Liste der Berühmte Personen die mit 17 starben

Der Todesfall Trayvon Martin ereignete sich am Abend des 26. Februar 2012 in Sanford im US-Bundesstaat Florida, als der 28-jährige Nachbarschaftswachmann und Latino George Zimmerman den 17-jährigen afroamerikanischen Highschool-Schüler Trayvon Martin erschoss. Als Begründung gab Zimmerman Notwehr an. Dieser Todesfall und seine Umstände lösten in den Vereinigten Staaten eine landesweite Rassismusdiskussion aus, die auch in anderen Ländern rezipiert wurde. Zimmerman wurde des Mordes mit bedingtem Vorsatz (second degree murder) angeklagt. Der Prozess begann am 10. Juni 2013 in Sanford. Am 13. Juli 2013 wurde Zimmerman von einer sechsköpfigen Jury nach 16-stündiger Beratung für unschuldig (not guilty) befunden und freigesprochen.

Juanita Suzanne Coco was an Australian child singer and variety performer who was a regular on the talent and variety television show, Young Talent Time. She appeared from 1987 to 1988, from the age of 11 to 13. Coco was often paired with Joey Dee for duets. She had replaced Vanessa Windsor on the show and was the 35th member to join. After the show's demise, Coco worked with a professional cover band on a regular basis until her final year of high school. She then formed a young band, Milk, who were working on original songs and about to start performing at the time of her death in 1993.

Rachel Joy Scott war eines der 13 Todesopfer des Amoklaufs an der Columbine High School.

Junko Furuta was a Japanese high-school student who was abducted, severely tortured, repeatedly raped, and murdered in the late 1980s. Her murder case was named "Concrete-encased high school girl murder case" , due to her body being discovered in a concrete drum. The abuse was mainly perpetrated by four teenage boys, Hiroshi Miyano, Jō Ogura, Shinji Minato, and Yasushi Watanabe.

Mahalakshmi Menon, best known by her stagename Shobha, was an Indian actress best known for her work in Malayalam and Tamil films. At the age of 17, she won the National Film Award for Best Actress for her role in the 1979 Tamil film Pasi. She also received three Kerala State Film Awards: for Best Actress (1978), Best Supporting Actress (1977) and Best Child Artist (1971); and two Filmfare Awards South for Best Actress in Kannada (1978) and Tamil (1979) films. Considered one of the finest talents to have emerged in the Indian film world, her promising career was unexpectedly cut short as she committed suicide in 1980, due to unknown reasons. Her popularity resulted in considerable public scrutiny of the events that led to her death and also various conspiracy theories. The 1983 Malayalam film Lekhayude Maranam Oru Flashback is supposedly based on her life and death.

Abdul Nasser Qardash is an Iraqi-born militant who in 2019 was wrongly reported as the leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). He was also nicknamed "The Professor" and "Destroyer". Although his role within ISIL is unclear, he is reported as one of ISIL's top commanders and tipped as a potential candidate for ISIL leadership succession. However days after the death of Al-Baghdadi, ‘Abdul-Rahman Al-Mawlah known as Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi was ultimately chosen as the new declared leader of ISIS.

Benjamin „Benji“ Wilson Jr. war ein US-amerikanischer Highschool-Basketballspieler aus Chicago, der kurz vor Beginn seiner Senior-Saison erschossen wurde. Er war der Erste in der Geschichte Chicagos, der zum besten Highschool-Basketballspieler der USA ernannt wurde.

Mona Mahmudnizhad war eine iranische Frau, die 1983 wegen ihrer Zugehörigkeit zur Bahai-Religion als jüngste von insgesamt zehn Bahai-Frauen in Schiras zum Tode verurteilt und gehenkt wurde. Die offiziellen Anklagen reichten von „Irreleitung von Kindern und Jugendlichen“ – sie unterrichtete Kinder, die wegen ihres Glaubens der Schule verwiesen wurden, und sie diente in einem Waisenhaus – bis zum Vorwurf „Zionistin“ zu sein, da sich das Bahai-Weltzentrum in Israel befindet.

Cassie René Bernall was a student killed in the Columbine High School massacre, where 11 more students and a teacher were killed by Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, who then committed suicide. It was reported that Bernall had been asked whether or not she believed in God, and she said "Yes", before being shot during the massacre. However, investigators concluded the person asked about their belief in God was Valeen Schnurr, who survived the shooting.

Gwen Amber Rose Araujo was an American Latina teenager who was murdered in Newark, California. She was killed by four men, two of whom she had been sexually intimate with, who beat and strangled her after discovering that she was transgender. Two of the defendants were convicted of second-degree murder, but not the requested hate-crime enhancements to the charges. The other two defendants pleaded guilty or no-contest to voluntary manslaughter. In at least one of the trials, a "trans panic defense"—an extension of the gay panic defense—was employed. In some contemporary news reports and during the first trial of the perpetrators, Gwen Araujo was misgendered and referred to by her birth name.

Sergei Anatoljewitsch Preminin war Besatzungsmitglied des sowjetischen U-Boots K-219 und verhinderte unter Einsatz seines Lebens eine Kernschmelze. Er wurde posthum zum Helden der Russischen Föderation ernannt.

Yuki Muroya is a Japanese women's professional shogi player ranked 3-dan.

On April 4, 2013, Rehtaeh Parsons, a 17-year-old former Cole Harbour District High School student, attempted suicide by hanging at her home in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada, leading to a coma and the decision to switch her life support machine off on April 7, 2013. Her death has been attributed to online distribution of photos of an alleged gang rape that occurred 17 months prior to her suicide, in November 2011. On a Facebook page set up in tribute to her daughter, Parsons' mother blamed the four boys who allegedly raped and released images of her, the subsequent constant "bullying and messaging and harassment", and the failure of the Canadian justice system, for her daughter's decision to commit suicide.

Noa Pothoven war eine niederländische Aktivistin und Autorin. Sie setzte sich für bessere Bedingungen für psychisch erkrankte Jugendliche und mehr Aufklärung zu diesem Thema ein. Ihr Tod mit nur 17 Jahren führte zu einem internationalen Aufschrei, da einige, vor allem ausländische Medien fälschlicherweise berichteten, dass ihr Sterben durch aktive Euthanasie herbeigeführt worden sei. Ende 2018 hatte Pothoven öffentlich ihren Wunsch zu sterben geäußert und auch einen Antrag auf Genehmigung von Euthanasie in ihrem Fall gestellt. Tatsächlich starb sie daran, dass sie im Einvernehmen mit ihrer Familie das Essen und Trinken einstellte. Noa litt an einer posttraumatischen Belastungsstörung und Essstörungen, die durch mehrere Sexualstraftaten und eine Vergewaltigung hervorgerufen worden waren.

Du’a Khalil Aswad war ein siebzehnjähriges jesidisches Mädchen, das vermutlich bei einem sogenannten Ehrenmord in Baschiqa im nördlichen Irak von einer Menschenmenge gesteinigt wurde. Ein Video des Lynchmordes, das offensichtlich von einer Person aus der Menschenmenge mit einer Handykamera aufgenommen wurde, wurde ins Internet gestellt und sorgte weltweit für Entsetzen. Gerüchte, dass das Mädchen vor seiner Steinigung angeblich zum Islam übergetreten sei, führten zu einer massiven Verstärkung muslimischer Ressentiments gegen Jesiden. Mehrere brutale Terroranschläge in der Folgezeit, die sich ausschließlich gegen Jesiden richteten, werden als Racheakte muslimischer Extremisten für die Steinigung gedeutet.

Jonathan Pitre was a Canadian from Russell, Ontario, a small town near Ottawa. Pitre was born with a rare genetic mutation called recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa (RDEB), which causes external and internal blistering across the body. His situation gained widespread attention in October 2012 when he was interviewed by the Ottawa Citizen, and he became an ambassador for DEBRA Canada, a charity devoted to the support and awareness of EB.

Miho Nakayama was a Japanese comedian. Her real name was Mihoko Ishida .

Manabu Senzaki is a Japanese professional shogi player ranked 9-dan.

Shingo Sawada is a Japanese professional shogi player ranked 7-dan.

Taku Morishita is a Japanese professional shogi player, ranked 9-dan. He is a former director of the Japanese Shogi Association, and is currently serving as an executive director.