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Events from the year2017 in theCzech Republic

• President –Miloš Zeman
• Prime Minister –Bohuslav Sobotka thenAndrej Babiš

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• 22 January – Green Day themselves are coming back to the Czech Republic along with the new album and classic hits after seven years.^[1]

• 27 January – A Czech court rules in favour of a nursing school that banned a Somali refugee student from wearing a headscarf.^[2][3]
• 6 February – A Prague Fast-Food Restaurant Bans the Burka.^[4]
• 19 August – A famous English singer Robbie Williams performed in the open together with a legendary synthpop duo Erasure.^[5]
• 19 September – A Czech appeals court upholds a lower court ruling that went against the headscarf.^[6]

• 25–29 January – The2017 European Figure Skating Championships were hosted by the Czech Figure Skating Association.
• 2–14 May – The2017 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship was hosted in the cities ofPlzeň andPříbram, and the towns ofPřeštice andDomažlice.
• 16–25 June – TheEuroBasket Women 2017 was hosted in the Czech cities of Prague andHradec Králové.

• 2 January – First episode of the television seriesSvět pod hlavou was aired (first of ten episodes).

• 16 January –Jiří Navrátil, scout leader (b. 1923).^[7]
• 20 January –Naděžda Kavalírová, physician and human rights activist (b. 1923).^[8]
• 23 January –Jaroslav Vacek, Indologist (b. 1943).^[9]
• 27 January –Petr Kop, volleyball player and Olympian (b. 1937).^[10]
• 28 January –Lubomír Doležel, literary theorist (b. 1922).^[11]
• 7 February –Antonín Přidal, writer and translator (b. 1935).^[12]
• 11 February –Jarmila Šuláková, folk singer and actress (b. 1929).^[13]
• 14 February –Jiří Lanský, high jumper and Olympian (b. 1933).^[14]
• 16 February –Josef Augusta, ice hockey player and coach (b. 1946).^[15]
• 23 February –Ivo Svoboda, politician (b. 1948).^[16]
• 18 March –Miloslav Vlk, cardinal and Archbishop of Prague (b. 1932).^[17]
• 22 March –
  • Alexandr Kliment, writer (b. 1929).^[18]
  • Helena Štáchová, puppeteer (b. 1944).^[19]
• 26 March –Věra Špinarová, singer (b. 1951).^[20]
• 6 April –Libuše Havelková, actress (b. 1924).^[21]
• 18 April –Augustin Bubník, ice hockey player and Olympian (b. 1928).^[22]
• 23 April –František Rajtoral, footballer (b. 1986).^[23]
• 24 April –
  • František Brůna, handball player (b. 1944).^[24]
  • Dagmar Lerchová, figure skater and Olympian (b. 1930).^[25]
• 19 May –David Bystroň, footballer (b. 1982).^[26]
• 31 May –Jiří Bělohlávek, conductor (b. 1946).^[27]
• 2 June –Jaroslav Kořán, Mayor of Prague, translator (b. 1940).^[28]
• 15 June –Olbram Zoubek, sculptor (b. 1926).^[29]
• 25 June –Eduard Zeman, politician (b. 1948).^[30]
• 16 July –Eva Děpoltová, operatic soprano (b. 1945).^[31]
• 19 July –Karel Franta, painter (b. 1928).^[32]
• 22 July –František Ševčík, ice hockey player and Olympian (b. 1942).^[33]
• 25 July –Ivana Loudová, composer (b. 1941).^[34]
• 19 November –Jana Novotná, tennis player, (b. 1968).^[35]
• 2 December –Iva Ritschelová, economist, (b. 1964)^[36]

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