Deaths on 17 April
2000s
Radu Lupu
2022
Romanian pianist (1945–2022)
Alan García
2019
President of Peru (1985–1990 and 2006–2011)
Gwen Marston
2019
American quilter (1936–2019)
Barbara Bush
2018
First Lady of the United States from 1989 to 1993
Carl Kasell
2018
American radio personality (1934–2018)
Chyna
2016
American professional wrestler and bodybuilder (1969–2016)
Doris Roberts
2016
American actress (1930–2016)
Robert P. Griffin
2015
American politician
Scotty Probasco
2015
American heir, businessman and philanthropist
Jeremiah J. Rodell
2015
United States Air Force general
A. Alfred Taubman
2015
American businessman (1924–2015)
Gabriel García Márquez
2014
Colombian writer and Nobel laureate (1927–2014)
Bernat Klein
2014
Serbian textile designer and painter
Wojciech Leśnikowski
2014
American architect
Karpal Singh
2014
Former Malaysian politician and lawyer
Carlos Graça
2013
Prime Minister of São Tomé and Príncipe from 1994 to 1995
Bi Kidude
2013
Tanzanian singer (c. 1910– 2013)
Yngve Moe
2013
Musical artist
V. S. Ramadevi
2013
Indian politician
Leila Berg
2012
English children's author, 1917–2012
J. Quinn Brisben
2012
American poet (1934–2012)
Dimitris Mitropanos
2012
Greek singer (1948–2012)
Nityananda Mahapatra
2012
Indian politician
Jonathan Plaut
2012
American writer and rabbi (1942–2012)
Stanley Rogers Resor
2012
American governmental official (1917–2012)
Eric Gross
2011
Austrian-Australian musician (1926–2011)
Michael Sarrazin
2011
Canadian actor (1940-2011)
Robert Vickrey
2011
American artist and author (1926–2011)
Aimé Césaire
2008
Martinican writer, poet and politician (1913–2008)
Danny Federici
2008
American musician (1950–2008)
Kitty Carlisle
2007
American actress and singer (1910–2007)
Jean Bernard (physician)
2006
Scott Brazil
2006
American television producer and director (1955–2006)
Henderson Forsythe
2006
American actor (1917–2006)
Edmond Pidoux
2004
Swiss author
Robert Atkins (physician)
2003
American physician (1930–2003)
H. B. Bailey
2003
American race car driver (1936–2003)
John Paul Getty Jr.
2003
British-American businessman and philanthropist (1932–2003)
Earl King
2003
American blues singer, guitarist, and songwriter (1934–2003)
Yiannis Latsis
2003
Greek shipping multi-billionaire business magnate (1910–2003)
1900s
Linda McCartney
1998
American photographer and musician (1941–1998)
Chaim Herzog
1997
President of Israel from 1983 to 1993
Piet Hein (scientist)
1996
Danish polymath (1905–1996)
Frank E. Resnik
1995
Roger Wolcott Sperry
1994
American neuropsychologist, neurobiologist and Nobel laureate
Turgut Özal
1993
President of Turkey from 1989 to 1993
Gamal Hamdan
1993
Egyptian scholar and geographer (1928–1993)
Ralph Abernathy
1990
American activist and minister (1926–1990)
Louise Nevelson
1988
American sculptor (1899–1988)
Cecil Harmsworth King
1987
British publisher
Dick Shawn
1987
American actor (1923–1987)
Marcel Dassault
1986
French aircraft industrialist (1892–1986)
Claude Provost
1984
Canadian ice hockey player (1933-1984)
Felix Pappalardi
1983
American music producer and musician (1939–1983)
William Conway (cardinal)
1977
Irish cardinal
Henrik Dam
1976
Danish biochemist and physiologist (1895–1976)
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
1975
President of India from 1962 to 1967
Red Allen
1967
American jazz trumpeter and vocalist (1908–1967)
Elda Emma Anderson
1961
American physicist (1899–1961)
Eddie Cochran
1960
American rock and roll pioneer (1938–1960)
Lucrețiu Pătrășcanu
1954
Romanian communist politician (1900–1954)
Kantarō Suzuki
1948
Prime Minister of Japan in 1945
Juan Bautista Sacasa
1946
President of Nicaragua (1933-1936)
J. T. Hearne
1944
English cricketer
Dimitrios Psarros
1944
Greek Army officer and resistance leader during the Axis occupation of Greece
Jean Perrin
1942
French atomic physicist (1870–1942)
Charles Ruijs de Beerenbrouck
1936
Dutch politician (1873–1936)
Kote Marjanishvili
1933
Georgian theatre director
Aleksandr Golovin (artist)
1930
Russian painter and stage designer (1863–1930)
Laurence Ginnell
1923
Irish nationalist politician and writer (1852–1923)
Manwel Dimech
1921
Maltese social revolutionary
Svetozar Ćorović
1919
Serbian novelist
1800s
Alexander Mackenzie (politician)
1892
Prime Minister of Canada from 1873 to 1878
E. G. Squier
1888
American archaeologist, history writer, painter and newspaper editor (1821-1888)
George Jennings
1882
English sanitary engineer; inventor of public toilets
Samuel Morey
1843
American inventor
Hannah Webster Foster
1840
18th and 19th-century American novelist
Before 1800
Richard Jupp
1799
English architect (1728–1799)
Benjamin Franklin
1790
American Founding Father and polymath (1706–1790)
Johann Mattheson
1764
German composer, critic and lexicographer (1681–1764)
David Hollatz (dogmatician)
1713
German Lutheran theologian (1648–1713)
Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor
1711
Holy Roman Emperor from 1705 to 1711
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné
1696
French aristocrat (1626–1696)
Juana Inés de la Cruz
1695
Mexican Catholic nun, philosopher, composer and poet (1648–1695)
Kateri Tekakwitha
1680
Mohawk/Algonquin Roman Catholic saint (1656–1680)
Antonio Bertali
1669
Italian composer
Joachim Camerarius
1574
German classical scholar (1500–1574)
George, Duke of Saxony
1539
Duke of Saxony from 1500 to 1539
John IV, Duke of Brabant
1427
Duke of Brabant (1403–1427)
Marino Faliero
1355
Doge of Venice from 1354 to 1355
Constantine II, King of Armenia
1344
King of Armenian Cilicia from 1342 to 1344
Robert de Vere, 6th Earl of Oxford
1331
Blanche of Portugal (1259–1321)
1321
Lady of Las Huelgas, Montemor-o-Velho, Alcocer and Briviesca
Árni Þorláksson
1298
Robert of Molesme
1111
11th century French saint
Harald Hen
1080
King of Denmark from 1076 to 1080
Manuel Komnenos (kouropalates)
1071
11th-century Byzantine aristocrat and military leader
Pope Benedict III
858
Head of the Catholic Church from 855 to 858
Bernard of Italy
818
King of Italy (797–818)
Al-Walid II
744
Umayyad caliph from 743 to 744
Empress Xiao (Sui dynasty)
648
Empress of China from 605 to 618
Donnán of Eigg
617
Gaelic priest
Proclus
485
5th-century Greek Neoplatonist philosopher