2017: Year in Review

January 3 – Igor Volk, Ukrainian-born Russian cosmonaut and test pilot, dies at age 79.
January 7 - Mário Soares, 17th President and 105th Prime Minister of Portugal, dies at age 92 after lapsing into a coma.
January 8 - Ruth Perry, the first female president of Liberia and of contemporary Africa as a whole, dies at age 77
January 8 - Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, 4th President of Iran, dies at age 82 from a heart attack.
January 8 - James Mancham, 1st President of Seychelles, dies at age 77 from a stroke.
January 10 - Roman Herzog, 11th President of Germany, dies at age 82.
January 12 - William Peter Blatty, American writer and film director best known for his 1971 novel The Exorcist and for the Academy Award-winning screenplay of its film adaptation, dies at age 89 from multiple myeloma.
January 13 - Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon, British photographer who married Princess Margaret, younger daughter of King George VI and the sister of Queen Elizabeth II, dies at age 86.
January 14 – Zhou Youguang, a Chinese economist, banker, linguist, sinologist, publisher, and supercentenarian, known as the "father of Pinyin", a system for the Romanization of Mandarin Chinese, dies at age 111.  He was the seventh-oldest known living man and the oldest known living person in China. He is one of the 100 world's verified oldest men in history.
January 16 – Eugene Cernan, American astronaut, dies at age 82.  On Apollo 17, Cernan became the eleventh person to walk on the Moon and, as the last man to re-enter the Lunar Module, the last person to have walked on the Moon.
January 18 - Obed Dlamini, 6th Prime Minister of Swaziland, dies at age 79.
January 19 – Miguel Ferrer, American actor, dies at age 61 from throat cancer.
January 20 – Donald Trump is sworn in as the 45th President of the United States. Trump, a Republican New York City businessman, becomes the first non–political office holder to be elected President of the United States.
January 21 – Millions of people worldwide join the Women's March in response to the inauguration of Donald Trump as President of the United States. 420 marches were reported in the U.S. and 168 in other countries, becoming the largest single-day protest in American history and the largest worldwide protest in recent history.
January 25 - Mary Tyler Moore, American actress, dies at age 80 from cardiopulmonary arrest complicated by pneumonia.
January 26 - Barbara Hale, American actress best known for Perry Mason, dies at age 94 from complications from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
January 28 – Geoff Nicholls, British keyboardist and longtime member of the heavy metal band Black Sabbath, dies at age 68 from lung cancer.
February 1 – Étienne Tshisekedi, 18th Prime Minister of Zaire, dies at age 84.
February 6 - Roger Walkowiak, French road racing cyclist who won the 1956 Tour de France, dies at age 89.  He was for a short while the oldest Tour de France winner still alive.
February 7 - Sotsha Dlamini, 5th Prime Minister of Swaziland dies at age 76.
February 7 - Smail Hamdani, 11th Prime Minister of Algeria, dies at age 86.
February 7 - Richard Hatch, American actor, writer and producer best known for his role as Captain Apollo in the original Battlestar Galactica television series, dies at age 71 from pancreatic cancer.
February 10 – Hal Moore, American lieutenant general and author best remembered as the lieutenant colonel in command of the 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment, at the Battle of Ia Drang in 1965 during the Vietnam War, dies at age 94.
February 11 – North Korea prompts international condemnation by test firing a ballistic missile across the Sea of Japan.
February 11 - Fab Melo, Brazilian basketball player who played one season in the NBA for the Boston Celtics before returning to his home country, dies at age 26.
February 12 - Anna Marguerite McCann, first female American underwater archaeologist, dies at age 83.
February 13 - Kim Jong-nam, half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, dies at age 45 from a suspected chemical attack.
February 18 - Omar Abdel-Rahman, Egyptian convicted terrorist known as The Blind Sheikh, dies at age 78 from diabetes and coronary arterial disease.
February 18 - Michael Ogio, the ninth Governor-General of Papua New Guinea, dies at age 74.
February 20 - Vitaly Churkin, the 5th Russian diplomat posted abroad to die unexpectedly at the age of 64 from heart failure.
February 21 - Desmond Connell, Irish cardinal heavily criticized for inaction and for making misleading statements in connection with clerical sex abuse in Dublin, dies at age 90.
February 25 – Bill Paxton, American actor, dies at age 61 due to complications from a stroke following an aortic aneurysm repair and bicuspid aortic valve replacement surgery.
February 27 – Carlos Humberto Romero, 37th President of El Salvador, dies at age 92.
March 3 - René Préval, 2nd Prime Minister and 38th and 40th President of Haiti, dies at age 74 from cardiac arrest.
March 8 - Joseph Nicolosi, American clinical psychologist and a founder and president of the National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH), dies at age 70 due to complications from the flu.
March 10 – The UN warns that the world is facing the biggest humanitarian crisis since World War II, with up to 20 million people at risk of starvation and famine in Yemen, Somalia, South Sudan and Nigeria.
March 10 - Robert James Waller, American author best known for The Bridges of Madison County, dies at age 77 from multiple myeloma.
March 13 – Richard, 6th Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg and head of the House of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg and husband of Princess Benedikte of Denmark, dies at age 82.
March 17 - Laurynas Stankevičius, 7th Prime Minister of Lithuania, dies at age 81.
March 18 - Chuck Berry, American singer and musician and one of the pioneers of rock and roll, dies at age 90 from cardiac arrest.
March 20 – David Rockefeller, American banker and philanthropist, dies at age 101 from congestive heart failure.
March 21 - Martin McGuinness, deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland, dies at age 66 from amyloidosis.
March 23 - William H. Keeler, Archbishop of Baltimore who published the names of 57 priests who had been "credibly accused of child abuse", dies at age 86.
March 25 - Cuthbert Sebastian, Governor-General of St. Kitts and Nevis, dies at age 95.
March 29 – The United Kingdom triggers article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, starting the Brexit Negotiations, the talks for the United Kingdom to leave the European Union.
March 30 – SpaceX conducts the world's first reflight of an orbital class rocket.
April 4 - Karl Stotz, Austrian soccer player and manager who fought in the Battle of Stalingrad and was captured, dies at age 90.
April 5 – Arthur Bisguier, American chess Grandmaster, dies at age 87.
April 6 – In response to a suspected chemical weapons attack on a rebel-held town, the U.S. military launches 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles at an air base in Syria. Russia describes the strikes as an "aggression", adding they significantly damage U.S.–Russia ties.
April 6 – Don Rickles, American comedian and actor who starred in Kelly's Heroes with Clint Eastwood, dies at age 90 from kidney failure.
April 8 – Georgy Grechko, Russian cosmonaut who flew on several space flights including Soyuz 17, Soyuz 26, and Soyuz T-14, dies at age 85 as a result of several chronic illnesses.
April 9 – Carme Chacón, Spanish politician who was Minister of Defence, dies at age 46 due to a congenital heart defect.
April 11 – Michael Ballhaus, German cinematographer, dies at age 81.
April 13 – In the 2017 Nangarhar airstrike the U.S. drops the GBU-43/B MOAB, the world's largest non-nuclear weapon, at an ISIL base in Afghanistan.
April 15 - Clifton James, American actor known for Black Like Me, Cool Hand Luke, The Iceman Cometh, and Silver Streak, dies at age 96 from complications of diabetes.
April 15 - Emma Morano, Italian supercentenarian, who was the world's oldest living person, the last living person to have been verified as being born in the 1800s, the oldest Italian person ever, and the second-oldest European person ever, dies at age 117.
April 22 - Erin Moran, American actress best known for playing Joanie Cunningham on the television sitcom Happy Days and its spin-off Joanie Loves Chachi, dies at age 56 due to complications from squamous cell carcinoma of the throat.
April 23 - Luis Pércovich Roca, 118th Prime Minister of Peru, dies at age 85.
April 24 – Robert M. Pirsig, American writer and philosopher who wrote Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values, dies at age 88 after a period of failing health.
April 26 – Jonathan Demme, American film director known for The Silence of the Lambs and Philadelphia, dies at age 73 from complications from esophageal cancer and heart disease.
April 30 – Ueli Steck, Swiss rock climber and mountaineer, died at age 40 after falling during an acclimatizing climb for an attempt on the Hornbein route on the West Ridge of Everest without supplemental oxygen.
May 2 – Heinz Kessler, an East German communist politician and military officer, dies at age 97.  Drafted into the Wehrmacht in 1940, he defected to the Soviet Red Army three weeks after the German invasion of the USSR and fought for the Soviet Union until the end of the war.
May 5 - Adolph Kiefer, American Olympic swimmer, dies at age 98.  He was the last surviving gold medalist of the 1936 Summer Olympics and former world record-holder. He was the first man in the world to swim the 100-yard backstroke in under one minute.
May 5 - Ely Ould Mohamed Vall, 6th President of Mauritania, dies at age 64 from a heart attack.
May 6 – Steven Holcomb, American Olympic bobsledder, dies at age 37 with prescription sleeping pills and alcohol in his system.  At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, he won the 4-man bobsled event for the United States, its first gold medal in that event since 1948.
May 9 - Michael Parks, American actor best known for his work in his later years with filmmakers such as Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez, and Kevin Smith, dies at age 77.  He requested a burial at sea which his wife attended alone.
May 9 - Qian Qichen, Chinese diplomat and politician, dies at age 89.  He served as China's Foreign Minister and as Vice Premier. Since then, no other diplomat-turned-politician has attained such a lofty status in China's political hierarchy.  He was in charge of border negotiations with the Soviet Union in the 1980s, resulting in a successful settlement of the border dispute and the thawing of the relations between China and Russia. He was also instrumental in handling China's normalization of relations with the West in the difficult period after the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.
May 12 – Computers around the world are hit by a large-scale ransomware cyberattack, which goes on to affect at least 150 countries.
May 12 - Mauno Koivisto, 32nd Prime Minister and 9th President of Finland, dies at age 93 due to complications from Alzheimer's disease.
May 14 – Powers Boothe, American actor known for Red Dawn, Tombstone, Deadwood, and 24, dies at age 68 of a cardiopulmonary arrest.
May 17 - Viktor Gorbatko, Russian cosmonaut, dies at age 82.
May 17 - Rhodri Morgan, First Minister of Wales, dies at age 77.
May 19 – Stanislav Petrov, a lieutenant colonel of the Soviet Air Defence Forces who became known as "the man who single-handedly saved the world from nuclear war" for his role in the 1983 Soviet nuclear false alarm incident, dies at age 77 from hypostatic pneumonia.
May 22 – A terrorist bombing attack at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, England kills 22 people and injures over 500.
May 22 - Viktor Kupreichik, Belarusian chess Grandmaster, dies at age 67.
May 23 – Roger Moore, English actor best known for having played Ian Fleming's British secret agent James Bond in seven feature films, dies at age 89 from liver and lung cancer.
May 26 - Zbigniew Brzezinski, Polish-American diplomat and political scientist who served as a counselor to President Lyndon B. Johnson and was President Jimmy Carter's National Security Advisor, dies at age 89.
May 26 - Jim Bunning, American baseball player and politician who was the sole Major League Baseball athlete to have been elected to both the United States Senate and the National Baseball Hall of Fame, dies at age 85 following a stroke he suffered in October.
May 27 – Gregg Allman, American singer-songwriter and musician for the Allman Brothers Band, dies at age 69 due to complications from liver cancer.
May 29 - Konstantinos Mitsotakis, 76th Prime Minister of Greece, dies at age 98.
May 29 - Manuel Noriega, Panamanian dictator, dies at age 83 due to complications from brain surgery.
May 31 - Tino Insana, American actor known for Tom and Jerry: The Movie and several television series (Darkwing Duck, The Little Mermaid, and Aladdin), dies at age 69 from cancer.
June 1 – Amidst widespread criticism, the U.S. announces its decision to withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement in due time.
June 1 - Alois Mock, Vice Chancellor of Austria who helped take Austria into the European Union as a foreign minister, dies at age 82 due to complications from Parkinson's disease.
June 2 - Peter Sallis, English actor known for Doctor Who: The Ice Warriors, Frankenstein: The True Story, The Wind in the Willows, and Wallace and Gromit's World of Invention, dies at age 96.
June 5 - Jack Trout, American marketer and an owner of Trout & Partners, a consulting firm, dies at age 82 from intestinal cancer.  When working with pizza chain Papa John's, Trout was majorly involved in the invention of the chain's slogan "better ingredients, better pizza".  In the fall of 2002, Trout began working with the United States Department of State in order to "train new diplomats in the art of projecting a positive image of America overseas" as a part of the Brand America campaign, which sought to improve public opinion about the upcoming Iraq War.
June 7 – Two terrorist attacks are simultaneously carried out by five terrorists belonging to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) against the Iranian Parliament building and the Mausoleum of Ruhollah Khomeini, both in Tehran, Iran, leaving 17 civilians dead and 43 wounded. It becomes the first ISIL attack in Iran.
June 8 – A snap general election is held in the UK, three years before the next general election was due, and resulted in a hung parliament, with the Conservative Party led by Prime Minister Theresa May losing their majority in Parliament. The Labour Party, led by Jeremy Corbyn make gains for the first time since 1997 and receive their highest share of the vote since 2001. Days later, the Conservative Party now lacking a majority enters a confidence-and-supply deal with the Northern Irish DUP, and May dismisses calls from the opposition for her to stand down. Brexit, national security and social care were prominent issues at the election.
June 8 - Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann, Nicaraguan diplomat, politician and priest who served as the President of the United Nations General Assembly from September 2008 to September 2009, dies at age 84.
June 8 - Glenne Headly, American actress known for her roles in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Dick Tracy, and Mr. Holland's Opus, dies at age 62 due to complications from a pulmonary embolism.
June 9 – Adam West, American actor known for his role as Batman in the 1960s ABC series of the same name, dies at age 88 from leukemia.
June 10 – The 2017 World Expo is opened in Astana, Kazakhstan.
June 12 – American student Otto Warmbier returns home in a coma after spending 17 months in a North Korean prison and dies a week later.
June 12 – Charles P. Thacker, American computer designer who worked on the Xerox Alto, which is the first computer that used a mouse-driven Graphical User Interface, dies at age 74 of complications from esophageal cancer.
June 13 - Anita Pallenberg, Italian actress who was the romantic partner of Brian Jones and Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones, dies at age 75 due to complications from hepatitis C.
June 14 – A fire at Grenfell Tower in London kills 71 people.
June 16 - John G. Avildsen, American film director known for Rocky, The Karate Kid, Lean on Me, and Rocky V, dies at age 81 from pancreatic cancer.
June 16 - Stephen Furst, American actor who starred in National Lampoon's Animal House and National Lampoon's Class Reunion, dies at age 63 from complications related to Diabetes mellitus.
June 16 - Helmut Kohl, Chancellor of Germany, dies at age 87.
June 17 – Baldwin Lonsdale, 8th President of Vanuatu and an Anglican priest, dies at age 68 of a heart attack.
June 18 – Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) fire six surface-to-surface mid-range ballistic missile from domestic bases targeting ISIL forces in the Syrian Deir ez-Zor Governorate in response to the terrorist attacks in Tehran earlier that month.
June 19 - Zoltan Sarosy, Hungarian-born Canadian chess master and supercentenarian, who was the oldest living man and fourth oldest living person in Canada, dies at age 110.
June 21 – The Great Mosque of al-Nuri in Mosul, Iraq, is destroyed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
June 22 – Quett Masire, 2nd President of Botswana, dies at age 91 following surgery.
June 25 – The World Health Organization estimates that Yemen has over 200,000 cases of cholera.
June 26 – Habib Thiam, 3rd Prime Minister of Senegal, dies at age 84.
June 27 – A series of cyberattacks using the Petya malware begins, affecting organizations in Ukraine.
June 27 - Michael Bond, English author, best known for a series of fictional stories for children, featuring the character of Paddington Bear, dies at age 91.
June 27 - Michael Nyqvist, Swedish actor known for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, and John Wick, dies at age 56 from lung cancer.
June 30 - Darrall Imhoff, American basketball player who spent twelve seasons in the NBA, playing for six teams, dies at age 78 of a heart attack.  Imhoff was the starting center for the New York Knicks, and played for 20 minutes in the game when Wilt Chamberlain scored an NBA personal record of 100 points.
June 30 - Simone Veil, French lawyer and politician who served as President of the European Parliament and member of the Constitutional Council of France, dies at age 89.  She was a survivor from the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp where she lost part of her family during the Holocaust; and was best known for pushing forward the law legalizing abortion in France in 1975.
July 4 – Russia and China urge North Korea to halt its missile and nuclear programs after it successfully tested its first intercontinental ballistic missile.
July 7 – The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons is voted for by 122 of the 193 UN member states.  69 nations did not vote, among them all of the nuclear weapon states and all NATO members except the Netherlands which voted against the treaty.
July 8 - Nelsan Ellis, American actor known for The Soloist, The Help, and The Butler, dies at age 39 due to complications from heart failure.
July 10 – Iraqi Civil War: Mosul is declared fully liberated from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
July 13 - Liu Xiaobo, Chinese human rights activist and Nobel laureate, dies at age 61 from liver cancer.
July 14 - Pedro Richter Prada, 115th Prime Minister of Peru, dies at age 96.
July 15 – Martin Landau, American actor known for Cleopatra, The Greatest Story Ever Told, Treasure Island, and Ed Wood, dies at age 89 from hypovolemic shock with metabolic acidosis, intra-abdominal hemorrhage and diffuse atherosclerotic vascular disease.
July 16 – George A. Romero, American-Canadian film director known for Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, and The Silence of the Lambs, dies at age 77 from lung cancer.
July 20 - Chester Bennington, American musician best known as the lead singer for the rock band Linkin Park, and also served as the frontman for Dead by Sunrise and Stone Temple Pilots, dies at age 41 from suicide by hanging.
July 21 - John Heard, American actor known for Big, Home Alone, Awakenings, and Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, dies at age 71 of a heart attack.
July 21 - Hrvoje Šarinić, 4th Prime Minister of Croatia, dies at age 82.
July 23 - John Kundla, the first head coach for the Minneapolis Lakers of the NBA, dies at age 101.
July 26 - June Foray, American voice actress known for Cinderella, Peter Pan, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, and Problem Child 2, dies at age 99 from cardiac arrest.
July 26 - Patti Deutsch, American voice actress and comedian known for Mr. Mom, Jetsons: The Movie, Tarzan, and The Emperor's New Groove, dies at age 73 from cancer.
July 27 – Sam Shepard, American playwright and actor known for The Right Stuff, Steel Magnolias, The Pelican Brief, and Black Hawk Down, dies at age 73 due to complications from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
July 29 – Redha Malek, 8th Prime Minister of Algeria who pursued a hardline anti-Islamist policy and successfully negotiated debt relief with the International Monetary Fund, dies at age 85 after a long illness.
July 30 – Anton Vratuša, 8th Prime Minister of Slovenia, dies at age 102.
July 31 - Jeanne Moreau, French actress known for Nikita, Ever After, Les Miserables, and Love Actually, dies at age 89.
August 2 – Jim Marrs, American journalist and conspiracy theorist whose book Crossfire was a source for Oliver Stone's film JFK, dies at age 73 from a heart attack.
August 3 - Robert Hardy, English actor known for Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, The 10th Kingdom, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, dies at age 91.
August 5 – The UN Security Council unanimously approves fresh sanctions on North Korean trade and investment.
August 6 - Ernst Zündel, German publisher and pamphleteer known for promoting Holocaust denial, dies at age 78 from a heart attack.
August 10 – Ruth Pfau, German-Pakistani nun and physician known as “Pakistan's Mother Teresa”, dies at age 87 due to respiratory problems.
August 17 – The first observation of a collision of two neutron stars (GW170817) is hailed as a breakthrough in multi-messenger astronomy when both gravitational and electromagnetic waves from the event are detected.  Data from the event provided confirmatory evidence for the r-process theory of the origin of heavy elements like gold.
August 18 – Bruce Forsyth, British actor and game show host recognized by the Guinness World Records as having the longest television career for a male entertainer, dies at age 89 of bronchial pneumonia.  He also hosted the UK version of The Price Is Right.
August 19 - Brian Aldiss, British science fiction writer and editor who wrote the short story "Super-Toys Last All Summer Long", the basis for the Stanley Kubrick-developed Steven Spielberg film A.I. Artificial Intelligence, dies at age 92.
August 19 - Dick Gregory, American comedian and activist who became the first black comedian to successfully cross over to white audiences, appearing on television and putting out comedy record albums, dies at age 84 from heart failure.
August 20 - Jerry Lewis, American actor and comedian known for At War with the Army, The Nutty Professor, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, and Curious George 2: Follow That Monkey!, dies at age 91 from cardiovascular disease.
August 21 – A total solar eclipse (nicknamed "The Great American Eclipse") is visible within a band across the entire contiguous United States of America, passing from the Pacific to the Atlantic coasts.
August 21 - Bajram Rexhepi, 1st Prime Minister of Kosovo, dies at age 63.
August 22 - Tony deBrum, Marshallese politician and climate change activist who helped organize the Marshall Islands' independence from the United States, dies at age 72.
August 24 – Jay Thomas, American actor known for Mork & Mindy, The Love Boat, Cheers, and The Golden Girls, dies at age 69 from throat cancer.
August 25 – ongoing – A military operation targeting Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar "seems a textbook example of ethnic cleansing" according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.
August 25–30 – Hurricane Harvey strikes the United States as a Category 4 hurricane, causing catastrophic damage to the Houston metropolitan area, mostly due to record-breaking floods. At least 90 deaths are recorded, and total damage reaches $198.6 billion, making Harvey the costliest natural disaster in United States history.
August 26 - Tobe Hooper, American film director known for The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Poltergeist, and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, dies at age 74 from a terminal illness.
August 28 - Tsutomu Hata, 51st Prime Minister of Japan, dies at age 82.
August 31 – The birth of Prince Gabriel, Duke of Dalarna, the second child of Prince Carl Philip and Princess Sofia of Sweden.
August 31 – Richard Anderson, American actor known for The Six Million Dollar Man, The Bionic Woman, and Gettysburg, dies at age 91 from natural causes.
September 1 – Russian President Vladimir Putin expels 755 diplomats in response to United States sanctions.
September 3 – North Korea conducts its sixth and most powerful nuclear test.
September 3 - Walter Becker, American musician best known as the co-founder, guitarist, bassist, and co-songwriter of Steely Dan, dies at age 67 of esophageal cancer.
September 6 - Kate Millett, American feminist writer who attended Oxford University and was the first American woman to be awarded a degree with first-class honors after studying at St Hilda's College, dies at age 82 from cardiac arrest.  She has been described as "a seminal influence on second-wave feminism", and is best known for her book Sexual Politics.
September 6–10 – The Caribbean and United States are struck by Hurricane Irma, a Category 5 hurricane that is the strongest hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic basin outside the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico.  The storm causes at least 134 deaths and at least $63 billion in damage.
September 7 – Türkân Akyol, Turkish politician, physician and academic, dies at age 88.  She was the first Turkish female government minister, and the first female university rector in Turkey.
September 8 - Jerry Pournelle, American author and journalist, and President of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, dies at age 84.  He is recognized as the first author to have written a published book contribution using a word processor on a personal computer, in 1977.
September 10 - Len Wein, American comic book writer known for co-creating DC Comics' Swamp Thing and Marvel Comics' Wolverine, and for helping revive the Marvel superhero team the X-Men (including the co-creation of Nightcrawler, Storm, and Colossus), dies at age 69.
September 11 - Tuanku Abdul Halim, Malaysian sultan, 5th & 14th Yang di-Pertuan Agong (monarch and head of state of Malaysia), dies at age 89.  He was the second longest-reigning monarch in the world after Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom.
September 13 – The International Olympic Committee awards Paris and Los Angeles the right to host the 2024 and 2028 Summer Olympics, respectively.
September 13 – Frank Vincent, American actor known for The Sopranos, Raging Bull, Goodfellas, and Casino, dies at age 80 after open heart surgery following a heart attack.
September 15 – Cassini–Huygens ends its 13-year mission by plunging into Saturn, becoming the first spacecraft to enter the planet's atmosphere.
September 15 - Harry Dean Stanton, American actor known for The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Cool Hand Luke, The Godfather Part II, and Up in Smoke, dies at age 91.
September 15 - Violet Brown, Jamaican supercentenarian who was the oldest verified living person in the world for five months, and the fifth-oldest person in recorded history, dies at age 117 from dehydration and cardiac arrhythmia.  Her son Harland Fairweather lived to be 97 and is believed to have been the oldest person with a living parent.
September 19 - Jake LaMotta, American boxer nicknamed "The Raging Bull", dies at age 95 from complications of pneumonia.  He was portrayed by Robert De Niro in the 1980 film Raging Bull.
September 19 – Eleven days after another powerful earthquake, and on the 32nd anniversary of the deadly 1985 Mexico City earthquake, a Mw 7.1 earthquake strikes central Mexico, killing more than 350, leaving up to 6,000 injured and thousands more homeless.
September 19–20 – Just two weeks after Hurricane Irma struck the Caribbean, Hurricane Maria strikes similar areas, making landfall on Dominica as a Category 5 hurricane, and Puerto Rico as a Category 4 hurricane. Maria caused at least 94 deaths and damages estimated in excess of $103 billion.
September 21 – Liliane Bettencourt, French businesswoman who was one of the principal shareholders of L'Oréal, dies at age 94.  At the time of her death, she was the richest woman in the world (and the 14th richest person), with a net worth of $44.3 billion.  Her only daughter and heiress is Françoise Bettencourt Meyers.
September 25 – Iraqi Kurdistan votes in a referendum to become an independent state, in defiance of Iraq; by October 15, the crisis escalates into a short-lived armed conflict over disputed territories.
September 26 – Barry Dennen, American actor known for Fiddler on the Roof, Jesus Christ Superstar, The Shining, and Superman III, dies at age 79 from a traumatic brain injury due to a fall.
September 27 - Hugh Hefner, American magazine publisher, founder of Playboy and editor-in-chief of the magazine, dies at age 91 from cardiac arrest, respiratory failure, sepsis and an E. coli infection.
September 27 - Anne Jeffreys, American actress and singer known for Bonanza, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Battlestar Galactica, and General Hospital, dies at age 94.
September 30 - Monty Hall, Canadian-American television host of Let's Make a Deal, dies at age 96 from heart failure.
October 1 – Fifty-eight people are killed and 546 injured when Stephen Paddock opens fire on a crowd in Las Vegas, surpassing the 2016 Orlando nightclub shooting as the deadliest mass shooting perpetrated by a lone gunman in U.S. history.
October 2 - Tom Petty, American musician and lead singer of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, dies at age 66 from cardiac arrest.  He sold more than 80 million records worldwide, making him one of the best-selling music artists of all time.
October 3 - Jalal Talabani, an Iraqi Kurdish politician who served as President of Iraq from 2006 to 2014, dies at age 83 from cerebral hemorrhage.
October 4 – Liam Cosgrave, 6th Taoiseach of Ireland (prime minister, chief executive and head of government), dies at age 97 after a long illness.
October 5 - Eberhard van der Laan, Mayor of Amsterdam, dies at age 62 from metastatic lung cancer.
October 9 - Armando Calderón Sol, 41st President of El Salvador, dies at age 69 of lung cancer.
October 11 – Clifford Husbands, 6th Governor-General of Barbados, dies at age 91 from a heart attack.
October 12 – The United States announces its decision to withdraw from UNESCO, and is immediately followed by Israel.
October 13 - William Lombardy, American chess grandmaster and Catholic priest, dies at age 79 from a heart attack.
October 13 - Albert Zafy, 3rd President of Madagascar, dies at age 90.
October 14 – A massive blast caused by a truck bombing in Mogadishu, Somalia kills at least 512 people and injures 316 others.
October 16 – Roy Dotrice, British actor who appeared in Amadeus as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's father, Leopold, dies at age 94. He also narrated the first five books in George R. R. Martin's fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire.
October 17 – Syrian Civil War: Raqqa is declared fully liberated from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
October 17 - Danielle Darrieux, French actress and singer who appeared in more than 110 films, dies at age 100 due to complications from a fall.  She was one of France's great movie stars and her eight-decade career was among the longest in film history.
October 22 - Scott Putesky, American musician known as Daisy Berkowitz, who was the lead guitarist and co-founder of the industrial metal band Marilyn Manson, dies at age 49 due to stage-four colon cancer.  His stage name was created by combining Daisy Duke from Dukes of Hazzard, with the serial killer David Berkowitz. He left the band in 1996, halfway through the recording of Antichrist Superstar.
October 23 - Paul J. Weitz, American astronaut who flew into space twice, dies at age 85 from myelodysplastic syndrome.  He was a member of the three-man crew who flew on Skylab 2, the first manned Skylab mission. He was also Commander of the STS-6 mission, the first of the Space Shuttle Challenger flights.
October 24 - Fats Domino, American singer of Louisiana Creole descent, dies at age 89 from natural causes.  One of the pioneers of rock and roll music, Domino sold more than 65 million records.  Between 1955 and 1960, he had eleven Top 10 hits.
October 25 – At the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, Xi Jinping assumes his second term as General Secretary (China's paramount leader), and the political theory Xi Jinping Thought is written into the party's constitution.
October 27 – Catalonia declares independence from Spain, but the Catalan Republic is not recognized by the Spanish government or any other sovereign nation.
October 29 - Ninian Stephen, 20th Governor-General of Australia and a Justice of the High Court of Australia, dies at age 94.
October 29 - Tony Madigan, Australian boxer and rugby union player, dies at age 87.  He competed in boxing at the 1952, 1956 and 1960 Olympics and finished in fifth, fifth and third place, respectively. In 1960 Madigan lost his semifinal to Muhammad Ali.
November 2 – A new species of orangutan is identified in Indonesia, becoming the third known species of orangutan as well as the first great ape to be described for almost a century.
November 2 – Aboubacar Somparé, Guinean politician who was President of the National Assembly of Guinea, dies at age 73.
November 3 – Syrian Civil War: both Deir ez-Zor in Syria and Al-Qa'im in Iraq are declared liberated from ISIL on the same day.
November 3 – Abdur Rahman Biswas, 11th President of Bangladesh, dies at age 91 from respiratory problems.
November 5 – The German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung publishes 13.4 million documents leaked from the offshore law firm Appleby, along with business registries in 19 tax jurisdictions that reveal offshore financial activities on behalf of politicians, celebrities, corporate giants and business leaders. The newspaper shared the documents with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and asked it to lead the investigation.
November 6 - Richard F. Gordon, Jr., American astronaut and one of only 24 people to have flown to the Moon, dies at age 88.
November 9 - John Hillerman, American actor known for Blazing Saddles, Chinatown, A Very Brady Sequel, and Magnum, P.I., dies at age 84 of cardiovascular disease.
November 9 - Shyla Stylez, Canadian pornographic actress, dies at age 35.  In 2010, she was named by Maxim as one of the 12 top female stars in porn.
November 11 - Kirti Nidhi Bista, 25th Prime Minister of Nepal, dies at age 90 from a long-term cancer.
November 12 – A magnitude 7.3 earthquake strikes the border region between Iraq and Iran leaving at least 530 dead and over 70,000 homeless.
November 15 – Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe is placed under house arrest, as the military take control of the country.  He resigns six days later, after 37 years of rule.
November 15 – A Leonardo da Vinci painting, Salvator Mundi, sells for $450 million at Christie's in New York, a new record price for any work of art.
November 17 – Salvatore Riina, Italian mobster and chief of the Sicilian Mafia, known for a ruthless murder campaign that reached a peak in the early 1990s, dies at age 87 while in a medically-induced coma after two surgeries.
November 18 - José Manuel Maza, Attorney General of Spain, dies at age 66 from a kidney infection.
November 18 - Youssouf Ouédraogo, 6th Prime Minister of Burkina Faso, dies at age 64.
November 18 - Malcolm Young, Australian guitarist best known as a co-founder, rhythm guitarist, backing vocalist and songwriter for the hard rock band AC/DC, dies at age 64.  His elder brother George died a few weeks before him, on October 22.
November 19 - Charles Manson, American criminal and cult leader, dies at age 83 from cardiac arrest and respiratory failure amid colon cancer.  Manson's followers committed a series of nine murders at four locations.
November 19 - Della Reese, an American jazz and gospel singer, actress, and ordained minister, dies at age 86.  Reese hosted her own talk show, Della, which ran for 197 episodes.  She achieved continuing success in the television religious supernatural drama Touched by an Angel, in which Reese played the leading role of Tess.
November 20 – Nature publishes an article recognizing the high velocity asteroid ʻOumuamua as originating from outside the Solar System i.e. the first known interstellar object.
November 21 – David Cassidy, American singer and actor known for his role as Keith Partridge in the 1970s musical-sitcom The Partridge Family, dies at age 67 from liver failure.
November 22 – The International Court of Justice finds Ratko Mladić guilty of genocide committed in Srebrenica during the 1990s Bosnian War, the worst massacre in Europe since World War II. He is sentenced to life in prison.
November 24 – A mosque attack in Sinai, Egypt kills 305 worshippers and leaves hundreds more wounded.
November 25 – Rance Howard, American actor known for The Music Man, Cool Hand Luke, Chinatown, and Grand Theft Auto, dies at age 89 from heart failure spurred on by a West Nile virus infection.  He was the father of actor and filmmaker Ron Howard and grandfather of actress Bryce Dallas Howard.
November 29 - Slobodan Praljak, Croatian general, dies at age 72 from suicide by poisoning in a courtroom.  Praljak was found guilty of committing violations of the laws of war, crimes against humanity and breaches of the Geneva Conventions during the Croat–Bosniak War by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.
November 30 - Jim Nabors, American actor known for The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, The Andy Griffith Show, and Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., dies at age 87.
December 2 – Nava Semel, Israeli author and playwright, dies at age 63.  Her short story collection Kova Zekhukhit (Hat of Glass) was the first work of fiction published in Israel to address the topic of the "Second Generation" - children of Holocaust survivors.
December 3 – John B. Anderson, American politician, dies at age 95 of natural causes.  He was a Congressman and presidential candidate from Illinois. As a member of the Republican Party, he represented Illinois's 16th congressional district from 1961 through 1981. In 1980, he ran an independent campaign for president, taking 6.6% of the popular vote.
December 4 - Ali Abdullah Saleh, 1st President of Yemen, dies at age 70 when he was killed by a Houthi sniper while attempting to flee the capital city of Sana'a amidst the battle.  Long considered a moderate president, he oversaw his country's development of deeper ties with Western powers, especially the United States, in its fight against terrorism. In 2011, in wake of the "Arab Spring" that spread across Yemen, Saleh's time in office became more and more untenable, until eventually he was ousted in 2012.
December 4 - Manuel Marín, former President of the Congress of Deputies of Spain, dies at age 68 from lung cancer.
December 4 - Christine Keeler, English model and topless showgirl, dies at age 75 from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
December 5 – Russia is banned from the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang by the International Olympic Committee, following an investigation into state-sponsored doping.
December 5 - August Ames, Canadian pornographic actress, dies at age 23 from suicide by hanging.  She was cyber bullied for refusing to do a film with a man who had done gay porn.
December 5 - Johnny Hallyday, French singer who sold more than 110 million records worldwide, mainly in the French-speaking world, making him one of the best-selling artists in France and in the world, dies at age 74 from lung cancer.
December 5 - Michael I, the last King of Romania, dies at age 96.
December 6 – The United States officially recognizes Jerusalem as Israel's capital.
December 9 – The Iraqi military announces that it has "fully liberated" all of Iraq's territory from "ISIS terrorist gangs" and retaken full control of the Iraqi-Syrian border.
December 12 – Ed Lee, 43rd Mayor of San Francisco, and the first Asian American to hold the office, dies at age 65 after suffering cardiac arrest.
December 14 – The Walt Disney Company announces that it will acquire most of 21st Century Fox, including the 20th Century Fox film studio, for $66 billion.
December 14 – Yurizan Beltran, American pornographic actress, dies at age 31 from a prescription drug overdose.
December 20 – Bernard Francis Law, American cardinal, dies at age 86 from a long illness.  Law was the Archbishop of Boston from 1984 until his resignation in 2002, in response to the Roman Catholic Church sex abuse scandal in his archdiocese. Church documents showed he had extensive knowledge of sexual abuse committed by dozens of Catholic priests within his archdiocese and had failed to remove them from the ministry.  One priest alone was alleged to have raped or molested 130 children over decades, while Law and other local officials moved him among churches rather than going to the authorities.  Two years after Law resigned from his position in Boston, Pope John Paul II appointed him Archpriest of the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome in 2004. He resigned from this position upon reaching the age of 80 in 2011.
December 21 – Bruce McCandless II, American astronaut, dies at age 80.  In 1984, during the first of his two Space Shuttle missions, he made the first untethered free flight by using the Manned Maneuvering Unit.
December 22 – The UN Security Council votes 15–0 in favor of additional sanctions on North Korea, including measures to slash the country's petroleum imports by up to 90%.
December 24 – Guatemala follows in the footsteps of the United States by announcing that they will also move their Israeli embassy to Jerusalem, followed by Honduras and Panama two days later.
December 28 - Sue Grafton, American author known for her Alphabet Series of detective novels, dies at age 77 after a two-year battle with cancer.  Her final book was "Y" Is for Yesterday.
December 28 - Rose Marie, American actress known for Gunsmoke, The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Hollywood Squares, and My Three Sons, dies at age 94 of natural causes.
December 29 – Carmen Franco, 1st Duchess of Franco, Spanish noble and the only child of Dictator General Francisco Franco, dies at age 91 from cancer.
December 31 - Starting date of Valletta as European Capital of Culture.

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