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Who died on 17 August?
Celebrities who died on 17 August
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Rudolf Heß
German Nazi leader
Yvon Duhamel
Canadian motorcycle rider
Jasraj
Indian classical singer
Cedric Benson
American football player
Fadwa Soliman
Syrian actress
Arthur Hiller
Canadian television and film director
Pavel Branko
Slovak writer
Jack Sharkey
American boxer
Vivian Vance
American singer
Leonard Boswell
American politician
Irène Némirovsky
French novelist who died at the age of 39 in Auschwitz
Francis X. DiLorenzo
Roman Catholic bishop
Fred Frankhouse
American baseball player
Pearl Bailey
American singer
David McReynolds
American activist
Yvonne Craig
American actress and ballerina
Elsimar Coutinho
Brazilian scientist
Elsimar Coutinho
Brazilian scientist
Jacques Diouf
Senegalese politician
Ray Chapman
Major league baseball player
Richard Barthelmess
American actor
Mehdi Mujahid
Afghan Hazara anti-Taliban commander
Sammy Vick
American baseball player
Jack Harshman
former professional baseball pitcher
Olav Akselsen
Norwegian politician
Clarence Brown
Film director
Ray Caldwell
American baseball player
Nikolay Kuimov
Russian test pilot
Rock Demers
Canadian film producer
Harry Steinfeldt
American baseball player
Gualtiero Jacopetti
Film director
Don Dubbins
American actor
Chappie Johnson
American baseball player
Otto Stern
German physicist
Maureen Ogden
Member of the New Jersey General Assembly
Nishikant Kamat
Indian film director
Barney Phillips
American actor
Frank Shellenback
American baseball player and coach
Arsen Dedić
Croatian singer-songwriter, composer and poet
Yusif Səmədoğlu
Ed Gardner
American actor
Fereshteh Taerpour
Iranian film producer
Vladimir Sharov
Russian writer
Toby Curtis
New Zealand educationalist
Parker MacDonald
Canadian ice hockey player
A. C. Read
American football player
Albert Austin
English actor
Johnny Lipon
American baseball player and coach