2017 in Uruguay
Incumbents
- President: Tabaré Vázquez
- Vice President: Raúl Fernando Sendic (until September 13), Lucía Topolansky (starting September 13)
Events
Deaths
- 5 January – Jorge Sanguinetti, politician (b. 1934).[1]
- 24 September – Washington Benavides, poet and musician (b. 1930).[2]
- 8 October – Coriún Aharonián, electroacoustic music composer and musicologist (b. 1940).[3]
- 30 October – Daniel Viglietti, folk singer, guitarist, composer and political activist (b. 1939).[4]
- 20 November – Amir Hamed, writer and translator (b. 1962).[5]
- 21 November – Luis Garisto, footballer (b. 1945).[6]
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gollark: And they wouldn't HAVE to release their source code.
gollark: I mean, I don't like them, but they're primarily a hardware company.
gollark: Why?
gollark: The main issue with the self-assessed-value-based patent tax thing is that people who independently come up with an extremely good idea may not be able to secure enough funding to keep hold of it for a while. But I'm not sure how common that is.
References
- "Murió Jorge Sanguinetti". elobservador.com.uy. 5 January 2017. Retrieved 5 February 2017.
- Murió el poeta Washington Benavides (in Spanish)
- Falleció a los 77 años el compositor y musicólogo uruguayo Coriún Aharonián (in Spanish)
- Muere el músico uruguayo Daniel Viglietti (in Spanish)
- Falleció el escritor y docente Amir Hamed (in Spanish)
- Fallece Luis Garisto, extécnico de Toluca y Atlas (in Spanish)
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