Famous people died on January 17

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Gaines Adams 7

American Athlete

Charlie Bell 5

Australian Businessman

Bobby Fischer 90

American Celebrity

Jonathan Raban 25

British Author

Denis Law 2

Scottish Athlete

Gary Gilmore 4

American Murderer

Sam Savage 2

Novelist

Erich Segal 27

American Novelist

Stephen Levine 9

American Poet

Barbara Jordan 51

American Politician

Sandra Seacat 10

Mary Oliver 132

American Poet

William Jackson 6

American Director

Gregory Corso 15

American Poet

Alec Panchen 1

British Paleontologist

Jules Feiffer 7

American Cartoonist

Patrice Lumumba 12

Politician

Art Buchwald 20

American Humorist

Camilo Jose Cela 4

Spanish Writer

Barney Ross 8

American Athlete

Varlam Shalamov 1

Soviet Writer

Clyde Tombaugh 28

American Scientist

T. H. White 48

English Author

Betty Smith 8

American Novelist

Ralph Thomas Walker 3

American Architect

Ernest Benn 1

British Publisher

Leonard Eugene Dickson 1

American Mathematician

Juliette Gordon Low 8

American Leader

Louis Comfort Tiffany 3

American Artist

Frederic William Henry Myers 1

English Poet

Rutherford B. Hayes 106

American President

Francis Galton 15

English Polymath

George Bancroft 30

American Historian

George Horne 18

English Writer

Yosa Buson 3

Poet

John Ray 21

English Environmentalist

Al-Farabi 1

Philosopher

See also: Famous people born on January 17