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Events from the year 2017 in the Czech Republic

Incumbents

• President – Miloš Zeman
• Prime Minister – Bohuslav Sobotka then Andrej Babiš

Events

• 27 January – A Czech court rules in favour of a nursing school that banned a Somali refugee student from wearing a headscarf.^[1][2]
• 6 February – A Prague Fast-Food Restaurant Bans the Burka.^[3]
• 19 September – A Czech appeals court upholds a lower court ruling that went against the headscarf.^[4]

In popular culture

Deaths

Miloslav Vlk (1932–2017) in 2012

• 16 January – Jiří Navrátil, scout leader (b. 1923).^[5]
• 20 January – Naděžda Kavalírová, physician and human rights activist (b. 1923).^[6]
• 23 January – Jaroslav Vacek, Indologist (b. 1943).^[7]
• 27 January – Petr Kop, volleyball player and Olympian (b. 1937).^[8]
• 28 January – Lubomír Doležel, literary theorist (b. 1922).^[9]
• 7 February – Antonín Přidal, writer and translator (b. 1935).^[10]
• 11 February – Jarmila Šuláková, folk singer and actress (b. 1929).^[11]
• 14 February – Jiří Lanský, high jumper and Olympian (b. 1933).^[12]
• 16 February – Josef Augusta, ice hockey player and coach (b. 1946).^[13]
• 23 February – Ivo Svoboda, politician (b. 1948).^[14]
• 18 March – Miloslav Vlk, cardinal and Archbishop of Prague (b. 1932).^[15]
• 22 March –
  • Alexandr Kliment, writer (b. 1929).^[16]
  • Helena Štáchová, puppeteer (b. 1944).^[17]
• 26 March – Věra Špinarová, singer (b. 1951).^[18]
• 6 April – Libuše Havelková, actress (b. 1924).^[19]
• 18 April – Augustin Bubník, ice hockey player and Olympian (b. 1928).^[20]
• 23 April – František Rajtoral, footballer (b. 1986).^[21]
• 24 April –
  • František Brůna, handball player (b. 1944).^[22]
  • Dagmar Lerchová, figure skater and Olympian (b. 1930).^[23]
• 19 May – David Bystroň, footballer (b. 1982).^[24]
• 31 May – Jiří Bělohlávek, conductor (b. 1946).^[25]
• 2 June – Jaroslav Kořán, Mayor of Prague, translator (b. 1940).^[26]
• 15 June – Olbram Zoubek, sculptor (b. 1926).^[27]
• 25 June – Eduard Zeman, politician (b. 1948).^[28]
• 16 July – Eva Děpoltová, operatic soprano (b. 1945).^[29]
• 19 July – Karel Franta, painter (b. 1928).^[30]
• 22 July – František Ševčík, ice hockey player and Olympian (b. 1942).^[31]
• 25 July – Ivana Loudová, composer (b. 1941).^[32]
• 19 November – Jana Novotná, tennis player, (b. 1968).^[33]
• 2 December – Iva Ritschelová, economist, (b. 1964)^[34]

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