2017 (MMXVII) is the current year, and is a common year starting on Sunday (dominical letter A) of the Gregorian calendar, the 2017th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 17th year of the 3rd millennium, the 17th year of the 21st century, and the 8th year of the 2010s decade.
2017 has been designated as:
International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development by the United Nations General Assembly.
Predicted and scheduled events
June 10 – The 2017 World Expo will open in Astana, Kazakhstan.
September 15 – The spacecraft Cassini-Huygens, after having studied Saturn for 13 years, will be disposed of by plunging into Saturn's atmosphere.
December – The ESA's CHEOPS exoplanet-hunting satellite will be launched, the first in the agency's long-term Cosmic Vision programme.
The European Extreme Light Infrastructure project intends to complete its nuclear physics research hub, housing the world's most powerful laser in Romania in 2017.
The United States plans to deploy additional missile interceptors on its Pacific coast by 2017 to defend against North Korean ballistic missiles.
International scientists intend to complete the world's first fully synthetic yeast, intended for use in the production of medicines and biofuels, by 2017.
January 1
Tony Atkinson, British economist (b. 1944)
Derek Parfit, British philosopher (b. 1942)
January 2
John Berger, British art critic, novelist and painter (b. 1926)
Viktor Tsaryov, Russian footballer (b. 1931)
January 3 – Igor Volk, Ukrainian-born Russian cosmonaut (b. 1937)
January 4
Ezio Pascutti, Italian footballer (b. 1937)
Georges Prêtre, French conductor (b. 1924)
Milt Schmidt, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1918)
January 6
Octavio Lepage, Venezuelan politician, former Acting President of Venezuela (b. 1923)
Bayezid Osman, Turkish royalty (b. 1924)
Om Puri, Indian actor (b. 1950)
January 7
Nat Hentoff, American music critic and political commentator (b. 1925)
Mário Soares, 17th President and 105th Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1924)
January 8
Nicolai Gedda, Swedish operatic tenor (b. 1925)
Ruth Perry, Liberian politician, former Chairwoman of the Council of State (b. 1939)
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, 4th President of Iran (b. 1934)
James Mancham, 1st President of Seychelles (b. 1939)
Peter Sarstedt, English singer-songwriter (b. 1941)
January 9
Zygmunt Bauman, Polish-British sociologist (b. 1925)
Roberto Cabañas, Paraguayan footballer (b. 1961)
January 10
Roman Herzog, 11th President of Germany (b. 1934)
Oliver Smithies, British-American Nobel geneticist (b. 1925)
January 11 – François Van der Elst, Belgian footballer (b. 1954)
January 12
Giulio Angioni, Italian writer and anthropologist (b. 1939)
William Peter Blatty, American writer and film director (b. 1928)
Graham Taylor, English footballer and manager (b. 1944)
January 13
Gilberto Agustoni, Swiss cardinal (b. 1922)
Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon, British photographer (b. 1930)
January 14 – Zhou Youguang, Chinese linguist (b. 1906)
January 15 – Jimmy Snuka, Fijian-born American professional wrestler (b. 1943)
January 16 – Eugene Cernan, American astronaut (b. 1934)
January 18
Peter Abrahams, South African-born Jamaican writer (b. 1919)
Obed Dlamini, 6th Prime Minister of Swaziland (b. 1937)
January 19 – Miguel Ferrer, American actor (b. 1955)
January 20 – Carlos Alberto Silva, Brazilian football manager (b. 1939)
January 21 – Veljo Tormis, Estonian composer (b. 1930)
January 22 – Jaki Liebezeit, German drummer (b. 1938)
January 23
Dmytro Grabovskyy, Ukrainian cyclist (b. 1985)
Gorden Kaye, English comic actor (b. 1941)
January 25
John Hurt, British actor (b. 1940)
Mary Tyler Moore, American actress (b. 1936)
January 26
Mike Connors, American actor (b. 1925)
Barbara Hale, American actress (b. 1922)
January 27 – Emmanuelle Riva, French actress (b. 1927)
January 28 – Geoff Nicholls, British keyboardist (b. 1944)
January 31 – John Wetton, British musician (b. 1949)
February 1 – Étienne Tshisekedi, 18th Prime Minister of Zaire (b. 1932)
February 2 – Shunichiro Okano, Japanese football player and manager (b. 1931)
February 3 – Dritëro Agolli, Albanian poet, writer and politician (b. 1931)
February 6
Alec McCowen, English actor (b. 1925)
Roger Walkowiak, French road racing cyclist (b. 1927)
Joost van der Westhuizen, South African rugby union player (b. 1971)
Raymond Smullyan, American mathematician (b. 1919)
February 7
Sotsha Dlamini, 5th Prime Minister of Swaziland (b. 1940)
Smail Hamdani, 11th Prime Minister of Algeria (b. 1930)
Richard Hatch, American actor, writer and producer (b. 1945)
Hans Rosling, Swedish medical doctor, academic, statistician and public speaker (b. 1948)
Tzvetan Todorov, Bulgarian-French philosopher and literary critic (b. 1939)
February 8
Viktor Chanov, Soviet-born Ukrainian footballer (b. 1959)
Peter Mansfield, British Nobel physicist (b. 1933)
Steve Sumner, English-born New Zealand footballer (b. 1955)
February 10
Piet Keizer, Dutch footballer (b. 1943)
Hal Moore, American lieutenant general and author (b. 1922)
February 11
Fab Melo, Brazilian basketball player (b. 1990)
Jiro Taniguchi, Japanese manga artist (b. 1947)
February 12 – Al Jarreau, American singer (b. 1940)
February 13
Kim Jong-nam, half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un (b. 1971)
Seijun Suzuki, Japanese film director and screenwriter (b. 1923)
February 16
Dick Bruna, Dutch writer, illustrator and graphic designer (b. 1927)
Bengt Gustavsson, Swedish footballer and manager (b. 1928)
George Steele, American professional wrestler and actor (b. 1937)
February 17
Nadezhda Olizarenko, Russian-born Ukrainian Olympic track athlete (b. 1953)
Tom Regan, American philosopher (b. 1938)
February 18
Omar Abdel-Rahman, Egyptian convicted terrorist (b. 1938)
Ivan Koloff, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1942)
Michael Ogio, Papua New Guinean politician (b. 1942)
February 19
Larry Coryell, American jazz guitarist (b. 1943)
Igor Shafarevich, Ukrainian-born Russian mathematician (b. 1923)
Danuta Szaflarska, Polish screen and stage actress (b. 1915)
February 20
Vitaly Churkin, Russian diplomat (b. 1952)
Mildred Dresselhaus, American physicist and educator (b. 1930)
February 21
Kenneth Arrow, American Nobel economist (b. 1921)
Desmond Connell, Irish cardinal (b. 1926)
February 25 – Bill Paxton, American actor (b. 1955)
February 26
Ludvig Faddeev, Russian theoretical physicist and mathematician (b. 1934)
Eugene Garfield, American linguist (b. 1925)
February 27 – Carlos Humberto Romero, President of El Salvador (b. 1924)
February 28 – Vladimir Petrov, Russian hockey player (b. 1947)
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