Hugh Hefner, Roger Ailes, David Rockefeller: The year in deaths

From Playboy magazine founder Hugh Hefner, Fox News Channel Chief Executive Officer Roger Ailes and billionaire philanthropist David Rockefeller, several notable public figures died in 2017. Here are the year’s notable deaths.

Mary Tyler Moore

 

January
 

Mary Tyler Moore, 80

American actress who represented women and marriage in popular culture through her movies. She died on January 25.

February
 

Ken Morrison, 85

He turned his father’s local grocery store into the UK’s fourth-biggest supermarket chain, Wm Morrison Supermarkets PLC. He died on February 1.