| 7681 | January 17 | Death | 1964 – T. H. White, English author (b. 1906) |
| 7682 | January 17 | Death | 1967 – Evelyn Nesbit, American actress (b. 1884) |
| 7683 | January 17 | Death | 1970 – Simon Kovar, Russian-American bassoon player and educator (b. 1890) |
| 7684 | January 17 | Death | 1970 – Billy Stewart, American singer and pianist (b. 1937) |
| 7685 | January 17 | Death | 1972 – Betty Smith, American author and playwright (b. 1896) |
| 7686 | January 17 | Death | 1977 – Gary Gilmore, American murderer (b. 1940) |
| 7687 | January 17 | Death | 1977 – Dougal Haston, Scottish mountaineer (b. 1940) |
| 7688 | January 17 | Death | 1981 – Loukas Panourgias, Greek footballer (b. 1899) |
| 7689 | January 17 | Death | 1983 – Doodles Weaver, American actor and singer (b. 1911) |
| 7690 | January 17 | Death | 1984 – Kostas Giannidis, Greek pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1903) |
| 7691 | January 17 | Death | 1984 – George Rigaud, Argentinian-Spanish actor (b. 1905) |
| 7692 | January 17 | Death | 1987 – Hugo Fregonese, Argentinian director and screenwriter (b. 1908) |
| 7693 | January 17 | Death | 1988 – Percy Qoboza, South African journalist and author (b. 1938) |
| 7694 | January 17 | Death | 1991 – Olav V of Norway (b. 1903) |
| 7695 | January 17 | Death | 1992 – Frank Pullen, English businessman (b. 1915) |
| 7696 | January 17 | Death | 1993 – Albert Hourani, English-Lebanese historian and academic (b. 1915) |
| 7697 | January 17 | Death | 1994 – Yevgeni Ivanov, Russian spy (b. 1926) |
| 7698 | January 17 | Death | 1994 – Helen Stephens, American runner, shot putter, and discus thrower (b. 1918) |
| 7699 | January 17 | Death | 1996 – Barbara Jordan, American lawyer and politician (b. 1936) |
| 7700 | January 17 | Death | 1996 – Mostafa Sid Ahmed, Sudanese singer (b. 1953) |
| 7701 | January 17 | Death | 1997 – Bert Kelly, Australian farmer and politician, 20th Australian Minister for the Navy (b. 1912) |
| 7702 | January 17 | Death | 1997 – Clyde Tombaugh, American astronomer and academic, discovered Pluto (b. 1906) |
| 7703 | January 17 | Death | 1998 – Junior Kimbrough, American singer and guitarist (b. 1930) |
| 7704 | January 17 | Death | 1999 – Robert Eads, American trans man (b. 1945) |
| 7705 | January 17 | Death | 1999 – Samantha Reid, American manslaughter victim (b. 1984) |
| 7706 | January 17 | Death | 2000 – Philip Jones, English trumpet player (b. 1928) |
| 7707 | January 17 | Death | 2000 – Ion Rațiu, Romanian journalist and politician (b. 1917) |
| 7708 | January 17 | Death | 2001 – Gregory Corso, American poet and author (b. 1930) |
| 7709 | January 17 | Death | 2002 – Camilo José Cela, Spanish author and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916) |
| 7710 | January 17 | Death | 2002 – Bishop Karas, Sudanese-American bishop (b. 1955) |