A Year in Review: 2017

We said goodbye to a number of celebrities in 2017. Here are some of those that passed away:

 

Johnny Hallyday (15 June 1943 – 6 December 2017)

French pop star, known as the "French Elvis"

 

 

Christine Margaret Keeler (22 February 1942 – 4 December 2017)

English model, known for her role in the Profumo affair

 

 

Fats Domino (26 February 1928 - 24 October 2017)

American pianist, singer, and songwriter and one of the pioneers of Rock 'n Roll

 

 

Hugh Hefner (9 April 1926 - 27 September 2017)

American founder of Playboy magazine

 

 

Harry Dean Stanton (14 July 1926 - 15. September 2017)

American actor, star of Paris Texas

 

 

Jerry Lewis (16 March 1926 - 20 August 2017)

American comedian and actor, star of The Crazy Professor

 

 

Jeanne Moreau (23 January 1928 - 31 July 2017)

French actress, starred in Jules et Jim

 

 

Helmut Kohl (3 April 1930 - 16 June 2017)

Chancellor of Germany from 1982 to 1998, and the chairman of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) from 1973 to 1998

 

 

Anita Pallenberg (6 April 1942 - 13 June 2017)

Italian style icon and 'It' girl of the 1960s and 1970s who became famous through her connection with the Rolling Stones

 

Adam West (19 September 1928 - 9 June 2017)

American actor widely known for his role as Batman in the 1960s ABC series

 

 

Roger Moore ( 14 October 1927 - 23 May 2017)

British actor best known for having played Ian Fleming's British secret agent James Bond in seven feature films from 1973 to 1985

 

 

Jonathan Demme (22 February 1944 - 26 April 2017)

American film director, producer, and screenwriter, best known for directing the The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

 

 

Chuck Berry (18 October 1926 - 18 March 2017)

American pioneer of Rock 'n Roll

 

 

John Hurt (22 January 1940 - 25 January 2017)

British actor, best know for his role in David Lynch's The Elephant Man (1980) for which he won the Oscar for Best Actor

 

 

Mary Tyler Moore (29 December 1936 – 25 January 2017)

American actress, known for her roles in the television sitcoms in the 1960s and 1970s including The Mary Tyler Moore Show
 

2016 - an addendum

 

Debbie Reynolds ( 1 April 1932 - 28 December 2016)

American film star and mother of Carrie Fisher

 

Carrie Fisher (21 October 1956 - 27 December 2016)

American actress who became  famous for her role as Princess Leia in Star Wars.

 

Zsa Zsa Gabor (6 February 1917 - 18 December 2016 )

American-Hungarian actress, known for her role in Moulin Rouge (1952) and her many marriages.