Deaths in 2017  

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• Denis Johnson, 67, American author (Jesus' Son, Tree of Smoke, Angels), liver cancer.
• Sunny Murray, 81, American jazz drummer (Cecil Taylor, Albert Ayler).
• William H. Gass, 93, American novelist (The Tunnel), critic and philosophy professor.
• Johnny Hallyday, 74, French rock singer ("Requiem pour un fou", "Marie", "Tous ensemble") and actor, lung cancer.
• Christine Keeler, 75, English model and showgirl involved in Profumo affair, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
• Alain Jessua, 85, French film director and screenwriter (Léon la lune, The Killing Game).
• Jerry Fodor, 82, American philosopher and cognitive scientist, complications from Parkinson's disease.
• David Cassidy, 67, American pop singer ("Cherish", "How Can I Be Sure") and actor (The Partridge Family), liver failure.
• Charles Manson, 83, American criminal (Tate murders) and cult leader (Manson Family).
• Della Reese, 86, American actress and singer.
• Azzedine Alaïa, 77, Tunisian-French fashion designer.
• Malcolm Young, 64, Scottish-born Australian Hall of Fame guitarist and songwriter (AC/DC), complications from dementia.
• Karin Dor, 79, German actress (You Only Live Twice, Topaz).
• Charles Cohen, 71, American musician and composer.
• Linda Nochlin, 86, American art historian ("Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?").
• Fats Domino, 89, American pianist and singer-songwriter ("Blueberry Hill", "Ain't That a Shame", "I'm Walkin'").
• George Young, 70, Scottish-born Australian musician (The Easybeats), songwriter ("Friday On My Mind"), and producer (AC/DC).
• Walter Lassally, 90, German-born British-Greek cinematographer (Zorba the Greek, Oedipus the King, Tom Jones), Oscar winner (1965).
• Danielle Darrieux, 100, French actress (The Red and the Black, 8 Women, Persepolis) and singer.
• Umberto Lenzi, 86, Italian film director (Cannibal Ferox, Nightmare City, Kriminal).
• Ton Lebbink,74 , Dutch poet and singer ("Voetbalknieën").
• Jean Rochefort, 87, French actor (The Phantom of Liberty, Le Grand Blond avec Une Chaussure Noire, Les Grands Ducs and Ridicule).
• Bunny Sigler, 76, American songwriter and record producer (The O'Jays, The Roots, Patti LaBelle), heart attack.
• Anne Wiazemsky, 70, French actress and writer (Au Hasard Balthazar, Teorema), cancer.
• Arthur Janov, 93, American psychologist (The Primal Scream).
• Tom Petty, 66, American Hall of Fame musician (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Traveling Wilburys) and actor (King of the Hill).
• Hugh Hefner, 91, American magazine publisher (Playboy), businessman (Playboy Enterprises) and reality television actor (The Girls Next Door).
• Harry Dean Stanton, 91, American actor (Alien, The Green Mile, Big Love).
• Grant Hart, 56, American singer, songwriter ("Turn On the News") and drummer (Hüsker Dü), cancer.
• J. P. Donleavy, 91, Irish-American novelist and playwright (The Ginger Man, A Fairy Tale of New York).
• Kate Millett, 82, American feminist writer (Sexual Politics).
• Holger Czukay, 79, German musician (Can).
• John Ashbery, 90, American poet (Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror), Pulitzer Prize winner (1976).
• Walter Becker, 67, American Hall of Fame musician (Steely Dan), songwriter ("Do It Again", "Deacon Blues") and producer, Grammy winner (2001).
• Mireille Darc, 79, French actress (Week End, The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe, Icy Breasts) and model.
• Tobe Hooper, 74, American film director (The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Poltergeist, Salem's Lot).
• Brian Aldiss, 92, British science fiction writer (Helliconia, Supertoys Last All Summer Long) and editor.
• Jerry Lewis, 91, American comedian (Martin and Lewis) and actor (The Nutty Professor).
• Arthur Boyars, 92, British poet and musicologist.
• Glen Campbell, 81, American singer ("Rhinestone Cowboy", "By the Time I Get to Phoenix") and actor (True Grit), Alzheimer's disease.
• Jeanne Moreau, 89, French actress (Elevator to the Gallows, The Lovers, Jules and Jim).
• Sam Shepard, 73, American playwright (Buried Child) and actor (The Right Stuff, Black Hawk Down), Pulitzer Prize winner (1979), complications of ALS.
• Martin Landau, 89, American actor (Ed Wood, Mission: Impossible, North by Northwest).
• Anne Golon, 95, French author.
• George A. Romero, 77, American-Canadian film director and screenwriter (Night of the Living Dead), lung cancer.
• Nelsan Ellis, 39, American actor (True Blood), complications from heart failure.
• Elsa Martinelli, 82, Italian actress (Donatella) and fashion model.
• Pierre Henry, 89, French composer.
• Michael Bond, 91, British children's author (Paddington Bear).
• Anita Pallenberg, 75, Italian actress (Barbarella, Performance, A Degree of Murder).
• A. R. Gurney, 86, American playwright (The Dining Room, Love Letters).
• John G. Avildsen, 81, American film director (Rocky, The Karate Kid), pancreatic cancer.
• Morton N. Cohen, 96, American author and scholar.
• Glenne Headly, 62, American actress (Bartleby, Don Jon), complications from pulmonary embolism.
• Juan Goytisolo, 86, Spanish essayist, poet, and novelist.
• Gregg Allman, 69, American Hall of Fame singer-songwriter ("Ramblin' Man", "Midnight Rider") and musician (The Allman Brothers Band), liver cancer.
• Sir Roger Moore, 89, English actor (James Bond film series, The Persuaders!, The Saint), cancer.
• Ian Brady, 79, British serial killer (Moors murders), COPD.
• Daliah Lavi, 74, Israeli actress (The Whip and the Body), singer and model.
• Vito Acconci, 77, American artist and architectural designer, stroke.
• Robert M. Pirsig, 88, American writer and philosopher (Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance).
• Jonathan Demme, 73, American film director (The Silence of the Lambs, Philadelphia, Rachel Getting Married), complications from esophageal cancer.
• Cuba Gooding Sr., 72, American soul singer (The Main Ingredient).
• Toshio Matsumoto, 85, Japanese film director (Funeral Parade of Roses), intestinal obstruction.
• J. Geils, 71, American guitarist (The J. Geils Band).
• Michael Ballhaus, 81, German cinematographer (Goodfellas, Bram Stoker's Dracula).
• Radley Metzger, 88, American filmmaker.
• Alessandro Alessandroni, 92, Italian composer and musician.
• Chuck Berry, 90, American rock and roll musician ("Johnny B. Goode", "Maybellene", "Roll Over Beethoven").
• Joni Sledge, 60, American singer (Sister Sledge).
• Larry Coryell, 73, American jazz guitarist, heart failure.
• Leon Ware, 77, American musician, record producer, and songwriter ("Why I Came To California").
• Ren Hang, 29, Chinese photographer, suicide.
• Seijun Suzuki, 93, Japanese director and screenwriter.
• Clyde Stubblefield, 73, American drummer (James Brown), kidney failure.
• Raymond Smullyan, 97, American mathematician and philosopher.
• Alan Aldridge, 73, British graphic designer (The Who, Elton John).
• Jannis Kounellis, 80, Greek-Italian artist.
• Dick Bruna, 89, Dutch author, artist, illustrator and graphic designer, best known for his creation Miffy.
• Al Jarreau, 76, American jazz and R&B singer.
• Tzvetan Todorov, 77, Bulgarian-French philosopher.
• David Axelrod, 83, American musician.
• Noel Simms, 82, Jamaican reggae musician, lung cancer.
• Emmanuelle Riva, 89, French actress (Amour, Thérèse Desqueyroux, Hiroshima mon amour), cancer.
• Sir John Hurt, 77, British actor (Midnight Express, Alien, The Elephant Man).
• Harry Mathews, 86, American author.
• Mark Fisher, 48, British writer, cultural theorist and music journalist (The Wire, Fact), suicide.
• J. S. G. Boggs, 62, American artist.
• Jaki Liebezeit, 78, German drummer (Can).
• Pete Overend Watts, 69, English bass guitarist (Mott the Hoople), throat cancer.
• William Onyeabor, 70, Nigerian singer-songwriter.
• Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon, 86, English photographer, filmmaker and former husband of Princess Margaret.
• Jean Karakos, 76, French music producer.
• William Peter Blatty, 89, American novelist (The Exorcist).
• Zygmunt Bauman, 91, Polish-British sociologist.
• John Schroeder, 82, British composer, songwriter and record producer (Helen Shapiro, Sounds Orchestral, Status Quo).
• John Berger, 90, English art critic and painter.

See also

• Deaths in 2016
• Deaths in 2015
• Deaths in 2014
• Deaths in 2013
• Deaths in 2012
• Deaths in 2011
• Deaths in 2010
• Deaths in 2009
• Deaths in 2008