting exec

Theater, dance, and opera

John Hurt, actor

Alec McCowen, actor

Barbara Cook, actress, singer

Linda Hopkins, actress, singer

A.R. Gurney, playwright

Albert Innaurato, playwright

Michael Friedman, composer

Peter Hall, director

Kurt Moll, opera star

Barbara Smith Conrad, opera star

Trisha Brown, dancer-choreographer

Chuck Davis, dancer-choreographer

Dennis Wayne, dancer-choreographer

Music

Al Jarreau, jazz-pop artist

Walter Becker, guitarist-songwriter

James Cotton, bluesman

Mel Tillis, country star

Don Williams, country star

Larry Coryell, fusion guitarist

Gord Downie, rock singer

Chester Bennington, rock singer

Malcolm Young, rock guitarist

Buddy Greco, pop singer

Keely Smith, torch singer

Maggie Roche, pop-folk artist

Rosalie Sorrels, folk singer

Prodigy, rap artist

Lil Peep, rap artist

Johnny Hallyday, pop singer

Sports

Sam Mele, baseball

Roy Sievers, baseball

Ruben Amaro, baseball

Steve Palermo, baseball

Dallas Green, baseball

Gene Michael, baseball

Yordano Ventura, baseball

Darrall Imhoff, basketball

Jerry Krause, basketball

Yale Lary, football

Ferdie Pacheco, boxing

Steven Holcomb, bobsled

Brian Oldfield, Olympics

Pete Hamilton, car racing

Tony DiCicco, soccer

Business

David Rockefeller, banker

Gerald Elovitz, Building #19 co-founder

Arthur Cinader, J. Crew founder

Brenda Barnes, PepsiCo chief

Mike Ilitch, Little Caesars founder, Detroit Tigers and Red Wings owner

Mary Anderson, REI co-founder

Jeff Brotman, Costco co-founder

Thomas Forkner, Waffle House co-founder

Jerry Perenchio, entertainment mogul

Pierre Berge, fashion executive

Science, medicine, and technology

Paul Ornstein, psychoanalyst

Boyd Woodruff, microbiologist

Arthur Janov, psychotherapist

Hans Dehmelt, physicist

Peter Mansfield, physicist

Alexei Abrikosov, physicist

Kenneth Arrow, economist

George Olah, chemist

Lloyd Conover, chemist

Amy Reed, physician

John Sarno, physician

Academe and education

Kevin Starr, historian

David Fromkin, historian

Eduard Sekler, architecture historian

Mary Maples Dunn, college president

Theodore Lowi, political scientist

Maryam Mirzakhani, mathematician

Marshall Goldman, economist

Jerry Fodor, philosopher

Martin Rein, sociologist

Local

Christy Mihos, businessman, politician

Jack E. Robinson, lawyer, politician

Alice Hennessey, mayoral aide

Kathleen Kelley, union leader

Lee Johnson, judge

Mitchell Chester, education official

Velma Haith, community leader

Enid Shapiro, social worker

Walter Guralnick, dental health advocate

Miriam Gannon, foster mother

Jan Fontein, MFA director

Frederic Sharf, art collector, philanthropist

Irma Mann, marketing mogul

Susan Phelps, store owner

Jim Mouradian, guitar maker

Jack Grinold, sports information director

Thomas Derrah, actor

Norman Pashoian, hotel doorman