Notable deaths on March 17

Irish RAF fighter pilot (1919–2025)

Hong Kong real estate billionaire (1928–2025)

American actor (1962–2023)

President of Tanzania from 2015 to 2021

Canadian actor & comedian (1954–2018)

Vietnamese politician (1933–2018)

Israeli general and Mossad director (1945–2016)

Hungarian film director (1960–2016)

British motorcycle racer

American musicologist and music critic (1924–2014)

Polish cyclist (1974–2014)

American horticulturalist and philanthropist (1910–2014)

American journalist, editor, historian (1918–2013)

American scholar (1927–2013)

United States Army general

Australian social campaigner and athlete

Head of the Coptic Church from 1971 to 2012

American country music singer (1925–2011)

British actor (1916–2011)

American musician (1950–2010)

American writer (1920–2010)

Brazilian politician

American businessman and diplomat (1939–2008)

American computer scientist (1924–2007)