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Famous People Who Died in February 2017

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  • Feb 1 Desmond Carrington, British radio host (The Music Goes Round), dies at 90
  • Feb 1 Étienne Tshisekedi, Congolese opposition leader, dies at 84
  • Feb 1 Ken Morrison, English supermarket tycoon (Morrisons), dies at 85
  • Feb 4 Gervase de Peyer, British clarinetist, dies at 89
  • Feb 4 Steve Lang, Canadian rock bassist (April Wine, 1976-84 - "Just Between You And Me"), dies at 67
  • Feb 5 Thomas Lux, American poet (Split Horizon), dies of cancer at 70
  • Feb 6 "Professor" Irwin Corey, American comedian (Car Wash, Doc), dies at 102
  • Feb 6 Alec McCowen, English actor (Frenzy), dies at 91
  • Feb 6 Joost van der Westhuizen, South African rugby union halfback (89 Tests; Bulls), dies of motor neurone disease at 45
  • Feb 6 Roger Walkowiak, French road cyclist (Tour de France 1956), dies at 89
  • Feb 7 Richard Hatch, American actor (Battlestar Galactica), dies of cancer at 71
  • Feb 7 Svend Asmussen, Danish jazz violinist, known as "The Fiddling Viking" (The Swe-Danes), dies at 100
  • Feb 8 Ljubisa Beara, Bosnian general convicted of overseeing Srebrenica Massacre, dies in prison at 77
  • Feb 8 Nicolai Gedda, Swedish opera tenor (Opera Two to Six), dies at 91
  • Feb 8 Peter Mansfield, British Physician whose discoveries led to MRI (2003 Nobel Prize), dies at 83
  • Feb 8 Tara Palmer-Tomkinson, British socialite, dies at 45

Mike Ilitch (1929-2017)

Feb 10 American businessman (founded Little Caesars Pizza, owner Detroit Red Wings, Tigers), dies at 87

Mike Ilitch
  • Feb 11 Harvey Lichtenstein, American head of the Brooklyn Academy of Music, dies at 87
  • Feb 12 Al Jarreau, American jazz singer (Moonlighting), dies at 76
  • Feb 13 Michael Naura, German jazz pianist, radio broadcaster, editor and anti-nuclear proliferation activist, dies at 82
  • Feb 13 Seijun Suzuki, Japanese cult film director, dies at 93
  • Feb 16 Dick Bruna, Dutch illustrator (Miffy books), dies at 89
  • Feb 17 Alan Aldridge, British artist, graphic designer and illustrator whose artwork was used in record covers for The Beatles and The Who, dies at 73
  • Feb 17 Magnus Wenninger, American mathematician and author of Polyhedron models, dies at 97
  • Feb 17 Peter Richardson, British cricket batsman (34 Tests, 5 x 100, 9 x 50, HS 126; Worcestershire CCC, Kent CCC), dies at 85
  • Feb 17 Robert H. Michel, American politician (Rep-R-IL, 1957-95), dies at 93
  • Feb 17 Warren Frost, American actor (Twin Peaks, Matlock, Seinfeld), dies at 91
  • Feb 18 Norma McCorvey, American abortion activist (Jane Roe in Roe vs Wade) who later became pro-life, dies at 69
  • Feb 19 Igor Shafarevich, Russian mathematician, dies at 93
  • Feb 19 Larry Coryell, American jazz guitarist (11th House), dies at 73
  • Feb 21 Kenneth Arrow, American economist, (Nobel Prize 1972), dies at 95
  • Feb 21 Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, Polish-American conductor (Minnesota Orchestra, 1960-79) and composer (Passacaglia Immaginaria), dies at 93
  • Feb 22 Ed Garvey, American labor leader (NFL Players Association), dies at 76
  • Feb 22 Eni Faleomavaega, American-Samoan politician (3rd Lieutenant Governor of American Samoa), dies at 73
  • Feb 22 Fritz Koenig, German sculptor (Sphere at World Trade Center), dies at 92
  • Feb 22 John McCormack, Canadian ice hockey player, dies at 91
  • Feb 23 Derek Ibbotson, English 5K runner (Olympic bronze 1956), dies at 84
  • Feb 23 Lord David Waddington, British politician (Home Secretary 1989-90), dies at 87
  • Feb 24 Faye Glenn Abdellah, American pioneer in nursing research and US government official (health services), dies at 97
  • Feb 25 Bill Paxton, American actor (True Lies; Twister; Big Love), dies from surgical complications at 61
  • Feb 25 Boaz Vaadia, Israeli-born sculptor who worked in America, dies of cancer at 65
  • Feb 26 Dimiter Khristov, Bulgarian composer, dies at 83
  • Feb 26 Gerald Kaufman, British Labour MP, dies at 86
  • Feb 26 James E. Sellars, American composer, dies at 76
  • Feb 26 Joseph Wapner, American judge (People's Court), dies at 97
  • Feb 26 Robert Allworth, Australian composer (A Different Time, A Different Place), dies at 74
  • Feb 27 Jórunn Viðar, Icelandic pianist and composer, dies at 98
  • Feb 28 Claude Rene Georges Pascal, French composer, dies at 96
  • Feb 28 Leoncjusz Ciuciura, Polish classical composer (Spirals), dies at 86 [1] [2]
  • Feb 28 Nicholas Mosley, British novelist, biographer and son of Oswald Mosley, dies at 93


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