Notable deaths on June 17

1st President of Zambia, 1964-1991

American diplomat (1928–2020)

American artist, author, actress, and designer (1924–2019)

President of Egypt from 2012 to 2013

President of Vanuatu from 2014 to 2017

American politician and pastor (1973–2015)

American football player, coach, and administrator (1935–2015)

President of Argentina from 1970 to 1971

Australian long-distance runner (1937–2015)

President of Turkey from 1993 to 2000

American internist, professor and journal editor (1923–2014)

Canadian epidemiologist and academic (born 1954)

Canadian ice hockey player

British actress (1933–2014)

American artist and eccentric

Bangladeshi playwright and producer (born 1930)

American basketball, football, and baseball player

American politician (1934–2013)

New Zealand writer (1948–2013)

Canadian civil servant and lawyer

Pakistani politician

Canadian mathematician, university professor, chess master, writer and politician

American baseball player

Black American victim of police brutality (1965–2012)