Notable Deaths on April 17th
April 17th Deaths
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
326 |
Alexander of Alexandria, Patriarch of Alexandria |
485 |
Proclus, Greek mathematician, dies in Athens [or Apr 14] |
617 |
Donnán of Eigg, Celtic Christian martyr, patron saint of Eigg |
818 |
Bernhard I, King of Italy, dies |
858 |
Benedict III, Italian Pope (855-58), dies |
1080 |
King Harald III of Denmark (b. 1041) |
1272 |
Zita/Cita, Italian maid/saint, dies at about 59 |
1297 |
Willem van Afflighem, Flemish poet/abbot St Truiden, dies at about 86 |
1427 |
Jan IV, duke of Brabant/Limburg/wife of Jacoba van Bayern, dies |
1539 |
George, Duke of Saxony (b. 1471) |
1574 |
Joachim Camerarius, [Liebhard Kammerer], German philologist, dies |
1630 |
Christian I, ruler of Anhalt-Bernburg (battle of White Mt), dies |
1679 |
John van Kessel, Flemish painter, dies at 53 |
1680 |
Kateri Tekakwitha, first American Indian to receive beatification (b. 1656) |
1696 |
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, French writer (b. 1626) |
1711 |
Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1678) dies of smallpox |
1713 |
David Hollatz, Pomeranian dogmatician (b. 1648) |
1714 |
Philipp Heinrich Erlebach, composer, dies at 56 |
1726 |
Henriette Amalia, ruler of Nassau-Dietz, dies at 49 |
1742 |
Arvid Horn, Swedish statesman (b. 1664) |
1761 |
Thomas Bayes, English mathematician |
1764 |
Johann Mattheson, German composer/musicologist, dies at 82 |
1790 |
Benjamin Franklin, US, US Founding Father, inventor ambassador and writer (Poor Richards Almanac), dies at 84 |
1799 |
Richard Jupp, English architect (b. 1728) |
1835 |
William Henry Ireland, forger (Shakespearean manuscripts), dies |
1837 |
Edouard viscount de Walckiers, very wealthy slave trader, dies |
1838 |
J Schopenhauer, writer, dies at 71 |
1843 |
Samuel Morey, American inventor (b. 1762) |
1854 |
Gottlob Wiedebein, composer, dies at 74 |
1863 |
Daniel Smith Donelson, Confederate general/cousin of Andrew Jackson, dies at 61 |
1873 |
Semyon Stepanovich Gulak-Artemovsky, composer, dies at 60 |
1873 |
Fyodor Petrovich Tolstoy, Russian artist (b. 1783) |
1873 |
Semyon Artemovsky, Cossacks in Exile |
1882 |
George Jennings Sanitary engineer (b. 1810) |
1885 |
Emmy von Rhoden, Ilsa |
1890 |
John Barnett, composer, dies at 87 |
1891 |
Jules Eugene Abraham Alary, composer, dies at 77 |
1892 |
Alexander Mackenzie, 2nd Prime Minister of Canada, dies of a stroke at 70 |
1895 |
Jorge Isaacs, María |
1899 |
Hans Balatka, composer, dies at 74 |
1902 |
Francis of Assisi of Bourbon, King Consort of Spain (b. 1822) |
1915 |
Johannes P Kelly, [Kellij], Dutch actor/operetta writer, dies at 60 |
1919 |
Svetozar Corovic, Stojan Mutikasa |
1920 |
Thomas Persse, A Pair of Silk Stockings |
1922 |
H.V. Esmond, One Summer's Day |
1927 |
Gilda Leary, The Seventh Noon |
1930 |
Alexander Golovin, Russian painter (b. 1863) |
1930 |
Louis Leon Hall, Man and Morality |
1933 |
Mary Scheller, Die weißen Rosen |
1933 |
Fred Terry, Chaplin |
1933 |
Kote Marjanishvili, Komunaris chibukhi |
1934 |
Josef Teutscher, Mozarts Leben, Lieben und Leiden |
1935 |
Templar Saxe, A Disciple of Plato |
1935 |
Fred Eric, Christopher Columbus |
1935 |
Tommy Lorne, The Lard Song |
1936 |
Charles J M Ruys de Beerenbrouck, Dutch PM (1918-23, 29-33), dies |
1937 |
Yi Sang, Korean Poet (b. 1910) |
1938 |
J. Laurence Wickland, Robinson Crusoe of Clipper Island |
1939 |
Ludwig Herzer, U-571 |
1939 |
Walter Brogsdale, A Black Sherlock Holmes |
1940 |
Katharina Schratt, Der Ochsenkrieg |
1940 |
Vsevolod Ulianoff, She |
1941 |
Al Bowlly, British dance band vocalist (b. 1899) |
1941 |
Adalbert Alexander Zinn, Die gute Sieben |
1941 |
Al Bowlly, Amélie |
1941 |
Arthur Raymond Hill, Madame Racketeer |
1942 |
Jean Perrin, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1870) |
1942 |
Velma Clay, The Little Diplomat |
1942 |
Alfred Hertz, Jazz Mad |
1942 |
Emilie Smith, The War Correspondents |
1943 |
Ilona Vera, Dankó Pista |
1943 |
Charles Slattery, Brother of the Bear |
1944 |
J T Hearne, cricketer (took 49 wkts in 12 Tests for England), dies |
1945 |
Hannie Schaft, "Girl with red hair," executed |
1945 |
Ion Pillat, Romaniams poet/senator (Umbra timpului), dies |
1945 |
Walter Model, German fieldmarshal, commits suicide at 54 |
1945 |
Scott McKee, Angel of Crooked Street |
1945 |
Edith Erastoff, The Outlaw and His Wife |
1945 |
Tetsuo Takashina, The Neighbor's Wife and Mine |
1946 |
John Iddon, cricketer (car accident 5 Tests for Eng 1934-35), dies |
1946 |
Bellari Raghava, Raitu Bidda |
1947 |
G.B. Samuelson, The Game of Life |
1948 |
Johan P earl of Limburg Stirum, diplomat, dies at 75 |
1948 |
Percy Sherwell, cricketer (S Afr captain in 13 Tests 1905-11), dies |
1948 |
Kantaro Suzuki, |
1950 |
Anna Mae Walthall, The Fable of the Through Train |
1953 |
Sailor Sharkey, The Grey Vulture |
1954 |
Lucreţiu Pătrăşcanu, Romanian communist activist (b. 1900) |
1954 |
Eileen Thorndike, Summer Day's Dream |
1954 |
Theodor Komisarjevsky, Yellow Stockings |
1954 |
Georg Enders, Die Sünde der Lissy Krafft |
1954 |
Georg Enders, Tre söner gick till flyget |
1954 |
Gyula Tapolczay, Piros bugyelláris |
1956 |
William K. Wells, The Cohens and the Kellys in Africa |
1958 |
Rita Montaner, Negro es mi color |
1958 |
Leonard Shepherd, The Dreyfus Case |
1959 |
Cecil Cunningham, The Awful Truth |
1960 |
Eddie Cochran, rocker, dies at 21 in a car crash |
1960 |
Tsuzuya Moroguchi, Sweet Home |
1961 |
Hjalmar Madsen, Red Meadows |
1961 |
Regina Cohee, The Lure of a Woman |
1962 |
Louise Fazenda, dies of cerebral hemorrhage at 66 |
1962 |
Krag Johnson, Madame Mystery |
1962 |
Boncho Karastoyanov, Pod igoto |
1962 |
Louise Fazenda, Hearts and Flowers |
1964 |
Luigi Ferrari Trecate, Il fu Mattia Pascal |
1967 |
Red Allen, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1908) |
1968 |
Margaret Seddon, dies at 95 |
1970 |
Sergei U S Aleksi, patriarch of Russian-Orthodox church, dies at 92 |
1971 |
Roberto Lupi, composer, dies at 62 |
1974 |
Frank McGee, Today show host, dies of cancer at 52 |
1974 |
Herbert Elwell, US composer (Happy Hypocrite), dies at 75 |
1974 |
Vinnie Taylor, rocker (Canned Heat), dies of a drug overdose |
1975 |
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Indian philosopher (b. 1888) |
1976 |
Jean-Jacques Gailliard, Belgian painter, dies at 85 |
1976 |
Henrik Dam, Danish biochemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1895) |
1977 |
Marjorie Gateson, actress (One Man's Family), dies at 86 |
1977 |
William Cardinal Conway, Northern Irish clergyman (b. 1913) |
1977 |
Marjorie Gateson, The Sky's the Limit |
1980 |
Kálmán Nádasdy, Föltámadott a tenger |
1980 |
Józef Ponitycki, Swieta wojna |
1980 |
Ádám Kosztolányi, Színes tintákról álmodom |
1981 |
Johnny Beauchamp, |
1981 |
Ludwik Sempolinski, Pietro wyzej |
1982 |
Frank Novak, Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones |
1982 |
Maximiliane Ackers, Brennendes Land |
1983 |
Felix Pappalardi, rocker (Cream, Mountain), dies |
1983 |
Mark W Clark, US general (WW II), dies at 87 |
1983 |
Peter Potter, DJ (Peter Potter Show, Juke Box Jury), dies at 78 |
1983 |
Glikeriya Bogdanova-Chesnokova, Twelve Chairs |
1983 |
Siegfried Müller, Kommando 52 |
1983 |
Ilja Glusgal, Flower of Hawaii |
1983 |
Thomas L. Thomas, Episode #2.9 |
1983 |
Eric Besche, The Last Valley |
1983 |
Balys Bratkauskas, Tadas Blinda |
1983 |
Konstanty Gordon, Zakazane piosenki |
1983 |
Felix Pappalardi, Snowpiercer |
1984 |
Claude Provost, French Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1933) |
1984 |
George Haight, The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle |
1984 |
Gunnar Ossiander, A Swedish Love Story |
1984 |
Mark W. Clark, At the Front in North Africa with the U.S. Army |
1985 |
Ilona Bodden, writer, dies |
1985 |
Takis Miliadis, Kounia pou se kounage... |
1985 |
Germaine Sablon, La rose effeuillée |
1985 |
Jimmy Gaillard, Erreur judiciaire |
1985 |
Walter Meins, Jolson Sings Again |
1985 |
Thomas Morris, The Poseidon Adventure |
1986 |
Bessie Head, writer, dies |
1986 |
Carl Lee, Super Fly |
1986 |
Robert Warners, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas |
1986 |
Roland Bailly, The Hunchback of Notre Dame |
1987 |
Carlton Barrett, Jamaican reggae drummer (No woman no cry), dies at 36 |
1987 |
Dick Shawn, comedian (Producers), dies on stage at 57 |
1987 |
Cecil Harmsworth King, owner of Mirror Group Newspapers (b. 1901) |
1987 |
Robert Hoag, Hell Divers |
1987 |
Willi Smith, School Daze |
1987 |
David Leland, Hey Boy's Revenge |
1987 |
Tsunayoshi Takeuchi, Akadô Suzunosuke |
1987 |
Grigori Konovalov, Istoki |
1987 |
Carlton Barrett, Marley |
1987 |
Ryôsuke Kagawa, Ugetsu |
1987 |
George Vernon, Kvinnan som försvann |
1987 |
Dick Shawn, The Producers |
1988 |
Eva Novak, actress (Medicine Man), dies of pneumonia at 90 |
1988 |
Louise Nevelson, sculptor, dies of brain tumor at 88 |
1988 |
Louise Nevelson, Hans Hofmann: Artist/Teacher, Teacher/Artist |
1988 |
Eva Novak, Sky High |
1988 |
George Williams, Uncle Buck |
1988 |
Sabina Wisniewska, Wsciekly |
1989 |
Charles Lampkin, dies |
1989 |
William Tregoe, Airplane! |
1989 |
Charles Lampkin, Cocoon |
1989 |
Anatoliy Granik, Dvenadtsat mesyatsev |
1990 |
Ralph David Abernathy, US civil rights leader, dies |
1990 |
Ralph Abernathy, 11-22-63: The Day the Nation Cried |
1990 |
J. McMillan Johnson, Rear Window |
1990 |
John Hundley, Stephen Foster |
1990 |
Sigvard Törnqvist, Dreams |
1990 |
Hal Bokar, Leonard Part 6 |
1991 |
Jack Yellen, US poet (Sons o' Fun), dies at 97 |
1991 |
Michael Pertwee, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum |
1991 |
Jack Yellen, The Aviator |
1991 |
Bradford Ralston, Penrod |
1992 |
Hank Penny, country music singer, dies at 73 of heart failure |
1992 |
Arthur Calder-Marshall, The World Is Rich |
1992 |
Hank Penny, Heading West |
1992 |
Frank Killmond, General Hospital |
1992 |
Milton Kellem, Four Weddings and a Funeral |
1992 |
John DeVries, L.A. Confidential |
1993 |
Turgut Özal, president of Turkey (1989-93), dies at 65 |
1993 |
Ferruccio De Ceresa, La messa è finita |
1993 |
Grazia Di Marzà, Malicious |
1993 |
Lee Blair, Fantasia |
1994 |
Peter Hacker, US journalist/actor (NBC, Broadcast News), dies at 69 |
1994 |
Marise Counsell, Murder C.O.D. |
1994 |
Nicandro Castillo, 'Mal de amores' (Rogaciano el huapanguero) |
1994 |
Dick Moder, Officer Daisy Duke |
1994 |
Stanislaw Holly, The Touch |
1994 |
Peter Hackes, Broadcast News |
1995 |
A R A (Anton) Murray, cricketer (289 runs & 11 wkts in 10 Tests), dies |
1995 |
Nancy Mayhew Youngman, artist/educator, dies at 88 |
1996 |
Eva Jones, poet/novelist, dies at 82 |
1996 |
Jose Luis Lopez Aranguren, philosopher, dies at 86 |
1996 |
Michele Carew, daughter of baseball great Rod, dies of Leukemia at 18 |
1996 |
Lynn O'Donnell, Crumb |
1996 |
Abbot Low Moffat, Roots of a War: 1945-1953 |
1996 |
Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, Strawberry and Chocolate |
1996 |
Dudley Manlove, Plan 9 from Outer Space |
1996 |
José Luis López Aranguren, Episode dated 11 September 1991 |
1997 |
Chaim Herzog, President of Israel (1983-93), dies at 78 |
1997 |
Allan Francovich, American documentarian |
1997 |
Allan Francovich, The Houses Are Full of Smoke |
1997 |
Cesar Ugarte, Jet Over the Atlantic |
1997 |
Richard Mayne, Sonny Liston: The Mysterious Life and Death of a Champion |
1998 |
Linda McCartney, American-born photographer and wife of Paul McCartney (b. 1941) |
1998 |
Linda McCartney, American Hustle |
1998 |
Geny Prado, Jeca Tatu |
1998 |
Milan Sandhaus, Past na kachnu |
1998 |
Simon de La Brosse, Pauline at the Beach |
2000 |
Ina Parker, The Handicap Spot |
2000 |
Pyotr Glebov, And Quiet Flows the Don |
2000 |
Megan Williams, The Sullivans |
2001 |
Birthe Illum, Den stjaalne minister |
2001 |
Terry Scully, The Asphyx |
2001 |
Vera Brühne, Lebenslänglich für Vera Brühne |
2002 |
Zara Lee, Showgirl |
2002 |
Crane Jackson, The Octagon |
2002 |
Truman Gaige, The Electric Grandmother |
2002 |
Dixie Starr, Law and Lawless |
2002 |
Al Hendrix, Jimi Hendrix |
2002 |
Kelly Corcoran, Picture Mommy Dead |
2002 |
James Copeland, High and Dry |
2003 |
Robert Atkins, American dietician (b. 1930) |
2003 |
Paul Getty, American-born philanthropist (b. 1932) |
2003 |
Earl King, American musician and songwriter (b. 1934) |
2003 |
Yiannis Latsis, Greek shipping tycoon (b. 1910) |
2003 |
Giuseppe Fiori, Sonetàula |
2003 |
Hilde Sessak, The Punch Bowl |
2003 |
Leo M. Langlois, Is There a Doctor in the House? |
2003 |
Kiril Gospodinov, Trimata ot zapasa |
2003 |
Stanley H. Brassloff, Toys Are Not for Children |
2003 |
Robert Atkins, Atkins |
2003 |
Marcos Lázaro, Agnaldo, Perigo à Vista |
2003 |
John Riley, For All Mankind |
2003 |
Paul Getty, Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff |
2003 |
Ray Mendoza, Santo vs. las mujeres vampiro |
2003 |
Earl King, Rush |
2004 |
Edmond Pidoux, Swiss writer (b. 1908) |
2004 |
Soundarya, Indian actress (b. 1971) |
2004 |
Soundarya, Dweepa |
2004 |
Bruce Boa, Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back |
2004 |
Richard Gittings, Days of Our Lives |
2004 |
Che Moody, Carnage |
2004 |
Baba Punhan, Mahir Jurat vs. Aydin Khirdalanly |
2004 |
Jirí Císler, The Ear |
2004 |
Bobby Wawak, Daytona 500 |
2005 |
Faith McNulty, The Burning Bed |
2005 |
Konrad Spindler, Death of the Iceman |
2005 |
Cheryl Marriner, The Petting Zoo |
2005 |
James Houston, The White Dawn |
2005 |
Scotty McHarg, London Town |
2005 |
Eric Gelman, Mr. Monk Goes to Vegas |
2005 |
Stewart Germain, Fail Safe |
2005 |
Ah Yue Lou, Blonde Engel sind nicht billig |
2006 |
Robert Swann, If.... |
2006 |
Scott Brazil, Dominoes Falling |
2006 |
Henderson Forsythe, Silkwood |
2007 |
Kitty Carlisle, American actress and television personality (b. 1910) |
2007 |
Glenn Sutton, Thelma & Louise |
2007 |
Nair Bello, Uga Uga |
2007 |
Michael Malone, Hori Smoku Sailor Jerry: The Life of Norman K. Collins |
2007 |
Roman Solntsev, Tormozheniye v nebesakh |
2007 |
Jacques Natteau, Never on Sunday |
2007 |
Steven Rossen, A Dirty Knight's Work |
2007 |
Chauncy Starr, A Is for Atom |
2007 |
James Davis, We Love You Like a Rock: The Dixie Hummingbirds |
2007 |
Steven B. Derounian, Episode dated 18 August 1954 |
2007 |
Kitty Carlisle, Catch Me If You Can |
2008 |
Aimé Césaire, French Martinican poet and politician (b. 1913) |
2008 |
Danny Federici, organ player for E-Street Band (b. 1950) |
2008 |
Aimé Césaire, Aimé Césaire, un nègre fondamental |
2008 |
Danny Federici, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band: Live in New York City |
2008 |
Mikhail Tanich, Legenda No. 17 |
2008 |
Durwood Bloomgren, South Pacific |
2008 |
Gwyneth Dunwoody, Episode dated 27 March 2007 |
2008 |
Marcel Godin, Bidule de Tarmacadam |
2008 |
Nicolette Goulet, Guiding Light |
2008 |
Clifford H. Poland Jr., Hello Down There |
2009 |
Honoré Desmond Sharrer, American artist (Tribute to the American Working People) dies aged 88 |
2009 |
David Mansel Lewis, Heidi |
2009 |
Earl Gustkey, Mike Tyson for Losing to Buster Douglas |
2009 |
Della Clementi, Taken for a Ride |
2009 |
Ole Juul, Red Meadows |
2009 |
Dom Salinaro, Mrs. Harris |
2009 |
Victor Paskov, Ti, koyto si na nebeto |
2009 |
Anna Rodzianko, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band |
2009 |
Edward Messer, Death Touch |
2010 |
Anna Kalouta, Apaches of Athens |
2010 |
Ashlee T. Madison, Lucy Is the Sunshine |
2010 |
Suzanne Dillard, Cattle Call |
2010 |
Steve Drexel, Terrified |
2010 |
Carl Macek, Robotech |
2010 |
Barbara Cope Lounder, Slaughter Weekend |
2010 |
Sotigui Kouyaté, Dirty Pretty Things |
2010 |
Jaroslav Matejka, Nás dedek Josef |
2010 |
David Stoddard, 127 Hours |
2010 |
Dede Allen, The Breakfast Club |
2011 |
Eric Gross, Austrian-Australian composer (b. 1926) |
2011 |
Nikos Papazoglou, Greek singer and songwriter (b. 1948) |
2011 |
AJ Perez, Filipino teen actor (b. 1993) |
2011 |
Michael Sarrazin, They Shoot Horses, Don't They? |
2011 |
Albrecht Roser, Albrecht Roser |
2011 |
Nikos Papazoglou, My Life in Ruins |
2011 |
Bob Block, Family Affair |
2011 |
Osamu Dezaki, Nobody's Boy Remi |
2011 |
AJ Perez, Cinco |
2011 |
Lawrence Ward, Mad About Men |
2011 |
Mary Robbins, Dead Man Walking |
2011 |
Lynne Topping, Chariot of Gold |
2011 |
Ken Taylor, Agatha Christie's Miss Marple: Sleeping Murder |
2011 |
Johannes Lehmann, The Secret of El Dorado |
2011 |
Estrid Balslev, Mit liv er for kort |
2012 |
Dimitris Mitropanos, Greek singer, dies from a heart attack at 64 |
2012 |
Vera Rankovic, Kamiondzije |
2012 |
Dieter Dorner, Von Affe bis Zebra - Die Tierwelt Herberstein |
2012 |
Ron Karabatsos, Flashdance |
2012 |
Ida Levy, The Buzz and Sparky Roadshow |
2012 |
Zsuzsa Koncz, A Valencia rejtély |
2012 |
Kenneth Wilson, Heidi |
2012 |
Marcelo Alfaro, Venganza de mujer |
2012 |
Valeri Bychenkov, Chelyabumbiya |
2012 |
Dimitris Mitropanos, Truants |
2013 |
Bi Kidude, Tanzanian Taarab singer, dies at c. 100 |
2013 |
Ángel Alcázar, Nadie hablará de nosotras cuando hayamos muerto |
2013 |
Marvin Petal, Five Characters in Search of an Exit |
2013 |
Albert Smith, Windtalkers |
2013 |
Ken Lawson, We Don't Live Here Anymore |
2013 |
William Burchinal, Night of the Living Dead |
2014 |
Gabriel García Márquez, Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist (1982 Nobel Prize in Literature), dies of pneumonia at 87 |
2014 |
Anthony Marriott, No Sex Please: We're British |
2014 |
Akira Suzuki, Tampopo |
2014 |
Rick Borowski, Air Superiority: U.S./Soviet Fighter Matchup |
2014 |
Mayra Alejandra, Carmen, la que contaba 16 años |
2014 |
Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera |
2014 |
Zvonimir Milcec, Episode #2.5 |
2014 |
Cheo Feliciano, Something Wild |
2015 |
Alfred Taubman, Malls R Us |
2015 |
Viktor Korshunov, Po tonkomu ldu |
2015 |
Jack Rieley, The Departed |
2015 |
Eric Doney, Festival Express |
2015 |
Brian Couzens, Where Eagles Dare |
2015 |
Francis Cardinal George, We Believe |
2015 |
Keith Shackleton, The Way We Went Wild |
2015 |
Ritchie D'Horsie, Crocodile Jones: The Son of Indiana Dundee |
2015 |
Jaroslav Holík, 13. komnata Jaroslava Holíka |
2015 |
Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, Episode dated 14 January 2004 |
2016 |
Television and radio broadcaster Bruce Mansfield dies aged 71 |
2017 |
World's oldest person Emma Morano dies in Italy aged 117 |
2017 |
Clifton James, veteran actor and sheriff in James Bond films, dies aged 96 |
2017 |
Othman Wok, member of independent Singapore's first Cabinet, dies aged 92 |
2018 |
'Night Court' star Harry Anderson dies at age 65 |
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