Notable deaths on December 17

British actor (1994–2025)

Russian general (1970–2024)

Spanish film actress (1946–2024)

American actor (1958–2023)

Filipino actor (1947–2023)

American politician (1921–2020)

English actor (1945–2020)

American politician (1922–2016)

American filmmaker (1929–2016)

American thoracic surgeon (1920–2016)

American baseball player (1924–2015)

German-American philosopher of religion and Jewish theologian (1928-2015)

Japanese biochemist

American aerospace engineer

Croatian politician and lawyer

Tuskegee Airmen (1919–2014)

Ukrainian poet, playwright, translator and intellectual (1949 – 2014)

American broadcast journalist (1917-2014)

Dutch yacht racer

Latvian Canadian artist (1929-2013)

American human geneticist (1925–2013)

Spanish cardinal (born 1926)

American communications professor, broadcaster

Musical artist