2017

This article is about the year. For the number, see 2017 (number) § Selected numbers in the range 2001–2999.

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2017 (MMXVII) is the current year, and is a common year starting on Sunday (dominical letter A) of the Gregorian calendar, the 2017th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 17th year of the 3rd millennium, the 17th year of the 21st century, and the 8th year of the 2010s decade.

2017 by topic:

Arts

Architecture – Comics – Film – Home video – Literature (Poetry) – Music (Country, Metal, UK) – Radio – Television – Video gaming

Politics

Elections – Int'l leaders – Sovereign states Sovereign state leaders – Territorial governors

Science and technology

Archaeology – Aviation – Birding/Ornithology – Meteorology – Palaeontology – Rail transport – Spaceflight

Sports

Association football (soccer) – Athletics (track and field) – Badminton – Baseball – Basketball – Boxing – Cricket – Golf – Horse racing – Ice hockey – Motorsport – Road cycling – Rugby league – Rugby union – Table tennis – Tennis – Volleyball

By place

Afghanistan – Algeria – Antarctica – Argentina – Armenia – Australia – Austria – Azerbaijan – Bangladesh – Belgium – Brazil – Canada – Chile – China – Costa Rica – Croatia – Cuba – Denmark – El Salvador – Egypt – Estonia – Ethiopia – European Union – Finland – France – Georgia – Germany – Ghana – Greece – Hungary – Iceland – India – Indonesia – Iraq – Iran – Ireland – Israel – Italy – Japan – Kenya – Latvia – Lithuania – Luxembourg – Malaysia – Mexico – Moldova – Netherlands – New Zealand – Norway – Pakistan – Palestinian territories – Philippines – Poland – Romania – Russia – Rwanda – Serbia – Singapore – South Africa – South Korea – Spain – Sri Lanka – Sweden – Taiwan – Thailand – Turkey – United Arab Emirates – United Kingdom – United States – Venezuela – Vietnam

Other topics

Awards – Law – Religious leaders

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Works and introductions categories

Works – Introductions Works entering the public domain

2017 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	2017 MMXVII
Ab urbe condita	2770
Armenian calendar	1466 ԹՎ ՌՆԿԶ
Assyrian calendar	6767
Bahá'í calendar	173–174
Bengali calendar	1424
Berber calendar	2967
British Regnal year	65 Eliz. 2 – 66 Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar	2561
Burmese calendar	1379
Byzantine calendar	7525–7526
Chinese calendar	丙申年 (Fire Monkey) 4713 or 4653     — to — 丁酉年 (Fire Rooster) 4714 or 4654
Coptic calendar	1733–1734
Discordian calendar	3183
Ethiopian calendar	2009–2010
Hebrew calendar	5777–5778
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	2073–2074
- Shaka Samvat	1938–1939
- Kali Yuga	5117–5118
Holocene calendar	12017
Igbo calendar	1017–1018
Iranian calendar	1395–1396
Islamic calendar	1438–1439
Japanese calendar	Heisei 29 (平成２９年)
Javanese calendar	1950–1951
Juche calendar	106
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar	4350
Minguo calendar	ROC 106 民國106年
Nanakshahi calendar	549
Thai solar calendar	2560
Unix time	1483228800 – 1514764799

2017 has been designated as:

• International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development by the United Nations General Assembly.

Events

January

• January 19 – ECOWAS forces, including troops from Senegal, Ghana, and Nigeria, intervene in the Gambia's political crisis to force longtime President Yahya Jammeh to step down after losing the December 2016 elections to Adama Barrow.
• January 21 – Millions of people worldwide join the Women's March in response to the inauguration of Donald Trump. 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 26 – Scientists at Harvard University report the first creation of metallic hydrogen in a laboratory.
• January 27 – Worldwide controversy results after United States president Donald Trump signs an executive order restricting travel and immigration from Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen.

February

• February 11 – North Korea prompts international condemnation by test firing a ballistic missile across the Sea of Japan.

March

• March 10
  • Park Geun-hye is removed as President of South Korea by the Constitutional Court.
  • 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.

Predicted and scheduled events

• June 10 – The 2017 World Expo will open in Astana, Kazakhstan.
• September 15 – The spacecraft Cassini-Huygens, after having studied Saturn for 13 years, will be disposed of by plunging into Saturn's atmosphere.
• December – The ESA's CHEOPS exoplanet-hunting satellite will be launched, the first in the agency's long-term Cosmic Vision programme.
• The European Extreme Light Infrastructure project intends to complete its nuclear physics research hub, housing the world's most powerful laser in Romania in 2017.
• The United States plans to deploy additional missile interceptors on its Pacific coast by 2017 to defend against North Korean ballistic missiles.
• International scientists intend to complete the world's first fully synthetic yeast, intended for use in the production of medicines and biofuels, by 2017.

Deaths

Main article: Deaths in 2017

Further information: Category:2017 deaths

January

Mário Soares

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

Roman Herzog

John Hurt

• January 1
  • Tony Atkinson, British economist (b. 1944)
  • Derek Parfit, British philosopher (b. 1942)
• January 2
  • John Berger, British art critic, novelist and painter (b. 1926)
  • Viktor Tsaryov, Russian footballer (b. 1931)
• January 3 – Igor Volk, Ukrainian-born Russian cosmonaut (b. 1937)
• January 4
  • Ezio Pascutti, Italian footballer (b. 1937)
  • Georges Prêtre, French conductor (b. 1924)
  • Milt Schmidt, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1918)
• January 6
  • Octavio Lepage, Venezuelan politician, former Acting President of Venezuela (b. 1923)
  • Bayezid Osman, Turkish royalty (b. 1924)
  • Om Puri, Indian actor (b. 1950)
• January 7
  • Nat Hentoff, American music critic and political commentator (b. 1925)
  • Mário Soares, 17th President and 105th Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1924)
• January 8
  • Nicolai Gedda, Swedish operatic tenor (b. 1925)
  • Ruth Perry, Liberian politician, former Chairwoman of the Council of State (b. 1939)
  • Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, 4th President of Iran (b. 1934)
  • James Mancham, 1st President of Seychelles (b. 1939)
  • Peter Sarstedt, English singer-songwriter (b. 1941)
• January 9
  • Zygmunt Bauman, Polish-British sociologist (b. 1925)
  • Roberto Cabañas, Paraguayan footballer (b. 1961)
• January 10
  • Roman Herzog, 11th President of Germany (b. 1934)
  • Oliver Smithies, British-American Nobel geneticist (b. 1925)
• January 11 – François Van der Elst, Belgian footballer (b. 1954)
• January 12
  • Giulio Angioni, Italian writer and anthropologist (b. 1939)
  • William Peter Blatty, American writer and film director (b. 1928)
  • Graham Taylor, English footballer and manager (b. 1944)
• January 13
  • Gilberto Agustoni, Swiss cardinal (b. 1922)
  • Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon, British photographer (b. 1930)
• January 14 – Zhou Youguang, Chinese linguist (b. 1906)
• January 15 – Jimmy Snuka, Fijian-born American professional wrestler (b. 1943)
• January 16 – Eugene Cernan, American astronaut (b. 1934)
• January 18
  • Peter Abrahams, South African-born Jamaican writer (b. 1919)
  • Obed Dlamini, 6th Prime Minister of Swaziland (b. 1937)
• January 19 – Miguel Ferrer, American actor (b. 1955)
• January 20 – Carlos Alberto Silva, Brazilian football manager (b. 1939)
• January 21 – Veljo Tormis, Estonian composer (b. 1930)
• January 22 – Jaki Liebezeit, German drummer (b. 1938)
• January 23
  • Dmytro Grabovskyy, Ukrainian cyclist (b. 1985)
  • Gorden Kaye, English comic actor (b. 1941)
• January 25
  • John Hurt, British actor (b. 1940)
  • Mary Tyler Moore, American actress (b. 1936)
• January 26
  • Mike Connors, American actor (b. 1925)
  • Barbara Hale, American actress (b. 1922)
• January 27 – Emmanuelle Riva, French actress (b. 1927)
• January 28 – Geoff Nicholls, British keyboardist (b. 1944)
• January 31 – John Wetton, British musician (b. 1949)

February

Peter Mansfield

Mildred Dresselhaus

Bill Paxton

• February 1 – Étienne Tshisekedi, 18th Prime Minister of Zaire (b. 1932)
• February 2
  • Predrag Matvejević, Bosnian-Croatian writer and scholar (b. 1932)
  • Shunichiro Okano, Japanese football player and manager (b. 1931)
• February 3 – Dritëro Agolli, Albanian poet, writer and politician (b. 1931)
• February 6
  • Alec McCowen, English actor (b. 1925)
  • Roger Walkowiak, French road racing cyclist (b. 1927)
  • Joost van der Westhuizen, South African rugby union player (b. 1971)
  • Raymond Smullyan, American mathematician (b. 1919)
• February 7
  • Sotsha Dlamini, 5th Prime Minister of Swaziland (b. 1940)
  • Smail Hamdani, 11th Prime Minister of Algeria (b. 1930)
  • Richard Hatch, American actor, writer and producer (b. 1945)
  • Hans Rosling, Swedish medical doctor, academic, statistician and public speaker (b. 1948)
  • Tzvetan Todorov, Bulgarian-French philosopher and literary critic (b. 1939)
• February 8
  • Viktor Chanov, Soviet-born Ukrainian footballer (b. 1959)
  • Peter Mansfield, British Nobel physicist (b. 1933)
  • Steve Sumner, English-born New Zealand footballer (b. 1955)
• February 10
  • Piet Keizer, Dutch footballer (b. 1943)
  • Hal Moore, American lieutenant general and author (b. 1922)
• February 11
  • Fab Melo, Brazilian basketball player (b. 1990)
  • Jiro Taniguchi, Japanese manga artist (b. 1947)
• February 12 – Al Jarreau, American singer (b. 1940)
• February 13
  • Kim Jong-nam, half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un (b. 1971)
  • Seijun Suzuki, Japanese film director and screenwriter (b. 1923)
• February 16
  • Dick Bruna, Dutch writer, illustrator and graphic designer (b. 1927)
  • Bengt Gustavsson, Swedish footballer and manager (b. 1928)
  • George Steele, American professional wrestler and actor (b. 1937)
• February 17
  • Nadezhda Olizarenko, Russian-born Ukrainian Olympic track athlete (b. 1953)
  • Tom Regan, American philosopher (b. 1938)
• February 18
  • Omar Abdel-Rahman, Egyptian convicted terrorist (b. 1938)
  • Ivan Koloff, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1942)
  • Michael Ogio, Papua New Guinean politician (b. 1942)
• February 19
  • Larry Coryell, American jazz guitarist (b. 1943)
  • Igor Shafarevich, Ukrainian-born Russian mathematician (b. 1923)
  • Danuta Szaflarska, Polish screen and stage actress (b. 1915)
• February 20
  • Vitaly Churkin, Russian diplomat (b. 1952)
  • Mildred Dresselhaus, American physicist and educator (b. 1930)
• February 21
  • Kenneth Arrow, American Nobel economist (b. 1921)
  • Desmond Connell, Irish cardinal (b. 1926)
• February 25 – Bill Paxton, American actor (b. 1955)
• February 26
  • Ludvig Faddeev, Russian theoretical physicist and mathematician (b. 1934)
  • Eugene Garfield, American linguist (b. 1925)
• February 27 – Carlos Humberto Romero, 37th President of El Salvador (b. 1924)
• February 28 – Vladimir Petrov, Russian ice hockey player (b. 1947)

March

René Préval

John Surtees

• March 1 – Paula Fox, American writer (b. 1923)
• March 3
  • Raymond Kopa, French footballer (b. 1931)
  • René Préval, 2nd Prime Minister and 38th and 40th President of Haiti (b. 1943)
• March 5 – Kurt Moll, German operatic bass (b. 1938)
• March 7 – Hans Georg Dehmelt, German-born American Nobel physicist (b. 1922)
• March 8
  • George Andrew Olah, Hungarian-American Nobel chemist (b. 1927)
  • Joseph Nicolosi, American clinical psychologist (b. 1947)
• March 9 – Howard Hodgkin, British painter and printmaker (b. 1932)
• March 10
  • Aníbal Ruiz, Uruguayan football coach (b. 1942)
  • John Surtees, British motorcycle racer and driver (b. 1934)
  • Robert James Waller, American author (b. 1939)
• March 13
  • Patrick Nève, Belgian racing driver (b. 1949)
  • Richard, 6th Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg (b. 1934)
• March 16
  • James Cotton, American musician (b. 1935)
  • Torgny Lindgren, Swedish writer (b. 1938)

See also

• List of international years