Deaths in 2017

This is a list of notable deaths associated with Malta in 2017.

Any Maltese personality with some connection to culture (in the broadest sense of the word) may be listed here. Additions which do not cite reliable sources will be removed to the talk page for discussion.

A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:

   * Date: Name, Age, Main reason/s for notability, Established cause of death (if known), References.

Please note: names are listed under the date of death, not the date it was announced.

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• Monday 9 January: Cecil Pace, 89, Banker [1], [2], [3]

• Tuesday 10 January: Rennie Vella, 55, Singer, Actor, and TV Presenter [4], [5], [6]

• Tuesday 10 January: Lino Bugeja, 86, Sportsman, Educator, and Ramblers Club President [7], [8], [9], [10]

• Wednesday 11 January: John Laus, 73, Folk Singer [11],[12]

• Saturday 14 January: Saviour Demicoli, 60, Magistrate [13], [14], [15]

• Sunday 15 January: Lina Thake, 85, Marriage Counsellor [16], [17]

• Sunday 15 January: Richard Divall, 72, Australian conductor and musicologist [18]

• Sunday 22 January: Ramon Casha, 46, Humanist and civil rights campaigner, complications following a motorbike accident in July 2016 [19], [20], [21]

• Sunday 22 January: Ethel Farrugia, 92, Actor and director [22]

• Sunday 22 Janaury: Pino Scicluna, 60, Actor [23], [24]

• Sunday 22 Janaury: Rokku Abdilla, 85, Former Labour MP [25], [26], [27]

• Thursday 26 January: Dun Pawl Genovese, 85, Priest [28]

• Friday 3 February: Joe Grima, 80, Broadcaster and Politician, [29], [30], [31]. [32]

• Saturday 11 February: Marcel Pisani, 66, Founder of Dar il-Kaptan, [33],[34]

• Sunday 26 February: Rhys Celeste (Microlith), 24, Electronic Music Producer, traffic accident [35], [36]

• Thursday 30 March: Donia Baldacchino, 64, Professor of Nursing [37]

• Saturday 1 April: Tonio Casapinta, 68, Entrepreneur [38]

• Thursday 6 April: Ralph Asciak, 56, Marsa Sports Club chairman [39], [40]

• Tuesday 2 May: Joe Cassar, 70, Politician, Member of Parliament, and Magistrate [41], [42], [43], [44], [45]

• Tuesday 16 May: Ronnie Cocks, 73, Footballer see Biografiji on YouTube,[46], [47]

• Tuesday 23 May: Fr.Joseph Borg Micallef, 94, Priest [48],[49]

• Friday 2 June: Mario F. Bezzina, 67, Poet and broadcaster

• Sunday 4 June: Evelyn Arrigo, 70, Broadcaster

• Saturday 17 June: Fr Claude Borg, 91, MSSP Priest and Parramatta Diocese chaplain [50]

• Wednesday 28 June: Pietru Pawl Busuttil, 73, Political frame-up victim and 1st Safi Mayor [51], [52], [53]

• Wednesday 5 July: Beatrice Brockdorff, 56, soprano and vocal coach

• Tuesday 25 July: John Bartolo, 71, bass player and builder [54]

• Wednesday 26 July: Alex Vella, 75, journalist [55]

• Wednesday 2 August: Frances Grima, 102, philanthropist [56]

• Saturday 5 August: Joe Cilia, 79, football player and coach [57], [58]

• Tuesday 8 August: Albert Borg Olivier de Puget, 85, politician [59], [60]

• Monday 21 August: John Ellis, ??, lyricist for Sinjur Ġib il-Paċi by The Tramps, winner of Festival Internazzjonali tal-Kanzunetta Maltija 1981 [61], [62]

• Monday 26 August: Fr Victor Xuereb SJ, 87, Jesuit Priest and translator of classical literature [63]
• Wednesday 6 September: Rosa Micallef Judge, 97, Mużiċista [64]

• Saturday 9 September: Mgr Fortunato Mizzi, 88, Founder of Moviment Azzjoni Socjali [65], [66], [67]

• Monday 25 September: Dun Ġorġ Grima, 66, Missionary Priest [68] [69] [70] [71] [72]

• Friday 6 October: Jerome Frendo, 20, Cancer advocate, [73], [[74]]

• Saturday 7 October: Susan Mulvaney, 71, Broadcaster, Journalist, [75] [76] [77] [78] [79]

• Monday 16 October: Daphne Caruana Galizia, 53, Journalist, assassinated by car bomb

• Wednesday 1 November: Joe Borg, 80, Tradeunionist [80]

• Friday 3 November: Mro.Ronnie Debattista, 60, Band Master [81]

• Saturday 4 November: Anthony Zammit, 67, Surgeon and Politician [82], [83], [84]

• Saturday 4 November: Carmel Bonavia, 88, Historian [85]

• Saturday 18 November: Joe Attard, 77, Żejtun Major [86], [87], [88],[89], [90]

• Saturday 18 November: Winston Zammit, 67, Historian [91], [92], [93]

• Friday 1 December: Joe Curmi l-Pusè, 90, Saxophonist [94], [95], [96], [97], [98]

• Monday 4 December: Frank Mifsud, 91, Gangster [99], [100]

• Tuesday 19 December: Ralph Mangion, 53, Actor [101], [102]

• Sunday 24 December: Steve Brown, 74, Music Producer and Promoter [103], [104], [105], [106], [107]

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