Hugh Hefner, Roger Ailes, David Rockefeller: The year in deaths
A list of people who died in 2017.
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26.12.2017
Playboy magazine founder Hugh Hefner, Fox News Channel Chief Executive Officer Roger Ailes and billionaire philanthropist David Rockefeller were among newsmakers in business, finance and public affairs who died in 2017.
The business world lost Raymond Sackler, who bought Purdue Pharma, producer of the controversial pain pill OxyContin; Taizo Nishimuro, former head of Toshiba and the Tokyo Stock Exchange; Jeffrey Brotman, co-founder of Costco Wholesale; Paul Otellini, former chief executive of chipmaker Intel; and Joan Tisch, the billionaire matriarch of the clan that started Loews.