Events during the year 2017 in

Italy Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It is located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, and its territory largely coincides with the homonymous geographical re ...

Incumbents

President President most commonly refers to: *President (corporate title) *President (education), a leader of a college or university *President (government title) President may also refer to: Automobiles * Nissan President, a 1966–2010 Japanese ful ...

Sergio Mattarella Sergio Mattarella (; born 23 July 1941) is an Italian politician, jurist, academic and lawyer who has served as the president of Italy since 2015. A Christian leftist politician, Mattarella was a leading member of the Christian Democracy par ...

Prime Minister A prime minister, premier or chief of cabinet is the head of the cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system. Under those systems, a prime minister is not ...

Paolo Gentiloni Paolo Gentiloni Silveri (; born 22 November 1954) is an Italian politician who has served as European Commissioner for Economy in the von der Leyen Commission since 1 December 2019. He previously served as prime minister of Italy from December ...

Events

* 18 January **

January 2017 Central Italy earthquakes A series of four major earthquakes struck Central Italy between Abruzzo, Lazio, the Marche and Umbria regions on 18 January 2017. Earthquakes A magnitude 5.3 earthquake struck 25 km northwest of L'Aquila on 18 January at 10:25 local time a ...

; 34 people are killed. **

Rigopiano avalanche On the afternoon of 18 January 2017, a major avalanche occurred on Gran Sasso d'Italia massif, one of the mountains above Rigopiano, impacting and destroying the four-star Hotel Rigopiano in Farindola, Abruzzo. The impact killed twenty-nine peo ...

; 29 people are killed when the Hotel Rigopiano is demolished by an avalanche, following a series of earthquakes in the Abruzzo region. * 21 January – A bus carrying Hungarian students crashes near

Verona Verona ( , ; vec, Verona or ) is a city on the Adige River in Veneto, Northern Italy, Italy, with 258,031 inhabitants. It is one of the seven provincial capitals of the region. It is the largest city Comune, municipality in the region and the ...

with 16 people dead. * 11 February –

Francesco Gabbani Francesco Gabbani (born 9 September 1982) is an Italian singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He rose to fame after winning the newcomers' section of the Sanremo Music Festival 2016 with the song "Amen". The next year, he went on to win the ...

won

Sanremo Music Festival 2017 The Sanremo Music Festival 2017 ( it, 67° Festival della Canzone Italiana di Sanremo 2017) was the 67th annual Sanremo Music Festival, a television song contest held at the Teatro Ariston in Sanremo, Liguria, Italy between 7 and 11 February 2017, ...

by his

YouTube YouTube is a global online video platform, online video sharing and social media, social media platform headquartered in San Bruno, California. It was launched on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim. It is owned by ...

sensational song

Occidentali's Karma "Occidentali's Karma" () is a song performed by Italian singer Francesco Gabbani. The song was released as a digital download on 10 February 2017 through BMG Rights Management as the lead single from his third studio album ''Magellano'' (2017). T ...

and went on to represent

in the

Eurovision Song Contest 2017 The Eurovision Song Contest 2017 was the 62nd edition of the Eurovision Song Contest. It took place in Kyiv, Ukraine, following the country's victory at the with the song "1944 (song), 1944" by Jamala. Organised by the European Broadcasting Uni ...

. * 26–27 May – The 43rd G7 summit was held in

Taormina Taormina ( , , also , ; scn, Taurmina) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Messina, on the east coast of the island of Sicily, Italy. Taormina has been a tourist destination since the 19th century. Its beaches on ...

*3 June -

2017 Turin stampede The 2017 Turin stampede ( it, italics=no, Tragedia di Piazza San Carlo) occurred on 3 June 2017 when panic emerged in the Piazza San Carlo after a robbery attempt during a screening of the 2017 UEFA Champions League Final, UEFA Champions League F ...

*21 August -

2017 Ischia earthquake The 2017 Ischia earthquake occurred in the island of Ischia, Campania, in southern Italy. The main shock occurred at 20:57 CEST (18:57 UTC) on 21 August 2017, and was rated 3.9 or 4.2 on the moment magnitude scale. Despite the moderate magni ...

; two people were killed and 42 others were injured. *13 November -

failed to qualify for the

2018 FIFA World Cup The 2018 FIFA World Cup was the 21st FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial world championship for men's national Association football, football teams organized by FIFA. It took place in Russia from 14 June to 15 July 2018, after the country was awa ...

after a 0–1 aggregate loss to

Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden,The United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names states that the country's formal name is the Kingdom of SwedenUNGEGN World Geographical Names, Sweden./ref> is a Nordic country located on ...

in the two-leg play-off, missing World Cup for the first time since

1958 Events January * January 1 – The European Economic Community (EEC) comes into being. * January 3 – The West Indies Federation is formed. * January 4 ** Edmund Hillary's Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition completes the third ...

. The head coach

Gian Piero Ventura Gian Piero Ventura (; born 14 January 1948) is an Italian football manager. His playing career as a midfielder was spent in the lower leagues, having not made the grade at Sampdoria, where he began his coaching career with the youth team in 1 ...

was subsequently sacked.

Deaths

*5 January **

Tullio De Mauro Tullio De Mauro (31 March 1932 – 5 January 2017) was an Italian linguist, a professor emeritus of general linguistics at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Rome "La Sapienza" and an Italian politician. Biography He was the youn ...

, 84, linguist. **

Leonardo Benevolo Leonardo Benevolo (25 September 1923 – 5 January 2017) was an Italian architect, city planner and architecture historian. Born in Orta San Giulio, Italy, Benevolo studied architecture in Rome where he graduated in 1946. Later taught history of ...

, 93, architect and city planner *7 January –

Lelio Lagorio Lelio Lagorio (9 November 1925 – 6 January 2017) was an Italian politician who served as the first President of Tuscany from 1970 until 1978. Biography Lagorio was born in Trieste and was a member of the Italian Socialist Party (Partito Soc ...

, 91, politician *12 January –

Giulio Angioni Giulio Angioni (28 October 1939 – 12 January 2017) was an Italian writer and anthropologist. Biography Angioni was a leading Italian anthropologist, professor at the University of Cagliari and fellow of St Antony's College of the University o ...

, Italian writer and anthropologist (b.

1939 This year also marks the start of the Second World War, the largest and deadliest conflict in human history. Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January 1 ** Third Reich *** Jews are forbidden to ...

) *28 January – Salvatore Tatarella, 69, politician *8 March – Danilo Mainardi, 83, ethologist *23 March –

Cino Tortorella Felice "Cino" Tortorella (27 June 1927 – 23 March 2017), was an Italian television presenter, best known for creating and conducting the Zecchino d'Oro festival of children's songs. Zecchino d'Oro and Topo Gigio Cino (hypocorism of ''Felice' ...

, 89, television presenter *15 April –

Emma Morano Emma Martina Luigia Morano (29 November 1899 – 15 April 2017) was an Italian supercentenarian. She was the world's oldest living person from 13 May 2016 until her death on 15 April 2017, aged 117 years and 137 days. At the time of her death, ...

, 117, supercentenarian, world's oldest living person, oldest Italian person ever and last living person born in the 1800s *16 April –

Gianni Boncompagni Giandomenico Boncompagni (13 May 1932 – 16 April 2017), best known as Gianni Boncompagni, was a television and radio presenter, director, writer and a lyricist. Life and career Born in Arezzo, at 18 years old Boncompagni moved to Sweden, whe ...

, 84, radio and television presenter *11 May – Clelio Darida, 90, politician *24 May –

Giovanni Bignami Giovanni Fabrizio Bignami (10 April 1944 – 24 May 2017) was an Italian physicist. From March 2007 until August 2008, he was Chairman of the Italian Space Agency. Between 2010 and 2014, he was the first Italian to chair the Committee on Space ...

, 73, physicist *26 May –

Laura Biagiotti Laura Biagiotti (; 4 August 1943 – 26 May 2017) was an Italian fashion designer, and the founder of the House of Biagiotti. Early life Biagiotti was born in Rome on 4 August 1943. Her mother Delia Soldaini Biagiotti was a successful dressm ...

, 73, fashion designer *1 June –

José Greci José Greci (10 January 1941 – 1 June 2017) was an Italian film, television and stage actress. Life and career Born in Ferrara as Giuseppina Greci, the daughter of the journalist and television writer Luigi. In 1956 at just fifteen years old ...

, 76, actress *10 June –

Oscar Mammì Oscar Mammì (25 October 1926 – 10 June 2017) was an Italian politician. A member of the Italian Republican Party (Partito Repubblicano Italian, or PRI), he was minister of Mail and Telecommunications from 1987 to 1991. Biography Mammì was bor ...

, 90, politician and former minister *23 June – Stefano Rodotà, 84, jurist and politician *17 June –

Paolo Limiti Paolo Mario Limiti (8 May 1940 – 27 June 2017) was an Italian lyricist, journalist, radio and television writer and presenter. Born in Milan, Limiti begin his career as a journalist, then in 1960 he started a long collaboration with Mike Bongio ...

, 77, television presenter *3 July –

Paolo Villaggio Paolo Villaggio (; 30 December 1932 – 3 July 2017) was an Italian actor, voice actor, writer, director and comedian. He is noted for the characters he created with paradoxical and grotesque characteristics: Professor Kranz, the ultra-timid G ...

, 84, actor *5 August –

Dionigi Tettamanzi Dionigi Tettamanzi (14 March 1934 – 5 August 2017) was an Italian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church, who was named a cardinal in 1998. He was Archbishop of Genoa from 1995 to 2004 and Archbishop of Milan from 2004 to 2011. Early years Tett ...

, 83, cardinal and former archbishop of Milan *1 September –

Armando Aste Armando Aste (6 January 1926 – 1 September 2017) was one of the most influential Italian alpinists of the postwar period. Aste was born in Rovereto near Trento, Trentino. He led the first Italian ascent of the Eiger north face in 1962, toget ...

, 91, alpinist *4 September –

Gastone Moschin Gastone Moschin (8 June 1929 – 4 September 2017) was an Italian stage, television and film actor. Career Born in San Giovanni Lupatoto (Veneto), Moschin graduated from the Accademia Nazionale di Arte Drammatica Silvio D'Amico and then began hi ...

, actor (b. 1929) *9 September – Velasio de Paolis, 81, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal, President of the

Prefecture for the Economic Affairs of the Holy See The Prefecture for the Economic Affairs of the Holy See was an office (a technical category of dicastery) of the Roman Curia, erected on 15 August 1967, and entrusted with overseeing all the offices of the Holy See that manage finances, regardle ...

2008–2011 *27 September –

Antonio Spallino Antonio Spallino (1 April 1925 – 27 September 2017) was an Italian fencer. He won a gold, silver and bronze medal at two Olympic Games. Spallino was President of Panathlon International from 1988 to 1996. He was mayor of Como Como (, ; ...

, 92, fencer and politician, Olympic champion (

1956 Events January * January 1 – The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Anglo-Egyptian Condominium ends in Sudan. * January 8 – Operation Auca: Five U.S. evangelical Christian Missionary, missionaries, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, Ed McCully, Jim ...

) and Mayor of

Como Como (, ; lmo, Còmm, label=Comasco dialect, Comasco , or ; lat, Novum Comum; rm, Com; french: Côme) is a city and ''comune'' in Lombardy, Italy. It is the administrative capital of the Province of Como. Its proximity to Lake Como and ...

1970–1985 *1 October – Pierluigi Cappello, 50, poet,

Viareggio Prize The Viareggio Prize ( it, Premio Viareggio, italic=no or ) is an Italian literary prize, first awarded in 1930. Named after the Tuscan city of Viareggio, it was conceived by three friends, , Carlo Salsa and Leonida Rèpaci, to rival the Milanese ...

laureate 2010 *3 October – Francesco Martino, politician, President of Region of Sicily 1993–1995 (born 1937) *5 October –

Giorgio Pressburger Giorgio Pressburger (April 21, 1937 – October 5, 2017) was an Italian writer of novels and short stories. Born in Budapest, and saved by Giorgio Perlasca during the second world war, Pressburger settled in Italy in 1956, where he worked as a f ...

, 80, Hungarian-born Italian writer *6 October –

Roberto Anzolin Roberto Anzolin (; 18 April 1938 – 6 October 2017) was an Italian footballer, who played as a goalkeeper. Regarded as one of the best Italian goalkeepers of his generation, he played for several Italian sides, but is mostly remembered for hi ...

, 79, footballer *8 October –

Aldo Biscardi Aldo Biscardi (26 November 1930 – 8 October 2017) was an Italian football broadcaster, best known for presenting the show '' Il processo di Biscardi'' (''The Biscardi Trial''). Biography Native of Larino, province of Campobasso, he graduated in ...

, 86, television presenter *21 October – Emilio D'Amore, 102, politician,

Deputy Deputy or depute may refer to: * Steward (office) * Khalifa, an Arabic title that can signify "deputy" * Deputy (legislator), a legislator in many countries and regions, including: ** A member of a Chamber of Deputies, for example in Italy, Spai ...

1948–1958, 1963–1968 *17 November –

Salvatore Riina Salvatore Riina (; 16 November 1930 – 17 November 2017), called (, Totò being the diminutive of Salvatore), was an Italian mobster and chief of the Sicilian Mafia, known for a ruthless murder campaign that reached a peak in the early 1990s ...

, 87, criminal and chief of the Sicilian Mafia *26 December –

Gualtiero Marchesi Gualtiero Marchesi (; 19 March 1930 – 26 December 2017) was an Italian chef, unanimously considered the founder of the new Italian cuisine and, in the opinion of many, the most famous Italian chef in the world and the one who has contributed mo ...

, 87, chef *27 December – Osvaldo Fattori, footballer, 95

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