People who have passed on during 2017, whose life or works have influenced me:

• Kenneth Arrow (1921-2017), American economist
• John Berger (1926-2017), British writer and art critic
• Chuck Berry (1926-2017), American musician
• John Clarke (1948-2017), New Zealand & Australian comedian
• John Charles Rowell Fieldsend CJ (1921-2017), Zimbabwean Chief Justice
• Jerry Fodor (1935-2017), American philosopher
• Joel Goodman Joffe (1932-2017), South African lawyer and defender of Nelson Mandela at Rivonia trial
• Ahmed Kathrada (1929-2017), South African democracy activist and political prisoner
• Liu Xiaobo (1955-2017), Chinese writer and democracy activist
• Peter Luck (1944-2017), Australian TV journalist
• Maryam Mirzakhani (1977-2017), Iranian & American mathematician
• Rory O’Donoghue (“Thin Arthur”, “Flash Nick from Jindavick”) (1949-2017), Australian comedian
• Josh Parsons (1973-2017), New Zealand philosopher
• Raymond Smullyan (1919-2017), American logician and taoist
• Timothy Stamps (1936-2017), Zimbabwean doctor and Minister for Health (1986-2002)
• Herman Toivo ya Toivo (1924-2017), Namibian freedom fighter and politician
• Tony Vinson (1935-2017), Australian sociologist
• Vladimir Voevodsky (1966-2017), Russian & American mathematician
• Heathcote Williams (1941-2017), British poet, writer, playwright, actor
• Daniel Yankelovich (1924-2017), American pollster and market researcher.

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