| 56701 | May.17 | Death | 2004 – Tony Randall, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1920) |
| 56702 | May.17 | Death | 2004 – Ezzedine Salim, Iraqi politician (b. 1943) |
| 56703 | May.17 | Death | 2004 – Vladislav Terzyul, Siberian mountaineer (b. 1953) |
| 56704 | May.17 | Death | 2005 – Frank Gorshin, American actor and singer (b. 1934) |
| 56705 | May.17 | Death | 2006 – Cy Feuer, American director, producer, and composer (b. 1911) |
| 56706 | May.17 | Death | 2006 – Eric Forth, Scottish-English politician, Shadow Leader of the House of Commons (b. 1944) |
| 56707 | May.17 | Death | 2006 – Nichola Goddard, Papua New Guinean-Canadian captain (b. 1980) |
| 56708 | May.17 | Death | 2007 – Lloyd Alexander, American soldier and author (b. 1924) |
| 56709 | May.17 | Death | 2007 – T. K. Doraiswamy, Indian poet and author (b. 1921) |
| 56710 | May.17 | Death | 2009 – Mario Benedetti, Uruguayan journalist, author, and poet (b. 1920) |
| 56711 | May.17 | Death | 2009 – Jung Seung-hye, South Korean journalist and producer (b. 1965) |
| 56712 | May.17 | Death | 2010 – Yvonne Loriod, French pianist, composer, and educator (b. 1924) |
| 56713 | May.17 | Death | 2010 – Walasse Ting, Chinese-American painter and poet (b. 1929) |
| 56714 | May.17 | Death | 2011 – Harmon Killebrew, American baseball player and sportscaster (b. 1936) |
| 56715 | May.17 | Death | 2012 – Warda Al-Jazairia, French-Lebanese singer (b. 1939) |
| 56716 | May.17 | Death | 2012 – Herbert Breslin, American publicist and manager (b. 1924) |
| 56717 | May.17 | Death | 2012 – Gideon Ezra, Israeli geographer and politician, Israeli Minister in the Prime Minister's Office (b. 1937) |
| 56718 | May.17 | Death | 2012 – Patrick Mafisango, Congolese-Rwandan footballer (b. 1980) |
| 56719 | May.17 | Death | 2012 – Ron Shock, American comedian (b. 1942) |
| 56720 | May.17 | Death | 2012 – Donna Summer, American singer-songwriter and actress (b. 1948) |
| 56721 | May.17 | Death | 2013 – Philippe Gaumont, French cyclist (b. 1973) |
| 56722 | May.17 | Death | 2013 – Penne Hackforth-Jones, American-Australian actress (b. 1949) |
| 56723 | May.17 | Death | 2013 – Alan O'Day, American singer-songwriter (b. 1940) |
| 56724 | May.17 | Death | 2013 – Peter Schulz, German politician, Mayor of Hamburg (b. 1930) |
| 56725 | May.17 | Death | 2013 – Albert Seedman, American police officer (b. 1918) |
| 56726 | May.17 | Death | 2013 – Ken Venturi, American golfer and sportscaster (b. 1931) |
| 56727 | May.17 | Death | 2013 – Jorge Rafael Videla, Argentinian general and politician, 42nd President of Argentina (b. 1925) |
| 56728 | May.17 | Death | 2014 – Miss Beazley, American dog of George W. Bush (b. 2004) |
| 56729 | May.17 | Death | 2014 – Gerald Edelman, American biologist and immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1929) |
| 56730 | May.17 | Death | 2014 – Clarence Ellis, American computer scientist and academic (b. 1943) |