2017 in Italy
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Events during the year 2017 in Italy.
Incumbents
Events
- 18 January
- January 2017 Central Italy earthquakes; 34 people are killed.[1]
- Rigopiano avalanche; 29 people are killed when the Hotel Rigopiano is demolished by an avalanche, following a series of earthquakes in the Abruzzo region.[2]
- 21 January – A bus carrying Hungarian students crashes near Verona with 16 people dead.[3]
- 11 February – Francesco Gabbani won Sanremo Music Festival 2017 by his YouTube sensational song Occidentali's Karma and went on to represent Italy in the Eurovision Song Contest 2017.
- 26–27 May – The 43rd G7 summit was held in Taormina
- 3 June - 2017 Turin stampede
- 21 August - 2017 Ischia earthquake; two people were killed and 42 others were injured.[4][5]
- 13 November - Italy failed to qualify for the 2018 FIFA World Cup after a 0–1 aggregate loss to Sweden in the two-leg play-off, missing World Cup for the first time since 1958. The head coach Gian Piero Ventura was subsequently sacked.[6]
Deaths
- 5 January
- Tullio De Mauro, 84, linguist.[7]
- Leonardo Benevolo, 93, architect and city planner
- 7 January – Lelio Lagorio, 91, politician
- 28 January – Salvatore Tatarella, 69, politician
- 8 March – Danilo Mainardi, 83, ethologist
- 23 March – Cino Tortorella, 89, television presenter
- 15 April – Emma Morano, 117, supercentenarian, world's oldest living person, oldest Italian person ever and last living person born in the 1800s
- 16 April – Gianni Boncompagni, 84, radio and television presenter
- 11 May – Clelio Darida, 90, politician
- 24 May – Giovanni Bignami, 73, physicist
- 26 May – Laura Biagiotti, 73, fashion designer
- 1 June – José Greci, 76, actress
- 10 June – Oscar Mammì, 90, politician and former minister
- 23 June – Stefano Rodotà, 84, jurist and politician
- 17 June – Paolo Limiti, 77, television presenter
- 3 July – Paolo Villaggio, 84, actor
- 5 August – Dionigi Tettamanzi, 83, cardinal and former Archbishop of Milan
- 1 September – Armando Aste, 91, alpinist[8]
- 4 September – Gastone Moschin, actor (b. 1929)[9]
- 9 September – Velasio de Paolis, 81, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal, President of the Prefecture for the Economic Affairs of the Holy See 2008–2011[10]
- 27 September – Antonio Spallino, 92, fencer and politician, Olympic champion (1956) and Mayor of Como 1970–1985[11]
- 1 October – Pierluigi Cappello, 50, poet, Viareggio Prize laureate 2010[12]
- 3 October – Francesco Martino, politician, President of Region of Sicily 1993–1995 (born 1937)[13]
- 5 October – Giorgio Pressburger, 80, Hungarian-born Italian writer[14]
- 6 October – Roberto Anzolin, 79, footballer[15]
- 8 October – Aldo Biscardi, 86, television presenter
- 21 October – Emilio D'Amore, 102, politician, Deputy 1948–1958, 1963–1968[16]
- 17 November – Salvatore Riina, 87, criminal and chief of the Sicilian Mafia
- 26 December – Gualtiero Marchesi, 87, chef
References
- "Terremoto, 4 scosse sopra magnitudo 5: torna la paura nel Centro Italia in ginocchio per la neve". 18 January 2017. Retrieved 18 January 2017.
- Claudio, Lavanga; Jamieson, Alastair. "Italy Avalanche: Hotel Rigopiano Buried After Earthquakes, 'Many Dead'". NBC News. Retrieved 19 January 2017.
- "Italy school bus crash and fire leaves 16 dead". BBC News. 21 January 2017. Retrieved 18 February 2017.
- Terremoto a Ischia, due morti e 39 feriti. Corsa per salvare l’ultimo fratellino rimasto sepolto
- Forte terremoto a Ischia, crolli a Casamicciola. Due morti e almeno 39 feriti
- https://www.theguardian.com/football/live/2017/nov/13/italy-sweden-world-cup-play-off-second-leg-live
- "È morto Tullio De Mauro, il più grande linguista italiano. Cultura in lutto". la Repubblica (in Italian). 5 January 2017. Retrieved 8 January 2017.
- Addio ad Armando Aste, grande alpinista roveretano, uno dei rocciatori più grandi di sempre (in Italian)
- E' morto Gastone Moschin, l'ultimo degli 'Amici miei' (in Italian)
- Si è spento oggi a Roma il card. Velasio De Paolis (in Italian)
- Lutto a Como: addio all'ex sindaco Antonio Spallino (in Italian)
- Morto Pierluigi Cappello La poesia per «riparare» la vita (in Italian)
- Messina, morto Franco Martino Fu presidente della Regione (in Italian)
- Elhunyt Giorgio Pressburger magyar származású olasz író (in Hungarian)
- Morto Anzolin, portiere della Juve per 9 anni (in Italian)
- Morto a 102 anni Emilio D'Amore, volto storico della destra irpina (in Italian)
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