Famous People Who Died on July 17

• Coltrane, John (1967)

  Innovative sax player and composer

• Cronkite, Walter (2009)

  CBS TV's news anchor, 1962-81

• Graham, Katharine (2001)

  Publisher of the Washington Post

• Holiday, Billie (1959)

  The popular jazz singer known as "Lady Day"

• Juárez, Benito (1872)

  Presidential hero of Mexico

• Lewis, John (2020)

  The civil rights leader who served in Congress for 33 years

• Poincaré, Henri (1912)

   The French mathematician who wrote Science and Hypothesis

• Smith, Adam (1790)

  The author of An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

• Whistler, James McNeill (1903)

  Portraitist and painter of Whistler's Mother

See also: Born on July 17