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People Who Died in the Year 2017
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January
Om Puri
(actor) -- Dead. Heart attack. Died January
6, 2017. Born October 18, 1950. Very
busy Indian actor who appeared in hundreds of movies including
Ghandi and The Hundred Foot Journey.
Had at least four movies due out after his death.
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Buddy Greco
(singer/pianist) -- Dead. Died January 10,
2017. Born August 14, 1926. Went
to sing with Benny Goodman's band when he was 16, he later performed
at lot in Vegas and on TV; professional performer for 80 years, had a
hit with "The Lady Is a Tramp" in 1960.
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Clare Hollingworth
(journalist) -- Dead. Died January 10, 2017.
Born October 10, 1911. First
correspondent to tell the world of the Nazi invasion of Poland which
launched World War II, covered the war from Romania and North Africa,
helped refugees flee to Britain,
was in Jerusalem in 1946 and near the King David Hotel when it was
blown up, lived in Hong Kong from 1981 until her death.
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Peter Blatty
(writer) -- Dead. Multiple myeloma. Died
January 12, 2017. Born January 7, 1928. Before
he wrote the best-selling The Exorcist, he collaborated
on comedy movies like A Shot in the Dark.
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Dick Gautier
(actor/cartoon voice) -- Dead. Died January
13, 2017. Born October 31, 1931. Original Birdie on Broadway in
Bye Bye Birdie, TV actor in the '60s (especially Hymie,
the robot in Get Smart), many cartoon voices in the '80s
(especially Sepentor in G. I. Joe), ex-husband of Barbara Stuart, charicaturist.
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Eugene Cernan
(astronaut/aerospace consultant) -- Dead.
Died January 16, 2017. Born March 14, 1934.
The last human to walk on the moon in December 1972.
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Roberta Peters
(opera singer) -- Dead. Died January 18, 2017. Born
May 4, 1930.
Debuted at the Metropolitan Opera at 20 as she was the understudy for Zerlina in Don
Giovanni when the original singer got sick, she appeared on The
Ed Sullivan Show 65 times, sang in Israel just before the Six Day
War in 1967 with Richard Tucker.
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Miguel Ferrer
(actor/director) -- Dead. Died January 19,
2017. Born February 7, 1955. Traffic, Twin Peaks,
Crossing Jordan, NCIS: Los Angeles, son of Jose Ferrer and Rosemary Clooney.
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Mary Tyler Moore
(actress) -- Dead. Died January 25, 2017.
Born December 29, 1936. Emmy-winning actress who starred in great
shows in the '60s (The Dick Van Dyke Show) and '70s (The Mary Tyler Moore Show), activist for diabetics everywhere, married to TV exec Grant Tinker in the '60s & '70s.
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Mike Connors
(actor) -- Dead. Died January 26, 2017.
Born August 15, 1925. Mannix, born Krekor llevado Ohanian,
served in WWII, had an active TV career for 45 years, married to
the same woman for 67 years.
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Barbara Hale
(actress) -- Dead. Died January 26, 2017.
Born April 18, 1921. Best-known as Della Street in Perry
Mason, and William Katt's mother.
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John Hurt
(actor) -- Dead. Pancreatic cancer. Died
January 27, 2017.
Born January 22, 1940. Died horrifically in Alien and I, Claudius, unpleasantly in
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February
Professor Irwin Corey
(ditsy comic) -- Dead. Dead February 6, 2017.
Born July 29, 1914. "The World's Foremost Authority..."
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Richard Hatch
(actor) -- Dead. Pancreatic cancer. Died
February 7, 2017. Born May 21 1945. Had
a busy 45-year professional acting career but was always best-known for
Battlestar Galactica; played Apollo
in the original, Zarek in
the reboot and co-wrote several Galactica books.
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March
April
Emma Morano
(last surivor of people born in the 1800s) -- Dead. Died April 15, 2017.
Born November 29, 1899. Former factory worker and kitchen worker who
was the last well-documented person born in the 1800s, celebrated her 117th birthday. She credited her longevity to eating 2 raw eggs a day (one raw and one cooked) and
drinking homemade brandy. She had a sibling who lived to be 102 so genes mattered too.
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