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Who died on 17 October?
Celebrities who died on 17 October
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Puyi
last Emperor of China
Elijah Cummings
American politician
Gord Downie
Canadian musician, writer
Bernard Fisher
biologist
Danielle Darrieux
French actress and singer
Horace Romano Harré
New Zealand philosopher and psychologist
Hideo Takayama
Japanese professional wrestler
Tennessee Ernie Ford
American recording artist
Teresa Brewer
US pop singer
Alicia Alonso
Cuban prima ballerina assoluta and choreographer
Alberta Hunter
American blues singer, songwriter, and nurse
Cal Hubbard
American football player and coach, baseball umpire
Katherine Griffith
American actress
Ingvar Lidholm
Swedish composer
Hans Steiner
American psychiatrist
Joan Hickson
British actress
Göran Malmqvist
Swedish linguist and sinologist, Member of the Swedish Academy
Ara Güler
Turkish photographer
Pavel Haas
Czech composer
Joey Bishop
American entertainer
George Davis
American baseball player and coach
Roberto Rojas
Bolivian accountant, politician, and trade unionist
Kannadasan
Indian poet
Olaf Henriksen
baseball player
Michael Balcon
English Film producer
Janice Rule
actress
Márta Kurtág
pianist, music pedagogue
Julian May
American science fiction, fantasy, horror, science and children's writer
Ernie Ross
British politician
Chester Pittser
American football player and coach
Bill Macy
American actor
Younoussi Touré
Malian politician
Mychael Knight
American fashion designer
Bernhard Kellermann
German author
Ray Boone
American baseball player
Cornelius Edward Gallagher
American politician
Ashot Sarkisov
Russian scientist
Charlie Justice
Player of American football
Vittorio Gui
Italian conductor, and composer
Youssef Wahbi
Egyptian film director and actor
Bob Swift
American baseball player and coach
Jacques Monory
French painter
Hans Krása
Czech composer
Micheline Ostermeyer
French athlete and piano concertist
Rosanna Schiaffino
Italian actress
Jim Delahanty
American baseball player
Rustam Gasparyan
Armenian politician
Emil-Edwin Reinert
French film director