2017 in Mexico

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: Enrique Peña Nieto
• Interior Secretary :
• Secretary of Foreign Affairs :
• Communications Secretary :
• Education Secretary :
• Secretary of Defense :
• Secretary of Navy:
• Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare:
• Secretary of Welfare:
• Secretary of Public Education:
• Tourism Secretary :
• Secretary of the Environment :
• Secretary of Health :

  Governors

• Aguascalientes:
• Baja California:
• Baja California Sur:
• Campeche:
• Chiapas:
• Chihuahua:
• Coahuila:
• Colima:
• Durango:
• Guanajuato:
• Guerrero:
• Hidalgo:
• Jalisco:
• State of Mexico:
• Michoacán:
• Morelos:
• Nayarit:
• Nuevo León:
• Oaxaca:
• Puebla:
• Querétaro:
• Quintana Roo:
• San Luis Potosí:
• Sinaloa:
• Sonora:
• Tabasco:
• Tamaulipas:
• Tlaxcala:
• Veracruz:
• Yucatán:
• Zacatecas:

  Events

• 18 January – Colegio Americano del Noreste shooting
• 14 March – A mass grave site of more than 250 people is discovered in Palmas de Abajo, Veracruz.
• 7 September – A magnitude 8.1 earthquake hit off southern Mexico coast, 300 injury, 98 people killed, and tsunami have surrounding warning issue.
• 19 September – A magnitude 7.1 earthquake strikes central Mexico, killing more than 200 people.
• 10 November — At 7:25 local time, eruption of Popocateptl continues.

  Deaths

January

• January 1
• *Edson Tadeo Cárdenas Huerta, soccer player .
• *Martha Patricia Figueroa Juárez, social activist, businesswoman, politician in Cordoba, Veracruz; cáncer.
• *Serafín Espinal, músician.
• January 2
• *Ernesto Franco Cobos, cultural promoter and writer in Tuxpan.
• *Olegario Contreras Rubio, radio announcer in Sinaloa; heart problems.
• *Analy Loera, businesswoman and cultural promoter; brain and lung cancer.
• January 3
• *Cecilia González Gómez, 55, politician, Deputy ; heart attack.
• *Lucía Eugenia Torres Pereda, journalist.
• January 5
• *Marco Francisco González Meza, public servant, accidente de tráfico.
• *Alfonso Humberto Robles Cota, Roman Catholic bishop of Tepic.
• *Cesáreo Víctor Santiago López, polítician from Oaxaca; murdered.
• *Carmen Sánchez Galán, public servant; complicaciones post-operative complications.
• January 15
• *Isidro Baldenegro López, environmental activist, murdered.
• *Gorky González Quiñones, ceramist.
• January 16 – Romeo Gómez Aguilar, músician and academic.
• January 17 – Martín Barrón Félix, physicist and meteorologist; liver failure and anemia.
• January 18 – Raúl Muñoz Popoca, businessman in tourist industry.
• January 19
• *David Contreras, polítician and public servant; diabetes.
• *Fernando Soto, músician from Jalisco; drowning.
• January 20 – Abraham Ibarra Robles, public servant from Santa María Colotepec, Oaxaca; murdered.
• January 21 – Fernando Maiz Garza, businessman, builder, and philanthropist; airplane crash.
• January 22
• *Jesus Garcia, 72, boxer.
• *Juan Huerta Ortega, businessman and rancher from Puebla; heart attack.
• *Isidro Patrón Lara, musician.
• January 23 – Giovanni Arturo Amparan Zaragoza, businessman; shot.
• January 24
• *Ismael Gutiérrez, boxer.
• *Antolín Vital Martínez, polítician, mayor of Tepexco, Puebla; murdered.
• January 25
• *Adalberto Rosas López, polítician from, Sonora; thrombosis.
• *Agustín Sauret, voice actor.
• *Raúl Valerio, 90, actor.
• January 26 – Javier García Narro, businessperson and leader of Coparmex in Saltillo, Coahuila.
• January 27
• *Fredman Cruz Maldonado, singer; lung problems.
• *Mario Palestina Moreno, baseball player; heart attack.
• January 28
• *Benjamín Cabral, filmmaker.
• *Víctor Hugo Saldaña Gutiérrez, soccer player; murdered.
• January 29
• *Omar Jair Canepa Polanco, public servant; murdered.
• *Ángel García Cook, anthropologist and researcher .
• *Jorge Robles, músician and singer; cáncer.
• January 30 – Fidel Briano, lawyer and journalist.
• January 31
• *Pedro Koh Cimé, Yucatan polítician; murdered.
• *José Luis Lagunes López, public servant; cáncer.

  February

• February 3 – Lorenzo Servitje, 98, businessman and philanthropist, co-founder of Grupo Bimbo, writer, journalist, essayist, playwright.
• February 9 – Josefina Leiner, actress.
• February 15 – José Solé, 87, stage actor and director .
• February 16 – Teresa del Conde, art historian and critic.
• February 21 – Neus Espresate Xirau, Spanish-born Mexican editor ; complicaciones respiratorias.
• February 22
• *David Bárcena Ríos, equestrian and modern pentathlete.
• *Ricardo Domínguez, 31, welterweight wrestler; colon cancer.
• February 27 – Eva Maria Zuk, 71, Polish-born Mexican pianist; lung problems.

  March

• March 3
• *Rolando Arellano Sánchez, músician and singer, murdered.
• *Miguel Guzmán Rosales, painter.
• March 5
• *Abril Campillo, actress; breast cancer.
• *Tony Flores, comedian; Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis.
• *Alejandro Rosales, television star ; heart attack.
• *José Ignacio Rosillo Rodríguez, journalist.
• March 6 - Jesús Silva Herzog Flores, 81, economist and politician
• March 9
• *Enrique Ortiz Rivas, mathematician, politician, and labor leader; surgical complications.
• *Raquel Parot, actress
• *Juan Gabriel Sánchez Gómez, leader of taxi drivers in Tizayuca, Hidalgo; murdered.
• March 12
• *Mario Agredano Brambila, radio and television announcer, reporter, and commentator in Nuevo Leon.
• *Joaquín Arizpe de la Maza, businessman and philanthropist.
• *Refugio Arturo García Moreno, education leader ; heart attack.
• *Raúl Maldonado Mendoza, poet and orator from Oaxaca; heart attack.
• March 13 - Sarah Jiménez, engraving artist, member of the Salón de la Plástica Mexicana; respiratory problems.
• March 14 – José Iván Ponce, labor leader in Tizayuca, Hidalgo; murdered.
• March 15 – Armando Garza Sada, engineer, businessman, and banker.
• March 18
• *Juan Miguel de Mora Vaquerizo, member of the International Brigade during the Spanish Civil War, university professor, and writer.
• *Santiago Vela, reporter for "Radio Formula" in Fortín de las Flores, Veracruuz; murdered.
• March 19 – José Reza Fernández, polítician in Cuatro Ciénegas, Coahuila; suicide.
• March 20
• *Arturo Cruz Bárcenas, journalist ; renal disease.
• *Carlos Hermosillo Arteaga, 39, politician, Deputy and public servant in Chihuahua; auto accident.
• *Antonio Riviello Bazán, former Secretary of National Defense .
• *Humberto Romo Medina, radio and television announcer in Nuevo Leon.
• March 21
• *Víctor Bartoli, writer from Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua.
• *Marco Villafán, translator and adaptor of theatrical productions.
• March 23 – Miroslava Breach, 54, journalist ; murdered.
• March 29
• *Felipe Altamirano Carrillo, Indigenous priest from Nayarit; murdered.
• *Dennis Palomo, comedian; suicide.
• *Aurelio Prado Flores, Roman Catholic social activist and columnist .
• *Leodegario Varela González, polítician from Zacatecas; cáncer.
• March 30 – Six murders in Oaxaca:
• *Juan José Hernández Alchino, 38, teacher from Pinotepa Nacional.
• *Rutilio Quirino Barragán Andrade, 75, former mayor of Santiago Tamazola.
• *Amada Berenice H. V., a high school student from Santiago Jocotepec.
• *Abel Rivera Roque, 31, called El Tortilla, from Tuxtepec.
• March 31 – Rubén Amaro Sr., 81, baseball player and coach, World Series champion ; natural causes.

  April

• April 2 - Alma Delia Fuentes, actress A toda máquina, and Historia de un corazón ).
• April 7 - Arturo García Bustos, 90, painter.
• April 8 - José Ángel Nájera Sánchez Fisherman, professional wrestler
• April 9
• *Roger Arellano Sotelo, polítician, former mayor of Acapetlahuaya, Guerrero; murdered.
• *Fidencio Escamilla Cervantes, poet and playwright from Tonala, Jalisco; heart attack.
• *Margarita Isabel, 75, Mexican actress, emphysema.
• *Alicia Rivas Lombera, high school theater teacher; cáncer.
• *José Alberto Toledo Villalobos, anti-mining activist in San Pedro Tapanatepec, Oaxaca; murdered.
• April 11 – Teresa Moran, 78, painter from Puebla.
• April 12
• *Rafael Junquera Maldonado, writer and activist from Xalapa, Veracruz.
• *Rubén Morales Rodríguez, 79, public accountant from Veracruz.
• April 13 – Antonio Xiu Cachón, Maya Indigenous leader.
• April 14 – Max Rodríguez Palacio, journalist and reporter ; murdered.
• April 19 – Demetrio Saldivar Gómez, politician ; murdered.
• April 21 – Rogerio César Armenta Ramírez, journalist.
• April 22 – Leobardo Flores Ávila, 102, co-founder of the Confederation of Mexican Workers in Torreón, Coahuila.
• April 24
• *Evangelina Villegas, 92, biochemist.
• *Juan José Flores Lira, polítician, mayor of Ignacio de la Llave, Veracruz; heart attack.
• April 28
• *Brazo de Oro, wrestler; heart attack.
• *Alejandro Hernández Santos, polítician, mayor of San Bartolomé Loxicha, Oaxaca; murdered.
• April 29 – Filiberto Álvarez Landeros, journalist and radio announcer in Jojutla, Morelos ; murdered.

  May

• May 1 – Santos Vega Camargo, actor and theater director from Torreón, director of the College of Accounting and Administration of the Autonomous University of Sinaloa; murdered.
• May 4 – Guadalupe González Saíno, polítician from Jopala, Puebla; murdered.
• May 7 – Gran Apache, 58, professional wrestler, intestinal cancer.
• May 11
• *José Manuel Amarillas Monjardín, polítician from Novolato, Sinaloa; murdered.
• * Andrea Romero Rojas, food propomoter from Zacatelco, Tlaxcala.
• May 12
• *José Manuel Mojardín Amarillas, polítician from Navolato Municipality, Sinaloa; murdered.
• *Miguel Ángel Sánchez Morán, public servant and criminal lawyer from Mazatlán; murdered.
• May 13
• * Hermenegildo Aké Sarabia, labor leader and politician from Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo.
• Enrique Barrera Chávez, form tresurer of Coahuila.
• May 15
• *Felipe Ehrenberg, 73, artist, professor and publisher.
• *Javier Valdez Cárdenas, journalist, shot and killed by unidentified gunmen.
• * Ángel Noé Mercado Carrillo, physician and public servant ; murdered.
• * Jonathan Rodríguez Córdova, journalist and reporter from Autlán, Jalisco; he and his mother were murdered.
• May 16 – Mario Moreno Ivanova, comedian, son of Cantinflas.
• May 17 – Raúl Córdoba, 93, soccer player .
• May 18
• * Armando Arce Serrano, camera operator and video journalist .
• * Oscar González Guerrero, comic book writer and illustrator.
• * José Mercado Luna, soccer player .
• * Enrique Soto Gonzáles, chronicler, historian, and public servant from Pátzcuaro, Michoacan; heart attack.
• May 19 – David Sánchez, 25, flyweight boxer, traffic collision.
• May 20 – Miguel Vázquez Torres, Indigenous Huichol leader; murdered.
• May 22 – Santiago Salas de León, académic, writer, and rector of open university.
• May 24 – Miguel Ángel Camacho Zamudio, physician and public servant ; murdered.
• May 25 – Juan Carlos Zamarripa Fernández, polítician, mayor of Pánuco, Veracruz; murdered.
• May 27 – Jaasiel Hernán Contreras Vega, photographer; murdered.
• May 31 – Fernando Sarabia Beltrán, académic and activist.

  June

• June 2 – Armando Mendoza Duarte, polítician; murdered.
• June 3
• *Juan Robinson Bours, businessman from Ciudad Obregón, Sonora; Alzheimer's disease
• *Antonio Sarabia, writer .
• June 5
• *Eduardo Catarino Dircio, politician from Tixtla de Guerrero municipality, Guerrero; killed by state police.
• *Eleazar Vargas Lara, community leader and politician from Iguala, Guerrero; murdered.
• *Ana Winocur, journalist; pancreatitis.
• June 6 – Jorge Ortiz Murray, leader of fishermen in Mazatlan; heart attack.
• June 8
• *Antonio Medellín, 75, Mexican actor.
• *Elmer Arias Gutiérrez, músician; murdered.
• *Crisóforo Otero Heredia, politician, former mayor of Tecpán de Galeana, Guerrero ; murdered.
• June 30 - Ramiro Alejandro Celis, 25, bullfighter, gored.
• June 10 – Luis Fuentes Molinar, 89, journalist and politician, former mayor of Chihuahua and federal Deputy.
• June 11 – Radamés Díaz Meza, Culiacán, Sinaloa, businessman; murdered.
• June 15 – Raúl Miranda Valencia, 48, lawyer and public servant from Michoacan; murdered.
• June 17 – Luis Rey Sifuentes, politician from Chihuahua; shot.
• June 21 – Ulises Hueto Elizalde , boxer from Mexico City; murdered.
• June 23 – Eva Castañeda Cortés, social activist from Morelia, Michoacan.
• June 24
• *Camilo Juan Castagne Velazco, police commissioner of La Antigua, Veracruz; murdered alongside another police officer.
• *Jorge Humberto Higareda Magaña, businessman and leader of truckers in Puebla.
• June 26
• *Salvador Adame, journalist from Gabriel Zamora, Michoacan; murdered.
• *Alejandro Zepeda Ortiz, journalist and reporter from Chiapas; suicide.
• June 27
• *Pablo Martín Obregón, journalist from Chilpancingo, Guerrero; suicide.
• *Valentín Pimstein 91, Chilean-born television producer who lived in Mexico.
• June 29
• *Rodolfo Díaz , boxer and trainer; diabetes.
• *Vinicio Ferrer Merino, polítician, mayor of San Mateo Sindihui, Oaxaca; killed during agrarian conflict.
• *Demetrio Jaime Martínez Benítez, politician, former mayor of San Francisco Cahuacúa, Oaxaca; killed during agrarian conflict.
• *Meztli Sarabia Reyna, activist from Puebla; murdered.
• June 30 – Ramiro Alejandro Celis, 25, bullfighter, gored.

  July

• July 1
• *Gregorio Delgadillo Santos, polítician from Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl; murdered.
• *Simón Flores Ramón, polítician and government worker from Atlacomulco, State of Mexico; electrical discharge.
• July 2
• *Martín Feregrino Quiróz, lawyer and educator ; breathing problems.
• *Rodrigo D Garay, actor.
• July 3 – José Luis Cuevas, 83, artist.
• July 4 – Walter González Arriaga, polítician; murdered.
• July 5 – Luis López Villa, Catholic priest from Los Reyes La Paz, State of Mexico; throat slit.
• July 6
• *David Alonso López, 39, boxer, shot.
• *Mariano Herrán Salvatti, lawyer and civil servant; liver condition.
• *Héctor Villasana Rosales, lawyer and académic; anemia.
• July 7
• *Sergio Fuentes Gutiérrez, lawyer and researcher.
• *Jorge Juan Rodriguez Reyes, labor leader; automobile accident.
• July 8 – Guadalupe Baltazar Rojas, chronicler and craftswoman from Ixtenco, Tlaxcala.
• July 9 – Diego Zavala Pérez, lawyer, académic, and polítician, father of Margarita Zavala; heart attack.
• July 10 – Pedro Joaquín Alberto Cárdenas Segura, músician, composer, and orquestra director.
• July 13 – Héctor Lechuga, 88, comedian, actor and radio personality, heart attack.
• July 14
• *René Chávez, baseball player.
• *Carlos Torres González, UANL High School principal; murdered.
• *Elías Sergio Treviño Earnshaw, former mayor of Monclova, Coahuila.
• July 17 – Martha Nava, Mexico's best female basketball player.
• July 18
• *Irma Camacho García, polítician ; cardiorespiratory arrest.
• *Erika Mireles, voice actress.
• July 19 – Hortensia de la Concepción Orozco Tejada, polítician; stroke.
• July 20 – Felipe de Jesús Pérez Luna, criminal; shot by police.
• July 21 – Ángel Padilla, músician.

• *Juan Bernardo Ruvalcaba, boxer and trainer; killed during robbery.
• *José Arturo Tolosa Campos, Sinaloa photojournalist ; accidente de tránsito.
• July 23 – Erwin Trejo, singer ; murdered.
• July 24
• *Juan Figueroa Fuentes, polítician and public official; heart attack.
• *Luis Gimeno, Uruguayan emigrant actor .
• July 25
• *Gerardo Gallardo, actor .
• *David Vera Jiménez, public servant in Mexico City; heart attack.
• July 26
• *Saúl Escudero Pozos, polítician and public servant; cáncer.
• *Ramón Xirau, 93, Spanish-born Mexican poet, philosopher and literary critic.
• July 28 – Luis Arturo Porras Aceves, journalist and reporter .
• July 31
• *Lorenzo Arroyo, immigration activist; amyloidosis.
• *Baltazar Maldonado Rosales, polítician.
• *Luciano Rivera, journalist and reporter in Mexicali; murdered.
• *José Trinidad Ventura González, Presbyterian Church elder in Orizaba.

  August

• August 2
• *José Miguel Machorro Alcalá, Catholic priest; stabbed in Mexico City Metropolitan Cathedral.
• *Edmundo Ortega, músician and composer; heart attack.
• August 4 – Roberto Corvera Guzmán, rector of Universidad Angelópolis in Angelópolis, Puebla; shot.
• August 5 – Marcelino Perelló Valls, matemátician, académic, and former student activist.
• August 6
• *Víctor Manuel Cárdenas Morales, writer and poet; stroke.
• *Pedro Manterola Sáinz, psychologist, politician, and public official from Veracruz; heart attack.
• *Virgilio Ruiz García, musician from Oaxaca; murdered.
• August 8
• *Ramón Ángulo Santos, polítician former mayor of Angostura Municipality, Sinaloa; cardiac arrest.
• *Jaime Avilés Iturbe, journalist and columnist ; lung cancer.
• *Rius, 83, political cartoonist
• August 11 – Eugenio Polgovsky, 40, filmmaker.
• August 12 – César Osuna Aguirre, baseball player ; murdered.
• August 15 – Rafael Ramírez Sánchez, polítician, former mayor of Sahuayo, Michoacán; kidnapped and murdered.
• August 16 – Jesús Aranda, journalist .
• August 20
• *Jerónimo González Huerta, artist.
• *Valdemar Jiménez Solís, poet, académic, and cultural journalist.
• *Aurora Meza Calles, Kumeyaay social activist and translator; pancreatitis.
• *Martín Rocha Hernández, Durango physician and labor leader; lung cáncer.
• August 21
• *Miguel Mike" Orpinel Mendoza, sportscaster; heart attack.
• *Salomon Robbins, athlete and trainer.
• August 22
• *Luis Muruato Puente, baseball player.
• *Cándido Ríos Vásquez, journalist from Veracruz; murdered.
• August 23
• *Mauricio Delfín Domínguez, polítician from Córdoba, Veracruz; suicide.
• *Ricardo Murguía, singer, músician, and voice actor.
• August 24
• *Jorge Estrada Álvarez, architect and director or School of Architecture at Autonomous University of Sinaloa.
• *Genaro Moreno, children's television broadcaster.
• August 26
• *Edgar Gil Yoguez, polítician, former mayor of Venustiano Carranza, Michoacán; heart attack.
• *Alicia Juárez, singer; heart attack.
• *Bertha Elisa Medina Parra, polítician and public servant, former mayor of Mocorito Municipality, Sinaloa.
• August 27
• *Bernardino Cruz Rivas, polítician; cardiac arrest.
• *Juan Santos Vásquez, polítician, former mayor of San Esteban Amatlán, Oaxaca; run over by a car.
• August 29 – Hugo Castro Rosado, businessperson and politician, former mayor of La Antigua, Veracruz; liver failure.
• August 30
• *Efrain Loza, 78, 1964 Summer Olympics soccer player.
• *José Manuel García León, Tabasco músician; pulmonary emphysema.
• August 31 – Nadia Stankovitch, Serbian-born Mexican pianist; heart attack.

  September

• September 2
• *Gabriela del Valle, actress.
• *Alejo García García, académic, public servant, and chef.
• *Oscar Javier González Torres, 62, músician, actor y comedian; cáncer of the páncreas.
• *Marisela Ortega Lozano, journalist ; cáncer.
• September 3 – Sugar Ramos, 75, Cuban-Mexican Hall of Fame boxer, WBA/WBC featherweight champion, cancer.
• September 4 – José Trinidad Sepúlveda Ruiz-Velasco, 96, Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Tuxtla and San Juan de los Lagos, respiratory complications.
• September 5 – José Durán González, 67, polítician, former mayor of Pueblo Nuevo, Guanajuato; murdered.
• September 6 – Raúl Castañeda, boxer; murdered.
• September 11
• *Carlos Galván Tello, agronomy engineer and public servant, assistant television producer ; murdered.
• September 12 – Álvaro Matute Aguirre, historian .
• September 27 – Hiromi Hayakawa, 34, Japanese-born Mexican actress and singer, liver hemorrhage during childbirth.
• September 28 – Karla Luna, actress and singer; cancer.

  October

• October 2 - Evangelina Elizondo, 88, actress, natural causes.
• October 4 – Luis de la Hidalga y Enríquez, lawyer, public servant, writer, and académic.
• October 5 – Édgar Esqueda, journalist ; murdered.
• October 6 – Stalin Sánchez, mayor of Paracho de Verduzco, Michoacan; murdered.
• October 10 – Manuel Hernández Pasión, mayor of Huitzilan de Serdán, Puebla; murdered along with his wife and a security guard.
• October 15 – Gonzalo Martínez Corbalá, engineer, ambassador, politician, Senator, governor of San Luis Potosi ;.
• October 16 – Cecilia Méndez, 60, radio announcer in Zapopan, Puebla; murdered.
• October 19
• *Gaspar Jesús Azcorra Alejos, Yucatan priest, writer, and poet.
• *Julio Chávez Hernández, polítician and social activist in Veracruz.
• October 20 – Crispín Gutiérrez Moreno, politician, rancher, and mayor of Ixtlahuacán, Colima; murdered.
• October 21 – Rosaura Barahona, 75, journalist and feminist writer, pulmonary disease.

  November

• November 1 – Ignacio Villanueva, priest from the Roman Catholic Diocese of Ciudad Juárez.
• November 6 – Miguel Espinosa "Armillita", bullfighter from Aguascalientes City.
• November 11
• *Maru Dueñas, actress, director, and theater producer; auto accident.
• *Claudio Reyes Rubio, 53, TV director ; auto accident;.
• November 13 – Miguel Hernández Urbán, painter and sculptor from Tultepec, State of Mexico
• November 19 – Claudio Báez, 69, actor and singer.
• November 20 – Silvestre de la Toba Camacho, 47, Ombudsman of the Human Rights Commission in Baja California Sur; murdered alongside his son Fernando de la Toba Lucero.
• November 25
• *Jesús Gómez, 76, equestrian, Olympic bronze medalist.
• *Rosario Green, 76, economist, diplomat and politician, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Senator.
• *Rosendo Huesca Pacheco, 85, Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Puebla de los Ángeles.
• November 26
• *Vicente García Bernal, 88, Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Ciudad Obregón.
• *Óscar Lara Aréchiga, 65, politician.
• November 28 – Rafael Llano Cifuentes, 84, Mexican-born Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Nova Friburgo.
• November 29
• *Evelia Lopez Vassallo, social activist from Tonalá, Chiapas; long-time illness.
• *María Angélica Luna Parra, polítician, public servant, and social activist.

  December

• December 5 – Iliana Godoy Patiño, narrator, researcher, and poet .
• December 8 – Juan Celada Salmón, 101, engineer and inventor .
• December 11 – Jorge Schiaffino Isunza, 70, politician, member of the Chamber of Deputies .
• December 14 – Javier Villalobos Jaramillo, architect, restaurer and académic.
• December 15 – Rubén Pato Soria, 75, professional wrestler.
• December 18
• *Emilio Alvarado Badillo, photographer, civil engineer, public servant and académic .
• *Ricardo Miledi, neuro-scientist .
• *Ricardo Suriano, journalist from Tonalá, Chiapas.
• December 19
• *Gumaro Pérez Aguilando, journalist and reporter in Acayucan, Veracruz; murdered.
• *Fernando Villares Moreno, 62, singer ; stroke.
• December 20 – Jesús Castillo Rangel, Revolutionary and farmer, Mexico's oldest man; respiratory insufficiency and pneumonia..
• December 24
• *Alejandro León Cázarez, baseball journalist and columnist.
• *Salvador Magaña Martínez, social leader and activist in La Huerta, Jalisco, polítician ; murdered.
• *Sergio Magaña Martínez, 68, polítician,Senator, businessman, former mayor of Morelia, Michoacan ; heart attack.
• *José Miguel Rodríguez Asaf, businessman, polítician, former mayor of Izamal Municipality.
• *Juan Silveti Reynoso, bullfighter; lung disease.
• December 25
• *Rudy Casanova, Cuban-born Mexican actor ; breathing problems.
• *Alfredo Guzman Guzman, former mayor of Purísima del Rincón, Guanajuato.
• *José Luis Sánchez Camacho, músician.
• December 28
• *David Antón, scenographer and costume designer.
• *Saúl Galindo Plazola, polítician, former mayor of Tomatlán, Jalisco; murdered.
• *Arturo Gómez Pérez, polítician mayor of Petatlán, Guerrero; murdered.
• *Luis Abraham González Contreras, photographer y reporter; murdered.
• *Gerardo Olavarrieta León, hotel owner in Cancun, Quintana Roo.
• *Mario Stern, composer and académic.
• December 31
• *Regino Díaz Redondo, journalist.
• *Juan González Gómez, 63, painter from San Juan Chamula, Chiapas.