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This is an excerpt from the list of notable people, who died in 2017, containing only people aged at least 99½ years old. Names are arranged in a sortable table.

Name Born Died Age Notability and reason of death
Violet Brown 10 March 1900 15 September 2017 117 years, 6 months and 5 days Jamaican supercentenarian, oldest person as of date of death. [1]
Emma Morano 29 November 1899 15 April 2017 117 years, 4 months and 17 days Italian supercentenarian, oldest person as of date of death and the last to have been born in the 1800s. Cite error: There are <ref> tags on this page without content in them (see the help page).
Ila Jones 21 August 1903 10 November 2017 114 years, 2 months and 20 days American supercentenarian. [2]
Yisrael Kristal 15 September 1903 11 August 2017 113 years, 10 months and 27 days Polish-Israeli supercentenarian, Holocaust survivor and world's oldest living man as of date of death. [3]
Clarence Matthews 1 May 1906 22 July 2017 111 years, 2 months and 21 days American supercentenarian, oldest living man in the US. [4]
Zoltan Sarosy 23 August 1906 19 June 2017 110 years, 9 months and 27 days Hungarian-born Canadian chess master. [5]
Helli Stehle 6 December 1907 27 August 2017 109 years, 8 months and 21 days Swiss actress and radio presenter, the oldest person in Switzerland at the date of death. [6]
Ruth Bancroft 2 September 1908 26 November 2017 109 years, 2 months and 24 days American landscape architect, creator of Ruth Bancroft Garden. [7]
Izabella Zielińska 10 December 1910 20 November 2017 106 years, 11 months and 10 days Polish pianist and educator. [8]
Zhang Tianfu 21 September 1910 4 June 2017 106 years, 8 months and 14 days Chinese agronomist and tea expert. [9]
Eric P. Newman 25 May 1911 15 November 2017 106 years, 5 months and 21 days American numismatist. [10]
Shigeaki Hinohara 4 October 1911 18 July 2017 105 years, 9 months and 14 days Japanese physician (St. Luke's International Hospital). [11]
William J. Ely 29 December 1911 20 September 2017 105 years, 8 months and 22 days American army officer, lieutenant general. [12]
Geoffrey Alexander Rowley-Conwy, 9th Baron Langford 8 March 1912 12 November 2017 105 years, 8 months and 4 days British Army officer and hereditary peer. [13]
Marian Cannon Schlesinger 13 September 1912 14 October 2017 105 years, 1 month and 1 day American artist and author. [14]
Fritz Hellwig 3 August 1912 22 July 2017 104 years, 11 months and 19 days German politician and bureaucrat, European Commissioner for Research, Technology and Information Distribution (1967–1970). [15]
Blanche Blackwell 9 December 1912 8 August 2017 104 years, 7 months and 30 days Jamaican socialite. [16]
Jean Murrell Capers 11 January 1913 17 July 2017 104 years, 6 months and 6 days American judge. [17]
Yitzhak Pundak 13 June 1913 27 August 2017 104 years, 2 months and 14 days Polish-born Israeli military officer (Major General) and diplomat. [18]
Ata Kandó 17 September 1913 14 September 2017 103 years, 11 months and 28 days Hungarian-born Dutch photographer. [19]
Karl Otto Götz 22 February 1914 19 August 2017 103 years, 5 months and 28 days German artist, filmmaker, and writer. [20]
Gretel Bergmann 12 April 1914 25 July 2017 103 years, 3 months and 13 days German-born American high jumper. [21]
Gisèle Casadesus 14 June 1914 24 September 2017 103 years, 3 months and 10 days French actress (La Tête en friche). [22]
Lucy Ozarin 18 August 1914 17 September 2017 103 years and 30 days American psychiatrist. [23]
Jeanne Robert 11 August 1914 7 September 2017 103 years and 27 days French WWII resistance member. [24]
Edward Allcard 31 October 1914 28 July 2017 102 years, 8 months and 28 days British architect and yachtsman. [25]
Jean Anglade [fr] 18 March 1915 22 November 2017 102 years, 8 months and 4 days French writer. [26]
Jeremy Hutchinson, Baron Hutchinson of Lullington 28 March 1915 13 November 2017 102 years, 7 months and 16 days British lawyer and life peer. [27]
Anton Vratuša 21 February 1915 30 July 2017 102 years, 5 months and 9 days Slovenian politician and diplomat, Prime Minister of Slovenia (1978–1980) and Yugoslavia's ambassador to the United Nations (1967–1969). [28]
Muhammad Ibrahim Joyo 13 August 1915 9 November 2017 102 years, 2 months and 27 days Pakistani writer and scholar. [29]
George W. BonDurant 9 August 1915 11 July 2017 101 years, 11 months and 2 days American preacher and academic administrator. [30]
Emilio D'Amore 26 November 1915 21 October 2017 101 years, 10 months and 25 days Italian politician, Deputy (1948–1958, 1963–1968). [31]
Gertrude Poe 21 September 1915 13 July 2017 101 years, 9 months and 22 days American journalist (Laurel Leader). [32]
Nelia Penman 6 November 1915 16 August 2017 101 years, 9 months and 10 days British barrister and political activist. [33]
José Bragato 12 October 1915 18 July 2017 101 years, 9 months and 6 days Italian-born Argentine cellist, composer, conductor and arranger (Teatro Colón). [34]
Augustine Hoey 22 December 1915 26 September 2017 101 years, 9 months and 4 days English priest. [35]
Virginia deGravelles 4 December 1915 31 August 2017 101 years, 8 months and 27 days American politician. [36]
Joseph W. Schmitt 2 January 1916 25 September 2017 101 years, 8 months and 23 days American spacesuit technician at NASA. [37]
Alan Sayers 6 December 1915 19 August 2017 101 years, 8 months and 13 days New Zealand athlete, journalist and writer, British Empire Games bronze medalist (1938). [38]
Arjay Miller 4 March 1916 3 November 2017 101 years, 7 months and 30 days American businessman, president of Ford Motor Company (1963–1968) and dean of Stanford Graduate School of Business (1969–1979). [39]
Max Day 21 December 1915 31 July 2017 101 years, 7 months and 10 days Australian ecologist and the oldest Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science as of date of death. [40]
Lyle Smith 17 March 1916 26 July 2017 101 years, 4 months and 9 days American football coach (Boise State Broncos). [41]
Gilbert Rouget [fr] 9 July 1916 8 November 2017 101 years, 3 months and 30 days French ethnomusicologist. [42]
Ramananda Sengupta 8 May 1916 23 August 2017 101 years, 3 months and 15 days Indian cinematographer. [43]
Theodor Bergmann 7 March 1916 12 June 2017 101 years, 3 months and 5 days German agronomist. [44]
Sam Beazley 29 March 1916 12 June 2017 101 years, 2 months and 14 days British actor (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Johnny English, Pride and Prejudice). [45]
John Kundla 3 July 1916 23 July 2017 101 years and 20 days American Hall of Fame basketball coach (Minneapolis Lakers, University of Minnesota). [46]
Harry Blamires 6 November 1916 21 November 2017 101 years and 15 days British Anglican theologian, literary critic, and novelist. [47]
Lady Ursula d'Abo 8 November 1916 2 November 2017 100 years, 11 months and 25 days English socialite and heiress who served as a maid of honour to Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother at the Coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. [48]
Franciszek Kornicki 18 December 1916 16 November 2017 100 years, 10 months and 29 days Polish fighter pilot. [49]
Lorna McDonald 10 August 1916 25 June 2017 100 years, 10 months and 15 days Australian historian and author. [50]
Walter Guralnick 1 November 1916 6 September 2017 100 years, 10 months and 5 days American dentist. [51]
Shen Panwen 7 September 1916 4 July 2017 100 years, 9 months and 27 days Chinese chemist. [52]
Trento Longaretti 27 September 1916 7 June 2017 100 years, 8 months and 11 days Italian painter. [53]
John G. Morris 7 December 1916 28 July 2017 100 years, 7 months and 21 days American photo editor (Life, The New York Times, Ladies' Home Journal). [54]
Jack Laver 9 March 1917 3 October 2017 100 years, 6 months and 24 days Australian cricketer. [55]
Mircea Ionescu-Quintus 18 March 1917 15 September 2017 100 years, 5 months and 28 days Romanian politician, Minister of Justice (1991–1992) and President of the Senate (2000). Heart failure[56]
Danielle Darrieux 1 May 1917 17 October 2017 100 years, 5 months and 16 days French actress (The Young Girls of Rochefort, Persepolis, The Earrings of Madame de…) and singer. Complications from a fall[57]
Tom Pritchard 10 March 1917 22 August 2017 100 years, 5 months and 12 days New Zealand cricketer (Wellington, Warwickshire, Kent). [58]
Giovanni Benedetti 12 March 1917 3 August 2017 100 years, 4 months and 22 days Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Foligno (1976–1992). [59]
José Osvaldo de Meira Penna 14 March 1917 29 July 2017 100 years, 4 months and 15 days Brazilian diplomat and writer.. [60]
Nikolai Zhugan 23 February 1917 22 June 2017 100 years, 3 months and 30 days Ukrainian-born Russian pilot, Hero of the Soviet Union (1944). [61]
Alex Karczmar 9 May 1917 1 September 2017 100 years, 3 months and 23 days American neuroscientist. [62]
Bea Wain 30 April 1917 19 August 2017 100 years, 3 months and 20 days American singer. Heart failure[63]
Martha Kyrle 17 April 1917 15 July 2017 100 years, 2 months and 28 days Austrian physician. [64]
Ke Jun 23 June 1917 8 August 2017 100 years, 1 month and 16 days Chinese metallurgist. [65]
Oscar E. Huber 22 August 1917 9 September 2017 100 years and 18 days American politician, member of the South Dakota House of Representatives (1961–1972). [66]
Dawn Seymour 1 July 1917 18 July 2017 100 years and 17 days American air force pilot, part of Women Airforce Service Pilots during World War II. [67]
André Lafargue 2 July 1917 18 July 2017 100 years and 16 days French journalist (Le Parisien libéré). [68]
Michael Lindsay Coulton Crawford 27 June 1917 28 June 2017 100 years and 1 day British submariner. [69]
John S. Palmore 6 August 1917 4 July 2017 99 years, 10 months and 28 days American judge, Chief Justice of the Kentucky Supreme Court (1966, 1973, 1977–1982). [70]
June Foray 18 September 1917 26 July 2017 99 years, 10 months and 8 days American voice actress (The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show, Looney Tunes, Cinderella). [71]
Ola Mildred Rexroat 28 August 1917 28 June 2017 99 years and 10 months American Airforce Service pilot during World War II. [72]
Ren Rong 10 September 1917 16 June 2017 99 years, 9 months and 6 days Chinese politician, Communist Party Chief of Tibet Autonomous Region (1971–1980). [73]
Elias Burstein 30 September 1917 17 June 2017 99 years, 8 months and 18 days American physicist. [74]
Bobby Doerr 7 April 1918 13 November 2017 99 years, 7 months and 6 days American Hall of Fame baseball player (Boston Red Sox). [75]
  1. ^ World's oldest person Violet Mosse–Brown dies aged 117
  2. ^ Ila Stargel Sewell Jones, oldest Georgian, passes on
  3. ^ World's Oldest Man, Auschwitz Survivor Yisrael Kristal, Dies at 113
  4. ^ Oldest Man in U.S., a California Native, Dies at 111
  5. ^ Zoltan Sarosy, Chess Master, passes at 110
  6. ^ Radiopionierin Helli Stehle mit 109 Jahren gestorben (in German)
  7. ^ Walnut Creek's Beloved Ruth Bancroft Dies at age 109
  8. ^ http://www.najstarsipolacy.pl/aktualnosci/izabella-zielinska-1910-2017/ Izabella Zielińska (1910-2017)] (in Polish)
  9. ^ 中国茶界泰斗张天福先生离世 享年108岁 (in Chinese)
  10. ^ Eric P. Newman, numismatist extraordinaire, dies at age 106
  11. ^ Shigeaki Hinohara, St. Luke’s doctor whose foresight saved lives after Tokyo sarin attack, dies at 105
  12. ^ West Point's oldest graduate dies at 105
  13. ^ War hero 105-year-old Baron Langford dies at his Rhuddlan estate
  14. ^ 费正清夫人妹妹玛丽安105岁去世,曾写《三宝北平奇遇记》 (in Chinese)
  15. ^ Ein Europäer (in German)
  16. ^ Chris Blackwell's mom, Blanche passes at 104
  17. ^ Honorable Judge Jean Murrell Capers passes away
  18. ^ Former IDF general Yitzhak Pundak dies at 104
  19. ^ Meghalt a legidősebb magyar fotóművész (in Hungarian)
  20. ^ Jahrhundertmaler Karl Otto Götz gestorben (in German)
  21. ^ Margaret Bergmann Lambert, Jewish High Jumper Excluded From Berlin Olympics, Dies at 103
  22. ^ Gisèle Casadesus, doyenne des actrices françaises, est décédée à 103 ans (in French)
  23. ^ Dr. Lucy Ozarin
  24. ^ Jeanne Robert, member of the French resistance – obituary
  25. ^ Edward Allcard
  26. ^ L’écrivain Jean Anglade est mort à l’âge de 102 ans (in French)
  27. ^ Lord Hutchinson of Lullington, QC
  28. ^ V 103. letu starosti se je poslovil slavist Anton Vratuša (in Slovene)
  29. ^ Renowned writer Ibrahim Joyo passes away at 102
  30. ^ Death of MACU Founder
  31. ^ Morto a 102 anni Emilio D'Amore, volto storico della destra irpina (in Italian)
  32. ^ Gertrude Poe, 101, edited Laurel Leader for 41 years
  33. ^ Nelia Penman, eminent Liberal - obituary
  34. ^ Falleció José Bragato a los 101 años (in Spanish)
  35. ^ Monsignor Augustine Hoey – obituary
  36. ^ Mary DeGravelles
  37. ^ Joseph W. Schmitt, spacesuit technician who made astronauts shine, dies at 101
  38. ^ Alan John Sayers
  39. ^ [1]
  40. ^ Environmental scientist Dr Max Day dies aged 101
  41. ^ Lyle Smith, father of Bronco football, dies at 101
  42. ^ Décès de Gilbert Rouget (in French)
  43. ^ India's oldest cinematographer Ramananda Sengupta passes away
  44. ^ Theodor Bergmann ist tot (in German)
  45. ^ Sam Beazley
  46. ^ John Kundla, former Minneapolis Lakers coach and Basketball Hall of Famer, dies at 101
  47. ^ Tributes for CS Lewis' Christian pupil who died aged 101
  48. ^ Lady Ursula d’Abo, train bearer at the 1937 Coronation – obituary
  49. ^ Zmarł Franciszek Kornicki, weteran walk powietrznych w Wielkiej Brytanii (in Polish)
  50. ^ McDonald, Dr Lorna Lorraine OAM[permanent dead link]
  51. ^ Losing a Legend: HSDM Mourns the Loss of Walter C. Guralnick
  52. ^ 我国著名化学家、中国科学院院士申泮文同志因病逝世 (in Chinese)
  53. ^ È morto a cento anni Trento Longaretti (in Italian)
  54. ^ Obituary: John G. Morris, photo editor of Capa and Smith, 100
  55. ^ John Francis Lee Laver
  56. ^ Mircea Ionescu Quintus a murit. Politicianul liberal avea 100 ani. Ce declara preşedintele de onoare al PNL în ultimul interviu pentru Adevărul (in Romanian)
  57. ^ Danielle Darrieux obituary
  58. ^ Warwickshire great Tom Pritchard dies aged 100
  59. ^ Foligno in lutto, è morto il vescovo emerito Giovanni Benedetti (in Italian)
  60. ^ Morre o centenário José Osvaldo de Meira Penna, ícone do liberalismo brasileiro (in Portuguese)
  61. ^ В Краснодаре на 101-м году жизни скончался легендарный военный летчик Николай Жуган (in Russian)
  62. ^ Alexander Karczmar
  63. ^ Bea Wain, 'girl singer' from big-band era who jammed with Pavarotti, dies at 100
  64. ^ UNICEF Österreich trauert um seine langjährige Präsidentin und Ehrenpräsidentin Frau Dr. Martha Kyrle (in German)
  65. ^ Chinese scientist's final contribution to his beloved field
  66. ^ Oscar Huber
  67. ^ Trailblazing World War II pilot Dawn Seymour dies at Canandaigua Lake home
  68. ^ André Lafargue, journaliste centenaire, est décédé (in French)
  69. ^ Captain Michael 'Tubby' Crawford
  70. ^ John S. Palmore, former Ky. chief justice, dies at 99
  71. ^ June Foray, Voice of Rocky the Flying Squirrel, Dies at 99
  72. ^ Ola Mildred Rexroat-McDonald
  73. ^ 百岁开国少将任荣辞世:戎马一生,辽沈战役脚掌炸断不下火线 (in Chinese)
  74. ^ Elias Burstein
  75. ^ Red Sox Hall of Fame 2B Bobby Doerr dies at 99