April 17th Deaths |
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| April 17th, 2008 (April 17 2008) | Death | Aime Cesaire, French Martinican poet and politician (born in 1913) | |
| April 17th, 2008 (April 17 2008) | Death | Danny Federici, organ player for E-Street Band (born in 1950) | |
| April 17th, 2007 (April 17 2007) | Death | Kitty Carlisle, American actress and television personality (born in 1910) | |
| April 17th, 2004 (April 17 2004) | Death | Edmond Pidoux, Swiss writer (born in 1908) | |
| April 17th, 2004 (April 17 2004) | Death | Soundarya, Indian actress (born in 1971) | |
| April 17th, 2003 (April 17 2003) | Death | Robert Atkins, American dietician (born in 1930) | |
| April 17th, 2003 (April 17 2003) | Death | Paul Getty, American-born philanthropist (born in 1932) | |
| April 17th, 2003 (April 17 2003) | Death | Earl King, American musician and songwriter (born in 1934) | |
| April 17th, 2003 (April 17 2003) | Death | Yiannis Latsis, Greek shipping tycoon (born in 1910) | |
| April 17th, 1998 (April 17 1998) | Death | Linda McCartney, American-born wife of Paul McCartney (born in 1941) | Paul McCartney Quotes |
| April 17th, 1997 (April 17 1997) | Death | Allan Francovich, American documentarian | |
| April 17th, 1997 (April 17 1997) | Death | Piet Hein, Danish scientist and poet (born in 1905) | Piet Hein Quotes |
| April 17th, 1995 (April 17 1995) | Death | Frank E. Resnik, American business executive (born in 1928) | |
| April 17th, 1994 (April 17 1994) | Death | Roger Wolcott Sperry, American neurobiologist, Nobel laureate (born in 1913) | |
| April 17th, 1993 (April 17 1993) | Death | Turgut Ozal, 8th president of Turkey (born in 1927) | |
| April 17th, 1990 (April 17 1990) | Death | Ralph Abernathy, American civil rights activist (born in 1936) | |
| April 17th, 1988 (April 17 1988) | Death | Louise Nevelson, American sculptor (born in 1900) | |
| April 17th, 1987 (April 17 1987) | Death | Cecil Harmsworth King, owner of Mirror Group Newspapers (born in 1901) | |
| April 17th, 1984 (April 17 1984) | Death | Claude Provost, French Canadian ice hockey player (born in 1933) | |
| April 17th, 1983 (April 17 1983) | Death | Felix Pappalardi, American musician and recording producer (born in 1939) (Mountain) | |
| April 17th, 1977 (April 17 1977) | Death | William Cardinal Conway, Northern Irish clergyman (born in 1913) | |
| April 17th, 1976 (April 17 1976) | Death | Henrik Dam, Danish biochemist, Nobel laureate (born in 1895) | |
| April 17th, 1975 (April 17 1975) | Death | Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Indian philosopher (born in 1888) | Philo Quotes |
| April 17th, 1967 (April 17 1967) | Death | Red Allen, American jazz trumpeter (born in 1908) | |
| April 17th, 1960 (April 17 1960) | Death | Eddie Cochran, American musician (born in 1938) | |
| April 17th, 1954 (April 17 1954) | Death | Lucretiu Patrascanu, Romanian communist activist (born in 1900) | |
| April 17th, 1944 (April 17 1944) | Death | J.T. Hearne, English cricketer (born in 1867) | |
| April 17th, 1942 (April 17 1942) | Death | Jean Perrin, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born in 1870) | |
| April 17th, 1941 (April 17 1941) | Death | Al Bowlly, British dance band vocalist (born in 1899) | |
| April 17th, 1937 (April 17 1937) | Death | Yi Sang, Korean Poet (born in 1910) | |
| April 17th, 1936 (April 17 1936) | Death | Charles Ruijs de Beerenbrouck, Dutch prime minister (born in 1873) | |
| April 17th, 1930 (April 17 1930) | Death | Alexander Golovin, Russian painter (born in 1863) | |
| April 17th, 1921 (April 17 1921) | Death | Manuel Dimech, Maltese philosopher and social reformer (born in 1860) | Philo Quotes |
| April 17th, 1902 (April 17 1902) | Death | Francis of Assisi of Bourbon, King Consort of Spain (born in 1822) | Francis of Assisi Quotes |
| April 17th, 1892 (April 17 1892) | Death | Alexander Mackenzie, 2nd Prime Minister of Canada (born in 1822) | |
| April 17th, 1882 (April 17 1882) | Death | George Jennings Sanitary engineer (born in 1810) | |
| April 17th, 1873 (April 17 1873) | Death | Fyodor Petrovich Tolstoy, Russian painter (born in 1783) | |
| April 17th, 1843 (April 17 1843) | Death | Samuel Morey, American inventor (born in 1762) | |
| April 17th, 1799 (April 17 1799) | Death | Richard Jupp, English architect (born in 1728) | |
| April 17th, 1790 (April 17 1790) | Death | Benjamin Franklin, American inventor, diplomat, and printer (born in 1706) | Benjamin Franklin Quotes |
| April 17th, 1764 (April 17 1764) | Death | Johann Mattheson, German composer (born in 1681) | |
| April 17th, 1761 (April 17 1761) | Death | Thomas Bayes, English mathematician | |
| April 17th, 1742 (April 17 1742) | Death | Arvid Horn, Swedish statesman (born in 1664) | |
| April 17th, 1713 (April 17 1713) | Death | David Hollatz, Pomeranian dogmatician (born in 1648) | |
| April 17th, 1711 (April 17 1711) | Death | Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor (born in 1678) | |
| April 17th, 1696 (April 17 1696) | Death | Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, French writer (born in 1626) | |
| April 17th, 1695 (April 17 1695) | Death | Sor Juana, Mexican writer | |
| April 17th, 1680 (April 17 1680) | Death | Kateri Tekakwitha, first American Indian to receive beatification (born in 1656) | |
| April 17th, 1574 (April 17 1574) | Death | Joachim Camerarius, German classical scholar (born in 1500) | |
| April 17th, 1539 (April 17 1539) | Death | George, Duke of Saxony (born in 1471) | |
| April 17th, 1427 (April 17 1427) | Death | John IV, Duke of Brabant (born in 1403) | |
| April 17th, 1080 (April 17 1080) | Death | King Harald III of Denmark (born in 1041) | |
| April 17th, 0617 (April 17 0617) | Death | Donnan of Eigg, Celtic Christian martyr, patron saint of Eigg | |
| April 17th, 0485 (April 17 0485) | Death | Proclus, Greek philosopher (born in 412) | Philo Quotes |
| April 17th, 0326 (April 17 0326) | Death | Alexander of Alexandria, Patriarch of Alexandria | |
